Dbcembeb 2, 1920 



The Florists' Review 



33 



Henry C. Woltemate. 



Henry C. Woltemate, whose sudden 

 death was reported in last week's Re- 

 view, was one of the oldest florists in 

 Philadelphia. With his two brothers, 

 Albert and William, he was brought up 

 in his father's floral establishment, on 

 Germantown avenue near Queen lane. 

 This was fifty years ago, when Wolte- 

 mate 's greenhouses and Woltemate 's 

 store were better known to florists and 

 to flower lovers ^than any other place 

 in all Germantown. 



Henry C. Woltemate branched out 

 for himself in 1879, when he was 27 

 years of age. He built the first of his 

 present range of greenhouses on Mount 

 Airy avenue, near,-4he Philadelphia & 

 Beading railway. The name of Wolte- 

 mate continued in the floral world of 

 Germantown for many years more, the 

 old place being conducted by Wolte- 

 mate Bros, and the new place by Henry 

 C. Woltemate. 



Henry C. Woltemate conducted his 

 florists' business successfully for forty- 

 one years. He retired September 1, 

 1920. He grew specialties for the re- 

 tail stores, for the cemeteries and for 

 his retail customers. His stock was 

 carefully grown and ranked high in cut 

 flowers and in plants. Mr. Woltemate 's 

 affairs were so well managed that for 

 thirty years he has enjoyed an outing 

 at Keene Valley, in the Adirondack 

 mountains, each summer. Some years 

 ago he purchased the greenhouses that 

 were built by Thomas Butler, at Wynd- 

 moor, for his son Gilbert. His son, 

 Albert W., succeeded him in business 

 early last fall. 



Henry C. Woltemate was a courteous 

 gentleman, a man of sterling integrity, 

 who will be sadly missed by his friends. 

 He was 68 years of age. 



Mr. Woltemate is survived by a 

 widow, four sons and two daughters. 

 The funeral services were held Wednes- 

 day afternoon, November 24. The in- 

 terment was at Ivy Hill. Phil. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



The Market. 



With the passing of Thanksgiving 

 and the usual holiday rush for stock, 

 the market is back to normal again. 

 Everybody reports banner sales for the 

 fall holiday, but there was one fault, 

 common to all holidays — a scarcity of 

 certain varieties of -stock. Roses and 

 yellow mums were hard to obtain. 

 White mums, white carnations and 

 Paper White narcissi did not move as 

 well as other stock. 



This Thanksgiving was the first in 

 several years that such a number of 

 large mums were to be had. It seems 

 the growers only grew the larger ones 

 and no mediums at all. Fortunately 

 there was a good stock of pompons, and 

 this relieved the strain. 



_ Some good California violets are ar- 

 riving and are filling in nicely, as the 

 home-grown ones are quite inferior, 

 owing to the unseasonable weather. 

 Lilies, both Easter and calla, are arriv- 

 ing in greater abaundance and are sell- 

 ing readily at $15 to $20 per hundred. 

 Mums ranged in price from $3 to $6 



per dozen. Carnations were cleaning 

 up well at $6 per hundred. Snap- 

 dragons are at $8 to $10 per hundred. 

 Boxwood is selling, because of the sea- 

 son, at $25 per hundred pounds. 



Various Notes. 



H. W. Sheppard has booked a con- 

 siderable number of debutante and 

 wedding decorations and has just re- 

 ceived a shipment of new supplies to 

 be used for that purpose. He reports 

 a good Thanksgiving trade. 



The retailers and wholesalers have 

 organized two bowling teams and in- 

 tend to stage a series of games. The 

 committee in charge is composed of one 

 member of each of the teams. E. 

 Bossemeyer, of C. E. Critchell, repre- 

 sents the wholesalers, and George Kes- 

 sen, of H. W. Sheppard, represents the 

 retailers. The personnel of the teams 

 is as follows: Wholesalers: E. Bosse- 

 meyer, Charles Phipps, Frank Fried- 



Henry C. Woltemate. 



man, Ray Murphy, John Zimmer, E. 

 Buschle, E. Cavannaugh, Alex Osten- 

 dorp, George Shoeplinger and Charles 

 Garvey; retailers: H. W. Sheppard, 

 George Meyers, Jr., Arthur Becker, 

 Michael Hanks, Charles Lantry, Bay 

 Eck, Benjamin George, Henry Klunder, 

 George Kessen and Stuart Jones. 



C. E. Critchell is receiving some ex- 

 cellent yellow and white Chadwick from 

 O. B. Murphy, of Price Hill. 



Miss Betty Ferdinandsen, of H. W. 

 Sheppard, spent the week-end with her 

 mother at Champaign, 111. Her mother 

 has been ill for some time. 



The William Murphy Co. has been re- 

 ceiving some excellent Columbia and 

 Madame Butterfly roses and also some 

 good Soleil d'Or narcissi. 



E. G. Gillett boasts of having the 

 largest Helen Frieke mums that have 

 ever come into Cincinnati, and they 

 certainly are immense specimens. 



P. J. dinger is now cutting some 

 fine stevia. 



Charles Barnaby, Columbus, Ind., 

 spent a week-end with his brother-in- 

 law, H. W. Sheppard. Mr. Barnaby re- 

 ports business brisk at Columbus. 



Karl Heiser, Hamilton, 0., was in 



town buying supplies for his winter 

 business. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rodgers motored 

 down from Dayton, O., last week. 



Joe Beran reports considerable fu- 

 neral business last week, and his activ- 

 ity in the market bears his statement 

 out. G. H. K. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Thanksgiving week was one of the 

 most unusual experiences in this market 

 thus far this season. Starting with No- 

 ber 22, Monday was a most active day; 

 Tuesday the bottom fell out, no one 

 knows why; Wednesday the city buyers 

 bought everything in sight if they could 

 dicker over the price, but passed up the 

 stock held at firm figures; Thursday's 

 half session was brisk; Friday shipping 

 orders poured in and sales went well 

 ahead of the same day a year ago; Sat- 

 urday there was a clean-up except for 

 a few mums and pompons. On the 

 whole, sales for most of the houses 

 footed up a slightly better total than 

 for the same week last year. A succes- 

 sion of dark days, some of them quite 

 cold, cut down the supply, so that the 

 quantity of stock handled was less than 

 last year, which indicates that, on the 

 whole, prices must have averaged better 

 than they did for Thanksgiving week in 

 1919. Also, the way the retailers bought 

 after Thanksgiving shows they must 

 have cleaned up. 



The present week started well. The 

 supply shows the usual seasonable 

 shrinkage, and there is every indication 

 of continuous good business. There will 

 be more late mums and pompons than 

 in any previous year, but the general 

 crop is off, throwing a large part of the 

 demand back onto roses and carnations. 



Rose crops are at about the lightest 

 of the season. Not only has the dark 

 weather had its effect, but those grow- 

 ers who cropped their houses are mak- 

 ing preparations for Christmas and have 

 little to cut at present. Of course, with 

 the supply as large as it always is in 

 this market, there are quantities of 

 roses, but there have been more here- 

 tofore this fall and there will be more 

 again as soon as the Christmas crop gets 

 under way. There is a pronounced im- 

 provement in the demand for red roses, 

 which never are in much request until 

 cold weather comes. The call for white 

 also has been improved by the reduc- 

 tion in the supply of white mums. 



Carnations are selling considerably 

 lower than they did at this date Wt 

 year. The supply is larger, but not so 

 much larger as many expected. As soon 

 as white pompons are really out of the 

 way there will be nothing but the white 

 carnations to use in funeral work. The 

 price for Thanksgiving proved not to 

 be as good as the growers expected, but 

 it is rising now. Easter lilies, too, have 

 benefited by the reduction in the sup- 

 ply of chrysanthemums. They now are 

 the largest and showiest flowers to be 

 had for wedding decorations and funeral 

 work. Callas also benefit by the latter 

 demand. 



Darker weather has reduced the sup- 

 ply of sweet peas and the price has 

 stiffened. The market for peas is bet- 

 ter than it would have been had the 

 usual supplies ofviolets been forthcom- 

 ing. There are practically no locally 

 grown singles and the market in the 

 east is good enough to hold there nearly 



