DECEMIiEK 2, lOliO 



The Florists^ Review 



33 



OBITUARY 



Henry C. Woltemate. 



Henry C. Woltemate, wliosc smldeii 

 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 broujjlit up 

 in his father's floral establishment, on 

 Germantown avenue near Queen lane. 

 This was fifty years ago, when Wolte- 

 mate 's {Treenhonses and Wolteiiinte's 

 store were better known to florists and 

 to flower lovers than any other place 

 in all Germantown. 



Henry C. Woltemate branched out 

 for liimself in 1879, when he was 27 

 years of age. He built tlie first of his 

 present range of greenhouses on Mount 

 Airy avenue, near the Pliiladeljihia (S: 

 Reading 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 successfnily for forty 

 one years. He retired Pejitemlicr 1, 

 ]920. He grew sjiecialties for the re- 

 tail stores, for the cemeteries and for 

 his retail customers. His stoclc 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 tliat 

 were built by Thomas I?utler, 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, 

 lie was fiS years of age. 



Mr. Woltemate is survi\'ed by .a 

 widow, four sons and two daughters. 

 The funeral services were held Wednes- 

 day afternoon, November 21. The in- 

 terment was at Ivv Hill. I'hil. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



The Market. 



With the ]>assing of Tlianksgi\ ing 

 and the usual holiday rush for stock, 

 the market is back to normal again. 

 Everybody reports banner sales for the 

 fall ludiday, but tliere was one fault, 

 common to all holidays — a scarcity of 

 certain \arieties of stock. Roses and 

 yellow iMums were hard to obtain. 

 Wliite muTus, white carnations and 

 I'ajier White narcissi did not move as 

 well as other stock. 



This Thanksgiving was fh(> 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 pomjions, and 

 this relieved the strain. 



Some good California violets are ar- 

 riving and are filling in nicely, as the 

 home-grown ones are ipiite ' inferior, 

 owing to the unseasonalile weather, 

 lollies, both Kaster and calla, are arriv- 

 ing in greater abaundanee and are sell- 

 ing readily at $1.1 to $20 per hundred. 

 Mums ranged in price from $3 to $G 



per do/.en. (Jarnatious weie cleaning 

 up well at $(j i)er liundred. Snap- 

 dragons are at $S to $lii jier Iniiidreil. 

 IJoxwood is selling, beeause of the sea- 

 son, at $2") jjer hundred iiounds. 



Various Notes. 



H. W. Shefipard has booked a con- 

 siderable number of debutante and 

 wedding decorations and has just re- 

 ceived a shipment of new suii]ilies to 

 be used for that jiui'jiose. He reports 

 a go(id Thanksgiving trad(>. 



The retailers and wludesalers ha\e 

 organized two bowling teams and in- 

 tend to st.Mge a series of games. The 

 committee in charge is composecl of one 

 meml)er of ca(di of the teams. ]•'.. 

 I'.ossenieyer, of ('. K. Criteliell, rejiri' 

 sents the wliolesaU'rs, and George Kes- 

 sen, of H. W. Hhepjiard, represents tiie 

 retailers. The jiersonnel of tlu' teams 

 is as follows: Wholesalers: K. P.osse- 

 ineyer, Charles I'hipps. l-"rank J'l'icMJ 



Henry C. Woltemate. 



man, Ray Murphy, .lohn Zimmer, E. 

 ]iusclilt>, E. Cavannaugh, Alex Osten- 

 dorp, George Shoe[ilinger and Charles 

 Garvey; retailers: II. W. Sheiipard, 

 • Jeorge Meyers, .(r., Arthur Hccker, 

 Mich.-iel Hanks, <'harles l.aiitry, Ray 

 Kck, Heiijairiin (leorge, Henry Klunder, 

 (ieorge Kcsseii and Stuart .lones. 



C. E. Critchi'll is receixing some ex- 

 cellent vellow anil white Chadwick from 

 (). K. Miiri)hy, of Price Hill. 



Miss Petty Ferdin.andseii. of 11. W. 

 Shepjiard, s])ent the week-end with her 

 Tiiother at Champaign, 111. Her mother 

 has been ill for some time. 



The William Murphy Co. has bei'n re- 

 ceixing some excellent Columbia and 

 ^ladame lUitterfly roses and also some 

 good Soleil d"t)r narcissi. 



E. G. (iillett boasts of ha\ing the 

 largest Helen fricke mums that ha\e 

 ever come into Cincinnati, and they 

 certainly are immense specimens. 



P. .1. Olinger is now cutting some 

 fine stevia. 



Charles Parnaby, (^(dumbus, Ind., 

 spent a week-end with his brother-in- 

 law, II. W. Shei)pard. Mr. Parnaby re- 

 ports business brisk at Columbus. 



Karl Heiser, Hamilton, O., was in 



town bu}-ing sujiplies for his winter 

 business. 



.Mr. and Mrs. .1. W. Rndgers niotore.j 

 'li>\\n tiom l»aytiin, ()., last week. 



.lor JJeraii reports consider;ible fu- 

 neral business last week, and his acti\ - 

 it\' ill the niarket bears his statement 

 out. C. H. K. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Thaiiksuiv ing week was tuo' ol' the 

 most: unusual e.\perieiices in this m.irket 

 thus far this season. Starting with No- 

 lier l!l', .\Ioiii|;i\- uas a most active day: 

 'I'liesilay tie liottoni t'dl out, no one 

 knows \\li\; Wednesday the city buyer- 

 liought e\ civt hiiij^ ill sight it they I'ouM 

 <licker o\ir the price, but passeil U[. the 



st(]ck held at linn figures; Thursdav's 

 half session was brisk; l^'riday shi]ppiii;^ 

 orders poured in and sales went well 



ahead ol' the s; |;iy a year u-^o; Sat 



urday theic \\;i.> a cle;in-u|p except for 

 a lew niuiiis ;iii.| pompons. On the 

 wh(jle, sales fi.r ino.>i of the houses' 

 I'oote.l up a slightly {...•tier total than 

 I'i'r the same week hist year. .V succes- 

 sion ol' .|,irk da\s. s(jine of tln-m unite 

 cold, cut d'.un thi' sujiply. so th.'it the 

 'luantity of stock handled w:is less than 

 last year, which indicates that, on the 

 wlede. pi ices mn-t lia\e a\erai;ed better 

 th;in they did fnr 'I'li:! 11 ks^i\ i ng week in 

 lIMi". Also, the wa\' the ret.-iilers l.nught 

 at'ler Thaiiksgi\ ing shows they must 

 have cleaned u]i. 



The lU-esent week Started well. Tlie 



sujiply shows the usual seasonabh- 

 shrinkage, ;ind there is every indication 

 of continuous good l)usiness." There will 

 be more late mums and j.ompons than 

 in any previous year, but the general 

 crop is ofl', tlirowing a large jiart of the 

 demand back onto roses an<l carnations. 



Rose crops are at about the lightest 

 ci the seas.ni. Not only has the dark 

 weather had its efl'ect, but those grow- 

 ers who croiiped their houses are mak 

 ing pr.'iiarations for Christmas and have 

 little to cut at jiresent. Of course, with 

 the supply as large as it always is in 

 this in.arket. 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 croji get- 

 under way. There is a pronounced im- 

 provement in the demand for red roses, 

 which never are in iiiiadi request until 

 cold weather comes. The call for white 

 also has been imprtived by the reduc 

 tion in the supjily of white mums. 



Carnations are sidling i-onsiderablv 

 lower than they did ;it this date last 

 \-ear. The supjdy is largiT. but md. s,. 

 much larger as many ex|ie<d«>.l. .\s soon 

 as white jiotnpons are reallv (oit ot' the 

 way there will be nothing but the- white 

 carnations to use in funeral work. The 

 I'lice for Thanksgix ing proved not to 

 III' as gc'od ;is the growers expectcil, but 

 it is rising now. Kaster lilies, to.i, have 

 beiictiteil by the reduction in the sup- 

 ply of chrysanthemums. They now ar- 

 the largest ;inil showiest flowers to bi' 

 had for wedding decorations :ind funeral 

 work. Cali.'is also beuelit b\ the latter 

 demand. 



Darker weather has r.'diiced th. sup 

 Jily of sweet peas and the price h;is 

 stilTeiied. The m.arket for peas is bet 

 ter than it would have been had the 

 usual supjdics of" violets been forthcom 

 ing. There are jiractically no locally 

 grown singles and the nnirket in the 

 east is good enough to hold there nearlv 



