FlBBCARY 3, 1921 



The Florists' Review 



41 



PEOVIDENOE, R. I. 



The Market. 



Business the last week was fairly ac- 

 tive, the demand being sufficient to 

 make a good clean-up every day, with 

 a slight dropping in prices all along 

 the line. The quotations showed that 

 carnations ranged from $4 to $6 per 

 hundred, roses from $4 to $15, violets 

 75 cents to $1.50, Paper Whites $3 and 

 $4 and daffodils $8. Callas were $2 to 

 $2.50 per dozen, Easter lilies the same 

 and orchids $9 to $15 per dozen. 



Various Notes. 



Bills introduced in the Bhode Island 

 general assembly the last week called 

 for appropriations of $16,000 for the 

 suppression of the brown-tail and gypsy 

 moths, $2,500 for the suppression of the 

 white pine blister rust and $800 for 

 holding a state corn show. 



Timothy O 'Connor is enjoy;ing a short 

 trip to Florida. 



Cohen Bros., at their Lowell avenue 

 greenhouses, are preparing for changes 

 and improvements this spring. 



Edward Brooke, of T. J. Johnston & 

 Co., was a business visitor in Boston 

 and vicinity last week. 



Robert Lament, superintendent of 

 the Quidnick Greenhouses, at Quidnick, 

 has returned from an extended visit to 

 Boston', Lynn, Framingham and Welles- 

 ley, Mass. 



Charles Hunt is rebuilding his houses 

 on Burnside street. He has several 

 fine hQuses of geranium plants at his 

 Mystic street range. 



Joseph E. Koppelman was a business 

 visitor in New York and Philadelphia 

 the last week, W. H. M. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



There is little change to be noted in 

 the flower market, conditions continu- 

 ing as last reported. Arrivals are won- 

 derfully light for the season, taken in 

 the aggregate, and the general demand 

 is surprisingly small. Many ask what 

 is the matter with the flower business, 

 .and what retailers are selling, anyhow. 

 Old-timers scratch their heads in ef- 

 forts to remember a similar state of 

 things. Arrivals clear, it is true, with 

 a little pushing; still there is a feeling 

 that if stock available were anywhere 

 normal in quantity there might be a 

 sad tale to relate. A large quantity of 

 out heather is arriving from California, 

 in pretty fair condition too, but it does 

 not move because there is too much of 

 it. New York can take a little of this 

 sort of material, but when much of it is 

 visible it loses in interest. 



The supply of roses has increased 

 somewhat, and heavier arrivals are 

 looked for from now on. American 

 Beauty is in short supply and clears out 

 quickly. An increased supply of hybrid 

 teas is noticed, but there is no material 

 change in prices, other than usually ex- 

 pected to make clearances. The range 

 is $6 to $40 per hundred, embracing all 

 varieties, Ophelia, Premier and Colum- 

 bia running to the highest figures in 

 special grades. 



The carnation supply is increasing, 

 l)ut the demand for the flowers is fair 

 at $6 to $8 per hundred for the best 

 ordinaries, and $10 for superiors. 



Cattleyas continue in large supplv anij 



it seems hard to get $75 per hundred for 

 the best flowers. Good quality flowers 

 are to be had at $25 to $50 and left overs 

 are at times cleared at $15 to $20. On- 

 cindium sprays move at $8 to $12 per 

 hundred. Cypripediums drag somewhat 

 at $3 to $5 per dozen. 



White lilies are still in small supply 

 at $20 to $25 per hundred. Lily of the 

 valley is not quite so plentiful and is 

 moving slowly at $3 to $6 per hundred 

 sprays. 



The supply of gardenias is ample, but 

 clearances are slow at $2 to $5 per 

 dozen. Bulbous stock is arriving in 

 large quantity, tulips particularly. The 

 demand is fairly good for tulip stock 

 at 35 cents to 75 cents per bunch, with 

 superiors bringing as much as $1. Paper 

 White narcissi meet a certain demand 

 at 35 cents to 50 cents per bunch, and 

 trumpets at 50 cents to $1. Freesias 

 bring 50 cents to $1.50 per bunch. 



The supply of miscellaneous flowers 

 is increasing, and their movement is 

 fairly satisfactory at varying prices. 

 Iris, acacia, lilac, bouvardia, pansies, 

 myosotis, wallflowers, stocks, mignon- 

 ette, calendulas, cornflowers, sweet 

 peas, stevia and boughs of prunus and 

 forsythia are prominent among the of- 

 ferings. 



Various Notes. 



The many friends of Charles Millang, 

 wholesale florist, of 55 West Twenty- 

 Sixth street, were shocked to hear of 

 his death Friday, January 28, in the 

 Flushing hospital. He returned from a 

 trip to California only two or three 

 weeks ago and, although he told his 

 friends the trip had not benefited him 

 as he had expected, his death came as 

 a surprise. A report of his death ap- 

 pears in the obituary column of this 

 issue. 



Peter Grossman, well known as a 

 grower of carnations and sweet peas, 

 located at Malverne, near Lynbrook, 

 L. I., was killed by an express train 

 Friday, January 28. He was driving 

 his automobile across Washington 

 street, Lynbrook, along which are the 

 Long Island railroad tracks, and did 

 not see or heed the flagman's warning, 

 when the express train struck the car 

 with terrific force, carrying it fully a 

 quarter of a mile before the train could 

 be brought to a standstill. The de- 

 ceased was in the employ of Charles 

 Weber, Lynbrook, where he was dis- 

 seminating the Victory carnation, and 

 many growers will remember the cour- 

 teous young man in charge of the Vic- 

 tory benches. A report of his death 

 will also be found in the obituary 

 column of this issue. 



Harry Charles, of West Twenty- 

 Eighth street, suffered a loss Thursday 

 night, January 27, through a fire which 

 gutted the two floors of a tailor 's estab- 

 lishment above his store, the water 

 wrecking the flower store and making 

 it untenantable. 



The sudden death, following an op- 

 eration, of Arthur C. Nellis, a retired 

 wholesale seed merchant, January 26, 

 is announced. He was formerly con- 

 nected with the New York Market Gar- 

 deners' Association. He was 62 years 

 of age and resided at West Brighton, 

 L. I. 



Several of the florists who visited 

 the Carnation Society's convention and 

 exhibition at Washington, Januarv 26 

 and 27, on their return trip visited New 

 York. Among the visitors were noted 

 Patrick Welch, E. Allan Peirce and 



Louis J. Renter, of Boston; C. C. Poll- 

 worth, of Milwaukee, and Joseph H. 

 Hill, of Richmond, Ind. 



A. L. Miller, Jamaica, N. Y., was in 

 attendance at the meeting of the S. A. 

 F. executive board at Washington last 

 week and went thence to Miami, Fla., 

 where he expects to remain for a week 

 or two to enjoy a well earned rest. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held Monday eve- 

 ning, February 14, St. Valentine 's day. 

 As it is impossible to occupy the regu- 

 lar meeting room, the meeting will be 

 held in temporary quarters, to be an 

 nounced later. 



A meeting of the flower show com- 

 mittee will be held at the secretary's 

 ofiice the afternoon of the same day. 



M. C. Ford was showing last week, 

 at his store in the Eighteenth street 

 flower market, a vase of the new rose, 

 American Legion, which is to be dis- 

 seminated by Edward Towill and Myers 

 & Samtman, of Philadelphia. The 

 flowers of this rose are a beautiful 

 cerise red, and quite fragrant. Form 

 and substance are both good and the 

 rose looks like a good commercial va- 

 riety. Shouldn't wonder but what, in 

 a year or so, the question, "Got any 

 Legions?" will be a common one in our 

 flower markets. 



Dr. A. B. Stout gave a lecture at the 

 New York Botanical Garden, January 

 26, on ' ' Color Patterns in Seedlings of 

 Coleus. " The lecture was given under 

 the auspices of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club. J. H. P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Last week was different from any 

 of its forty-nine immediate predecessors, 

 but almost a counterpart of the one 

 which marked the passing of the winter 

 shortage, in February, 1920. The turn 

 came this year almost three weeks 

 earlier than it did last season, partly 

 due to the mild weather in January, 

 partly to crops having been just a little 

 early at Christmas and partly due to 

 the edge being off the demand, because 

 of the industrial depression and the ab- 

 sence of the flu. 



The first part of the week there was 

 a small surplus in most lines of stock, 

 for the first time this year, with the 

 result that prices were unsettled, but 

 as the days passed demand picked up. 

 The three days at the end of the week 

 afforded a satisfactory volume at prices 

 not so much below recent levels as 

 many had feared they would be and 

 when the market closed January 29, 

 iceboxes were practically empty — about 

 all they contained was Paper Whites, 

 tulips and violets. Business for the 

 week and for the month, however, shows 

 some shrinkage compared to 1920 rec- 

 ords. 



Rose crops have come on rapidly. 

 The supply already has become about 

 equal to the demand and everyone is 

 wondering what is going to happen next. 

 Prices already are considerably below 

 those which prevailed when January 

 turned into February last year and there 

 is every prospect that there soon will be 

 a larger supply of roses than this 

 market ever has known. Those of the 

 vctailers who have merchandising 

 abilities would do well to prepare to do 

 Iniainess. The qualitv of the roses i/, 

 tint>. 



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