Mai 10, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



27 



John V. Wickler. 



John V. Wickler, for many years en- 

 gaged in the florists' business at Grand 

 Forks, N. D., was killed last week by a 

 train while he was walking on the tracks 

 near his home, at Lyons, 111. Mr. 

 Wickler was hard of hearing and it is 

 believed that he did not hear the train 

 approaching from the back. Death was 

 instantaneous. Mr. Wickler was born 

 in Illinois, September 4, 1858. He is 

 survived by two daughters and a son, 

 Fred B. Wickler. 



James Stredwick. 



The many American business ac- 

 quaintances, as well as the considerable 

 number of personal friends, of James 

 Stredwick will learn with regret of his 

 death at Silverdale Nurseries, St. 

 Leonards, England. Mr, Stredwick was 

 one of the most successful of latter-day 

 raisers of new dahlias and also was 

 widely known for his chrysanthemum 

 seedlings. 



James Hassett. 



James Hassett, proprietor of the Dav- 

 enport Nursery and widely known 

 among the trade in Iowa, died Thursday, 

 May 3, at the Mercy hospital, Daven- 

 port. He leaves a widow and five chil- 

 dren. The members of the Tri-City Flo- 

 rists ' Club attended the funeral in a 

 body. W. G. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



The market is rather short on flowers 

 and the prospects for a large supply at 

 Mothers' day are none too bright. The 

 demand from out of town is heavy. Ee- 

 ceipts of roses and carnations are 

 smaller. Cloudy weather at the end of 

 last week and the first part of this week 

 did not serve to relieve this condition. 

 Easter lilies are in good supply. A good 

 cut of sweet peas is arriving and 

 peonies are becoming more plentiful. 

 They are from the south. A few lilacs 

 may be had. Other offerings include 

 snapdragons, callas, irises, valley, gladi- 

 oli and marguerites. New southern 

 ferns are in the market. Other greens 

 are plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



C. E. Critchell last week received tlie 

 first of his new ferns from the south. 



The William Murphy Co. had a 

 larger number of advance orders than 

 ever before for Mothers' da v. 



The R. G. Kootz Floral Co. is in re 

 ceivership, in a suit to settle ])artncr- 

 ship affairs. 



The Cincinnati Cut Flower Exchange 

 has been getting in some excellent 

 southern peonies. 



Among recent visitors were Samuel 

 Seligman, representing Wertheimer 

 Bros., New York; Milton Alexander, rep- 

 resenting Lion & Co., New York; Earl 

 Smith, of Hinsdale, Mass.; H. M. 

 Gregory, of Sabina, O. C. H. H. 



Alvln, Tex.— The firm of Hillje & 

 Buller, formerly large shippers of cape 

 jasmine buds, has gone out of business. 

 The firm was composed of two young 

 ladies. 



News' from 



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London, England. — The government 

 liHs granted ])ermission for the mailing, 

 without request, of catalogues begun be- 

 fore tlie restrictive order issued here 

 March 3. 



Genoa, Italy.— The minister of agri- 

 culture has announced his intention of 

 establishing in the chief cities of Italy 

 large model nurseries for the production 

 of herbaceous plants. The government 

 will grant subsidies to cover the ex- 

 penses of these establishments. 



Calcutta, India. — The British govern- 

 ment has increased the quantity of bur- 

 lap requisitioned for shipment from Cal- 

 cutta during May and June from 50,000,- 

 000 yards each month to 65,000,000. This 

 is an increase of thirty per cent. It has 

 had a bullish effect on the market. 



Wiesbaden, Germany. — Ferd. Fischer, 

 the well-known cyclamen seed specialist, 

 wrote January 25, the letter being posted 

 in Norway, intercepted by the British 

 censor and delivered to the addressee in 

 America May 7: "Many of my old 

 customers may have ordered last spring, 

 but I did not receive their letters or 

 money, nothing at all in 1916; nor any 

 money for deliveries in 1915." 



London, England. — It is pointed out 

 to carnation growers that, for those who 

 were able to maintain their production, 

 "flowers fetched record prices over a 

 longer period during the season coming 

 to a close, than ever before, and it does 

 not need a prophet to point out that 

 they will be scarcer still for next winter. 

 Less labor and people concentrating on 

 other things is bound to have this 

 effect." 



The Hague, Holland.— In 1915, 126,- 

 000 acres, or two per cent of Holland's 

 superficial area, was devoted to garden- 

 ing and 20,900 acrdE, or three-tenths of 

 one per cent, to flowers and bulbs, out 

 of a total of 2,325,000 acres (thirty-eight 

 per cent) of arable land. August 16, 

 1916, a law was passed empowering the 

 government to restrict or prohibit the 

 planting of crops not useful for feeding 

 human beings and animals and there- 

 fore the government has made several 

 regulations calculated to increase the 

 food-producing capacity of the land and 

 at the same time to discourage the culti- 

 vation of crops whose acreage has been 

 increasing under the stimulation of high 

 export prices. The cultivation of sev- 

 eral kinds of crops will be restricted to 

 the average acreage employed for those 

 crops during 1913, 1914 and 1915. Other 

 crops, which are principally used for ex- 

 port, will be reduced to seventy or 

 eighty per cent of the 1913 to 1915 fig- 

 ures. It is estimated that a total of 

 100,000 acres will thus be released for 

 the production of crops for home con- 

 sumption. The importance of this addi- 

 tion to Holland's food-producing acre- 

 age may be realized when it is noted that 

 its entire area devoted to winter wheat 

 in 1916 was 124,000 acres. In connec- 

 tion with the different schemes calcu- 

 lated to increase the food output of 

 Dutch soil, it has beeA repeatedly stated 

 by the Minister of Agriculture, Indus- 

 try and Commerce that it will be the 

 government's policy to discourage the 

 raising of export crops by the interposi- 

 tion of export prohibitions and to en- 

 courage home crops by a system of 

 liigher maximum prices. 



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The West View Floral Co., of Elkhart, 

 liid., states that funeral work has kept 

 it "out of tlio hole" this season. A 

 glimpse of sunshine iirompted the re- 

 mark tliat ' ' every cloud has its silver 

 lining" and put behind the terrors of 

 a rapidly diminishing coal pile. There 

 is an abundant supply of well grown 

 stock to meet a good planting season. 



Henry Elirhardt, of Sidney, O., is one 

 of the fortunates who grew a part crop 

 of lettuce last winter. The crop is now 

 nearing the end and allowing space for 

 numerous bedding plants of excellent 

 qualitv. 



W. "D. Rettic, of South Bend, Ind., 

 reading a price list for Mothers' day, 

 mailed by a wholesaler, in which split 

 carnations were quoted at 5 cents, said: 

 ' * The special days furnish the rock upon 

 which the wholesaler and retailer split. 

 Taking the risk of loss of sales, cost of 

 handling, etc., it remains to be seen 

 whether there will be an appreciative 

 surplus toward the Jarvis fund. ' ' Work 

 on a concrete bed suggested the remark 

 that "much going up and little coming 



down at tliis time furnishes the oppor- 

 tunity to prepare for a good bottom 

 when tlie balance turns.'' 



Adam Graham lias returned safely to 

 his Cleveland, O., home from his annual 

 trip to the Isle of Pines with the usual 

 account of the vegetation there to in- 

 terest his fellow Clevelanders. 



John D. Rockefeller has given in- 

 structions to A. Graham & Son, of Cleve- 

 land, O., to convert his tennis courts into 

 a garden. The question of which is the 

 most suitable and profitable to raise, 

 ))ineapples or potatoes, is left to the 

 judgment of Adam Graham, Jr., who 

 will supervise the undertaking. 



Aaron Shive, manager of the green- 

 houses of the Flick Floral Co., Fort 

 Wayne, Ind., was assisting in the con- 

 struction of a rustic bridge. "Putting 

 in pecky cypress for flooring," he ob- 

 served. "If , one wishes something equal 

 to concrete, this is it, and a bridge, 

 nowadays especially, must carry heavy 

 weights. ' ' 



W. M. 



