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The Florists^ Review 



June 21, 1917. 



NEW YORK. 



• 'The Market. 



It was another week of low prices 

 because o'f the flood of peonies, which 

 donfinated -the market and mad6 all 

 other flower prices weak. Many of the 

 peo'ny arrivals were affected by the 

 hot spell and were useless for the trade. 

 Thousands never .left their boxes. 

 Tens of thousands ate in cold storage. 

 Now come the local and more northern 

 crops, of finer quality. 



June weddings npw are at high tide. 

 Some of- the. large retail hpuses are 

 averaging two ^r three weddings per 

 day, but there are tew, if any, large 

 decorations, and prices, are badly cut 

 • when one compares them with the con- 

 ditions in the trade before the war. 



Eoses are not in oversiipply, and 

 choice flowers of Beauty, Hadley, Brun- 

 ner, Bussell and Prima Donna " bring 

 fair prices. Other roses, if of good 

 . quality, also ' are accepted 'at good 

 prices by the leading retailers and 

 maintain their popularity. Shipments 

 are not excessive. 



There have been large shipments of 

 carnations for many weeks. Accu- 

 mulations were inevitable, and they 

 found almost their only refuge in the 

 pushcart brigade. Longiflorums did 

 not rise above 3 cents; neither did 

 callas. Many were sold at $20 per 

 thousand. Valley holds at last week's 

 quotations. Stock must be perfect for 

 wedding bouquets to touch $5 per hun- 

 dred. All kinds of seasonable flowers 

 may be seen in the wholesale windows, 

 and most of them remain there. 



Various Notes. 



Last week Liberty bonds were the 

 principal topic in the market, and every 

 florist seems to be wearing the button. 

 Some of the trade have bought heavily, 

 and many of the wholesalers have 

 made it possible for their employees to 

 own bonds on easy terms. 



The interest in the coming S. A. F. 

 convention is growing daily. The de- 

 cision to avoid unnecessary display 

 seems to have met with unanimous 

 approval. Secretary Young has re- 

 ceived many communications to this 

 effect. It is believed this will be the 

 most practical and businesslike con- 

 vention the society ever has held. 

 Members of the trade intending to 

 have exhibits are especially jubilant 

 because of the increased attention that 

 will be given to their displays. The 

 Grand Central Palace will be the center 

 of all interest all the time. 



In the advertisement of the whole- 

 salers who had joined the Sunday clos- 

 ing movement, the names of Eiedel & 

 Meyer, two of the chief movers in its 

 behalf, were inadvertently omitted by 

 the writer of the announcement. 



Ed. Hanft, of the Hentz & Nash 

 staff, is enjoying two weeks' vacation 

 with his family at Eockaway Park. 



William Knight, a respected em- 

 ployee of Herman Warendorfif, of the 

 Ansonia, during the last twelve years, 

 died Thursday, June 14, of pneumonia. 

 He leaves a wife and family. 



Miss Edmondson, bookkeeper for 

 M. C. Ford, is contemplating taking up 

 Bed Cross work, to be ready when her 

 country calls. 



H. E. Froment has been serving his 

 country as a juror in the Supreme court, 

 and John Gunther is "doing his bit" 

 in the United States court. 



Since the Sufiday closing movement 

 matured they call J. K. Allen "dea- 

 con" in his home town in New Jersey. 

 Mr. Allen's store has been open every 

 Sunday at 6 a. m. during the last thirty 

 years. 



W. Gunther has been elected a trus- 

 tee in his church since he gave up 

 business on Sundays, 

 i The Cadjeaux Co. decorated the 

 Church- of St. Stephen and the ball- 

 room of the Majestic June 27 for the 

 Eowan-Hill wedding. 



G. E. M. Stumpp has opened his sum- 

 mer store at Southampton, L. I. 



The New York florists who have 

 branches at Newport, B. I., have de- 

 cided to continue them this season, not- 

 withstanding the unfavorable factors. 



The Convention Garden, retarded by 

 the exceptionally cold season, now 

 begins to look well and promises to be 

 at its best when the conventionists visit 

 it in August. Visitors to Bronx park 

 can find the garden easily by keeping to 

 the right after passing the conserva- 

 tories. J. Austin Shaw. 



FORT WAYNE, IND. 



The Market. 



The weather was warm last week, 

 and there was a large quantity of flowers 

 in the market. The general demand 

 was excellent, commencements creating 

 the biggest call, while weddings were 

 exceedingly numerous. Large funeral 

 orders were a feature of last week's 

 business, including several orders for 

 casket blankets. The shipping trade has 

 been good. 



Home-grown peonies are flooding the 

 market, but the sale of them is good. 

 Prices are holding up exceptionally well. 

 Eoses are in plentiful supply, Eussells 

 being especially fine, the best of these 

 selling at $15 per hundred. There also 

 are splendid blooms of Shawyer, Ophelia, 

 Hoosier Beauty, Ward and Sunburst. 

 Carnations are more than plentiful, and 

 their quality is excellent. Easter lilies 

 are in good supply and the demand for 

 them in funeral work continues good. 

 Gladiolus offerings are of fine quality 

 and the supply is increasing daily. 



Sweet peas of the Spencer varieties 

 continue to arrive of splendid quality. 

 Callas are in moderate supply and out- 

 door flowers are increasing in variety. 



Outdoor snapdragons appeared on the 

 market last week; also cornflowers 

 mignonette, larkspurs, Spanish irises, 

 candytuft, calendulas, pansies, daisies 

 and valley. Orchids rfre scarce and the 

 prices are high. Greens of all kinds are 

 in excellent demand, especially smilax. 

 The demand for bedding plants con- 

 tinues good. June 16 more bedding 

 plants were sold than during any week 

 of the bedding season this year. 



Various Notes. 



The June meeting of the Fort Wayne 

 Florists' Club was held June 13 at 

 the Doswell Floral Co. store. In the 

 absence of the president and vice- 

 president, the chairman of the program 

 committee, Mrs. Eichard Blossom, pre- 

 sided. The club decided to hold its 

 annual picnic July 11, the members to 

 go in cars to some lake. Mrs. E. W. 

 Doswell was appointed chairman of the 

 committee in charge of the arrange- 

 ments. The paper for the evening, 

 "Landscape Gardening," by John H. 

 Doswell, was most instructive. 



Clem Lanternier and Herman J. Leitz, 

 of the New Haven Floral Co., New 

 Haven, Ind., spent last week in Chicago 

 on a business visit. 



The Flick Floral Co. had some hand- 

 some baskets for the opening of the 

 Steele-Myers department store. This 

 concern has had an unusual quantity of 

 wedding work this month and funeral 

 work has been heavy. 



The Doswell Floral Co. reports a 

 larger number of weddings than during 

 any previous year in June. 



Frank Knecht is shipping large quan- 

 tities of Ophelia, Shawyer and Mrs. 

 Chas. Eussell roses to eastern markets. 



A. J. Lanternier & Co. have had a 

 record business in June weddings and 

 school commencements. They are cut- 

 ting a fine lot of roses at present. 



Mr. and Mrs. Eichard Blossom and 

 their son, Flick Blossom, are spending 

 a week at Eockford, O., with friends. 



Ealph Tinkham, of the J. F. Sullivan 

 establishment, Detroit, Mich., is spend- 

 ing several weeks in this city, having 

 come here to attend the wedding of Miss 

 Mildred Flick. Mr. Tinkham and Miss 

 Flick were in the same party that went 

 abroad three years ago, and they were in 

 Lucerne, Switzerland, when the war 

 broke out. E. F. 



Mews' from 



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London, England. — There will be no 

 spring shows of consequence this year. 

 Both the London and Birmingham daffo- 

 dil shows were abandoned. 



Lisse, Holland. — J. J. Grullemans 

 states that it has been terribly dry, 

 little snow or rain having fallen for six 

 or eight weeks during the winter, and 

 the spring has been abnormally cold. 

 Early tulips and hyacinths were in 

 flower when the Darwins . should have 

 been in full bloom. Mr. Grullemans 

 says it is a unique season in his forty 

 years' experience. 



Paris, France. — The reforestation of 

 the evacuated battlefields already has 

 begun, coniferous seeds being procured 

 in England for the purpose. 



London, England. — Some of the local 

 War Agricultural Executive Commit- 

 tees in Lincolnshire have been putting 

 pressure on bulb growers to destroy 

 their stocks and plant corn or potatoes. 

 The growers, while willing to do all in 

 their power to assist food production, 

 pointed out that to destroy an acre of 

 bulbs worth $1,250, to grow corn worth 

 $100, would be ruinous. 



