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Mav 26, 1021 



The Florists^ Review 



31 



B. Hammond Tracy, Jr. 



Tho body of B. Haininoiul Tracy, Jr., 

 whose death by drowning off the coast of 

 Brittany, France, May 5, was reported 

 in The Review May 12, is being 

 bionght home for burial by Paul Doolin, 

 liis close friend and fellow student. 

 The young men were graduates of Har- 

 vard, class of 1920; both were awarded 

 fellowships for French universities and 

 they had been inseparable companions 

 during the year. Mr. Tracy liad just 

 been awarded a renewal of the American 

 Ambulance Fellowship, which would 

 have entitled him to a second year's 

 study in France. 



The funeral services will be held in 

 the Congregational church at Weuham, 

 Mass., Thursday, June 2. 



Frank L. Rumrey. 



Frank L. Rumrey, florist of Stough- 

 ton, Mass., died of heart trouble Sun- 

 day, May 8. He was 60 years of age. 

 He had lived in Stoughton all of his 

 life, Jiaving been born there December 

 19, 1861. He went to the public school 

 in that town and afterward joined the 

 ranks of the florists. He leaves his 

 widow and one brother, Cliarles Rumrey, 

 of Stoughton. The funeral services 

 were held from the home on Pleasant 

 street and the burial was at North 

 Truro. 



HARTFORD, CONN, 



The Market. 



Roses at this time are particularly 

 abundant and of fair quality, at .$8 to 

 .tl2 per hundred. Carnations are in 

 fair supply. 



There is much activity among all the 

 florists and growers, who are preparing 

 for Memorial day. Bedding plants, no 

 doubt, will be in short supply within a 

 few days, as the demand is heavy. 

 Geraniums are most in demand, retail- 

 ing for .$3 to $5 per dozen. 



Various Notes. 



Coombs' Main street store featured 

 Columbia roses last week and their 

 windows attracted special attention 

 with a neat arrangement of vases full 

 of the roses. These roses were grown 

 ;it the company's South street range, 

 where N. C. Osborn holds sway. Great 

 credit is due Mr. Osborn for the re- 

 inarkal)le blooms he has been sending 

 in. Among others that he grows at 

 ^outh street are Ophelia, White Ophelia, 

 Premier and Crusader. Coombs' Asy- 

 lum street store reports a heavy de- 

 mand for funeral pieces. 



The first real summer weather was 

 with us Saturday and Sunday, May 21 

 and 22, the thermometer registering 90 

 degrees. 



At the Whiting Greenhouses, on 

 Whiting lane, of which Carl Peterson 

 IS the proprietor, much activity is seen. 

 Thousands of geraniums, amaranths, 

 liegonias, stocks and other bedding 

 plants are in bud or blooming ready for 

 Memorial day. Situated in the newest 

 residential part of the citj^, Mr. Peter- 

 son has built up a heavy and ever in- 

 creasing demand for everything he 

 grows. In his houses he grows Match- 



less, Enchantress, Nelson, Fisher, 

 Aviator and Ethel Fisher carnations. 

 Outside, Mr. Peterson has just planted 

 40,000 carnations and several thousand 

 violets. The soil is a ricli, sandy loam 

 :ind Mr. Peterson says tlie application 

 of several hundred loads of well rotted 

 cow manure is what does the work. 

 Early this summer two new boilers are 

 to be installed on the range. 



C. B. M. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The week ending May 21 was one of 

 the dullest experienced in the cut 

 flower market for some time. The 

 supply was really less than normal for 

 the season, but an exceptionally small 

 demand, for which no real reason could 

 be advanced, made clearances difficult, 

 and even with conees-sions much stock 

 failed in movement. Carnations were 

 in oversupply, so much so that quanti- 

 ties of them went into the hands of the 

 street men, and the public bought them 

 from the hand carts at 10 cents per 

 dozen, something that has not happened 

 for many a day. Roses and practically 

 everything else, except white lilies, suf- 

 fered, and clearances for Saturday, May 

 21, were made at unquotable prices. 



Monday, May 23, conditions were 

 hardly different, excepting that there 

 was little held-over stock to be moved. 

 Peonies, mostly local, are arriving in 

 large quantity and are of fair quality. 

 A day or two of warm, bright weather 

 has brought on the peony crop to its 

 full extent. 



Roses are in generous supply; the 

 heat is responsible for much opened 

 stock. American Beauty is abundant, 

 and clearances of arrivals are slow. 

 With an oversupply of hybrid teas, 

 values have gone down considerably 

 from recent quotations, and the ice- 

 boxes are carrying a burden of stock. 

 The variety Premier appears to stand 

 up best, with Oplielia, ])erliaps, next. 

 The quality generally, however, is fair 

 for the season. 



Carnations continue in oversii()ph'. 

 White lilies are not plentiful. Lily of 

 the valley is too plentiful, meeting only 

 a small demand. A few gardenias are 

 coming in and meet fair sales. 



Cattlevas are in fair su]iply and the 

 quality is good in the best grailes, with 

 gigas predominating. Sweet peas are 

 overabundant, the demand absorbing 

 the best. Quantities of iris hang fire, 

 so that the asli l)arrel is the best cus- 

 tomer. A few single violets are coming 

 in. They are of good quality for so 

 Into in tlie season, hut they meet rto 

 deiiijtnd. 



llerb.-iceous flowers are in heavy sup- 

 ply and are generally of good quality. 

 There is a fair demand for snapdragons, 

 centaure.'is, blue lace flowers, calen- 

 dulas, pansies, stocks, alyssums, lupines, 

 bouvardias, (lelphiniuins, mignont'tte, 

 myosotis, sweet williams, daisies and 

 other subjects. Orieiital poppies, hip- 

 peastrums and pyrethrums are in small 

 supply and meet only a moderate de- 

 mand. 



Various Notes. 



The Associate Retail Florists met 

 Wednesday evening, May 23, and the 

 wholesalers were invited to attend. 

 One or two sectional meetings were held 

 last week and the levy of one-half of 

 one per cent tax on sales to retailers 

 came in for earnest discussion. It looks 



now as though this plan of collection 

 for the i)ublicity fund will go throiigli. 

 A list of retailers agreeing to it lias 

 been posted in the Eighteenth street 

 flower market, ami it is exjiecti'd that 

 during the next week or tAVO this list 

 will be extended considerably. 



Tho Flushing Garden Cliib held :i 

 flower show in the Flushing Public 

 park May 21, for the bcfuefit of the 

 convalescents' fund of the Flushing- 

 hospital. Mrs. John W. Paris, the 

 club's president, took out insur.-uice for 

 $],:'J00, to protect tlie club against pos- 

 sible loss through inclement weather, 

 a rather novel procedure. 



Henry H. Davies, formerly general 

 manager of the business of John Lewis 

 Childs, Floral Park, N. Y., has left 

 Floral Park and will spend the summer 

 at Alexandria bay. 



Jacob Schaefer, a florist of Middle 

 Village, N. Y., died Wednesdav, Mav 

 18. 



Recent visitors in New York were 

 Robert Craig, Philadelphia, and Wal- 

 lace H. Eiss, of the William F. Kasting 

 Co., Buffalo. Mr. Craig visited a few 

 of his many friends in the neighbor- 

 hood of the city and in New Jersey. 



Secretary .John Young, of the S. A. 

 F., returned Friday, May 20, fron» 

 Cleveland, where he reports an en- 

 thusiastic meeting of local interests in 

 regard to the arrangements being made 

 for the national flower show to be held 

 there next spring. ,1. H. P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



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M.iy lit 80 70..-> ,18 



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The little table of temperatures tells 

 the story of the market as fully as can 

 be done in columns of close-packed 

 types. Those who, through long associ- 

 ation with it, have become familiar with 

 the action of this market recognize that 

 the weather is tlie most certain and the 

 most uncertain influence with which the 

 trade contends. It is the most certain 

 influence l)ecause weather, favorable or 

 unfavoral)le, we have always witli us; 

 certain also because various kinds of 

 weather jirodiice the same varying mani- 

 festations season after season and year 

 after year. For instance, abnormal 

 heat always hurts. The only uncertain 

 thing about the weather as ;i market in- 

 fluence is that no one can foretell the 

 date of change. 



Sometimes tlie weather favors the 

 market; at otlier times, like last week, 

 it works disaster. The heat wave which 

 arrive.l May 19 had the usual effect of 

 '•rowding the market with stock, of 

 making flowers soft, of decreasing the 

 demand, ■■ind of destroying all seni])lance 

 of staliility in prices. 



It was remarkable how well sliipiiing 

 tra<le held up. Increased work and great 

 care became necessary tf) select the stock 

 for a journey, but llie ont-of-town orders 

 were the mainstay of the market. Out- 

 of-town buyers as a rule are willing to 

 pay fair prices if they get the right kind 

 of stock. What was left, as the result 

 of the heat, had to be sold for what it 

 would bring. 



Even more to be regretted than the 

 effect on prices was the effect on the 



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