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The Florists^ Review 



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J. Edward Marret. 



,r. E. Marret died at his home in 

 Loiisville, Ky., June 26 as the result 

 of a paralytic stroke. "When the firm 

 of ilompen & Marret was established in 

 187S, Mr. Marret was junior partner. 

 Tli'^ firm ran under this name for sev- 

 er;.' years, when Mr. Marret took over 

 th • business and operated it under his 

 jir'ine until Jan. 1, 1918. At this time 

 hi- son-in-law, J. S. Miller, bought the 

 bt; iness and, although Mr. Marret was 

 nui active, the company has been run 

 HI 'ler the name of Marret & Miller. 



Rorn in Louisville, May 13, 1857, Mr. 

 Marret was engaged practically all his 

 lite in the trade, building a fine busi- 

 ness in the forty years that he con- 

 ducted it. He was chaplain in the Elks ' 

 lodge and an active church worker. 



He is survived by a widow and two 

 daughters, Mrs. Louis Wesch, of Pitts- 

 field, Mass., and Mrs. J. S. Miller, Louis- 

 ville. 



George Boyce. 



George Boyce, 77 years of age and 

 the oldest florist in Utica, N. Y., died 

 at his home in that city Saturday, June 

 18, following an illness with a complica- 

 tion of diseases. 



Mr. Boyce was born in Hartford, 

 Conn., May 17, 1884, a son of Fred 

 Boyce, an English gardener, who took 

 his family to Utica when George Boyce 

 was only 9 months old. The latter, as 

 a boy, worked for and with his father 

 and soon became expert in the care of 

 plants and flowers. In 1875 he had built 

 his own greenhouse and from that time 

 on was in the business for himself. He 

 was active in political circles and popu- 

 lar as a musician. He was married in 

 1880. Two sisters, Julia and Helen, 

 both in Utica, survive him. 



DeWitt S. Benjamin. 



DeWitt S. Benjamin, of the firm of 

 J. M. & C. L. Backus, Groton, N. Y., 

 was drowned in Owasco lake, Friday 

 evening, June 10. 



Mr. Benjamin, 23 years of age and 

 the son of Edward T. Benjamin, of 

 Rocky Point, Long Island^ N. Y., went 

 to Groton with the intention of learning 

 the flower business thoroughly. His 

 start, combined with a pleasing person- 

 ality, promised a successful career. 



The remains were sent to Long Island 

 for burial, accompanied by many flow- 

 ers. He is survived by his father, his 

 mother, a brother and a sister. 



Balph M. Marquardt. 



News of the death of Ralph M. Mar- 

 quardt, manager of the bulb depart- 

 ment of F. G. Marquardt, Inc., im- 

 porters and exporters, New York, was 

 learned with sorrow by many of the 

 trade. Mr. Marquardt entered the bulb 

 business as a boy, with Ralph M. Ward 

 it Co., going through tlic various grades 

 '"•f advancement until three years ago, 

 "vlien he went into business for him- 

 olf. When on the road, Mr. Marquardt 

 -ocured for himself many friends. 



George W. Bussell. 



George W. Russell, owner of the 

 -rreenhouses of the Spy Hill Conserva- 

 tories, Beacon, N. Y., died June 12 at 



the Highland hospital after two weeks' 

 illness following an operation for ap- 

 pendicitis and gall stones. 



Mr. Russell was born at Fishkill, 

 N. Y., March 12, 1866. He married 

 Miss Lacella C. Brown at Fishkill 

 March 12, 1886. A few years after his 

 marriage he moved to Beacon, where 

 he established the business on West 

 Center street which he continued for 

 twenty-nine years. He had about 12,000 

 feet of glass and was an exceptionally 

 good grower. 



He is survived by his mother, his 

 wife, two daughters, Kate and Sadie, 

 and three brothers. 



UTAH OBGANIZING. 



J. F. Ammann, secretary of the Na- 

 tional Flower Growers' Association, and 

 H. V. Swenson, who are making a tour 

 of the country in the interest of organi- 

 zation, were guests of the florists of 

 Salt Lake City and vicinity at a lunch- 

 eon at the Newhouse hotel, Monday, 

 June 20. The main object in view was 

 to start an organization of Utah florists, 

 so that they might derive the benefits 

 which will come through cooperation, 

 and to stimulate an advertising cam- 

 paign. 



Mr. Ammann showed, during the 

 course of his remarks, the benefits to 

 be reaped through organization. Mr. 

 Swenson outlined briefly what Chicago 

 had done since it organized. The result 

 was that before the meeting was dis- 

 missed, a committee was appointed to 

 draw up a constitution and by-laws for 

 the state, organization, to be submitted 

 and adopted at a meeting to be called 

 at an early date. The committee was 

 composed of Arthur Gramshaw, Albert 

 Alt, and Walter King, of Salt Lake 

 City, retailers; Emil Lund, of Bounti- 

 ful; Robert Miller, of Farmington; 

 William Sorenscn, of Murray, and Al- 

 bert Reading, of Centerville, growers. 



Mr. and Mrs. Ammann and Mr. and 

 Mrs. Swenson were guests of Robert 

 Miller Sunday, June 19, when they vis- 

 ited the greenhouses of the Miller 

 Floral Co., at Farmington. 



G. J. B. 



CLEVELAND 0. 



The Market. 



Business Saturday, June 25, was good, 

 but the remainder of the week was ex- 

 ceedingly slow, stock moving sluggishly 

 at low prices. There is a small demand 

 for flowers for weddings, since the aver- 

 age wedding uses few flowers. Valley 

 and white roses are in ample supply to 

 take care of the demand. A few gradua- 

 tions are helping slightly to move the 

 stock. Asters have made their first ap- 

 pearance. Roses are arriving mostly in 

 short and medium grades and when, oc- 

 casionally, there is a call for long stock, 

 it proves difficult to supply it. Easter 

 lilies are coming in spasmodically and 

 lily of the valley is arriving regularly. 

 A good many field and Shasta daisies 

 are being used in weddings and gradua- 

 tions and have proved satisfactory. 

 Water lilies have been arriving in quan- 

 tity and have been moving slowly. 



Various Notes. 



F. Routman, the Superior avenue flo- 

 rist, had an accident lately. His deliv- 

 ery car turned over and injured a pedes- 

 trian. 



Frank Williams, with his wife and 

 daughter, leaves shortly for a trip to 



Los Angeles and other western cities. 



The J. M. Gasser Co. has moved its 

 main office from the retail store to a 

 better location at 221 Huron road, over 

 the wholesale store, and now has one 

 of the best equipped offices in the city. 



Carlton Low, of Chagrin Falls, was 

 recently married and has left on a wed- 

 ding trip to Niagara Falls and Buffalo. 



Walter Priest and family left Friday, 

 June 24, for a month's vacation in 

 Canada. 



Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Lisy recently left 

 on a tour of the east. 



Harry Ingraham, of tlie Cleveland 

 Plant & Flower Co., leaves shortly for a 

 week's vacation. 



Paul Kunze and family leave soon to 

 tour the cast. W. A. R. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Toward the end of last week a change 

 in the situation began to be apparent. 

 The long spell of hot, dry weather was 

 seen to be producing the usual result. 

 Outdoor flowers, which had been com- 

 peting strongly with indoor stock, be- 

 gan to fade away. At the same time 

 the supply of roses and carnations de- 

 creased rapidly. The heat had made 

 much of the stock too poor to be of 

 value and the decrease in the supply, as 

 it frequently does, resulted in an in- 

 crease in the footing of the day 's sales 

 tickets. It is a mistake to say busi- 

 ness has not been good in June; it was 

 not business that was poor, but stock. 

 One of the larger retail stores says its 

 sales for June are below those of last 

 year for no other reason than that roses 

 were so poor it was impossible to ask 

 much money for them; that good flow- 

 ers \/ould have brought at least a third 

 more dollars on the same number of 

 salt , with the probability that better 

 flowers would have made more sales. 

 Last week brought the end of the school 

 year. There was an unusually good de- 

 maud tliroughout the week, with a rush 

 at its close. June 25, for some of the 

 houses doing large local business, was 

 one of the best days of the season and, 

 because of tlie sharply reduced supply, 

 prices were quite a little better than 

 earlier in the week. 



Possibly the demand may fall away 

 with the passing of June, but there 

 will be comparatively little stock in 

 the market during July, so that grow- 

 ers who are able to ship good flowers 

 should realize fair money; indeed, some 

 of them figure that conditions are in 

 their favor. 



With replanting or resting in full 

 swing, the supply of roses lias shrunk 

 to lialf what it was a week ago. Buds 

 arc small, but otherwise average qual- 

 ity is improved. There are plenty of 

 short stems, but not many of the longer 

 grades, although these are not so much 

 in request as earlier in the season. For 

 the next month or six weeks the prin- 

 cipal supply will be from young plants 

 of early benching. 



Carnation growers are becoming ac- 

 tive in the work of throwing out, re- 

 pairing benches and replanting, with 

 the result that each day sees a reduced 

 supply. On the other hand, gladiolus' 

 growers one by one are beginiiing to cut 

 in the fields. There still are a few ship- 

 pers of indoor glads, but most of the 

 stock now comes from fields in the cen- 

 tral part of the state; the local crops 



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