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July 7, 1921 



The Florists' Review 



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Mrs. Caxrie Miller Mclntyre. 



Mrs. Carrie Miller Mclntyre, wife of 

 Thomas Mclntyre, of Nashville, Tenn., 

 died early Saturday morning, June 25, 

 at a local infirmary. Mrs. Mclntyre 

 was well known and greatly beloved in 

 Nashville, and the news of her death 

 came as a shock to her host of friends. 

 Funeral services for Mrs. Mclntyre were 

 conducted Sunday afternoon, June 26, 

 at the Belmont Methodist church by 

 Rev. George L. Beale, assisted by Rev. 

 T. A. Kerley. Interment followed at 

 Mt. Olivet cemetery. 



Mrs. Mclntyre is survived by her hus- 

 band and the following chil(lre,n: Mrs. 

 O. P. Dueser, of Cleveland, 0., and Mil- 

 ler, Daniel and Miss Clara Mclntyre, 

 of Nashville. Her father and mother, 

 Mr. and Mrs. James Miller, also survive 

 her. . 



The following served as pallbearers: 

 Edwin Cross, Jr., Holland Cummins, A. 

 J. Kijile, Lev\;i6 Haiyy, W. J. Robertson 

 and T. H. Morton. 



I Richard feittingesr. ' 



Richard Hittinger, a noted market 

 gardener, of Belmdnt, Mass., died sud- 

 denly June 29 from heart failure. He 

 was 64 years of age. He was born in 

 Watertown, Ma«s., in 1856, and, since 

 leaving the public schools, had been con- 

 stantly engaged in market gardening at 

 Belmont, where extensive greenhouses 

 were deyoted to lettuce, cucumbers and 

 other crops and a large area outdoors 

 was devftted to vegetables and fruits. 

 Hittinger 's Belmont and other well 

 known vegetables originated here. 



Mr. Hittinger was a life member of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 and served on the vegetable committee 

 for several years. He was also an ac- 

 tive member of the Boston Market Gar- 

 deners' Association. He loaves a widow 

 and one son, Richard Hittinger, Jr. 

 Funeral services were held at his late 

 home July 2 and were largely attended. 



W. N. C. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Conditions in the New York flow'er 

 market were practically unchanged last 

 week. Flowers considered staple, such 

 as roses, carnations and lilies, were not 

 in particularly heavy sujiply, but ar- 

 rivals of what are now termed "coun- 

 try" flowers were ()uite heavy. Gla- 

 dioli are in with a vengeance, but clean 

 up fairly well, with the exception of 

 stock which stales through accumula- 

 tion and is cleared at prices hardly re- 

 munerative. Dahlias have made an ap- 

 pearance, but show the eifects of the re- ■ 

 cent storms and consequently are passed 

 by. Other flowers appeared to have 

 stood weather conditions well. 



The supply of roses is suflicicnt for 

 all needs, except white varieties, which 

 continue scarce. Anicricim Beauty is in 

 smaller supply than usual at this period, 

 but arrivals are ample for the demand 

 and prices are unchanged. The quality 

 of hybrid teas arriving is fine for the 

 season, but if the hot spell now being 

 experienced continues, f|unlity will be 

 affected. Premier and Ophelia stand up 

 well, and are in best demand. Prices 



are fairly well maintained, except on 

 long-stemmed flowers, which meet only 

 a light demand. 



Carnations are in smaller supply and 

 arrivals generally are poor in quality. 

 About $1 to $4 was the price range 

 July 2. 



Orchids are in fairly good supply, but 

 the demand is light. Gigas is the leader 

 in cattleyas, although some fine Gaskel- 

 liana is arriving. Prices are unchanged. 



White lilies are not plentiful, but any 

 shortage is overcome by a liberal supply 

 of outdoor regale and Madonna varie- 

 ties. Valley is in moderate supply, and 

 sales drag when concessions are not in 

 order. The holding price for the best 

 grade July 2 was $12 per hundred 

 sprays, but few sales resulted. 



Sweet peas, outdoor grown, have prac- 

 tically passed, and arrivals of both out- 

 door and indoor stock are not suffi- 

 ciently inviting in quality to cause a de- 

 mand other than the bargain kind. 



Herbaceous stock is most abundant 

 and clearances rather difficult of accom- 

 plishment. Yellow daisies move better 

 than most other items, except gladioli, 

 which are a July staple and sell well for 

 the holiday. 



The demand for Independence day re- 

 quirements was almost negligible. The 

 small extra demand usually experienced 

 was cut out through a Sunday preced- 

 ing the holiday. 



Various Notes. 



The florists of Yonkers have been 

 using liberal space in their local and 

 suburban papers to inform flie public 

 that beginning July 5 their stores will 

 be closed every evening at 7 o'clock, 

 except Saturday, and that Sundays they 

 will close at noon. The names sub- 

 scribed to the advertisements were R. T. 

 Broderick, Hollywood Florist, E. Mac- 

 Henry, F. Milliot, New York Floral Co. 

 and Yonkers Floral Shop. 



Charles, H. Keiser, for many years in 

 the employ of Herman Kuhn, in the re- 

 tail business at 896 Sixth avenue, has 

 bought the business of his employer, 

 the transfer dating as of July 1. The 

 business was established thirty-five 

 years ago. 



A meeting of the executive committee 

 of the American Dahlia Society is to be 

 held at the Grand hotel July 7. At this 

 meeting arrangements for the dahlia 

 show to be held in the Pennsylvania 

 hotel next September will be practically 

 completed. Those present will lunch to- 

 gether in the quarters at the hotel en- 

 gaged for the show. 



Visitors were numerous toward the 

 end of last week. Among them were 

 Thomas Roland, Nahant, Mass.; Henry 

 Penn and Major P. F. O'Keefe, Boston; 

 George Asmus, Chicago, and Prof. Arno 

 H. Nehrling, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. 



Joseph S. Fenrich is now commuting 

 from his summer home, at Bradley 

 Beach, N. J. 



There was a meeting of the members 

 of the national flower show committee 

 at tlie S. A. F. offices July 2. There 

 were present Chairman George Asmus, 

 I'resident Thomas Roland, F. H. Tracnd- 

 ly nnd Wm. H. Duckham. Matters in 

 relation to the forthcoming Cleveland 

 show were discussed at some length. 



Max Schling's summer school closed 

 July 2, after a most successful session. 

 The pupils Friday morning, .July 1, pre- 

 sented Mr. Schling with a handsome 

 gold watch and platinum and gold 

 chain, as an expression of their grati- 



tude to him for the instruction afforded 

 during the school period and for cour- 

 tesies and entertainment most liberally 

 extended. Prof. A. H. Nehrling, of Cor- 

 nell University, made a short presenta- 

 tion address, to which Mr. Schling made 

 response with much feeling. In the 

 afternoon the pupils, in a body, visited 

 the establishment of A. L. Miller, at 

 Jamaica, where they were greatly in- 

 terested in the line of plants under cul- 

 tivation, especially as to its extent. 

 "More like a huge conservatory," said 



one. 



Park Commissioner Francis D. Galla- 

 tin is quoted as saying that New York 

 city will eventually become a treeless 

 city unless it adopts a continuous policy 

 of renewal and intensive maintenance 

 of its parks. In Manhattan alone, he 

 said, of 130,000 trees of record, the 

 death and removal rate was 3,500 a 

 year, with replacements at less than 

 2,500 a year. The discrepancy between 

 the removal rate and the renewal rate 

 is all the more significant, said the com- 

 missioner, when one considers that the 

 average life of trees in New York 

 city is but 25 years, so that if sim- 

 ilar conditions continue for the next 

 twenty-five years all the present gen- 

 eration of trees will have perished, and 

 in their place will stand, at the present 

 rate of renewal, less than half the pres- 

 ent number of trees on Manhattan, of 

 which 90,000 are growing in Central 

 park, 25,000 in other paj^s, and 15,000 

 on the city streets; 



July 1, when Edward M. Morgan was 

 sworn in as postmaster of New York, 

 the anterooms a.n<\ main offices of the 

 jiostmaster were banked with scores of 

 bouquets, floral horseshoes and other 

 pieces. J. H. P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



July started as June ended, hot and 

 dull. Demand faded away in the last 

 days of June, after schools had closed 

 and most of the crop of brides had 

 been picked. The nation's birthday an- 

 niversary is one holiday which means 

 absolutely nothing in the flower busi- 

 ness, and the heat, up to July 6, was 

 terrific. Most of the wholesale houses 

 were open half a day on the Fourth, to 

 take care of standing orders and be- 

 cause two days in succession is too long 

 to let stock accumulate at this season at 

 greenhouses not equipped with refrig- 

 eration. Cooler weather, now promised 

 for a spell, is expected to revive the de- 

 mand, and orders are beginning to come 

 in from those "^ho are without home 

 supplies of flowers during the replant- 

 ing season. 



The receipts of flowers have con- 

 tinued to diminish. Many growers have 

 stopped picking carnations and sweet 

 peas are practically done. The supply 

 of roses, taking the market as a whole, 

 has run down, probably pretty close to 

 the minimum for the summer, but the 

 rose still is the backbone of the busi- 

 ness. Russell has resumed the leading 

 position, held during the winter and 

 spring by Premier. Crusader also has 

 come to the front as a good summer 

 rose. Most of the roses are short to me; 

 diuni, flowers small. Long stems are not 

 plentiful or in great demand. 



Gladioli are abundant, but thus far 

 have sold for excellent prices. True, the 

 bulbs cost the growers more than in the 



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