Januakt 12, 1922 



The Florists' Review 



43 



HARTFOBB, CONN. 



Flower Show Notes. 



Wallace Pierson, chairman of all of 

 the committees of the midwinter flower 

 show, met with all of the members of 

 the Hartford FloristSj' Club at the Hotel 

 Bond, January 4. It has been the wish 

 of Mr. Pierson, for a number of years, 

 to get the two largest organizations of 

 the cut flower industries to hold their 

 shows here jointly and the prospects are 

 good for a wonderful exhibition. The 

 cut flower section of the American Eose 

 Society, in cooperation with the Amer- 

 ican Carnation Society, has made a won- 

 derful beginning in this direction. 



Naming this the midwinter flower 

 show was a good feature, as other flow- 

 ers and plants will be displayed by the 

 florists hereabout. The W. W. Thomson 

 Co. will have sweet peas, violets and 

 other flowers. The Cedar Hill Green- 

 houses expect to stage some good bulb- 

 ous and other potted plants, while the 

 retail florists will have several tables 

 showing arrangements of baskets and 

 table decorations. Andrew Welch, of the 

 E. M. Welch Flower Shop, chairman of 

 the hotel committee, has already booked 

 seventy-five reservations and those 

 wishing any information about the ho- 

 tels can write Mr. Welch at the E. M. 

 Welch Flower Shop and he will take 

 good care of them. Our hotels here are 

 on a par with any in the metropolitan 

 cities. All of our florists who are work- 

 ing in cooperation with the Eose and 

 Carnation Societies are a live bunch of 

 good fellows and, without doubt, any of 

 the florists who miss the opportunity to 

 come will regret it. 



The Stuppy Floral Co., Kansas City, 

 Mo., is planning a surprise in a double 

 sport of the Ophelia rose. The E. G. Hill 

 Co., Eichmond, Ind., has seedling roses 

 of great promise. 



W. D. Howard, president, and N. C. 

 Osborn, vice-president, of the American 

 Carnation Society, were both present at 

 the meeting held in the Hotel Bond, 

 January 4, and told the committees that 

 approximately 7,000 carnations would 

 be displayed. Wallace Pierson esti- 

 mated that about 5,000 roses would be 

 staged. Joseph Coombs, chairman of 

 the hall committee, has all of the plans 

 ready and states that the decorating 

 will be good and of a novel design. 



Joseph McManus, chairman of the 

 banquet committee, selected Andrew 

 Welch and Joseph Coombs to work with 

 him. It is estimated that 300 will be 

 present at the banquet and Governor 

 Everitt J. Lake has promised to speak. 



It was voted to hold weekly meetings 

 from now on and more definite plans 

 were discussed at the meeting held at 

 the Hotel Bond, January 11. 



There have been 30,000 complimentary 

 tickets printed and these are being dis- 

 tributed among the flower lovers in this 

 city, which will insure large attendance 

 at the show. This is a good advertising 

 feature for the retail cut flower busi- 

 ness. 



Various Notes. 



All cut flowers are in short supply and 

 there are hardly enough to supply the 

 demand for funeral designs. The first 

 hyacinths, tulips and other bulbous 

 flowers were among the offerings for 

 January 7. 



Among the large taxpayers of Hart- 

 ford florists and other allied businesses 

 were noted the names of Zanneli, $30,- 

 000; Joseph F. Coombs, $45,900; the 



W. Frank Jones estate, $55,200; Olds & 

 Whipple, Inc., $115,300; Joseph Mc- 

 Manus, $129,100. 



Eichard Leary, representing Joseph 

 Breck & Sons, of Boston, was a recent 

 visitor here, calling on the trade. 



Angelo Bonnette, of the Coombs staff, 

 is on the sick list, suffering with a se- 

 vere attack of grip and cold. Funeral 

 orders have been heavy at the stores of 

 this firm recently. 



A real surprise party was given to 

 Marion Dennison by Evert P. Jones, his 

 partner in the firm of Cadwell & Jones, 

 and twelve employees at his new home in 

 Wethersfield, Conn., Thursday evening, 

 January 5. Mrs. Dennison had a sump- 

 tuous dinner ready, which was enjoyed 

 immensely by those in attendance, after 

 which old folk songs were sung until 10 

 o'clock. A silver cake dish was pre- 

 sented to Mrs. Dennison, and Mr. Den- 

 nison responded feelingly. C. B. M. 



TORONTO, ONT. 



The Market. 



Toronto is enjoying just about the 

 usual after-Christmas business this year. 

 There are a number of funerals of promi- 

 nent people and the demand for design 

 work is fairly heavy. There is quite 

 a large sale of artificial or plain wreaths 

 for memorial or winter use. Eeceptions 

 are fairly numerous, with several com- 

 ing-out parties, where floral decorations 

 are in demand. Sufficient stock is avail- 

 able to fill all orders. In fact, some of 

 the florists are advertising cheap sales; 

 generous space is being used in the daily 

 papers. 



Various Notes. 



The Ontario Horticultural Society will 

 meet in Toronto February 9 and 10. 

 This association has a combined mem- 

 bership of 36,000, and although it is 

 primarily for the amateur, a great many 

 professionals are found among the 

 ranks, and also among the officers. This 

 society has had a wonderful influence in 

 stimulating a love of flowers among the 

 people of the province of Ontario. 



The Toronto Eetail Florists' Club is 

 making plans for its usual big dance. 

 This is one of the social events of the 

 season and is always well attended by 

 florists and their friends from Toronto 

 and the neighboring cities. The Metro- 

 politan Assembly chambers have been 

 secured for February 20 and florists will 

 find that they can spend a pleasant eve- 

 ning at this function. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Associa- 

 tion is also planning a euchre party, so- 

 cial and dance, which will be held in the 

 Canadian Order of Foresters' hall, early 

 in February. J. J. H. 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



The Market. 



Business for New Year's day was sat- 

 isfactory. The demand was all for high- 

 grade stock and it was especially heavy 

 for short-stemmed roses, sweet peas, 

 orchids and small flowers for corsage 

 work. Business, since then, has also been 

 good. The supply is just about equal to 

 the demand, with the exception of short- 

 stemmed roses, for which there is a 

 heavy call. Sweet peas, which are un- 

 usually late this year, are just coming 

 into crop and some fine stock is now on 

 the market. There are also plenty of 

 choice, long-stemmed roses to be had. 



Carnations are in good supply and 

 their quality is excellent. 



Various Notes. 



The January meeting of the Milwau- 

 kee Florists' Club was held in the new 

 store of the Holton & Hunkel Co., and 

 was well attended. After the regular 

 business had been disposed of, the new 

 officers were installed by C. C. Poll- 

 worth. The new officers are as follows: 

 President, Alfred Locker, succeeding 

 Fred Gutersmith; vice-president, Charles 

 Menger; secretary, Eugene Oestreicher; 

 treasurer, James Livingston. After the 

 meeting refreshments and cigars were 

 served by the Holton & Hunkel Co. 



C. C. Pollworth, H. V. Hunkel, Nic 

 Zweifel and Henry Wilke made a trip 

 to Madison, Wis., and met there with 

 the horticultural board to make up a 

 new premium list for the coming state 

 fair. In many cases, the prizes on en- 

 tries were advanced and also new en- 

 tries were put in. The premium list, as 

 accepted by the horticultural board, will 

 be more satisfactory in every way to the 

 exhibitors. 



Hugo Locker and his son, Alfred, are 

 taking a trip to New York. They will 

 also visit some of the larger eastern 

 cities before returning. P. 



OHICAOO. 



The Market. 



The shortening of the rose cuts re- 

 ported last week has become acute. Con- 

 siderably to the surprise of many usually 

 well informed men in the market, rose 

 crops went off earlier and more suddenly 

 than usual. This was in spite of a con- 

 siderable improvement in the weather, 

 which might ordinarily have been ex- 

 pected to increase production. The 

 growers say there is an unusual quan- 

 tity of blind wood on the plants, prob- 

 ably the result of the dark days in No- 

 vember and December. Also, it now is 

 asserted that seventy-five per cent of 

 the plants were cropped for Christmas 

 and that the present cut is from not 

 more than one-fourth of the glass in 

 roses. There has come, at the same 

 time, a sharp increase in the call for 

 short roses. It appears that a mild 

 epidemic of influenza is sweeping the 

 country and that the call for funeral 

 work has been greatly stimulated there- 

 by. It is impossible to supply more than 

 a small fraction of the calls for short 

 roses. Most of the wholesalers decline 

 all orders for shorts unless they include a 

 fair proportion of each of the other 

 grades. Buyers do not want long rosea 

 in quantity, as they are too expensive 

 for the ordinary run of funeral work, 

 but they are compelled to take the long- 

 stemmed stock because nothing else is 

 to be had. Buyers who have not been 

 in close touch with the market, and who 

 do not understand the situation, are 

 loud in their protestations at the prices 

 of the shorter length of roses, but there 

 is no help for it under present condi- 

 tions. 



The scarcity of short roses has in- 

 creased the demand for other flowers. 

 There is no shortage of other stock, ex- 

 cept that created by increased demand. 

 The rose has become the principal com- 

 modity on this market and when the rose 

 crop is off it creates a seeming scarcity 

 of other flowers. Carnations have, of 

 course, benefited to a greater extent 

 than other flowers. The price has been 



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