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The Florists* Review 



AlMil 8T 4, 1921 



this occasion it was filled with gladioli, 

 red roses and Delphinium Belladonna, 

 all beautified and skillfully arranged 

 with the proper amount of fern. The 

 other basket contains gladioli, what is 

 sometimes called summer lilac, roses and 

 enough green to make it attractive. 

 These displays attracted much atten- 

 tion among the many other floral dis- 

 plays at the opening of the bank. 



Color schemes can be worked out to 

 perfection with gladioli. There are the 

 colors that blend or contrast, as desired 

 -whites, purples, lavenders, etc. And 

 at this season of the year they are plen- 

 tiful and reasonable in price. They are 

 a splendid flower for many occasions. 

 A window full of thein, well arranged 

 in baskets and vases, should attract 

 • many customers. But the arrangement 

 is as important as the flowers. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



The Market. 



Stock was not quite so scarce an 

 the week before, although it was bj' 

 no means plentiful. Asters have been 

 coming in and have been a welcome ad- 

 dition. These are of fair quality and 

 tell readily at $4 and $5 per hundred. 

 Gladioli are scarce. The supply of gla- 

 dioli this year has been small in com- 

 parison with other years, due to the 

 weather. Roses are fairly plentiful in 



shorts and mediums and are in good de- 

 mand. 



Lilies have been a great help in the 

 market. Easter lilies have been sell- 

 ing well for funeral work. Rubrum^ 

 lilies have been coming in, but, as yet, 

 are not plentiful and are not greatly 

 sought. 



A little statiee, some delphiniums, 

 gaillardias, zinnias, etc., are available, 

 but not in any unusual quality or quan- 

 tity. 



Business has been fair for this time 

 of year, funeral work being the most 

 important item. 



Various Notes. 



Irwin Bertermann and family have 

 just returned from their vacation. They 

 motored to Wisconsin and spent some 

 time at Evergreen bay, Milwaukee and 

 Chicago before returning. 



H. S. Price, of the Joseph G. Neid- 

 inger Co., Philadelphia, and Mr. Hud- 

 dleson, of the Ove Gnatt Co., Laporte, 

 Ind., called on the trade last week. 



A new smokestack is being erected at 

 Bertermann 's Cumberland plant. 



Temperley's delivery truck was re- 

 cently hit by a gravel truck and badly 

 damaged. Mr. Ross, the driver, was 

 only slightly hurt. 



H. W. Rieman & Sons have some fine 

 canary birds, which they are raising to 

 sell. " E. E. T. 



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MOTT-LY MUSINGS 



"Publicity in a novel form," ob- 

 served H. B. Wisner, Middletown, N. 

 Y., referring to the recent wedding of 

 a prominent young couple, at which 

 flowers were dropped from an aeroplane 

 owned by Mr. Wisnor and driven by 

 an army lieutenant, who was later a 

 ifuest at the wedding. The Wisner 

 greenhouses received much publicity in 

 consequence of this unusual incident. 



* • • * 



"Apropos of weddings," commented 

 F. X. Dicnst, "while the records indi- 

 cate fewer, our experience shows more 

 business than usual at this time. With 

 a. lower average in funeral work, we 

 have a good stock in sight and look for 

 a continuation of the good business we 

 have enjoyed since our residence of a 

 (|uarter of a century at Middletown." 



* * • * 



•ii^ A. Lorenz, of Middletown, records 

 the best season for general planting, 

 mucli funeral work, jtlenty of flowers, 

 .1 fine lot of gladioli and asters, with 

 carnations and clirysaiitheiiiuius making 

 fine growth. Mr. Ijorcnz will represent 

 this hustling town at the S. A. F. con- 

 vention, at Washington, D. C. 



• * * * 



"Great growing weatlier," comment- 

 ed George Burgcvin, of Valentin 

 Hurgevin's Sons, Kingston, N. Y. 

 "Stock is doing well; in fact, if we 

 have a contiiuiat io7i, we shall have no 

 excuse for not making tiie trip to Wasli- 

 ington, as everytliing will be in order 

 and, undoubtedly, it will be a banner 

 gathering this year.'' 



• • * * 



Unless prevented by unforeseen cir- 

 • umstances, Henry Hansen, the flourish- 

 ing tlorist of Catskill, \. V., accom- 



panied by Miss Hansen, will be seen 

 among the crowd attending the con- 

 vention of the S. A. F. 



* • • • 



"Most assuredly we will be there," 

 say Conrad & Gindra, of Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y. "Washington will be the Mecca 

 of such as ourselves who are on the 

 qui vive for the latest in floriculture. 

 We expect to get some points on floral 

 artistry while there." 



* * • * 



George Saltford, of the Saltford Flow- 

 er Shop, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., proposes 

 to take advantage of the lull to hie 

 himself to the capital city, possibly by 

 motor. "W(> look for the biggest year 

 at X'assar College this coming season 

 and must be prepared with the latest 

 id(>as culled from the convention,'' said 



he. 



* • • * 



"An excellent idea," oltserviMl Kred 

 Goldring, Slingerlands, N. Y., comment- 

 ing upon the suggestion that the All)anv 

 Florists' Club attend the S. A. F. in a 

 body. "Splendid publicity and the 

 arrival of our boys, a hundred strong, 

 in automobiles representing the ca])it!il 

 of the Empire state, would be a fine 

 comiiliment to the craft at the (■.•ii)it;il 

 of the republic. " 



* • • * 



William Gloeckner, Albany, X. Y., 

 will be a much disappointed individual 

 if he is prevented from attending the 

 convention. He is full of F. T. D. 

 matter and predicts a most in-dfitablc 



jj.Mthering. 



* * • * 



Oflicial business will prevent K. \' . H. 

 Felthousen, Schenectady, X. Y., from at- 

 tending thi> convention. "It will make 



The Review more welcome," added he, 

 "if that were possible." 

 * • • « 

 Henry Schrade, Saratoga Springs, 

 N. Y., reports the best season ever. It 

 is possible that a personal representa- 

 tive from the Chamber of Commerce 

 will extend to the S. A. F. Convention 

 an invitation to hold the next annual 

 meeting at this charming resort. 



* • * • 



Christian Dehn, Saratoga Springs, re- 

 grets his inability to attend the conven- 

 tion, owing to the press of business. 

 "Nothing else would keep me away," 

 said he. "However, I anticipate a fine 

 report in The Review." W. M. 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



The market continues dull and unin- 

 teresting. The demand is abnormally 

 small, making the light supply seem 

 large. The weather has been torrid for 

 many days, and its effect is reflected 

 in arrivals of stock, especially roses. 

 Asters are now coming in heavily, and 

 among such as escaped the blight are 

 some of good quality, but the bulk of 

 arrivals are poor and unattractive. A 

 few good showei*s within the last few 

 days have proved of great benefit to all 

 outside stock, although hail storms Sun- 

 day, July 31, cut outside plantings to 

 pieces within a wide territory around 

 New York, which means a probable 

 shortening of stock for a few days. 



American Beauty roses are not plen- 

 tiful, and the quality is much below 

 the average for the season. Poor foliage 

 in many shipments also acts adversely 

 in the matter of prices. Hybrid teas 

 are in fair supply, but quality deter- 

 mines quotable prices, which are lower 

 than those of last week. Much stock 

 is cleared only through bargain prices. 



Carnations are no longer in the mar- 

 ket. Growers, most of them, have fin- 

 ished benching for next season's re- 

 quirements, and it is fair to say that 

 this work is completed about two weeks 

 ahead of the general finishing time. 



Not many orchids are available, -but 

 the demand for them is not large. Hy- 

 brid cattleyas clean up well, as there 

 are not many of them and lower grades 

 are selling down to 50 cents per flower. 

 A few gardenias come in regularly and 

 clean out on orders at prices according 

 to quality. 



Lilies are not plentiful, which fact 

 is perhaps fortunate for the growers. 

 Lilies of the valley are in small supply, 

 hut sales drag. 



(iladioli are in enormous supply, but 

 meet a fair demand. The supply of her- 

 ijaceous flowers is not so great as it has 

 been for some time, l)iit (piantities of 

 (lelpliininm, phlox, marigolds, daisies, 

 snapdragons and other midsummer flow- 

 ers are arriving, resulting in much left- 

 over stock from day to day. 



Various Notes. 



The New York Times of August 1, on 

 its editorial jiage, gives prominence to 

 the slogan of the puhlicity cajnpaign, 

 under the caption, "Saying It with 

 Flowers." The article details the 

 wordless greeting of Andiassador Her- 

 rick to France on his recent arrival in 

 Paris. "It could hardly be called a 

 speech," the article says, "yet a more 

 elo(|uent ambassadorial speech one 

 could not have made. "He took the 



