August 11, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



29 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Midsummer conditions continue in the 

 New York cut flower market. Arrivals 

 are light and demand is below the nor- 

 mal for the season. Retailers complain 

 that they are doing less business than at 

 any time within two or three years. If 

 this condition were reversed, it would be 

 hard to forecast the source of supply 

 sufficient to meet an actual demand. 

 Outdoor flowers form the principal stock 

 in evidence, and these are available in 

 quantity much less than in previous 

 years. A wholesaler just returned from 

 a trip through the New Jersey dahlia 

 districts reports only short crop prob- 

 abilities, growers having lost heavily of 

 their early xjlantings through heat and 

 drought. Gladioli form the leading com- 

 modity, and the general quality of ar- 

 rivals is good, yielding prices within a 

 range of $3 to $8 per hundred, with 

 Schwabcn, America and Panama promi- 

 nent in varietal choice. The supply of 

 asters is greater, and the quality of of- 

 ferings generally is improved. Zinnias, 

 delphiniums, a few chrysanthemums, 

 calendulas, African marigolds, cosmos, 

 liydrangojis, anthuriums, phlox, cand}'- 

 tuft and gypsojihila form about the 

 category of other availablcs. 



American Beauty roses arc in better 

 supi^ly, some growers coming again on 

 crop, but the demand for stock is weak, 

 and last quoted prices are still in effect. 

 Hybrid teas have shortened up consider- 

 ably and the price range has stiffened. 

 Monday, in spite of a small demand, the 

 ]irice range was from $4 per hundred on 

 Xo. 2 grades to $15 on top grades. It is 

 just between crops and the supply is 

 quite limited. 



Orchids are in extremely short sup- 

 ply, fortunately, perliaps, for the grow- 

 ers, because the demand is equally short. 

 White lilies, also, are in short supply, 

 and so are lilies of the valley, but no- 

 body is worrying over this condition 

 and prices remain as last quoted. 



There are no carnations, nor are any 

 in sight except the few flowers that may 

 straggle later in the month from field- 

 grown surplus plants. 



Vaxious Notes. 



Jack Trepel, proprietor of a chain of 

 flower stores in Brooklyn, celebrated the 

 fifth anniversary of his starting in busi- 

 ness Sunday, August 7, by giving an out- 

 ing at Eye Beach to his employees. A 

 party of" about fifty left the Fulton 

 street store in automobiles early in the 

 niorning, arriving at Eye in time for 

 lunch, all sitting down to a real shore 

 dinner in the evening at a leading hotel 

 resort. The interval between meals was 

 devoted to games and bathing. Mr. 

 Trepel says he is going to make this an 

 annual event. 



"Are you going to the convention?" 

 is the constant question now. It is hard 

 to forecast how many will go from Xew 

 York, as many automobile parties are in 

 course of formation. Among those who 

 have taken out identification tickets for 

 the club party leaving Monday morning, 

 August 15, at 11:08, are A."t. De La 

 Mare, Anton Schultheis, J. G. Esler, I. 

 S. Hcndrickson, A. L. Miller, F. H. 

 Traendly, Max Schling, Wallace R. 

 Pierson, A. M. Henshaw, Arthur Dum- 

 mett, W. E. Cobb, C. B. Weathered, 

 E. J. Irwin, W. E. Cahill, Chas. Bassi, 

 Joseph J. Lane, J. K. Allen, Henry 

 Rudolph, Peter Duff, Louis Hanfling, 



Clifford Lowther, Jos. A. Manda, C. 

 W. Scott, R. H. Mueller and John H. 

 Pepper. Of course, these certificates 

 include travel for family members, so 

 a record crowd may be expected to 

 start. 



The American Greenhouse Mfg. Co., 

 Chicago, has taken space for ofiices on 

 the mezzanine floor of the Eighteenth 

 street flower market. J. H. P. 



HARTFORD, CONN. 



Business continues quiet. The tobacco 

 growers nearby are engaged in harvest- 

 ing the heaviest and best crops in a good 

 many years. The tobacco growers give 

 a great deal of work to the unemployed 

 in this city. 



E. S. Drake, of Palisade avenue, 

 Windsor, is bringing in some fine sweet 

 peas and other outdoor flowers. He has 

 signed contracts for a new house, 5Ux 

 150 feet, where he intends to grow a 

 general list of pot plants. He was for- 

 merly connected with the Cedar Hill 

 Greenhouses. 



At the range of the W. W. Thomson 

 Co., West Hartford, resoiling and prep- 

 arations are being made to plant several 

 houses of Enchantress Supreme, Match- 

 less and Victory carnations. There are 

 pompon chrysanthemums and other vari- 

 eties in three other houses at this range, 

 with several l)enches of Asparagus 

 Sprengeri. A. L. Eraser reports a heavy 

 demand for bedding and other plants at 

 this range. He contemplates increas- 

 ing this branch materially the coming 

 season. At the Bera street range this 

 enterprising firm has 50,000 more square 

 feet under glass. X'iolets, sweet peas, 

 mignonette, snapdragons and asters are 

 grown here. One King house and several 

 houses built from the company's own 

 [dan make up this range, where a force 

 of painters are now busily employed on 

 the interior. Mr. Thomson has a spick- 

 and-span cottage at Twin Lakes, where 

 Mrs. Thomson and the children spend 

 the holidays. Mr. Wallace joins them 

 over the week-ends. C. B. M. 



COLUMBUS, O. 



The Market. 



The market is now well htocked and 

 such flowers as gladioli, zinnias, etc., 

 are to be had in profusion. Some fine 

 varieties of gladioli are displayed at 

 local stores and prices at all stores are 

 about the same, tiood blooms bring 

 from about $2 to $3 per dozen, while 

 one store advertised them at $1.50 per 

 dozen, but the quality in this case was 

 doul)tful. Eoses are plentiful and of 

 good grade. 



Various Notes. 



McKellar's have opened the new 

 store at 35 West Broad street and the 

 store is pronounced the most beautiful 

 in central Ohio. Mr. Mclvellar is in 

 charge of the old store at 22 North High 

 street and J. W. Thompson has charge 

 of the new store. The first week proved 

 successful and the owners are well 

 pleased with the outlook. Congratula- 

 tions have been pouring in all the week. 



J. A. Martin is working hard install- 

 ing a new boiler. He has a boiler with 

 extra large capacity, so he can erect 

 more houses without changing the heat- 

 ing unit. 



Mr. Monroe, of the A. L. Randall Co., 

 Chicago, was in Columbus last week in- 

 specting McKellar's store, in which he 



installed two large A. L. Randall refrig- 

 erators. These iceboxes have made u 

 good impression on the trade, as they 

 are cool and at the same time beautiful. 



Leo Miller has just returned from aa 

 automobile tour of the east and tells us 

 he had a fine time. 



W. B. Huddleson, of the Ove Gnatt 

 Co., Laporte, Ind., was in Columbus last 

 week. 



McKellar's had a blanket of Premier 

 and ("olunibia roses for the Stikes fu- 

 neral last week. 



Many were busy last week, when the 

 body of a returned soldier was placed in 

 the state capitol and was given a public 

 burial after lying in state surrounded by 

 a mass of flowers. Many more bodies 

 are due_to arrive soon from overseas, 

 (ireat honor is being done these boys ana 

 the majority of peoiile wish to "Sav It 

 with Flowers." J. W. T. 



; CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The Pageant of Progress, which has 

 been attracting thousands of visitors 

 to tlie city and hundreds of thousands 

 of sight-seers to the municipal pier, has 

 demonstrated once again the truth of 

 the statement, often made in this col- 

 umn, that excitement of any kind de- 

 tracts from rather than adds to the de- 

 mand for flowers. It is the general 

 report in the market that city trade has 

 been, since the pageant opened, the dull- 

 est of the summer, while shipping de- 

 mand has been steady or increasing 

 since the severely hot weather passed. 

 It is the consensus that business recent- 

 ly has been, and still is, fully up to the 

 best previous midsumiuer records, but 

 that a greater part of the business than 

 usual has come from out of town. 



During the last few days there has 

 been notable improvement in the qual- 

 ity if not much increase in the quantity 

 of roses. Stems have been lengthened 

 and strengthened and flowers show bet- 

 ter size ana color. The roses still are 

 far from midwinter form, l)ut there 

 are plenty of nice, clean flowers, fresh, 

 cool and attracti\e in any store or 

 home. Such- roses, offercMl at prices in 

 jiroiiortion to the wholesale value, will 

 sell in any store that shows them. The 

 bulk of the supply is (.'olumbia, with 

 Crusader possibly in greatest request. 



Gladioli also have iiii[)roved in qual- 

 ity and increased in (juantity since the 

 drought was broken. It is one of the 

 curious fe:itures of the business that 

 good stock, when it comes in, frequently 

 brings less money than poorer stock was 

 bringing. It is so in this case. The 

 price of gladioli is lower, in spite of im- 

 proved quality, because the supply is 

 much larger. 



Asters are less of a factor than they 

 were at the date of the last report. The 

 supply is smaller and so are the flowers 

 themselves, although one might not have 

 thought there was much room for 

 shrinkage either way. 



Chrysanthemums have appeared. In 

 addition to an occasional dozen cut lo- 

 yally, the first California mums came 

 in last week. There are signs of an 

 invasion this fall, but the reception 

 given the first arrivals was not encour- 

 aging. Easter lilies and valley are 

 slightly more jilentiful. There are only 

 small quantities of outdoor flowers iu 

 the market and the business of the mo- 



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