AuODBT 25, 1921 



The Florists'^ Review 



27 



OBITUARY 



William J. Nissen. 



For eight years William J. Nissen 

 had been in charge of the ofl&ce work 

 of the Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation. Many of those who dealt with 

 him had noted that he performed his 

 work silently, without remark, and they 

 will understand something of the rea- 

 sons therefor when it is here recorded 

 that Mr. Nissen died August 22 of can- 

 cer of the throat. He was a thoroughly 

 efficient accountant and the officers of 

 the Chicago Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion speak highly of his work during 

 many years of faithful service. He 

 scarcely ever missed a day from his 

 desk and continued to perform his du- 

 ties with fidelity up to within a few 

 weeks of his death. 



Mr. Nissen was about 50 years of age. 

 He is survived by a wife and one daugh- 

 ter, the latter aged 16. The funeral was 

 held August 24 and there were many 

 flowers. 



Miss Hattie Whitted. 



Miss Hattie Whitted, well known and 

 pioneer florist of Minneapolis, Minn., 

 passed away in Rochester, Minn. Miss 

 Whitted was 57 years old and up to five 

 years ago had conducted shops at Min- 

 neapolis, for more than thirty years at 

 409 Nicolett avenue, the Badisson hotel; 

 at 34 Fifth street and at 932 Nicollet 

 avenue. Because of ill health she re- 

 tired five years ago. At that time she 

 was proprietor of the two establish- 

 ments last named. 



LONDON, ONT. 



The Market. 



Summer trade now consists largely of 

 funeral work, which has been plentiful. 

 New rosies are coming in and are of 

 good quality. Outside flowers are scarce 

 and are of an inferior grade, excepting 

 gladioli. These popular summer flowers 

 are plentiful and of fine quality, selling 

 well at remunerative prices. 



Various Notes. 



W. W. Gammage, F. J. Gammage, J. 

 H. Taylor and F. G. Gilbert motored to 

 the convention at Peterboro. On their 

 return trip a visit was made to a 

 number of the large growers, en route, 

 the first being at the place of E. M. 

 Mitchell & Son, Port Hope, who are 

 large growers of perennials and herba- 

 ceous plants. They have an extensive 

 range of houses filled with small palms, 

 ferns and plants of various kinds. 



At Carl Grobba's, Mimico, everything 

 was in the pink of condition. Palms and 

 ferns by the thousand showed cultural 

 skill. Here house after house of chrys- 

 anthemums and carnations was in the 

 best possible condition. A feature of 

 this establishment was a new concrete 

 storage building, where millions of bulbs 

 will be stored for winter forcing. 



At Miller & Sons', North Toronto, the 

 large range is confined mostly to roses 

 and carnations. The roses at this estab- 

 lishment were the strongest and best 

 looking of any seen on the trip. 



The next stop was at Richmond Hill. 

 Here are located a number of the largest 

 rose growing concerns in Canada. J. H. 



Dunlop, with his large range of Lord 

 & Burnham steel-frame houses, con- 

 fined wholly to roses, is now cutting 

 from this season 's planting and, judging 

 from the condition of the stock, the re- 

 sults from early planting will be a de- 

 light to the income tax collector. 



O 'Field & Cotton have a number of 

 houses planted to roses and asparagus. 



Through rain and mud the party made 

 its way to Brampton. At the Dale Es- 

 tate, with its thirty-two acres under 

 glass, everything was in apple-pie order 

 Here veritable fields of roses, carnations 

 and chrysanthemums, too numejous to 

 mention, were a pleasure to the eye and 

 a promise of handsome returns to the 

 owners. 



Gammage & Sons have let a contract 

 to the Lord & Burnham Co., Irvington, 

 N. Y., for the reconstruction of four 

 200-foot houses. Pipe-frame construc- 

 tion will be used. W. W. G. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market continues dull 

 and uninteresting. The supply is, per- 

 haps, somewhat heavier, but the demand 

 is not increased, making conditions 

 worse rather than better. A flood of 

 late asters tends to cut down the de- 

 mand for gladioli, which continue in 

 abundance, the two items forming the 

 subject matter of the bulk of transac- 

 tions. Dahlias, also, are arriving in im- 

 mense quantities, the best moving off 

 at $1 to $4 per hundred. Good gladioli 

 are bringing 35 cents to 50 cents per 

 dozen, and asters $1 to $3 per hundred, 

 when good. Centaurea imperialis, cos- 

 mos, Bouvardia Humboldtii and gypso- 

 phila are other items which clean out 

 without much trouble. 



Roses are in better supply and the 

 quality generally fk good. American 

 Beauty is not abundant, but the demand 

 for it is small at $20 to $50 per hun- 

 dred for specials. It is in hybrid teas 

 that the increase is chiefly noticed, and 

 clearances are slow at quoted prices. 

 Some Golden Ophelia is now coming in, 

 but it does not seem to be in particular 

 demand, despite its pronounced color. 

 Butterfly is in good condition, and Co- 

 lumbia also is moving well in the pink 

 section. 



Cattleyas continue on the scarce side, 

 but in a week or so the supply will be 

 augmented by the early cut of labiata. 

 Just at present there are few buyers 

 looking for cattleyas, so the prospect of 

 an increased supply is not particularly 

 interesting. 



White lilies are arriving in small 

 quantities, and $25 per hundred con- 

 tinues to be top price for the best. Some 

 growers are planting bulbs of stock 

 now arriving and it is not expected that, 

 with the high rates in effect for cold 

 storage, much will go into the ware- 

 house. Arrivals of bulbs are earlier this 

 year than for some t^e, and growers 

 are taking advantage of the situation. 

 Lily of the valley is in small supply 

 and in equally small demand; conse- 

 quently prices are unchanged. 



A few chrysanthemums are coming 

 in, but they are scarcely a factor in the 

 market. 



Various Notes. 



Many visitors to the Washington con- 

 vention are stopping at New York on the 

 way home. Miss M. C. Gunterberg, of 

 Chicago, was an early Monday morning, 



August 22, visitor, and she had with 

 her photographs of the party favored 

 with a reception by President Harding, 

 Saturday morning, August 20. If this 

 had been generally known there might 

 have been a stampede to the White 

 House that Saturday. It seems that 

 Miss Gunterberg, through Congressman 

 Mann, of Illinois, was able to arrange 

 the interview and a few dozen florists 

 and ladies were in line. Wallace R. 

 Pierson, Cromwell, Conn., and E. Allan 

 Peirce, Waltham, Mass., were in New 

 York, Monday, August 22, homeward 

 bound. Allan Peirce spent Sunday, Au- 

 gust 21, at Atlantic City and reported a 

 large party having left there with their 

 direction New Yorkwards. Secretary 

 Young was to be found at his desk in 

 the S. A. F. administration offices Mon- 

 day, August 22, well pleased with the 

 success of the c'onvention. 



J. K. Allen, the veteran wholesaler 

 of the Eighteenth street flower market, 

 motored back to New York from Wash- 

 ington, but, after giving his place of 

 business the "once-over," started for 

 the finish of his well-earned vacation. 



Sol Hanfling, of S. Hanfling Co., is 

 back from Europe, and his son Louis 

 is kept busy with shipments of goods 

 purchased on the other side, which seem 

 to arrive on every steamer. 



Herbert Brown and Mrs. Brown, of 

 Richmond, Va., after attending the con- 

 vention, are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. 

 John Donaldson, at their home at 

 Patchogue, L. I. 



Miss Katie Miesem, youngest daugh- 

 ter of John Miesem, Elmhurst, L. I., is 

 at home again, after an operation for 

 appendicitis performed at the hospital 

 at Summit, N. J. 



Henry Weston, of Hempstead, and 

 Charles Weber, of Lynbrook, L. I., with 

 their wives, returned last Saturday, 

 August 20, from a delightful trip to 

 Bar Harbor, Me., and the White moun- 

 tains. At Bar Harbor they were guests 

 of William Burton, the genial superin- 

 tendent of the magnificent Kennedy es- 

 tate there. 



Fire on Sunday night, August 21, de- 

 stroyed the carpenter shop and part of 

 the garage at the establishment of the 

 Julius Roehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J. 



J. H. P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



A wholesaler, being heavily stocked 

 with long roses, one day last week put 

 in long-distance telephone calls for the 

 leading retailer in each of half a dozen 

 middle-western cities. He got word that 

 four of them were at the S. A. F. con- 

 vention, two had gone fishing and there 

 was nobody at home with authority to 

 make unusual purchases. The whole- 

 saler also had a list of other calls he 

 had intended to make, but he tore it 

 up, filled such orders as the day brought 

 and set the rest of the roses away in 

 the icebox, already half full of gladioli. 



It is probable that last week will turn 

 out to have been the dullest of the sum- 

 mer. City demand was small and ship- 

 ping orders were neither so numerous 

 nor so large as in the preceding weeks. 

 Indeed, there are tales of an almost 

 complete cessation of business in cer- 

 tain quarters, but it seems probable 

 that the market as a whole did at leaat 

 as much in dollars as in the same week 

 a year ago, which is the same as saying 

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