FBBKliAHV 16, 1922 



The Florists^ Review 



37 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The improvement in cut flower market 

 conditions noted last week has been well 

 maintained, and business generally is 

 fairly satisfactory. There is a good 

 supply of everything, and the demand 

 is just about strong enough to take care 

 of it. There is an enormous supply of 

 tulips, with quality in great variety, 

 from culls with stems three inches long 

 to splendid flowers near to exhibition 

 standard; the latter bring $1.50 per 

 dozen, the rest move at prices down to 

 25 cents per dozen. Daffodils are abun- 

 dant, but not much stock of high qual- 

 ity is seen as yet. Freesias are plentiful, 

 as are callas. Roman hyacinths are al- 

 most rarities this season. 



Roses are in good supply and clean up 

 fairly well. American Beauty moves 

 rather slowly. Hybrid teas are plenti- 

 ful; more so than a week ago, but clear- 

 ances are good. 



Carnations are abundant, but appear 

 to move well. Mrs. Ward brings top 

 prices and is still the best pink variety 

 in its class. Laddie is scarce, and moves 

 readily as a separate proposition. 



Cattleyas are in good supply, but meet 

 only a moderate demand. Much inferior 

 stock is arriving, but it finds a place 

 in funeral work. A few selected C. 

 MossisB and good hybrids will bring as 

 much as $1 per flower. 



White lilies are in much larger sup- 

 ply and the price range has moved 

 downward, with clearances rather slow. 

 Rubrums meet a fairly good demand. 

 Lilies of the valley are still on the side 

 of ovcrsupply, and prices remain the 

 same. Gardenias arc in rather small 

 supply, at $3 to $6 per dozen. 



Sweet peas are more plentiful than 

 they have been this season, but clean 

 up pretty well. Violets arc in good sup- 

 ply, with prices erratic, one day 50 to 

 •50 cents per hundred, the next day any- 

 thing. 



There is a good assortment of miscel- 

 laneous flowers, including some good 

 pansies, primroses, calendulas, buddleia, 

 stocks, bouvardia, acacia, antirrhinums, 

 iris, daisies, lilac, mignonette, myosotis, 

 wallflowers, gisaioli and stevia, for all 

 of which there is a fair demand. 



Various Notes. 



Oeorge Hildenbrand has had on view 

 for a week a vase of the new Fischer 

 freesia hybrids. The stems were long 

 and the colors brighter and more pro- 

 nounced than in most of the hybrids so 

 far seen. 



Charles H. Totty, of Madison, N. J., 

 was toastmaster at the annual dinner of 

 the Westchester and Fairfield Horticul- 

 tural Society, held March 7 at the Law- 

 rence Inn, Mamaroneck. 



Some of the wholesalers in the Eight- 

 eenth street market are on the anxious 

 bench in regard to the disappearance of 

 James Bruce, who for some time has 

 been doing a trading business in the 

 market. Since Wednesday, February 8, 

 no one has been able to get a trace of 

 him. He made the booth of Clarence 

 Shnn his headquarters, selling on his 

 own account. 



Richard Vincent, Jr., White Marsh, 

 Md., 13 in town on business relating to 

 the American Dahlia Society, of which 

 he IS president. 



The thirty-fifth annual dinner of the 

 ^ew York Florists' Club will be held 

 at the Hotel Biltmore, Wednesday even- 



ing, March 15. Tickets are $7 per per- 

 son, and tables will be arranged for 

 eight and ten seats. Paul A. Rigo, of 

 the Henshaw Floral Co., 43 West 

 Eighteenth street, is chairman of the 

 committee having the function in 

 charge, the other members being Philip 

 F. Kessler, A. Kottmiller, P. B. Rigby, 

 W. G. Badgley, William Rodman and 

 James Sullivan. 



John Young, secretary of the S. A. F., 

 returned Saturday, February 11, from a 

 trip to Cleveland and Indianapolis on 

 business of the national flower show, 

 and Kansas City in connection with 

 preparations for the society's conven- 

 tion there next August. He is enthu- 

 siastic over the prospects for a most 

 successful show in Indianapolis, and 

 speaks highly of the local florists there, 

 who have undertaken eleventh-hour 

 preparations and are working earnestly 

 for the success of the show. 



A campaign is in progress in Brooklyn 

 for the restoration of the streets to their 

 former beauty through the planting of 

 shade trees. The park department is 

 cooperating and is arranging to plant 

 more trees than ever before. The de- 

 partment is furnishing and planting 

 trees for house owners and others, pro- 

 viding a tree, new top soil, stake, tree 

 guard and labor at $10 per tree, and 

 trees of extra size at $16 to $20, guar- 

 anteeing to replace any tree dying from 

 natural causes within a period of three 

 years from planting. 



Edward W. Fengar, who for some 

 years had operated a range of green- 

 houses at Arlington, N. J., growing car- 

 nations and bulbous flowers, died Thurs- 

 day, February 9, following an operation. 

 Fuller notice appears in the obituary 

 column. 



Judge Marean, Greens Farms, Conn., 

 noted as the originator of fine dahlias, 

 died in Florida last week. 



The final schedule of the international 

 flower show, to he held at the Grand 

 Central I'alace, March 13 to 19, was 

 sent out last week. Anyone desiring a 

 copy should apply to John Young, 43 

 West Eighteenth street. The schedule 

 includes the special schedule of the Gar- 

 den Club of America. J. H. P. 



READING, PA. 



The Market. 



A .sunny week brought forth a larger 

 supply of flowers than the market has 

 seen for a few weeks. Carnations ruled 

 the market, followed by roses, sweet 

 peas and bulbous stock." \ heavy de- 

 mand for calla lilies is noticeable. 



Blooming plants, such as cinerarias. 

 Primula malacoides and bulbous jilants, 

 find a toady market. 



Club Meeting. 



The Reading Florists' Association 

 met at the establishment of A. W. Mas- 

 ser, having a large attendance. Business 

 pertaining to the retail trade was dis- 

 cussed, all members reporting business 

 satisfactory, with the receipts showing 

 an increase over January's. 



An excellent paper on the culture of 

 indoor sweet jieas was ])resonted by 

 Frederick LuppoM. Many instructive 

 points were brought out. The speaker 

 related his success with the later varie- 

 ties. The care of plants, stringing, 

 bunching and shipping were then dis- 

 cussed. 



The president appointed Fulmcr 

 Lauch, Fred Franks and H. C. linesman 



as a committee to make arrangements 

 for a trip among the growers of the 

 sister city of Lancaster, during the 

 latter part of February. 



Two new members were elected and 

 four applicants were received. 



Various Notes. 



At the establishment of Heck Bros, 

 a house of unusually fine cinerarias was 

 noted. Large blocks of spring bedding 

 plants of good growth attracted atten- 

 tion. Funeral work and many fine orders 

 for dinner parties are keeping the work- 

 ing force busy. 



Cyclamens of the finest type, wonder- 

 fully developed plants, among them 

 many fine seedlings, claim attention at 

 the establishment of Fred Franks. The 

 varieties of butterfly type are the only 

 ones grown. Sweet peas of wonderful 

 growth and bloom are also noted here. 



The Layton Butts houses, at Wyomis- 

 sing, are producing wonderful crops of 

 carnations, sweet peas and snapdragons. 

 The largest supply of calla lilies sent 

 to the Reading market is grown at this 

 establishment. 



At the stores of J. C. Bauder, Paul 

 Blachman, F. Weiler and Stanley Giles, 

 valentine arrangements featured the 

 window decorations, many orders being 

 booked for this day. 



Plants and bulbous flowers are well 

 under way at the Hyde Park Green- 

 houses, of which William Kern is pro- 

 prietor. 



Paul Blachman was taken suddenly 

 ill on a train en route to Philadelphia, 

 but has recovered sufficiently to attend 

 to business. H. C. H. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Supply increased faster than demand 

 until the latter part of last week, when 

 the extra demand for St. Valentine's 

 day began to be felt. As supply in- 

 creased prices receded, but the news of 

 the changed condition of the market 

 could not be sufficiently advertised in 

 the short time, so that orders did not 

 increase in proportion and some stock 

 went to waste, for the first time since 

 New Year's. 



The volume of shipping orders for St. 

 Valentine's day proved to be the largest 

 this market has ever known, but con- 

 siderable effort had been made to ac- 

 cumulate a supply, especially of carna- 

 tions, and prices remained low, much 

 lower than last year. There was heavv 

 shipping Saturday, February 11, and 

 most of the wholesalers had enough or- 

 ders to keep them going all day Sunday, 

 February 12, while Monday brought a 

 good volume of city business. Still, no- 

 body ran short of stock. 



Perhaps the greatest disappointment 

 to the growers was the slump in carna- 

 tions. Hoping for good prices, many of 

 them had held back the cuts of three or 

 four days and the weather had been un- 

 usually springlike for the season, with 

 the result that the market was over- 

 loaded except with red and the best 

 quality of other colors. In the effort to 

 move the surplus, wholesalers began 

 telephoning and telegraphing to the 

 other fellows' customers, which is un- 

 pleasant all around. 



A peculiar situation developed in jon- 

 quils. Some houses had none, but found 

 it possible to obtain all they needed at 

 low figures from those who were over- 



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