^PRll. 27, 1922 



The Florists^ Review 



37 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



With a decreased supply, the cut 

 flower market is holding its own pretty 

 well, in spite of the usual falling ofE in 

 demand always experienced after 

 Easter, in the season when flowering 

 plants used for the festival are still 

 more or less providing a floral display. 

 The quality of arrivals in most lines 

 is improved, after a few days of low 

 temperatures and frosty nights. From 

 Wednesday, April 19, heavy frosts have 

 been nightly experienced and there 

 have been considerable inroads upon 

 greenhouse men 's coal stocks, not ex- 

 pected at this time of year. 



Eoses are sufficiently plentiful to 

 meet all lequircments, without a sur- 

 plus. American Beauty is in small sup- 

 ply, but the demand for it is not active; 

 the price range for specials was Monday, 

 April 23, from $40 to $100 per hun- 

 dred. Hybrid teas range from $4 per 

 hundred, for No. 2, to $25 per hundred, 

 for specials. 



Carnations have shortened in supply 

 considerably, and the price range has 

 gone to $;■) to $8 per hundred in conse- 

 quence. 



Cattleyas are not so plentiful as they 

 have been, but the prices, $75 to $150 

 per hundred, quoted last week are still 

 in force. A few of the gigas variety 

 are arriving, and from now on a good 

 supply may be expected. 



White lilies are plentiful, and the 

 price range is rather elastic. Good, 

 fresh flowers are bringing from $12 to 

 $20 per hundred. Eubrums are plenti- 

 ful at about $8 to $15 per hundred. Lily 

 of the valley just about meets require- 

 ments, with top grade moving rather 

 slowly at $8 per hundred sprays. Gar- 

 denias are small in supply and poor in 

 quality. 



Sweet peas continue abundant, and 

 clearances at times are somewhat diffi- 

 cult; prices are anywhere from 50 cents 

 to $2 per hundred. Violets are about 

 done, although the cool weather has 

 favored late shipments. 



Some fine centaureas are coming in, 

 and move fairly well. Miscellaneous 

 flowers are competing witli a large sup- 

 ply of lilac from the south, but hold 

 their own fairly well. Among the items 

 available are cornflowers, stocks, alys- 

 sum, daisies, mignonette, myosotis, 

 lupines, gladioli, arbutus, calendulas, 

 delphiniums, buddloia, and still a fnirly 

 good supply of bulbous material. 



Various Notes. 



L. B. (,'oddington, the rose grower of 

 Murray Hill, N. J., was in town on 

 Monday to attend the mass meeting 'of 

 florists. He has just returned from a 

 trip to Hawaii, where he, with his young 

 son, spent ten enjoyable days. He made 

 as many sight-seeing trips as possible, 

 including one to the volcano Mauna 

 Lon, always active, and had a peep into 

 its crater. While on the Pacific coast 

 he visited Los Angeles, and went out to 

 Santa Monica, where he was pleased to 

 meet J. Austin Shaw, formerly of New 

 York. He found Mr. Shaw still de- 

 pendent upon a crutch in getting 

 around, but otherwise well and hearty. 



Claroni Slinn is displaying in his 

 booth at the p]igliteenth street flower 

 market .-i notice to the effect that May 

 1 he will join forces with his brother, 

 B. S. Slinn, on the floor of the New- 

 York Cut Flower PLxchange, at 55 West 



Twenty-sixth street, under the name of 

 Slinn, Inc. 



Eobert G. Wilson, the Brooklyn re- 

 tailer, is opening a branch store at Long 

 Beach. Long Beach is now an all-year- 

 round resort, and has increased in size 

 from a small settlement to one of city 

 proportions. 



Charles Weber, of Lynbrook, with 

 Mrs. Weber, motored to Utica last week 

 to attend the opening of the new Ma- 

 sonic home there. 



The collection of ninety-three varie- 

 ties of tulips presented to the New York 

 Botanical Garden by the Dutch Bulb 

 Exporters' Association of Haarlem, 

 Holland, in all about 12,000 bulbs, is 

 now in bloom, and the delight of many 

 visitors. 



The hard freeze of last Thursday 

 night, April 20, and successive frosts 

 on subsequent nights did material dam- 

 age to outside stock. The magnolia 

 blooms were almost destroyed, and 

 much damage has been done to fruits. 

 A Long Island grower had, Wednesday, 

 April 19, planted out several thousands 

 of rooted chrysanthemum cuttings and 

 lost them all. Growers of early gladioli 

 also report Igsses. 



Doyle & Booth, wholesale florists, 

 have moved from 110 to 116 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, where the ipiar- 

 ters are larger. 



Emil Bartels, brother of Charles Bar- 

 tels, the Bronx retail florist, has en- 

 tered into partnership with George Hil- 

 denbrand, who a short time ago suc- 

 ceeded to the business of John Young 

 & Co., and the firm name, Hildenbrand 

 & Bartels, now appears over Booth No. 

 10 in the Eighteenth Street Flower 

 Mnrket. J. H. P. 



S. S. Skidelsky & Co. mo^d this week 

 to a larger and more modern building, 

 in order to take; care of their increasing 

 business, now being located in the 

 Dodge building, at 53 Park place. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



The Market. 



TiMst week business showcil a little 

 (li'clinc, althougli this was rather fortu- 

 nate, since tlie supply of cut flowers, 

 especially carnations, was limited. The 

 rose supply was sufficient to take care 

 of the demand. The varieties in the 

 market included White Killarney, Co- 

 lumbia, Ophelia, Premier, White Ophelia 

 and some Pilgrim. I'roniicr is arriving 

 in larger quantities than any other va- 

 riety. The stock is being received in 

 good condition. Yellow daisies are well 

 represented. Some fine sweet peas are 

 to be had at this time. The demand for 

 llaster lilies lias fallen off considerably 

 since Easter. 



Some fine double Darwin tulips are 

 still coming into the market, as well as 

 some fine bicolored daffodils. These are 

 moving out pretty well. Gladioli have 

 also made their appearance in fairly 

 large quantities. The diMuand, however, 

 is limited. 



There are plenty of greens, both in 

 plumosus and Sprengeri, to meet the de- 

 mand. 



Various Notes. 



The road salesmen of the supply houses 

 have again started out on their usual 

 trips. 



W. A. Clarke, treasurer of the Pitts- 

 burgh Cut Flower Co., has left to at- 

 tend the Knights Templar conclave, at 

 New Orleans. From IJierc he will pro- 



ceed to visit South America and 

 Panama. He will return via New York. 

 Mr. Clarke left the city Thursday after- 

 noon, April 20, and will be gout! until 

 the middle of May. 



Dave Hill & Co. are announcing in the 

 daily papers that tliey will be compelled 

 to give up their ])resent location until 

 new alterations have; been made. Dur- 

 ing this time they will unite both stores 

 with the branch store in the Grand Ar- 

 cade, on Fifth avenue. 



The damage to the range of the Pitts- 

 burgh Cut Flower Co., at Bakerstown, 

 caused by the hail storm, April 10, has 

 now been repaired and the company is 

 able and ready to take care of all of its 

 customers in the usual manner. Fortu- 

 nately, there was no damage done to 

 j)lants. 



The Pittsburgh Eetail Florists' meet- 

 ing is to be held Thursday evening, 

 April 27, at the Hotel Chatham. 



Gilbert Ludwig, of the Ludwig Floral 

 Co., is building a new home on Termon 

 avenue, north side, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



The Queen Flower Shop, on Fifth ave- 

 nue, closed its doors Monday, April 17. 



James J. Higgins, Pittsburgh repre- 

 sentative of the A. L. Eandall Co., Chi- 

 cago, and well known to all the Pitts- 

 burgh retail florists, left . Wednesday 

 evening, April 26, with his family, for 

 Los Angeles, Cal., to take up his duties 

 in Los Angeles as a representative of 

 the same company. Mr. Higgins has a 

 host of friends in Pittsburuh and will 

 be missed by all. H. .T. H. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



You have heard of the day after the 

 night before? Well, last week's market 

 was like that. The week opened with 

 just enough business to show that the 

 retailers everywhere had made a splen- 

 did clean-up for Easter and had to buy 

 a few flowers to keep up a show. After 

 the little spurt on Monday there was 

 nothing doing, or almost nothing, for 

 some of the wholesalers admit that itwas 

 as good ns, or even a little better than, 

 1he same week last year. It was the old 

 story of a saturated outlet. When the 

 trade sells as many flowers at one time 

 as was done for Easter, all the flower 

 buyers are stocked up for a few days 

 and the only demand is for funerals, 

 weddings and ])ur]50ses of that kind. We 

 have to wait until the flowers fade be- 

 fore we can sell more to go into the 

 homes. 



There was some revival Friday, for 

 shipping, and Saturday, for local stores, 

 but the week closed with the market 

 more heavily loaded than it had been 

 on any other Saturday night for several 

 months. There were accumulations of 

 practically everything, especially roses, 

 Easter lilies and callns. Even carnations 

 were left, although it has been the rule 

 for weeks that carnations were short of 

 the demand on Fridays and Saturdays. 



Of course, prices averaged low last 

 week. Weather conditions favored pro- 

 duction and the supply was large. The 

 quality of most of the stoclc was fine. 

 One of the surprises was the quantity of 

 belated Easter lilies. These came from 

 many unusual sources, indicating that 

 numerous growers had many plants that 

 did not flower until a few days too late, 

 l^robably the result of the increase in 

 the practice of planting the bulbs in" 

 benches instead of in pots, the old 



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