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MARCH 2, 1922 



The Florists^ Review 



S7 



Mary Reinberg Zender. 



Mary Reinberg Zender, related to 

 many florists in the great growers' sec- 

 tion north of Chicago, died February 24. 

 She was the wife of the late Lawrence 

 Zender and the mother of Henry A. Zen- 

 der and Mrs. Ada Terwilliger. She was 

 the sister of Mrs. Margaret Weiland, 

 Mrs. Catherine Smith, Mrs. Anna Hoff- 

 man, Mrs. Helen Zender, George Rein- 

 berg and the late Peter Reinberg. The 

 funeral was held from the late residence, 

 1615 Thorndale avenue, Tuesday, Febru- 

 ary 28, to St. Gregory's church, whe're 

 high mass was celebrated at 10 a. m. In- 

 terment was at St. Henry's cemetery. 



Luke Collins. 



After a brief illness with pneumonia, 

 Luke Collins, proprietor of the Parkside 

 Greenhouses, Chicago, passed away last 

 week. Interment was at Rosehill ceme- 

 tery, February 23. He was 70 years of 

 age and is survived by Mrs. Collins and 

 two sons, who will carry on the business. 



Coming to America from England 

 fifty years -ago, Mr. Collins worked at 

 the trade at various places throughout 

 the United States, finally becoming fore- 

 man for Wietor Bros., Chicago. In the 

 course of time he accumulated enough 

 capital to acquire the Parkside Green- 

 houses, 1457 East Seventieth street, Chi- 

 cago, where he did both wholesale plant 

 and retail cut flower business. George 

 Collins, a brother, is superintendent for 

 the Henry Smith Floral Co., at Grand 

 Rapids, Mich. 



Charles H. Hoffmeyer. 



Wednesday, February 22, death 

 claimed Charles H. Hoffmeyer, of Carne- 

 gie, Pa., at his late residence, on the 

 Chestnut street extension. The deceased 

 was 68 years of age. 



Mr. HoflFmeyer was a gardener of the 

 old school. Thirty-five years ago he was 

 associated with Lincoln & Neff, of 

 Spring Hill, but a number of years after 

 its formation this firm dissolved partner- 

 ship and Mr. HoflFmeyer purchased the 

 present place at Carnegie, where Jie had 

 resided for more than thirty years. After 

 going to Carnegie years ago, the de- 

 ceased took up the growing of cut flow- 

 ers. For the last few years, however, 

 he had not been exceedingly active and 

 at the time of his death was trying to 

 dispose of his place. 



Two adopted children and his wife 

 survive. Funeral services were held at 

 the home February 25 and interment 

 was in Smithfield cemetery. There were 

 many floral tokens of esteem. 



Walter S. Brown. 



Walter Smith Brown, a retail florist 

 and" grower for many years in the an- 

 nexed district of Providence, R. I., died 

 at his liomc, 24 Jcwitt street, that city 

 February 18, in his sixty-seventh year. 

 He was born January 17, 1856, at the 

 old Brown farm on the Rocky Hill road. 

 At the age of 15 he went west and 

 worked on farms in New York and 

 Michigan and later went to sea. After 

 several years spent in a seafaring life, 

 he returned to Rhode Island and settled 

 in Johnston. Here he became interested 

 in growing produce and flowers and con- 

 ducted a large milk business. During 



later years he devoted most of his time 

 to the cultivation of potted stock for 

 the Providence market. He is survived 

 by his widow, four daughters, one 

 brother and one sister. W. H. M. 



Joseph Wood. 



Joseph Wood, of Spring Valley, N. Y., 

 died at his home in that city February 

 20. The deceased was 64 years of age. 

 He had been in the florists' trade at 

 Spring Valley for more than thirty 

 years. He had always had a large trade 

 in funeral work, as well as in the line 

 of vegetables and flowering plants. Mr. 

 Wood was a noted asparagus grower. 

 His wife and one daughter survive him. 



Sorem M. Mikkelsen. 



After a prolonged illness, which 

 caused him to retire from active busi- 

 ness some time ago, Sorem M. Mikkel- 

 sen, a well known gardener of Newport, 

 R. I., died February 13, at his home on 

 Burdick avenue. He was 59 years old 

 and was born in Denmark, but came to 

 this country and was a gardener on 

 several of the large estates. After gain- 

 ing several years of experience in this 

 way, he engaged in and conducted a 

 landscape gardening business for him- 

 self, but gradually developed a lucra- 

 tive business in concrete work. Two 

 years ago he visited his old home in Den- 

 marlc and returned the following year. 

 He is survived by his widow and four 

 children. W. H. M. 



Thomas O'Donnell. 



Thomas O'Donnell, who as a young 

 man was gardener on the estate of the 

 late John B. Herreshofif, the famous 

 yacht builder, at Bristol, R. I., died at 

 his home in that town February 4, after 

 a three weeks' illness from influenza, 

 which developed into pneumonia. He 

 was born in Ireland eighty-nine years 

 ago and had been in America eighty- 

 two years. W. H. M. 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



With a greatly increased supply of cut 

 flowers, there has been a material slump 

 in prices of everything. Toward the 

 close of January it was expected that 

 there would be conditions approaching 

 a glut, especially as carnations, in light 

 crop all along, showed signs of heavy 

 cropping. The break came last week. 

 Heavy arrivals resulted in the dropping 

 of carnation prices to a range of $2 to 

 $3 per hundred, and this range has con- 

 tinued over to this week, with little 

 prospect of an immediate change. All 

 other commodities suffered as well, an 

 avalanche of bulbous flowers helping in 

 the downward movement. 



Monday, February 27, conditions are 

 unchanged. Roses are in heavy supply, 

 except in top grades. American Beauty, 

 through a small supply, maintains last 

 week's quotations. Hybrid teas have 

 declined to a range of $2.50 to $25 per 

 hundred, beginning with the No. 2 grade, 

 and to eflfect clearances lower prices are 

 offered; even then quantities of stock 

 are carried over in the iceboxes. 



Buyers seem to make their own mar- 

 ket for carnations, immense quantities 

 clearing at figures less than $3 per hun- 

 dred. 



Cattleyas meet the same depression 

 of prices, sales being light at $15 to $75 

 per hundred, the latter price for se- 

 lected flowers. Oneidiums, not in large 



supply, bring about $6 per hundred 

 florets for the best grade. Gardenias 

 are not at all plentiful, nor are they gen- 

 erally good, but they move fairly well. 



White lilies are plentiful and move 

 slowly. Valley is in liberal supply, with 

 sales not at all active. 



There is an abundance of sweet peas, 

 and the sales range is down to $1 to $2 

 per hundred, the higher price covering 

 excellent sprays of exhibition quality. 

 It is a long time sinee sales values of 

 sweet peas were so low. 



The supply of tulips and narcissi is 

 enormous, but clearances are easier to 

 make than in some of the more staple 

 lines. 



There is a quantity of miscellaneous 

 flowers, which do not seem to interest 

 buyers quite so much as they have done 

 of late. Primroses, pansies, stocks, del- 

 phiniums, myosotis, calendulas, freesias, 

 dahlias, Spanish iris, buddleia, snap- 

 dragons, eallas and wallflowers make up 

 the list^ 



Various Notes. 



A petition in bankruptcy was filed last 

 week against Sam Seligman. The lia- 

 bilities are said to be about $16,000, and 

 assets about $4,000. A receiver was ap- 

 pointed next day. 



William R. Nicholson, Framingham, 

 Mass., was a visitor February 25. 



Washington's birthday business among 

 florists was af the invisible order. 



Those who intend to visit the national 

 flower sliow, to open in Indianapolis 

 March 25, should get in touch with Paul 

 Rigo, of the Henshaw Floral Co., chair- 

 man of the New York Florists' Club 

 transportation committee, who will en- 

 deavor to form a party. Full informa- 

 tion appears on page 68 of this issue. 



Kuhno Bros., of Hicksville, L. I., are 

 building a greenhouse 300 feet long, 

 which they will use for sweet peas. 



J. H. P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The week has been one of low prices 

 and large turnovers. In the middle of 

 last week the market was generally de- 

 scribed as dull, but Friday brought a 

 large increase in business, which con- 

 tinued through Saturday. For several 

 weeks it has been a matter for comment 

 that shipping trade has been decidedly 

 better than local business, but February 

 25 the local demand came to life. Satur- 

 day afternoon the stores that are open 

 Sunday took large quantities of stock off 

 the market. 



There has been littli9 change in the 

 matter of supply of stock. There has 

 been no time that the market was not 

 heavily loaded, but there now is con- 

 siderable variation in the quality of the 

 stock. The wide fluctuations in tem- 

 perature during the last few days have 

 had a marked effect on the stock some 

 growers are sending to market. For a 

 time everybody's stock was good; now 

 some of it is decidedly poor and the 

 wholesaler must watch his step in filling 

 orders. By the same token, local buyers 

 do watch their steps, and they sidestep 

 the low-grade stuflf, which must be sold 

 at extremely low prices if it is to escape 

 the waste barrel. 



There is nothing approaching a short- 

 age of roses, but the supply has de- 

 creased to some extent. Probably this is 

 due to pinching in preparation for an 

 Easter crop, and it is not likely that 

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