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M4BCU 23, 1922 



The Florists^ Review 



51 



BALTIMORE, MD. 



Tta.e Market. 



Market conditions have improved 

 and the supply is about equal to the 

 demand. There is a good supply of all 

 seasonable flowers. Carnations have 

 taken a slight jump. Other prices re- 

 main about the same as last week. In 

 the retail stores funeral work has first 

 place. Everyone is busy getting new 

 stock and cleaning up the old in prepa- 

 ration for the Easter rush. 



Club Meeting. 



The monthly meeting of the Balti- 

 more Florists' Club was called to order 

 by President Merritt. After the min- 

 utes of the previous meeting had been 

 read and approved, the president called 

 for reports of the various committees. 

 Charles F. Feast, chairman of the gen- 

 eral F. T. D. committee, read his report 

 and recommendations to the club. Mr. 

 Feast 's report was accepted and he was 

 assured of the hearty support of the en- 

 tire membership. The chairman of the 

 entertainment committee, Robert W. 

 Johnston, was then called upon to make 

 his report. He spoke of the meeting 

 held ip! February and then gave the 

 committee's plans for the meeting in 

 April. At this meeting J. Horace Mc- 

 Farland will give an illustrated talk. 

 His subject will be "The Rose in Amer- 

 ica." There is no one in our country 

 better qualified to give a talk on this 

 subject than Mr. McFarland, because 

 of his long experience in making photo- 

 graphs of roses for the Rose Annual, of 

 which he is editor. A supper will be 

 given in honor of Mr. McFarland at 

 the Hotel Rennert, at 6 p. m. Club 

 members and their wives will be pres- 

 ent. It will also be ladies' night at the 

 club and refreshments will be served. 

 A vote of thanks was extended to the 

 members of the entertainment commit- 

 tee who worked out such a splendid and 

 interesting program for the last meet- 

 ing. 



James Glass exhibited some of his 

 famous snapdragons and a great deal 

 of favorable comment was heard from 

 those members present. 



After the question l)ox was passed, 

 the meeting adjourned. 



Various Notes. 



The following attended the New 

 York show: H. I. Moss, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Robert L. Graham, Jr., Miss Margaret 

 Graham, Robert W. Johnston and Rich- 

 ard Vincent. 



The following are planning to attend 

 the Indianapolis show: I. H. Moss, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Robert L. Graham, Sr., Mr. 

 and Mrs. William J. Johnston. 



Among the obituary notices will be 

 found the accounts of the deaths of two 

 members of our business, Charles M. 

 Hermann and Leopold B. StoU. 



Visitors to the city last week were 

 J. J. Goudy, of Honrv A. Dreer, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., and M. Adler, New York. 



Kramer Bros., of Hanover, Pa., have 

 a fine lot of hydrangeas and lilies for 

 the Easter market. R. W. J. 



in the wholesale business as manager, 

 until lately, of the Baltimore Whole- 

 sale Florist & Supply Co. 



ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. 



William F. Ekas has opened a whole- 

 sale store, which he will conduct himself, 

 doing a general commission business. 

 He will handle both cut flowers and pot 

 plants, and not specialize on the latter, 

 as was reported in error. Mr. Ekas is 

 widely known among the trade here and 

 has already demonstrated his capacity 



The Market. 



This section was swept by a rain and 

 sleet storm March 17, which made travel 

 unpleasant for several days, besides do- 

 ing some damage to trees and shrubs. 

 The local seed dealers report a good 

 business. Easter stock is in good con- 

 dition, although apparently short in 

 some lines. A considerable amount of 

 entertaining is being done, in spite of 

 Lent. 



Florists Meet. 



The State Florists' Association held 

 its March meeting in the biology build- 

 ing at the University of Minnesota, 

 March 16. About fifty members were 

 present. After a short business meet- 

 ing, the members visited the museum 

 and saw two reels of animal and bird 

 life. Dr. T. S. Roberts gave an interest- 

 ing talk as the films were being shown. 

 This museum contains one of the finest 

 caribou groups in the world; it was fur- 

 nished at a cost of some $3,000 by pri- 

 vate subscription. There are also five 

 groups of deer, beaver and bir^s. F. F. 

 Farrar, of White Bear, was elected to 

 membership. 



Various Notes. 



Robert Spero, a New York business 

 man, has been trying to interest the 

 officials of the two cities in a more fit- 

 ting observance of Mothers' day. He 

 advocates the wearing of any flower on 

 that day, not its observance with carna- 

 tions exclusively. 



Rice Bros, recently bought the Nelson 

 greenhouses, near Brooklyn Center. 

 They expect to enlarge the range, thus 

 enabling them to grow a portion of the 

 stock for their trade. 



The different committees for the com- 

 ing flower festival, to be held in Minne- 

 apolis, November 11 to 16, have been 

 busy making the necessary arrange- 

 ments. The publicity committee met at 

 the St. Paul Athletic Club, March 17, 

 and arranged for the publicity work of 

 the show. 



A. M. Brand, of the Brand Nurs- 

 ery, Faribault, Minn., was in town 

 on business last week. He then attended 

 the meeting of the committee which is 

 arranging for the iris show, to be held 

 in St. Paul, and the peony show, to be 

 held in Minneapolis. 



The Ramsey County Garden Club is 

 to hold a fruit, flower and vegetable 

 show in St. Paul the latter part of Au- 

 gust. Nearly $200 in ])rizes for gladioli 

 alone are promised. The annual audi- 

 torium meeting of this club will be held 

 April 12 this year. W. F. Therkildson, 

 of Chicago, will address the assembly 

 and moving pictures will be shown. 

 Over 3,000 people attended this meeting 

 last year. Frank B. Daniels, the Long 

 Lake nurseryman, addressed the mem- 

 bers at the club meeting, March 15, on 

 everbearing strawberries for the home. 

 This club has a membership of over 300 

 now. 



The Minneapolis park board is soon 

 to begin work for the summer. This 

 work will require about 600 men. 



One of the best iris catalogues we 

 have seen this year has just been put 

 out by Rainbow Gardens, of St. Paul. 

 It has thirty-five pages and is well illus- 

 trated. L. C. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



For Lent, business is remarkably 

 good. Large quantities of stock are be- 

 ing moved at prices which, while not 

 high by any standards, are good for the 

 time of year and compare satisfactorily 

 with those of last season. The market 

 has been kept quite clean during the 

 week since last report. Shipping de- 

 mand continues steady in good volume 

 and there are days when the local buy- 

 ers find they have to bid up to get the 

 stock they want. 



Perhaps the most noteworthy feature 

 of the present supply is the special qual- 

 ity of the Premier and Russell roses, the 

 former predominating. The demand 

 this season has been strongest within a 

 limited price range and most of the 

 growers have avoided too great a pro- 

 portion of long stems, but now several 

 of them are cutting considerable quan- 

 tities of these two varieties with stems 

 over thirty-six inches. These are the 

 best roses of the season to date; indeed, 

 finer roses seldom have been seen on 

 this market, famous for its roses. Un- 

 fortunately, the demand for these spe- 

 cial roses has not increased in proportion 

 to the supply and the shorts and medi- 

 ums bring better prices, all things con- 

 sidered. Roses can be sold above 25 cents 

 only in limited quantity and it means 

 little that an occasional sale is made 

 at 50 cents. 



It has been noted that the call for 

 carnations from the south is large and 

 steady. The market has been kept so 

 clean that special offers no longer are 

 necessary and prices have been work- 

 ing higher at a season they usually fall. 



Sweet peas have suffered, in quality 

 and quantity, because of several con- 

 secutive days without sun. Violets be- 

 gin to show the approach of the end of 

 their season. Paper Whites and Purity 

 freesia have practically disappeared and 

 the supply of early tulips is on the down 

 grade. On the other hand, Darwins are 

 more plentiful than ever before, coming 

 to market from more growers. The mar- 

 ket has many callas and quite a few 

 precocious Easter lilies. Small quanti- 

 ties of Spanish irises are seen, presum- 

 ably from bulbs grown in America. 

 They sell for double the pre-quarantine 

 price. 



Easter Prospects. 



There is general confidence of a good 

 Easter business, at prices in keeping 

 with the times. Also, there is confi- 

 dence that the supply will be adequate, 

 except of lilies. There will not be so 

 many lilies as other years, as far as the 

 Chicago market is concerned, and it is 

 believed the same condition will prevail 

 in most other centers. Those who have 

 lilies in pots are askjjig 30 cents per 

 bud for them, while advance orders for 

 cut lilies can not be placed below 25 

 cents if the best quality of lilies is 

 wanted. 



Collections Slowing Up. 



"Why is it an increasing number of 

 retail florists are falling behind with 

 their payments?" It is a question 

 wholesalers are asking each other and 

 outside people who might have ideas on 

 the subject. During the last few weeks 

 it has been thought necessary by some 

 of the wholesalers to cut off the credit 



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