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May is. 1922 



The Florists' Review 



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ably with an inevitable .surplus to clog 

 the niarket Monday, May l-",. Orchids 

 enjoyed oiilv a moderate demand, eat- 

 tleyas bringing from $75 to $12.1 per 

 hundred and occasioning no excitement 

 in the general buying. 



Retail stores generally report a good 

 l)usines.s, somewhat larger than for the 

 same occasion la.st year, but at lower 

 prices. As one prominent retailer jiut 

 it the extra liusiness was largely from 

 ii section of the public which does not 

 regularly buy tlowcrs, but honored the 

 day tlirouglia sentiment which has be- 

 come deeply rooted. 



The newspapers did their usual knock- 

 ing, in some cases supported by inter- 

 views obtained from florists themselves, 

 and, of course, reflecting on growers and 

 wholesalers as dominators of prices. 

 About the only complaint seemed to be 

 one concerning carnations, which is the 

 bugl)ear of the newspaper people and, 

 indeed, their only thought for this day. 

 In spite of this, the worst profiteering 

 thev liavc charged is that some florists 

 demaiiilcd $4 per dozen for white carna- 

 tions. 



The market Monday, May 15, was 

 (|uiet, witli arrivals heavy enough to 

 make the supply, which includes the 

 left-overs, large, and clearances were 

 of the bargain order. Roses were af- 

 fected considerably, American Beauty 

 specials bringing only $20 to $40, and 

 hybrid teas $3 to $15. 



'Carnatidiis were light in supply, natu- 

 rally, most of the stock offered having 

 lieeii carried over, and prices ran from 

 $15 to $(). with $8 for selected stock. 



Herbaceous stock is moving at bar 

 gain prices. Sweet peas, which were in 

 small demand for Mothers' day and 

 hardly exceeded $1 per hundred for the 

 festival, are moving slowly under an 

 avalanche of stock. Snapdragons, myo- 

 sotis, centaureas, blue lace flowers, 

 stocks, mignonette, jjansies, lupines, 

 ranunculi, candytuftj«iehizanthus, irises, 

 gladioli, calendulas, gypsophila, daisies, 

 cornflowers and shrub flowers are in 

 abundance and the supply of peonies is 

 becoming large, ; !♦ 



Various Notes. 



There was a meeting of the tariff and 

 legislation committee of the S. A. F. 

 at the administration offices Friday, 

 May 12, at which President S. S. Pen- 

 nock, F. R. Pierson, James McHutchi- 

 son, A. L. Miller and others wore pres- 

 ent. The meeting was preliminary to 

 the appearance of the committee at the 

 big hearing before the federal horticul- 

 tural board in Washington, May 15, in 

 reference to quarantine 37. 



Paul S. Rigo, chairman of the trans- 

 jiortation «t>8mittee of the New York 

 Jlorists' Club, says that about one 

 dozen reservations have already been 

 made for the trip, which includes the 

 Kansas City convention and a tour of 

 the Great Lakes, planned by the club. 



Jack Trepel, buyer for Trepel, Inc., 

 used the quarters vacated by Poly- 

 kranas in the Eighteenth street flower 

 market as a depot for his purchases dur- 

 ing Mothers' day activities. 



Philip F. Kcssler is planning to spend 

 a short vacation in Bermuda during 

 June. 



The executive committee of the Amer- 

 ican Dahlia Society was in session all 

 day Tuesday, May 16, at the Grand 

 hotel, completing preparations for the 

 big dahlia exhibition, to be held on the 

 roof of the Pennsylvania hotel next 

 September. President Richard Vincent. 



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Paths of Tornadoes Across Illinois in Last Fifteen Years. 



White Marsh, Md.; Secretary William 

 Rathgeber, New Haven, Conn.; George 

 L. Stillman, Westerly, R. I., and James 

 Duthie, Oyster Bay, N. Y., were present. 



J. H. P. 



TORNADOES IN ILLINOIS. 



To greenhouse owners the chart re 

 produced on this page will be of much 

 interest. To those located in Illinois it 

 is of special value, since it shows the 

 pathway of tornadoes which have swept 

 over the state from 1908 to 1922. It 

 appears as though no spot is altogether 

 exempt, unless it might be the extreme 

 southern point of the state, in the vi- 

 cinity of Cairo. At least, the chart 

 shows that no wind storm has done d;im- 

 age there in the last fifteen years. But 

 there is no particular reason to be found 

 for this fact, any more than for the 

 fact that the district around Chicago 

 felt no tornadoes during the first twelve 

 years of the period covered by the 

 chart, only to be visited bv a terrific 

 storm May 28, 1920, the wide path of 

 which is quite plain on the chart. 



It is evident that tornadoes are no 

 respecters of persons or of places, and 



are not particular where they strike. 

 Pretty nearly every part of the state of 

 Illinois has been visited by one of these 

 storms during the 15-year period indi- 

 cated on the chart, and the storms oc- 

 cur at pretty nearly every season of the 

 year, although most were in the spring, 

 May being an especially favored 

 month. The cliart is here reproduced 

 througli the courtesy of the American 

 Insurance Co., of Newark, N. .1. 



HAIL IN IOWA. 



A heavy hail storm did damage in a 

 number of places in Iowa Monday, May 

 8. About 5 p. m. tlie storm broke at 

 Iowa City, and in fifteen minutes cov- 

 ered the ground one and one-half inches 

 deep. At the samo^ time more than one 

 and a quarter inches of rain fell. The 

 hail broke all the glass on the south 

 side of the houses of A. G. Prince and 

 ]iart of that on the north side, about 

 three-fourths of all the lights in the 

 range. The ]ilants in the houses were 

 badly cut and broken by the hail and 

 glass. The carnations and other plants 

 in the field were about ruined, says Mr. 

 Prince. 



