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Apeil 21, 1921 



The Florists' Review 



31 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



After several days of dark and rainy 

 weather, the market shows considerable 

 improvement through a shortening of 

 the supply. The business of Friday 

 and Saturday, April 15 and 16, was 

 good, with prices firmer and higher 

 in some lines. Eoses were in heavy 

 supply and earlier in the week clear- 

 ances were difficult, even at worth- 

 while concessions in price, particularly 

 on the long-stemmed grades. Accumu- 

 lations of all kinds of stock were 

 cleaned up before the week-end, so that 

 the market Monday, April 18, had 

 promise of continued good busine&s. 

 The weather cut down the oversupply 

 of sweet peas, which had become a 

 problem. As several growers have 

 thrown out their plantings, peas are 

 not likely to occasion much anxiety 

 from now on. The weather, too, was 

 having an effect on the oncoming crops. 

 Eoses were in heavy supply despite 

 the dark weather, but the demand for 

 them was active. American Beauty 

 was shorter in supply than other varie- 

 ties, but quite sufficient to meet a light 

 demand. Hybrid teas were of good 

 quality and moved well. The variety 

 Mme. Butterfly sold freely, rather to 

 the disadvantage of its parent, Ophelia, 

 which at this time is varicolored. Yel- 

 low varieties were not particularly 

 abundant. 



Carnations were in fair supply and 

 moved well at an advance over the pre- 

 vious week's prices. 



White lilies were plentiful, but there 

 was a heavier demand for them and 

 they were moving well. Valley was in 

 lighter supply and met with a moderate 

 demand. 



There was a good supply of cattleyas 

 and sales were active. The variety 

 gigas made an appearance, but the bulk 

 of arrivals were Schroederse and 

 Mossioe. Spray orchids were not much 

 in demand outside of oncidiums. 



In bulbous flowers, there was a short- 

 ening in the supply of indoor-grown 

 tulips, but a heavy cut from outside 

 stock was arriving. Narcissus in many 

 varieties was closed out. 



Gardenias were in generous supply 

 and moved slowly. Some growers were 

 shipping in amaryllis, but it did not 

 seem to sell and was closed out at any 

 price for window display purposes. 

 Callas were in large supply and moved 

 slowly. 



Miscellaneous flowers were abundant 

 in a large variety of offerings. New 

 arrivals were the Blue Lace flower, 

 centaureas in several colors and Pa?onia 

 officinalis. Other subjects were yellow 

 daisies of fine quality, delphiniums, 

 irises, lilac, mignonette, stocks, wall- 

 flowers, calendulas, myosotis, pansies, 

 pyrethrums, camellias, snapdragons, 

 . nasturtiums, alyssums and gladioli. 

 Violets were about finished for the 



price asked for them. Several retail- 

 ers are now pricing the flowers dis- 

 played in their windows and they re- 

 port that their sales are increased by 

 this practice. 



The first peonies of the season were 

 displayed in the window of the S. S. 

 Pennock Co. last week. It looks as 

 though peonies will be cut early this 

 season by local growers, as plants of 

 some varieties are already set with 

 buds. There is considerable specula- 

 tion as to the prospect for a Memorial 

 day supply. 



Henry Weston, of Hempstead, L. I., 

 has his large sweet pea house planted 

 to tomatoes, his usual between-seasons 

 crop. 



W. H. De Graaff, bulb grower of Lei- 

 den, Holland, is a visitor in the city. 

 He expresses himself as greatly disap- 

 pointed at not being able to time his 

 arrival for the flower show. H. L. 

 Orchard, of St. Louis, Mo., is in the 

 city, introducing his line of wrapping 

 and other papers watermarked with the 

 slogan, "Say It with Flowers." 



The MacNiff Horticultural Co. is 

 doing a lively business at its Vesey 

 street establishment as well as at the 

 new quarters on Greenwich street, to 

 which it will shortly remove. 



The rose growers of this vicinity 

 seem to be finding a ready sale for 

 quantities of rose plants which are 

 being cleared from their benches to 

 make way for young stock. J. H. P. 



season. 



Various Notes. 



A. L. Young put in an anxious time 

 Friday night, April 15, when the 

 6-story building on Sixth avenue, at 

 the rear of his building, was gutted 

 by fire. His store, however, escaped 

 damage. 



A. Warendorff is featuring in his 

 window $5 baskets of cut flowers. He 

 shows some artistic baskets which sell 

 freely, as they look well worth the 



A. Schravendeel, of Segers Bros., 

 Ltd., Lisse, Holland, will sail on the 

 Eyndam April 23. He will not be 

 alone, numerous other bulb travelers 

 having booked passage on the same 

 steamer. Most of them have thin or- 

 der-books this year and are not in the 

 most cheerful mood. 



ceiving some excellent Kaiseriu roses 

 from J. Walter Gray, of College Hill, 

 and some choice peas from F. A. 

 Schneider, of Price Hill. 



C. E. Critchell reports a record week 

 in the sale of southern decorating 

 greens and also a good many orders for 

 hanging baskets. 



Julius Baer has been exceedingly 

 busy with funeral work the last week. 

 He reports a number of orders for fu- 

 neral baskets. 



The Cincinnati Cut Flower Exchange 

 is receiving some excellent marguer- 

 ites and calendulas from Chas. Wind- 

 ram, of Cold Springs, Ky. 



The Ohio district branch of the Na- 

 tional Flower Growers' Association 

 held its first meeting in Cincinnati 

 Wednesday, April 13, at the Hotel Gib- 

 son. It was voted to organize a branch 

 here, and the following were elected 

 officers: President, K. H. Witter- 

 staetter; secretary, Joseph Imholte. 

 Among those present were Charles, 

 Louis and F. H. Murphy; E. H. Wit- 

 terstaetter; J. F. Ammann, of Edwards- 

 ville. 111.; George Bate, of Cleveland, 

 O.; Carl Hagenburger, of West Mentor, 

 O.; Mr. Anderson, of Cleveland, O.; 

 Edward and Alfred Murphy, Chas. 

 Burtchey, Joseph Imholte, Gus Adrian, 

 Samuel Kuhn, H. W. Sheppard, Eay 

 Murphy and Eoy Kuhn. 



Among visitors last week were 

 Julius Dilloff, of Wertheimer Bros., 

 New York; Joseph Marks, of A. Hen- 

 derson & Co., Chicago, and A. H. Mac- 

 Donald, of the Indianapolis Eeed Co. 



G. Brunner's Sons, of Price Hill, have 

 sent the first calceolaria and lupinus 

 plants to market. They report quick 

 sales on them because of their size and 

 popular price. G. H. K. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



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The Market. 



The market last week showed a 

 marked change over the previous week, 

 roses and sweet peas tightening more 

 than any other flower. The extremely 

 cold and cloudy weather helped to 

 shorten the supply of stock. The 

 change was welcome, because condi- 

 tions were such that venders on the 

 streets were selling long-stemmed roses 

 and good sweet peas at small prices, 

 opening an old sore between retailer 

 and wholesaler that had been previous- 

 ly forgotten. 



Calla lilies are more plentiful now 

 than ever before this season, but at 

 that they move fairly well. Carnations 

 are quite plentiful, but the choice ones 

 move out without much trouble, as is 

 always the case. Snapdragons are now 

 arriving steadily and bring a fair price, 

 but some of the growers seem to be 

 troubled with the pest they thought 

 they were rid of, namely, rust. There 

 seems to be no remedy for that disease 

 here because of the continual changes 

 in weather conditions. Miscellaneous 

 stock moves well, as do greens. 



Various Notes. 



H. W. Sheppard reports a record 

 week in weddings and luncheon par- 

 ties, having as many as three large 

 ones in one day. This shop now has 

 one less on the staff, with the going of 

 H. E. Klunder. 



The Wm. Murphy Co. has been re- 



CHICAQO. 



The Market. 



April 9 it was apparent that the 

 market was about to turn and last week 

 opened with a situation quite different 

 from that which had existed in the 

 week before. There was a steady re- 

 duction in supply throughout the week 

 and an equally steady increase in the 

 demand. That the condition was not 

 wholly local was shown by the improve- 

 ment in the number and size of the 

 shipping orders; the whole country evi- 

 dently had passed through a fortnight 

 of abnormally heavy supplies and the 

 crops apparently were going off simul- 

 taneously throughout tlie greater part 

 of the United States. The buj'ers who 

 had needed little from this market for 

 a fortnight began increasing their 

 orders. The improvement has been 

 continuous from April 11 to date. 

 Nothing like a shortage has resulted 

 and the increase in prices has been only 

 moderate so far as selected flowers 

 were concerned, but the improvement 

 in the average price of the day's re- 

 ceipts has been marked. 



The present week sees notliing that 

 looks like an oversupply of flowers. 

 While there is no pronounced shortage, 

 crops have gone off so generally, that 

 the supply is unusually small for this 

 season of the year. If the demand 

 were normally brisk it would be diffi- 

 cult to fill all orders, but the fact ia 

 that retail trade is dull just now, not 

 only in Chicago but in many other 

 cities which get most of their flowers 

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