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The Rorists^ Review 



llAX 0, 1921 



ridge twenty-four feet ten inches high, 

 i-ur lines of ventilation, operated by L. 

 & B. counterweight apparatus. The 

 house, like the one next to it of about 

 the same size, will be heated by steam 

 through twenty-eight lines of 1%-inch 

 pipe, vacuum system and high pressure 

 boiler being used. When the last house 

 was built Mr. Abrams constructed a 

 boiler house and workroom of good size, 

 BO that the boiler power and working 

 space are all ready for the new house. 



Mr. Abrams intends to construct solid 

 beds and will grow his carnations in 

 these. 



Mr. Abrams started years ago with a 

 little greenhouse constructed with sash. 

 Then he added another, built on locust 

 posts, with a sash roof. Next was erect- 

 ei one of a little better construction, 

 wrought iron side posts, steel columns 

 and purlins and better and more ventila- 

 tion. Then came the steel-frame house. 

 As Mr. Abrams prospered he increased 

 his land acreage, until now he owns 

 thirty acres and eight greenhouses, 

 which will become nine with the new 

 one. About a year ago he moved into a 

 fine modern hollow tile and stucco house, 

 which is a model of comfort and con- 

 venience. Back of the house is a new 

 garage, housing a sedan and touring 

 cars, as well' as delivery trucks. 



Mr. Abrams is one of the standby 

 citizens of Blue Point and takes an ac- 

 tive interest in the development of Blue 

 Point and vicinity. He has a family of 

 four, Mrs. Abrams, two daughters and 

 a son. The son, Herbert, who is at 

 Hanover, N. H., at college, has shown 

 a decided liking for his father's profes- 

 sion and no doubt when his college days 

 are over will take an active interest in 

 the business. Mr. Abrams' father is 

 alive and is at the greenhouse every 

 day. He does not merely look on, but 

 takes off his coat and does a da^ 's 

 work. 



A grower with such industry in the 

 family as Mr. Abrams' household shows, 

 and one who has the confidence in ex- 

 panding at this time that his new build- 

 ing contract indicates, is an increasing- 

 ly powerful factor in the trade's aa- 

 vancement as well as his own. 



CLEVELAND, O. 



The Market. 



The beginning of last week found the 

 market flooded with roses and bulbous 

 stock, carnations cleaning up daily. The 

 change in weather, the latter part of the 

 week, made a considerable change in the 

 market, flowers becoming much more 

 scarce, roses and carnations especially. 

 Bulbous stock, such as Darwin tulips, 

 which were supposed to come in for 

 Mothers' day, are now flooding the 

 market, owing to tho decidedly hot 

 weather we have been having. This 

 means that much stock which was figured 

 for Mothers' day will be too early and 

 consequently the supply will bo cut con- 

 siderably. Lilac has already put in an 

 appearance and is almost over with, 

 .ilthough some years it has not been 

 ready until Memorial day. 



Business in general has been good, 

 there being considerable wedding and 

 funeral woik among the trade. 



Easter lilies are good just at presi t 

 and will bo plentiful for the end of the 

 week. Mignonette is coming in strong, 

 as are calendulas. Outdoor valley has 

 made its appearance and as it is usually 

 cheaper, will probably take the place of 



the indoor variety. There will, in all 

 probability, be a few local peonies in for 

 Mothers' day, but the greater number 

 must be shipped stock. Valley is com- 

 ing in regularly, but dragged consi' r- 

 ably last week. 



Vailous Notes. 



J. E. Cowgill, of Canton, 0., was a 

 recent visitor. 



William Behl, of the Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., has opened his stand for the 

 season at Luna park. 



Lem Metzger, formerly with Kit- 

 zerow's, has left their employ. 



The Ohio branch of the National 

 Flower Growers' Association held two 

 important meetings this week, one at 

 Canton and the other at Cleveland. The 

 Ohio organization now has enrolled 100 

 members, representing 2,000,000 feet of 

 glass in the state. 



E. C. Galbraith, formerly with the 

 J. M. Gasser Co., reports the arrival of 

 a 6-pound baby boy. W. A. R. 



The Cleveland Cut Flower Co. has de- 

 creased its capitalization from $250,000 

 to $25,000. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



The Market. 



The market was somewhat unsteady 

 last week, possibly due to the several 

 changes in weather. Light rains, with 

 spellsy of warm sunshine, brought the 

 trees out in foliage, and a considerable 

 amount of outside planting was done. 

 Cooler weather with strong winds came 

 towards the last of the week and during 

 these days business dropped off consid- 

 erably. F-om th* general outlook, the 

 greenhouse men say that flowers will be 

 fairly plentiful for Mothers' day pro- 

 vided that there is good warm weather 

 from now on. Stock arrived in good 

 quantities and the cooler weather 

 stiffened it up. This kept up the quality 

 in fine shape. 



Business in general was running along 

 its regular routine with nothing special 

 doing. A few weddings of the minor 

 order were cared for, but apart from 

 funeral work, which has been particu- 

 larly good lately, nothing in particular 

 was noted. 



Roses were abundant and comprised 

 some good stock. The prices, however, 

 were a little in advance of those of the 

 previous week. Columbia, Ophelia, 

 Hoosier Beauty, Premier and Martinet 

 easily led in demand. A good supply of 

 carnations arrived and most of them 

 were of excellent quality. There were 

 some particularly good Laddie. Sweet 

 peas were fairly plentiful. Extra fine 

 pink snapdragons with long stems 

 reached here and were in big demand. 

 The demand for orchids was good and 

 some fine stock arrived. Good valley 

 reached here and was plentiful. Myo- 

 sotis and mignonette were plentiful, but 

 moved slowly. Large cuttings of jon- 

 quils reached here, but the outside stock, 

 in a way, kept down the sale of the in- 

 side grown stock. Tulips were not over 

 plentiful, but good Darwins came on. 

 Violets were not over good and the de- 

 mand was poor. Easter lilies were not 

 plentiful. Callas were in abundance. 

 Calendulas slowed up considerably. 

 Asparagus ferns were in good supply 

 and so were fancy and dagger ferns. 



Various Notes. 

 Max Paulizek has left the city for a 



two weeks' trip visiting relatives in 

 Mexico, N. Y. From there he will go 

 on a business trip to Philadelphia, Bos- 

 ton and New York. He has purchased 

 a delivery car which will be ready for 

 him on his return. 



John Bask, formerly with Thomas Ro- 

 land, is now in the employ of George B. 

 Hart at his Fairport greenhouses. He 

 wUl have entire charge of the rose houses 

 there. 



Felix Albert is still confined to his bed 

 with lumbago, with which he has been 

 suffering for the past three ot four 

 weeks. He does not seem to be making 

 any particular progress toward recovery, 

 but his physician holds hope that the 

 malady will leave him just as quickly 

 as it came. 



The Rochester Garden Club met at the 

 Memorial Art Gallery Thursday, April 

 28, and saw the natural color views of 

 gardens in Florida, California and 

 Rochester. They were shown by the 

 expert in color pnotography, Charles 

 C. Zoller, of Rochester. A large num- 

 ber of rural scenes in autumn and 

 spring foliage were shown, and there 

 were many scenes from the beautiful 

 gardens of Rochester's society people. 



C. E. Runyon, of Runyon & Riinyon, 

 of Shortsville, N. Y., and William G. 

 Barr, of Syracuse, N. Y., were visitors to 

 the trade this week. 



E. W. Edwards & Sons, of Syracuse, 

 N. Y., are shipping, some wonderfully 

 good hydrangeas to the market. Now 

 that the majority of potted stock is 

 gone, these find ready sale. 



George T. Boucher moved a large quan- 

 tity of Boston ferns Saturday, April 29, 

 at the special price of $1.50 each. 



Thomas J. Sullivan, of Lyndonville, is 

 shipping some excellent carnations which 

 find a ready sale. He also is shipping 

 some good potted vincas. H. J. H. 



COLUMBUS, O. 



The Market. 



The weather here was cool last week, 

 but with the warmer weather and sun- 

 shine we are having, a record cut of 

 flowers is expected for Mothers' day. 



Florists here are steadily pulling aw-y 

 from the custom of wearing a carnation 

 on Mothers' day and are influencing the 

 public to buy various kinus of flowers as 

 gifts to mother. 



By the advertisements in the dailies, 

 it looks as though all tr aes are trying 

 to make Mothers' day a second Christ- 

 mas. One jeweler is running advertise- 

 ments suggesting a gift of jewelry and 

 other business firms are doing likewise, 

 but florists, having a good start, should 

 make this the biggest day of the year. 



Outside flowers have had a big setback 

 on account of the cold weather, and lilies 

 of the valley are about gone, as well as 

 tulips and other outside stock. 



Various Notes. 



Suit against Emil C. Metzmaier. was 

 filed here last week by Braacke Bros., of 

 Loochristy near Ghent, Belgium. At- 

 taches of the municipal court say this is 

 the first international lawsuit filed in the 

 civil division of this court in its history. 

 The Belgian c .nccrn, in its petition, de- 

 clares Mr. Metzmaier ordered plants 

 shipped to him on several occasions. 

 These, the plaintiff says, were delivered, 

 but not paid for. Mr. Metzmaier said 

 that the plants reached him in bad con- 

 dition, probably due to shipping troubles 



