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The Florists^ Review 



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KANSAS CITY, MO. 



The Market. 



(iraduations and weddings disposed 

 of a great deal of stock lust week. All 

 of the higli schools closed, and each 

 school had a large graduating class. 

 The custom of sending flowers to the 

 graduates seems to be returning to 

 favor increasingly. The girls carried 

 bouquets and the boys wore bouton- 

 nieres. The market was short on roses, 

 due to the heavy demand. Everything 

 in the way of white roses is being used 

 for wedding work. Stock that would 

 ordinarily have been discarded was used 

 willingly. Valley and orchids have been 

 in great demand this month. Carnations 

 are plentiful and extremely good. Gar 

 den flowers of all kinds are good and 

 ))lentiful. 



Vaiious Notes. 



W. A. Eowe, president of the Missouri 

 State Florists' Association, is appealing 

 to all the members of the association to 

 make the association second to none. 

 He is corresponding with all the Mis- 

 souri florists, requesting that they at- 

 tend the annual meeting of the associa- 

 tion, which will be held in conjunction 

 with the St. Louis fall flower show, the 

 week of November 7. The exact date 

 of this meeting has not yet been an- 

 nounced. The day of the meeting will 

 be known as Missouri state day. Presi- 

 dent Rowe is also reminding the mem- 

 bers that the S. A. F. meeting is to be 

 held in Kansas City in August, and asks 

 that they come and bring their families. 

 William Wade, of this city, is secretary 

 of the state association. 



R. L. Isherwood, of Chillicothe and 

 Pleasant Hill, was in the city last week. 



Glenn K. Parker, of the Stuppy Sup- 

 ply Co., spent a day in St. Joseph, Mo., 

 last week. 



Thomas Shields, of the Rosedale Rose 

 Gardens, St. Louis, Mo., attended the 

 Holstein dealers' convention here the 

 week of June 5. He found time between 

 sessions to call upon some of the flo 

 rists. Mr. Shields raises and sells fine 

 cattle as a side line. 



Miss Mary Jones and Everett Bennett 

 were married Saturday evening, June 3. 

 Mr. Bennett is a salesman for the W. L. 

 Rock Flower Co. 



Peter Bisset, plant introducer and ex- 

 pert nurseryman for the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, was in the city Wednesday. 

 June 7. He called upon Samuel Murray. 

 Mr. Murray and A. Newell, in Mr. Now 

 ell's motor car, drove Mr. Bisset 

 about the city. He was surprised at the 

 sight of the beautiful homes here and 

 the planning jind planting of their 

 grounds. This was Mr. Bisset 's first 

 visit to Kansas City. He said that it 

 was a revelation to him. 



John Stevens is cutting some of the 

 finest gladioli ever seen here. His Pen 

 dleton and Schwaben are striking in 

 color and size of bloom. He allows the 

 flowers to open before cutting. Mr. 

 Stevens has grown some apricot shade 

 hybrid gladioli for Samuel Murray. 

 These are used effectively in baskets. 



Miss Faulkner, of the Apollo Flower 

 Shop, made the bouquets for the gradu- 

 ates of St. Vincent's academy and the 

 Cathedral school. St. Vincent's girls 

 carried shower bouquets of Butterfly 

 roses, sweet peas and gypsophilas. 



A special meeting of the Florists ' Club 

 was held Thursday evening, June 8, in 



the oflice of the Stuppy Supply Co. The 

 meeting was called for the purpose of 

 considering the "park and plan" cele- 

 bration, June 14 to 17. The flower 

 parade June 16 will be one of the main 

 features of the celebration. Much of 

 the success of this will depend upon the 

 florists. T. J. Noll, president of the 

 club, told of the arrangements made by 

 the conmiitte^ of which he, Glenn K. 

 Parker and W. L. Rock are members. 

 He reimrted that 121 cars had already 

 been entered, -and it was expected to 

 have l)etween 400 and 500 in line. No 

 advertising of any kind will be per- 

 mitted in the ])arade. A small space 

 for the name of the entrant will be al- 

 lowed on the side of each car. Besides 

 llie jirize of $100, which the club has 

 offered, M. E. Chandler, W. L. Rock and 

 W. J. Barnes offered prizes of $3.5 each 

 and other members said that they would 

 give prizes. The club will have a float 

 in the parade. 



Dr. B. W. Murphy and Thomas Best, 

 of the Stuppy Floral Co., St. Joseph, 

 Mo., were in the city June 10. 



Saul Rosenfeld, of Wertlieimer Bros., 

 New York, called on the trade June 9 

 and 10. J. E. K. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The opening of the new Providence- 

 Biltniore hotel, nineteen stories high 

 and containing 000 rooms and costing 

 more than $5,000,000, last week ex- 

 ceeded any social event ever held in 

 this city, and two large gatherings and 

 numerous smaller ones combined to 

 make the flower business here by long 

 odds the biggest ever experienced in 

 any week at this season of the year by 

 Providence florists. The demands were 

 so great that Boston and New York 

 were liberally called upon, while a num- 

 ber of large pieces came direct from 

 those cities from friends of the man- 

 agement. More than 15,000 roses were 

 used on the opening night for tables, 

 ball room and guest rooms, bouquets 

 being placed in each of the fiOO rooms, 

 while the lobbies, foyers and halls were 

 ;ill graced by large baskets, vases and 

 designs. 



The flower store in the Providence- 

 Biltmore hotel has been leased by Reu- 

 ben Popkin, who conducts the flower 

 store at Washington and Union streets 

 under the name of Smith the Florist, 

 and will be one of the handsomest in 

 this city. Mr. Popkin had charge of the 

 decorations for the opening night, but 

 practically all of the downtown stores 

 had liberal patronage for the occasion. 



Notwithstanding the season of out- 

 iloor flowers, liusiness has been excep- 

 tionally good on weddings, graduations, 

 commencements and general work, with 

 considerable funeral work of more than 

 usual pretensions. 



William Doel, of Pascoag, was a busi 

 ness visitor in the city last week. 



The Colonial Flower Shoppe had the 

 decorations and flowers for the dinner 

 and ball of the Aero Club of Rhode 

 Island at the Biltmore Wednesday eve 

 ing, June 7. 



T. J. Johnston & Co. had the table 

 decorations for the luncheon and bridge 

 party given at the Biltmore Thursday 

 afternoon, June 8, by Mrs. Martin S. 

 Budlong to the ladies who were active 

 in the recent Homeopathic hospital 

 drive. 



James J. Karins, representing Henry 

 A. Dreer, Philadelphia, was a business 

 caller upon the trade here last week. 



Fred Davis, of the Riverside Green 



houses, Pawtucket, who has been under 

 the weather for some time, is improv- 

 ing. 



F. Macrae's Sons, Smith street, are 

 beginning to pick a fine crop of indoor 

 tomatoes, which are bringing top prices. 

 They are picking several hundred 

 pounds daily. 



A son of Cornelius Sullivan, foreman 

 at the O'Connor greenhouses, has taken 

 over the Johnston Bros, greenhouses, on 

 Hope street, and will conduct them. 



W. A. Bowers & Co. report an unusu- 

 ally good business for this season of the 

 year. 



Willis S. Pino and family have taken 

 u)) their residence for the summer at 

 their country home, at Barrington 

 bench, overlooking Narragansett bay. 



J. A. Champlin, landscaper, 71 Lyon 

 street, Pawtucket, has been unusually 

 busy this spring and has the largest 

 number of estates under care in his ex- 

 ])erience. 



Ed. Brooke, of T. J. Johnston & Co., 

 has taken up his summer residence at 

 his seashore estate, at Cedar Tree Point, 

 on Greenwich bay. He has done con- 

 siderable landscape work in the vicinity 

 and transformed it into one of the 

 beauty spots along the shore. 



The Colonial Flower Shoppe has just 

 added a new automobile to its equip- 

 ment. W. H. M. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The market was in a sadly depressed 

 condition last week, but the situation 

 seems to have been due solely to un- 

 favorable weather and there appears 

 to be no indication that the flower busi- 

 ness as a whole is changing for the 

 worse; indeed, there are those in the 

 market who maintain that more flowers 

 were sold last week than in any other 

 first week in June. 



It is seldom that the weather is so 

 warm early in June as was the case last 

 week. For seven consecutive days the 

 temperature was much above normal. 

 There were days on which the shade 

 temperature was 90 degrees and there 

 were nights not below 70 degrees. Such 

 heat would naturally be expected to af- 

 fect the demand, but it would have a 

 still greater effect under glass, where 

 temperatures of 115 degrees were not 

 uncommon. The heat forced out huge 

 (juantities of stock, and any market, no 

 inatter how active the demand, would 

 have been overloaded. Of course the 

 (|uality of stock deteriorated with each 

 successive day of heat, until at the end 

 of the week the large quantities of flow- 

 ers in the market afforded only moder- 

 ate supplies of strictly first-class flow- 

 ers. Again this brouglit about a condi- 

 tion difficult for the wholesalers. It 

 necessitated endless work in grading to 

 get out stock for slii])nient. By the end 

 of the week there were fair jirices for 

 anything that measured up to the stand- 

 ;ird required for shipping, but what was 

 left could only be jobbed off to depart- 

 ment stores and tlirough other channels 

 outside the regular trade. 



There has been an excellent shipping 

 demand thus far in June. The call has 

 been largely for flowers for weddings 

 and school closings. This means that 

 specialties liave been in re(|uest. Val- 

 ley !ind cattleyas have been wanted for 

 weddings. White and yellow and red 

 roses have been in request to make up 

 class colors. It has not been easy to fill 

 M'ltiitiiuit'd till pat:*' .t'i. ' 



