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June 22, 1922 



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The Florists^ Review 



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KANSAS CITY, MO. 



The Market. 



Business was good all last week. Tlio 

 flower parade caused a demand for stock 

 that cleaned up the market. Extra fine 

 gladioli have been arriving, both home- 

 grown and shipped. Wedding work con- 

 tinues good, using all the white flowers 

 that can be found. The month has been 

 above the average for June thus far. 



Kansas City's Floral Parade. 



The floral parade of Kansas City's 

 park and plan week was a great success. 

 The parade was held Friday afternoon, 

 June 16, and was the main feature in a 

 great celebration commemorating the 

 thirtieth year of parks and boulevards 

 in this city. Thirty years ago the first 

 driveway and pleasure ground for the 

 public were begun. More than 100 cars 

 were entered in the parade. Between 

 the cars at intervals were bands and 

 decorated trucks. Leading the pageant 

 was the executive commitee of the park 

 and plan celebration. Next came the 

 mayor's committee, members of the 

 park board, the mayor's own car, the 

 city plan commission and women's ex- 

 ecutive committee. Then appeared the 

 queen, seated on her throne. The 

 queen's float was artistically designed 

 and executed. It was a long, white 

 body, banked high and wide with white 

 floral sheeting. Pink chrysanthemums, 

 roses and strands of smilax and ferns, 

 trailing roses, arbutus and garlands of 

 pink flowers offset the high-pitched 

 canopy throne. Tipped by a big but- 

 terfly, the craft gave almost a boat ef- 

 fect. A floral fountain, with wreaths 

 to represent" water spray, formed the 

 group center for the eight maids of 

 honor. All the flowers with which this 

 car was trimmed were artificial. 



Fawcett Eobinson. designer of the 

 Priests of Pallas floats, and director of 

 the parade, commenting on the pageant 

 said: "I have seen the tournament of 

 roses in Pasadena for twelve years. I 

 have seen the rose show in Portland, 

 Ore., many times. The floats and cars 

 in the floral parade last Wednesday sur- 

 passed anything I have seen in those 

 two cities. In color scheme and wealth 

 of flowers, I believe nothing like it has 

 been seen in the United States before, 

 and it will prove we are an artistic, art- 

 loving people. I earnestly hope it will 

 be an annual affair in Kansas City." 



William L. Rock's car, decorated with 

 a handsome combination of purple petu- 

 nias, pink begonias, lavender larkspurs, 

 pink gladioli and hydrangeas, won first 

 prize in class A. 'This prize was a sil- 

 ver loving cup. The W. L. Rock Flower 

 Co. also had an entry. Lavender pre- 

 dominated in tone effect, artificial 

 mums being used. Two arches of 

 smilax were draped over the body of 

 the store truck. Palms, ferns and as- 

 sorted plaints gave it an appear.ance of a 

 moss of bloom. Mr. Rock's car was an 

 individual entry, while the truck was 

 the entry for the firm. 



The float entered by the Kansas City 

 Florists' Club won first prize in class 

 B. This was a handsomely decorated 

 car and reflected great credit on the 

 club. On either side of the radiator 

 was a flag made of carnations, cornflow- 

 ers and candytuft. A heart over three 

 feet high was on each side of the car, 

 typifying the Kansas City spirit. Red 

 and white carnations were used for the 

 letters "K. C." around the flag. The 



radiator was banked with peonies. 

 Peonies were used, too, on the hood of 

 the car. Fenders and running boards 

 were covered with gypsophila and red 

 carnations. On the front were blue lark- 

 spurs and delphiniums. The back of 

 the car was a mass of pink gladioli and 

 tamarix. Garlands of roses hung over 

 the windshield and sides. In the center 

 of the car was a large phoenix palm, 

 flanked with pedestal baskets of 

 gladioli. Arbor-vitsB was used for a 

 background on the entire car. The 

 wheels were covered on both sides with 

 pink carnations. All the flowers were 

 put into wet moss, which made them 

 hold up in good shape through the en- 

 tire four hours of the parade. More 

 than 10,000 flowers were used on the 

 float. These were given by Henry 

 Kusik, John Stevens, the Kansas City 

 Wholesale Cut Flower Co., the T. J. Noll 

 Floral Co., the Stuppy Supply Co., the 

 Pinehurst Floral Co., Ed. A. Humfeld, 

 S. Bryson Ayres and the W. L. Rock 

 Flower Co. Glenn K. Parker designed 

 the float, using his own 7-passenger tour- 

 ing car. R. L. Motes, of the Chandler 

 Floral & Landscape Co., assisted him. 

 Mr. Parker drove the car in the parade. 

 With him were his daughter, Miss 

 Marion Parker, Miss Virginia Hobbs 

 and little Miss Margaret Shirling. The 

 young women threw flowers from the 

 car along the line of march, several 

 thousand blooms being provided for 

 this purpose. The prize won by the 

 Florists' Club with this car was a com- 

 plete auto camping outfit. 



There were less than a dozen entries 

 in the class for natural flowers. The 

 rest of the floats were artificial or com- 

 binations of artificial and natural flow- 

 ers. 



The second prize winner in class B 

 was the car entered by the Catholic 

 Women's Club. This was decorated by 

 the W. L. Rock Flower Co. 



J. E. Murray & Co. decorated the car 

 of the Women's Commercial Club, 

 which won fourth prize in the same 

 class. This car was trimmed with pink 

 and lavender, using roses, larkspurs and 

 pussy willows for the main features. 



Miss Schweiger and William Fitz- 

 hugh, of the Alpha Floral Co., decorated 

 three cars for the parade. Miss 

 Schweiger 's car was entered by the 

 Kansas City Motor Car Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation. A globe twelve feet high and 

 nine feet wide, covered with white car- 

 nations, represented the world. Down 

 the sides were rows of delphiniums. In 

 front of the radiator was a st.ar of 

 Opheli.a roses. From this star, repre- 

 senting a comet, was a streamer of gold 

 tulle caught at the top of the globe by 

 a dragon made of flowers. The wheels 

 of the car were covered with carnations 

 and over each wheel was a wing of 

 white carnations, representing the spirit 

 of the invention. Mr. Fitzhugh deco- 

 rated the car of the Rotary Club and 

 also that of the Hardware, Implement 

 and Tractor Club. The Rotary float was 

 of blue and yellow flowers. A 6-foot 

 Rotary wheel was made of blue and yel- 

 low immortelles, cornflowers and yellow 

 daisies. Fifty balloons were tied to the 

 car. Forty hoops of florists' design 

 wire, wrapped with strips of yellow and 

 blue matting and covered with yellow 

 daisies and artificial blue carnations, 

 were suspended at different angles. The 

 second car decorated by Mr. Fitzhugh 

 was in lavender and white. 



The car of W. J. Barnes was greatly 

 admired. It was completely covered 



with roses and tamarix. Pink, white 

 and lavender were the main tones. 



Ed. A. Humfeld decorated a car for 

 Electric park. A foundation of silver 

 cloth was built up with gladioli, del- 

 })hiniums and rambler roses. Yucca 

 plants were used at the corners. Bows 

 of chiffon and silver ribbon tied these 

 standards. 



Edward Ellsworth trimmed the car 

 for the board of trade. Poppies and 

 white flowers were used with sheaves 

 of wheat and pampas grass. The young 

 women in the car wore white capes with 

 collars of poppies and carried white 

 parasols with strands of poppies. 



Various Notes. 



The Stuppy Supply Co. will have a 

 booth at the S. A. F. convention, Au- 

 gust 15 to 17. Supplies and a full line 

 of stock will be displayed. 



A social meeting of the Florists ' Club 

 was planned for Wednesday night, 

 June 21. 



Fred Horst, decorator for A. Newell, 

 has made up several unusual bridal bou- 

 ((ucts this month. Instead of holding to 

 the conventional white flowers, he has 

 used colors. The idea was well liked by 

 the customers. For one wedding he 

 made the bride's bouquet of Butterfly 

 roses and valley. Tulle and white satin 

 ribbon were used for the ties. For one 

 bridesmaid the bouquet was of core- 

 opsis, for the other cornflowers, the wed- 

 ding scheme being blue and yellow. 



The Rosery will build three new green- 

 houses back of the store, Thirty-fifth 

 and Main streets. Mr. Ellsworth in- 

 tended to keep the space for garden 

 stock, but decided that the greenhouses 

 would be of more value to the store. 



Glenn K. Parker and John Stevens 

 were in St. Joseph, Mo., Wednesday, 

 June 14. 



George W. and Mrs. Preston, El Reno, 

 Okla.; Andrew L. Dygard, of the lola 

 Greenhouses, lola, Kan., and R. L. Ish- 

 erwood, Pleasant Hill, Mo., were recent 

 visitors. J. E. K. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



With 9.J degrees of heat June 16, it 

 was to have been expected that there 

 would be little life in tlie market, but 

 as a matter of fact last week ended 

 with such large demand that many 

 wliolesalers saw the backs of their ice- 

 boxes for the first time in weeks. If 

 tlie market was not clean at closing time 

 June 17, it was because of the presence 

 of stock useless for school closings, 

 which constituted the bulk of the de- 

 mand; for funeral work, which ordi- 

 narily holds first place, or for weddings, 

 which are a special factor at this sea- 

 son. Also, there were many low-grade 

 carnations which could not be shipped, 

 but all good roses, carnations, lilies, val- 

 ley, sweet peas, gladioli and other popu- 

 lar items were cleaned out and the mar- 

 ket g.ive evidences that a turn had been 

 made after weeks of oversupply. 



With so clean a market at the close 

 of last week, with cooler weather and 

 the height of the commencement season 

 at hand, it was inevitable that the pres- 

 ent week should open briskly. Good 

 flowers again commanded stable prices 

 —not high prices, but prices in keeping 

 with the season and the quality of the 

 stock. The appearances are that this 

 week will be more than a good one. It 

 will, in all probability, rank with the 

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