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The Florists^ Review 



Jolt 6, 1922 



his home in New York from a recent 

 operation for appendicitis. 



John T. Allan and William Gray have 

 been appointed judges for the flower 

 show of the Narragansctt Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Association, at Narragan- 

 see Pier, next month. 



Carl E. Lindh, for the last twenty- 

 seven years foreman of the Island ceme- 

 tery, died June 22, at the Newport hos- 

 pital, after an illness of two weeks. He 

 came to Newport from Sweden, where 

 he was born thirty years ago. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife and one son. 



W. H. M. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



Up to and including June 29, business 

 in the cut flower markets last week was 

 fairly good, everything, especially car- 

 nations, taking on strong prices. This 

 was due mainly to the special demand 

 for flowers for graduations and com- 

 mencements. Friday, however, with 

 functions all concluded, conditions set- 

 tled down to the dormancy usually ex- 

 pected of July. 



It is doubtful whether the market 

 would have been so buoyant from mid- 

 June, had it not been for weather condi- 

 tions, which have been abnormal in their 

 adversity. Not in a half century has 

 such a rainy June been experienced, and 

 toward the latter end severe thunder 

 storms added to the destruction of out- 

 side-grown flowers, so that the market 

 was in great respect saved from an in- 

 flux which would necessarily have mili- 

 tated against remunerative prices. July 

 opened with a continuation of weather 

 conditions indeed all to tha worse, for 

 the rainfall was such as to register offi- 

 cially over an inch in twenty minutes. 

 Next day tropical heat got in its effect, 

 and at this writing the heat wave con- 

 tinues. 



Gladioli from local growers are arriv- 

 ing in great quantity, first shipments 

 coming early last week and bringing 

 about $10 per hundred for the best. 



This price later was brought down to 

 $7.50; then to $5 per hundred. The 

 gladiolus survives pretty bad weather. 

 It was hard to believe, with June con- 

 ditions here, that crops around Chicago 

 had been injured by heat and drought. 



The advance guard of the dahlias is 

 on time for the season, several ship- 

 ments arriving last week. It only re- 

 mains now for asters to arrive, and 

 this arrival is not far distant, local 

 plantings now showing buds in color in 

 some localities. Many aster growers 

 report plantings sadly affected by rust. 

 One prominent grower predicts that the 

 aster is doomed, due to the prevalence 

 of this disease, which, he believes, can- 

 not be checked, 



Eoses are fairly plentiful in grades 

 up to extras, little long-stemmed stock 

 coming in. American Beauty is in mod- 

 erate supply at $15 to $50 per hundred 

 for specials, but sales are hardly up to 

 the summer average. Hybrid teas are 

 moving within a range of $1.50 to $6 per 

 hundred, with much open stock moving 

 at unquotable figures. 



The supply of carnations is not so 

 heavy as it was during last week, when 

 the demand for functions sent the price 

 range up to $6 per hundred and even 

 higher. The quality of arrivals is poor 

 and stock is hard to move at $1 to $3 

 per hundred, the latter figure for se- 

 lected flowers. Many of the growers 

 have ceased to cut and are cleaning out 

 their benches for replanting. 



C'attleyas met a good demand last week 

 and were fairly plentiful, bringing $50 

 fo $125 per hundred. There is more 

 tlinn a sufficiency for the present de- 

 mand, and the price range for ordinary 

 stock is down to $;!5 to $75 per hundred. 



Wliite lilies arc fairly plentiful and 

 arc bringing $1(1 to $1.") per hundred. 

 Rubrunis are bringing $6 to $10 per 

 hundred. Valley is on the slump now, 

 and nlo^•es slowly at 50 cents to $5 per 

 hundred sprays. 



Sweet i)eas from under glass are about 

 finished, and outside stock has been cut 

 out by storms. Miscellaneous flowers 

 are temporarily only in fair supply, but 



not at all active in movement. The list 

 of items is large and includes stocks, 

 phlox, gladioli, candytuft, cornflowers, 

 mignonette, myosotis, poppies, calen- 

 dulas, snapdragons, delphiniums, zin- 

 nias, gaillardias, pyrethrums, coreopsis, 

 Japanese iris, hydrangeas and gyp- 

 sophilas. 



Various Notes. 



June weddings are not, at least in 

 and around New York, so popular as 

 they used to be, according to the statis- 

 tics furnished for Manhattan and 

 Brooklyn, the former showing a decrease 

 of 531 and the latter 128. The fact that 

 last year 's figures showed a considera- 

 ble decrease over those for the former 

 June rather confirms the belief. But 

 then, just look at the increase in the 

 crop for other months. 



The annual rose show of the Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society, held at 

 the Nassau Country Club, Glen Cove, 

 June 13, showed increased interest in 

 rose culture, and was an exhibition of 

 the highest merit. Special awards were 

 offered for table decorations of roses. 



School garden exhibitions have been 

 frequent. Seventy-eight schools in 

 Greater New York had gardens this sea- 

 son, an increase of seven over last year. 

 The Bronx led with twenty-two, Brook- 

 lyn and Queens coming next with 

 twenty-one each — good material for 

 Benjamin Hammond's report as chair- 

 man of the school gardens committee of 

 the S. A. F. 



In one of its editions last week the 

 Brooklyn Eagle had a leading article on 

 the quoted word "floristry," which 

 that journal proclaims to be a new word, 

 aptly coined. Although the article did 

 not say so, it undoubtedly had reference 

 to Max Schling's school of floristry re- 

 cently in session. It even went so far 

 as to say that students from Kansas, 

 Indiana, Texas, California and South 

 Africa, in all 169, were in attendance at 

 this school "over in Manhattan," and 

 it gave this as a suggestion which might 

 be adopted by the school: "Of course 

 it is inseparably associated with the 

 trade. If it can improve the mortuary 

 pieces that have made mourners suffer 

 and friends of the deceased grieve 

 more deeply, it is welcome." 



Recent visitors in New York were A. 

 E. Gude, Washington, D. C, and Harry 

 A. Demeranville, of the Minge Floral 

 Co., Mobile, Ala. J. H. P. 



Piscatorial Artists Famous in Flowers at Maple Lawn. 



PHILADELPHIANS GO FISHrNQ. 



It so chanced that Saturday, June 1, 

 J. G. Whilldin invited his friends Henry 

 i. Faust, T. G. Whilldin, William K. 

 Harris and John N. Prince to accom- 

 pany him to Maple Lawn, away up in 

 the Poconos. They went in his car, 

 guided by a trusty hand, who put on 

 five tires and drove the car backwards 

 uphill when necessary. The 4-hour trip 

 was finally completed in just twelve 

 hours. They found Mark P. Mills 

 and there they caught a fine string of 

 trout. In the illustration on this page 

 you can see them well, except Mr. Whill- 

 din, who is behind the camera. Tbey 

 had a lovely time and forgot all about 

 plants and pots and soils. They even 

 forgot their own names for one whole 

 happy week. 



Under the laws of Monroe county a 

 misdemeanor was punishable bj fine. 

 When that fine was paid the culprit was 

 immune. This law was strictly observed. 



PUL 



