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July 3, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



NEWa-SftpRK. 



The Market. 



The week ending the June record was 

 a great improvement over its three 

 predecessors. Values in roses, valley 

 and carnations were considerably higher 

 until Friday, when the demand percep- 

 tibly lessened and the market again re- 

 turned to 'midsummer dullness. Valley 

 alone held firm; on Saturday the scar- 

 city was severely felt, and prices rose 

 to the highest level since Easter. 



Shipments of roses have decreased 

 and the number of selects and fancies 

 is light. This includes the American 

 Beauties and the novelties. Prices at 

 the week's close were barely steady. 

 The school closings are over, ocean 

 travel is lighter and the month of wed- 

 dings is but a memory. 



Lilies were selling, June 28, at $2 

 per hundred for the best, but thousands 

 were . cleaned out for less. Valley 

 touched 4 cents occasionally. Carna- 

 tions, when perfect, commanded at times 

 $3 per hundred, in small quantities; $2, 

 however, was the prevailing figure for 

 the best. The sleepy and imperfect 

 stock was practically unsalable. Or- 

 chids are abundant and there has been 

 no change from the quotations of a 

 week ago. Few of the sweet peas re- 

 ceived would secure prizes at the com- 

 ing Boston convention. Of the other 

 arrivals of seasonable flowers, stocks, 

 coreopsis, feverfew, phlox, etc., there is 

 no diminution. Buyers dictate prices 

 for these and they sell slowly. Eetail- 

 ers are complaining of a rapid falling 

 off in trade and many of them are al- 

 ready away for their annual recupera- 

 tion in the mountains or at the sea- 

 shore. 



Plant (Jrowers' Outing. 



The seventh annual outing of the 

 New York and New Jersey Plant Grow- 

 ers' Association was held June 24 and 

 25 at the Delaware Water Gap, Pa. 

 Fifty-five were in attendance. The 

 arrival at the Hotel Kittatinny was in 

 time for lunch. Excursions on the river 

 and in the woods occupied the after- 

 noon and bowling and dancing the eve- 

 ning. The prize winners were: La- 

 dies — Mrs. Baumann, first; Mrs. Schoel- 

 zel, second. Gentlemen — A. Schul- 

 theis, Jr., first; A. Schultheis, Sr., sec- 

 ond. Jt was after midnight before the 

 dancing ended. Stroudsburg and Port- 

 land were visited the second day. All 

 present said it was the most enjoyable 

 affair of its kind the society has held. 

 Secretary Siebrecht says next year it 

 will be an eight days' trip to Bermuda. 



Those present were: 



Misses — Smith, Louise Dupuy, Doro- 

 thy Dupuy, Schultheis, Zeller, Anna 

 Koch, and Kessler. 



Mesdames — C. W. Scott, John Scott, 

 and Love. 



Messrs. — Dreyer, Fiesser, A. L. Mil- 

 ler, Julius Roehrs, Edward Dupuy, 

 Schultheis, Henry B. Siebrecht, J. G. 

 Kessler, A. Buchholz, Werns and L. 

 Schmutz. 



Messrs. and Mesdames — Henry Bau- 

 mann, Louis Dupuy, F. T. Langan, Her- 

 man Steinhoff, Herman Schoelzel, Anton 

 Schultheis, Peter Wagner, Alfred L. 

 Zeller, George Scott, Wm. H. Siebrecht, 

 Sr., Wm. H. Siebrecht, Jr., Charles 

 Koch, Lehnig, Baumann and Winuefeld. 



Florists' Club Outing. 



The outing of the New York Flo- 

 rists' Club July 1 was, as usual, a great 



"WHO'S WHO-AND WHY" 



e THOMAS H. JACKSON. 



DOWN in one corner of the stationery of the New York Cut Flower Exchange, 

 in modest type, one reads "T. Jackson, Mgr." After seven years in the 

 position Mr. Jackson recently was reappointed for an eighth time. The officers 

 of the concern are John Donaldson, president; Victor S. Dorval, secretary, and C. 

 Beckman, treasurer. Their manager was born in "the tight little isle" whence 

 came so many of those who now are leaders in the trade and last summer he 

 took his family home for the first long vacation he has had in years, for 

 T. Jackson, Mgr., is one who constantly is on the job. 



success. The committee was a most 

 efficient one and never before has so 

 great attention been given the details 

 necessary to harmony and accomplish- 

 ment. Phil Kessler was chairman, and 

 his assistants were Victor Dorval, Harry 

 Weston, A. Buchholz, Louis Schmutz, 

 Jr., W. J. Phillips, Bert Chadwick, Ro- 

 man J. Irwin, Anton Schultheis, Jr., 

 A. Demeusy, Jr., H. C. Riedel, Paul 

 Meconi. 



The attendance was over 300; a 

 large number- of those expected re- 

 mained at home on account of the in- 

 tense heat. The retailers failed to 

 bring out a strong representation. Aside 

 from the heat the weather was perfect 

 and no accident occurred to mar the 

 happiness of the day. About $400 in 

 prizes was distributed. All the races 

 were strongly contested, but the old 

 favorites were the most successful. 

 The principal prize-winners were as fol- 

 lows: 



Drawing for fancy vases. Miss Witt- 

 man. Mrs. Powell; tableojbth for ladies' 

 bowling, Mrs. Hornecker^ ladies' bowl- 

 ing, open to all, Miss Hen, Mesdames 

 Schmutz, Phillips, Corebelli, Wittman 

 Chadwick and Georgia; youngest babies, 

 George Cotsonas, Bruce iBirnie, Muriel 

 Powell, Raymond Swartz, Evelyn 

 Vocke; oldest lady, Mrs. Jarvis; grow- 

 ers' race, over 50 years, Donaldson, 



Burlein; growers' race, under 50 years, 

 Smith, Birnie; wholesalers' race, Kess- 

 ler, Vereke, Kervan; fat men's and 

 seedsmen's races, Joseph Manda; base- 

 ball, married men; largest family, Mrs. 

 Einsman; oldest gentleman, Bolles; 

 Press Members' bowling, Lewis, Shaw, 

 Pepper, Falkner; bowling, Sheehan, Ir- 

 win, Volke, Traendly, Guttman, Eng- 

 leing, Handel; prize waltz. Miss Witt- 

 man and partner, Mr. and Mrs. Weber; 

 wheelbarrow race. Smith, Kingston, 

 Shaw. 



Various Notes. 



The movement for Sunday closing has 

 at last won success. Last Sunday, June 

 29, was the first day on which the 

 agreement went into effect. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York will hold an exhibition on Sat- 

 urday and Sunday, July 5 and 6, at 

 the Museum building of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, Bronx park. Prizes 

 are offered for collections of outdoor 

 roses, Japanese iris,, sweet peas, flowers 

 of herbaceous plants, flowers of shrubs 

 and trees, and assorted vegetables. Nor- 

 man Taylor will lecture at 4 p. m. Sat- 

 urday on "The Hempstead Plains, the 

 Natural Eastern Prairie." 



Wertheimer Bros, were moving on 

 Saturday into their new and larger 



