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The Florists' Review 



July 17, 1913. 



will be turned over to the purchaser at 

 once. Notes to the extent of $1,200 still 

 remain to be collected by the trustee, 

 as well as open accounts said to ag- 

 gregate $6,000 placed on the books since 

 the business has been in the hands of 

 the court. 



Memphis, Tenn. — The petition in 

 bankruptcy of the Memphis Floral Co., 

 filed July 8, shows the following re- 

 capitulation: 



stock of plants, etc., fixtures, live 



stock $42,138.00 



Open ac< ounts considered to be above 



average 10,500.00 



Total assets $52,038.00 



Notes payable $15,773.98 



Open accounts l,18t>.t>4 



Total liabilities .$16,900.82 



Excess of assets $35,077.18 



The attorneys. Chambers, Taylor & 

 Thomas, St. Louis, say "the assets are 

 of uncertain value and it depends large- 

 ly on how the estate is handled as to 

 what will be realized for the cred- 

 itors. ' ' These attorneys supply the fol- 

 lowing list of unsecured creditors in 

 the trade, not including * * a large num- 

 ber of small creditors in Memphis": 



American Florist Co., Chicago .'. .$ 27.30 



Atlanta Floral Co., Atlanta, Ga 10.65 



Begerow's, Newark, N. J 6.00 



Bunyard, A. T., New York 6.40 



BUck, L. A., Norfolk, Va 8.00 



Berke, Geo. H., Atlantic City. N. J 6.40 



Brownburst Greenhouse, Ashvllle, N. C. 2.40 



Barnard Co., W. W., Chicago .117.17 



Boas & Co., Wm. J., Philadelphia M- 20.25 



Cade, H. H., Cairo, 111 4.00 



Chattanooga Floral Co., Hatcher Sta- 

 tion, Ga 10.00 



Chicago Flower Growers' Assn., Chicago 2,527.20 



Chase Nursery Co., Chase, Ala 79.05 



Dards, C. A., New York 2.80 



De La Mare Ptg. & Pub. Co., New Yort. 31.00 



Dillon. J. L.. Bloomsburg, Pa :19 22.15 



Day ft Co.. W. E., Syracuse, N. Y 8.90 



Dayton Paper Novelty Co., Dayton 65.61 



Deurson, P. Van, Sassenhelm, Holland. . 480.22 



Dreer, Henry A., Philadelphia 162.88 



Good & Reese Co., Springfield. 176.34 



Hoffman, S. , Boston 1.05 



Hoi ton & Hunkel Co., Milwaukee 2.15 



Habermehl's Sons, J. J., Philadelphia... 4.00 



Henry & Lee, New York 15.75 



Hill Co., E. Q., Richmond, Ind 30.00 



Joy Floral Co., Nashville, Tenn 12.80 



Johnston Tin Foil Co., St. Louis, Mo 19.00 



Kuyk, K. J.. Ghent, Belgium 333.85 



Little Flower Shop, Wllkes-Barre. Pa . . . 5.0O 



Ludwig Floral Co., E. C, Pittsburgh, Pa. 6.00 



Little River Nursery, Little River, Fla.. 105.00 



Lion & Co., New York 122.60 



Mandevllle & King Co., Rochester, N. Y. 35.00 



Mills, The Florist, Jacksonville, Fla 12.00 



Minneapolis Floral Co., Minneapolis, 



Minn 4.50 



Myer, Florist, New York 7.20 



Nosacka, S., New Orleans, La 25.05 



Oak Lawn Nur«ery, Huntsvllle, Ala 34.60 



Ottolander & Hooftman, Boskoop, Hol- 

 land 359.30 



Paducah Pottery Co., Paducah, Ky 102.00 



Pleasant View Greenhouse, MadlsonvUle, 



Ky 6.30 



Pinkston, Jas. E., Louisville, Ala 53.75 



Porter's Greenhouse, P. H., Clinton. Ky. 10.00 



Povall, Mrs. F. T., Tupelo, Miss 12.60 



Panhandle Nurseries (J. K. Henry & 



Son, Prop.), Greenfield, Ind 15.30 



Parker, John L., Birmingham, Ala 24.00 



Pennock, Henry S., Jupiter, Fla 200.00 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, III. 111.00 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago 3,453.38 



Randall Co., A. L., Chicago 224.50 



Randolph, Max, Cincinnati, 4.50 



Rock Flower Co., Wm. L., Kansas City, 



Mo 5.40 



Rusconl, D., Cincinnati 20.00 



Bynveld & Sons, F., Hlllegom, Holland. 151.44 



Reed & Keller, New York 428.16 



Spool Cotton Co., New York 5.00 



Schuiz, Jacob, Louisville. Ky 8.00 



Small & Sons, J. H., Washington, D. C. 24.80 



Smith, Henry, Grand Rapids, Mich 3.60 



Smith, Wholesale Florist, Wm. C, St. 



Louis, Mo 85.45 



Taylor Bros. Co 73.04 



Van Bourgondlen & Sons, K., Hlllegom, 



Holland 120.43 



Vincent, Robt. L., Ionia, Mich 3.20 



Virgin, Uriah J., New Orleans, La 3.60 



Vick's Sons, James, Rochester, N. Y 11.30 



Vaughan'8 Seed Store, Chicago 622.71 



Ward & Co., R. M., New York 1.2.'>0.00 



Ward & Co.. R. M., New York 948.45 



West View Floral Co., Atlanta. Ga 8.00 



Whittaker Paper Co., Cincinnati. 17.60 



Washburn & Sons, A., Bloomington, III. 2.00 



Wlchera & Co., B. M., Gretna, La 4.').10 



Young & Nugent. New York 17.60 



A report of Bradstreet's commercial 

 agency, written on the same day the 



bankruptcy petition was filed, indicated 

 that the books of the concern were not 

 in the best of shape, and this is borne 

 out by tlfe fact that two of the Chicago 

 creditors state that their claims are 

 many hundreds of dollars greater than 

 shown in the above list. 



The Memphis Floral Co., capital $10,- 

 000, was incorporated July 11, 1898. 

 Clarence Hume is president and treas- 

 urer and holds the greater part of the 

 stock. Martin L. Clich, vice-president, 

 is superintendent of Eiverside ceme- 

 tery. The other officers and directors, 

 at the time of the last statement, were 

 employees or ex-employees. 



NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



The Market. 



Although we are at present in the 

 so-called dull season, the retailers are 

 kept busy with flower work for wed- 

 dings and, to a greater extent, for 

 funerals. For the latter use, the de- 

 mand for flowers was so great on cer- 

 tain occasions that not only every 

 shipped flower was used up, but nearly 

 every available one in the city. The 

 local supply of outdoor cut flowers is at 

 present not large. Gladioli have fin- 

 ished blooming, daisies are nearly gone 

 and asters and single tuberoses are the 

 most reliable flowers now and for the 

 rest of the summer. 



The plant sale has been good and 

 some firms have disposed of large quan- 

 tities of miscellaneous stock, both whole- 

 sale and retail. The landscape garden 

 ers likewise report a satisfactory busi- 

 ness, stating that the amount of bed- 

 ding stock used far surpassed last year, 

 owing to the large numbed of new gar- 

 dens. They look for a lot of work this 

 coming fall. 



Various Notes. 



Peter Kaul has a fine lot of evergreen 

 shrubbery, such as Laurus camphora. 

 Magnolia grandiflora and fuscata, ole- 

 ander, etc. Palms, ferns and other mar- 

 ket plants are healthy and clean. He 

 stated that this year's business was 

 quite satisfactory. 



Peter Kaul, Jr., who joined lately the 

 army of happy benedicts, is doing an 

 extensive landscape business, which was 

 turned over to him at the time of his 

 marriage by his father. 



Bruno Werner's new place looks pros- 

 perous and he is well satisfied with the 

 general market trade. A new green- 

 house, 15x75, now in construction will 

 be of considerable benefit during the 

 winter season. 



Henry Cook was delighted with the 

 results of advertising in the classified 

 columns of this paper. He sold out his 

 big stock of Aspidistra elatior and de- 

 mands for hundreds of plants came in 

 too late to be filled. His entire stock of 

 palms, ferns and other greenhouse 

 plants, as well as large quantities of 

 southern ornamental trees and shrubs, 

 is in perfect condition. 



Eeinhard Cook's place makes a trim 

 appearance. He has the finest bouvardia 

 ever grown here. They were in three 

 varieties, young plants in the open 

 ground. A splendidly built greenhouse, 

 17x75, has just been finished. 



Charles Eble and his daughter, Cor- 

 inne, returned a week ago from Florida, 

 where they spent two weeks with their 

 relatives at Jacksonville. En route they 



visited Paterson's Eosemont Gardens 

 at Montgomery, Ala. Mr. Eble speaks 

 well of this place and found the roses 

 carnations and mums in the houses ex- 

 tremely fine. The new 400-foot huuse 

 is a splendid example of modern im. 

 provements. Mr. Paterson and sons 

 showed them a pleasant day in Mont- 

 gomery. At the Eoyal Palm Nurseries 

 of Eeasoner Bros., at Oneco, Fla., the 

 manager showed them the finest speci- 

 mens of palms of many varieties, rang- 

 ing from ten to sixty feet high and 

 some over 25 years old. Besides the 

 palms the splendid collection of semi- 

 tropical ornamental and fruit trees and 

 shrubs attracted their attention. The 

 next stopping place was at Bradentown 

 on the Manatee river; there the ele 

 gant oreodoxa, or royal palm, seems to 

 be entirely hardy. At Tampa the 

 streets and parks are adorned with dif- 

 ferent varieties of phoenix and other 

 palms, which likewise ornament the 

 beautiful grounds of the Tampa Bay 

 hotel, the main attraction to strangers. 

 On the return trip from Tampa they 

 saw allemandas, poincianas and clero- 

 dendrons in all their blooming glory. 

 Florida is surely great in the line of 

 Asparagus plumosus and all kinds of 

 ferns, but the growing of cut flowers is 

 a hard problem there. 



Bernard Eble, the son of Chas. Eble. 

 was married here recently. 



E. E. 



PirTSBUEQH, PA. 



The Market. 



The middle of July is a poor time 

 to talk about the flower business, but it 

 is just as busy a time as any around 

 some of the greenhouses. Plantsmen 

 are putting their stock in shape and 

 cleaning and repairing their houses in 

 a leisurely way, but the busy people are 

 the cut flower growers. The young 

 stock of roses is planted, but the old 

 stock, which has been blooming through 

 June, is now being cut back and the 

 beds got into shape for another year. 

 Most of the carnations in this vicinity 

 are still in the houses, but will come 

 out now, and planting from ,«i^e field 

 will begin shortly. Field camtl^ns are 

 looking well and the indications are for 

 fine plants t»y planting time. 



The wholesalers are still receiving 

 large quantities of carnations and have 

 not felt the need of asters, which are 

 late in making their appearance, al- 

 though they are promised for this week. 

 Gladioli are here in quantities. The 

 stock is good and they are a blessing 

 this hot weather. Beauties are plenti- 

 ful, but the demand is slower than ordi- 

 nary, even for July. There are still a 

 few good long roses, but plenty of the 

 shorter stock, and, from indications, 

 there will continue to be plenty all sum- 

 mer. Lilies, valley and cattleyas are 

 good and plentiful. 



The retailers are taking things easy; 

 no one has to exert himself. They are 

 now living oflf the dead. No one is 

 carrying heavy stock, making a few 

 plants answer the purpose of show. 



Various Notes. 



On account of his ill health, Jacob 

 Elicker, of Homestead, Pa., who has 

 been in business for years and built up 

 a good trade, sold out to A. C. Miller, 

 who conducts a flower store at Du- 

 quesne. Pa. Mr. Miller will continue 

 both stores. 



