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AUGUST 28, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



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scarce in {ill lines, but the supply trade 

 keeps all bands busy in the shipping 

 room. Edward Dale, his daughter, Bes- 

 sie, and Cbafles Xorton returned from 

 Europe last week. H. G. Mullis also 

 got home from British Columbia. All 

 enjoyed their trips immensely. 



W. G. P. 



NASHUA, N. H. 



_^This has been an exceptionally busy 

 season for George E. Buxton. He has 

 just completed a new greenhouse 

 32x188, and planted it with carnations. 

 He has 22,000 carnations benched in 

 all. Plants in the field had a hard 

 struggle for existence this season, as 

 no rain fell for sixty-three days, but 

 they are now of an average size. Mr. 

 Buxton has sold and delivered over 

 60,000 plants of his famous new pink 

 snapdragon, of a Killarney shade of 

 color, and orders keep arriving daily. 



Gaedeke & ("o. report a fine summer 

 business in the line of funeral work. 

 Their carnations in the field, however, 

 are not up to the average, owing to 

 the drought. 



C. H. Blake is rebuilding one of his 

 greenhouses, replacing one that has 

 been in active service for thirty years. 

 Mr. Blake reports a good summer busi- 

 ness. 



W. W. Powers is busy' most of the 

 time with funeral work. In fact, he 

 has been so closely confined that a vaca- 

 tion has been out of the question. Mr. 

 Powers has recently taken up his resi- 

 nlence on Concord street, Nashua's 

 most select residential district. 



W. N. C. 



BOOH£STEB, N. T. 



The Market. 



The week has been a good one for 

 the majority of downtown florists, with 

 a great deal of funeral work. The 

 state of the flower market is about the 

 same as recorded last week, with no 

 great amount of good stock arriving. 

 There is an influx of gladioli and many 

 go to waste. On account of the hot, 

 dry weather, they burst into blossom 

 all at once and cannot be sold fast 

 enough. The same is true of other out- 

 door stock,, and many are begging for 

 a good, soaking rain. The asters are 

 extremely scaic-e, and only a few good 

 ones get into the commission house. 

 The rest are small and so short-stemmed 

 that they can only be used for design 

 work. There are a few growers who, 

 by having a good water system, are 

 making good prices for their cut stock, 

 and the demand is far beyond what the 

 plants will produce. Sweet peas are 

 good or bad, according to the grower, 

 and the best have a hard task to realize 

 a respectable price. Carnations can al- 

 most be classed with the peas; their 

 quantity is limited. Roses are about 

 the best thing on the market; their 

 only fault is that they burst open too 

 quickly. Harrisii lilies are fairly plenti- 

 ful, but valley is scarce. Japanese 

 lilies, both white and pink, are numer- 

 ous and ar,e used freely. Water lilies, 

 which do not sell so readily in the 

 stores, are obtainable in the streets. 

 Ferns are 3carce, Asparagus, maiden- 

 hair ferns and sroilax sell tvell. 



Various Notes. 



Miss Lilian "WheeJer, of the Rochester 

 Floral Co., is awav from business on a 

 two Sep^i' vacation. Miss Rose Ella 



Browu commenced her vacation August 

 25, for a period of two weeks. 



Milton Selinka, of Schloss Bros., New 

 York city, called on the trade during 

 the week, expressing his satisfaction 

 with the amount of business done. 



Burglars entered the store of Cros- 

 man Bros, on the evening of August 21, 

 by climbing through the transom over 

 the front door. Their efforts did not 

 get them much; only a few old coins 

 were left over night in the cash register. 



So far, this month has been the busi- 

 est that the Lord & Burnham Co. has 

 experienced in this territory. Arthur 

 Elder, a son of the manager of the 

 Lord & Burnham head offices, is one of 

 the office force, and additional help has 

 been put on. Among the firm's recent 

 sales are a rose house, 52x200, erected 

 complete and heated, for J. H. Gould, 

 Middleport; for Fred Burki, of the 

 Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., a house 41x583; for the Indiana 

 Floral Co., Indiana, Pa., a house 35x 

 150; for 8. D. Pritchard, of Phelps, 

 N. Y., who is starting in a small way, a 

 service house building, complete, 18x25; 

 for J. H. West & Sons, Irondequoit, 

 N. Y., an a^lditional house, 40x183. 



The death of Charles M. Hooker, 

 senior member of the firm of C. M. 

 Hooker & Sons, is recorded in this 

 week 's obituary column. H. J. H. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Last week was convention week, and 

 its record has been invariable for years. 

 "With it comes the end of the dog days 

 and the first evidences of an awakening 

 begin to manifest themselves. Employ- 

 ers and employees are nearly all back 

 from their vacations, brown and ener- 

 getic and ready for the coming season, 

 which Labor day inaugurates. Schools 

 will soon open and flower buyers return 

 to the city. 



A trenlendous lot of roses are coming 

 to the market, but most of them are 

 short-stemmed and can hardly be 

 cleaned up at any price. The few that 

 are worth while, from American Beau- 

 tics and Shawyers down, bring fair re- 

 turns, and the retail demand is slowly 

 but perceptibly increasing. There will 

 be few carnations of value sent in be- 

 fore next week. The growers express 

 the certainty of a good stock by that 

 time. Nothing is arriving at present 

 that sells above $1 per hundred. Val- 

 ley and lilies are firm at present quota- 

 tions. Some fine rubrums are seen, and 

 longiflorums are gradually advancing 

 above the starvation level of July and 

 August. 



Dahlias, cosmos and goldenrod have 

 just stepped through the open door. 

 A few Golden Glow and Smith 's Ad- 

 vance mums are here, and of gladioli 

 and asters there is no end. Only the 

 best of these bring even respectable 

 prices, and some of the new asters and 

 select gladioli are worth much more 

 than it has been possible to realize on 

 them. 



Orchids have not been overabundant, 

 and prices have been higher for cat- 

 tleyas. There will soon be a fine assort- 

 ment of orchids to select from. 



Various Notes. 



Conventionists are returning grad- 

 ually. The charms of the boundless 

 west, the Great I^akes and the "Windy 

 City have held a few of them. Those 

 ' who are back are loud in appreciation 



of the splendid men and women of the 

 Twin Cities, and of the unlimited enter- 

 tainment and generosity accorded them. 



Frank L. Moore, of Moore, Hentz & 

 Nash, was in the city August 22. Cat- 

 tleyas and Maryland roses are his pres- 

 ent contribution to the yfholesale mar- 

 ket. The added conveniences of this 

 firm in the Coogan building are now 

 complete. Mr. Moore's daughter. Miss 

 Muriel, is a prominent teacher in the 

 New York School of Music and Arts. 



Paul Rigo, of the Henshaw & Fen- 

 rich force, will be married September 3. 

 His bride will be Miss Ethel Wilson, 

 daughter of Lieutenant Wilson, of Gen- 

 eral Sheridan's staff. The honeymoon 

 trip of four weeks will reach as far 

 as Winnipeg, Manitoba. 



E. Bonnot, of Bonnot Bros., will re- 

 turn next week from his annual Euro- 

 pean holiday. 



Frank Duggan, seedsman, is away on 

 a yachting trip to Atlantic City and 

 Virginia Beach. 



Angelo Dentale, of Young & Nugent 's 

 force, entertained the stork August 12. 

 A boy was left by the same busy bird 

 August 20 at the home of Maurice 

 Glass, manager of the Henry M. Robin- 

 son Co., of New York. 



The H. M. Robinson Co. will be com- 

 fortably settled this week in its new 

 and spacious quarters on the ground 

 floor of the Coogan building. From the 

 size of the ice-box, the firm evidently 

 anticipates an immense shipping as well 

 as local business this season. 



Badgley, Riedel & Meyer displayed 

 some fine Smith's Advance chrysanthe- 

 mums in their windows last week, the 

 first of the season. 



Walter R. Siebrecht is back from his 

 vacation and will move downstairs next 

 week into the store formerly occupied 

 by Russiu & Hanfliiig. The new home 

 of this progressive supply house is 

 nearly ready for occupancy, and it will 

 be one of the most complete establish- 

 ments in the country in this depart- 

 ment of the florists' business. 



.T. K. Allen devotes his week-ends to 

 his family at Ocean Grove, N. J., and 

 his spare days during this week to hia 

 shippers on Long Island. 



The Hinode Florist Co., of White- 

 stone, L. I., has sold its property to 

 Dreyer Bros., Woodside, L. I. 



Samuel Woodrow is bu«y with the 

 store and conservatory enlargement at 

 his place of business, and will have 

 more space and conveniences than ever 

 before for his plant display. He seems 

 quite hopeful as to the fall and winter 

 outlook. 



Joseph A. Fenrich will continue to 

 make Bradley Beach his home until 

 October. 



Herbert Kruschka, son of the leading 

 florist of Asbury Park, N. J., is now 

 with Poehlmann Bros. Co., of Chicago. 



Adam Miller, form,erly of the New 

 York Botanical Garden staff, and later 

 in charge of the Hotel Astor's flower 

 department, is now in the landscape 

 business on his own account. 



The Growers' Cut Flower Co. expects 

 to be comfortably settled in its new 

 store and with all its conveniences in 

 running otder Saturday, August 30. 



The new combination now concen- 

 trated at the old store of George Cot- 

 sonas & Co. promises to be a strong and 

 aggressive union of forces under the 

 name of the New York Florists' Supply 

 Co., Inc. ^ ^ 



The Kervan Co. continues to ship 

 large quantities of wild smilax and 



