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The Florists^ Review 



June 18, 1014. 



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those of any other season. In fact, 

 comparison with values of a year ago 

 is exceedingly discouraging to growers. 

 But the present week will see the end 

 of large arrivals, and a good number 

 are already in cold storage. 



On orchids .$10 to $25 per hundred 

 are the quotations. Quality is superb, 

 never better, and yet values are less 

 than half what they should be. Even 

 the June weddings and decorations seem 

 to have lost their influence. Lilies are 

 still overabundant and in quantity the 

 best figure obtainable has been $15 per 

 thousand. Valley sells at double these 

 quotations, in small and selected quan- 

 tities, and will while the brides' bou- 

 quets continue the demand. 



Callas, iris and gladioli are abun- 

 dant, and of sweet peas, daisies, coreop- 

 sis, feverfew and the other outdoor 

 stock there is neither limit nor sale, and 

 it is hard indeed to realize for them 

 enough to pay the shipping charges. 



Various Notes, 



The early closing movement is start- 

 ing now. Several houses will close next 

 Sunday and continue the good work 

 until September. Some of the leading 

 wholesalers hope the plan may be made 

 permanent. 



The Tarrytown Horticultural Society 

 holds its June show Tuesday, June 16, 

 in the new building of the F. R. Pier- 

 son Co. This beautiful $40,000 store, 

 just completed, is worth going far to 

 see. 



The outing tf the New York Florists' 

 Club July 1, at Glen Island, promises 

 to be the banner event of the club for 

 the summer, and everybody connected 

 with the organization should atteml. 

 Chairman Marshall and his committee 

 are working hard. The athletic con- 

 tests will be numerous, the prizes worth 

 while and the entertainment for all of 

 the highest grade. Ex-president Vin- 

 cent and his wife have promised to at- 

 tend the outing. 



C. C. Trepel has opened another store, 

 at One Hundred and Seventh street and 

 Broadway, and has more in prospect, it 

 is said, when the season opens in the 

 fall. 



John J. Reynolds has retired from the 

 wholesale house of Monroe & Reynolds, 

 and Mr. Dorst, a brother-in-law of Mr, 

 Monroe, is now his partner. This house 

 has handled 10,000 ivy plants in pots 

 this season. 



Remember the Sweet Pea Society's 

 convention at the Museum of Natural 

 History, June 27 and 28, Secretary 

 Bunyard has l)een lecturing at Staten 

 Island on sweet peas, rhododendrons and 

 hardy perenuiaLs, and will lecture be- 

 fore the Michigan Garden Club, of De- 

 troit, June 24 with stereopticon views. 



June 19 many New York florists will 

 visit the Elizabeth park rose garden, 

 at Hartford, <"onn. 



Ed. Asmus now has charge of the 

 Closter and West Hoboken greenhouse 

 establishments, the property of the late 

 Ernest Asmus, and Percy Richter again 

 represents these interests, with head- 

 quarters in the Coogan building. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



PURELY PERSONAL. 



M. Heller, of the South Park Floral 

 Co., New Castle, Ind., was in Switzer- 

 land when last heard from. 



H. Bayersdorfer and wife, of Phila- 

 delphia, are in Italy. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market, 



The weather last week was quite 

 warm and its effect on cut flowers 

 was perceptible. Business was good, 

 for with weddings, graduations, dances 

 and funeral work, all hands have been 

 kept busy. Killarney roses in both 

 colors are getting smaller. Killarney 

 Queen is good. Sunburst is excellent, 

 but the supply is limited. Mrs. Taft is 

 a little better in color than it has been, 

 but the flowers are small. Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward is poor and short of stem. Beau- 

 ties are plentiful and can be had in 

 all grades. Short-stemmed Beauties are 

 cheap. Richmond and Milady are rather 

 poor. All roses, in fact, show the 

 effects of the warm weather, for they 

 are fully opened in a few hours when 

 out of the refrigerator. There are some 

 excellent My Marylands in the market 

 just now. Peonies are a drug on the 

 market and are sold at astonishingly 

 low prices. Festiva maxima continues 

 to be a great favorite this summer. 

 Gladioli are arriving from the south, 

 but they are only fair and are cut in 

 tight bud. There is not much demand 

 for them as yet. Baby gladioli still 

 are selling. Carnations are overabun- 

 dant and cheap. They are getting 

 smaller and poorer in quality. Easter 

 lilies are good and the supply is strong, 

 with the demand hardly equal. Valley 

 is fair. Cattleyas are in demanjl and 

 bringing excellent prices. Marguerites, 

 foxgloves, swainsonas, yellow daisies, 

 cornflowers, sweet peas, pyrethrum and 

 irises swell the list of the summer 

 flowers. 



All florists are getting their share of 

 work for commencements and weddings. 

 Nearly all the outdoor work has been 

 attended to and soon there will be only 

 the regular summer trade to cope with 

 and vacation days will be at hand. 



Various Notes. 



The Lenox Flower Shop had a timely 

 window display last week, a figure to 

 represent the sweet girl graduate carry- 

 ing an immense arm bouquet of Amer- 

 ican Beauties. 



W. J. Palmer & Son had a big wed- 

 ding decoration at Trinity chapel June 

 6. At Palmer's branch store there is 

 an unusual display of peonies and stun- 

 ning baskets of digitalis. 



The graduation bouquets of the Buf- 

 falo Seminary were made of lavender 

 sweet peas and yellow daisies arranged 

 in loose arm bunches and tied with rib- 

 bon to match the daisies, S. A. Ander- 

 son did the work. He also had the 

 decoration for the Normal school 

 June 12. 



The two basket ball enthusiasts, 

 Greever and Stroh, keep up their prac- 

 tice in spite of the warm weather. 



Stephen Green, of Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., last week passed through Bufi'alo 

 homeward bound for a two months' 

 vacation. He will make his next ap- 

 pearance at the Boston convention in 

 August. 



.1. B. Keller Sons, of Rochester, had 

 the decorations at the Buffalo club, 

 .Tune 11. 



George Kramer is in Cleveland, doing 

 some special work for the J. M. Gas- 

 ser Co. 



W. J. Palmer & Son filled four large 

 wicker baskets with Boston ferns for 

 the Wm. Eastwood Shoe Co., which 

 make an excellent summer display. 



The opening of the Sherer lunch 

 rooms June 13 brought Felix Alberts 

 an order for a good sized decoration. 



E. C. A, 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Southwestern Market, 



The market last week was in pretty^ 

 much the same condition as when last 

 reported — plenty of stock, but of poor 

 quality. The retailers had a fairly good 

 week, with school commencements, wed- 

 dings and funeral work. This about 

 ends the season for wedding and school 

 work, as society has closed its doors and 

 left town for the summer vacation, so 

 that the trade can from now on depend 

 only on funeral work and a few late 

 weddings. In looking over the stock at 

 the different wholesale houses, I found 

 that all first quality stock was scarce, 

 especially in roses, carnations and sweet 

 peas. Extra good quality gladioli, cape 

 jasmines and Easter lilies are in demand 

 and the market affords plenty of these. 

 Outdoor stock is coming in, but shows 

 poor quality from the need of good 

 rains. The country is dry and for the 

 last two months only light showers have 

 fallen. 



Now that the' season is at an end, 

 the wholesalers as well as the retailers 

 will start cleaning up and making im- 

 provements for the Fall business. 



Ferns, which have been scarce the 

 last few weeks, are again easy, and 

 all the markets had a good supply of 

 fancy and dagger ferns all last week 

 at $2.50 per thousand. Asparagus sells 

 better than any other green, with 

 smilax next in order. In this the mar- 

 ket is well supplied. 



Club Meeting, 



The twenty-eighth anniversary meet- 

 ing of the Florists' Club took place 

 June 11. Owing to the extreme heat, 

 the meeting was poorly attended. In 

 the absence of President Pilcher and 

 Vice-president Jaenicke, the members 

 called upon Ex-president R. .1. Windier 

 to preside over the meeting. After 

 cleaning up all the opening routine busi- 

 ness, the chair called upon all commit- 

 tees to report. The banquet committee 

 reported everything in readiness for the 

 club's anniversary banquet, to be held 

 next week at the Jefferson hotel. The 

 trustees were given full power to act 

 in regard to the club's picnic, to be 

 held next month, in order to have all 

 arrangements completed by the next 

 meeting. State Vice-president Windier, 

 of the S. A. F., made a report on the 

 work he was doing for the national so- 

 ciety and read a letter from the Chicago 

 Florists' Club, asking him to trv to ar- 

 range to have his party travel to Boston 

 on the president's special with the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club. As the transporta- 

 tion is all in his hands, no doubt ar- 

 rangements will be made to go with the 

 Chicago party. 



The matter of Sunday closing by the 

 retail florists was brought up for dis- 

 cussion, in which Messrs. Ammann, San- 

 ders, Fillmore, Windier, Geddis, Ogle 

 and Wells took great interest, and after 

 a lengthy discussion, it was decided on 

 motion that the club was much in favor 

 of this movement and that all members 

 of the club be urged to sign their names 

 to the petition when presented. 



The rest of the afternoon was spent 

 in discussing the effect which the long 

 dry spell will have on outdoor stock. 



