NovauBBB 10, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



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Herman Knoble, it was made in safety. 

 Next trip will probably be in early 

 December. 



To show how the club's publicity 

 committee keeps on the job at all 

 times, a reporter from the Leader-News 

 was taken along and a half column 

 was the result the next day. 



Various Notes. 



Frank Gumpf, formerly gardener for 

 Mrs. Leisy, is the patentee of a palm 

 slip or cover that he has sold and 

 demonstrated to several local florists. 

 It appears to be a good thing. It is 

 made of a heavy, closely woven cloth, 

 well lined, and is slipped over the 

 plant and buttoned. It affords excel- 

 lent protection from the cold and per- 

 mits the plant to stand erect, with no 

 danger of broken leaves. F. A. F. 



Mrs. Fred Chott welcomed a large 

 number of old and new patrons at the 

 opening of her new store, on Fleet 

 avenue. The new fixtures and the fine 

 floral display arranged for the occasion 

 drew much comment. Miss Elgie Rych- 

 lik, of Painesville, O., furnished the 

 music at the opening. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The Market. 



There has been little change in trade 

 conditions since last week. The snow 

 storm passed over and bright weather 

 again prevailed. There was a flood of 

 chrysanthemums and flowers of all 

 kinds on the market. Every market 

 gardener who has a greenhouse seems 

 to have filled it with chrysanthemums 

 and the result is that the market is 

 flooded with stock that any price will 

 buy. The wholesalers had enough stock 

 left over Saturday night to do another 

 Saturday's business. Taken altogether, 

 it was another unsatisfactory week. 

 The trade is still hopeful that the 

 worst is nearly over, for with bad 

 weather the stock will certainly shorten 

 up. The retailers have had nothing 

 to brag about. Trade was quite ordi- 

 nary, but credit must be given them 

 for making displays that under ordi- 

 nary circumstances would have made 

 things hum. 



Various Notes. 



The A. W. Smith Co. had a week of 

 flower shows that were indeed credit- 

 able. 



Mrs. E. A. Williams had a beauti- 

 fully decorated window, with mixed 

 color effects of yellow crotons and 

 ferns; also hats filled with single and 

 pompon chrysanthemums tied with the 

 proper ribbon. 



Ray Daschbach kept his store and 

 windows decorated with baskets of 

 chrysanthemums in beautiful effect. All 

 of the other retailers seemed to make 

 a special effort last week and those 

 who did not buy certainly have had 

 some good reason for not buying. If 

 trade was not all it should have been, 

 we must take our hats off to the re- 

 tailers for their splendid efforts to per- 

 suade people to buy. 



Randolph & McClements have an- 

 other large wedding in Youngstown, O., 

 this week. They have been unusually 

 successful in picking up the large orders 

 in Ohio this fall. 



The boxwood trade is on in earnest 

 and Pittsburgh is certainly making 



good its assertion that this is the dis- 

 tributing point for boxwood. 



The McCallum Co. has been showing 

 some fine chrysanthemums from local 

 growers. They have their store deco- 

 rated with Christmas material, such as 

 bells, red chenille and wreaths of mag- 

 nolia. 



Fred Burki and T. P. Langhans 

 have been called for jury duty for 

 the next two weeks. As this is a bad 

 time for florists to leave their business, 

 they are figuring on how to tell it to 

 the court. 



The Sunshine Home for Children had 

 a flower day Saturday, November 14, 

 and it is . estimated that they sold 

 50,000 pompon chrysanthemums. Hun- 

 dreds of young women were selling the 

 flowers and it seemed everyone had a 

 little yellow flower on his coat. 



The Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. has 

 been using a peculiar nozzle for syring- 

 ing} by which it is possible to syringe 

 the under side of foliage to such good 



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advantage that they are continually 

 receiving requests for them. They are 

 now putting them on the market. 



Clarke. 



MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



The Market. 



Fine normal conditions prevail in the 

 market, with supply and demand about 

 equal and all stock arriving in the best 

 of condition. 



State Florists' Convention. 



Last week the annual convention of 

 the Minnesota State Florists' Associa- 

 tion was held here, with headquarters, 

 as usual, at the West hotel. W. D. 

 Desmond, manager of the flower depart- 

 ment and greenhouses of the L. S. Don- 

 aldson Co., had charge of the exhibits 

 and the supply of palms and bay trees 

 from the Donaldson greenhouses. He 

 was able to make a gorgeous display, 

 showing all exhibits to the best advan- 

 tage. He was assisted by C. B. Liv- 

 ingston, manager of the flower depart- 

 ment of the Holman-Gerdes Co. Wm. 

 Vasatka, foreman at the Donaldson 

 greenhouses and secretary of the Min- 

 neapolis Florists' Club, had charge of 

 the decorations for the banquet and 

 did himself credit. Friend Latham was 

 at the door to collect the dollar for the 



banquet, and you may feel assured that 

 none escaped his eye, for he has that 

 gentle way of extracting the dollars. 



O. P. Olson, of Holm & Olson, St. 

 Paul, was toastmaster and deserves the 

 palm. J. E. Quallich, of the A. L. Ran- 

 dall Co., Chicago, made a speech on 

 running a retail store. His remarks 

 showed much thought, experience and 

 keen reasoning. Many others spoke 

 briefly, among them Aug. S. Swanson, 

 L. L. May, Miss H. B. Whitted and 

 Julia Ells. 



Songs dedicated to Theodore Wirth 

 and President Olson were sung by a 

 colored quintet, and Theo. Nagel ren- 

 dered vocal solos, accompanied by his 

 wife at the piano. 



The exhibits were exceptionally fine. 

 Among the chief exhibitors were: Miss 

 H. B. Whitted, L. S. Donaldson Co., 

 Holm & Olson, St. Paul; Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., Chicago; Gust. Rusch & Co., 

 Milwaukee; A. L. Randall Co., Chicago, 

 and La Crosse Floral Co., La Crosse, 

 Wis. The bulbs were from A. Hender- 

 son & Co., Chicago, and were grown in 

 the L. S. Donaldson greenhouses. An 

 exhibit of Winsor carnations, grown in 

 the Donaldson greenhouses, had stems 

 eighteen to twenty inches long and took 

 a certificate of merit. Miss Whitted 

 took many prizes for baskets and mums. 

 Holm & Olson received a prize for a 

 display of palms and orchids. Other 

 exhibits worthy of mention were the 

 mums shown by J. A. Weber, gardener 

 for C. G. Goodrich, Zumbra Heights, 

 Minn.; the Wm. Turner exhibited by 

 the Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, 

 Minn.; the Russell roses sent by the 

 Holton & Hunkel Co., Milwaukee, Wis 

 and the plant exhibit of the Minneapo- 

 lis Floral Co. Hans Rosacker and Will 

 Bros. Co., of Minneapolis; John E. Sten 

 of Red Wing, Minn.; N. C. Hanson and 

 the Merriam Park Floral Co., of St. 

 Paul, also had excellent exhibits. 



Visitors from out of town whose pres- 

 ence was noted were: Calvin Kinsman 

 Austin, Minn.; C. G. Nordine, Lake 

 City, Minn.; John E. Sten, Red Wing 

 Minn.; N. Nielsen, Mankato, Minn?; 

 C. E. Schafer,. of the La Crosse Floral 

 Co., La Crosse, Wis.; A. L. Miller, of A 

 Henderson & Co., Chicago, and J E 

 Quallich, of the A. L. Randall Co., Chi- 

 cago. 



Various Notes. 



At the last meeting of the Minne- 

 apolis Florists' Club, H. Rosacker 

 showed a yellow sport of a single white 

 daisy, of which he did not know the 

 name, but which caused much discus- 

 sion, and he also showed an Enchantress 

 sport measuring about four inches 

 across. W. D. Desmond showed some 

 of L. S. Donaldson 's prize-winning Dor- 

 othy Dimple. The new officers took 

 their places at this meeting. 



Perl Bros, have delayed their open- 

 ing on account of the warm weather, 

 but will probably hold it soon, now 

 that the weather is cool. 



Miss H. B. Whitted has had a chrys- 

 anthemum show at her Fifth street 

 store, which attracted much attention. 

 The mums were grown by the La Crosse 

 Floral Co., of La Crosse, Wis. 



W. D. Desmond had a large decora- 

 tion at the Radisson hotel, which ne- 

 cessitated a trip to Chicago. 



Mrs. Littleton, of the fiower depart- 

 ment of the Chapman-Basting Co., will 

 open a store across from the Minneapo- 

 lis Club, January 1. She has already 

 secured a lease and ordered an auto 



