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The Florists^ Review 



DncnuBBB 3, 1914. 



line, had a splendid business last week 

 and cquld have sold a great deal more 

 stock. W. J. B. 



BXJPFALO, N. y. 



The Market. 



The weather last week was cold and 

 clear, warming up just a little before 

 Thanksgiving day. Business was good, 

 because of the favorable weather. 

 Chrysanthemums were fairly well 

 cleaned up, with the exception of poor 

 varieties that were scarcely salable. 

 Large chrysanthenlums did not seem as 

 good this year as last, but the pompon 

 varieties were excellent. Carnations 

 sold well and brought a fair price. 

 Roses were abundant, but the prices 

 were only fair. Paper Whites, mar- 

 guerites, stevias and cosmos are to be 

 had. Cattleya orchids are plentiful, 

 with firm prices. Lily of the valley is 

 excellent and there are some good sweet 

 peas. Violets sold well at Thanksgiv- 

 ing. Plants, such as begonias, prim- 

 roses, cyclamens, etc., were plentiful. 

 Ferns, Asparagus plumosus, smilax and 

 galax are plentiful. Black alderberries, 

 boxwood and Christmas greens have ar- 

 rived. 



Various Notes. 



Jacob B. Wiese reports Thanksgiving 

 trade as good and on a par With last 

 year. 



The Lenox Flower Shop had a fine 

 holiday trade and Mr. Alberts is well 

 pleased with results. This firm is in- 

 ^ troducing dainty little bunches of satin 

 rosebuds in pink and red, with delicate 

 foliage. These are used on the handles 

 of baskets, etc., and can afterward be 

 worn, since they are non-perishable. , ; 



Will Greever, at Palmer's branen 

 store, had a big trade for Thanksgiving. 

 It was as good as last year, it is re- 

 ported. 



Peter Hoffman found business good 

 last week. 



Wm. F. Kasting has purchased the 

 Newman Greenhouses, at Akron, N. Y. 

 He will grow carnations for the Buf- 

 falo market. He also does a small re- 

 tail business there. He expects to use 

 the residence on the estate for a sum- 

 mer home. 



S. A. Anderson's Tlianksgiving win- 

 dow was a most unusual feature. The 

 <lisplay consisted of the "Pumpkin 

 family" at their Thanksgiving feast. 

 Father and Mother Pumpkin, sonny and 

 sis, all made of tiny pumpkins with 

 eyes of cranberries and legs of carrots 

 and parsnips, wore seated around a 

 miniature table laden with goodies. In 

 the background were baskets of fruits 

 and flowers in endless designs. The 

 window was much talked about. Holi- 

 <lay trade at this store was excellent. 

 Mr. Anderson is running a splendid 

 new delivery car, which is attractively 

 painted in light green. 



J. H. Rebstock had a fine Thanksgiv- 

 ing trade and was completely sold out 

 of cut stock. November 27 he had a 

 great deal of funeral work, which kept 

 all hands busy. 



The week-end trade at the Colonial 

 Flower Shop was good. The proprietors 

 were much pleased with the volume of 

 business, which gives promise of a 

 prosperous winter. 



The Hoyt reception, November 26, 

 gave a great deal of work for all the 

 leading florists. Large quantities of 

 cut flowers were used, in baskets, bou- 

 quets and bunches of all sorts. 



J. Benson Stafford reports business as 

 having been much better than last year. 

 All kinds of flowers sold well. He ar- 

 ranged the flowers for the Hoyt re- 

 ception. 



W. J. Palmer & Son had so large a 

 Thanksgiving trade that it seemed like 

 a forecast of the Christmas rush. 



Stephen J. Mahoney is again at his 

 post with S. A. Anderson, after being 

 out of town the greater part of the 

 summer and fall. 



Barney Myers, of Lancaster, is cut- 



ting some extra fine carnations. His 

 Ward carnations are especially good. 



Some excellent stevia is being grown 

 at Wm. C. Stroh's greenhouses, in 

 Attica. It is sold to the city florists. 



J. T. Stiles, of Wm. B. Lake, Phila- 

 delphia, called on the trade here last 

 week. 



Begonias Lorraine and Cincinnati are 

 in fine condition at the Anderson green- 

 houses, where Joe Streit presides. They 

 sold well for Thanksgiving. 



E. C. A. 



Aldan, Pa. — Clement S. Levis has 

 erected a boiler house in order to take 

 care of his additional glass. The build- 

 ing is of stone and concrete. Above 

 the boilers will be rooms for storage 

 purposes. 



EagleviUe, Pa. — A defective flue and 

 a high wind combined to destroy the 

 greenhouse of Furst Crider near here 

 November 16. It was only with diflS- 

 culty that the flames were prevented 

 from spreading to the dwelling and 

 barns nearby. 



St. Peter, Minn. — Emil Samuelson, of 

 McKenzie, N. D., who recently pur- 

 chased the St. Peter Greenhouses, is 

 making extensive improvements in the 

 property. He has already replaced the 

 old boiler with one twice as large in 

 heating capacity. 



lia Crosse, Wis. — Mrs. Anna Guillaume 

 was awarded a verdict of $500 damages 

 against the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light 

 & Power Co. in the Circuit court Novem- 

 ber 19. She sued for $1,200 on the 

 charge that all the plants in her green- 

 house were killed through the negli- 

 gence of the company. 



Sioux City, la. — John N. Nordstrom, 

 of the firm of Eubank & Nordstrom, 

 has bought Peter Reard's greenhouses, 

 at East Morningside, comprising about 

 SOj'bOO feet of glass. He is growing cut 

 flowers, pot plants and vegetables, and 

 will cultivate about sixty acres for out- 

 door varieties in addition to his green- 

 house crops. 



Detroit, Mich. — The Ladies' Auxiliary 

 of the Detroit Florists' Club gave a 

 dancing party November 12 at Stras- 

 burg's academy to add to the fund for 

 the new sleeping porch at the Van 

 Leuven-Browne School for Crippled 

 Children. The porch was erected from 

 funds raised at the last year's ball of 

 the Ladies" Auxiliary, but cost more 

 than the amount of the proceeds. 



North Milwaukee, Wis. — The Sunnj' 

 Point Floral Co., of which William 

 Wiesner and H. Johannes were the pro- 

 prietors, has sold out to the Eschrich 

 Floral & Nursery Co. The proprietors 

 of the Sunny Point Floral Co. started 

 in business about a year and a half ago 

 by leasing from William Eschrich his 

 throe greenhouses and an acre of land. 

 Since that time Mr. Eschrich has de- 

 voted himself to his nursery of nine 

 acres adjoining the greenhouses. Mr. 

 Wiesner has moved to Milwaukee, where 

 he is located at 1784 Eighth street. 



Denver, Colo. — W. C. Walter has ob- 

 tained a permit for the erection of a 

 brick office at his greenhouses, at 484 

 Colymbine street, to cost $1,000. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— Mrs. M, D. Waters has 

 found that a gift of a few plants, bulbs 

 or seeds to a family paying for a home 

 has been the means of making steady 

 customers. Once given a start, they 

 "got the habit." 



Bessemer, Ala. — A sudden drop in 

 temperature at the beginning of the 

 week of the coldest weather for Novem- 

 ber in the recollection of the proprietor 

 caused the loss of a number of 5-foot 

 and 6-foot poinsettias at the Colonial 

 Greenhouses, owned by Mrs. W. D. 

 Brown. Trade here is better than it 

 has ever been at this time of the year. 



Delray, Fla. — The business established 

 here a short time before his death by 

 Frank R. Faulk, whose obituary ap- 

 peared in The Review for October 22, 

 will be carried on by his widow, Mrs. 

 Bertha Faulk, under her own name and 

 personal management. After leaving 

 Pittsburgh, where he was a member of 

 the firm of Faulk Bros., and coming 

 here, Mr. Faulk improved so much that 

 he built a honie and started a business 

 before the final relapse that resulted in 

 his death. 



West AUis, Wis.— Jacob J. Finger is 

 just getting into shape again after the 

 tornado of last June, which demolished 

 his greenhouses. Mr. Finger had bare- 

 ly repaired his greenhouses after the 

 hail storm of May 30 had broken three- 

 fourths of his glass, when, June 24, a 

 tornado swept them off the ground, 

 leaving nothing but splinters and 

 broken glass. Although he had no in- 

 surance, Mr. Finger took courage and 

 erected about 20,000 feet of glass, and 

 is building up his business again. 



Houston, Tex.— At the annual meet- 

 ing of the Houston Florists' Club, at 

 the close of the flower show, the hold- 

 ing of an annual exhibition was dis- 

 cussed and found much favor with 

 the members. This will be independent 

 of the state association's show, and 

 will probably be set for a later date 

 than this year 's, as many growers found 

 it too early for the display of the best 

 stock. Officers for the ensuing year 

 were elected as follows: President, Rob- 

 ert C. Kerr; vice-president, C. L. Brock; 

 secretary, A. L. Perring; treasurer, R. 

 L. Carroll; executive committee, H. H. 

 Kuhlmann, Jr., R. O. Hewitt, Henry 

 Blecker and T. M. Johnson. 



