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The Florists^ Review 



Fkbruabt 18, 1915. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Spring weather prevailed nearly all 

 last week. Shipments are increasing 

 daily, and prices, which have ruled 

 "fairly steady, begin to give premoni- 

 tion of Ash Wednesday and the near- 

 ness of Lent. This period, however, 

 does not damage the florists' trade as 

 it did in former years. With the ad- 

 vent of the new crop of roses, the 

 veteran wholesalers predict a slump be- 

 fore the present week is over, and they 

 generally are accurate in their fore- 

 casts. 



American Beauties have been scarce 

 and prices high. Anything extra good 

 could be disposed of without difficulty 

 at 75 cents each, and these seemed to 

 hold the whole rose market steady. 

 Hadley continues to lead the novelties. 



Carnations surprised the market with 



their strength, nothing really salable 



being offered under $20 per thousand 



and the finest stock going to $3 and $4 



•per hundred. 



Violets are a little stronger, the best 

 of them touching 50 cents per hundred. 

 Few lilies sold above $8 per hundred 

 and many short-stemmed ones could be 

 had at $4 and $5 per hundred. Valley 

 was weak and abundant, but little of it 

 realizing over $2 per hundred. 



There is apparently an end to the 

 great volume of orchids, that for many 

 weeks have overstocked the market and 

 sold at abnormally low prices. The 

 change for the better began February 

 13. Gardenias have been lower. Daf- 

 fodils are abundant, and the southern 

 supply is looked for shortly. The over- 

 flow of narcissi has ceased. There are 

 plenty of hyacinths and freesias, in- 

 cluding some fine Purity. 



A great abundance of forget-me-not 

 arrived February 13, with a view to 

 a St. Valentine's day demand, but the 

 demand did not materialize as antici- 

 pated, and there was much of the stock 

 left over. Mignonette, pansies, wall- 

 flowers and fine sweet peas of the Spen- 

 cer varieties are in abundance. 



Various Notes. 



John Young, Max Schling and A. ,T. 

 Guttman attended the meeting of the 

 New York State Federation of Floral 

 Clubs at Cornell University. 



February 25 the Greek florists' ball 

 and reception will be held, at Terrace 

 Garden. 



The annual dinner of the New York 

 and New Jersey Plant Growers' Asso- 

 ciation was held Tuesday evening, 

 February 9, at the Hotel McAlpin. The 

 usual handsome decorations were in evi- 

 dence, including Acacia pubescens from 

 W. H. Siebrecht, Sr., of Chappaqua. 

 Interesting addresses were made by 

 Messrs. Siebrecht, Schultheis, Steinhoff, 

 Stumpp, McHutchison, Esler, Dupuy, 

 Schwake and Dick. Dancing followed 

 the banquet. 



Roman J. Irwin has just received a 

 large shipment of lily of the valley 

 pips for cold storage. 



J. K. Allen will shortly move to 118 

 West Twenty-eighth street, where he 

 will have more room and facilities for 

 his growing business than at his present 

 location. 



Max Schling had an enthusiastic au- 

 dience at Ithaca last week when he ad- 

 dressed the State Federation of Floral 

 Clubs. At the store the staff is busy. 

 February 16 a large wedding order was 

 " filled on one hour 's notice. Telegrams 



for St. Valentine's day deliveries were 

 unusually numerous and came from 

 nearly every state in the Union. 



Robert A. Jackson, of A. H. Lang- 

 jahr's force, has left the hospital, after 

 an eight weeks' stay there. 



Notice of the death of John B. Hanft 

 appears in this week's obituary column. 



Bowling. 



The members of the New York Flo- 

 rists' Bowling Club rolled the following 

 scores at their meeting Thursday eve- 

 ning, February 11: 



Player. 1st 2(J T'l. 



J. Miesein 171 179 350 



W. I'. Ford 213 156 360 



C.W.Scott 156 167 323 



A. M. Ilenshaw 14» 166 315 



W. Plerson 157 164 321 



A. Schanzer 118 132 250 



n. C. Rledel 172 203 375 



W. n. Siebrecht 155 161 316 



R. J. Irwin 151 157 308 



P. Jacobson 144 163 307 



F. Nlquet 176 166 342 



J. Niquet 153 140 293 



J. Tenrich 159 167 326 



J. Austin Shaw. 



left for a two weeks' trip to Asheville, 

 S. C, and the south. 



Albert Pittet says that he is receiv- 

 ing excellent reports from the growers 

 of his new sweet pea, Rose Queen, 

 throughout the state. He says that he 

 is receiving many orders for seed for 

 this year's delivery and expects to be 

 oversold soon. 



Bertermann Bros. Co., A. Wiegand's 

 Sons Co., the Hill Floral Co. and the 

 Pahud Floral Co. report a highly satis- 

 factory St. Valentine's day trade. 



Herman Junge is spending his spare 

 time trying to figure out whether to 

 buy a Ford or to continue to be a seat 

 warmer on the interurban. 



John Hartje is still looking for a 

 congenial traveling companion to take 

 in the exposition at California next 

 summer. 



Baur & Steinkamp have been cutting 

 some unusually fine Pocahontas of late. 



H. W. Rieman has been quite busy 

 with funeral work lately. H. L. W. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



The Market. 



St. Valentine's day business, in most 

 instances, was highly satisfactory. The 

 volume of business was large, but sales 

 probably were not so large as in better 

 times. 



Carnations had a good call, especially 

 the red, which, of course, were not any- 

 where near equal to the demand. Roses 

 had a good call and were in good sup- 

 ply. Sweet peas were not plentiful 

 enough to go around. Violets moved 

 well, but the demand was not so great 

 as last year. Jonquils, tulips, freesias 

 and valley had a good call. Blooming 

 plants sold unusually well this year. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. George Wiegand have 



THBIPS AND OTHER TROUBIJSS. 



I am sending you some leaves show- 

 ing two different kinds of disease 

 which I have noticed in my green- 

 house. Can you tell me the cause and 

 the remedy? If spraying should be 

 done, how strong should the solution 

 be! J. J. S. 



The leaves were dried up around the 

 edges. This may have been caused by 

 dryness or by fumigation. They were 

 also covered with thrips. Use the hose, 

 with a spray nozzle, persistently on 

 these to keep them down. They breed 

 fast in a too arid atmosphere. Keep 

 your house moister, syringe freely 

 every clear day and use a soap or 

 other insecticide in addition when the 

 pest is specially bad. C. W. 



Mainly About PfeoiJe 



Cedar Rapids, la.— Leo. Polansky, 

 who has been in the employ of J. G. 

 Crozer for the last seven years, has 

 left to go into the undertaking busi- 

 ness. 



Richmond, Ind.— C. E. Ruch has been 

 on a visit to his sister. Miss D. E. 

 Ruch, at Shreveport, La. It has been 

 rumored, but not definitely reported, 

 that he will establish a greenhouse 

 there. 



Cambridge, Mass.— John J. Williams 

 was presented with an 8-day wall clock 

 and two reflecting electric light fixtures 

 at the new store of Williams Bros., Fri- 

 day evening, January 29. The new 

 store, at 1224 Cambridge street, was 

 opened recently to provide larger quar- 

 ters for the firm, and is across the 

 street from the old place. 



Kallspell, Mont.— W. lE, Mills, pro- 

 prietor of Kalispell Gardens, was re- 

 cently favored by a visit from Ralph 

 M. Ward, of New York, and T. E. 

 Mills, of the State Nursery Co., Helena, 

 Mont. "Needless to say," says he, 

 "we shall need new springs for the 

 auto, another supply of chickens, and to 

 work hard to gain what we lost 'spirit- 

 ually.' " 



Coraopolis, Pa.— Theo. F. Beckert, 

 who is one of the widely esteemed grow- 

 ers of this section, has the sympathy 

 of a large circle of friends in the trade 

 because of his steadily failing sight. 

 He can no longer see to read, but still 

 writes legibly through the force of 

 long and painstaking habit. 



Amelia, O. — Charles Pommert, who 

 raises goldfish in addition to growing 

 flowers, has appealed to the state pub- 

 lic utilities commission, at Columbus, 

 to enforce a lower rate on the shipment 

 of goldfish, by the Cincinnati, George- 

 town & Portsmouth Railroad Co., de- 

 claring that the present rate, 35 cents 

 per hundred pounds, is excessive. 



Delphi, Ind. — Harry P. Myers has de- 

 cided to abandon vegetable forcing and 

 devote his efforts to growing flowers. 

 He has been growing a few for cut 

 blooms and pot plants as a side line for 

 the last two years and has found it so 

 profitable that as soon as spring sales 

 are over he will put up two houses, 37 x 

 100 and 21 x 100, on a tract of six acres 

 that he has purchased, within the city 

 limits, using available material from 

 the houses now in use. 



