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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 18. 1Q15. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market. 



Although the weather is pleasant, 

 with a great deal of sunshine, the winds 

 are sharp and it is cold and wintry. 

 Business is fairly good. The great per- 

 centage of trade, however, is funeral 

 work. The warm sunshine has brought 

 in a large quantity of bulbous stock. 

 Much of it, however, is wasted, as there 

 is little demand for daffodils, narcissi 

 and tulips, and these cannot be used in 

 funeral work as readily as carnations 

 and roses. Sweet peas are extra fine. 

 The orchid varieties bring fancy 

 prices; the common varieties, however, 

 are only fair, and are quite cheap. 

 There is little demand for valley during 

 Lent, although the supply is abundant 

 and the quality good. Orchids are al- 

 most forgotten. Freesias are abundant, 

 as is mignonette. Bulbous stock, both 

 cut and in pots, is being pushed in or- 

 der to reduce the accumulation, and 

 other cut stock receives secondary con- 

 sideration. Eoses are somewhat scarce 

 in the choice varieties, but medium 

 grades are plentiful. Beauties are ex- 

 pensive. The market is flooded with 

 all kinds of plants; cyclamens, prim- 

 roses, daffodils, tulips, lilac trees, aza- 

 leas, cinerarias, hydrangeas, spiraeas, 

 rhododendrons, hyacinths, etc. Cut 

 ferns, asparagus, smilax and galax are 

 all plentiful. Violets are showing the 

 effect of spring sunshine, for they are 

 smaller and begin to drop petals. 



Various Notes. 



S. Crosby has severed his connection 

 with the Lenox Flower Shop and has 

 gone to Cleveland, O. 



The branch store of W. J. Palmer & 

 Son is showing some excellent potted 

 valley and fine spiraeas and cyclamens. 



Feiix Albert is suffering with an at- 

 tack of lumbago, which is painful and 

 keeps him away from business. This is 

 the second attack he has had this win- 

 ter. 



F. J. Baum, of Kingsley street, fur- 

 nished Boston ferns of extra fine qual- 

 ity for the spring opening of Hens & 

 Kelly. 



Edward Slattery spent a few days in 

 New York city recently, doing some 

 Easter buying. 



Mrs. Edwin C. Armbrust has gone to 

 Southern Pines, N. C, to spend a few 

 weeks with her mother, who is a semi- 

 invalid. 



The opening of the Walkover shoe 

 store called for numerous floral designs, 

 such as floral shoes, done in daffodils 

 and violets and crowned with Ward 

 roses and yellow daisies; floral horse- 

 shoes, baskets and fancy lilac and aza- 

 lea plants. 



L. Neubeck has been having some 



trouble with boils. 



S. A. Anderson's Eebstoek store has 

 been doing a large amount of funeral 

 work recently .- 



Because of business depression, the 

 department stores are cutting down ex- 

 penses in connection with spring open- 

 ing decorations. Instead of using large 

 quantities of cut flowers and flowering 

 plants, they use southern smilax and 

 palms, and a few Boston ferns. Hens 

 & Kelly used quantities of southern 

 smilax and palms. The Lenox Flower 

 Shop had the decorations at this place. 



William Baker has resigned his posi- 

 tion with S. A. Anderson and is now 

 with Chas. Sandiford, of Central Park. 



David Scott, of Corfu, is shipping 



some fine carnations, mignonette, snap- 

 dragons and myosotis to this market. 



James J. Bates, formerly of this city, 

 has advertised his greenhouse and store 

 in Akron for sale. 



Jerry Brookins, of Orchard Park, is 

 growing some good yellow and pink 

 snapdragons. He also has a first-class 

 strain of pansies. 



The Delaware park conservatories are 

 attracting large crowds. Primroses, 

 azaleas, cinerarias and bulbous stock 

 are on display. The bedding plants for 

 spring work are in a clean and healthy 

 condition. E. C. A. 



LANCASTER, PA. 



A Club Jaunt. 



The florists residing along the Phila- 

 delphia pike were the recipients of a 

 visit from the Lancaster county flo- 

 rists March 13. 



The first to be called on was Maurice 

 J. Brinton, at Christiana, where carna- 

 tions and lilies are specialties. His 

 houses,- 40x200 feet, filled with carna- 

 tions, were excellent. Houses of Mrs. 

 Ward were exceptionally fine. He sends 

 a daily supply of Formosa and gigan- 

 teum lilies to the Philadelphia market 

 the year around. J. Butter Hess, at 

 Gap, devotes most of his space to car- 

 nations, and flowers of fine quality are 

 sent to the Philadelphia market. Large 

 quantities of vegetables and bedding 

 plants are grown to supply the local 

 market. 



Next stopping at J. Ira Kanck's, at 

 Vintage, the standard varieties of car- 

 nations were found in good condition. 

 Quality sweet peas are also grown here. 



At Walter Denlinger's carnations are 

 the specialty and his stock ranks with 

 the best the county produces. 



At Paradise, Ira H. Landis' houses 

 were visited. His carnations show evi- 

 dence of a heavy cut throughout the 

 winter. Enchantress Supreme, White 

 Wonder and Mrs. Ward lead in their 

 respective colors. Benora, Eureka and 

 Yellow Prince are all producing high 

 grade blooms. A wonderful crop of 

 freesias has just been gathered by Mr. 

 Landis, who is one of the largest im- 

 porters of the bulbs of this fragrant 

 little flower. A house of calendulas, 

 also, were worthy of note. 



Stopping next at the place of Charles 

 M. Weaver, we found his sweet pea 

 houses filled with blooms. Mr. Weaver 

 is the most extensive sweet pea grower 

 in the county. His houses of mignon- 

 ette and calendula are producing 

 blooms of the finest quality. At Elmer 

 J. Weaver's, adjoining the establish- 

 ment of his brother Charles, are houses 

 of carnations of which none finer have 

 been seen this season in Lancaster 

 county. His new white variety is be- 

 ing watched by all the local florists, 

 for it surely looks like a winner, and 

 we predict for it a great future. Mr. 

 Weaver annually plants acres to asters 

 and is now planting thousands in paper 

 bands. 



On the third Thursday of this month 

 the local club will be privileged to lis- 

 ten to an address by Charles H. Grake- 

 low, of Philadelphia, a man in the front 

 ranks of the florists' business today. 

 His subject will be "Are You Keadyt" 

 Every florist in the county is invited 

 to be present. H. K. E. 



PnMTJe Picl^ups^ 



Champaign, 111, — For an all-around 

 good red rose, Qus. Johnson thinks 

 there is nothing better than Eichmond. 



Peoria, HL — Having succeeded to the 

 business of the Eue Floral Co., the 

 name of the corporation has been 

 changed to Siebenthal & Nelson, Inc. 



Moline, ni.— The stock of H. C. 

 Klehm, at Twenty-sixth avenue and Six- 

 teenth street, was sold March 4 at a 

 sheriff's sale to satisfy a note held by 

 the Peoples Bank of Moline. The bank 

 bid in the property for a little less 

 than $500, and it will be sold out by 

 Mr. Klehm under an arrangement with 

 the bank. It is understood there are 

 a number of creditors in addition to 

 the bank. There will be no immediate 

 change in the management of the busi- 

 ness. Mr. Klehm 's lease runs for two 

 years more. 



Oklahoma City, Okla At the quar- 

 terly meeting of the Oklahoma Florists' 

 Association, at the Lee-Huckins hotel 

 March 1, a committee was appointed to 

 complete plans for the state flower show 

 to be held here in November. The com- 

 mittee will act under the direction of 

 President George Stiles and C. E. 

 Batten. It was at the same meeting de- 

 cided to protest to the commissioner of 

 public property in this city against the 

 reckless trimming of trees by city em- 

 ployees and property owners, which 

 amounted, it was said, to "tree butch- 

 ery." 



Clinton, HI. — Business at the new 

 store of Andrew Peterson has been 

 retarded as a result of the fixtures go- 

 ing to Clinton, la., by mistake. 



Florence, Kan. — J. H. Shaw & Son 

 have planted in lettuce the two houses, 

 each 22x90 feet, which they built last 

 fall. They now have 11,000 square feet 

 of glass. 



Oskaioosa, la. — The Kemble Floral 

 Co. has remodeled the building at 119 

 High avenue, east, and added a small 

 greenhouse over the rear part, on a 

 level with the second floor. The com- 

 pany will conduct a store here as a 

 downtown annex to the greenhouse 

 range on C avenue, east. 



Champaign, HI.— Thos. Franks & Son 

 are going 'to try out Mrs. Charles Eus- 

 sell rose at the large range on the 

 outskirts of town. At the greenhouses 

 at University avenue and Eandolph 

 street, two houses will be filled with 

 geraniums in 4-ineh pots when the 

 Easter stock is cleared out. Although 

 funeral work has kept all hands on the 

 jump for the last two weeks, collections 

 are vexingly slow. George B. Franks 

 is serving his fourth year in the city 

 council, "for the fun of it," but he 

 turned down the nomination and prob- 

 able election as mayor this spring. 

 Thomas Franks, now past his seventieth 

 year, has been confined to the house 

 with ill health since last fall, when he 

 spent some time in the hospital. 



