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APRIL 8, 1915. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



superintendent of the city parks. He 

 has been head gardener on the Fisk 

 estate for 28 years. W. H. M. 



NEWARK, N. J. 



The Market. 



What had started out to be a good 

 Easter trade received a sudden check 

 by a blizzard which began early Sat- ' 

 urday morning, April 3, and raged all 

 day with great fury. Many flowers and 

 plants were sold earlier in the week, 

 an<l Friday, April 2, there was a rush 

 of orders. The biggest sale of the 

 week was expected for Saturday, and 

 although many people gave their orders 

 despite the storm, local florists un- 

 doubtedly lost thousands of dollars' 

 worth of business. Flowers were plenti- 

 ful and of good quality, while prices 

 were medium. There were large quanti- 

 ties of carnations and sweet peas. 

 Giganteums were of good quality and 

 prices reasonable. Many varieties of 

 azaleas of excellent quality were on the 

 market at slightly lower prices than 

 last year, ranging in price from $2 or 

 $3 to $10 per plant. Snapdragons in 

 pots, about a dozen spikes to the pot, 

 were a novelty. They sold for about 

 $2 a pot. Acacia was rather scarce, 

 but the quality was good. Orchids 

 were somewhat higher than last year, 

 and sold from 50 cents to $1 a bloom. 

 Plants as well as cut orchids were on 

 sale. Roses were fine and brought good 

 prices. Hiawatha and Tausendsohoii 

 were in good demand. Beautiful Pink 

 Pearl rhododendrons. sold at from $3 to 

 $6 each. Marguerites, daffodils, nar- 

 cissi, tulips, hyacinths, valley and 

 spirfeas were among the other ready 

 sellers. 



Various Notes. 



The storm made delivery difficult. 

 Thousands of dollars' worth of plants 

 had been packed Friday night ready 

 for delivery Saturday morning. .The 

 snow so impeded traffic as to cause 

 much lost time in deliveries, just at a 

 time when every minute counted. 



Philips Bros, had some choice bougain- 

 villeas at from $2 to $12 each, being 

 the only florists in Newark to make 

 this a specialty. 



George Muller, 25 Clinton avenue, is 

 a member of the grand jury for the 

 April term of the Essex county courts. 



P. Penek, 6 Academy street, reports 

 that, notwithstanding a general slack- 

 ness in business conditions generally, 

 the Easter trade, before it was cheeked 

 by the storm, was considerably better 

 with him than it was a year ago. 



Fred P. Wolfinger, 883 Broad street, 

 had a beautiful window display of 

 large-sized hampers filled with various 

 Easter plants. 



One of the windows of H. C. Strobell 

 & Co. was filled with small baskets of 

 Easter flowers and plants, while the 

 other held potted flowers, Farlevense 

 ferns, etc. 



One of the most beautiful of the 

 Easter displavs was that at A. Bege- 

 row's, 946 Broad street. The window 

 represented a flower garden, and could 

 be viewed either from the street or the 

 entrance. Standinor at the front, one 

 saw at the left a brick wall, over the 

 top of which appeared some lilacs and 

 oyer which trailed vines of different 

 kinds. Directly opposite the beholder 

 was a white fence with swinging gate. 

 From this gate to the center of the 

 garden was a brick walk, which formed 



a lar^e circle in the center and sur- 

 rounded a fountain and pool. In the 

 water goldfish were swimming, and in 

 ths moss immediately about the foun- 

 tain nestled some small water birds. 

 The ground was of moss, in which were 

 plants of nia'iy kinds, so arranged that 

 they seemed to be growing from the 

 ground. In beds along the walks were 

 flowering mimulus and beds of azaleas 

 and oti'pr seasonable plants. In the 

 corner where the white fence and brick 

 wall joined was a clump of purple lilacs. 



Many of the baskets used by Henry 

 Leahy, 1169 East Jersey street, Eliza- 

 beth, N. J., for Easter were made by a 

 blind man^ A. N. Munro, of 69 West 

 Grand street, the same city. Mr. Munro 

 lost his sight about six years ago and 

 makes baskets to support himself and 

 his wife. 



Mrs. A. R. Johnson had a fine assort- 

 ment of flowers in her Easter flower 

 shop at 51 Broad street, Elizabeth, N. J. 

 Before her marriage Mrs. Johnson was 

 a florist and now carries on the busi- 

 ness for the two weeks immediately pre- 

 ceding Easter and Christmas. 



R. B. M. 



HARTFORD, CONN, 



ery outfit, now having four heavy trucks 

 and two light ones. 



Robert Karlstrcm, who was city for- 

 ester here about ten years ago, will take 

 charge of the landscape work for A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., April 15. Since leaving 

 here, Mr. Karlstrom has been with 

 W. A. Manda, of South Orange, N. J. 



The Connecticut Horticultural Society 

 held ladies' and rose night March 26. 

 President Mason made an attractive 

 display of roses. Alfred Cebelius ex- 

 hibited Cineraria stellata, which were 

 much admired for their size and beauty. 

 Louis Chauvy exhibited four splendid 

 specimens of amaryllis. For the bene- 

 fit of amateurs, Mr. Mason and Mr. Hol- 

 lister gave a demonstration of pruning. 

 R. C. S. 



NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 



The Market. 



The Market. 



Easter business showed an increase 

 over last year at the majority of the 

 stores. With several weeks of almost 

 continuous sunshine previous to Easter, 

 a large supply of flowering plants and 

 cut flowers of good quality was on hand. 



Various Notes. 



John Coombs has sold the property on 

 which his lairge carnation house stands, 

 to the school board. The price is said 

 to have been $40,000. 



George G. McClunie's new store, at 

 165 Main street, is one of the most at- 

 tractive in the city. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., of Cromwell, is 

 highly pleased with the firm's results 

 at the spring shows. At New York 

 this concern won twenty-two firsts and 

 four seconds on twenty-eight entries. 

 At Boston it made nine entries and won 

 six firsts and two seconds. This firm 

 has added two more trucks to the deliv- 



Easter prices and business were good. 

 Lilies were plentiful and retailed as low 

 as 15 cents per bloom. Bulbous stock 

 of all kinds sold well. Azaleas brought 

 $1 to $3; genistas, 35 cents to $1; cin- 

 erarias, 35 cents, and pans of tulips, 

 hyacinths and narcissi from 35 cents up. 



Various Notes. 



Julius the Florist advertised the larg- 

 est and best display in the city for 

 Easter. .,.i . 



Fred Reynolds opened a temporary 

 store on the corner of Williams and 

 Pleasant streets, for the Easter trade. 



Joseph V. Peirce had a window in 

 Lawton 's drug . store, on Purchase 

 street, for an Easter display. 



Post & Gray handled Easter flowers 

 and plants in the department store of 

 the iStieger-Dudgeon Co. They filled 

 the whole rear of the building on the 

 ground floor and report the business as 

 far above their expectations. 



Ernest Chamberlain, on Sixth street, 

 had some of the best azaleas in the city. 

 He did a good Easter business. 



William E. Mosher, of Hillman street, 

 is supplying the local trade with some 

 of the best double Von Sions that have 

 been seen here in a long time. 



W. M. P. 



NOTES FROM FOREIGN I^NDS 



THE SITUATION AT BOSKOOP. 



The state of affairs at Boskoop, the 

 center of the nursery industry in Hol- 

 land, is summed up in the following, 

 translated from a recent issue of a Euro- 

 pean horticultural journal: 



"The declaration of war caused a 

 panic at the center of the Holland nurs- 

 ery industry, the prosperity of which 

 depends on the sale of ornamental 

 plants. However, the clouds soon dis- 

 appeared, and business became nearly 

 normal, most of the growers agreeing in 

 fixing minimum prices. The working 

 force was not reduced, and wages were 

 maintained. Without doubt, commerce 

 with the belligerent nations has been 



diminished by the war, but, on the other 

 hand, trade with neutral countries has 

 been most satisfactory. The exports to 

 America in particular have not suffered 

 at all, thanks to the regular service of 

 the Holland-America line. The big 

 growers insist emphatically that Bos- 

 koop abstain from any manifestations 

 which may indicate a preference for one 

 or another of the belligerents. The con- 

 dition of the nurserymen at Boskoop 

 has been quite prosperous during the 

 last few years. The question arises, 

 however, whether this may not result 

 in an overproduction, particularly as 

 their products are luxuries, the demand 

 for which may be greatly limited by a 

 crisis such as the present one." 



