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The Florists' Review 



Apbil 15, 1915. 



NEW YORK, -i 



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The Market. 



Just as predicted, all of last week 

 was necessary to normalize the cut 

 flower market after the severe expe- 

 riences of the Saturday preceding 

 Easter. The damage to the retail and 

 wholesale florists and to the growers 

 of cut flowers by the blizzard is far 

 greater than the early estimates. Last 

 week prices continued to fall and ship- 

 ments to increase. Saturday, April 10, 

 was like a day in June, and despite the 

 abnormally low quotations, every whole- 

 saler had enough left over to supply 

 any possible demand for a week to 

 come. There seems to be no stable 

 bottom to anything. 



American Beauty specials were down 

 to $10 per hundred and under Satur- 

 day. That tells the whole rose story. 

 "Straight slips," they say, were down 

 to $5 per thousand. The supply of 

 everything has passed any present pos- 

 sible demand. Of course, this does not 

 apply to the few real and worthy nov- 

 elties and the Brunners. These find a 

 ready market always. 



Carnations have followed the roses. 

 On Saturday they fell to $10 and even 

 $5 per thousand. Even the special 

 blooms of the new kinds and the prize- 

 winners did not sell above $2 per hun- 

 dred. 



Orchids fell to $50 per hundred for 

 the finest cattleyas, and the scarcity is 

 over. Within ten days the market will 

 be oversupplied. Gardenias are down 

 to $1 per dozen for the best long- 

 stemmed, and $5 per hundred for excel- 

 lent flowers. 



Lilies are the puzzle of the Easter 

 market. I saw fine stock on Saturday 

 selling at 1 cent each, and the selected 

 and long-stemmed stock seldom rose 

 above $3 per hundred. Valley, too, was 

 weak, with 50 cents per hundred bot- 

 tom, and only the choicest touched $2 

 per hundred. 



The spring and bulbous flowers are 

 all here, and there is an unlimited sup- 

 ply of daffodils, which sell, in boxes 

 of 800 flowers, at $1, 75 cents and even, 

 they tell me, 50 cents a box. 



Acacia is done, and another week 

 will end the violets. Of Darwin tulips 

 and orchid-flowering sweet peas there 

 is no end. 



Club Meeting. 



An attendance of over 100 enjoyed 

 the meeting of the Florists' Club April 

 12. President Bunyard was in the chair. 

 Leonard Barron reported for the essay 

 committee, with many interesting meet- 

 ings assured during the balance of the 

 year, but his suggestion that the club 

 should have its own stereopticon, put 

 into a motion by J. H. Pepper, was 

 voted down. Chairman Schenck reported 

 on the club's annual banquet, showing 

 a deficit of $172,86, which was ordered 

 paid from the club's general fund. The 

 attendance at the banquet was 220. The 

 music cost $100. Chairman Armitage, 

 for the outing committee, reported 

 progress for the excursion July 14 and 

 requested the usual contributions for 

 prizes. C. B. Weathered reported for 

 the room committee at the flower show 

 and the expenditure of over the $200 

 voted in its, behalf, the final report to 

 be made at the next meeting. 



F. H. Traendly read a detailed state- 

 ment of the receipts and expenses of 

 the spring flower show, showing total 



receipts of $33,237.50 and a balance 

 after all expenses of over $4,000. Mr. 

 Ebel reported progress for his affilia- 

 tion commjJ;tee. T. B. De Forest re- 

 ported for the transportation com- 

 mittee. The majority favor the trip to 

 San Francisco on the Canadian Pacific, 

 via Chicago and Vancouver, with the 

 return through San Diego, Yellowstone 

 and Denver. The cost of such a trip, 

 covering twenty-eight days, will be 

 about $220. It was stated sixteen have 

 already arranged for the trip and at 

 least thirty-five are expected, ensuring 

 the use of two special cars. 



A communication from W. H. Sie- 

 brecht, Jr., secretary "of the Plant Grow- 

 ers' Association, was read, requesting 

 the club's. cooperation in requiring for- 

 eign houses to make prices f . o. b. New 

 York. This was referred to the legis- 

 lative committee. ,«> 



Annotf^eements of the deaths of Mrs. 

 Nugent,^Er. Niquet, Mr. Rodt and Miss 

 Gunther Were made and committees ap^ 

 pointed to draw up resolutions of sym- 

 pathy for the bereaved. Messrs. Gutt- 

 man, Duggan, Sheridan, Donaldson, 

 Chev^ley, Pepper, Schloss, Schenck, A. 

 T. Bunyard and J. A. Shaw were 

 named. 



G. W. Cobb, W. F. Leary, S. A. Wood- 

 row, L. T. Rodman and Peter Wenk 

 were elected to membership and George 

 Stillman, Louis A. Noe, Robert G. Cald- 

 well and John Everitt were proposed. 



Some beautiful exhibits were staged. 

 W. A. Manda received an award of 

 merit for his laelio-cattleya hybrids. 

 Lager & Hurrell were highly commend- 

 ed for six vases of orchids. S. G. Mi- 

 losy, gardener for George Schlegel, 

 Brooklyn, received a certificate of merit 

 for an oncidium and L. Straus, also 

 of Brooklyn, a certificate for his den- 

 drobium. H. Mamitch, of Englewood, 

 N. J., received the thanks of the club 

 for a splendid vase of sweet peas. 



Robert Pyle's lecture on roses was 

 a gem and his stereopticon views were 

 superb. His address covered his trav- 

 els, not only in America, but Ireland, 

 France, Germany and England, and the 

 club gave a rising vote of thanks. 



The committee announced that the 

 May meeting will be devoted to bed- 

 ding plants, the arrangements in charge 

 of John Birnie. 



Various Notes. 



There is to be another child of the 

 S. A. F. born May 10. Its name will 

 be the National Dahlia Society, and R. 

 Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, Md., is 

 its father. The meeting of those in- 

 terested will take place May 10 at the 

 Hotel Earlington, 55 West Twenty- 

 seventh street. In addition to Mr. Vin- 

 cent, the following are interested: W. 

 W. Wilmore, of Denver, Colo.; J. K. 

 Alexander, of East Bridgewater, Mass.; 

 Geo. H. Walker, of North Dighton, 

 Mass.; Hugo Kind, of Hammonton, N. 

 J.; C. Betscher, .of Canal Dover, O.; 

 Geo. W. Kerr, of W. Atlee Burpee & Co., 

 and J. D. Eisele, of Henry A. Dreer, 

 Inc., Philadelphia; John Lewis Childs, 

 of Flowerfield, N. Y., and Thomas W. 

 Head, Bergenfield, N. J. 



H. A. Siebrecht will return in a few 

 days from his two months' trip to San 

 Francisco, where he has had a large 

 force beautifying the grounds around 

 the New York State building and 

 others on the exposition grounds. The 

 combined orders for all these plantings 

 are said to total nearly $75,000. 



Another nursery enterprise has been 



established at Great Neck, L. I., called 

 the Nassau Nurseries, the incorporators 

 being D. J. Wagner, C. M. Ludder and 

 P. M. Polietrean. 



At the auctions of the MacNifiE 

 Horticultural Co., Tuesdays and Fri- 

 days, the large attendance of ladies is 

 remarked, over fifty, many of them 

 buyers, being there April 9. Large 

 quantities of hardy roses, evergreens 

 and gladiolus bulbs are being disposed 

 of at satisfactory prices. 



H. A. Bunyard says business is far 

 ahead of even his sanguine expecta- 

 tions. His handsome new store is com- 

 plete and thoroughly up-to-date. 



J. K. Allen, P. J. Smith, H. A. Fro- 

 ment and Traendly & Schenck make up 

 a quartet who will be moving and 

 settling this week and next, in new 

 stores, the move in each case being, to 

 larger and better quarters, a cheeriful 

 sign of optimism that should make 

 their growers happy. 



The direcrirs of the Growers' Cut 

 Flower Co. met April 10 at their office, 

 129 West Twenty-eighth street, Presi- 

 dent Weston in the chair. 



The flower show in the Bronx May 8 

 and 9, after the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's two months 'jest, will doubtless 

 be well worth seeing. 



S. Suzuki, of the Yokohama Nursery 

 Co., after making all arrangement? for 

 his trip to Europe last week on the 

 Lusitania, decided to stay here for a 

 while. 



W. E. Tricker, of Western Springs, 

 111., was a recent visitor. 



Professor Whetzel, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, lectured Monday, April 12, be- 

 fore the Brooklyn Botanical Garden 

 Society, and Tuesday, April 13, before 

 the Plant Growers' Association. 



Charles H. Totjty has been appointed 

 a; member of the international board 

 of jurors at the Panama-Pacific exposi- 

 tion. Mr. Totty will leave for San 

 Francisco April 26 and will return 

 East about June 1. 



Fred H. Dressel, Jr., of Weehawken, 

 N. J., has purchased the retail store 

 of E. Bonnot, 188 Newark avenue, 

 Jersey City. Mr. Dressel won three 

 prizes on his hydrangea exhibits at the 

 international flower show. 



Traendly & Schenck will move Fri- 

 day, April 16, to their new store, at 436 

 Sixth avenue, near Twenty-Sixth street. 

 The firm will celebrate the attainment 

 of its majority Saturday, April 17, hav- 

 ing been in business on Twenty-eighth 

 street for twenty-one years and there- 

 by holding the record for longevity. 



The essay committee of the New 

 York Florists' Club held a meeting at 

 the office of President Bunyard Wednes- 

 day, April 7, and completed arrange- 

 ments for the entertainment of the 

 club's members during the remainder 

 of the year. 



In the obituary column this week 

 appear notices of the deaths of John 

 Niquet, eldest son of Frank Niquet, of 

 Patchogue, L. I., and Simon Rodh, the 

 ribbon merchant, of 40 West Twenty- 

 eighth street. 



Bowling. 



At their gathering April 8, the mem- 

 bers of the New York Florists' Bowl- 

 ing Club made the following scores: 



Player. Ist 2d 3d T'l. 



W. P. Ford 152 164 151 467 



H. C. Rledel 191 211 168 670 



P. JacobBon 152 169 156 477 



K. J. Irwin 154 188 152 494 



A. J. Guttman 218 168 182 668 



J. Austin Shaw. 



