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The Florists' Review 



ApaiL 22, 1915. 



NEW YORK. 



Tlie Market. 



' As to the New York cut flower mar- 

 ket, as the boy said of the giraffe, 

 •'there ain't no such animal!" This 

 was literally true last week, and the 

 quantity of unsold flowers carted away 

 up to Saturday evening would have 

 supplied every retailer with enough 

 stock to run his business until May 1. 

 The street was yellow all the week with 

 southern daffodils, and the street vend- 

 ors have, with valley, violets and roses, 

 enjoyed a harvest. The shipments of 

 everything continue far above the mar- 

 ket's needs. , ^ , ,j * 

 American Beauties, selected, sold at 

 $10 to $15 per hundred Saturday, April 

 17. The average price on all roses is 

 low. There can be no reliable quota- 

 tions. "Get the best price you can, 

 but sell," seems to be the watchword. 

 Vast quantities of almost everything 

 were not sold at all. 



The supply of carnations is enormous. 

 From $1.50 down is the record, and 

 "going down" is the continued out- 

 look. Except for Ward, Matchless and 

 a few of this year's novelties, there is 



no call. . , ., , 



Sifty cents is top for orchids, and 

 that is for the best. The supply is 

 large and growing. Lilies at $2 per 

 hundred cover the counters and fill the 

 iceboxes. Thousands have been sold 

 at $1 per hundred, good flowers, too. 

 Valley is of poor quality generaUy. 

 ((Jardenias continue at last week's level. 

 Violets have said their au revoir. 

 Sweet peas are largely unsalable, ex- 

 cept the Spencers. Of spring flowers, 

 the flnest are lilac, pansies, stocks and 

 daisies, with a dozen of the commoner 

 kinds to complete the aggregation. 



VariouB Notes. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club, May 10, will have as its 

 principal attraction an illustrated lec- 

 ture on "Gardens and Flora of Japan 

 by E. H. Wilson. 



Henry R. Orawbuck, of Brooklyn, hM 

 opened a retail store at 265 South 

 Orange avenue, Newark, N. J. Mis 

 Brooklyn wholesale green goodfl busi- 

 ness has been purchased by Wm. 1*. 

 White and Geo. A. Orawbuck, son of 

 Geo. W. Orawbuck, manager of the 

 Greater New York Florists' Associa- 

 tion. Mr. White has been seven years 

 with this firm and eight years with 

 Hicks & Orawbuck. 



Nicholas Lecakes, of 102 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, has returned 

 from a business trip to Baltimore and 

 Washington. 



B. J. Irwin begins his regular spring 

 trip this week. 



J. J. Ooan, manager of the Growers 

 Out Flower Oo., and Mr. Van Riper, his 

 s«aesman, were severely bitten by a 

 prize bulldog last week, Mr. Ooan s in- 

 jury making a visit to the Pasteur In- 

 stitute necessary. 



J. K. Allen is now at home m his new 

 quarters, and is delighted with the 

 change. , ., . 



*fraendly & Schenck opened their 

 Bixth avenue headquarters Friday, 



April 16. ^ , A 



Mrs. Samuel Woodrow has returned 

 from the mountains much improved in 

 health. Mr. Woodrow is busy with 

 landscape work. ^ ^ „ * 



J. H. Troy, of New Rochelle, for- 

 merly with the Rosary Flower Oo., on 



East Thirty-fourth street, is now de- 

 ^ voting his entire time to his nursery 

 •business. 

 ' William Kessler sold over 40,000 

 lobgiflorum lilies Easter week. 



Herman Warendorff 's store on Broad- 

 way near Twenty-eighth street felt a 

 miniature earthquake last week when 

 the underpinning in the new subway 

 collapsed and the ysrhole section of that 

 part of Broadway sank several inches. 



0. H. Totty and "wife leave for the 

 west April 26, for a. month's stay at 

 the Panama-Paciflc ei^osition. 



Harry Riedel, one qi^New York's 

 200 bowlers, sprained his'aii^le at the 

 match with Tuxedo last. "week. The 

 return match will take placetnext week 

 at the New York club's all^. , 



A. F. E. Hugo, formerly ixT'^he em- 

 ploy of G. E. M. Stumpp and later 

 with J. 8. Nicholas, on Porty-se^nd 

 street, died last week at St. Joseph's 

 hospital. "' 



P. J. Smith will move next week into 

 the big store at 131 West Twenty- 

 eighth street, formerly occupied by 

 Traendly & Schenck. 



H. E. Froment is fast completing his 

 big store at 148 West Twenty-eighth 

 street. 



The New York Florists' Bowling 

 Club came home from Tuxedo last week 

 with a blot on its escutcheon. In other 

 words, the champions of the trade lost 

 by nearly fifty pins. 



The MacNiff Horticultural Co., last 

 week, had auction sales going on up- 

 stairs and downstairs at the same time. 



May 8 and 9 will be held the big 

 spring show of the New York Horticul- 

 tural Society, at Bronx park. ' 



Walter Mott was in the city Monday, 

 April 19, on his way to Long Island, 

 representing B. F. Hammond, of Bea- 

 con, N. Y. J. Austin Shaw. 



just opposite the new Hotel Statler, 

 makes that corner one of the most at- 

 tractive in the city. 



B. Schroeter, although his Easter 

 sale.8 were large, looked into the future, 

 and is now showing some fine pots of 

 daffodils, hyacinths, hydrangeas and 

 genistas. 



The Schroeter-Stahelin Oo. has been 

 kept extremely busy with funeral work 

 and a large wedding decoration. 



H. S. 



PITTSBXTBGH. 



Tbe Market. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Weather forecast for the week beginning 

 Wednesday, April 21, Issned by the U. S. Weath- 

 er Bureau, Washington, D. O., for the Great 

 Lakes region: Fair and moderately cool the 

 first half of the week; warm with some proba- 

 bility of unsettled weather and showers the 

 latter half. 



Business has been keeping up well 

 since Easter, and although there have 

 been large quantities of stock on the 

 market, it has been well cleaned up. 

 Right after Easter roses were almost a 

 drug, but the situation has eased up. 

 Some of the stores in the heart of the 

 shopping district were able to greatly 

 relieve the oversupply of sweet peas, 

 carnations and roses by holding special 

 sales. 



Bulbous stock is about cleaned up, 

 and the only things in this line avail- 

 able among the local wholesalers are 

 some single daffodils and a few single 

 red and double pink tulips. 



Irises and gladioli are next in line 

 and have already been seen at some of 

 the stores which have their own glass. 

 Just at present the stores are showing 

 little in plants, as not much is availa- 

 ble. Many of the stores show fine col- 

 lections of boxwood. 



Various Notes. 



The Michigan Cut Flower Exchange 

 has a fine lot of boxwood on hand. 



Carey, the Flowerman, recently added 

 a second delivery car to his equipment, 

 and apparently both cars are kept busy. 



John Breitmeyer's Sons' Park store. 



Western Pennsylvania is having fine 

 weather but needs rain. It is likely 

 outdoor bulbous stock will be sm'all if 

 it does not soon begin raining. 



General business conditions are im- 

 proving, especially along the line of 

 outdoor planting. The reports are that 

 there is more than twice the usual 

 amount of planting being done this 

 spring. Nurserymen and landscape peo- 

 ple say they were looking for a dull 

 season, but instead are being pushed to 

 the limit. 



There was a flood of flowers of all 

 kinds last week. They all cleaned up 

 by Saturday night, but it would not 

 sound well to tell the prices at which 

 much of the oversupply was sold. But 

 there are men in the business, although 

 perhaps none of them are growers, who 

 think it is good for the trade to occa- 

 sionally sell flowers cheap enough to let 

 everybody have some, believing they 

 will want more when they are not so 

 cheap. The indications are all good: 

 while the season is nearly over, it will 

 be some satisfaction to feel that the fall 

 trade will be better than last year. 



The retail stores are all busy and 

 those that handle seeds and do planting 

 are more than busy. T];iere are a num- 

 ber of weddings right along, which are 

 helping decidedly. There never was a 

 year when there were so many fine 

 blooming plants and the stores are full 

 of them. 



The wholesale houses handled more 

 roses and sweet peas last week than 

 ever before in their experience. Bean- 

 ties also have been fine and plentiful. 

 The wholesalers are so buoy and happy 

 they do not even kick about the low 

 prices they are selling the goods for. 



Various Notes. 



James Higgins has the sympathy of 

 his friends in the loss of his mother, 

 who died April 18 at her home in Phil- 

 adelphia. The funeral was held Tues- 

 day, April 20. Clarke. 



Dayton, O. — The Dayton Florists* 

 and Gardeners' Club met April 13, and 

 endorsed the move of Toledo florists to 

 have the state law modifled regarding 

 the employment of licensed engineers 

 for steam plants of more than 30-horse- 

 power. They desire the limitation of 

 30-horsepower raised. A committee con- 

 sisting of Horace M. Frank, Flory Mit- 

 man, E. E. Schaeffer, M. Anderson, 

 John H. Griscel, W. W. Horlacher, Mrs. 

 L. D. Johnson, W. G. Matthews and 

 G. L. Rogers was appointed to meet 

 with the G. D. A. committee on land- 

 scape gardening for a I conference. A 

 market committee was appointed, con- 

 sisting of E. W. Jenkins, George Frisch, 

 Al Kuntz, J. T. Derringer and Harry 

 Jergens. Ten new members were ad- 

 mitted. 



