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The Florists' Review 



April 29, 19ir». 



eclipse everything previously attempted 

 in flower shows in America, and 

 it goes without Saying that it will re- 

 sult beneficially to the trade at large. 

 It may be stated that at previous na- 

 tional shows the guarantors not only 

 were reimbursed to the extent of their 

 actual contributions, but received a 

 substantial share of the profits. 



"The committee also would esteem 

 donations of special prizes, the same 

 to be offered under the names of the 

 donors. If you should feel disposed to 

 favor us with the offer of a special 

 prize, kindly, if possible, select the 

 subject for your award from the pre- 

 liminary schedule, thus relieving our 

 obligations to the prize fund to the 

 extent of the value of your donation." 



USINOER'S UTTERANCES. 



Traugott Malbranc, of Johnstown, 

 Pa., is cutting a nice lot of roses and 

 carnations. 



•John Young, of Windber, is busy 

 with funeral work and getting his sum- 

 mer cottage ready. He says his lake 

 is well stocked with fish, and he ex- 

 pects to make some good catches. 



A. A. Whitbred, of Altoona, has 

 added a motor truck to his delivery 

 service. He is cutting early gladioli. 



L. S. Peterman, Altoona, is busy 

 with lawn work and a good business 

 in seeds. 



Mrs. William Blacker, of Clearfield, 

 has had a good run of funeral work. 

 They are cutting a nice lot of carna- 

 tions. 



G. G. Parker, of Philipsburg, is busy 

 with his seed trade, of which he does 

 most on a wholesale basis. 



H. W. Girton, of the Mountain Park 

 Greenhouses, is showing the people of 

 Ridgway what the proper use of good 

 seeds will do to besutify the town, by 

 extensive advertising in local papers. 



The St. Marys Greenhouse Co., at 

 St. Marys, is rushed with orders for 

 spring planting of shrubbery and 

 lawns and a good seed trade. 



W. T. U. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



The market is in the same general 

 condition as at the last writing. Stock 

 is in oversupply, while the demand is 

 able to take up only a part of the 

 receipts. Prices are low. Shipping 

 business is pretty fair. 



Roses and carnations are both still 

 in heavy supply. Lilies and callas are 

 plentiful. The sweet pea cut is large, 

 but the average quality has deterio- 

 rated on account of the hot weather. 

 Snapdragons hardly sell at all. Both 

 valley and orchids are in large and 

 a<lequate supply. Outdoor valley and 

 lilacs are arriving. Outdoor Narcissus 

 poeticus has come in, but the indica- 

 tions are that the season for it will be 

 short. 



Green sheet moss, wire baskets and 

 ferns are enjoying a good call. 



Various Notes. 



Geo. Klotter, of Pine Hill, has been 

 sending large quantities of Narcissus 

 poeticus to it. H. Kyrk. 



C. E. Critchell reports that this 

 year's demand for green sheet moss 

 and wire baskets has been the largest 

 he has ever had. 



Visitors include Frank Farnev, of 

 the M. Rice Co., Philadelphia; O. D. 



Bramman, representing the Johnston 

 Tinfoil Co., St. Louis; W. W. Stable- 

 ton, Manchester, O.; Emil and Chas. 

 Uhl, Greenfield, O., and Miss Emma 

 Constable, Blanchester, O. 



C. H. H. 



MOTT^Y MUSINGS. 



J. Gammage & Sons, London, Ont., 

 find that while the wholesale trade has 

 shown a considerable falling off, the 

 increase in the retail department has 

 almost compensated for it. They made 

 a specialty of baskets of plants for 

 Easter. The baskets were of their own 

 make and found a ready sale. 



Colin Ogston, of the Kimball con- 

 servatories, Rochester, N. Y., is favor- 

 ably impressed with Carnation Phila- 

 delphia and finds that if it is kept on 

 the dry side the yield is considerably 

 increased. 



R. H. McKerr, Canandaigua, N. Y., 

 followed chrysanthemums with rad- 

 ishes and these, in turn, with sweet 

 peas for Memorial day, with -pansies 

 between the rows. One house of sweet 

 peas, at its best at Easter, is being 

 planted with early tomatoes, which 

 will be through before the outdoor 

 crop is in. Every crop has yielded ex- 

 cellent returns. 



Edward H. Sick, Canandaigua, re- 



ports highly satisfactory business, with 

 a good stock for the planting season. 



W. & T. Cass, Geneva, N. Y., found 

 their entire lowering stock cleaned up 

 at Easter. They have a fine lot of 

 ferns for the spring box trade; these 

 are popular for use on the north side 

 of dwellings, where geraniums will 

 not bloom. The junior member of the 

 firm is recuperating after an intern- 

 ment of several weeks in the hospital, 

 where an operation of a serious char- 

 acter was successfully performed. 



The Thomas Mansfield Estate, Lock- 

 port, N. Y., rep'orts business about 

 normal and is preparing to share in 

 the general improvement by working 

 up a good, salable stock. 



Glen Brundage, Endicott, N. Y., is 

 one of the latest additions to the craft 

 and bids fair to build up a good busi- 

 ness in this modern, busy town, which 

 boasts of improvements in the shape 

 of playgrounds and model gardens for 

 the young, furnished by the mill own- 

 ers and highly appreciated by the 

 workers. 



Alfred Patrick, Auburn, N. Y., says 

 his two Best sellers in baby ramblers 

 are Ellen Poulsen, which requires less 

 fire heat and carries its bloom the 

 longest of any, and Orleans, a grand 

 variety, with immense trusses of bril- 

 liant color. W. M. 



NOTES FROM FOREIGN I^NRS 



Ghent, Belgliun. — Van Houtte has 

 notified customers that for the present 

 it is quite impossible to deliver any- 

 thing, the Germans monopolizing all 

 means of transportation. 



Paris, France. — At the recent meet- 

 ing of the Societe Nationale d 'Horti- 

 culture de France, Vilmorin-Andrieux 

 & Co. showed a new hybrid cineraria 

 with large sky-blue flowers. 



Berlin, Germany. — In line with the 

 present practice of planting vegeta- 

 bles in all possible places, the Berliner 

 Tageblatt suggests that the flowers in 

 window and veranda boxes be re- 

 })lace<l by them. Considering the large 

 use of these boxes in German cities, 

 such a course, if followed, would no 

 doubt add to the food supply. 



Ghent, Belgium. — The spring work 

 has progressed thus far much better 

 than was to have been expected. There 

 has been more home help than the dis- 

 turbed conditions would indicate and 

 the Germans have lent a hand on ag- 

 ricultural operations after such a fash- 

 ion that they expect to profit by the 

 harvest. 



Genoa, Italy. — Not only have the flow- 

 er growers of the Riviera lost money 

 since the beginning of the present war, 

 on account of the loss of the northern 

 markets, but the sale of nursery stock, 

 particularly of ornamentals, has shrunk 

 sharply also. Florists in Italy have 

 been unable to get azaleas and rhodo- 

 dendrons from Belgium. Those that 

 came clear around the continent by sea 

 were greatly delayed and in bad shape 

 when thev arrived. 



Lisse, Holland. — Reports from the 

 bulb district indicate that there is an 

 extremely large surplus of gladiolus 

 bulbs. 



Aalsmeer, Holland. — In spite of dis- 

 turbed conditions, cut flowers from this 

 section are obtaining satisfactory prices 

 in the Holland markets. 



West Bromwich, England. — Joseph 

 De Laet, son of Frantz De Laet, of 

 Contich, Belgium, has been staying here 

 for some time and has word from 

 home that the reported destructibn of 

 his father's nursery is exaggerated. 

 Only three or four of the eighteen 

 greenhouses were destroyed, he says. 



Paris, France. — Jean, the younger 

 brother of Philippe de Vilmorin, head 

 of the widely known firm, Vilmorin- 

 Andrieux et Cie, has returned home, 

 having been exchanged after five 

 months' imprisonment in Germany. He 

 was captured after having suffered four 

 wounds at Peronne, September 24. All 

 the male members of the Vilmorin fam- 

 ily are fighting for France. 



Utrecht, Holland. — During the recent 

 general assembly here of the Nether- 

 lands Horticultural Council, it was de- 

 cided to get in touch with the horti- 

 cultural associations of the various 

 countries of Europe and endeavor to 

 persuade them not to carry out their 

 plans of changing the names of plants 

 and flowers that related to hostile coun- 

 tries and to avoid conferring on new 

 varieties names that will recall the 

 events of the war and so make diflS- 

 culty for the general diffusion of such 

 varieties. 



