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APRIL 29, 1913. 



The Florists' Revkw 



23 



Hampton, Tenn. — Fire has burned 

 nearly everything on the mountain and 

 there will not be much in the way of 

 evergreens shipped out of this town 

 until autumn. 



Brazil, Ind. — The greenhouse of 

 Joseph Stevenard, three miles north of 

 the city, was destroyed by fire at mid- 

 night April 14. The blaze was caused 

 by defective heating apparatus and 

 most of the stock was lost with the 

 building. 



Oalena, HI. — While fumigating, dur- 

 ing the evening of April 24, some paper 

 and waste in one of B. F. Vander- 

 vate's greenhouses caught fire and dam- 

 age estimated at $1,500 had been done 

 before the flames were extinguished. 

 The loss was principally on stock. 



Freeport, HI. — Fire destroyed a stor- 

 age house at the greenhouse property 

 of John Bauscher, Jr., April 14, caus- 

 ing a loss of about $2,000. It is 

 thought the insurance will cover it. 

 The building contained machinery, 

 pots, designs, etc., all of which were 

 destroyed. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The patient gave no evidence of con- 

 valescence until last week was nearly 

 over. Saturday, Ai)ril 24, there was 

 hope of recovery. It seemed all the 

 week as if the bottom had dropped out 

 of the market. Every variety of cut 

 flowers shared in the depression. Valley 

 and smilax showed the only strength. 

 Just that you may realize the condi- 

 tions, let me say one sale of 17,000 

 roses was made to a speculator for $20. 



Shipments of everything continued 

 beyond any possible demand. One 

 wholesaler received over 30,000 roses, 

 Saturday, April 24. There is a suf- 

 ficiency of all the new varieties and a 

 tremendous flood of Killarney. Few 

 American Beauties brought over $10 

 per hundred. A few selects sold at 

 .$12 and even $15, but most of them 

 sold at $8 and under. The lower grades 

 of all roses sold at 50 cents per hun- 

 <lred and even less, in quantity. 



Carnations, the best in the 'market, 

 could be bought April 24 for $1 per 

 hundred. There were thousands of 

 them, and on the inferior and common 

 grades 50 cents down even to 25 cents 

 per hundred was the general quotation. 

 The street merchants continue to reap 

 a harvest. 



Orchids have fallen from their high 

 estate, of $1 each, two or three weeks 

 ago, to 35 cents for the best of the 

 cattleyas. There are plenty of them 

 and also of lilies, the latter still seldom 

 rising above $2 to $3 per hundred. 

 <-allas are plentiful, and the large flow- 

 ^^ ^^L ^^^ ^^ above 75 cents per dozen. 

 Ihe best gardenias mav be had at $10 

 per hundred. The poorer grades go to 

 *"^ street, at prices unmentionable. 



The April weddings are many. These 

 may account for the rise in valley, 

 some fine stock even touching $3 and 

 $4 per hundred. 



Some excellent tulips are to be found 

 among the spring oflPerings. Spanish 

 ins IS increasing daily, and southern 

 lilac in great plentv has taken the 



The alarm clock went off at 

 four o'clock in the morning. 



"I fooled you that toime," 

 said Mike with a grin, "for 

 I wasn't aslape at all." 



The florist fools himself who 

 thinks there is any way of 

 selling goods in the trade 

 more effective than adver- 

 tising in The Review. Also, 

 it's the most inexpensive way 

 in proportion to results. 



"We are completely sold out and have 

 bad to send money back. The Review 

 Is, without doubt, the best advertising 

 medium in the trade."— J. C. Rknni- 

 soN Co., Sioux City. la. 



Review readers are not 

 asleep. Note this: 



"Please tell us confidentially what you 



think of . Why doesn't be 



advertise in The Review if he is O. 

 K.?"— Miller Floral Co., Farming- 

 ton, Utah. 



The alarm clock rings in The 

 Review office at 4 o'clock (p.m., 

 not a. m.) every Tuesday. It is 

 to let everybody know adver- 

 tising forms close for that 

 week's issue in just sixty 

 minutes. 



place of the southern daffodils, the 

 latter having had a disastrous season, 

 not paying the cost of transportation. 

 There is a good supply of stocks, 

 pansies, mignonette, sweet peas, wall- 

 flowers and the last of the violets. 



Various Notes. 



11. A. Siebrecht has returned from 

 San Francisco. 



G. E. M. Stumpp, instead of at New- 

 port, will open a branch retail store at 

 the fashionable Long Island society re- 

 sort, Southampton. 



May 1 there will be a meeting of the 

 stockholders of the New York Cut 

 Flower Exchange at the Coogan build- 

 ing. 



Sunday, May 9, will be Mothers' day, 

 but April 25 was also a Mothers' day 

 in Paterson, N. J., where Billy Snnday 

 is having "a terrible fight with the 



devil," so he says. One of the Pater- 

 son florists bought 25,000 carnations in 

 anticipation of the day. 



At the eighty-ninth anniversary of 

 the Old Guard of the City of New York, 

 April 22, at St. Thomas' church, among 

 the old soldiers at the memorial service 

 was L. Kervan, Sr., of the Kervan Co. 



H. E. Froment celebrated his advent 

 in new quarters Saturday, April 24, by 

 disposing of nearly 40,000 roses. 



The MacNiff Horticultural Co. is hav- 

 ing a remarkable auction season. The 

 big stores are crowded every Tuesday 

 and Friday. 



David Clarke's Sons announce that 

 hereafter no orders for cut flowers or 

 plants will be taken for Sunday de- 

 livery. 



The Greek florists' outing will take 

 place at Wetzel's Grove, College Point, 

 Wednesday, July 7, two weeks before 

 the annual outing of the New York 

 Florists' Club. 



L. Dupuy, of Whitestone, is in 

 Europe on a business trip. 



Bowling. 



The return match between the New 

 York and Tuxedo florists was bowled 

 at Thumm's alleys, New York, Thurs- 

 day evening, April 22. Each club has 

 a match to its credit. The decisive 

 contest will take place early in May, 

 probably at Tuxedo. 



After the evening's bowling the New 

 York Club entertained its opponents 

 and guests at supper. 



The scores follow: 



TUXKDO. 



riajer 1st - 2il ."id Total 



Cooley 177 121 161 450 



Barth Ill 167 119 397 



Tanscy Vl?, 128 114 37.1 



Miirinv 142 17.'> 143 460 



Bentloy 152 131 148 431 



Davidson Ill 1(19 100 380 



Total S2(! 831 845 2,502 



NKW YORK. 



Player 1st 2(1 3(1 Total 



Ford 1 tU 1 79 145 4SS 



Soott 107 10)2 170 4.39 



Kiodcl 165 17(> 144 449 



FViirich 14r, 160 132 438 



Miost'iii 150 124 1»W 442 



.iHcolisdii 140 126 110 376 



Totiil K72 921 839 2.632 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



Business has remained practically un- 

 changed since last report. There is 

 still a plentiful supply of cut stock, 

 which must be sold at low prices to 

 be moved. The retailers are doing only 

 an average business, a large proportion 

 of which is funeral work. The street 

 fakers continue to handle large lots of 

 cut flowers, mostly roses and carnations, 

 which are sold to the public at prices 

 far below their actual value. The 

 weather has been extremely warm dur- 

 ing the week. On Sunday, April 25, 

 the thermometer registered 99 degrees 

 in the shade. It is possible that during 

 the next week the supply will be some- 

 what lighter, as many growers are 

 gradually going off crop, most of them 

 having cut heavily since Easter. The 

 wholesale stores were able to clean up 

 on Saturday, except on lilies, which 

 were immovable at any price, but sacri- 

 fice prices were in order. 



Club Meeting. 



The meeting of the club, April 26, 

 was well attended in spite of the un- 

 usually hot weather. Edward Kress 

 was the speaker of the evening and 



