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Mat 13. 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



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The Market. ^' 

 Business the first half of last week 

 •vras slow, but it began to brighten up 

 Thursday, May 6, and_ increased to a 

 good trade Saturday^^ay 8. The huge 

 glut of carnations which we had the 

 week before did not last long; last 

 week there waS a decided falling off in 

 supply and by Mothers' day prices were 

 considerably advanced. The supply 

 was none too larg« for the extra de- 

 mand. The quality was good through- 

 out. 



The demand for roses has not been 

 up to the standard, counter trade hav- 

 ing ^fallen off considerably. There has 

 been little funeral work, and some stock 

 has begun to hang. The supply of jon- 

 quils is fair and they sell well. Out- 

 door stock, such as tulips and poeticus 

 narcissi, does not sell readily. Sweet 

 peas are improving during the cooler 

 weather and sell wfU. Snapdragons 

 meet with ready sale. Easter lilies are 

 not so plentiful, nor is their quality so 

 good as usual. Valley is of good qual- 

 ity, but does not sell briskly. The de- 

 mand for orchids is slim. Daisies, for- 

 get-me-nots and baby's breath are used 

 in basket work. 



Various Notes. 



The Eochester Floral Co. had an at- 

 tractive window display last week. It 

 was a large bed of myosotis, with a 

 center arrangement of pink snap- 

 dragons. Small colonial bouquets, a 

 dozen or more in number, were placed 

 in the corners of the window. Large 

 Dorothy Perkins ramblers were in the 

 background. 



William Gallentyne, of Greece, N. Y., 

 is kept so busy this spring making large 

 daily shipments of cut flowers that he 

 is not growing any bedding stock. 



Jacob Thomann & Sons report quite 

 satisfactory business for the time of 

 year. Their bedding stock is selling 

 well, although it is early yet. 



Visitors last week were Saul M. Ros- 

 enfeld, of Wertheimer Bros., New 

 York; R. De Jonge, of Schortinghuis & 

 De Jonge, Boskoop, Holland; R. Greup, 

 of Ottolander & Hooftman, Boskoop, 

 Holland, and J. T. Stiles, representing 

 Wm. B. Lake, Philadelphia. 



Congratulations are due Mr. and Mrs. 

 Douglas M. White on the birth of a 

 baby girl, Wednesday, May 5. Both 

 Mrs. White and baby are doing finely. 



Arthur W. Elder has started on a 

 business trip in western Pennsylvania. 



Wm. Peartree, of Geo. T. Boucher, 

 has been on the sick-list for about three 

 weeks with a bad knee and is not yet 

 able to leave his home. 



Harry E. Bates, of Lord & Bumham 

 Co., left Tuesday, May 11, for western 

 Virginia for one to two weeks on a 

 business trip. 



The Rochester Florists' Association is 

 receiving a large amount of publicity 

 from the local newspapers. A large ad- 

 vertisement for Mothers' day by the 

 association brought good returns. 



J. B. Keller Sons had an attractive 

 window decoration May 8. A figure 

 representing an elderly lady with gray 

 hair stood in the window, with a bou- 

 quet of carnations at her ^ide, from 

 which she was selecting a bloom. A 

 simple card, "Mothers' Day Tomor- 

 row," completed the arrangement. 



C. H. Vick, of James Vick's Sons, 

 has offered to supply free all of the 

 seeds necessary to make the old Carroll- 



Fitzhugh race a new beauty spot' in 

 Rochester. • • H. J. H. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



There has been a continual rush of 

 business in bedding plants in the last 

 three weeks and all agree that there 

 has never before been so good a de- 

 mand for this stock as this spring. Wo 

 had a good, heavy rain in the latter 

 part of the week, the first soaking rain 

 we have had in month?,, and everyone 

 is feeling better. As a result there is 

 a renewed demand for vegetable plants 

 and seeds. It looks as though every- 

 one would be cleaned out of every- 

 thing that is really salable in another 

 week. Cut flowers are in large supply 

 and, now that the peonies are in, 

 there is sure to be a good business with 

 the dump heap. Yet all agree that 

 there is the usual volume of business; 

 there is merely an oversupply of 

 flowers. Peonies are more plentiful 

 this season than for several years and 

 the quality is good. They are selling 

 better than almost any other flowers 

 just now. 



Mothers' day assumed the aspect of 

 a real" flower day this year. Almost 

 all of the churches had special services 

 and many people celebrated the day as 

 a home-going day — a sort of family 

 reunion. Most of the children so cele- 

 brating the day took their mother 

 either a bouquet of flowers or a plant. 

 Why is this not a feature of Mothers' 

 day that can be profitably agitated? 

 It is safe to say that there has never 

 before been anything like so good a 

 business for this occasion as this year. 



Commencements begin in a week, 



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and as there are forty Odd schools and 

 colleges here, besides the publie 

 schools, this means a heavy business 

 for the next month. 



Various Notes. 



The writer saw the first field of 

 sweet peas in full bloom here last 

 week. It was an amateur's garden, 

 but there must have been a quarter of 

 an acre and it was a blaze of bloom. 

 It is unusual for peas to be in bloom 

 here so early in the season as this. 



Geny Bros, report that they have 

 had the heaviest plant business this 

 season that they have ever had, and 

 that the cut flower business has been 

 fairly good. 



The Joys are continuing their sale 

 of dormant roses. They say that they 

 have had as heavy a demand for can- 

 nas as in many years. They have 

 lately had a good cut of fine stocks^, 

 which are rather a new feature here^ 

 and they have sold well. 



Mclntyre Bros, had a unique win- 

 dow last week, showing a miniature 

 house, in front of which was a border 

 of salvia, while on the faultless lawxk 

 were two beds of cannas and coleua. 

 The suggestion was timely and their 

 sales of bedding plants proved that it 

 drew. 



J. F. Corbitt is still doing a heavy 

 business in plants, selling mostly at 

 wholesale, though his retail business 

 has been better this year than last. 



One feature of the spring plant busi- 

 ness that is generally noted is the 

 larger percentage of high-grade plants, 

 which are being sold at higher prices 

 than usual. For instance, salvias have 

 been selling readily at 75 cents and 

 $1 a dozen, while there has been less 

 demand for the 50-cent size. F. B. 



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Des Moines, la. — H. B. Lozier has 

 purchased the building at 521 East 

 Locust street. It is a 3-story building, 

 20x110 feet. The purchase price was 

 about $14,000. 



Alma, Mich. — Mrs. Francis King's 

 book on "The Well Considered Gar- 

 den" has just been published by 

 Charles Scribner's Sons. It is a valu- 

 able study for the amateur, and con- 

 tains a preface by Gertrude Jekyll, the 

 English writer on gardening. 



Stillwater, Okla.— Christian Jensen, 

 campus florist and greenhouse superin- 

 tendent of the Oklahoma A. & M. Col- 

 lege, is preparing a landscape plan for 

 the court house grounds and streets of 

 Madill, Okla. He has been retained by 

 the oflScials of that city for advice in 

 its work of civic improvement. 



Freeport, 111. — ^Louis Bauscher, since 

 1909 secretary and general manager of 

 the Freeport Floral Co., has tendered 

 his resignation. He will be succeeded 

 here by Adolph Pitterle, of Madison, 

 Wis., who was at one time employed 

 by the company. Mr. Bauscher, son 

 of one of Freeport 's pioneer garden- 

 ers and himself a veteran in that busi- 

 ness, is one of the city's best known 

 citizens. 



Mobile, Ala. — At its annual meeting 

 here the Gulf Coast Horticultural So- 

 ciety elected as directors for the com- 

 ing year George L. Kittle and H. P. 

 Loding, both members of the local 

 trade. 



Washington, N. J.— Nearly a quarter 

 of a page in the industrial booster edi- 

 tion of the Warren Tidings, May 5, was 

 devoted to an account of the business 

 of Alonzo J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan bought 

 his present property in 1905, and now 

 has 134 acres and 40,000 feet of glass 

 in flowers and plants. He recently 

 tapped a mountain spring in the rear 

 of his establishment and piped the 

 water to his establishment, obtaining 

 a higher than 70-pound water pressure. 



Hillsdale, Mich.— The New York Cen- 

 tral road has appointed W. A. Hagen- 

 berger, gardener for the road east of 

 Toledo, to fill the vacancy caused by 

 the death of Carl Hirsch, head of the 

 division from Toledo to Chicago. Mr. 

 Hagenberger has his headquarters at 

 Mentor, O. He will retain his old 

 duties and assume those of the new 

 position in additiom Mrs. Hirsch has 

 the contract for supplying the plants 

 for the Toledo-Chicago division. A 

 local assistant may be appointed later. 



