Mak 20. 1915. 



The Florists^ Review 



37 



BUSY ON BOILEB BILL. 



Florists through the state of Illinois 

 are responding energetically to the ap- 

 peal in last week's Eeview to fight the 

 bill for the examination and licensing 

 of firemen of steam boilers carrying a 

 pressure of more than ten pounds or 

 working more than 5,000 feet of radia- 

 tion. Final action has not been taken 

 in the lower bouse up to this writing, 

 though, as stated last week, the bill was 

 scheduled for its third reading this 

 week. It is thought that the more 

 time passes before the bill comes up for 

 the final test the greater opportunity 

 the florists will have to -defeat the 

 measure, for practically all that is nec- 

 essary is for them to show to the legis- 

 lators how undesirable the law would 

 be. Even if the bill passes the lower 

 house before the florists have time to 

 stop it, they will still have opportunity 

 to defeat it in the senate. 



George B. Franks, of Thomas Franks 

 & Son, Champaign, 111., who has been 

 in politics long enough to be a past 

 master at the art of wire-pulling, has 

 enlisted the aid of the three members of 

 the lower house from his district, the 

 Twenty-fourth. They are Wm. F. 

 Burres and Francis E, Williamson, of 

 Urbana, and Chas. A. Gregory, of Lov- 

 ington. Similar activity on the part of 

 many other members of the trade 

 throughout the state is hoped to accom- 

 plish the overthrow of the bill in short 

 order 



SALT LAKE CITY. 



The Market. 



The growers would much rather have 

 had Mothers' day come two or three 

 weeks' earlier this year. The cut of 

 carnations was not nearly so large as it 

 had been; the weather was fair, but 

 the carnations were not on the plants 

 to cut. The florists did not have 

 enough to supply the demand. Tele- 

 grams were sent all over to near ship- 

 ping points; but they could not be 

 bought at any price. All white carna- 

 tions were sold for $5 per hundred and 

 pink and red at $4 per hundred. The 

 cut of roses was splendid, and whfen 

 carnations were not available the retail- 

 ers resorted to roses. Snapdragons 

 sold well for Mothers' day, and are 

 now just about all gone. Potted plants 

 sold well, also. 



After Mothers' day was over, there 

 was a big call for carnations, and or- 

 ders had to be turned away. The price 

 of carnations dropped to normal, which 

 was $3 per hundred for the best grade 

 in all colors. Killarney, White Kil- 

 larney, Richmond, Beatrice and Hil- 

 lingdon roses dropped to $4, $6 and $8 

 per hundred, while before they had 

 been sold at $1 per hundred more. 

 Shawyer, Taft, etc., are in big demand 

 and still sell from $5 to $10 per hun- 

 dred. 



On account of the early and exceed- 

 ingly dry season and light snowfall 

 throughout the winter, it is predicted 

 that Utah will have a great scatcity of 

 water for irrigation purposes, and this 

 condition will affect all florists through- 

 out this entire intermountain country. 

 The last few days there has been a 

 warm wind blowing from the south and 

 the sun is scorching hot, which is bring- 

 ing the outdoor flowers in early. Lilacs 

 are about all gone, but they are fol- 

 lowed by peonies and snowballs. Due 

 to the extremelv hot weather that has 



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prevailed, it is predicted that the flow- 

 ering, season for early outdoor garden 

 stock will be over by Memorial day 

 and that there will be a large demand 

 for greenhouse stock. Gladioli are 

 coming along'fast, and there will be a 

 large cut of them soon. All that can 

 be obtained at present are disposed of 

 at $1 per dozen. 



Carnation plants are now planted 

 out in the field, and are looking fine. 



Various Notes. 



The Huddart Floral Co. reports that 

 Mothers' day business was exception- 

 ally good. They had a shortage of 

 carnations, but roses and plants took 

 well. 



The B. C. Morris Floral Co. says that 

 they thought Mothers' day was going 

 to be somewhat slow, but the last two 

 days before Sunday they found them- 

 selves head over heels in work. 



E. A. Lambourne says that he had 

 a remarkably good business, and that 

 the sales on roses greatly surpassed 

 his anticipation. He did not have 

 nearly enough carnations. 



The Evans Floral Co. has been busy 

 with futaeral and design work. They 

 report an increase over last year for 

 Mothers' day business. 



Charles Soter reports that he handled 

 a large stock of roses, carnations and 

 potted plants, a»d that Mothers' day 

 business greatly surpassed that of a 

 year ago. 



Wm. Sorensen, of the Intermountain 

 Floral Co., reports business qyite good. 



The Miller Floral Co., at Farming- 

 ton, reports that the shipping business 

 for Mothers' day greatly surpassed ex- 

 pectations. The demand for pot plants 

 is increasing all the tim?, and the com- 

 pany is planning to add another house 

 to the plant department at once. Shaw- 

 yer has proved a valuable 'Wdition to 

 the standard ros6s ahd is in demand at 

 all the leading 'retail stores. Ophelia 

 has also proved a valuable variety, and 

 will be grown more extensively another 

 season. 



The Sander Floral Co. reports large 

 sales for M-others' day and an increase 

 in business. 



Elizabeth Huth, of the Flower Shop, 

 Ogden, reports that she had a good 

 Mothers ' day business, much better 

 than last year's. O. F. 



WiUces-Barre, Pa.— A petition pro- 

 testing that the park commission of 

 the city, the park superintendent and 

 his assistants are performing work 

 other than for the city of Wilkes- 

 Barre and by so doing are entering into 

 unfair competition with florists, seeds- 

 men and nurserymen, has been pre- 

 sented by Ira G. Marvin, A. "W. B. 

 Evans, Mooney & Weir, A. W. Moore, 

 Gottlieb Baumann, John Mattern, 

 Davies & Fine, Carr Bros., George 

 Schlingmann, W. J. Stroh, the Wyo- 

 ming Valley Nursery Co., Edward T. 

 Moyer and William G. Neilson. A con- 

 ference with Superintendent Edward B, 

 Morgan and Park Supervisor Charles 

 L. Seybold was held in an effort to put 

 a stop to the work complained of. 



