Mat 27. 1915. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



Last week was cold, rainy and dull. 

 Business in the cut flower market was 

 fairly good, prices were firmer, and re- 

 tail trade was more encouraging than 

 for a long time. Saturday's clean-up 

 was spoiled by the rain, which came 

 down in torrents all the afternoon and 

 evening. 



Shipments have been comparatively 

 light, especially of high quality roses. 

 Beauties are small, and only a few 

 perfect flowers of this variety are seen; 

 these bring as high as $20 per hundred. 

 The supply of novelties is decreasing. 

 Hadley, Bussell and Ophelia are most 

 popular. 

 , White carnations sold at $3 to $4 per 

 hundred. Some days nothing worth 

 while in carnations could be found any- 

 where under $2 per hundred. Larger 

 shipments and lower prices are predict- 

 ed for this week. Another large order 

 of 50,000 for Brooklyn, Sunday de- 

 livery, is reported. 



Prices of about everything are ex- 

 pected to be maintained at present 

 levels until after Memorial day. 



Orchids are of splendid quality, espe- 

 cially Cattleya gigaia. Prices continue 

 low, the selects selling at $35 per hun- 

 dred. Valley is down and will stay 

 there until the outdoor stock is ex- 

 hausted. Lilies have begun a gradual 

 improvement, which will doubtless con- 

 tinue until the end of May. Memorial 

 day orders are heavy. There will be a 

 sufficiency of callas also. 



There is still a great abundance of 

 tulips, irises and gladioli. Peonies are 

 here, and the daily 'increase is marked. 

 There is an overflow of sweet peas and 

 pansies and a liberal quantity of spring 

 flowers of every variety. Garde^ia8 

 are arriving from Texas. 



Next week will come the crimson 

 ramblers. Already spiraeas and wista- 

 rias adorn the retail windows. 



Various Notes. 



Hugo Mock, president of the National 

 Floral Corporation, has returned from 

 a trip to the Panama-Pacific exposition. 



The committee of the New York Flo- 

 rists* Club appointed by the president 

 to confer with a similar committee to 

 be appointed by the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York, with reference to 

 holding a flower show in New York in 

 the spring of 1916, consists of A. L. 

 Miller, F. L. Atkins, Charles H. Totty, 

 F. H. Traendly, John Young, Julius 

 Roehrs, G. E. M. Stumpp, Wm. H. Duck- 

 ham, Wallace R. Pierson and Leonard 

 Barron. 



It will be rose night at the next 

 meeting of the New York Florists' 

 Club, June 13. This will be the final 

 meeting of the club until September. 



The stork brought Max Zarnow, of 

 the Margarite Floral Co., Brooklyn, a 

 boy last week. 



The wife of James C. Conlon, the re- 

 tailer at 46 Smith street, Brooklyn, 

 died at the family residence, 69 Dean 

 street, Thursday, May 20. She is sur- 

 vived by three sons and three daugh- 

 ters. Mrs. Conlon was a member of St. 

 Paul's Roman Catholic church. Inter- 

 ment was in Holy Cross cemetery. 



The display of window and porch 

 boxes in the two cities this spring 

 transcends any former decorations in 

 this line ever seen here. Florists are 

 still extremely busy in this department. 



The International Garden Club is de- 



"GREAT RESULTS" 



Our Speijlaltg: Rooted Cuttings. 



Pine C^toiie Ullatal Oj^otpatatton 



FLORISTS 



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May 17, 1915. 



Florists* Review, 

 508 So, Dearborn St. 

 Chicago, 111. 



Gentlemen :- 



PL^ee change our Chrysanthemum ad to 



read as eo^o sed and insert the Snapdragon ad also 



enclosed. TGreat results. 



Tours very truly, 

 /^JK orMM/^NeA/ PINE GROVE FLORAL CORP. 



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veloping the Barton residence and 

 grounds of thirty acres, with the aim 

 of making an experimental garden on 

 the lines of that of the RoyaL Horti- 

 cultural Society, of England. James 

 McGregor, formerly outside foreman on 

 tho W. B. Thompson estate, at Yonkers, 

 has been appointed superintendent. 

 Arthur Herrington has the position of 

 landscape architect and will give his 

 personal, attention to the development 

 of the grounds. 



At a meeting of the council of the 

 Horticultural Society of New York last 

 week it was voted to invite the newly 

 organized American Dahlia Society to 

 hold its first autumn exhibition under 

 its auspices. President Vincent states 

 that the invitation undoubtedly will be 

 accepted and that it is his belief that 

 it insures the largest and most success- 

 ful special dahlia show ever held any- 

 where in the world. 



Thos. Roland, of Nahant, Mass., and 

 Patrick Welch, of Boston, were among 

 last week's visitors. 



Woodrow & Marketos are doing a 

 large window box and landscape busi- 

 ness. 



John Young has been making many 

 changes in his offices and salesrooms. 



Roman J. Irwin has returned from 

 a successful business trip, and with 

 Chairman De Forest is busy completing 

 arrangements for the trip to San Fran- 

 cisco. 



S. Suzuki, of the Yokohama Nursery 

 Co., who was booked for passage on the 

 Lusitania, has given up his trip to 



Europe and will leave for San Francisco 

 early in June. 



Young & Nugent 's new office and 

 icebox are now completed, also a minia- 

 ture conservatory. Mr. Nugent has se- 

 cured a long lease of his store, and is 

 changing, enlarging and making it 

 thoroughly up-to-date. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Secretary Nash, of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York, announces that 

 an exhibition of- this society, in co- 

 operation with the American Rose So- 

 ciety, will be held Saturday and Sun- 

 day, June C and 6, in the Museum build- 

 ing. New York Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx park. The features will be roses 

 and peonies. Schedules may be ob- 

 tained by application to the secretary, 

 George V. Nash, New York Botanical 

 Garden/ Bronx park. New York city. 

 The American Rose Society oflFers the 

 fallowing medals as sweepstake prizes: 

 Silver tnedal, for the best collection of 

 outdoor-grown roses; bronze medal, for 

 the best vase of outdoor-grown hybrid 

 teas; brorize medal, for the best vase of 

 outdoor-grown hybrid pefpetuals. 



Eeisterstown, Md.^T;i .a recent thun- 

 derstorm lightning struck the ^rick 

 stack at the greenhouses of Charles B. , 

 Wright and demolished about four feet, 

 of the top. Although such occurrences 

 frequently, have ; been reported else- 

 where, it is the first time a brick ch!ltt- '' ' 

 ney has been struck here. . 



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