June 10, 1015. 



The Florists' Review 



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present with John W. Pitts, 51 Leland 

 avenue, he has grown and disposed of 

 a lot of stock since the first of the year. 

 There was a large Memorial day sale. 

 The newly organized Plainfield Nurs- 

 ery Co., on Front street, Scotch Plains, 

 has done a good business this spring in 

 its flower and landscape departments. 

 E. B. M. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Midsummer prices and conditions 

 have already arrived, notwithstanding 

 spring weather, weddings, commence- 

 ments, graduations, and funerals of 

 noted men and women. Shipments of 

 roses, carnations and peonies have in- 

 creased enormously, peonies coming in 

 a perfect flood. For the week end, 

 business was light, and the wholesale 

 street was almost funereal before the 

 day ended. Eetail stores everywhere 

 were gorgeously decorated with peonies, 

 and the windows were most seductive, 

 but the usual snap of early June was 

 lacking. Peonies will have to resort 

 to cold storage this week; cellars and 

 iceboxes are already full. The quality 

 of most of the peony stock is magnifi- 

 cent. The weather has been most fa- 

 vorable, and good prices, as high as 

 $10 per hundred, were realized for the 

 early arrivals. Three dollars per hun- 

 dred was the asking price for these 

 Saturday night, June 5, and many thou- 

 sands "were disposed of at as low as 

 $2, and for the medium quality even 

 less was obtained, as the present week 

 began. 



Roses of all the popular varieties are 

 abundant. American Beauties have 

 greatly improved in quality, but prices 

 have fallen. Some splendid stock sold 

 June 5 as low as $10 per hundred. All 

 the hybrid teas are lower, even the 

 novelties sharing in the depression. On 

 the short stems and low grades, quota- 

 tions have already retreated to $5 per 

 thousand. Killarneys are the founda- 

 tion of the surplus. There is no end 

 to them. 



Carnations, as predicted, could not 

 hold long the excellent values of last 

 month, and are now down to one-third 

 the prices of Memorial day. Two dol- 

 lars per hundred is extreme top, and 

 some are down to $5 per thousand. 



Orchids do not advance in price or 

 lessen in quality. The finest Cattleya 

 gigas were selling June 5 at $30 per 

 hundred. Everybody of account in the 

 wholesale section seems to have his ice- 

 box full of them. 



There are plenty of lilies of all kinds 

 at lower prices, fewer gardenias, and a 

 steady demand for valley, thanks to the 

 June weddings, though these seem to 

 have been largely in the first week of 

 the month. Some of the leading retail- 

 ers have up to date averaged two a 

 day, but the bookings from now on 

 are much fewer. 



Gladioli of local indoor -growing will 

 soon be supplemented by southern stock 

 from the open field. Irises are about 

 over for the season. There are still 

 plenty of pansies and sweet peas. 



Various Notes. 



The New York Florists' Club's date 

 for its annual outing is Wednesday, 

 July 14. 



The New York Florists' Club's last 

 meeting of the season will be held Mon- 

 day evening, .Tune 14. It will be rose 

 and peony night, with a lecture by the 



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president. C. H. Totty is back from 

 San Francisco and will entertain with 

 particulars of his visit to the Panama- 

 Pacific exposition. 



The date of the June show of the 

 Tarrytown Horticultural Society has 

 been changed from June 11 to June 16, 

 owing to the late season. It will be 

 held in the gymnasium of the 

 Y. M. C. A. building. 



R. Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, 

 Md., was in the city Thursday, June 3, 

 on his way to Cedarhurst, L. I., where 

 he lectured on the dahlia before the 

 Ladies' Garden Club of Lawrence, 

 L. I. Mr. Vincent is greatly encour- 

 aged by the interest manifested in the 

 American Dahlia Society, of which he 

 is president, and says the dahlia show 

 this coming September will be the best 

 exhibition of this flower the world has 

 ever seen. 



The Uptown Seed Store had an ar- 

 tistic window last week, arranged by 

 Frank M. Duggan, a miniature lawn, 

 with samples of every appliance used, 

 and also a fine display of iris in many 

 varieties. 



William Kessler and family will 

 summer in the Catskills. 



W. H. Siebrecht, Jr., will lecture be- 

 fore the Sabbath Day Association at 

 its convention in San Francisco July 

 25. At the same convention Max 

 Schling will lecture on "The Right of 

 the Florist to Be Human and to Have 



a Weekly Day of Rest." Mr. Schling 

 has been invited to speak before the 

 Florists' Club of Scranton, Pa. He is 

 busy with landscape work at present 

 on a 340-acre estate in the Adirondacks, 

 120 acres of which is to be improved 

 under his supervision. 



Babcock & Son, of Norfolk, Va., say 

 they will begin cutting gladioli from 

 the open field June 20, including Fair 

 Maid, America, Europa, Panama and 

 the Burbank hybrids. 



Patrick O'Mara and his party are 

 back from an ocean trip to New Or- 

 leans. 



The Kervan Co. 's bookkeeper, R. A. 

 Johnstone, has recovered from a se- 

 vere attack of rheumatism. 



George Blake, the Brooklyn whole- 

 saler, and his family have returned 

 from a brief holiday at Washington, 

 D. C, where Mr. Blake called on many 

 of the prominent florists. 



The death of W. C. Martin, who con- 

 ducted a retail store at 284 Graham 

 avenue, Brooklyn, for fifteen years, is 

 recorded in this week 's obituary col- 

 umn. J. Austin Shaw. 



Chicago Heights, 111. — H. J. Peterson 

 says business never was better than it 

 has been this spring. In spite of, or 

 because of, the large number of smoky 

 chimneys in the town, the use of plants 

 is increasing every year and dooryards 

 will be especially gay this summer. 



