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The Florists^ Review 



June 24, 1915. 



interest of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., of 

 Philadelphia. 



Fred Wolfinger, 883 Broad street, has 

 been busy with wedding and funeral 

 work during the last two weeks. He has 

 placed a large order for magnolias for 

 the summer trade, which will arrive 

 about July 1. 



August C. Begerow, 946 Broad street, 

 had a pretty display of iris in his 

 window last week, the diflPerent vari- 

 eties being so arranged as to show oflE 

 their colors to good advantage. 



Philips Bros., 938 Broad street, have 

 had several weddings to provide flowers 

 for recently. A large bouquet of Canter- 

 bury bells in the window last week at- 

 tracted considerable attention. 



A representative of the Eobert Craig 

 Co., Philadelphia, called on the trade 

 last week. 



Graduation season is at hand again. 

 Exercises in some of the schools have 

 already been held, and in the other 

 schoofe will be held within a week or 

 ten days. Newark florists are getting 

 some extra trade because of this fact, 

 but the trade that they are getting now 

 from this source is small compared with 

 what they got before the school authori- 

 ties prohibited the presentation of floral 

 gifts to pupils publicly during gradua- 

 tion exercises. Each year sees a greater 

 reduction of revenue from this source. 



Hausmann Bros. & Son, on Boyden 

 avenue, Hilton, have done a good spring 

 business, but find collections a little 

 slow. They are now supplying a large 

 quantity of outdoor sweet peas to the 

 Newark and Elizabeth trade. A green- 

 house, 40x125 feet, is being built for 

 the firm by Hitchings & Co., of Eliza- 

 beth. This may be enlarged to 200 

 feet in length later. R. B. M. 



• BRAMPTON, ONT. 



The Market. 



Planting finishes this week with the 

 benching of the chrysanthemum plants. 

 The favorable showers we have had 

 lately have given" the outside stock a 

 splendid send-ofE for the season. Some 

 fine gladioli are being cut at present, 

 the bulbs having been brought from 

 Holland and planted among the carna- 

 tions during the winter. It is doubtful 

 if florists will ever want to use the 

 local product again after seeing some 

 of the new varieties that are now com- 

 ing into bloom. Roses are rather more 

 plentiful than is usual at this time of 

 year, but carnations find a ready mar- 

 ket at $3 per hundred. Cattleya Gas- 

 kelliana and gigas, at $35 and $40 per 

 hundred respectively, also find a regu- 

 lar sale during June, even though the 

 percentage of weddings is markedly 

 less than for many years. It looks as 

 if the same steady diflference in busi- 

 ness that has obtained since the war 

 began will continue so far as the flower 

 trade is concerned. Practically no 

 new greenhouses are likely to be built 

 throughout the province during such 

 time as the price of glass and labor 

 remains at the present level. 



Various Notes. 



"Walter Calvert had a good violet sea- 

 son in his new houses. He is going in 

 for asparagus more extensively this 

 year. 



Mark Henderson has a fine crop of 

 tomatoes just ripening. 



A. A. Elliott continues to devote his 



energies to the successful propagation 

 of the popular sweet pea. 



Wm. Fendley has been cutting large 

 quantities of marguerites lately. He 

 is experimenting with some new vari- 

 eties of single dahlias. 



W. G. Mullis has been fortunate with 

 his sweet pea crop at the Mclntyre 

 Greenhouses this spring. He intends 

 to grow chrysanthemums for the fall 

 trade. ^W. G. P. 



NEW YORK. 



( The Market. 



The market is full of outdoor roses 

 and, while peony shipments have about 

 ended, the great quantities in cold stor- 

 age continue them an important factor 

 in the street. Last week the market 

 was heavily overstocked and prices con- 

 tinue to average abnorn»q,lly low. There 

 were tremendous shipments of roses all 

 last week and most of them were sold 

 in the boxes in which they arrived, at 



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prices which are unmentionable. "What- 

 ever strength there was in the rose 

 market was created by the American 

 Beauties, and yet the best of these at 

 times could be obtained at less than 

 $10 per hundred. 



The carnation situation is calamitous. 

 The finest of these could be found 

 mingling with the loads in the carts 

 of the peddlers last week and the stores 

 secured their supplies at 75 to 50 cents 

 per hundred. They did not use more 

 than a small part of the receipts, as, 

 notwithstanding the few commence- 

 ments and weddings still occurring, gen- 

 eral retail trade is much below normal. 



The finest gigas sold at $12 per hun- 

 dred June 19. No one thought of ask- 

 ing over 20 cents for them. On Mos- 

 siee and other varieties sales were made 

 as low as $6 per hundred. . The accumu- 

 lation of lilies is enormous. The best 

 of them did not go above $2 per hun- 

 dred last week and many were sold as 

 low as $10 per thousand. The supply 

 of valley is far in excess of the demand 

 and the same is true of sweet peas, now 

 at their best in quality. AH other 

 flowers are abundant. Branches of the 



rambler roses are much used in window 

 decorations. 



Various Notes. 



At the September meeting of the 

 Florists' Club a stereopticon lecture on 

 "Gladioli" will be delivered by Mrs. 

 B. Hammond Tracy. 



Early closing will be the rule after 

 July 1. Many of the retailers announce 

 from noon on Saturday to Monday 

 moriiing as their program during July 

 and August. 



A visit at Tarrytown last week made 

 possible the enjoyment of the most per- 

 fect and beautiful summer flower show 

 the Tarrytown Horticultural Society 

 has ever staged. The showing of out- 

 door roses was magnificent and the at- 

 tendance was gratifying to the manage- 

 ment. Secretary Newbrand was in 

 charge of the arrangements and dis- 

 play. F. R. Pierson was not too busy 

 to escort visitors through his new store 

 and ofBce building, the most beautiful 

 building devoted to floriculture in this 

 country, and through his nurseries at 

 Scarboro. To his immense greenhouse 

 plant here are to be added two more 

 houses of similar size to the seven al- 

 ready there, the whole to be devoted to 

 roses. The force employed by the com- 

 pany now numbers over 100. 



L. B. Coddington, of Murray Hill, 

 N. J., has begun daily shipments of 

 the new red rose, Hoosier Beauty. 



Samuel "Woodrow has leased his store 

 at Narragansett Pier, R. I., to Messrs. 

 Marketos and Hart for the season. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



The Market. 



There has been little sunshine during 

 the last week, and the weather has been 

 mostly cold and dark. This condition 

 has kept the market from going to 

 pieces and has kept prices up better 

 than is to be expected for this time of 

 year. Stock is plentiful, but the qual- 

 ity in general is good and the daily cut 

 is being disposed of to a great extent. 

 The cut of roses and carnations is 

 heavy, but the demand remains strong 

 and there has been no glut so far. 

 Sweet peas are still in the market and 

 are bringing fair prices. "We need only 

 a few days of bright, warm weather to 

 bring the end of this stock for the sea- 

 son. Peonies are in fine shape. Their 

 season has been considerably prolonged 

 by the cold, cloudy weather. 



June weddings are the big item for 

 the trade just now, although gradua- 

 tion exercises are helping clean up stock 

 to a great extent and are no small fac- 

 tor in the business. There is surely no 

 complaint on spring business this year, 

 for while there has not been enough 

 stock to go around, prices have been 

 good, and business in general has been 

 much cleaner than in previous years. 



Various Notes. 



Among the visitors last week were 

 Mr. Mandas, of the Sunshine Florist, 

 Minneapolis; H. B. Kennicott, of Ken- 

 nicott Bros. Co., Chicago, and C. Gould, 

 from Onarga, 111. H. J. S. 



Emaus, Pa. — Clayton "Weaver, who 

 has taken over the business of the 

 Emaus Floral Co., formerly known as 

 Weaver & Collett, has secured a florist 

 from Philadelphia to take charge of the 

 plant houses. 



