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July 1„ 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



17 



The Walls in Samuel Murray's New Store Were Designed as a Background for Flowers and Plants. 



ties were well worth $20 per hundred 

 for the selected, and there is no over- 

 supply of the first quality. A good 

 many short-stemmed and inferior. roses 

 of all kinds are in the market. The 

 novelties bring fair prices and are not 

 abundant. Hadley is the best of the 

 new varieties. Ophelia grows in popu- 

 larity, and the intense coloring of 

 Hoosier Beauty appeals to many. 

 Prices will be steady for some time be- 

 cause of the general scarcity, and there 

 will be few roses sold again under $~i 

 per thousand until the midsummer heat 

 arrives to stay. 



The same may be said of carnations. 

 Prices June 26 ranged from 50 cents to 

 .$1..'30 per hundred. The higher price is 

 oidy obtainable for the best blooms. 

 The shipments of carnations are rapidly 

 diminishing. 



There has been no change in the 

 orchid quotations. A few superior 

 <'attleya gigas touched $25 per hundred 

 •lune 26, but every wholesaler was offer- 

 ing good flowers in size and quality at 

 •1'20 per hundred. A few peonies are 

 still arriving, but most of the stock 

 '■onies from cold storage. Longiflorums 

 •"ire abundant still, but there has been 

 :i slight advance in price, selected flow- 

 cis touching $;J per hundred as the 

 week ended. A good many thousands 

 have been lost in .7une. There is more 

 valley than the market has been able 

 to al>8orb, and values are low for the 

 month of weddings and graduations. 

 The sweet pea supply is large and im- 



proving, especially the Spencer varie- 

 ties. There is the usual quantity of 

 gladioli, iris, daisies, calendulas and 

 the regular shipments of outdoor flow- 

 ers, with plenty of sprays and bunches 

 of Dorotln- Perkins and Crimson Ram- 

 bler, 

 ket. 



Adiantum is a drug in the mar- 



Various Notes. 



June 26 and 27 the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York held an exhibition 

 of outdoor roses, iris, sweet peas, etc. 

 A meeting of the council of the Horti- 

 cultural Society was held in the Mu,- 

 seum building, followed by a meeting 

 of the society and a lecture by Geo. V. 

 Nash on "The Upper Delaware Vallev 

 and Its Flora." R. Vincent, Jr., of 

 White Marsh, Md., attended the ex- 

 hibition and conferre<l with the society 

 as to the holding of the dahlia show in 

 September at the Museum of Natural 

 History. 



J. V. Phillips, of Brooklyn, is at Bay 

 Shore for the summer. The firm had a 

 large wedding, the Chapman-Marsten, 

 at Islip .Tune 26. In the decorations 

 over 10,000 daisies were used, and \n 

 the bride's bouquet over 700 vallej'. 

 M. L. Thorpe, head salesman for Mr. 

 Phillips", whose wife died of diphtheria 

 in April, has just returned to the store 

 after seven weeks' stay in the hospital 

 with scarlet fever. 



Burnett Bros, report a large demand 

 for strawberry ])lants. 



Barney Jacobs, salesman for Walter 



Siebrecht, was married Sunday, June 

 27, to Miss Bertha Blackman, of Atlan- 

 tic City. 



President Harry A. Bunyard, of the 

 New York Florists' Club, has appointed 

 the following nominating committee to 

 select candidates for office for 1916: 

 .Foseph A. Manda, chairman; John 

 Donaldson, Walter F. Sheridan, Frank 

 H. Traendly, Charles H. Totty, Charles 

 B. Weathered and Charles Weber. 



A. L. Young & Co. have incorporated, 

 with a capital stock of $25,000, the 

 members of the firm being A. L. Young, 

 Herman Scommodan and Fred. Light- 

 foot. 



Wm. Plumb will make 53 W^est 

 Twenty-eighth street his headquarters 

 until September, when he returns to 

 Cuba. 



The stork brought another boy to 

 Mr. and Mrs. MacNiff June 27. 



The board of the American Dahlia 

 Society, President Vincent, of White 

 Marsh, in the chair, held a meeting 

 here the other day, and later with the 

 council of the Horticultural Society at 

 the Bronx. It was decided to try to 

 secure the Museum of Natural History 

 for the show September 23 to 25, for 

 which a preliminary premium list was 

 ai)proved. 



James Scott, of Scott Bros., Elmsford, 

 is in the lecture field and busy instruct- 

 ing the society ladies of the garden 

 clubs. 



His New York friends are receiving 



