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The Florists^ Review 



July 8, 1915. 



SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 



The Market. 



June business greatly exceeded that 

 of the previous year. The conditions 

 in general during the first half of June 

 were exceptionally good. There were 

 several elaborate wedding decorations. 

 Funeral work is fairly good. The mar- 

 ket has been flooded with carnations 

 and roses, and by getting thousand lots 

 the retailer could almost name his own 

 price. Many of the flowers were dis- 

 posed of by giving them to the hos- 

 pitals. There has also been an over- 

 supply of gladioli; they are particular- 

 ly fine this year, with America in 

 chief demand, although Mrs. Francis 

 King has held its own. Greenhouse 

 sweet peas are forced from the mar- 

 ket by a much finer quality of the 

 outdoor-grown stock. Private parties 

 specialize every spring on outdoor. -peas 

 and have found it profitable, but this 

 year there are too many growers of 

 peas; they have ruined the market and 

 the flowers have been retailed as low 

 as 10 cents per hundred. The roses 

 and carnations are fairly good for this 

 time of year. Outdoor roses are al- 

 most through blooming. In potted 

 stock, the Boston and Whitmani ferns, 

 gloxinias and tuberous begonias are in 

 demand. Geraniums and other bedding 

 plants sold well. 



Various Notes. 



During July and August, Salt Lake 

 City will be visited by a number of 

 florists on their way to the S. A. F. 

 convention at the exposition in San 

 Francisco. We have already been 

 honored by a visit from Mr. Johnson, 

 of the Pikes Peak Floral Co., Colorado 

 Springs, Colo., and also from R. M. 

 Greig, of Anaconda, Mont., on his way 

 home from California. 



F. Auerbach & Co., of Broadway and 

 State street, handled all the old rose 

 plants that the Miller Floral Co. took 

 out in replanting. This way of dis- 

 posing of the plants was found to be 

 quite profitable. 



Charles Soter is occupying a store 

 just a few doors south of the Walker 

 dry goods store while his other place 

 in the Walker building is being fixed 

 up. He will now have more room and 

 another window for display. 



R. E. Evans reports having made up 

 a good number of flower boxes, and 

 these, with the funeral work, have kept 

 business alive. 



It is reported that George Wray, of 

 the Keith-O'Brien department store, 

 will go out of business, as the Keith- 

 O'Brien firm will soon close its doors. 



Elizabeth Huth, of Ogden, reports 

 one of the biggest decorations in her 

 locality. June 22 the druggists held 

 their grand banquet. In the afternoon 

 the ladies met at tea in the new Ber- 

 thana hall, where the tables were beau- 

 tifully decorated with Killarney, Amer- 

 ican Beauty and Prima Donna roses. 

 In the evening 200 people were enter- 

 tained at the Hermitage hotel, in 

 Ogden canyon, where Miss Huth made 

 an elaborate display of pink and yel- 

 low roses and greens. 



The annual outing of the Miller Floral 

 Co. was held at the Lagoon July 3. A 

 cordial invitation was extended to the 

 Salt Lake and Ogden florists, who also 

 participated in the program of sports. 

 Prizes were awarded to all the leaders 

 in the contests. The sports included 

 swimming race, boat racing, a 100- 



yard dash, relay race, Derby race, base- 

 ball and various other games. The 

 weather was fair and the annual was a 

 grand success. O. F. 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS. 



E. J. Byam, Rome, N. Y., is plan- 

 ning to erect an office and show house 

 to extend across the entire frontage 

 of his place. He has a dairy farm, 

 for the double purpose of utilizing the 

 manure and supplying the Romans with 

 high-grade lacteal fluid. 



The Misses Humphrey, Rome, are 

 much pleased with the season's busi- 

 ness. Funeral work has been unusually 

 heavy. 



Henry Youell, president af the Syra- 

 cuse Florists' Club and secretary of 

 the Gladiolus Society, reports that the 

 trade has had a busy spring. He says 

 the exhibits of gladioli at Newport and 

 Atlantic City in August will be the 

 best ever. 



The Hike-Allen Co., Cortland, N. Y., 

 is growing fine crops of roses and vege- 

 tables in the new L. & B. houses. The 

 houses will soon pay for themselves. 



David Scott, Corfu, ,N, Y., believes 

 one of the most important items is a 

 good chimney stack. Not long since 

 he built one, sixty feet high, circular, 

 of concrete blocks, and is much pleased 

 with the result in draft action. He 

 prefers growing snapdragons from cut- 

 tings, as the main shoot is more vigor- 

 ous and fewer laterals appear than on 

 seedlings. Spencer sweet peas planted 

 after Easter are producing. finely, owing 

 to the cool weather; they have a good 

 sale just now. A superior strain of 

 mignonette is also a steady seller. Con- 

 siderable space is given to asters out- 

 doors. Fall plowing is found prefer- 

 able, the ground holding moisture better 

 than it does when turned up in the 

 spring. 



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W. C. Stroh, Attica, N. Y., is rebuild- 

 ing part of his range and adding two 

 houses, 16x150 feet, which is evidence 

 of satisfactory conditions with him. 



L. C. Stroh & Sons, Batavia, N. Y.,^ 

 are well pleased with trade conditions, 

 and are debating the question of more 

 glass, watching the market for a bar- 

 gain. 



Gustav Noack, Batavia, reports a late 

 season, 'with the . possibility of all sal- 

 able stock disappearing in good time. 



H. S. Baker, Warsaw, N. Y., says Mrs. 

 C. W. Ward is a most profitable carna- 

 tion. It does well in a heavy soil and 

 with liberal feeding. The members of 

 the Enchantress family also are fine. 



August Schreiber, Hornell, is improv- 

 ing his range, and is much pleased with 

 this, his third season's business. 



Van Scoter & Sons, Bath, N. Y., have 

 named their establishment the Home 

 of Flowers, and, by handling first-class 

 stock, are maintaining the appellation. 



W. M. 



OBITUABY. 

 George W. Beears. 



George W. Beears, of the firm of 

 Beears & Palm, Reading, Pa., died June 

 27 of heart disease at the Reading hos- 

 pital, at the age of 52. He had been 

 ill for five weeks. Mr. Beears was born 

 in Bethlehem, but had been a resident 

 of Reading for forty years. He had 

 been in the florists' business all his life 

 in Reading. For many years he oper- 

 ated a retail busing under his own 

 name. In 1912 he took a partner into 

 the business, changing the firm name 

 to Beears & Palm. 



He is survived by his wife, two 

 daughters, Elsie Beears and Mrs. Mabel 

 Stoeckel, and two brothers, Edgar H. 

 Beears, of Reading, and Herbert Beears, 

 of Philadelphia. 



Worcester, Mass. — The business of 

 Midgley & Co. has been purchased by 

 Hollis E. Pease, of Clinton. 



Rockland, Mass. — Mrs. W. T. Wilson 

 has leased her flower shop to Lyle Loth- 

 rop, and is moving to Brockton. 



Southington, Conn. — John Oleson has 

 leased the greenhouses of Francis Bros., 

 which are fully stocked, and has opened 

 business. 



Boxbury, Mass. — Fire starting in the 

 storage shed at the greenhouses of 

 William C. Bowditch, at Warren and 

 Georgia streets, scorched the rear of 

 his office and salesroom, and spread to 

 several other buildings near by. The 

 cause of it is unknown. 



Hartford, Conn. — A loss of approxi- 

 mately $10,000 was incurred June 28, 

 when the large frame barn, greenhouses 

 and garage at the market gardening 

 establishment of Anders Christensen 

 were burned. It was on the dividing 

 line between Hartford and Wilson Sta- 

 tion. The fire company could give no 

 help on account of the lack of water. 

 The loss is only partly covered by in- 

 surance. 



Springfield, Mass. — Frank J. Cartier 

 has resigned his position as foreman 

 at the Higgins greenhouses and has 

 gone to Natick, Mass., where he has 

 purchased a range of glass, land and 

 dwelling. Mr. Cartier will carry on a 

 retail and wholesale trade in cut 

 flowers and potted plants. 



Holyoke, Mass. — At the June meeting 

 of the Holyoke and Northampton Flo- 

 rists' and Gardeners' Club arrange- 

 ments were made for the third annual 

 flower show, which is to be held in 

 Windsor hall the first week in Novem- 

 ber. The committee in charge consists 

 of D. J. Gallivan, G. H. Sinclair and 

 George Rackliflfe, of Holyoke, and Mr, 

 Downer, of Northampton. 



Dernr^ N. H. — John C. Chase, of the 

 Benjamin Chase Co., widely known in 

 the trade as a manufacturer of plant 

 labels, has gone to Coronado, Cal., for 

 an indefinite stay. Mr. Chase has a 

 daughter who lives there and it is 

 hoped a surcease from business will 

 restore his health. Mrs. Chase pre- 

 ceded him by several weeks. On his 

 way out Mr. Chase attended the nur- 

 serymen's convention at Detroit. 



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