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OCTOBKB 14, 1915. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market 



The wholesale cut flower market has 

 turned over a new leaf. Last week 

 ended with a creditable record. It has 

 been many a week since the outlook 

 was so encouraging. 



Some of the philosophers with years 

 of experience say, "Wait a week or 

 two, when the mum tide is high, and 

 see the prices fall." One retailer said 

 the quotations Saturday made him 

 "feel like Christmas." Prices were 

 better all along the line. Everything, 

 even orchids, felt the uplift. Whether 

 the advance has come to stay, is the 

 problem everyone would like to solve. 

 Perhaps the light shipments, and the 

 natural rise in values when society 

 comes to town for its winter season, 

 may account for the improvement — for 

 the banquet celebrations have begun, 

 the President and his fiancee have been 

 here, the October weddings are many 

 and decorations liberal. 



American Beauties are up to 30 cents 

 again, and all roses are advancing, es- 

 pecially the novelties. Some of these 

 are now $10 per hundred. For the rest 

 a top of 8 cents was general last week. 

 All grades were higher, except the 

 smallest and short-stemmed roses. The 

 No. 2's were worth $3 per hundred at 

 the close of the week. Some grand 

 stock of Sunburst, Hadley, Mock, 

 Ophelia, Key and Eussell found places 

 in the gaily decorated windows of Fifth 

 avenue and of Broadway. 



Carnations, except the small ones and 

 short-stems, still are below require- 

 ments, only a few being up to stand- 

 ard. The best advanced to 3 cents 

 and 4 cents as the week closed. The 

 market was almost bare of everything 

 October 9. 



Orchids have risen to 35 cents for 

 the best. A few selects touched 40 

 cents. The supply is decreasing and it 

 will be some time before they fall to 

 the ridiculous quotations of September. 



There are no more asters; gladioli 

 are done and dahlias nearly so. The 

 few good dahlias still arriving sell at 

 $3 per hundred. It has been a good 

 year for the dahlia. 



Easter lilies continue scarce and 

 firm at from 6 cents to 8 cents. An 

 occasional sale is made at 10 cents. 

 Valley was high all last week, 4 cents 

 being easily obtainable. Even the short 

 stock sold at $2 per hundred. A scarcity 

 this winter seems assured and prices 

 seem sure to go even higher than those 

 now prevailing. 



A dozen choice varieties of the 

 chrysanthemum are bidding for public 

 recognition, and a veritable flood is ex- 

 pected this week and next week. 



The market has plenty of all other 

 flowers of the season. No frosts have 

 yet visited the immediate vicinity of 

 New York. The rainy season seems to 

 be over and Indian summer is still to 

 come. 



Selected dahlias are bringing excel- 

 lent prices this week, especially dur- 

 ing the general shortage of everything 

 excepting chrysanthemums. 



Enormous sales of boxwood have 

 been ' made lately and large purchases 

 are made weekly at the auctions. 

 Palms and ferns are in great demand. 

 Retailers are stocking up for the 

 winter. 



The October weddings are far more 

 numerous than was anticipated. Near- 



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ly every retailer of reputation has 

 booked his share of them. Society is 

 returning to the city rapidly. There 

 will be no travel to Europe until the 

 war is over. Hence it will be a gay 

 season in New York, and the florists 

 expect the most prosperous winter they 

 have known. 



Club Meeting. 



The usual meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held October 11 and the aver- 

 age attendance of over 100 was main- 

 tained. The exhibits were of a high 

 standard, the turkey collation the best 

 of the year. 



Patrick O'Mara read resolutions on 

 the death of Samuel Thome. 



F. E. Pierson, chairman of the joint 

 show committees of the club and the 

 Horticultural Society, made an interest- 

 ing report. A. L. Miller moved the ap- 

 pointment of a committee on special 

 prizes, and President Bunyard named F. 

 L. Atkins, C. H. Totty, Max Schling, G. 

 E. M. Stumpp, Wm. Duckham, L. C. W. 

 Tuthill, R. J. Irwin, Julius Roehrs, E. C. 

 Vick, Philip Kessler and F. H. Traendly. 



Chairman Henshaw, of the Cleveland 

 show transportation committee, recom- 

 mended use of the New York Central, 

 leaving New York at 5 p. m. and arriv- 

 ing at Cleveland 7 a. m. If a sufficient 

 number attend, special rates and Pull- 

 man are available. A bowling team, 

 led by Joseph Fenrich, will go. 



A. S. Baldwin, of Madison, was elected 

 to membership, and E. McCarthy was 

 proposed. Messrs. Dinda, Baldwin, 

 Gellhar and Sheepers were introduced 

 and made brief addresses, pledging loy- 

 alty. 



W. A. Manda received special men- 

 tion for a fine assortment of show and 

 cactus dahlias, which were highly com- 

 mended. 



Charles H. Totty showed his immense 

 yellow sport of Chrysanthemum Mrs. G. 



Drabble, which the committee judged 

 worthy of further consideration. Mr. 

 Totty also staged a fine assortment of 

 mums and dahlias, for which he received 

 a vote of thanks. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., staged a fine as- 

 sortment of mums, which received 

 thanks and a cultural certificate. 



P. W. Popp staged an assortment of 

 over fifty dahlias, the exhibit being 

 highly commended. 



For Frank Dinda, of Farmingdale, 

 Guttman & Raynor showed a large vase 

 of that grower's new pink chrysanthe- 

 mum, which scored eighty-five points. 

 They also staged Charles Weber 's Laura 

 Weber, Victory from Rowehl & Granz 

 and their white sport from Prosperity, 

 the committee awarding these the 

 thanks of the club. 



Mrs. Stout, of Short Hills, N. J., who 

 won high honors at the recent dahlia 

 show with her Sunshine, again exhibited 

 it and wag highly commended. 



Various Notes. 



R. Vincent, Jr., president of the 

 American Dahlia Society, announces 

 that a meeting of this organization 

 will be held in New York, November 6. 



The MacNifif Horticultural Co. has 

 opened a retail store at 182 Faxton 

 street. The company has had large ad- 

 vertisements in the Sunday papers, fea- 

 turing bulbs of all kinds. 



B. Willig, of Poughkeepsie, a skill- 

 ful grower of mums and carnations, 

 was a recent visitor. He reports 

 George Saltford, formerly a wholesale 

 florist of West Twenty-eighth street, 

 as now superintendent of parks in 

 Poughkeepsie. 



The Onaway Florist was reopened at 

 903 Seventh avenue, October 11, with 

 George C. Sims again manager. 



Frank Verona, who opened a flower 

 department in one of the big stores in 

 Philadelphia, with H. Steinhoff, of 



