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The Florists^ Review 



October 14, 1916. 



lientloa Tb« Barfw when yon wrtf. 



worth; J. Robertson, gardener for W. R. 

 Coe; G. Wilson, gardener for J. B. Tay- 

 lor; J. W. Everitt, gardener for J. T. 

 Pratt; J. McDonald, gardener for Mrs. 

 J. H. Otley, and H. Gaut, gardener for 

 Mrs. H. L. Pratt. 



The judges of the show were James 

 Bell, Thomas Griffin and William Vert. 



J. G. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The exciting question of the day, a 

 question that will not finally be set- 

 tled until after The Review goes to 

 press, is an important one. Have the 

 dahlias been frozen? The wholesalers 

 are evenly divided on the question; 

 some say dahlias are over, others that 

 they are not. The fact that a killing 

 frost visited this neighborhood on the 

 night of October 10 is undisputed. The 

 protected lowlands suffered most. The 

 higher, more exposed fields merely got a 

 chill that injured the open blooms in 

 some cases, but did not spoil the plants. 

 The flow of dahlias continued October 

 11 and 12 in a lesser degree, but 

 whether it will continue after that is 

 the question. It seems probable that 

 some of the growers will have dahlias 

 when this column appears and that 

 there will be a fair, but not heavy, 

 supply of these showy fall flowers. 



The jolt given the dahlias is un- 

 timely. Generally, the wholesalers are 

 rather relieved when Jack Frost closes 

 the dahlia season, but today matters are 

 reversed. The market is so sparsely 

 supplied with greenhouse-grown flowers 

 that the dahlias are a necessity to fill 

 the gap. Conditions are unusual. There 

 are so few flowers in proportion to the 

 demand that practically everything sella 

 on sight and many orders are refused. 

 Such a state of affairs has not existed 

 for a long time. It is primarily due to 

 the cool weather immediately follow- 

 ing a period of extraordinary heat. This 



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hot spell knocked out cosmos, hurt the 

 dahlias and shook things up generally, 

 both outdoors and under glass. It is 

 probable that the acute market condi- 

 tions will be relieved in a few days, as 

 new shippers are coming in nearly every 

 day, growers that have not been heard 

 from since the fall season opened. 



The supply of carnations is nearly 

 double that of two weeks ago and is 

 still increasing, while chrysanthemums 

 are certain to increase steadily for sev- 

 eral weeks. Easter lilies and lilies of 

 the valley have been in most active de- 

 mand. So, too, have been roses, of 



nearly any good variety, and chrysan- 

 themums. Dahlias have sold well; or- 

 chids are in better demand. 



This, briefly, is the condition of the 

 market in mid-October, a condition that 

 affords reasons for looking forward to a 

 good season. 



Current Events. 



John Young, secretary of the Society 

 of American Florists, has sent out a 

 well written circular letter to all the 

 florists in Pennsylvania, urging them to 

 join the national society now. The 

 strong argument is used that in these 

 times of overproduction our interests 



