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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBEB 28, 1915. 



amount of funeral work during the last 

 few weeks and has recently had three 

 large weddings. The fall work is open- 

 ing well and the outlook for the future 

 is good. 



August Begerow reports business bet- 

 ter, but still a little slow. 



The flower and plant department at 

 the new store of Goerke & Co., at 

 Broad and Cedar streets, reports busi- 

 ness as highly satisfactory. Last week 

 many of the Newark stores observed 

 "Shop in Newark" week. Because of 

 this a number of bargains were offered. 

 Special prices were made on potted 

 ferns and fern dishes. 



A feature of the window display at 

 the store of George Penek, 637 Broad 

 street, last week was a cage of "waltz- 

 ing" mice. Their antics attracted a 

 large crowd continuously and served to 

 call attention to the beautiful display 

 of flowers in the window. 



Improved business is reported at the 

 store of Chris. Penek, 173 Market street. 



Strobell & Co., 895 Broad street, re- 

 port that business is improving, but is 

 spotty — active one week and quiet the 

 next. Good business is expected, how- 

 ever, during the fall and winter. Pot- 

 ted fern jars were a feature of the dis- 

 play in one of the windows last week. 



The Clinton Hill Improvement Asso- 

 ciation set aside two Saturdays, Octo- 

 ber 23 and 30, for the purpose of plant- 

 ing bulbs in school enclosures, parks 

 and open grass plots, and several thou- 

 sands of bulbs were planted on the first 

 date by the citizens, with the coopera- 

 tion of the school children. R. B. M. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



Business continues to hold uj) well, in 

 spite of the large supply of stock. Mums 

 are arriving in much larger quantities, 

 Chrysolora holding the stage in yellow. 

 White is plentiful in the medium grades, 

 but few good pinks are to be had. Sev- 

 eral orders for pinks were unfilled last 

 week. Roses have increased in quantity 

 and improved in quality. They ex- 

 perience a good demand. Carnations are 

 of good quality and sell well. There is 

 an oversupply of greens. 



The clear, cool weather of the last two 

 weeks showed its effect on dahlias by 

 bringing them out in surprising quanti- 

 ties and of really fine quality. The sup- 

 ply of dahlias, while as large as at any 

 time during the season, was moved at 

 fair prices, but there will be no more 

 dahlias in the market for another year, 

 as the heavy frost of October 23 de- 

 stroyed all outdoor stock, such as dahlias, 

 cannas, etc. 



Various Notes. 



F. B. Welsh is shipping some good 

 Amorita and Halliday mums to the S. S. 

 Pennock-Meehan Co. from his place at 

 Glen Morris. 



In addition to excellent mums, Charles 

 Siegwart has been cutting good cat- 

 tleyas, which find a ready sale. The 

 specimen chrysanthemum plants which 

 he intends to enter in the show of No- 

 vember 16 to 20 are certain to find 

 places among the winners. 



Gustav Lotze, Jr., has a new yellow 

 seedling mum of his own origination, of 

 which he may be justly proud. Some of 

 the blooms sent to the C. S. A. commit- 

 tees at Philadelphia scored ninety points 

 on the commercial scale and eightj'-nine 

 points on the exhibition scale. 



Miss Altinia Van Reuth, aged 70 

 years, died at the home of her brother, 

 Lucien Van Reuth, Harford road, Oc- 

 tober 22. The trade extend their sympa- 

 thies to Mr. Van Reuth. 



Stevenson Bros, are sending in good 

 Ward roses to the Leo Niessen Co. 



, W. F. E. 



SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 



The Market. 



The wholesale market for cut flowers 

 is again active and the cash receipts for 

 the month will surpass any previous 

 year. The summer season greatly ex- 

 ceeded that of any other year. The 

 days get pretty warm yet, but the tem- 

 perature has been low at night and the 

 boilers have been fired for a month. 

 Never before has rain been so scarce. 

 Due to this fact the carnation plants 

 were not brought into the greenhouses 

 from the fields as early as usual, await- 

 ing a storm and cloudy weather. For the 

 last two months any kind of a carna- 

 tion could be disposed of. The best 

 carnations are being sold at $3 per 

 hundred and the seconds at $2 per hun- 

 dred. The rose crop is fine and there has 

 been no shortage as yet, except on novel- 

 ties, such as Ophelia and Hadley. The 

 price reaches as high as $10 per hundred 

 on these. The stems of the roses are 

 straight and firm, the majority of them 

 being classed as medium grade. The 

 call for roses of late has been large and 

 all demands have been satisfied. Mrs. 

 Taft is going to make a big hit this 

 season. Shawyer, as usual, is preferred 

 in pink roses. Killarney is good, but 

 it looks as if it would not be long be- 

 fore it will not be grown at all. Had- 

 ley and Hoosier Beauty are preferred 

 to Richmond. Hillingdon does not move 

 so well and it will be replaced by 

 Ophelia next year. Beauties were quite 

 scarce before the chrysanthemum sea- 

 sou began, br.t there are plenty of them 

 now, and not much of a demand. 



All the stores are well supplied with 

 chrysanthemums, but the local growers 

 have been sliort and could not keep the 

 retailers in stock, which caused them 

 to resort to the California market. The 

 earlier varieties, October Frost and 

 Polly Rose, are gone. Chrysolora and 

 Pacific Supreme are heaviest on the 

 market at present and will soon be fol- 

 lowed by Bonnaffon, Timothy Eaton, 

 Chieftain and others. 



Plants do not move well at present. 

 The potted chrysanthemums and Boston 

 and Whitman! ferns prevail. 



Various Notes. 



George Wray has reopened a flower 

 store with the Keith O'Brien people, 

 at the corner of State street and Broad- 

 way. By all indications, he will have 

 a good business for the coming season. 



William Sorensen, of the Intermoun- 

 tain Floral Co., has placed the first 

 sweet peas on the market. He also has 

 a fine stock of valley. 



The Salt Lake FJoral Co. is having 

 good success with orchids. 



The Rieben Floral Co. is growing 

 roses. 



Mrs. Conklin, of the B. C. Morris 

 Floral Co., has returned from a visit to 

 California. 



L. M. Law has taken over the busi- 

 ness of W. W. King, at 214 East Second 

 South street, and reports doing a good 

 trade. 



The Evans Floral Co. reports that fu- 

 neral work has been heavy. 



The Porter-Walton Co. says that de- 

 liveries of hardy trees and shrubs have 

 begun and that the funeral work has 

 been good. 



Utah Notes. 



The Miller Floral Co., of Farmington, 

 says conditions were never better for a 

 successful year's business. Large ship- 

 ments of palms have been received from 

 Henry A. Dreer, Poehlmann Bros. Co. 

 and the C. C. Pollworth Co., to place 

 in the new greenhouse which has just 

 been erected for the enlargement of the 

 plant department. 



Elizabeth Huth, who runs the Flower 

 Shop in Ogden, says that funeral work 

 has been heavy and business is good. 



O. Lindgren, of Bountiful, has added 

 four new greenhouses to his range of 

 glass. 



S. B. Eckstein, the designer whom the 

 Miller Floral Co. obtained in New York, 

 met with a little ill luck, the house 

 where he resided being burned, but all 

 the furniture was got out in time to 

 escape the fire. 



A. Silvester, who ran a flower store 

 in Park City, has gone to Rexburg, 

 Idaho, to open a flower shop. O. F. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The balmy autumn weather last week 

 had a good effect on business, aiding the 

 wholesalers in disposing of the largely 

 increased supply of flowers. A clean- 

 up, however, can hardly be reported, as 

 mums have now assumed their usual im- 

 portance and other cut stock has only 

 an ordinary demand. , 



In mums, all the early varieties are 

 now crowding the market. Some extra 

 fine blooms were noted and these 

 brought $3 per dozen. There are plenty 

 of small white chrysanthemums, which 

 sell well for funeral work. All varie- 

 ties of roses are arriving. Beauties are 

 all that could be desired in both quality 

 and quantity. Prices have gone down 

 somewhat, but remain firm on the extra 

 fancy grades. Carnations are arriving 

 in large quantities, with the ordinary 

 grades greatly exceeding the fancy. 

 Prices run from $5 to $20 per thousand. 

 Violets, too, are plentiful, .but the qual- 

 ity is not up to standard. Orchids are 

 only in fair supply and meet with a 

 good sale. Easter lilies are fine and 

 bring $12.50 per hundred. Valley holds 

 its regular price and the demand 

 equals the supply. The quality is of 

 the best. There was an excellent de- 

 mand for asparagus last week. Wild 

 smilax, too, came in for its share of the 

 demand. 



Various Notes. 



The St. Louis County Growers' Asso- 

 ciation will hold its monthly meeting 

 November 3 at the Eleven Mile House. 

 A large amount of important business 

 will be transacted. Secretary Joseph 

 Deutschmann is sending out strong 

 notices to the members. 



The Foster Floral Co., at Seventh and 

 Olive streets, will move this week to 

 Sixth and Locust streets. 



The Schoenle Floral Co. is sporting a 

 new auto delivery car, which Mrs. 

 Schoenle says was much needed in this 

 fast growing business. The display of 

 cut mums at the store last week was 

 quite attractive. 



Werner Bros., who supply this mar- 

 ket with roses of fine quality, are also 



