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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 16, 1908. 



When we met him he said business was 

 rather slow at present. 



P. G. Lacey, with the W. H. Humfeld 

 Floral Co., has been quite sick the last 

 two weeks, but we are glad to see him 

 able to be in our midst again. 



W. H. H. 



DETROIT. 



The Market 



Exceedingly hot weather has killed 

 what little business there was. It has 

 also had its effects on stock, 



Roses are fair to middling. Carnations 

 are all in. 



About the best flowers on the market 

 at present are sweet peas. 



The first lot of asters was seen at the 

 commission house Monday, July 13. 



Various Notes. 



The following rates have been procured 

 by our transportation committee from 

 the Detroit & Buffalo line for the round 

 trip to Buffalo during the S. A. F. con- 

 vention: For from ten to fifty delegates, 

 $5 round trip. For from fifty to 100 del- 

 egates, $4, For over 100 delegates, $3.50. 

 State rooms, each carrying three people, 

 $2.50 each way. This rate is for a ten- 

 day limit, delegates returning singly if 

 they so wish, but leaving Detroit in a 

 body for the convention. 



Ferdinand Kolbe again has the use of 

 his right hand. A cut resulting in blood 

 poisoning disabled him for nearly a 

 month. Being just at the height of the 

 plant season, this meant a serious loss to 

 Mr. Kolbe. 



While the Tigers were cleaning up 

 their opponents, the Michigan Cut Flower 

 Exchange ball team beat the Detroit Cut 

 Flower Supply House team to a stand- 

 still on Belle Isle Friday, June 10. This 

 time the defeated team took their loss 

 much more to heart than the last time. 

 Louis Charvat was confident his side 

 would win, but, while he put up a good 

 fight, they were no match for the Michi- 

 gan Cut, captained by Robert Rahaley. 

 The feature of the day was Rahaley 's 

 fin^ work as catcher and the rapid fire 

 pitching of Andrew Ferguson, Jr. Well, 

 I nearly forgot the score and I guess 

 Louis wishes I had. Here it is: 19 to 4. 

 Arthur Forth, mascot for the winners, has 

 a set of lungs like an airship. 



Two of Breitmeyer's staff, Frank Dan- 

 zer and Miss Hattie Holzhauer, are on 

 their vacations. 



Albert Dilger and his son, of Chicago, 

 are in Detroit visiting with Wm. Dilger, 

 a brother. 



Mrs. Hugo Schroeter is home again 

 from a long visit in the east. 



Philip Breitmeyer, who has made an 

 enviable record as park commissioner of 

 this city, oflBcially announced his being a 

 candidate on the republican ticket for 

 nomination for mayor. While some of 

 his friends in the florists' business think 

 he is making a mistake in entering so 

 deeply into the political field, he has the 

 best wishes and support of his numerous 

 frietids in the trade, who all hope, for 

 . the benefit of the whole community, to 

 see him land at his destination far in the 

 lead of his opponents. 



The Michigan Cut Flower Exchange 

 has commenced the annual house-clean- 

 ing. Hammond's paint is being used to 

 good advantage on the woodwork. 



B. Schroeter had the decorations at the 

 Light Guard Armory for the large ex- 

 hibit of the Eastman Kodak Co. 



Harvey Pierce had a valuable gold 



watch stolen out of his coat pocket dur- 

 ing the ball game on Belle Isle last Fri- 

 day, July 10. 



Miss Hattie Klagge and Miss C. Rauss, 

 both of Breitmeyer's staff, have just re- 

 turned from a month's vacation. Miss 

 Klagge spent a delightful time in Mount 

 Clemens. Miss Rauss also spent some of 

 the time in the Bath City. 



The incorporation of the Lohrman Seed 

 Co. was announced in the Legal News 

 under date of June 30. Tlie stockhold- 

 ers are Chas. T. Lohrman, Philip Breit- 

 meyer, Harry Breitmeyer and E. Bleil. 

 Capital stock, all paid, $10,000. 



The Detroit Florists' Club held its 

 last meeting July 15, at the home 

 grounds of Secretary Sullivan. This was 

 a departure from the usual method, as 

 the meetings are generally held in the 

 club room. The weather being favor- 

 able, it was thought an open air meeting 

 would be more pleasant than an indoor 

 one. H. S. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market 



The market shows no vitality. The 

 severe drought and intense heat continue. 

 Sunday the humidity was unbearable and 

 the temperature 100 degrees, the hottest 

 day of the season. Great damage is 

 done the vegetable crops. Now the po- 

 tatoes are 'feeling the bad effects of the 

 drought and there is little hope for the 

 tomatoes. If heavy rains do not come 

 soon, the loss will be large. 



Hardly any stock is reaching the mar- 

 ket in roses and carnations. Most of the 

 rose stock of all kinds is barely salable. 

 The street merchants have gone to the 

 summer resorts, so that this outlet is 

 practically closed. 



The quiet of the country prevails in 

 the wholesale market. After noon all 

 stores are as good as closed. One whole- 

 saler declares it would be a godsend to 

 every department of the business, and a 

 saving of money, to close the doors ab- 

 solutely during July and August. This 

 applies to the retail section also, where 

 receipts cannot meet the item of rent 

 alone. If it were not for the cemeteries, 

 there would be no call for flowers 

 whatever. Society is at the seaside or the 

 mountains. No one marries in July and 

 August. 



About the only flowers in the whole- 

 sale windows on Monday were the gladi- 

 oli. Local stock is now arriving and 

 prices are retrograding. Before July 

 25 the old-time summer prices will pre- 

 vail. Even the retail windows, apart 

 from these and water lilies, look barren 

 and unprofitable. Rapidly the stores are 

 growing lonesome, the wholesalers taking 

 their usual summer holiday or gener- 

 ously sending their employees away for 

 needed recreation. 



Many of the shippers seem to have 

 taken the hint as to the uselessness 

 of paying express charges on stuff that 

 is unsalable and are disposing of it 

 locally or putting it in the discard. It 

 is nonsense to send anything but perfect 

 stock now to the New York wholesale 

 market. 



A few nice asters are arriving. Lilies 

 have never recovered from the solar plex- 

 us blow given them at Easter. The older 

 wholesalers say this is the severest year 

 ever known in the business in New York, 

 but the signs of the times are not dis- 

 couraging. The tide of prosperity has 

 turned. With the shelving of political ' 



unrest will come renewed confidence and 

 enterprise. The great harvests now as- 

 sured make continued hard times im- 

 possible, and there is a spirit of optimism 

 everywhere that gives hope and inspira- 

 tion to all. 



Various Notes. 



President F. H. Traendly contemplates 

 a trip shortly to Niagara Falls to coop- 

 erate with the other officials in consum- 

 mating all needed arrangements for the 

 convention. • 



Everybody from New York I speak 

 to concerning the convention seems to 

 be arranging for the holiday. No one 

 can afford to miss it this year and the 

 special train with its seductive comforts 

 will appeal to all. Chairman Rickards 

 is already planning for the comfort of 

 the excursionists. Messrs. O'Mara and 

 Young, of the transportation committee, 

 are busy with arrangements for the en- 

 joyment of all, and our exhibitors in 

 every branch of the trade have already 

 secured space for large displays. 



John I. Raynor has some good Beau- 

 ties from Newport. 



The New York and New Jersey plant 

 growers were greatly encouraged by their 

 summer outing and contemplated another 

 reunion shortly, with one of the famous 

 shore fish dinners. 



The young horticulturists of the city 

 are now being drilled and taught by 

 Superintendent Hanna, of the Rockefel- 

 ler Institute, in the mysteries of raising 

 vegetables of all kinds, at the acre plots 

 set aside by the public schools for va- 

 cation work, and wonderfully interest- 

 ing and instructive these miniature farms 

 become under the enthusiastic culture of 

 the school children. These schools con- 

 tinue until October. 



Emil Schloss and family are at Asbury 

 Park, N. J., for the summer. Mr. Schloss 

 will be at the convention with a large 

 exhibit, as usual. 



George Saltford is entertaining his 

 brother and family, from Poughkeepsie, 

 this week and will shortly enjoy his an- 

 nual outing at his old home at Rhine- 

 beck. 



Sidney Wertheimer landed in Europe 

 July 9, and will visit the silk manufac- 

 'tories of France and Switzerland while 

 away. His trip will continue until the 

 middle of August and the firm says there 

 will be many novelties in the exhibit at 

 Niagara Falls. 



O. v. Zangen is busy at his seed farm 

 in Jersey. He has several acres of his 

 new salvia, Zurich, and his improved 

 compacta, Fireball, and says his business 

 for the year has been most satisfac- 

 tory. 



C. B. Knickman, with McHutchison 

 & Co., has just returned from a west- 

 ern trip, visiting as far as the coast. 

 One of his orders was a four-car importa- 

 tion contract from Clarke Bros., of 

 Portland, Ore. Mr. Knickman leaves for 

 a business and pleasure trip to Europe 

 next week, his first foreign experience. 



Lyman Joslin, gardener of Richmond 

 Hill, N. J., is in St. Mary's hospital, 

 Jamaica, suffering from a serious cut in 

 the throat, inflicted by a vegetable knife 

 used by himself while temporarily de- 

 ranged. 



J. E. Fenrich and family are at As- 

 bury Park. 



W. H. Donohoe and family are now 

 summering at College Point. Their resi- 

 dence is close to the scene of the big fire 

 that swept away some of the beach hotels 

 and resorts and crept close to Wetzel's, 



