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The Florists' Review 



OCTOBBE 27, 1921 



Morris, of Santa Barbara; W. B. Clarke, 

 of San Jose; K. M. Teague, of San 

 Dimas; J. Armstrong and J. D. Meri- 

 weather, of Ontario, and W. Felgate, of 

 Sierra Madre. All of these, either as 

 judges or exhibitors, helped to make 

 this show the wonderful success it has 

 proved to be. And among the home 

 workers such names as J. B. Renfro, F. 

 H. Howard, O. W. Howard, Roy F. Wil- 

 cox, Walter Armacost, Charles F. Gut- 

 ting, Tom Wright, S. Purdie, A. Golden- 

 son and Frank Lichtenberg must not be 

 forgotten. These men have worked and 

 worked and are to be heartily congratu- 

 lated on the success of their efforts. 



H. R. R. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



While some little improvement is 

 noted in the cut flower market, it is 

 more of the change-over variety than 

 material. Outside flowers have given 

 way to indoor-grown stock, and rev- 

 enues have returned in large measure to 

 operators of greenhouse establishments. 

 This is, really, the improvement. In- 

 stead of a wealth of outside material, we 

 now have a wealth of indoor material in 

 the shape of chrysanthemums. The gen- 

 eral dc^mand has improved little, and 

 the problems of wholesalers wrestled 

 with in the last few weeks are little 

 changed. 



Roses are plentiful and the quality is 

 excellent, but the demand for them is 

 not active. American Beauty is in good 

 supply, with hardly enough buyers to 

 clean out a day's receipts. Hybrid teas 

 are in good crop and of fine quality, but, 

 with a demand not commensurate with 

 the supply, prices have tumbled from 

 last week 's quotations. 



The supply of carnations is increasing 

 day by day, but arrivals are generally 

 short-stemmed. Flowers with the long- 

 est stems are coming from Maine. 

 Prices vacillate according to the daily 

 demand. 



The supply of white lilies is not in- 

 creased, and quotations are unchanged 

 except for top quality. Valley is in 

 oversupply and prices have tumbled. 



Cattleyas are plentiful and the de- 

 mand for them is fairly good. The va- 

 rieties Percivaliana and labiata form 

 the chief supply. 



In spite of some fairly severe frosts, . 

 there is still a quantity of herbaceous 

 material offered. Dahlias, cosmos, corn- 

 flowers, gaillardias, gypsophila, asters 

 and a few other items are available. 

 Some indoor snapdragon is arriving and 

 sells at $1.50 per bunch for the best. 

 There is an avalanche of outdoor chrys- 

 anthemums, chiefly pompons and singles, 

 with some of the early varieties of the 

 larger sorts protected. These with the 

 indoor cut make for congestion. 



Various Notes. 



William Bennett, of Blue Point, L. I., 

 of the firm of Bennett & Son, was se- 

 verely injured, his shoulder blade being 

 broken, in a motor car collision on the 

 Montauk highway at Oakdale, L. I., on 

 the evening of Tuesday, October 18. His 

 wife, who was with him, suffered two 

 fractured ribs, and their daughter, 

 Mabel, had the bones of one h.and 

 broken. Mr. Bennett was carrying a 

 load of sashes from Bay Shore to Blue 

 Point. The collision was the result of 

 a previous collision of two trucks, one 

 of which was thrown into the path of 



the Bennett car, which was completely 

 demolished. 



The past presidents of the New York 

 Florists' Club held a dinner at Billy the 

 Oysterman's Friday, October 21. J. C. 

 Vaughan, of Chicago, was the guest at 

 the dinner of F. H. Traendly, and V, J. 

 Gorly, of St. Louis, was the guest of 

 G. E. M. Stumpp. 



John Young, secretary of the S. A. F., 

 is getting ready to start on one of the 

 field trips which his society has ar- 

 ranged he should make in its interests. 



Arthur Weston, son of Henry Weston, 

 Hempstead, and Walter Pepper, son of 

 J. H. Pepper, of the same town, have 

 gone to New Brunswick, Canada, in 

 quest of big game. 



Eugene Dailledouzc, of Flatbush, is 

 reported to be confined to his room 

 through illness of a rather serious na- 

 ture. 



Many in the trade are planning to at- 

 tend the annual show of the Essex 

 County Floricultural Society, at Morris- 

 town, N. J., next week. J. H. P. 



Massas, who has occupied the prem- 

 ises on the northeast corner of Lenox 

 avenue and One Hundred and Twenty- 

 ninth street for thirty-two years, has 

 purchased the property from the estate 

 of the late William Waldorf Astor. The 

 lot is 100x191.8 feet. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



The Market. 



The weather is remarkable for this 

 time of the year. Last week two or 

 three rainy days, which were particu- 

 larly autumn-like, were the dreariest 

 days so far this season. The rest of the 

 week was warm and not at all season- 

 able. A severe frost has, as yet, been 

 unheard-of throughout this locality. 

 The few lighter frosts have cut off some 

 of the outdoor stock, but some splendid 

 dahlias are coming in daily. These sell 

 readily. Good outdoor calendulas are 

 also seen. Other outdoor stock, with 

 the exception of a few asters, holds little 

 prominence in this market. 



Chrysanthemums hold first place now 

 and the market is fairly well taken 

 care of. Carnations are steadily increas- 

 ing with all the growers and a marked 

 improvement is seen both in bloom 

 and stem. Double violets reach us each 

 day, but, until the cooler weather comes, 

 the quality will not improve to any ex- 

 tent. 



Orchids and cypripediums are of good 

 quality and sell well. The rose supply 

 is larger than that of a week or two ago. 



Funeral work last week created a 

 good demand for the shorter grades of 

 stock, of which a fair amount was avail- 

 able. 



Various Notes. 



Dewey H. Lester, for a long time with 

 the Rochester Floral Co. and for several 

 months, with the postal department in 

 New York city, has been transferred to 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Among the visitors to the trade last 

 week were Mr. and Mrs. Presaich, of Lo- 

 Roy, N. Y.; W. E. Bates, of Oakfield, 

 N. Y.; N. Condos and James Bacallas, 

 of Corning, N. Y., and Stephen D. Green, 

 of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



Nick Calvoss, formerly of the Aster 

 Flower Shop, is now in the employ of 

 Mercury Bros., who have opened a 

 flower department in their candy store. 



H. Stettner, of the Crescent Seed 

 Farm, has been coming in regularly with 

 some good outdoor stock, which, how- 

 ever, is gradually becoming less plenti- 

 ful. 



Alberts the Florist had a big decora- 

 tion in his TTindow for the week-end. 

 This was composed chiefly of chrysan- 

 themums and pompons. This mass of 

 bright colors also included red cyc- 

 lamens and lavender primroses. 



Salter Bros, conducted a plant sale 

 for Saturday, October 22, which moved 

 a large quantity at $1.50 each at the 

 East Main street store. Business, R. G. 

 Salter says, is picking up nicely. 



Jacob Thomann & Sons have had an- 

 other busy week with funeral work, 

 which has been particularly heavy. 

 Their store trade is also good. 



Herman MuUer, of East Rochester, 

 N. Y., says that business is opening up 

 well this season and that the demand 

 for funeral work is increasing. 



Charles Suhr is growing some good 

 primroses and Boston ferns, which are 

 in good demand. Chrysanthemums are 

 coming along wonderfully well and a 

 good crop is expected. 



The new greenhouse of David Mc- 

 Gregor is completed and the benches 

 and planting are practically finished. In 

 addition to the new house, a big im- 

 provement has been made by the en- 

 largement of the store and workroom 

 adjoining. Above this is a spacious 

 storeroom, which, during the busy sea- 

 sons, can be used comfortably as a work- 

 room, there being plenty of light and 

 good ventilation. 



Hugo Teute's house of cyclamens is 

 beginning to look like the holiday sea- 

 son. Thousands of plants are coming 

 into bloom in excellent shape. He 

 also Uas a mammoth showing of Primula 

 obconica. A fine demand for this is 

 alreadv seen. H. J. H. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Edward Brooke, of T. J. Johnston & 

 Co., took a business trip through Con- 

 necticut last week. He was looking for 

 new stock. 



The Kenyon Avenue Floral Co., Wake- 

 field, celebrated its tenth anniversary 

 October 22, putting out 10,000 chrysan- 

 themums at 10 cents each, at the com- 

 pany's greenhouses. 



Wallace E. Browning, of Hope Val- 

 ley, who was operated upon at the 

 Rhode Island hospital. Providence, two 

 weeks ago for an abscess on the appen- 

 dix, is reported as convalescing. 



One of the large house furnishing 

 stores of Providence held its annual 

 sale of Boston ferns last week, handling 

 6,000 at .35 cents each. 



Under the management of his new 

 superintendent, Joseph Koppelman has 

 made a complete rearrangement of his 

 liousos near Riverside and is cutting 

 some fine early crops. Mr. Koppelman 

 was a business visitor in New York and 

 Philadelphia last week. 



Eugene Seymour, of Warren, had a 

 narrow escape from serious injury in an 

 .•lutomobilc accident a few days ago. 



Fred Davis has some crops coming 

 ;ilong in the old Johnston greenhouse 

 on Hope street. He is cutting carna- 

 tions and mums in large quantities. 



C. T.' McCarthy, who recently took 

 over the management of Burke & Burns, 

 lias completely overhauled the entire 

 range of greenhouses and the incoming 

 crop of roses promises to surpass any 

 ])revious season's crop. W. H. M. 



