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The Florists^ Review 



Aloust 27, 1914. 



How Travelers for Florists' Supplies Houses Set Up Their Samples in Hotels Along the Road. 



Ill cents aiitl a corsajio bouquet free ti) 

 everyone wliose puicliases amounted to 

 .30 cents. This {{ives a better idea of 

 ronditions, ]ierhaps, than any general 

 list of prices. 



Jt woubl )iot nee.l a niatheniatieian to 

 count the number of carnations arriv- 

 ing. The number continues to grow 

 less. They can well be sjtared while 

 the flood of asters and gladioli contin- 

 ues. There is no let-up to these, and 

 jirices are at the lowest ebb for each; 

 .*I i>er hundred seems to be the extreme 

 top. and more thousands tiiau are lost 

 in the European war are carted to the 

 ocean every day. As to quality, they 

 have never been excelled. Lilies move 

 slowly in the New York local markets, 

 making out-of-town sliii»ments profit- 

 able, ilere .$J..")(» per hundred buys the 

 select stock. Valley, too, lias reached 

 lower figures. .+1' per hundred being the 

 maximum. Orchids continue abundant, 

 with oidy the best gigas ai)preciHted. 

 Sweet i>eas, hydrangeas and dahlias are 

 aliuudant. It is a siunmer long to be 

 remembered, but the general belief con- 

 tinues in a good time coming this fall 

 and winter if we wait a little longer. 



Various Notes. 



Notice of the death of ^Irs. .T. ^\. 

 l\«dler. wife of the old-time florist of 

 lirooklyn, api>ears in this week's obit- 

 uary column. 



The hosjiitality of the New York 

 ] lorists' Club on the boat to Boston 

 was greatly appreciated Ijy the many 

 visiting florists. Chairman Traendly 

 .•tnd his committee left nothing undone 

 that could add to the enjoyment of all. 

 The ban(|uet room was beautified by 

 contributions from the Kervan Co.. 

 :\r. C. Ford, Walter Sheridan, 1'. .1. 

 Smith and the (Jrowers* Cut Flower Co. 



Tuesday, August IS, AValter K. Sie- 

 brechWOr., and family returned from a 

 two jfKiithK' vacation in the Adiron- 

 dacks. 



.Tubus Koehrs has returned from 

 liurope with some thrilling and reliable 

 stories of the war. There are still 

 many New Yorkers of the florists' 

 trade who are anxiously expected. 



Miss Jennie McNanny, bookkeeper 

 for (has. Millang. is spending two 

 weeks in the Catskills. David A. Dean 

 i-i now with Chas. Millang, having 

 rented his greenhouses at Baldwin, L. 

 1., to .1. Fasanella. 



Large shi})ments from Furope were 

 received last week by the Julius 

 Ivoehra Co., IL F. Darrow, Maltus & 

 Ware, Henry & Lee, R. J. Trwin. Flliott 

 Jt Sons. Weebcr A. Don, K. M. \Vard \- 



Co., H. 11. Derger & (^o., J. :\r. Thor- 

 bnrn & Co., F. K. Pierson Co., A. T. 

 Boddington and the MacNiff Horticul- 

 tural Co. 



The MacNiff Horticultural Co. last 

 week received Ifln cases df Dutch bulbs 

 from Holland on the steamer Nieuw 

 Amsterdam, .and another large ship- 

 ment was due Monday of this week. 

 Auctions begin early in September. 



.losejth Levy, of the Brooklyn Whole- 

 sale Cut Flower Market, and S. Masur, 

 the retail florist of Hrooklyn, spent sev- 

 eral days last week at liowayton, Conn., 

 the guests of F. H. Traendly. Mr. Levy 

 has a branch store at the College Inn, 

 Coney Island. 



Woo<lrow & Marketos are busy with 

 some large contracts for landsca])e 

 work, making this brantdi now their 

 specialty. ^Mr. Woodrow says the short- 

 age in boxwood next s(>ason will create 

 a demand for .mII the e\ frgreens .Amer- 

 ican nurseiymen can jiossibly supply. 



L. B. Xason antl Kobert Jackson were 

 last week the guests of C. B. Austin, the 

 Hrevoort hotel florist, at his summer 

 liome at Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 



Both members of the firm of Bonnet 

 & Blake included the Boston conven- 

 tion in their vacation programs. 



\Vm. II. Kuebler is enlarging his 

 store, building new i<'e boxes and get- 

 ting ready for a big business this win- 

 ter, in his supply department. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



PAWTUCKET, E. I. 



The Market. 



Business during the last week has 

 shown a slight increase, with funeral 

 work still the main outlet for flowers. 

 Asters are plentiful and of good qual- 

 ity. Sweet peas are not so good as 

 usual, owing to the heavy rainfall dur- 

 ing the last week. Some excellent 

 gla<lioli are seen, as well as a few car- 

 nations. The florists have commenced 

 to house their carnations for next year. 



Various Notes. 



Nearly all of the local florists were 

 at the Boston convention and were 

 greatly pleased with the show and with 

 the whole ]>rogram. 



William Sword, of Valley Falls, has 

 satisfied his friends that he is .a fisher- 

 7nan of no little ability. Recently he 

 took a tri]) to W^alluni lake and brought 

 back thirty bass, the smallest of which 

 weighed two and one-half iiounds. 



Letters received from J. C. Potter, 

 ]iark commissioner of Pawtucket, who 



has lieen war-lwund, stated that he 

 was about to sail from England aiul 

 Avould-be due in this eountrv August 'I'l 



J. J. Kelley, of Valley "Falls, while 

 attending the flower show in Boston. 

 bought a quantity of Kentia Belniorc 

 ana and Forsteriana. 



A m^w beauty si)ot is to be laid out 

 in Wrentham, Mass., around the new 

 soldiers' monument. 



The large numbers of army worms, 

 moths and other insects, which ''imscd 

 serious damage in the outlying sections 

 of this city, have almost disappearcij. 

 Their disappearance is attributed to 

 the large flocks of bluebirds in the 

 local it V. T. V. ]',. 



SELLING BY SAMPLE. 



'i he tinie was. not so many years ago, 

 when the traveling salesTiien for the 

 sup|>ly houses, what few of them were 

 on the road, >vere burdened in their 

 ]>eregri nations with nothing more than 

 iv bundle of photographs. Nowadays, 

 however, the traveler must needs carrv 

 some big trunks full of samples, spread 

 them out in attractive array in a big. 

 jdeasant room at the leading hotel and 

 undertake the task of coaxing tlic 

 already overloaded buyer in to see them. 

 Frequently the salesmen travel in jiairs. 

 The illustration shows a display of 

 samples in a St. Louis hotel, by W. W. 

 Kandall and M. A. Leganger, repre- 

 senting the A. L. Kandall Co., Chiciigo. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. J. M. Keller. 



^Irs. J. :M. Keller, the wife of J. 

 Keller, one of the pioneer florists 

 Brooklyn, N. Y.. died .August 21 

 i;ika Park, in the Catskills. Fun. 

 services were held at the home of 

 son-in-law, .M. .lordan, on Sixty-si 

 stieet, Brooklyn, Mond.av, August 



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Nelson Hyde. 



Nelson Hyde, the bS-vear-old soi: 

 H. A. Hyde, of Watsonville, Cal., <iie'l 

 ^londay, August 10, following an op' 

 tion for api>endicitis. He was ii 

 critical couilition when the opera t 

 was performeil, as peritonitis 

 set in. 



He was l>orn in Santa Cruz, June 

 ]S9(i, and came to Watsonville with 

 ]>arents in 1897. He left school in 

 last year of high school to assist 

 father in the florists' business, 

 funeral was held August 12 at 

 familv residence. 



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