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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



May 25, 1911. 



NEW TOBE. 



Tbe Market. 



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There is little change to note in the 

 condition of the wholesale cut flower 

 market, and one may honestly duplicate 

 last week's observations. The week 

 end, as usual, was utilized to clear out 

 the surplus and clean up the bulging 

 ice boxes. P^ce was the last con- 

 sideration. Miasummer conditions pre- 

 vail. The expected decrease in ship- 

 ments still is unrealized and the busi- 

 ness in general is at its lowest May 

 ebb in a generation. 



An enormous plant Memorial day 

 trade is assured, but the increase in the 

 demand for cut flowers, apart from 

 white roses, carnations and lilies, will 

 not be noticeable. Boses show the 

 effect of the warm spell, the tempera- 

 ture now hugging 80 degrees, with great 

 humidity. Killarney is still demonstrat- 

 ing its value as an all-the-year rose, 

 and its immense productiveness shows 

 no decrease. Eichmond is about over 

 for the season. The supply of Bride 

 and Maid is limited. Carnations also 

 show the effect of the hot weather. 

 Many are already thrown out, but the 

 lessened supply has not boosted the 

 price, and 2 cents is the top for, the 

 best of them. Orchids are abundant 

 and lower, but they have not reached 

 the humiliation of the street, where 

 gardenias and roses seem to find their 

 safest outlet. Lilies still sell for $4 

 per hundred and only the best of tne 

 sweet peas are salable. Gladioli, irises 

 and peonies are here in large supply 

 and ^ilac is so abundant that every 

 groceryman sells it, and most of them 

 have added pansies and geraniums to 

 their vegetable counters. 



The green goods men ship lilac from 

 the country in vanloads. This week 

 ought to see the end of it. Iris and 

 peony stock is perfect, and the ship- 

 ments of each unexpectedly large. 

 Decoration day is near and its success 

 is always assured. 



The first part of June will see the 

 summer market established and its 

 three months of recuperation begun. 



Various Notes. 



S. S, Butterfield has left the hos- 

 pital and is convalescing at his Brook- 

 lyn residence. Mrs. Butterfield came 

 from Oklahoma to assist in his recovery. 



Doubleday, Page & Co., of Garden 

 City, have sent out invitations for a re- 

 ception at their new establishment. 

 May 23. 



B. Eosens leaves next month for 'i 

 European trip and will purchase novel- 

 ties for the supply market while away. 



J. Lichtenberger, another of the sup- 

 ply men, reports a successful season, 

 and a growing demand for his gold let- 

 ters specialty. 



The Johnston Heating Co. reports a 

 splendid season. The exhibit at the 

 Boston show brought many orders, and 

 the company has decided to make a 

 fine display at Baltimore. 



The veteran wholesaler, J. K. Allen, 

 has been fighting the grip for some 

 days. 



F. H. Mitchell, of Waterville, Me., 

 was a recent visitor. 



Frederick V. Colville will lecture 

 May 27 at the Museum building, Bronx 

 park, on ' ' The Influence of Soil Acidity 

 on Plant Distribution." 



The Pennock-Meehan Co. has leased 

 the four-story building at 117 West 



Twenty-eighth street for a term of 

 years, commencing May 1, 1912. The 

 firm will remain in its present location 

 in the meantime. The new store is next 

 door to the Kervan Co. 



Several of the wholesalers are doing 

 duty as jurors, the engagement cover- 

 ing several weeks. Jos. A. Fenrich 

 is on the grand jury, but finds time, as 

 chairman of the outing committee of the 

 Florists' Club, to boom the annual 

 festival. 



W. P. Ford is enjoying his leisure 

 days at his farm in Pennsylvania. 



Jonathan Nash, of Moore, Hentz & 

 Nash, was one of the grip victims. He 

 was back at his desk May 20. The 

 contemplated trip to Europe with Mrs. 

 Nash will fit him for the strenuous 

 autumn season. 



Loechner & Haase have chosen 11 

 Warren street for their office, an excel- 

 lent location. They will do an import- 

 ing business in trees, bulbs and horti- 

 cultural specialHies. Mr. Loechner 

 was long connected with the Yoko- 

 hama Nursery Co. 



Several local nurserymen will attend 

 the nurserymen's convention, at St. 

 Louis, June 14 to 16. The nurserymen 

 in this vicinity have had one of the 

 most profitable and long-extended sea- 

 sons in their experience. 



Andrew Wilson has been away, in the 

 interests of the Wilson Plant Oil & 

 Fertilizer Co., in Pittsburg and the 

 west. 



Wm. H. Kuebler was at Bingh^ton 

 with sixty of his fellow Shrine^ last 

 week. X 



Charles Millang has been addini 

 his force of salesmen, and has 

 some large plant sales lately froi 

 branch on the second floor of 

 Coogan building. 



Maurice L. Glass, of A. Moltz & Co., 

 is away on his honeymoon in the Adir- 

 ondacks. The church and dining-room 

 at the wedding were beautifully deco 

 rated by a Brooklyn artist. 



Bowling. 



The match between Madison and the 

 New York seedsmen, which was an- 

 nounced for May 20, was postponed 

 because of the illness of the club's 

 anchor, William Duckham. Madison 

 will therefore take its medicine a lit- 

 tle later. The match between Tuxedo 

 ' and New York will take place at 

 Thumm's alleys, Thirty-first street and 

 Broadway, Saturday evening, May 27. 

 Greater interest is shown in the New 

 York club since the contest for mem- 

 bership in the team at Baltimore be- 

 gan. Chadwick made 227 and 230 May 

 19 and several of the club went well 

 over 180. The members present also 

 included Messrs. Fenrich, Nugent, Holt, 

 W. Eickards, Kakuda, Scott, Shaw and 

 Manda. There will be bowling every 

 Friday evening until August. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



MONTGOMERY, ALA. 



After a long dry spell, which was a 

 cause of great anxiety to the farmers 

 in this vicinity, we have had two re- 

 freshing rains, and vegetation is once 

 more on the bright side. This is the 

 one serious drawback to this section of 

 the south; the extremes are too great, 

 and it keeps one guessing and on the 

 anxious seat all the time. When it is 

 dry it is very, very dry, and when it 

 rains it just pours, pounding the soil 

 so that more water runs off than is 



absorbed. Planting, which was halted 

 by reason of the drought, will now be 

 resumed. Eoses in the open ground 

 are growing finely, and bulbous stock 

 as well. Sweet peas are in their prime 

 and imn\ense quantities are used at 

 good prices. 



Carnations are now grown .entirely 

 in pots, the uncertain conditions of the 

 weather preventing their planting in 

 the fieldr Planting in the houses has 

 commenced. Eoses, which are rotated 

 in the houses, are all planted except 

 those carried over, which are in good 

 crop. 



Some varieties of herbaceous plants 

 succeed admirably, but many of the 

 finer sorts are a total failure, either 

 being drowned out or burned up. They 

 succeed better in some soils than others. 



Business still is fine. Mothers' day 

 was over double last year, with prices 

 good, the out-of-town trade being es- 

 pecially heavy. Orders came in early 

 in the week and continued until the 

 morning of Saturday, when the home 

 rush commenced. Carnations seemed 

 to have the call, although toward the 

 last everything in the flower line was 

 bought up. Paterson says he couid have 

 sold more home-grown stock if he had 

 it, having to turn down orders from the 

 trade in surrounding territory. 



W. C. C. 



DAYTON, O. 



The Market. 



With the aid of a few showers and 

 warm sunshine, blooming shrubs will 

 all be over by Decoration day, so that 

 will be one thing less that the florists 

 will have to contend with. With the 

 same favorable weather conditions, 

 peonies will come in just right. Some 

 of the early reds are having their day 

 now. Orders for cut flowers of all 

 kinds for Memorial day are coming in 

 fast, and while stock along some lines 

 will be scarce, there will be other stock 

 to substitute. The exceedingly warm 

 weather has greatly diminished the size 

 of roses, but is producing big cuts, and 

 though the demand at present is dull, 

 they will not come amiss for the coming 

 big day. Carnations, while more abun- 

 dant, are also smaller, besides being a 

 little sunburnt and faded — quite in 

 keeping with the season of the. .year. 

 There will be a good supply of gladioli, 

 which readily find purchasers. Lilies, 

 too, will add to tne variety, while 

 peonies will not be far behind. 



The warm weather has also helped 

 the bedding plant business along, as it 

 has been favorable to planting out. 

 Thus the florist is expecting that he 

 will have all his plant orders out before 

 the cut flower demand comes on. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Young have just 

 received word of the approaching mar- 

 riage of their youngest son, Frank 

 Young, to Miss Pexton, Vicksburg, 

 Miss., which will take place June 7, at 

 the Trinity church in Vicksburg. 



The home of George Bartholomew was 

 the scene of a gay time on the evening 

 of May 19, when a large crowd of 

 friends came in to help him celebrate 

 his birthday. Mr. Bartholomew, who 

 intends to sail for England in July, was 

 the recipient of many handsome gifts, 

 which will be of great use to him on his 

 trip. Fred Lembke, of W. W. Barnard 

 Co., Chicago, who had been traveling 



