

14 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 27, 1911. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



A heavy rain July 23 put the finish- 

 ing touches on the garden department, 

 and completed the recovery of vege- 

 tation from the effects of the long 

 continued drought. The outlook now 

 for good crops is most encouraging. 

 In the cauliflower market there has 

 been no change. Few of the new roses 

 are arriving. These, if of good quality, 

 are snapped up at fair prices. The 

 great majority of arrivals are short- 

 stemmed and no definite quotation of 

 value is possible. The clean-up of 

 roses depends on the funeral require- 

 ments. Few good Beauties are seen. 

 These hold at 25 cents. The supply 

 will increase rapidly from now on, but 

 no better prices can be expected be- 

 fore the end of August, 



The carnation shipments are light, 

 and few of the flowers are worthy of 

 the name; $1 per hundred seems to be 

 top for the best of them, and 25 cents 

 to 50 cents per hundred takes the re- 

 mainder. Valley and lilies alone have 

 made advances that deserve recogni- 

 tion. The hot weather and scarcity 

 raised them to almost double last 

 week's quotations. Good valley 

 touched 4 cents, lilies 8 cents, and there 

 were not enough of them July 22 to go 

 around. Orchids are scarce. A few 

 gigas sold at 60 cents to 75 cents each. 

 The shipments of asters were heavy at 

 the end of last week, and $1 to $2 per 

 hundred was the figure for most of 

 them. Some of the wholesalers were 

 selling them at 25 cents a bunch. The 

 supply this week will be immense. The 

 gladiolus shipments are increasing daily. 

 Prices for the new and white varieties 

 were from $3 to $4 per hundred. The 

 big growers have already sent out their 

 announcements of direct shipments to 

 retailers, to begin before the end of 

 July, at 50 cents per hundred in 250 

 lots and over. There will be an un- 

 limited supply. Smilax sold as low as 

 25 cents per dozen strings July 22. 

 The sweet pea stock is below the av- 

 erage. Only the selected sells. Even 

 the street merchants have deserted the 

 city, and there is but little doing at 

 the department stores. 



Various Notes. 



Everybody is talking convention, now 

 less than three weeks away, and every- 

 body seems to be going on the New 

 York Florists' Club's special train, at 

 noon on Monday, August 14, via the 

 Baltimore & Ohio. Chairman Traendly 

 says the special dinner on the train will 

 be fine. A. L. Miller, the state vice- 

 president, has sent out a circular, urg- 

 ing participation in the excursion and 

 joining the S. A. F. 



John Gunther and family are sum- 

 mering at their country home on Staten 

 Island. 



M. C. Ford and family are enjoying 

 the entire season at Bidgewood, N. J. 



Miss Smedley, bookkeeper for J. K. 

 Allen, is back from her vacation. 



L. J. Kervan, the veteran supply 

 man, is a prominent member of the G. 

 A. R., and will attend the great en- 

 campment of the old soldiers at Roches- 

 ter. 



Thomas Dates, of Watertown, S. D., 

 a former florist, now president of a life 

 insurance company, was a visitor last 

 week. 



A. Herrmann has just returned from | 



an interesting purchasing and pleasure 

 trip to Germany and other continental 

 sources of his importations. 



Samuel Keller, of Eeed & Keller, left 

 last week for Europe. 



The deaths of Col. Sickles, of Spring 

 Lake, and Mr. Freeman, president of 

 the American Bank Note Co., created a 

 large demand for funeral flowers last 

 week, nearly all the leading retailers 

 getting a share of the orders. Several 

 carloads of set pieces were sent from 

 New York. M. A. Bowe used 500 or- 

 chids in a pall. 



Andrew Wilson, of the Wilson Plant 

 Oil Co., has just returned from a suc- 

 cessful New England trip. The firm 

 will be represented at the convention 

 by President Creighton and Mr. Wil- 

 son, who contemplate, as do several 

 others, an auto trip there from New 

 York. Miss C. E. Jenkins, bookkeeper 

 for this house, leaves this week for a 

 two weeks' stay in the mountains. 



Miss Marie Winklehaus, of Wm. El- 

 liott & Sons, is enjoying a three weeks' 

 holiday in the New England hills. 



George Stumpp, of the Stumpp & Wal- 

 ter Co., writes from Paris of an en- 

 joyable summer, with his family, on 

 the continent. 



Miss Behan, bookkeeper for 6. Myer, 

 is enjoying her summer vacation in the 

 Catskills. 



George Siebrecht left July 22 on the 

 motorboat Ace, one of the competitors 

 for the $1,500 prize, for the all-sea race 

 from New York to Portland, Me. Walter 

 Siebrecht has returned from his outing 

 and is still fighting an attack of Job's 

 comforters. 



Jury duty still claims its victims 

 from the ranks of the wholesalers. John 

 Kessler, of Kessler Bros., is now tak- 

 ing his medicine. 



C. W. Scott, of the Yokohama Nur- 

 sery Co., has devoted a couple of weeks 

 to recreation at Whitestone, L. I. 



M. C. Ebel, of Madison, N. J., was 

 in the city July 22, completing arrange- 

 ments for exploiting his new and popu- 

 lar mosquito exterminator. 



Sydney B. Wertheimer is in Europe, 

 arranging for the importation of many 

 novelties in ribbons, which the florists 

 will inspect at Baltimore, as he will re- 

 turn in time for the convention. 

 Schloss Bros, will make a larger ex- 

 hibit than usual at Baltimore. Emil 

 Schloss will represent the firm there. 

 Lion & Co. will have a large and unique 

 exhibit, as usual. 



Arthur Herrington leaves this week 

 for England, because of the serious ill- 

 ness of his mother. 



Robert McNiflf and wife have re- 

 turned from a fortnight's holiday in 

 the Catskills. 



Bowling. 



The New York Club will continue its 

 bowling practice at Thumm's alleys 

 every Friday evening until August 11, 

 on which date Captain Chadwick will 

 determine the membership of the team 

 that will bowl at Baltimore. The Long 

 Island Club, of Astoria, will be repre- 

 sented by Donaldson, Miesem, Sie- 

 brecht, Einsman and Kessler, and if 

 sickness does not intervene, this team 

 should carry home some of the bacon. 

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DETBOIT. 



Tbe Market. 



The market was good last week and 

 the wholesalers found some trouble in 

 getting in enough good stock to go 

 around. Carnations are about all in, 

 although there are a few good flowers 

 still arriving, ^^t these we expect will 

 >k to make room for 

 Asters are coming in 

 iwer will help out con- 

 it starts to come as it 

 ly asters around this 

 re, and those we are 

 tg shipped from a dis- 

 picking up right along 

 and the cut now is good all around. 

 Sweet peas are not good, owing to the 

 long dry spell. Excellent gladioli are 

 being shipped into this market. Easter 

 lilies are coming in nice shape and are 

 just about equal to the demand. Lan- 

 cif olium lilies also are arriving in large 

 numbers, and are being cleaned up 

 daily. Double gypsophila is being 

 used here in quantity. It is a decided 

 novelty, and the buyers do not seem to 

 be able to get enough of it. Nice lots 

 of phlox, gaillardia, candytuft, del- 

 phiniums and other outdoor flowers go 

 to make up the cut flower supply at 

 this season. 



Various Notes. 



Michael Bloy is taking life easy these 

 days in his Packard touring car, and 

 last week visited Thos. Browne, at 

 Greenfield, and found his mums in fine 

 condition. The carnations at this es- 

 tablishment are suffering on account of 

 the dry weather, but it is expected they 

 will pick up now, as we have had some 

 good rains the last few days. 



Louis Gharvat has completed his three 

 new houses and is all planted up. 



Mr. and Mrs. William Hielscher have 

 returned from their wedding trip. 



Geo. E. Browne is busy repairing his 

 houses, getting ready for an early start, 

 but is still cutting some fine summer 

 carnations. 



Charles Warncke, Jr., is on the mar- 

 ket every morning, buying up all the 

 stock he can get for the heavy demand 

 for funeral work. 



Edward Beard is busy planting his 

 carnations, but is figuring on a few 

 weeks ' fishing before the season is much 

 older. 



A. C. Schmidt, who recently opened 

 a store where R. O. Koehler was lo- 

 cated, on Gratiot avenue, reports trade 

 as being far better than he expected. 



Robert Flowerday, Jr., of the Detroit 

 Floral Co., is not on the market in per- 

 son every day, but the boys at the 

 wholesale houses look for his orders on 

 the phone and from the packages and 

 boxes carried out for this firfc they cer- 

 tainly get their share of the business. 



William B. Brown is busy at the 

 store, as his help are out on their vaca- 

 tions. 



Murray Patterson is in England and 

 there is a rumor around town that he 

 will be married there early in August. 



Mr. and Mrs. Walter Taepke are 

 away on a trip to Montreal aiid the 

 Thousand Islands. 



Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Mitchell hAve 

 returned from the Snow Islands and re- 

 port the fishing good. 



Charles Plumb has a summer home 

 on the St. Clair river. 



Raleigh Wells, of the Michigan Cut 

 Flower Exchange, spent last week up 



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