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The Florists' Review 



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SCPTEMBEB 20, 1912. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



The Market. 



Trade has been quiet for a week. 

 Good stock is scarce. Asters and gla- 

 dioli are about a thing of the past. In 

 mums, some good Golden Glow and 

 Smith 's Advance are to be seen, but are 

 not in heavy demand as yet. Some first- 

 class Beauties and other roses are to be 

 had and carnations have improved. 

 Quantities of dahlias are being shipped 

 into this market. 



Various Notes. 



E. A. Nelson recently ordered a new 

 smokestack, and when about to put it 

 up was notified by the smoke inspector 

 that he would have to put up a 60-foot 

 stack. The old law called for a 40-foot 

 stack. 



The Hill-Heller Co. has opened its 

 new store. Mr. Heller and Fred Lemon 

 have been spending considerable time 

 here during the last ten days. Mr. Hel- 

 ler may be seen in the store giving his 

 many friends the glad hand and pinning 

 a New Castle rose on them, while Mr. 

 Lemon is spending most of his time try- 

 ing to find suitable help. 



L. F. Benson has leased a room in the 

 Denison hotel, to which he intends to 



flowers will be stored and cooled ac- 

 cording to the latest methods. An 

 electric elevator will be used to take 

 the flowers from the basement to the 

 conservatory. The new building will 

 have a frontage of thirty feet on Dela- 

 ware street and will extend west for 

 100 feet, where it will connect with the 

 offices and salesrooms fronting on Mas- 

 sachusetts avenue, which will be re- 

 modeled. The site for the conservatory 

 has been leased for a long term of 

 years. The officers of the Bertermann 

 company are: President, John Berter- 

 mann; vice'-president, Walter H. Berter- 

 mann; secretary and treasurer, Irwin C. 

 Bertermann, and^manager, Edward J. 

 Bertermann. 





DAYTON, O. 



The Market. 



Funeral work during the summer 

 months has been the florists' mainstay, 

 but last week the tables were .turned 

 and business picked up along all lines. 

 While the demand for funeral flowers 

 was brisk, the combined demands for 

 flowers for weddings, fall openings and 

 banquets were most encouraging; conse- 

 quently stock in all lines was sold at a 

 good price. This was the first week 



General View of Show of Western Dahlia and Gladiolus Association at Milwaukee. 



move in a short time. A new front is 

 to be put in and Mr. Benson expects to 

 have an up-to-date store. 



Hartje & Elder are cutting some of 

 the best carnations to be seen in this 

 market. From the looks of their houses, 

 their stock is going to be hard to beat. 



Carl Leonard, formerly with the Pa- 

 hud Floral Co., has accepted a position 

 in the regular army. 



C. H. Schlueter, with the Foley Mfg. 

 Co., spent a day in the city last week. 



A. Wiegand & Sons w^ere busy last 

 week with palm decorations for the fall 

 department store openings. 



Pearl James, formerly with Alfred 

 Brandt, resigned his position last Satur- 

 .lay. , H. L. W. 



A new conservatory, with the latest 

 equipment and conveniences for the dis- 

 play of flowers, is to be erected by the 

 Bertermann Brothers Co., at 239 North 

 Delaware street, to connect with the 

 offices and salesrooms at 241 Massa- 

 chusetts avenue. The new building and 

 other improvements will cost approx- 

 imately $15,000. The building fronting 

 on Delaware street will have a white 

 terra cotta exterior and the roof will 

 be of glass. The present conservatory 

 is being torn down and excavations are 

 being started for a basement where 



in a long time in which the ash barrel 

 was cheated. Carnations, in the culti- 

 vated line of stock, were the most plen- 

 tiful, coming into the market by the 

 thousand, but still it was impossible 

 to meet all requirements, as great quan- 

 tities were used as souvenirs and fa- 

 vors for openings and banquets. Roses, 

 too, were fairly plentiful, but the sup- 

 ply could not keep up with the demand. 

 Giganteums sold well for funeral orders 



and church decorations. Lily of the 

 valley was also in great demand for the 

 wedding ordersr Asparagus plumosus 

 and Sprengeri are of fine quality, while 

 smilax is rather poor. The outside mar- 

 ket on Saturday, September 21, was 

 loaded with cosmos, dahlias and gla- 

 dioli, but the conditions did not aflfect 

 the florist this time. The dahlias, espe- 

 cially, were of fine quality. The weath- 

 er in the last week has been more fa- 

 vorable for indoor stock, as the tem 

 perature has dropped considerably. 

 Various Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. Bay Bartholomew re 

 turned from Cincinnati, reporting a 

 good time. 



Mrs. T. M. Waters, of Eaton, O., tells 

 us that trade has picked up wonder- 

 fully within the last week. She had 

 large funeral orders every day. 



During the last few weeks many con- 

 vention visitora have been coming to 

 Dayton, all of whom highly praise the 

 Chicago convention. Most of them say 

 it was the "best ever." This should 

 be gratifying to the Chicago florists. 



The Miami Floral Co. made several 

 large shipments of carnations, running 

 into the thousands, to Hamilton, C, 

 last week, for a new stpre opening. 



George Dysinger, representing the 

 Ionia Pottery Co., of Ionia, Mich., was 

 in town last week. He says his firm 

 took in more orders at the Chicago con- 

 vention than they ever got before in 

 a week's time. 



A card comes from Herman Haerlin, 

 Jr., who was in Washington, D. C, last 

 week, stating that he is having a dandy 

 time. From Washington he was to go 

 to Philadelphia, from which he, with a 

 party of friends, was to start on a 

 yachting cruise down the Chesapeake 

 to Norfolk and from there to New York. 

 Mr. Haerlin expects to arrive home 

 about October 4. 



Mrs. L. D. Johnson has been enter- 

 taining Miss Lena Aschen, of Evans- 

 ville, Ind., for the last two weeks. 



Mrs. J. F. Young reports an excep- 

 tionally fine trade last week. 



W. J. Engle is sending out some large 

 orders of vincas, both in field-grown 

 clumps and runners. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Peterson and their 

 two sons, of Cincinnati, motored to 

 Dayton September 23, and spent the 

 day with Mr. and Mrs. George Bar- 

 Jholomew. 



W. W. Horlacher tells us that busi- 

 ness picked up considerably for him 

 last week. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Matthews were 

 in Xenia, O., last week. 



The Dayton Floral Co. had a large 

 Hungarian wedding decoration last 

 week. E. A. L. 



Exhibit of J. T. Fitchett, of Janesville, Wis^ at the Milwaukee Show. 



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