FsBRDAsy 26, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



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at the same time you will derive no ap- 

 preciable benefit. It is the man with 

 whom you have dealings, whose busi- 

 ness you come in contact with, or who 

 may have no dealings with you, but at 

 the same time has an influence on the 

 trade in your locality, with whom you 

 want to cooperate, to have a helpful 

 understanding. 



The florists of the two states will 

 gather at Danville with the firm inten- 

 tion to help each other. Is this not 

 what we have been striving for these 

 last few years? Who can say what bene- 

 fits will be derived from this important 

 meeting? I know of no other occasion 

 on which two states have held a joint 

 meeting for the simple and vital reason 

 of advancement. I want to urge in 

 closing that every florist in the two 

 states make a special effort to attend 

 this cooperative meeting. Only good 

 can come from such a meeting, and 

 every florist should make it his duty 

 to be there, if only for one day. 



W. J. Vesey, Jr. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Premonitory symptoms of the ap- 

 proach of Lent were evident during the 

 last week; the tendency of prices for 

 the whole market was downward. The 

 snowdrifts and uncertain weather in- 

 terfered with business in every line 

 and the florists' trade seemed to suffer 

 most of all. The week closed with 

 rising temperature and prospects of 

 clean streets and normal conditions. 

 The Saturday trade was more encour- 

 aging, and there v/as a fairly good 

 clean-up at steadier prices except in 

 bulbous stock. 



From this date shipments of roses 

 and carnations will undoubtedly in- 

 crease. American Beauties have held 

 their high range of prices wonderfully 

 well this season, but they have now 

 sounded the retreat. Naturally, all other 

 varieties are joining the procession, 

 even the novelties of the year partici- 

 pating in the retrogression. A cut of 

 twenty-five per cent from last week's 

 best rates is a fair indication of pres- 

 ent prices. The carnation shipments are 

 increasing. Most of the stock is su- 

 perb this -year, but prices are low 

 enough to warrant no faultfinding by 

 the buyer. The cream of the novelties 

 maintain the regular higher range and 

 prices for these depend upon the 

 supply. 



Lilies are not overabundant and the 

 rates of the last month are sustained. 

 Valley is in oversupply and prices are 

 the lowest of the year. Gardenias 

 maintain their average, the best of 

 them seldom selling above $3 per 

 dozen. Orchids are handled by all the 

 leading wholesalers and all seem to 

 have enough of them to offer. In only 

 the best and largest selected flowers is 

 there any competition. Violets do not 

 seem to make any advance in popular- 

 ity and prices are at the low range that 

 has prevailed since the holidays. Of 

 bulbous stock there is evidently no end. 

 Prices for daffodils, tulips and narcissi 

 are down to half the standard of for- 

 mer years. Only the selects of the 

 tulips meet :vith any appreciation. Some 

 of the sweet pea stock now arriving is 

 above the average in quality, espe- 

 cially the winter-flowering Spencers. 

 Pansies are here, another harbinger of 

 spring. Daisies, mignonette and forget- 



me-nots are arriving daily in sufficient 

 volume to cover all possible demand. 



Various Notes. 



March 9 the final meeting of the 

 New York Florists' Club before the 

 spring flower show will be held in the 

 Grand Opera House club parlors, at 

 Eighth avenue and Twenty-third street. 

 Because of the exhibition March 21 to 

 28 in the Grand Central Palace, this 

 meeting will be of especial interest and 

 a large attendance is requested. The 

 essay committee will do its share to 

 make the evening entertaining. There 

 will be exhibits, luncheon and final in- 

 structions in regard to the show. Chair- 

 man Nugent, Gi the annual dinner com- 

 mittee, announces the date for the 

 banquet to be March 26, and the place 

 the same as last year, the Hotel Astor. 

 Tickets are $5 each. 



Saturday, February 28, Charles Mil- 

 lang's annual beefsteak dinner will be 

 held at Bayside. Every lady present 

 will be presented with an armful of 

 Killarney roses. Dancing will follow 

 the banquet. 



Moore, Hentz & Nash were exhibiting 

 last week some Hadley roses in perfect 

 condition ten days from cutting. 



The new offices of Roman J. Irwin 

 in the Masonic building, on West 

 Twenty-third street, are now decorated 

 with trophies of his hunting, the most 

 striking of which is the head and ant- 

 lers of a huge elk, which he shot in 

 Maine last fail when he and Wallace 

 Pierson, of Cromwell, Conn., roamed 

 the forests of the northland. 



L. J. Kervan is sending his friends 

 seductive greetings from Jacksonville, 

 Fla., where he will enjoy life until 

 spring. 



George Maunz, representing Reed & 

 Keller, has left the city on his annual 

 western trip. 



The annual dinner of the Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society was held 

 at Glen Cove, L. I., Thursday, February 

 19, and in attendance and enthusiasm 

 led all its predecessors. The dinner 

 was excellent. The society was never 

 in so flourishing a condition. 



M. C. Ebel, secretary of the National 

 Association of Gardeners, met with a 

 painful accident last week, putting his 

 knee out of commission. Because of 

 this he was unable to attend the Glen 

 Cove banquet. 



The Monroe County Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its annual dinner at the 

 Globe hotel. Red Bank, N. J., February 

 18, only members of the society re- 

 ceiving invitations. Ladies were wel- 

 comed this year and the affair was 

 much to the credit of the organization. 

 John A. Kennedy was chairman of the 

 dinner committee, and Chas. E. Hen- 

 derson, Jr., toastmaster. Walter Mott, 

 of Newburgh, was a visitor at Red 

 Bank on his way to southern patrons. 



E. S. Miller, of Wading River, L. I., 

 was in the city February 21, having 

 just returned from a three months' trip 

 to Tacoma and other coast cities. 



Wm. M. Hunt, of A. T. Bodding- 

 ton's force, represented the house at 

 the Oyster Bay banquet. 



Adam Miiller, formerly manager of 

 the flower department of the Hotel As- 

 tor, is now acting in a similar capacity 

 at the new Hotel McAlpin. 



Benjamin A. Ramaker, of Rochester, 

 and wife were at the Hotel McAlpin 

 last week on their wedding trip. Mrs. 

 Ramaker is a daughter of John Camp- 

 bell Shaw, the nurseryman, of the 

 Flower Ci-ty. 



John J. Gunther, of Gunther Bros., 

 is one of the committee appointed to 

 welcome the Giants back from their 

 world tour March 7. 



T. B. Collie represented Burnett Bros, 

 at the Glen Cove banquet. 



Maurice Fuld, of the Knight & Struck 

 Co., is on a lecture tour in the west, 

 including in his itinerary the cities of 

 Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, 

 Milwaukee, Grand Rapids and Ann Ar- 

 bor. His subject is ' * The Right Way 

 of Gardening." 



Fred Smythe is in Europe, combin- 

 ing business and pleasure. Fred Gar- 

 diner, of his office force, is enjoying 

 his annual vacation in Bermuda. 



H. E. Froment will continue to make 

 57 West Twenty-eighth street his whole- 

 sale headquarters. 



Robert Berry, of Chatham, N. J., has 

 been appointed manager of the Shrews-* 

 bury Nurseries, at Eatontown, N. J. 



All the retail flower shops of any ac- 

 count featured St. Valentine 's day with 

 appropriate window decorations and 

 most of them report an excellent in- 

 crease in volume of business for the 

 day. Some interesting windows were 

 prepared in commemoration of Wash- 

 ington's birthday. J. Austin Shaw. 



Myer Heller, of the South Park Flo- 

 ral Co., New Castle, Ind., was one of 

 last week's visitors. Mr. Heller is at 

 the head of a big department store, as 

 well as the greenhouses, and when he 

 comes to New York is on the go from 

 early until late. 



SWEET WILLIAMS IN POTS. 



Do sweet williams do well in pots, and 

 how should they be handled? F. H. 



Sweet Williams can be successfully 

 grown in pots. They can be potted late 

 in the fall or in the spring, and suc- 

 ceed particularly well if left plunged 

 to the brim in a coldframe, with the 

 sashes removed entirely. As the flow- 

 ers expand, a light shade of cheese- 

 cloth during the daytime will keep tho 

 flowers fresher and prolong their beau- 

 ty. Move them into a cool, shady and 

 well ventilated greenhouse, in order to 

 keep them in good condition as long as 

 possible. They need an abundant water 

 supply. C. W. 



HABDY PHLOXES IN POTS. 



Are hardy phloxes successfully grown 

 in pots, and what size of pots should be 

 used? F. H. 



Phlox clumps can be potted in fall or 

 spring. They should be plunged out- 

 doors and freely watered. A good way 

 to get nice, single-trussed plants is to 

 put in a batch of cuttings as early in 

 spring as possible. Put them in 3-inch 

 pots when well rooted; later shift into 

 5-inch pots. Keep them plunged out- 

 doors where they can root into some 

 good compost. Such plants will carry 

 splendid trusses the following summer, 

 and many people would be glad to buy 

 them to plant out. C. W. 



PLANTma GLADIOLUS BULBLETS. 



Should gladiolus bulblets have the 

 shell removed before planting? F. H. 



There is no need to remove the shell 

 covering from the bulblets before plant- 

 ing. Too much peeling is done with 

 gladioli. C. W. 



