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The Florists' Review 



Mabch 26, 1914. 



fitted up complete, with photographs 

 of many houses built by the exhibitor. 



The Metropolitan Material Co., 

 Brooklyn, a model greenhouse, showing 

 the exhibitor's special construction 

 patents. 



Lord & Burnham Co., New York, a 

 full sized greenhouse, with boiler, pip- 

 ing and benching complete; also many 

 photographs and sketches. 



Thomas Meehan & Sons, Dresher- 

 town, Pa., a collection of evergreens 

 and Japanese maples. 



A. N. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn., a 

 large display of Easter plants, palms, 

 ferns, pot roses, antirrhinums, orchids, 

 lilies and cut roses, occupying 1,000 

 square feet. 



Knight & Struck Co., a large table of 

 hard-wooded plants. 



Pierson U-bar Co., New York, model 

 greenhouse. 



International Nurseries, collection of 

 conifers, boxwood and rhododendrons. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York, a 

 large group of bulbous plants in flower. 



Boman J. Irwin, New York, a gen- 

 eral line of bulbs and plants, including 

 young stock for benching and for grow- 

 ing on to commercial size. 



Minuet & Co., New York, willow 

 lawn and garden house furniture. 



Charles H. Totty, JViadison, N. J., a 

 collection of own-root and grafted 

 roses in pots, including Mrs. Andrew 

 Carnegie, white, never before exhib- 

 ited; also a large display of cut blooms 

 of Mrs. Shawyer rose; also Scottish 

 novelties in chrysanthemums in flower, 



J. L. Dillon, BlOomsburg, Pa., own- 

 root and grafted rose plants for 

 benching. 



The retailers' booths come under the 

 head of trade exhibits. These consist 

 in the main of baskets and vases of 

 cut flowers, but include bouquets, etc., 

 the displays being changed daily. 

 Geo. M. Stumpp has a Japanese garden 

 occupying 250 square feet that is one 

 of the features of the show. 



The Management. 



The management of the show was 

 in a joint committee of the New York 

 Florists' Club and Horticultural Society 

 of New York, as follows: 



F. R. Pierson, Chairman. 

 John Young, Secretary. 

 Frederick R. Newbold, Treasurer. 

 Patrick O'Mara, W. A. Manda, 



Joseph A. Manda, William Duckbam, 



James Stuart. Frank H. Traendly, 



George V. Nash. Wallace R. Pierson, 



Dr. N. L. Brltton, Julius Roehrs. 



FYederlck R. Newbold, Theodore A. Havemeyer, 

 Charles H. Totty, 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Officers Elected. 



President — Wallace E. Pierson, Crom- 

 well, Conn. 



Vice-president — Eobert Pyle, West 

 Grove, Pa. 



Treasurer — Harry O. May, Summit, 

 N. J. 



Secretary — Benjamin Hammond, Bea- 

 con, N. Y. 



Annual Meeting. 



The annual business meeting of the 

 American Bose Society was held March 

 23 at the Grand Central Palace, New 

 York city, with President Wallace B. 

 Pierson in the chair and about fifty 

 present. Mr. Pierson made a brief, 

 business-like address and Secretary 

 Hammond presented a report of the 

 year's work of his office. Treasurer 

 May reported $953.73 on hand. There 

 was general discussion of the test rose 

 garden project the society has under 

 way, especially the one at Washington, 

 D. C. Invitations to hold the next 

 meeting at Buffalo were presented by 

 W. F. Kasting on behalf of the florists 

 of Buffalo, the mayor and the Chamber 

 of Commerce. Decision was left to 

 the executive committee, announcement 

 to be made following the S. A. F. 

 convention at Boston in August. All 

 the officers and executive committee 

 were unanimously reelected. 



THE GLASS MABKET. 



There ifi every indication that the 

 early part of April will see an ad- 

 vance in the price of greenhouse glass; 

 the manufacturers operating the hand 

 factories have had one meeting and it 

 seems fairly certain that they will get 

 together on an increase of about five 

 per cent, which will mean 15 cents 

 per box. 



"There is extremely little hand- 

 made window glass in stock, especially 

 of the greenhouse sizes," says an 

 authority in the glass trade. "The 

 stock on hand last May was only nor- 

 mal, and the start of the present sea- 

 son 's fire was delayed six weeks, to 

 November 1, while the wage question 

 was being adjusted. Consequently, the 

 production to date is six weeks short 

 of the average season's production. 

 The fire will end May 25, so that only 

 about two months remain in which to 

 manufacture to meet current demand 

 and to accumulate a stock to carry the 

 trade through the summer. The glass 



A Trade Exhibits Comer at the New Yo^ Spring Show this Week* 



trade in general reports that the call 

 for greenhouse sizes this season has 

 been the heaviest ever known, and 

 many unfilled orders are on hand. The 

 glass trade is one of frequent changes 

 in trend, but every indication is that 

 when the manufacturing season ends 

 it will find factories and jobbers with 

 much less than the usual stocks of 

 greenhouse glass. It is because of this 

 situation that an early advance in 

 price is considered certain, with a pos- 

 sibility of still another boost after 

 manufacture has ceased." 



It is fairly well understood in the 

 greenhouse trade that greenhouse glass 

 is more or less of a by-product; the 

 factories get more money by cutting 

 their sheets into 36x40 or 40x40, and 

 they only cut 16x18 and 16x24 where 

 they cannot cut the larger sizes. No 

 glass factory will cut greenhouse sizes 

 to order except at a premium that the 

 trade considers prohibitive. 



Greenhouse glass f. o. b. Chicago in 

 carload lots is today worth about $2.80 

 per box for double strength A, and 

 $2.65 for B. 



The factories turning out machine 

 blown glass can be relied on to keep 

 the price from mounting to any exces- 

 sive height. But the interests control- 

 ling the machine production are just 

 as anxious to make a profit as are the 

 men handling the man blown article. 

 When the hand made glass goes up the 

 machine blown glass moves with it. 



The greenhouse man's dislike of ma- 

 chine blown glass is rapidly disappear- 

 ing. In the early days of machine 

 manufacture the product unquestion- 

 ably was more brittle than the hand 

 blown glass, but this brittleness has 

 been overcome to a considerable extent 

 and the machine made glass has the 

 advantage of uniform thickness. The 

 color of the glass is a point that really 

 is of much more importance to the 

 greenhouse man than the method of 

 its manufacture. On this point the 

 machine glass and the hand blown 

 glass are much alike in that some fac- 

 tories turn out a much whiter article 

 than others; it depends upon the ma- 

 terials used. 



There is no immediate prospect of 

 any relief from high prices by reason 

 of the importation of foreign glass. In 

 figuring on the cost of Belgian glass 

 laid down in Chicago it appeared, a 

 few days ago, that $3.30 per box was 

 the best that could be done. American 

 glass is not likely to go that high this 

 summer. The reduction in duty has 

 had no effect on the glass market. The 

 reason why Belgian glass is so high 

 is that the Belgian manufacturers have 

 made a pooling arrangement by which 

 the output of each factory is limited. 

 If American manufacturers were to do 

 what the Belgian makers have done 

 Uncle Sam would have them all in jail 

 for violation of the anti-trust laws. 



BULBS NOW USELESS. 



I have about 500 bulbs left from last 

 fall's planting, which I never put in 

 the ground. They have sprouts about 

 three inches long. Will they bloom if 

 planted in the benches or on the out- 

 side! G. B. 



It will not pay to plant these bulbs; 

 any flowers they might produce would 

 be of no value whatever. Any bulbs, 

 such as hyacinths, tulips or narcissi, 

 planted later than the early part of 

 December, will prove of little value. 



C. W. 



