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The Florists' Review 



April 9, 1914. 



TOLEDO, O. 



The Market. 



Last week the trade was blessed with 

 a pretty decent brand of weather, with 

 the exception that the cold seems to 

 hang on with dogged persistency. Trade 

 was quite brisk in all lines. This is 

 the great week that all florists have 

 been looking forward to, and for which 

 we have been making such strenuous 

 preparations. Never in the history of 

 the flower business here has potted 

 bulbous stock been so plentiful and in 

 such excellent condition. Plants of all 

 kinds are abundant; many beautiful 

 azaleas, hydrangeas, rhododendrons and 

 lilies are gracing the display windows 

 of leading shops. All that is necessary, 

 as one florist expressed it, is the busi- 

 ness. Much depends upon the weather, 

 which is uncertain. There will be about 

 enough lilies to supply the demand. 

 Carnations are the only cut flowers that 

 are scarce at the present writing. 



Various Notes. 



The death of Charles Koelker is re- 

 corded in this week's obituary column. 



A party of Toledo florists made a 

 trip to Mentor and Cleveland last week 

 to see if they could not learn something 

 to their advantage. In the party were 

 Harry Heinl, John Helmar, Thomas Ma- 

 gee and Frank M. Schramm, of this 

 city, and "F. T. D." Pochelon and 

 Robert Rahaley, of Detroit. The first 

 place visited was that of Merkel & Son, 

 at Mentor, where the party saw some 

 magnificent roses. The azaleas also 

 were excellent'. 



Schramm Bros, have been making 

 some changes in their greenhouses with 

 a view to giving increased facilities 

 for handling the greatest Easter busi- 

 ness in the history of this long estab- 

 lished business. A fine workroom has 

 been completed and the cooler has been 

 greatly enlarged. Ten extra helpers 

 were engaged for this week. April 3 

 Frank M. Schramm and George B. 

 Schramm visited the plant show held 

 at the Michigan Cut Flower Exchange 

 at Detroit. 



Miss Helen Patten has been having 

 many difficulties of late in keeping up 

 with her deliveries, due to the bad 

 luck she has been having with her de- 

 livery car. Business has been lively at 

 Miss Patten's. 



If there is any reader of The Re- 

 view who has a method of either catch- 

 ing or destroying experienced rats, let 

 him inform John Barrow, who conducts 

 a prosperous flower business on Detroit 

 avenue. Mr. Barrow has been having 

 all kinds of trouble lately with rodents, 

 which seem to have a diabolical in- 

 genuity in evading traps and poisons, 

 but which love roots and plants. He 

 claims his rats are the smartest rats 

 in creation. A. C. K. 



NEWPORT, K. I. 



James McLeish, Jr., spent ten days in 

 New York, where he went to attend 

 the flower show. 



Wadley & Smythe received an impor- 

 tation of sixty bundles and eleven boxes 

 of plants and shrubs from Holland- 

 April 1. 



James Watt has succeeded the late 

 Paul Volquardson as head gardener at 

 Mrs. W. G. Weld's estate. Mr. Watt 

 removed his famUy from Manchester, 

 Mass., last week. 



Oscar Schultz lost a valuable horse 

 last week, one of a pair just received 

 from Boston. W. H. M. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



The Market. 



The outlook for Easter is particu- 

 larly good, and it looks as if we are to 

 have a most successful holiday, pro- 

 viding the weather conditions are fa- 

 vorable. From the reports of the grow- 

 ers it looks as though there will be all 

 the potted plants that will be needed. 

 Cut flowers promise to be plentiful, and 

 good quality is practically assured. 

 During the last week business has been 

 quite good, but Palm Sunday trade was 

 not so rushing as was expected, prob- 

 ably on account of the cold, snowy 

 weather which has returned again. 

 Stock has kept up well, as far as qual- 

 ity is concerned. Some good American 

 Beauties are in the market; prices are 

 reasonable and the demand good. Other 

 grades of roses are of good, strong 

 stem and sell well. Carnations are 

 overplentiful, with quite a strong de- 

 mand. Sweet peas are in fine condi- 

 tion, with good color and length of 

 stem. They are selling well. Pansies, 

 Cecile Brunner roses, daisies, mignon- 

 ette, ten week's stocks and other fine 

 flowers are much sought after for bas- 

 ket work. Violets are plentiful, but 

 are getting smaller. There is a heavy 

 demand for freesias. Lilies are plen- 

 tiful, and valley is meeting all require- 

 ments. There are plenty of daffodils 

 and jonquils. 



Various Notes./ 



The Rochester Floral Co. has been 

 making a specialty of boxes and bas- 

 kets of cut flowers during the last 

 week. Business is steadily increasing, 

 and one always finds the store in a 

 clean and well kept condition. 



The florists opposite Mount Hope 

 cemetery are doing a good business now 

 that the weather has opened up some. 

 Heavy business is looked for during 

 the coming week. 



There has been a noticeable let-up in 

 funeral work the last few days with 

 about all the florists. Some are pre- 

 paring for emergency calls during the 

 rush by making up a large number of 

 galax and magnolia wreaths, to which 

 a spray of flowers can easily be fixed. 



Visitors last week included Mr. and 

 Mrs. David Scott, of Corfu, N. Y.; E. 

 R. Hyde, of Wayland, N. Y.; Mr. Bebb, 

 of Geneva, N. Y., and E. J. Fancourt, of 

 Fennock-Meehan Co., Philadelphia. 



George B. Hart's force has been ex- 

 tremely busy this last week and has al- 

 ready started working late evenings. 

 They have been sending large ship- 

 ments of lilies, etc., out of town. Mr. 

 Hart says everything points to a rec- 

 ord Easter, providing the weather is 

 favorable. Another lady bookkeeper 

 has been added to his office force. 



J. B. Keller Sons have done good 

 business lately, with a good counter 

 trade. The window has been prettily 

 arranged with vases of large Spencer 

 sweet peas. 



Fred Vick's greenhouses are looking 

 quite gay at the present time, with a 

 beautiful display of blooming plants 

 and shrubs. 



H. E. Wilson has been handling some 

 good Pink Pearl rhododendrons, which 

 sell readily. The supply of Dutch 



blooming bulbs is of good quality, par- 

 ticularly the l^racLut^s. ^ 



N. A. James has been busy with fu- 

 neral work for two or three days. His 

 greenhouse keeps him pretty well occu- 

 pied. H. J. H. 



DAYTON, O. 



The Market. 



Trade in the wholesale end of the 

 business has been far better than in 

 the retail end, as the wholesalers have 

 been busy shipping plants while in bud. 

 Owing to the fact that Easter comes 

 so late this year, many of the growers 

 complain that most of their hyacinths, 

 daffodils and tulips will be "all in'* 

 for Easter. On the other hand, lilies 

 seem to be a little slow, and after 

 Easter, it is feared, there will be an 

 overabundance. The complaint is gen- 

 eral that the average height of the 

 lilies will be between one and a half 

 and two feet. Spirseas are looking fine 

 and are in good crop, while azaleas will 

 be scarce. Carnations and roses are 

 looking well and will give heavy cuts 

 for Easter. 



Up to the present time there has not 

 been much evidence of spring, as the 

 weather continues cool and mostly 

 cloudy. April started in with a genu- 

 ine April shower, accompanied by a 

 heavy thunder storm and snow flurries. 



Various Notes. 



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

 in town last week, buying stock for 

 Easter. 



M. Anderson spent the week end at 

 his retail store in Cincinnati. 



Elmer Jenkins is erecting another 

 greenhouse, which he expects to devote 

 to the growing of pot plants. He also 

 states that he is going into the gladi- 

 olus business more heavily than ever 

 this year. 



Arthur Schmidt says that his tulips 

 got ready to bloom before Easter, 



It was reported in my last week's 

 letter that a daughter had been born 

 to Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Schaefer. Mr. 

 Schaefer has since informed me that 

 the daughter happened to be a son. 



Herbert B. Maynard stopped in Day- 

 ton April 5, en route to Lima, O. While 

 here he called on several of his ac- 

 quaintances in the trade. He goes to 

 Lima to accept a position as carnation 

 grower at the Zetlitz greenhouses. 



The Dayton Florists' Club held its 

 monthly meeting and annual election 

 of officers April 2, at J. F. Young's 

 establishment, on East Fifth street. 

 Geo. W. Bartholomew was elected pres- 

 ident; Arthur Schmidt, vice-president, 

 and Horace Frank, secretary and treas- 

 urer. Plans for the annual banquet of 

 the club were left in the hands of the 

 officers and the affair will take place 

 soon after Easter. R. A. L. 



Holyoke, Mass. — Hugh Clark has 

 opened a store in the Phoenix building, 

 2227 Maple street. He makes a specialty 

 of decorations. He started in this line 

 at the Humphrey store here and later 

 worked for large concerns in Kansas 

 City and Chicago. 



Slingerlands, N. Y. — Easter will find 

 Fred Goldring well prepared with a full 

 line of flowering stock. He has been 

 fortunate, especially with a good batch 

 of lilies. Miss Goldring had an excit- 

 ing adventure at the time of the fire 

 at Wellesley College, but fortunately 

 escaped harm. 



