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The Rorists' Review 



April 9, 1914. 



will be no money prizes. Allotment of 

 space and the management of the con- 

 vention garden will be under the super- 

 vision of the advisory committee, but 

 under the direct management of James 

 B. Shea, deputy commissioner of parks. 

 The president is authorized to appoint 

 five judges for the convention garden. 



Mechanics building was selected as 

 the building in which to hold the indoor 

 trade exhibition. In this building there 

 will be 40,000 square feet of available 

 space. The rules governing the exhibits 

 and the prices for space are to be the 

 same as charged at the convention in 

 Minneapolis. The rule regarding signs 

 was amended so that the official sign 

 should not cost more than $3. 



A preliminary program was presented 

 by the committee appointed for the pur- 

 pose, and the completion of it was left 

 to the president, vice-president and sec- 

 retary. It was decided to have a three- 

 day business convention, the fourth 

 day being set aside for entertainment. 



Messrs. Eoland, Farquhar and Hess 

 were appointed a committee to consider 

 the proper standardization of flower 

 pots. This committee is to report at 

 the meeting of the board of directors 

 to be held in Boston before the next 

 convention. It was recommended that 

 the society join the L 'Union Horticole 

 Professionelle Internationale, the fee 

 being $10. 



It was decided that the Hotel Copley- 

 Plaza be selected as headquarters for 

 the society during the time of the con- 

 vention. The local committee will pub- 

 lish in the trade papers a list of all the 

 other hotels, and rates, at a later date. 

 Appropriations were made for different 

 purposes for carrying on the work of 

 the society for the present year. Presi- 

 dent Wirth appointed Charles E. Crit- 

 chell chairman of the committee of 

 sports. 



The secretary's and treasurer's re- 

 ports were referred to an auditing com- 

 mittee and found to be correct. These 

 reports had previously been audited by 

 a firm of certified public accountants 

 in Buffalo. The action of the treasurer 

 in depositing the funds of the society 

 in the different banks mentioned in his 

 report was approved. 



The question of affiliation was given 

 careful consideration by the meeting, 

 and George Asmus, W. F. Kasting and 

 J. J. Hess were appointed a commit- 

 tee to devise plans for affiliation; such 

 plans could then be presented to the 

 different organizations, stating what 

 the society would be willing to do to- 

 wards bringing about affiliation. This 

 committee is to report at the meeting 

 of the board previous to the convention, 

 mileage to be allowed the members of 

 this committee for one meeting only, 

 in a central city. 



George Asmus gave a detailed report 

 of the progress on the work being done 

 towards the next national flower show, 

 to be held in Philadelphia in 191G, and 

 stated that he and the other members 

 of the committee were on their way to 

 Philadelphia to inspect the building 

 where the next national flower show 

 will be held. 



It was decided that the public should 

 not be admitted to the indoor trade 

 exhibition which is to be held at the 

 Mechanics building at the time of the 

 convention. 



Mr. Gude presented final resolutions 

 as offered by his committee. 



John Young, Sec 'y. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



These weeks before Easter, how they 

 do repeat themselves! Last week was 

 no exception to the rule. From bad 

 to worse the whole cut flower market 

 slid, until it seemed the bottom had 

 fallen out of it entirely. Friday and 

 Saturday were the dullest days of the 

 week, and little, if any, improvement 

 is anticipated until a day or two be- 

 fore Easter. American Beauties suf- 

 fered the heaviest slump of all the 

 roses, tlie finest of them selling as low 

 as $15 per hundred. Every variety of 

 rose felt the general depression. There 

 was universal complaint by the retail- 

 ers of lack of business. It is the same 

 old story, repeated year after year and 

 then forgotten, only this year is called 

 the most unprofitable in a generation. 

 Every wholesaler agreed that it was 

 the dullest week of the season. 



Little advance in prices seems pos- 

 sible for the holiday. There is such an 

 abundance of everything that the regu- 

 lar rise of other years seems more than 

 doubtful. The novelties in roses, 'of 

 course, will be in sufficient demand to 

 absorb them all, and at good prices. 

 There will probably be a surplus of 

 Beauties. Carnations are also over- 

 abundant and prices low. In large 

 quantities most excellent stock sold as 

 low as $10 per thousand. Even for se- 

 lected blooms $2 per hundred was the 

 top price, and only a few of the sea- 

 son's novelties sold above that figure. 



There is a great abundance of short- 

 stemmed lilies, in the market. These 

 have been disposed of at low prices, 

 but the long-stemmed and well hard- 

 ened longiflorums have held firm at $10 

 to $12 per hundred. Valley is abun- 

 dant; .i2 was top last week and not over 

 $3 per hundred is likely at the close 

 of the present week. Callas are lower, 

 and there is a big supply of them. 

 Gardenias also are lower, with $3 high 

 mark for the best; a few long-stemmed 

 sold a little higher. Only the gigas, of 

 the orchids, command the values of a 

 year ago. These will be up to the 75 

 cent quotation for Easter, but there 

 will be plenty of other varieties at 50 

 cents and under. 



There will be no lack of sweet peas 

 and bulbous stock of every kind, espe- 

 cially tulips, hyacinths and daffodils. 

 The market is overwhelmed with south- 

 ern shipments of the "latter, some of 

 the wholesalers having to telegraph 

 their consignors to stop shipment. It 

 seems impossible for the retailers to ob- 

 tain even 10 cents a bunch for them. 

 The Spencer sweet peas meet with a 

 ready sale, but the common and short 

 varieties do not sell at all. Spring 

 flowers of every kind are here; the 

 windows are bright with forsythia. Re- 

 tailers are receiving their plants, and 

 buying heavily. The less said of vio- 

 lets during the last two weeks the bet- 

 ter. They were literally given away. 

 There may be a slight spurt for Easter, 

 and then good-bye. 



Various Notes. 



The flower show is now but a mem- 

 ory, but there is a wide interest al- 

 ready manifested in the exhibition of 

 191.'), and over $6,000 worth of space 

 has been spoken for. Full particulars 

 in regard to the last show may be ex- 

 pected at the next meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Club, whicli takes jilace 



the day after Easter, Monday, April 

 13, at the club's rooms in the Grand 

 Opera House building. 



J. B. Deamud, lately of Chicago, has 

 taken up his residence in New York. 



W. H. Siebrecht, Sr., of Chappaqua, 

 says the acacia supply will last until 

 after Easter. 



Siebrecht & Son are now established 

 in their new store, at 619 Fifth avenue, 

 at the corner of Fiftieth street, close 

 to St. Patrick's cathedral. The firm 

 has been in existence since 1867, forty- 

 four years. 



Thursday, Friday and Saturday of 

 this week the MacNifl Horticultural 

 Co. will hold special aulstions of Easter . 

 flowering plants at their big store, at 

 56 Vesey street. 



A. T. Bunyard's artistic arrangement 

 of Breitmeyer's carnation exhibit at 

 the flower show was one of the great- 

 est attractions of the latter days of the 

 exhibition. 



The store at 112 West Twenty-eighth 

 street will shortly be ready for the re- 

 moval of Slinn & "Weiss from across the ; 

 way. The ground floor seems to be ^ 

 much in demand now on Twenty-eighth 

 street, and upstairs is no longer popu- 

 lar. 



Richard Wenham, formerly with 

 Wadley & Smythe, is now one of the 

 force of Thos. F. Galvin, Inc. 



All the seed houses that made ex- 

 hibits at the "flower show were well 

 satisfied with results, and several have 

 already secured space for next year's 

 exhibition. 



James McHutchison left last week 

 on his five months' trip for New Zea- 

 land, Australia and Japan. 



Fenger's irises are again in the New 

 York market, being handled by Hen- 

 shaw & Fenrich. 



Bowling, after Easter, will be made 

 popular once more by several matches, 

 in which prominent members of the 

 Florists' Club will engage, the scheme 

 being engineered by Harry Biedel. 



Announcement has only recently been 

 made of the purchase of the entire 

 business interests of the firm of Wood- 

 row & Marketos by Samuel A. Wood- 

 row, April 1, 1913. The business will 

 be continued under the firm name. 



W. H. Siebrecht has been forcing 

 lily of the valley for this market for 

 thirty-eight years. 



Mrs. L. J. Kervan went to Florida 

 this week to join her husband, who is 

 wintering there. 



Large quantities of hardy roses have 

 arrived from Europe this week for 

 Arthur T. Boddington. 



W. B. DuRie, of Rahway, N. J., re 

 cently celebrated his seventy-fourth 

 birthday anniversary. 



Max Schling is employing double his 

 regular force of thirty people this 

 week. 



M. A. Bowe has a large branch store 

 on Thirty-fourth street, near Fifth ave 

 nue, this week. 



The MacNiff Horticultural Co., on 

 Vesey street, reports that some hardy 

 roses sold at auction last week brought 

 70 cents each, a record figure. 



Woodsen & Christensen have put 

 some excellent daisy plants on the mar- 

 ket this week through William Kessler, 

 who also has had fine bougainvilleas 

 from Savoy. 



Maurice Fuld, of the Knight & 

 Struck Co., lectured last week before 

 the Tu>fe(1o Horticultural Society. 



C. C. Trepel's plans for this week 

 included the Ladies' orchestra, which 



