January 2, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



21 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOBISTS. 



Executive Board Appointments. 



President J. K. M. L. Farquhar has 

 appointed August F. Poehlmann, of 

 Morton Grove, 111., and Thomas F. 

 RMand, of Nahant, Mass., members of 

 the board of directors to serve three 

 years from January 1, 1913. 



John Young, Sec'y. 



The year of the S. A. F. ends De- 

 cember 31, and New Year's day J. K. 

 M. L. Farquhar succeeded R. Vincent, 

 Jr., White Marsh, Md., in the presi- 

 dency, Theodore Wirth, of Minneapolis, 

 becoming vice-president in place of 

 A. F. Poehlmann. John Young, secre- 

 tary, and W. F. Kasting, treasurer, 

 were re-elected at the Chicago conven- 

 tion to serve through 1913. The board 

 of directors for the new year, in addi- 

 tion to the officers, consists of E. Allan 

 Peirc6, Waltham, Mass.; Harry A. 

 Bunyard, New York city; C. H. Totty, 

 Madison, N. J.; John A. Evans, Rich- 

 mond, Ind.; R. Vincent, Jr., White 

 Marsh, Md. The retiring members of 

 the board were W. N. Rudd, Robert 

 Craig and George Asmus. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



The Market. 



The week before Christmas the 

 weather was somewhat cloudy, with 

 rain the first day or two, but the week 

 closed with the finest kind of shopping 

 weather, which continued until the 

 night of December 22. A fall of snow 

 that night made it quite disagreeable 

 for the day before Christmas, but at 

 least gave us a white Christmas, and 

 relieved the minds of those who are 

 superstitious. This has been a good 

 season so far, and Christmas proved 

 no exception. One could hardly say it 

 was phenomenal, but it certainly was 

 satisfactory. Of course there were 

 plenty of flowers, excepting carnations, 

 and, at the price, there were about 

 enough of them to satisfy all comers. 

 Lilies were in rather unusual demand 

 for Christmas and were on the short 

 side, but one could hardly say that of 

 anything else. Good roses were plen- 

 tiful and, when that is the case. Beau- 

 ties are not so much in demand if the 

 prices are high. There was an unusual 

 quantity of orchids used, and it seemed 

 that the smallest dealers had demand 

 for them, showing their increasing 

 popularity. Violets were plentiful, and 

 reasonable in price, cleaning up nicely. 

 Yellow trumpet narcissi also seemed to 

 be in demand, but these and yellow 

 daisies are the only really yellow 

 flowers we have. One" might be safe in 

 saying that, from the wholesaler's 

 standpoint, it was a most satisfactory 

 week. Sunday came in just right to 

 help make it easy in getting out the 

 stock. 



The retailers, as usual, were nearly 

 worked to death. The quantities of 

 plants and made-up pots and baskets 

 handled exceeded any previous Christ- 

 mas. The plants and decorations were 

 finer, and the increased sales caused 

 some of the trade to claim that by 

 pushing plants, the sale of flowers will 

 be cut down and prices will be more 

 reasonable. Our observations, to the 

 contrary, tell us the greater effort made . 

 to push plants only increases the de- 

 mand for cut flowers. All retailers 

 report stock to have been good and the 

 sales satisfactory. 



NEW S. A. F. DIRECTOR 



August F, Poehlmann. 



D Y appointing August F. Poehlmann as a director in the Society of American 

 *^ Florists, President Farquhar has kept in the executive body one of those 

 most familiar with the society's affairs, for Mr. Poehlmann served last year as 

 vice-president and was chairman of the executive committee of the Chicago con- 

 vention organization. Mr. Poehlmann is well known as the treasurer of Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., and as an active worker in many trade societies. He only re- 

 cently retired after two terms as president of the American Rose Society and 

 his knowledge of trade organization work probably is as broad as that of any 

 man in the business. Mr. Poehlmann was 43 years of age October 21. 1912, and 

 has the energy to not only look after his own large business affairs but for many 

 outside activities, including the presidency of his home town at Morton Grove, 



Green goods were cleaned up in good 

 shape. Some trees remained on hand 

 here and there, but the general market 

 was satisfactory, as also were the 

 prices. 



There was a large number of social 

 functions scheduled from Christmas 

 until after New Year's. The larger 

 retail shops have not let down a minute 

 since last week, and will not until after 

 New Year's. 



Various Notes. 



Samuel McClements, of Randolph & 

 McClements, is still confined to his 



home, which is certainly trying at a 

 time when his house is crowded with 

 decorations. 



W. Puhlman, of Carnegie, was in the 

 city last Saturday with his automobile, 

 buying greens for his trade. He was 

 accidentally struck by another machine 

 and is still confined to the hospital, but 

 -hopes to get home in a day or two. 



Geo. Crosby, well known among the 

 decorators and now working for R. J. 

 Daschbach, fell and broke his leg the 

 week before Christmas. 



John M. Blaha died Saturday, De- 

 cember 21, after a lohg illness. He 



