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The Florists' Review 



January 16, 1913. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Last week was a dull one for the 

 majority, especially the smaller retail 

 enterprises. A few of the large firms 

 were busy, because of funeral orders, 

 and the notable dinners and weddings, 

 but the number of these was small and 

 the general demand for cut flowers was 

 far below normal. Prices in the whole- 

 sale market declined fifty per Cent, for 

 roses and carnations. Orchids and vio- 

 lets especially felt the strain, the latter 

 selling in box lots at the week end 

 as low as $1, a most unusual winter 

 record. The banishment of the street 

 merchant has closed the usual outlet 

 and the problem of the surplus has 

 become a serious one, which even the 

 department stores have failed to solve. 

 Carnations took a decided drop last 

 week, any leftovers falling to $5 per 

 thousand. Good stock sold at from $1 

 to $2 per hundred. The only anchor 

 for the general market was the some- 

 what scant supply of the shorter grade 

 of roses. There is an abundance of the 

 longer grades of the standard varieties 

 and a shortage of the novelties. There 

 seems to be no lessening of the popu- 

 larity of Shawyer, Kussell and Sun- 

 burst. There are plenty of orchids of 

 all the seasonable varieties. Cattleyas 

 have sold at $35 per hundred and there 

 has been a heavy supply of oncidiums. 

 Gardenias are down to $3 per dozen 

 and little valley goes above $3 per 

 hundred. There is no shortage of 

 Easter lilies and callas that bring over 

 10 cents are few. Sweet peas are now 

 in full supply, with prices lower. Nar- 

 cissi are off to $1 per hundred, and 

 even as low as ten bunches for $1. 

 There is the usual supply of hyacinths, 

 mignonette, lilac, daisies and bou- 

 vardia. There is an abundance of 

 smilax. The green goods market has 

 been marking time since New Year's. 



Club Meeting. 



The first meeting of the new year, 

 January 13, was most interesting, an 

 attendance of over 100 greeting the 

 new president, W. H. Siebrecht. MV. 

 Manda gave a farewell address, eulo- 

 gizing his assistants, and called on 

 Messrs. Duckham and Bunyard to in- 

 troduce his successor. Mr, Siebrecht 

 made a practical address, following 

 which he announced his committees, as 

 follows: 



Essay — J. Austin Shaw, Leonard Bar- 

 ron, M. C. Ebel. 



Legislative — Frank E. Pierson, Pat- 

 rick O'Mara, Walter F. Sheridan. 



Exhibition — John Miesem, Charles 

 Schenck, Charles Weber, Patrick J. 

 Smith, A. Kakuda. 



House and entertainment — Frank M. 

 Duggan, Alex. J. Guttman, Alfred E. 

 Wheeler. 



Award — Joseph A. Manda, John Don- 

 aldson, Wallace Pierson, A. L. Miller, 

 Frank Traendly, Kobert Simpson, L S. 

 Hendrickson. 



Dinner — J. B. Nugent, Jr., Alex. Mc- 

 Connell, Walter F. Sheridan, Thomas 

 B. De Forest, Eobert Koehne, Joseph 

 Fenrich. 



Outing — Philip F. Kessler, Victor 

 Dorval, Henry Weston, A. Buckholtz, 

 Louis Schmutz, Jr., W. Phillips, Bert 

 Chadwick, Koman Irwin, Anton Schul- 

 theis, Jr., A. Demeusy, Jr., H. C. Rie- 

 del, Paul Meconi. 



Messrs. Donaldson, Young, Rickards, 



Weathered, Sheridan and Miesem, the 

 other ofiicers, made brief addresses. 



I. S. Hendrickson gave a report for 

 the publicity committee, showing an 

 expenditure of $714 in Hallowe'en and 

 Thanksgiving poster advertising, with 

 subscriptions of $756.15. Newspaper 

 advertising will be tried for McKin- 

 ley day. 



Mr. Donaldson reported progress on 

 the Smith memorial. Mr. Weathered 

 reported for the entertainment com- 

 mittee and urged the prompt subscrip- 

 tions of every club member. Already 

 a large amount has been subscribed, 

 several checks for $100 each having 

 reached the treasurer. 



Ex-President Manda read the semi- 

 annual report of the trustees, showing 

 a balance in the treasury December 

 31 of $4,933.84. Secretary Young's re- 

 port showed a total membership of 

 367. Nineteen new members were 

 elected, as follows: John Canning, H. 



A. Spavins, Harry C. Strobell, Emerson 

 C. McFadden, George Burgevin, David 

 Burgevin, A. H. Bobbink, Charles H. 

 Atkins, John ' Condon, Wm. McCol- 

 lum, Louis Patthey, Camille Roselle, 

 Jasper McMullen, Percy W. Richter, 

 Charles W. Beekman, A. N. Kinney, 

 R. T. Brown, Max Schling and R. W. 

 Loeben. The following new members 

 were proposed: John White, Jr., Her- 

 vie C. Harris, John Hall, Marshall 

 Crisman, Fred Cowperthwait, Geo. L. 

 Freeman, Peter Jacobson, J. J. Gun- 

 ther, C. F. Meyer, David Feurstenberg, 

 Jas. Deans, A. J. Emerson, P. J. Deans, 

 Chas. Arnold, H. B. Siebrecht, Wesley 



B. Leach, J. B. McKnight, Alex I. 

 Anderson, J. Y. Smith. 



The award committee reported hav- 

 ing visited J. D. Cockcroft January 3 

 and gave the new carnation, Northport, 

 86^ points and the club's certificate. 

 December 13 the committee visited the 

 Cottage Gardens and gave the new 

 carnation. Matchless, 89 points and the 

 club's certificate. 



Max Schling, H. C. Riedel and Charles 

 Beekman, new members, gave brief 

 addresses. 



P. J. Smith's motions in favor of the 

 annual dinner and outing were carried 

 unanimously. 



John Donaldson, the vice-president, 

 resigned from the board of trustees, 

 and F. R. Pierson was appointed to the 

 vacancy, 



C. H. Totty's address in behalf of 

 the -National Flower Show was eloquent. 

 He announced over $12,000 of space 

 sold to exhibitors and said another 

 month will show double this amount. 



The exhibits of the evening were: 



Carnations Wm. Eccles, British Tri- 

 umph and Lady Northcliffe, by Scott 

 Bros., Elmsford, received thanks of the 

 club; Carnation Enchantress Supreme, 

 by Dailledouze Bros., Flatbush, scored 

 Sh'^/y points; Carnation Improved En- 

 chantress, by Frank Niquet, Patcho- 

 gue, scored 85 points; Carnation North- 

 port, by J. D. Cockcroft, Northport, 

 received thanks of club; Carnation Sal- 

 mon Beauty, by Traendly & Schenck, 

 received thanks of the club; Carnation 

 Matchless, by Cottage Gardens, Queens, 

 received thanks of club. 



The house committee gave the usual 

 thought to the inner man and the pres- 

 ident had perfectos on tap ad libitum. 



Various Notes. 



The National Flower Show entertain- 

 ment committee held a meeting January 

 13, at the Earlington hotel, C. B. 



Weathered in the chair. Many liberal 

 contributions were announced, and the 

 outlook is most promising. 



Eugene Dailledouze has returned, 

 with his brothers, Paul and Henry, 

 from the south, including in his pil- 

 grimage a stay in Costa Rica. He has 

 many interesting stories to tell of 

 Panama. 



J. McHutchison will sail this week, 

 on the Arcadian, for a short holiday 

 in "the land of the lily and the rose." 



Harry Bunyard celebrated a birthday 

 anniversary January 3. Mr. Bunyard 

 will lecture on the International 

 Flower Show at Newport, R. I., Janu- 

 ary 28 and for the Westchester Horti- 

 cultural Society early in February. He 

 uses over 100 stereopticon views. 



The Rumson Greenhouses, owned by 

 the late M. C. D. Borden, and now run 

 by the estate as a commercial enter- 

 prise, with William Turner as superin- 

 tendent, has just recovered damages 

 of $10,000 because of the escape of gas 

 in the greenhouses, owing to defective 

 pipe-laying by the municipality. Wm. 

 Duckham and A. Herrington were en- 

 gaged to determine the loss on orchids 

 and roses. Many fine trees also were 

 destroyed. 



Philip Breitmeyer, of Detroit, was a 

 recent visitor. Another western visitor 

 last week was our old townsman, L. W. 

 Wheeler, of Palo Alto, Cal. 



The deaths of George F. Kidd, Sam- 

 uel Reisner and others well known to 

 the trade in New York will be found 

 recorded in this week's obituary 

 column. 



The 100-mile gale last week did heavy 

 damage to the plant of the Somerset 

 Rose Co., at Basking Ridge, N. Y. 



The latest news from the National 

 Flower Show is that nearly $10,000 

 worth of exhibition/ space has been 

 sold and over $3,000 contracted for in 

 pages in the souvenir. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Sydney B. Wertheimer, of Wer- 

 theimer Bros., sailed January 11, on the 

 Arcadian, for a vacation in Bermuda, 

 accompanied by his mother and sister. 

 On his return Leon G. Wertheimer will 

 make a pleasure trip to Panama. 



The Flushing Rose Gardens has filed 

 articles of incorporation, giving prin- 

 cipal place of business as Manhattan. 

 Capital is $40,000. The incorporators 

 named are H. B. Mulliken, of Pelham; 



E. J. Moeller, of New York city, and 



F. C. Kronmeyer, of Jersey City. • 

 Joseph Fleischman has received his 



discharge from bankruptcy and it is 

 said that all his individual liabilities, 

 aggregating close to $150,000, have been 

 paid in full. 



One of M. A. Bowe's boys is said 

 to have disappeared recently, with the 

 bankbook and the day's deposit. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



The warm, dark weather has forced 

 things along too fast and made the 

 stock rather soft. There is a good cut 

 of everything, more than there is a 

 real demand for. The call has been 

 good, under the circumstances, but not 

 so heavy as it would have been under 

 normal weather conditions. The agents 

 in the neighboring towns are not call- 

 ing for so many flowers as they do at 

 times. This has had its effect in some 

 stores in lowering prices. Others sell 

 at the old prices and seem to lose 



