JANUARY 23, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



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week by George Cooke, at the Mac- 

 Veagh dinner. Pieces of galvanized 

 wire four feet in length were twisted 

 together with loops at intervals. Jhese 

 were then arched and upon them were 

 laid 500 wired roses, with the blossoms 

 bent upward. This had the appearance 

 of a huge q antity of flowers gleaned 

 from a garden and strewn on the table, 

 something out of the ordinary. 



Among the visitors last week were 

 Edward J. Fancourt, of S. S. Pennock- 

 Meehan Co.; Robert Shoch, of M. Rice 

 Co., and J. A. Goudy, with H. A. Dreer, 

 all of Philadelphia. C. L. L. 



DAYTON, O. 



The Market. 



The weather does not encourage 

 trade; consequently flowers are only 

 used whenever they are an absolute 

 necessity. The death rate was not so 

 heavy last week, and the quantity of 

 flowers consumed in funeral work did 

 not compare with the week previous. 

 There were few weddings, parties or 

 receptions. 



It is quite evident that carnations 

 are becoming more plentiful, as some 

 retailed as low as 35 cents a dozen 

 last week. The damp weather is hard 

 on them, as they come in soft and go 

 to pieces in a few days. There is also 

 an abundance of roses on the market, 

 but they are not so plentiful as the 

 carnations. Lilies seem to be scarce 

 everywhere. Bulbous stock is becom- 

 ing more plentiful every day; even 

 tulips are now added to the list of 

 varieties. 



Azaleas, primroses, cyclamens, etc., 

 sell as well as anything else. 



Various Notes. 



Everything in the greenhouses of 



W. W. Horlacher is in a flourishing 



condition, one of the prettiest sights 



• being his orchid house, in which he has 



some fine cattleyas in bloom. 



Mrs. Henry Walters is quite seriously 

 ill. Mr. Walters is the efficient designer 

 at John Boehner's greenhouses. 



Mrs. Claude Leslie entertained about 

 seventy of her friends in honor of her 

 birthday January 13. 



Leo Asher spent the week's end at 

 Indianapolis. 



Walter Matthews is quite ill with the 



grip- 

 Florence Phebus is on the sick list. 



Warren G. Matthews, who was con- 

 fined to his home last week with a 

 severe attack of quinsy, is again able 

 to be on duty. 



E. E. Schaefer, of the Advance Floral 

 Co., is having trouble with water, which 

 has got into his boiler pit. 



The Edgemont Floral Co. reports 

 business entirely satisfactory since its 

 opening, which was a month ago. 



The Heiss Co. had a big wedding 

 decoration last week, which consisted 

 of bouquets for the bride, four brides- 

 maids, a 9iatron of honor and a basket 

 for the ring bearer; also the home and 

 church decorations. The large plate 

 glass window in the Main street store 

 was broken recently. 



Mrs. J. W. Rodgers and daughter, 

 Elizabeth, of Monroe, O., spent a few 

 days of last week with Mr. Rodgers, 

 who is obliged to carry his arm in a 

 sling, on account of blood poisoning 

 in his hand. 



The Dayton Floral Co. has been suc- 



cessful in securing the store adjoining 

 its Third street establishment in the 

 Phillips Hotel building. The partition 

 will be torn out and the stores re- 

 modeled. R. A. L. 



ATIANTA, OA. 



January has been notable for the large 

 quantity of funeral work called for. 



The Atlanta Floral Co. has had two 

 weeks of active business. Mr. Borg re- 

 ports that sales have exceeded those of 

 any previous season. 



Wachendorf Bros, are so gratified 

 with their success that they are adding 

 another house. They have remodeled 

 their office, macadamized their walks 

 and drives, and under a thorough and 

 intelligent management present a well- 

 equipped establishment. 



Mr. Matthiessen, of the Ponce de 

 Leon Floral Co., has supplied quantities 

 of valley, Easter lilies and narcissi to 

 the wholesale trade. 



The Alto- Vista Floral Co. reports a 

 fine business during the entire month 

 of December, with a steady increase 

 from the first of the month into Jan- 

 uary. Their decorative pots, attractive- 

 ly arranged for the holiday trade, sold 

 well. 



At Dahl's they express themselves as 

 being gratified with their share of the 

 business, having enough blooms to 

 meet all orders. 



The West View Floral Co. has quite 

 a number of carnation houses, which 

 were in fine shape when a visit was 

 recently paid the plant. The cyclamens 

 were excellent and in full bloom. A 

 bunch of callas was in splendid condi- 

 tion. M. B. W. 



NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



Club Meeting. 



The New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its monthly meeting January 

 15, at Kolb's German Tavern. Her- 

 man Doescher presided and Secretary 

 Panter was at his desk. There was a 

 larger attendance than for some 

 months. Some elegant exhibits, as well 

 as a highly interesting discussion, 

 aroused the interest of all. 



A resolution was adopted to instruct 

 the secretary to apply to the Southern 

 Pan-American Fair for the stock sub- 

 scribed by the association, so as to 

 put it to practical use. 



The enormous amount of money sent 

 north during the whole year for carna- 

 tions brought forth a lively and inter- 

 esting discussion, during which J. A. 

 Newsham, Harry Dressel and Richard 

 Eichling expressed their views. The 

 constant humidity and the hot spells 

 from September to May were consid- 

 ered the greatest drawbacks to the suc- 

 cessful culture of the best paying vari- 

 eties of carnations in this section of 

 the country. A fortune awaits the per- 

 son who can solve these difficulties. 



C. R. Felton's application for mem- 

 bership was received, to be acted upon 

 at the next regular meeting. 



H. Dressel, rose grower for the Me- 

 tairie Ridge Nursery Co., exhibited a 

 vase of Radiance roses with 4-foot 

 stems. The perfection of bloom and 

 foliage would have done credit to any 

 northern grower. 



A Visit to Newsham 's. 



J. A. Newsham, the local orchid spe- 

 cialist, extended an invitation to the 

 members of the New Orleans Horti- 



cultural Society, at the January meet- 

 ing, to visit his place. An invitation 

 to the public in general was also issued. 

 The visiting members of the society, 

 as well as the large number of other 

 visitors, were treated to such a gor- 

 geous display of Cattleya Trianae as 

 they had probably never beheld until 

 then. The large show case was a verit- 

 able bower of elegant specimen plants 

 in full bloom, some of them bearing five 

 flowers to the stem. One house, 150 

 feet long, was one mass of Trianse in 

 bloom, about 1,800 flowers, all of per- 

 fect size and color. In another house 

 was a bench of Oncidium splendidum, 

 with about 1,000 flower spikes in bud, 

 and in another was a bench of Cypripe- 

 dium insigne, while still other varieties 

 gave promise of a fine crop in the near 

 future. 



Mr. Newsham filled, January 16, 

 probably one of the largest single or- 

 ders for orchids in the United States, 

 when he delivered 500 corsage bou- 

 quets, made of Cattleya Trianse, to 

 the United Fruit Co., to be distributed 

 to the ladies attending a reception in 

 honor of the Western Fruit Growers' 

 Association, in session hore at that 

 time. 



Mr. Newsham 's colleagues and the 

 public in general bestowed upon him 

 great praise for his successful efforts 

 in orchid culture in the south. R. E, 



CINOINNATI. 



The Gateway to the South. 



Last week's market proved, at the 

 best, to be only a fair one. Many times 

 some good stock had to be sacrificed 

 in order to move it. The average price 

 was ordinary. Shipping business is 

 good. 



The supply of Beauties was just 

 about taken up by the call for them. 

 Pink roses, particularly Killarney, sold 

 fairly well all the week. Red at times 

 accumulated. White roses never cleaned 

 up. The medium stock sold the best. 

 The best sellers in the market right 

 now, relative to supply, are Easter and 

 calla lilies, choice sweet peas, daffodils, 

 tulips and single violets. All of these 

 are enjoying a good call and it is not 

 often that any of them accumulate to 

 a great extent. Carnations continue 

 in large supply. They sold well at the 

 opening and at the close of last week, 

 but during the interim the sale was 

 only fairly good. The prices continue 

 low. Paper White narcissi are a glut. 

 Double violets, valley and orchids find 

 only an ordinary market. Novelties, 

 such as forget-me-not, mignonette, etc., 

 find a good market. The supply of 

 green goods of every kind is adequate. 



Varioiis Notes. 



C. E. Critchell received large ship- 

 ments of elegant sweet peas last week, 

 which sold well. 



Al. Heckman, of the Cincinnati Cut 

 Flower Exchange, is again at his desk. 

 In order to oblige a friend, he joined 

 a suit club and won out on the first 

 drawing. 



E. G. Gillett spent part of last week 

 in Springfield, O., attending the funeral 

 of his uncle. 



George Klotter's mignonette has been 

 selling at sight at L. H. Kyrk's. 



The marriage of Miss Clara Mack, 

 daughter of Ernst Mack, and Otto R. 

 Keller was solemnized January 16. 



The recent high water was up over 



