January 30, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



29 



NEBBASKA. FLOBISTS MEET. 



The Nebraska State Florists' Asso- 

 eiation held a well attended meeting at 

 Lincoln January 21 and 22, in connec- 

 tion with the gatherings of the other 

 horticultural bodies of the state. An 

 exhibition was staged on the opening 

 day, with the business session on the 

 second day. The following officers were 

 elected: 



President — Ed. Williams, of Grand 

 Island. 



Vice-president — J. W. Lawson, of 

 York. 



Secretary — Lewis Henderson, of 

 Omaha. 



Treasurer — J. E. Atkinson, of Paw- 

 nee City. 



Directors — C. H. Frey, Lincoln; W. E. 

 Davidson, of York, and Harry Pence, 

 Falls City. 



The papers read were as follows: 



"Winter Blooming Plants," by C. H. 

 Frey, Lincoln. 



"Forcing Bulbs," by L. D. Tyrrell, 

 Lincoln. 



"Growing Lilies for Easter," by Ed. 

 Williams, Grand Island. 



* ' Cut Flowers for the Summer 

 Months," by C. H. Green, Fremont. 



' ' Growing Sweet Peas, " by J. W. 

 Lawson, York. 



"Cement vs. Wood Benches," by J. 

 D. Ellsworth, Grand Island. 



"Heating Greenhouses," by Lewis 

 Henderson, Omaha. 



Question box and general discussion. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The Market. 



Sometimes a little sunshine and then 

 a little rain, with the temperature rang- 

 ing upward and downward from 23 to 

 60 degrees, does not seem beneficial to 

 the flower business, either from the 

 growers' or retailers' standpoint. Eoses 

 have been quite scarce all the week. 

 While prices have not gone up, no bar- 

 gains have been offered. The quality 

 might have been better, but, since they 

 were scarce, there was not much ques- 

 tion on that point. The retailers gen- 

 erally have complained that trade has 

 been wrong since the first of the year 

 and could not be depended upon, but 

 they always seem busy enough. Per- 

 haps the weather is affecting their 

 nerves. 



The flower market looks much like 

 spring, with the bulbous flowers coming 

 in. Tulips are long enough to be at- 

 tractive, and trumpets, freesias, daisies, 

 mignonette and violets add to the 

 variety. 



Various Notes. 



Murray C. King, of Washington, Pa., 

 has sold his store, which he bought last 

 summer, to B. W. Spragg, who also con- 

 ducts a store at Waynesburg, Pa. 



Mrs. E. A. Williams has been showing 

 in her window some vases and baskets 

 of mixed flowers which are quite at- 

 tractive and seem to appeal to people 

 after they have seen so many of the 

 one-flower arrangements. 



The A. W. Smith Co. has just given 

 the store a new dressing, which makes 

 it look all fresh for the new year. The 

 firm has also been making special win- 

 dow displays of orchids; some fine cat- 

 tleyas and Vanda crorulea were dis- 

 played quite artistically. 



Ray Daschbach is using bunches of 

 flowers in shadow boxes as an adver- 

 tisement, placing them in prominent 



places. They are attractive and are no 

 doubt good ads. 



The Blind Floral Co. had a heavy 

 run of funeral work last week. They 

 have been keeping up a fine display of 

 blooming plants. 



Randolph & McClements have been 

 busy with out-of-town decorations. 

 Their invalids are all back on their 

 jobs. 



The McCallum Co. got caught in the 

 big wind and lost the glass out of their 

 front door last week. 



Say, you people in the business, do 

 these notes interest you? If they do, 

 when you meet the writer and you 

 know him, do not be afraid to give him 

 a few pointers as to what is going on. 

 He cannot see it all. 



Fred Burki was called to Kiskiminetis 

 January 25, on account of the illness 

 of his son, Frederick, who is a student 

 there. He expects to bring the young 

 man home with him. 



E. L. Martin, representing the Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co., Joliet, 111., is here 

 with the firm's new carnation. The 

 Herald. It looks good to us. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



The Market. 



Business has been good. The per- 

 formance of ' ' Everywhere ' ' created a 

 strong demand for cut flowers, many of 

 the performers receiving elegant bou- 

 quets. Plenty of funeral work has been 

 going around. Roses and carnations are 

 generally scarce and the demand good. 

 American Beauties are short in supply, 

 and the quality of those coming into the 

 market is not up to the standard. Daf- 

 fodils are in great demand, more being 

 sold than in any previous year. Easter 

 lilies are in good supply and the de- 

 mand fair. Sweet peas are somewhat 

 scarce. Violets sold well aU the week. 



Various Notes. 



H. B. Williams and wife visited in 

 town over Sunday. Mr. Williams is a 

 progressive aster grower of Baldwins- 

 ville, N. Y., last year growing over 

 forty acres of asters for seed. 



George Cramer is back in the city, 

 after spending the holiday season in 

 Buffalo, making his famous baskets for 

 S. A. Anderson. He is now with George 

 B. Hart, most of the time making bas- 

 kets. Mr. Cramer always has a great 

 demand for his baskets. 



Phil and Otto Gross have purchased 

 another farm in South Greece, N. Y. 

 This will be largely devoted to the 

 growing of asters and other outdoor 

 flowers. These two progressive young 

 Germans started about ten years 'ago 

 to grow a few flowers, as a side issue. 

 They have steadily developed until they 

 are now doing good work in this line. 



George Arnold, of Jas. Vick's Sons, 

 is to give a series of lectures on flori- 

 culture at Cornell University February 

 10 to 15. 



H. E. Wilson furnished the flowers 

 and decorations for the Noys-Williams 

 wedding February 15. Killarney roses 

 were used as the basis. 



E. R. Fry has a house of azaleas well 

 worth mentioning. 



There are rumors of a flower store to 

 be opened on South Clinton street. 



Thomas Sharp, for a number of years 

 a private gardener, is now in Roches- 

 ter. He will spend the rest of his years 

 resting. Mr. Sharp is an excellent ex- 



ample of the old saying, "It is not what 

 you earn, but what you save that 

 counts." 



Edw. Brockmann, of Irondequoit, has 

 three large houses of fine Enchantress 

 and one of bedding plants, all in excel- 

 lent shape. He finds Enchantress the 

 best to grow. 



H. J. Head, of the H. E. Wilson es- 

 tablishment, recently made a steamship 

 design for a farewell party. It was 

 a clever bit of work and was carried out 

 in great detail, even to the wireless 

 telegraph aerials, etc. 



Schuyler Arnold. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



The week has been another unusual 

 one, bringing stock forward too fast, 

 but it certainly has been a saver of 

 coal. There has scarcely been a touch 

 of frost. Business has been better than 

 for some time, largely because there 

 has been more funeral work. Roses are 

 rather scarce. Carnations continue to 

 come in freely, and are wholesaling at 

 from $2 to $3 per hundred. The red 

 varieties are cleaned up most closely, in 

 spite of their not being suitable for 

 design work. We are having ideal vio- 

 let weather and as a result there are so 

 many that it is a question what to do 

 with them. They are bringing from 75 

 cents to $1 per hundred, retail, but the 

 demand is not equal to the supply, even 

 at these prices. Another week of this 

 kind of weather and everybody will 

 have violets in his garden, as this is a 

 violet town. 



Golden Spur is in good supply and is 

 cleaned up closely at good prices. 

 Orchids are none too plentiful and are 

 fetching $1 apiece for good stock. 



There seems to be an oversupply of 

 good azaleas, and the same situation is 

 rapidly developing in rhododendrons. 

 The stock is of the best, but the supply 

 is greater than the demand. What are 

 being moved are bringing good prices, 

 however. 



Floyd Bralliar, principal of the Hill- 

 crest School Farm, is in the north this 

 week looking after contracts for grow- 

 ing canna and dahlia bulbs. The school 

 is arranging to build a propagating 

 house and a house for growing bedding 

 plants. 



When I visited Joy & Sons Co. I 

 found everyone busy making designs. 

 The violet houses were literally blue 

 with bloom. They are growing in the 

 benches where the chrysanthernums were 

 grown, having been transplanted from 

 the field about December 1, Those in 

 coldframes were doing equally well. 



At the store of Geny Bros. I found 

 everything filled with designs ready for 

 delivery the next morning and all hands 

 bunching violets. They had picked 

 16,000 that day. They were wondering 

 who wanted them all. They grow mostly 

 Giant of California, and grow it well, 

 securing the long stems that are so 

 much to be desired. 



Haury & Sons are well satisfied with 

 the business they are doing. They are 

 getting a steady run of orders from out- 

 of-town florists for work to be delivered 

 here. F. B. 



Charlotte, N. C— The Scholtz flower 

 business has been incorporated, under 

 the name of Scholtz, the Florist, Inc., 

 by E. P. Scholtz, Mrs. Nellie Scholtz, 

 J. I. McCallum and others. The paid 

 up capital is $8,000. 



