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The Florists' Review 



Febbuaby 13, 1913. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market was steady 

 and unchanged last week, and quota- 

 tions continue on the same level as this 

 week opens, but with a tendency down- 

 ward. American Beauties have re- 

 treated from the dollar level to 60 cents 

 for the best, quality also deteriorating 

 considerably. All other roses remain at 

 the levels of the last two weeks, but 

 the short supply can no longer be de- 

 pended on to keep the market steady. 



Few carnations sold last week at over 

 $2 per hundred; none, in fact, except 

 the few specialties that are being in- 

 troduced this season. Many carnations 

 sold in large lots last week as low as 

 75 cents per hundred. Lilies, when 

 perfect, have touched 12 cents, but $10 

 per hundred was high mark on Satur- 

 day. Some inferior stock fell as low 

 as 5 cents, small and short-stemmed, 

 however. Violets do not often climb 

 above 30 cents, and growers of them 

 must feel that way. These do be 

 troublous times for the blue queen and 

 the color seems most appropriate. Or- 

 chids still are unappreciated. The 

 wholesale figure has been 35 cents for 

 the best. There likely will be no rise 

 until nearly Easter. Cypripediums are 

 few and gardenias are going down. 

 Acacia is here. Callas are now 

 abundant and sell at from 60 cents 

 a dozen up to $1.25. Valley can 

 be bought for $3 per hundred. Of 

 freesias, narcissi and daffodils there is 

 no end. Daisies, sweet peas, forget-me- 

 nots and wallflowers are all of excel- 

 lent quality and abundant. 



Club Meeting. 



There was an attendance of eighty 

 at the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 February 10, when the following were 

 elected to membership: 



Charles F. Meyer, H. B. McKnight, 

 Hervie C. Harris, Wesley B. Leach, 

 John J. Gunther, James Deans, David 

 Fuerstenberg, Peter Jacobsen, Alex. I. 

 Anderson, D. Irving Deans, Charles 

 Arnold, Henry B. Siebrecht, George L. 

 Freeman, Frederick Cowperthwait, 

 Marshall Crissman, John Hall, John 

 White, Jr., and I. Warwick Smith. 

 There were three resignations. 



Discussion concerning the entertain- 

 ment of the trade visitors to the Na- 

 tional Flower Show occupied the greater 

 part of the evening. Those who spoke 

 at some length were Messrs. Weathered, 

 Philpott, Ebel, Duckham, Smith, Totty, 

 Bunyard, Simpson, Marshall and 

 Traendly, but many others had some- 

 thing to say. Over $1,000 already has 

 been subscribed. C. H. Totty, chairman 

 of the committee in charge of the great 

 exhibition, made a splendid address. He 

 predicted an attendance of 20,000 the 

 first evening the show is open. C. C. 

 Trepel has bought 7,000 tickets for the 

 opening night. 



A. Farenwald, of Philadelphia, was 

 present and spoke briefly. W. K. Pier- 

 son, of Cromwell, was called home by 

 telegram and was unable to present the 

 paper he had been expected to read. 

 M. C. Ebel, who is some publicity man 

 himself, read a paper on "The Pub- 

 licity Propaganda." 



Kesolutions' on the death of Alex- 

 ander Hogg were read and approved. 

 Messrs. Fenrich, Miller and Shaw were 

 named as the committee to prepare reso- 

 lutions on the deaths of Mrs. Blake and 

 Mrs. Badgley. 



Mr. McKnight showed his seedling 

 carnation, Electra, which scored eighty- 

 six points. The committee soon will 

 see it growing in its New Jersey home. 

 Northport and Matchless were other 

 new varieties that were on view. 



Various Notes. 



H. E. Philpott, of Winnipeg, sailed 

 for England February 11, on the Maure- 

 tania. He will return in time for the 

 National Flower Show, accompanying 

 the European visitors. 



Herman Berchard took unto himself 

 a better half February 5. C. C. Trepel 

 was the best man. The happy couple 

 are at Palm Beach. 



Henry Schmidt, at Union Hill, N. J., 

 still specializes on Primula obconica 

 compacta. He has a fine stock for 

 Easter. 



L. W. Kervan writes from Welaka, 

 Fla., that the swimming and fishing are 

 fine. 



The first annual supper of the West- 

 chester and Fairfield Horticultural So- 

 ciety will be held at Germania hall, 

 New Eochelle, Tuesday, February 18, 

 at 7 p. m. Bowling begins at 2 p. m. 



Thursday, February 20, the annual 

 Greek and American florists' ball will 

 be held at Tuxedo hall, Fifty-eighth 

 street and Third avenue. Messrs. 

 Nicholas and Fellouris assure me this 

 will outshine any of its predecessors. 

 Last year over 2,000 attended. Both 

 wholesalers and retailers in large num- 

 bers indulge in this festivity. 



Badgley, Eiedel & Meyer were dis- 

 playing Gladiolus Blushing Bride in 

 their windows last week. 



The first floor of the Coogan building 

 witnessed some exciting foot races last 

 week, participated in by two of the 

 old-timers. Honors, it is said, were 

 about even. 



It is reported that the greenhouses of 

 Ordonez Bros., of Madison, N. J., were 

 burned February 6 and some valuable 

 orchids destroyed. 



Edward Sceery, of Paterson, N. J., 

 was burned out at 10 a. m. February 6 

 and at 3 p. m. was ready for business 

 in his new store. Nothing is too rapid 

 for Jersey this year. 



The plant growers sent H. C. Stein- 

 hoff to represent them at the State 

 Federation meeting at Ithaca February 

 12. Quite a number of our prominent 

 members were present. Harry Bunyard 

 lectured on "Twentieth Century Horti- 

 culture. ' ' 



Fred Smythe is enjoying his annual 

 trip to Europe. 



Kobert MacNiff, of the MacNiff Hor- 

 ticultural Co., is comfortably settled in 

 his new store on Vesey street. Auc- 

 tions will begin about March 10. The 

 seed department of this enterprise is 

 busy. The two upper floors of the big 

 building have been let for storage. 



William Plumb is now manager of 

 the Bound Brook Nursery Co., Bound 

 Brook, N. J. 



Wm. Turner, of Oceanic, N. J., will 

 read his paper on the culture of or- 

 chids at Elberon, N. J., March 3, be- 

 fore the Elberon Horticultural Society. 



Max Schling is much appreciated by 

 the National Flower Show committee 

 for his enterprise in taking space for 

 his intended exhibits in the retail cut 

 flower section. 



Wm. Trumpore, of J. H. Small & Sons, 

 is convalescing after a serious opera- 

 tion at the French hospital. 



Manager Foley, of Lecakes & Co., 

 says the "To let" sign above the firm's 



store does not refer to the green goods 

 enterprise. 



Moore, Hentz & Nash are offering a 

 silver cup valued at $50 as one of the 

 rose prizes at the National Flower 

 Show. 



The fall exhibition of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York will be held 

 October 31 to November 4, at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. It 

 is hoped the dates of other fall shows 

 will not conflict, and so this early no- 

 tice is given. 



McKinley day, notwithstanding con- 

 siderable local newspaper advertising 

 and window publicity, did not material- 

 ize the widespread interest anticipated. 

 The problem of creating public inter- 

 est is still unsolved. 



The plant growers held their annual 

 dinner January 29, at the Louis Martin 

 banquet hall. Louis Dupuy is presi- 

 dent. Messrs. Farquhar, Pierson, Eo- 

 land and Siebrecht were the speakers 

 of the evening. Miss Dupuy gave sev- 

 eral selections on the piano and an 

 excellent vaudeville performance added 

 novelty to the occasion. Secretary Sie- 

 brecht was presented with a watch fob 

 and locket studded with diamonds iiv 

 recognition of long and faithful service. 

 Dancing closed the evening's enjoy- 

 ment. The committee was Julius Eoehrs, 

 Alfred Zeller and Herman Schoelzel. 

 The monthly meeting of the association 

 was held February 7. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



EOCHESTEE, N. Y. 



The Market. 



The market this week has been fair, 

 although the extremely cold weather 

 the last couple of days made things 

 a little dead. Stock has been arriving 

 in fine shape and in good quantity, 

 except that carnations have been a little 

 scarce. The Lenten season does not 

 appear to be causing the slump that was 

 feared. This is probably due to the 

 increasing use of flowers as valentines, 

 and St. Valentine's day comes during 

 Lent this year. The trade is making 

 a special effort and display for this 

 day and producing some pretty and 

 catchy novelties. 



Various Notes. 



George T. Boucher has had a number 

 of big decorating jobs lately. Among 

 the largest were the firemen's ball, at 

 the Armory, and the auto show, at Ex- 

 position park. Besides the extra big 

 jobs, he has been having his full share 

 of funeral work. For his St. Valen- 

 tine's day trade he had a large supply 

 of Scotch heather and bleeding heart. 

 The Scotch heather he also will use 

 for Easter trade. He is expecting to 

 soon start building a new house, at 

 Brighton, for the growing of sweet 

 peas, etc. 



H. P. Neun has been showing a fine 

 specimen of wistaria in his window. 



J. B. Keller Sons have been showing 

 a number of things, this week, that are 

 somewhat out of the ordinary, for the 

 Eochester trade. The center of attrac- 

 tion was a fine, large acacia, in full 

 bloom. They had quite a display of 

 •Japanese cherry and crabapples, which 

 were flowered in their greenhouses. 

 They are also having a good cut from 

 their own orchids. They have recently 

 been putting out a new wrinkle for 

 table decoration. It is a shallow glass 

 dish filled with water, on one side of 

 which is what appears to be an orchid 



