FEBRUARY 20, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



19 



extra call was mostly for violets, or- 

 chids, sweet peas, valley and red flowers. 

 The market is now abundantly sup- 

 plied with everything; indeed, since the 

 influx of bulbous stock and the increase 

 in other lines, the market has been 

 rather overloaded with everything ex- 

 cept roses. On the other hand, carna- 

 tions are doing a little better than a 

 week ago. 



Various Notes. 



Robert Rahaley spent February 17 at 

 Thomas Browne's place in Greenfield, 

 Mich., on business connected with the 

 dissemination of Philadelphia, which is 

 in full crop there now. 



Albert Pochelon reports a pleasurable 

 trip to Cleveland. 



F. G. Knecht & Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., 

 who consign their roses to this market, 

 are apparently in full crop. 



James Zettner, of the Michigan Cut 

 Flower Exchange, is on duty after a 

 week's illness. 



Albert Stahelin is making a hit with 

 Oloriosa carnations, grown in his mova- 

 ble greenhouses. 



Edward Moss is expected home soon 

 from Sault Ste. Marie. H. S. 



BBAMFTON, ONT. 



The Market. 



We have just passed through a fort- 

 night of zero weather, the first of the 

 season, and a delightful change from 

 the tame winter we have been expe- 

 riencing. Beauties and sweet peas have 

 proved a great disappointment here this 

 season. Easter lilies are coming along 

 nicely, and show signs of producing bet- 

 ter bloom this year than before, but it 

 will need all possible skill on the part 

 of the growers to force the stock in 

 time for holiday requirements. 



Various Notes. 



The sale of lily of the valley has in- 

 creased enormously during the last 

 twelve months. At the Dale Estate 

 three new houses have just beeu set 

 apart for Easter needs. The orchid 

 houses are displaying some fine Cattleya 

 Trianae and Schroederse, which meet a 

 better market each year, despite Lent. 

 Bulbous stock has turned out satisfac- 

 torily this season, the quality being far 

 above the average. 



R. Jennings and W. K Calvert are 

 sending out excellent violets, and car- 

 nations at the former's establishment 

 aje particularly good. The same condi- 

 tions prevail at the Dale Estate green- 

 houses and, as has happened during the 

 last three years, the after-Christmas cut 

 has more than made up in quality what 

 may have been lacking in quantity. 



F. Smith, of the Connon Floral Co., 

 and Jas. Wilson, of the Woodstock 

 noral Co., were here on business last, 

 week, and Robt. Greenlaw, of the S, S. 

 Pennock-Meehan Co., also passed 

 through. W. G. P. 



COLUMBUS, O. 



St. Valentine Day's Trade. 



Trade was something wonderful here 

 for Valentine's day. From all reports, 

 everybody had a regular clean-up, re- 

 minding one of a Christmas rush, and it 

 looks as if Valentine's day will be one 

 of our big days in the future. Roses 

 and carnations were in good supply and 

 were all cleaned up early, and in most 

 cases a great many more could have 



"WHO'S WHO-AND WHY" 



H. H. WILKEBSON. 



IT is a fine sign for the future of the trade that the young college man is begin- 

 ning to be a factor in the affairs of the craft. A type of this class of florists is 

 H. H. Wilkerson, of Chicago, who graduated from the Liberal Arts Department 

 of Northwestern University in 1910. He was born at Roodhouse, 111., in 1886, and 

 is, therefore, 26 years of age. During his college career he was interested in ath- 

 letics, especially in football, and the training in advancing the ball in the face of 

 opposition has been invaluable to him since he took up the task of procuring and 

 executing important orders. On leaving college he found employment with Henry 

 Wittbold, whose specialty is decorations of whatever kind, and his ability to get 

 results, backed by experience, quickly led to his appointment as manager of the 

 business. 



been sold. Bulb stock sold well and 

 there was a big stock of all kinds on 

 hand. Violets, however, were the heav- 

 iest seller and everybody was sold out 

 early. From all reports, the quantity 

 of violets sold must have been twice as 

 great as last year. 



The cooperative plan of advertising 

 worked finely. The principal firms of 

 the city contributed from $10 down, ac- 

 cording to what they thought would be 

 proportionate, and there was a good 

 write-up in the local paper. Few or no 

 prices were published, except baskets 

 ranging in price from 75 cents up to 

 $4 or $5, or as high as the customer 

 was pleased to go. At the bottom of 

 the write-up the names of the ones who 

 gave toward it were mentioned, so it 

 really helped everybody. The craft in 

 general think it was a great success 

 and it will probably be tried out again 

 in the near future. J. M. 



Monticello, N. Y. — The greenhouse 

 owned by John O'Neal, at Colonial 

 Park, was recently burned to the 

 ground. 



Bowley, Mass. — James Lowe has ac- 

 cepted a position as gardener and flo- 

 rist on the estate of Mrs. Fenno, on 

 Ox Pasture Hill. 



Mandan, N. D. — Superintendent A. W. 

 Peterson and Horticultural Expert Max 

 Pfander, of the new government ex- 

 periment station to be established here, 

 have arrived here from Washington, 

 D. C, and have taken up residence in 

 the Voss house, on upper Fifth avenue, 

 northwest, where the oflSces of the 

 station will be located until the build- 

 ings for that purpose are completed on 

 the farm south of town. Eleven build- 

 ings, from one to three stories in 

 height, will be erected on different parts 

 of the half-section tract, in the sum- 

 mer of this year. 



