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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



January 26, 1911. 



DENVER. 



The Market. 



Almost everyone had a big crop of 

 cut flowers at the holitlays, and, as a 

 consequence, every one is short just 

 now. The Christmas prices are a great 

 temptation to the growers, and they 

 cannot be blamed for wanting to cut 

 more at that time; but it would be 

 such a relief if some kind and generous 

 man would allow his crop to come just 

 a little later. 



Business has been good, and every- 

 thing has been sold daily. There are 

 not nearly enough carnations or tea 

 roses to go around, and it might be 

 well to include medium and short 

 Beauties. Long Beauties are up to the 

 demand, and so are violets. We still 

 have the California violet peddlers on 

 the streets, and while they stay the 

 violet business is apt to be slow. The 

 call for callas is unusual, and mignon- 

 ette is growing in favor. Bulb stock is 

 beginning to come, but not yet in large 

 quantities. 



Various Notes. 



The Colorado Florists' Club had an 

 interesting meeting January 10. Ow- 

 ing to some misunderstanding in regard 

 to the T. M. A. hall, where the meet- 

 ings have been, this one was held at 

 the store of the Park Floral Co. It is 

 the intention hereafter to have the 

 meetings in the new store of the Park 

 Floral Co., the exact date to be decided 

 later. D. M. Andrews, of Boulder, 

 read a most interesting paper on "Na- 

 tive Shrubs." The various pottery men 

 were there with samples and argu- 

 ments, but they failed to convince the 

 skeptical, and the question, "Are west- 

 ern made pots as good as those of 

 eastern manufacture?" is still unan 

 swered. It will probably be taken up 

 at the next meeting. 



Mrs. R. Mauff has returned from an 

 extended visit in California. 



F. X. Goeschl has opened up a flower 

 stand in the entrance to the Symes 

 block. It is a small place, but Mr. 

 Goeschl expects to do some business. 

 The Greeters' Club had a banquet at 

 the Brown hotel last week, the decora- 

 tion and favors being furnished by the 

 Elitch-Long Flower Store. 



At the last meeting of the Colorado 

 Florists' Club, it was suggested that at 

 the opening of the new Chamber of 

 Commerce building it would look well 

 if the florists of the city would donate 

 the flowers for the decorations. The 

 suggestion met with approval, probably 

 on account of the surplus on hand just 

 at that time, and 3,000 carnations and 

 three or four cases of wild smilax were 

 promised. The day after the promise 

 was made, the demand for flowers in- 

 creased, and by the end of the week 

 there was not a flower to be bought at 

 wholesale. Some of the florists nearly 

 cried their eyes out when they found 

 it necessary to go and buy stock at 

 high prices just to give away, but they 

 all kept their promises. The decoration 

 was under the supervision of B. E. 

 Gillis, of the Park Floral Co. 



March & Johnson, florists at Sterling, 

 Colo., are figuring on a large decoration 

 for Washington's birthday. Their 

 representative was in the city last 

 week looking for stock to use at that 

 time, as they have only a small amount 

 of glass. 



The new store of Cooper & Berry at 

 833 Fifteenth street is quite attractive. 



and although the painters and other 

 workmen were quite bothersome dur- 

 ing their opening week they did a rush- 

 ing business, and are thoroughly satis- 

 fied. 



Leo Grimes, son of Mr. and Mrs. 

 W. H. Grimes, and Miss Catherine 

 Scheideman, were married Saturday 

 evening, January 21, at the home of 

 the groom's parents on West Thirty- 

 second avenue. 



Two of the Park Floral Co. employees, 

 Frank Sauerwald and E. P. Neiman, 

 were on the sick list for a few days, 

 but are now able to be around. 



Denver florists are now well repre- 

 sented in the Chamber of Commerce. 

 J. A. Valentine and N. A. Benson, who 

 have been members for some time, were 

 selected as a membership committee, 

 and succeeded in getting E. S. Kennedy, 

 C. L. Gross and Bernhard Boldt to join. 

 W. H. Grimes is also a member, he 

 having joined several years ago. 



Nearly every florist in the city sent 

 something to the funeral of the late 

 Senator C. J. Hughes, Jr., but the Park 

 Floral Co. had the greater part of the 

 work. E. P. Neiman was at the resi- 

 dence several hours before the funeral 

 and received and arranged all the 

 flowers. 



When Emil Glauber went to the the- 

 ater one night last week, he left his 

 automobile standing outside and it was 

 gone when he returned. He imme- 

 diately reported the matter to the 

 police, hired the fastest machine in 

 town and several detectives, and 

 started a systematic search. They 

 scoured the city for several hours, and 

 finally located it at Third and Gilpin 

 streets. Nothing had been disturbed or 

 broken, and it was evidently taken by 

 some youngsters who were out for a 

 good time. Mr. Glauber now locks 

 his machine when he leaves it, and 

 hopes to prevent a recurrence. 



About a dozen out-of-town florists 

 were lavishly entertained in Denver, 

 Saturday and Sunday, January 21 and 

 22. Saturday afternoon they were 

 taken in automobiles 'to the different 

 greenhouses on the north side, stopping 

 first at Ben Boldt 's, where they had 

 lunch. Then, in turn, they visited the 

 greenhouses of C. F. Maler, Chas. Ben- 

 son, the Elitch-Long Co., and the Curtis 

 Park Floral Co. In the evening at 

 six o'clock there was a banquet at the 

 Brown hotel, with forty-eight present. 

 C. R. Root was toastmaster, and re- 

 sponses were made by John Berry, 

 J. A. Valentine, Ed. Johnson, N. A. 

 Benson, E. S. Kennedy, Ed. Potter and 

 A. H. Bush. W, H. Grimes was excused 

 before the banquet was finished, as he 

 wanted to be present at the marriage 

 of his son at eight o'clock. After the 

 banquet there was a bowling match at 

 the Overland bowling alleys, at which 

 the Denver men won two out of three 

 games. Sunday morning they visited 

 the east side greenhouses, going to 

 Glauber's, Hall's and Mauff 's, arriving 

 at the Park Floral Co. about noon, 

 where lunch was served at Plant A. 

 After lunch they went downtown to 

 see A. C. Sinram's store on Tremont 

 street. The following is a list of those 

 who were entertained by the Denver 

 florists: John Smith, Ray Vinson, J. 

 Hagemeyer, John Berry, Ed. Potter, 

 C. U. Fohn, Henry Monaghan, Alfred 

 Cox and Ed. Johnson, all of Colorado 

 Springs; Mr. Hennehofer, of Pueblo, 

 and Mr. Rouse, of Idaho Springs. 

 Visitors: A. Gardner, of Greeley; 



C. A. Espelin, of Fort Collins; Guy 

 Reyburn, representing A. Henderson &. 

 Co., Chicago. M. R, J. 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



Buying stock now puts one in mind of 

 the bread line during a famine — until 

 the bill comes in. Small flowers, such 

 as sweet peas, Romans, La Reine tulips,, 

 etc., are good and not so short in quan- 

 tity as the staple flowers, but they dO' 

 not have much covering capacity in 

 funeral work, wliich is the main thing 

 in the florists' business at present. 



Beauties and Killarneys are as scarce- 

 as the proverbial hens' teeth. 



Various Notes. 



W. P. Rock, formerly of the Flower 

 Shop, was forced to close his store on 

 Woodland avenue last week. 



Herbert Bate, of the Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., entertained several florists- 

 at his home, in Glenville, Saturday 

 night, January 21. Although poker was 

 the star attraction on the program,, 

 George Bate proved to those present 

 that he can tickle the ivories in a 

 most accomplished manner and accom- 

 panied the boys for many a good song. 



Mrs. Lincoln Brown reports a better 

 business than she had anticipated and 

 says she is establishing a nice trade in 

 Lakewood, where she is located. 



O. C. Knoble visited in Huron last 

 week. 



F. J. Ritzenthaler spent January 21 

 and 22 in Buffalo. 



Adam Graham and Gordon Gray, 

 veteran florists, are noted in the Cleve- 

 land Sunday Plain-Dealer as members. 

 of the Burns Curling Club. These two- 

 worthy gentlemen have helped to make- 

 this grand old Scottish game one of the 

 most popular in Cleveland. 



John Kirchner reports business good. 

 He is cutting lots of nice callas. La 

 Reine tulips and Romans. 



Herman Hart is marketing some fine 

 freesia plants, and cyclamens. 



C. D. F. 



BOCHESTEB. 



The Market. 



Business during the last two weeks 

 has been unusually brisk with the re- 

 tailers. A large church wedding, as- 

 well as a number of smaller functions, 

 called for a goodly quantity of decora- 

 tive material. The deaths of four of 

 Rochester's prominent business and 

 professional men made a call for design 

 work. 



Roses and carnations have been un- 

 usually short, and consequently prices- 

 have been high. Violets are selling at 

 50 cents a bunch, while La Reine tulip* 

 are offered at 60 cents a dozen. Prim- 

 roses can be had as low as 25 cents,, 

 but good plants are selling for at least 

 50 cents. 



Various Notes. 



E. C. Campbell, who conducts a store 

 and greenhouses on Chili avenue, is - 

 soon to open a new store at 15 North 

 street. This store is not quite com- 

 pleted, but the plans indicate that it 

 will be one of the best equipped flower 

 stores in the city. 



Orders have already been placed for 

 a large quantity of carnations for Mc- 

 Kinley day, January 29. E. F. R. 



