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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 2, 1911. 



Easter. The new store in the financial 

 district continues to prosper. 



W. N. Craig. 



Wtilliam F. Aylward, C Park street, 

 has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His 

 liabilities amount to $4,077, assets $600. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market. 



A terrific blizzard, the worst of the 

 season, struck Buffalo on Valentine's 

 day and lasted throughout the day. 

 Traffic was held up and delivery was 

 hard. From reports and from appear- 

 ances at the commission house, business 

 was exceptionally good and everything 

 was cleaned up early. Violets were the 

 leader and brought from 75 cents to $1. 

 Everything sold well; in fact, the to- 

 tals showed a large increase over for- 

 mer years. Stock for funeral work 

 took a jump in price, and an abund- 

 ance of this sort of work cleaned up 

 all the available white flowers for the 

 last week. Eoses are still a little 

 scarce, as well as the light-colored 

 carnations. The sale of bulb stock has 

 surpassed all records this season, per- 

 haps due to the fact that roses and 

 carnations have been scarce. Lilies 

 and valley have been scarce for the 

 last three weeks. 



There was a little brush for Wash- 

 ington's birthday, but it has just been 

 steady since. Saturday sales make 

 things brisk, but as a rule these are 

 only one form of advertising and can- 

 not be counted much for the pocket- 

 book. The temperature makes rapid 

 and decided changes, and when it does 

 warm up it is quite pleasant. Satur- 

 day was an ideal day and violets were 

 cleaned up early. Bulb stock came 

 next, as it was offered cheap. 



Various Notes. 



A fire near the Anderson green- 

 houses, just noticed in time by the fire- 

 man and Joe Streit, averted a big loss 

 to Mr. Anderson and the building ad- 

 joining. An alarm was sent in and 

 promptly answered, and for the quick 

 work which Mr. Streit and the other 

 man did, the owner gave them each a 

 $10 gold piece. 



The Lenox Flower Shop had a fine 

 decoration at Ithaca last week and the 

 force was gone three days, preparing 

 the work. Large plants and an abund- 

 ance of cut stock were used. 



The snowfall of last week was so 

 heavy at Akron, N. Y., that its weight 

 broke down the roofs of the houses at 

 the establishment of Mrs. Newman. 

 Considerable damage was done, as it 

 was impossible to secure protection be- 

 fore the cold had penetrated to the 

 stock. The loss was not estimated. 



John Preisach, of Corfu, N. Y., is 

 planning new greenhouses, to replace 

 the ones he now occupies. Figures 

 were submitted by the J. C. Moninger 

 Co., of Chicago. The work will be be- 

 gun as soon as the weather moderates. 

 Mr. Preisach is rather a new-comer in 

 Corfu and was employed by the Will- 

 iam Scott Co. before starting on his 

 own account. He has been quite suc- 

 cessful, as is shown by his plans for 

 rebuilding. 



The Buffalo bowlers will visit Eoches- 

 ter March 8. It is the intention to 

 have as many as possible go down and 

 go early in the day, so as to have a 



look around before the games begin. 

 It will be gratifying to the committee 

 to have a good showing there, so kindly 

 plan ahead and come along. 



The Buffalo Florists' Club will hold 

 its annual carnation meeting March 7. 

 The raisers of new varieties have been 

 invited to send along the good things. 



Bowling. 



The Eochester bowlers arrived with- 

 out a hitch and were escorted to the 

 Hofbrau, where a fine spread was ar- 

 ranged for their pleasure. After the 

 dinner all visitors and members were 

 taken to the bowling alleys and a lively 

 and pleasant time followed. The games 

 were more even than the scores indi- 

 cate, and the bowlers and spectators 

 enjoyed every minute of it. The five- 

 man match resulted as follows: 



Buffalo. Ist 2d 3d Ave. 



Meubeck 165 191 150 168 



Streit 115 159 160 144 



Kastlng 175 156 153 161 



Cloudsley 131 130 160 140 



Sandlford 169 188 155 170 



Total 783 



Rochester. Ist 2d 3d Ave. 



Jennv 159 171 174 168 



Phillips 166 159 138 154 



C. Vlck 127 I ,07 



P. Keller 137 148 5 ^'^' 



P. Ham 105 l loa 



M. Keller 143 130 J ^^ 



A. Vlck 134 134 143 137 



Total 722 



As the scores will show, Buffalo won 

 all three games by a pretty good mar- 

 gin. The boys then played a two-man 

 match against two Eochester men, Phil- 

 lips and Jenny versus McClure and Wal- 

 lace. This match the Buffalo boys also 

 won. Then everyone enjoyed some more 

 fried chicken and green peas. It was a 

 pleasant meeting and one to be remem- 

 bered. Eleven came from Eochester 

 and about thirty turned out for Buffalo. 



E. A. S. 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



The Market. 



The long looked for sunshine has at 

 last graced us with its pleasant smiles, 

 which are doing wonders everywhere. 

 Crops are daily becoming more abund- 

 ant, while trade keeps up at a lively 

 gait, so that the demand is sufficient to 

 consume the output. Stock of no kind 

 has to go begging. While the supply 

 of bulbous stock is quite heavy, none 

 of it gets a glimpse of the ash Isarrel. 

 Trade has kept up remarkably well in 

 the last ten weeks, so that in many 

 cases there has not been enough stock 

 to go the rounds. As a general thing 

 there is always a great deal of bulbous 

 stock that does not find a customer, but 

 such has not been the case this year. 



It is surprising to note what a large 

 quantity of funeral work has been con- 

 tinually coming in from all directions. 

 Not in a long time has there been so 

 great a demand so long continued. With 

 the few days of sunshine great changes 

 are noticed in the rose houses. The 

 seemingly shy rosebuds are coming 

 along in such condition that it is grati- 

 fying to the grower to make his rounds 

 to cut in the morning. The same is true 

 of the carnations. There are com- 

 paratively few callas grown; just 

 enough to supply the demand. Longi- 

 florum lilies seem to have come to the 

 front and made callas take a back seat; 

 the supply of these is always quite 

 heavy, and the demand equal to the 

 output. 



Taking the weather conditions into 



consideration, business throughout the 

 entire month of February could not 

 have been better. Everybody appears 

 to be more than satisfied with results. 

 Valentine 's day brought quite a demand 

 for all kinds of stock, especially violets, 

 valley, red carnations and roses, wMle 

 the demand for flowers on Washington's 

 birthday did its share to help along. 



Various Notes. 



Bernard Haschke and M. Anderson 

 have been victims of the grip. 



Mrs. Warren G. Matthews has been 

 in the hospital for the last ten days, 

 where she will have to undergo an 

 operation. 



Harry Garland and wife, of Des 

 Plaines, 111., included Dayton in their 

 honeymoon trip and were guests at the 

 home of George Bartholomew February 

 24. Wlhile there several of the em- 

 ployees of the Miami Floral Co. gave 

 them a musical serenade on tin pans, 

 etc. Mr. Garland showed himself equal 

 to the occasion and bought the cigars 

 for the crowd. 



Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Jones, of Oriskany 

 Falls, N. Y., who have been the guests 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bartholomew for 

 the last fortnight, left February 27 for 

 Buffalo, where they will spend a few 

 days, thence to Eochester, and from 

 there home. 



D. Eusconi, of Cincinnati, and Mr. 

 Schwake, representing the Chas. F. 

 Meyer Co., New York, were in town 

 last week. 



Arno Hendrichs left last week for 

 New Orleans to attend the Mardi Gras. 

 While in that city he will be the guest 

 of Mr. and Mrs. M. Cook. 



M. D. Schmidt & Son had some large 

 funeral orders last week. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Young reports an ex- 

 ceedingly busy week. E. A. B. 



OBITUAEY. 



Jolin H. Taylor. 



John Henry Taylor, one of the best 

 known florists in the New York district, 

 who returned from Europe in the best 

 of health February 22, died suddenly 

 of bronchitis and tonsilitis at the Hotel 

 Martinique Saturday night, February 25. 



Mr. Taylor was born in 1858, in New 

 York city. When he was 3 years old 

 his father moved to Bayside, L. I., and 

 the family spent seven years there on 

 an immense estate. Mr. Taylor went to 

 Europe with his family in 1867 and 

 spent ten years studying in Switzerland, 

 Italy and Berlin, entering Harvard on 

 his return. He was graduated in 1881 

 with the degree of bachelor of agricul- 

 tural science, spent some time in Eu- 

 rope studying floriculture and became 

 associated with his father when he re- 

 turned, the two engaging in the nursery 

 and florists' business. The elder Mr. 

 Taylor died soon afterward, and John 

 H. Taylor bought out the interests of 

 the other heirs in the Oakland Tree 

 Nursery at Bayside, of which his father 

 had been the owner. Later he became 

 one of the largest and most successful 

 growers of roses and other flowers for 

 the New York market. In 1883 Mr. 

 Taylor married Miss Julia Armstrong. 

 She died ten years ago, and five years 

 later he married Miss Mary Stow, of 

 New York. Mr. Taylor maintained the 

 Oakland Nursery until about six years 

 ago, when he sold it, the appreciation of 

 the real estate values in the vicinity 

 having given him a competence. 



