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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 20, 1011. 



Kelley & Current report a satisfac- 

 tory trade, especially in pot plants. 

 This firm has in course of construction 

 a new house, 20x100, to be used for 

 roses. 



James P. Keller, of the firm of John 

 A. Keller, has contracted for a car of 

 greenhouse glass, 16x24 D. S. A., for 

 summer delivery. 



Lucien Le Clere, formerly of the 

 E. G. Hill Co., Bichmond, Ind., is visit- 

 ing his parents. He leaves for Chicago 

 this week. J. P. K. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



The fine weather April 14 and 15 

 was the salvation of the New York 

 Easter. A snow flurry struck the town 

 at 3 a. m, Sunday, about which hour 

 the wholesale stores and markets were 

 a scene of activity, the cut flower buy- 

 ers placing their final orders for Easter 

 distribution. After Thursday until 

 that hour the finest of spring weather 

 prevailed. No wrapping of plants was 

 necessary. The retailers were never 

 so favored by both weather and prices. 

 Never before at Easter could grand 

 roses, carnations, violets and, in fact, 

 every kind of cut flowers be purchased 

 at such reasonable figures. It surely 

 was the retailers' harvest. Early on 

 Saturday, with most of them, every 

 plant had been sold and the plant 

 growers were called on for more. The 

 large plantsmen were sold out, many 

 of them, a week before. Never were 

 flowering plants so popular and so rap- 

 idly disposed of. Everywhere the same 

 results were seen. If anything was 

 disappointing, it was the lilies in pots. 

 These closed out slowly, and a few 

 were left, while a good many cut lilies 

 were sold late at a considerable sacri- 

 fice from the quotations of Saturday 

 morning. 



In the cut flower market the rose 

 shipments were enormous, far beyond 

 any former Easter. Immense quanti- 

 ties came in from a congested city to 

 the south of us. The natural conse- 

 quence was a surplus which was closed 

 out at the buyers' option. One re- 

 markable fact was the absence of 

 pickling. Everything had quality and 

 color, and was worth all that was asked 

 for it. American Beauties never got 

 above 40 cents, and fell gradually to 

 25 cents. The supply was immense, 

 but the quantity of top quality was not 

 excessive. They will likely go much 

 lower this week. All varieties of roses 

 fell Saturday evening, the best Kil- 

 larney going to 18 cents and lower, 

 and the shorter grades of Maids were 

 under 5 cents for the selected. Straight 

 slips were going at 3 cents. Maryland 

 joined with the rest in the recession, 

 and only Bichmonds of the fop grade 

 held at the morning figures. 



There was an enormous stock of car- 

 nations, and 4 cents was top for the 

 best of them. Most of the receipts 

 sold at 3 cents and under all day, and 

 $20 per thousand was the asking price 

 at 2 o'clock Easter morning. 



Over 1,000 boxes of violets arrived 

 April 15, and 75 cents per hundred was 

 the top figure at any time for the spe- 

 cials. The rest held fairly at 50 cents 

 when good, but a lot of the violets 

 were not up to the mark. The street 

 men useu immense quantities of the 

 day-old surplus at $2 to $3 per thou- 



sand. Anything left Monday morning 

 was closed out at half this figure. Sev- 

 eral million violets came to the New 

 York market during the week. Several 

 wholesalers disposed of over 100,000 

 each April 15. This week will about 

 end violet shipments. 



Valley was scarce and. while most 

 of it was sold at 2 cents to 3 cents, 

 the best houses were bidding 4 cents 

 for it late. It is back again this week 

 to normal figures. There were no 

 orchids to spare and the best cattleyas 

 touched $1 each. Lilies sold at $10 per 

 hundred for the best, but there was 

 a wonderful supply of them and they 

 fell to $8, and even $6, as Saturday 

 night wore on. This week $6 will be 

 the top, but fortunately the slaughter 

 of last year did not occur. There was 

 no rise in bulbous stock, tulips, hya- 

 cinths, narcissi and daffodils all hold- 

 ing at only regular prices. There were 

 few gardenias of merit in the market. 

 Callas held easily at $1.50 to $2 a 

 dozen. 



Opinions differ as to the outcome of 

 the business. Many retailers honestly 

 declare it the best ever, and the con- 

 sensus of wholesale opinion is that it 

 was better than expected. 



Various Notes. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be May 8. 



The auction houses never had so 

 many buyers, nor realized better prices 

 than this year. The clean-up of Easter 

 flowering plants was complete. The 

 dates are advertised in the local dailies 

 and the public is getting wise to its 

 opportunity. 



The new store of J. J. Eellouris, at 

 116 West Twenty-eighth street, is 100 

 feet deep, and the second floor will be 

 fitted up for a wholesale place. A com- 

 plete new front is to be built. The 

 location is excellent. 



Frank L, Moore, of Chatham, N. J., 

 marched with his old regiment, the 

 Seventh New York, April 19, at its 

 anniversary. 



Traendly & Schenck received last 

 week a shipment of grand carnations 

 from the New Jersey State Experi- 

 mental Station at New Brunswick. 



The Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club announces another big 

 fall flower show, with better location 

 and facilities than last season. 



Easter was too late this year for 

 general satisfaction. In 1943 it will 

 be April 25, which will be altogether 

 too late for most of us. 



George Siebrecht, of Siebrecht & 

 Siebrecht, has been ill for a week at 

 his home in Astoria. 



All the supply men say this was the 

 best Easter in their experience, the 

 call for baskets and novelties of every 

 kind coming from every part of the 

 country. 



The seedsmen's harvest time is draw- 

 ing to a close. The cold weather has 

 prolonged it and most of the houses 

 have caught up with the orders. The 

 local trade will keep them all busy, 

 however, until the middle of May. 



J. McHutchison is back from a trip 

 to South America. 



Hilda roses at M. C. Ford's were a 

 popular specialty. Grand carnation 

 stock came from Hession. 



Gunther Bros, say they never han- 

 dled a larger quantity of violets at 

 any Easter. One grower, they state, 

 sent them 100,000. 



H. E. Froment says over 20,000 Kil- 

 larneys from one grower came in Sat- 

 urday morning. 



Geo. Saltford repeated his Easter ex- 

 perience and shipped great quantities 

 of violets to out-of-town customers. 



The Kessler Bros, found their new 

 store and greenhouses a great conve- 

 nience. They did a large plant busi- 

 ness. Another week will find them in 

 the new store at 113 West Twenty- 

 eighth street. 



Walter Sheridan says he never had 

 so large and fine a stock of roses at 

 any Easter in his long experience. 



A. L. Young was more than pleased 

 with the increase in his Easter trade. 



J. K. Allen closed out all his plants 

 early and says his Brunner roses sold 

 splendidly. 



Charles Millang, Moore, Hentz & 

 Nash, B. S. Slinn, Jr., Bonnot Bros, 

 and A. Moltz & Co., all in the Coogan 

 building, did a large business. Charles 

 Millang handled a lot of plants at his 

 new stands on the second floor. 



The Easter rush kept down the at- 

 tendance of bowlers last week. The 

 contest for team membership at Balti- 

 more begins May 6 and lasts until 

 August. Matches will soon be rolled 

 with Tuxedo and Madison. The club 

 will use Thumm's alleys the balance of 

 the season, Thirty-first street and 

 Broadway. 



Joseph G. Leikens, now at Fifty-sixth 

 street and Fifth avenue, has leased 

 from John M. Ellis the dwelling at 20 

 West Fifty-seventh street, on a plot 

 30x100 feet. The lease will run for ten 

 years and will aggregate $250,000. The 

 building will be remodeled for use as a 

 retail store. 



A well attended meeting and exhibi- 

 tion of the Horticultural Society of 

 New York was held April 12 in the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 

 The exhibits were nearly all from pri- 

 vate establishments, but John Lewis 

 Childs received honorable mention for 

 two pots of Amaryllis formosissima and 

 certificates of merit for Calla EUiotti- 

 ana and Calla solfatere. Lager & Hur- 

 rell received a silver medal for Mil- 

 tonia Bleuiana. J. Austin Shaw. 



GLEN COVE, N. Y. 



The monthly meeting of the Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society was held 

 in Pembroke hall on Wednesday eve- 

 ning, April 12. President Trepess oc- 

 cupied the chair and a good number 

 were present. 



The result of the competition for the 

 society's prizes was as follows: Twelve 

 mixed carnations, first, James McDon- 

 ald; one calceolaria, first, Alexander 

 McKenzie; flowering shrub, first, Alex- 

 ander McKenzie. A certificate of cul- 

 ture was awarded to William Eccles 

 for a vase of mixed carnations, and to 

 J. W. Everett for gardenias. Honor- 

 able mention was awarded to George 

 Dorber for mushrooms, to James Mc- 

 Donald for antirrhinums and to George 

 Dorber for a vase of mixed roses. 



A. McKenzie, J. W, Everett and 

 George Dorber spoke as to their meth- 

 ods of culture in preparing for their 

 exhibits. Various questions were placed 

 in the question box and were all an- 

 swered satisfactorily. 



G. Barton, B. Wright and E. West- 

 lake were the judges appointed. 



Harry Jones, Thomas BoUey and An- 

 drew McHenry were elected to active 

 membership. 



