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Apbil 20, 1911. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



21 



It was decided to hold the fall ex- 

 hibition November 1 and 2. The exec- 

 utive committee was requested to draw 

 up a preliminary schedule and present 

 it at the May meeting, and also a 

 schedule for the rose show, whict will 

 be held the night of the June meeting. 



J. Ingram offered a prize of $5 for 

 sweet peas, twenty-four varieties, twelve 

 of each. W. A, Sperling, of the Stumpp 

 & Walter Co., offered a prize of $5 for 

 tulips, six varieties, six of each, for 

 the May meeting. They were both 

 heartily thanked for their generous 

 offers. 



The society's prize in May will be 

 for tulips, three heads of lettuce, and 

 outdoor flowering shrubs, to be cut 

 from outside. E. W. 



DAYTON, O. 



The Market. 



Every Dayton florist is satisfied that 

 for once in his life Dame Fortune has 

 smiled on him. No one could have 

 dreamed of a better trade than was 

 experienced last week; even the 

 weather man was most generous, for 

 he sent along some fine, cool weather, 

 and not too much or too little sunshine, 

 which just kept stock in a fine, salable 

 condition. It was especially favorable 

 to bulbous stock. Consequently, with 

 these conditions prevalent, there were 

 no kicks coming; moreover, the kicks 

 were converted into compliments, 

 which, together with the financial re- 

 sults, made the florists feel extremely 

 happy. 



It is quite evident that people are. 

 becoming more educated to the impor- 

 tance of flowers for Easter, as each 

 year their popularity increases. Every 

 florist had his share of trade, and the 

 heaviest demands were for potted 

 plants. The majority of cut flowers 

 sold were of the fancy grade, while a 

 liberal amount of funeral work con- 

 sumed the short-stemmed stock. 



Lilies could not have been finer in 

 quality, and the quantity equaled the 

 demand. Eoses were also plentiful and 

 stock was fine, but carnations were off 

 crop, and the demand for them ex- 

 ceeded the supply, white being espe- 

 cially scarce. Valley, daffodils and nar- 

 cissi, although abundant, were all con- 

 sumed, and pot plants of every descrip- 

 tion were cleaned up. Green goods 

 were scarce. 



Various Notes. 



One of the most beautiful displays in 

 the city was that of the 75,000 Easter 

 lily blooms at the Miami Floral Co.'s 

 greenhouses, the sight of which at- 

 tracted hundreds of admirers. This 

 company shipped out some exception- 

 ally large lily plant orders, besides 

 supplying the local demands. Splendid 

 crops of Beauties and roses were easily 

 disposed of, as well as great quantities 

 of valley, which were unusually fine. 

 Naturally this firm is more than satis- 

 fied with results. 



"Easter business out our way was 

 the best it has been for several years," 

 is the report of Mrs. L. D. Johnson, 

 successor to Mrs. B. Hendrichs. Along 

 with the general Easter rush, she also 

 had a brisk demand for funeral work. 



"We got all that we had antici- 

 pated," is the way the Heiss Floral 

 Co. puts it, in answer to the question, 

 "How's business?" Another good 

 thing they say is that the demand took 



everything in sight, so that there was 

 no waste. They also had several large 

 decorations. 



Mrs. J. F. Young tells us that she 

 could not have expected a better busi- 

 ness. Although trade in the cut flower 

 line was not so brisk as it has been 

 in previous years, owing to the ad- 

 vanced prices, nevertheless the demand 

 for pot plants far exceeded previous 

 records and this, together with an 

 abundance of funeral work, brought a 

 most satisfactory Easter week. 



Miss Olive Eitter says that trade in 

 her section of town was the best it 

 has been since she started in business. 

 She realized a good thing out of fancy 

 Easter baskets of plants. 



The report of Mrs. B. Haschke is 

 that trade went far beyond her ex- 

 pectations, everything being sold out 

 clean. Mrs. Haschke has the credit of 

 having the best display of hyacinths in 

 the city. 



M. D. Schmidt & Son realized a big 

 business in pot plants, such as cine- 

 rarias, primroses, hyacinths, spiraeas, 

 etc., all of which were in splendid con- 

 dition. 



M. Anderson, who conducted retail 

 stores in Dayton, Middletown and 

 Cleveland this year, reports that the 

 income from each place was most satis- 

 factory. 



"Pot plant trade was the best ever," 

 is W. W. Horlacher's way of expressing 

 it, and he has no kick to enter regard- 

 ing the cut flower trade. 



With a broad grin across his face, 

 H. H. Eitter announced that Easter 

 business this year was the best he had 

 ever experienced. 



John Boehner says, "Don't forget to 

 mention that the foregoing are also 

 my sentiments." 



M. & L. Johnson report that they 

 never had a nicer Easter. 



The Advance Floral Co. 's Easter dis- 

 play in the Arcade was especially beau- 

 tiful, and their report on business 

 chimes in with the rest. E. A. B. 



PBOVIPENCE. 



The Market. 



Easter proved a record-breaker for 

 this city. There were potted plants and 

 cut flowers in plenty, but as a rule 

 there was a general cleaning up at good 

 prices. In addition to the regular re- 

 tail flower stands, many of the dealers 

 opened temporary places in vacant 

 stores in the residential sections of the 

 city, while in a number of cases grow- 

 ers themselves hired empty stores for 

 a few days. All of the department and 

 dry-goods stores had plants and flowers 

 and many corner groceries dipped into 

 the pie with the expectation of getting 

 rich quick. Many of the latter, how- 

 ever, had a hard scrabble to come out 

 whole. As a rule, the stock that was 

 offered by the grocers was inferior and 

 such as the regular flower stores would 

 refuse to handle. Prices ranged about 

 one-half higher than at ordinary times. 



Various Notes. 



T, J. Johnston So Co. had the table 

 decorations and George Johnson & Son 

 the hall decorations for the annual ban- 

 quet of the New England Manufactur- 

 ing Jewelers' and Silversmiths' Asso- 

 ciation at Infantry hall recently. 



Charles H. Hunt, of Burnside street, 

 had a store at 393 Westminster street 

 during the Holy Week. 



Frey Bros, are busy on outdoor work 

 and have considerable work booked for 

 this spring. 



Philip Lavery, who has been em- 

 ployed by T. O'Connor for the last two 

 years, is now in the employ of J. B. 

 Canning. 



Simon Colitz, Woonsocket, reports an 

 unusually large trade for Easter. 



Everett Wordell has been engaged as 

 gardener at the estate of Eoswell B. 

 Burchard, at Little Compton. 



Theodore E. Peterson, proprietor of 

 the Hogg Greenhouses, reports one of 

 the biggest Easter trades ever experi- 

 enced by him in this city. 



Max Villiers has returned to the em- 

 ploy of Johnston Bros. This firm was 

 obliged to work its force all night Fri- 

 day and Saturday to fill Easter orders. 

 They handled thousands of potted 

 plants. 



Mr. Bryant, representing A. H. Hews 

 & Co., of Cambridge, Mass., was a vis- 

 itor in this city last week. 



M. Macnair conducted a large over- 

 flow sale in a corner store near his 

 place during Easter week. 



J, Kopelman augmented his selling 

 force in his Washington street store by 

 more than half a dozen clerks for the 

 holiday trade. Several thousand plants 

 of various descriptions were disposed 

 of. A large proportion of these came 

 from his own houses at Oaklawn. 



George Hunt has been elected fire 

 commissioner of Providence. 



Anton Christensen, gardener at the 

 Dr. Wolcott Gibbs estate at Newport, 

 received word last week of the death 

 of his wife a few days before in Den- 

 mark. Mrs. Christensen left for her 

 native home last summer in the hope 

 that the change of climate would bene- 

 fit her health. W, H. M. 



BUFFALO. 



It would be hard to say that Easter 

 business was larger than ever, but we 

 can safely say that it was away above 

 the average. Weather conditions were 

 not ideal, but at the same time it was 

 not inconvenient for deliveries, and 

 this is the one important point. Fri- 

 day was rainy and chilly, but this soon 

 broke and orders came in a rush on 

 Saturday and Sunday. Cut stock was 

 in big demand, with the usual amount 

 of plants and plant baskets. Large 

 plants sold well, especially the rhodo- 

 dendrons and azaleas. The bulk of the 

 lily stock was short and all available 

 Easter lilies which were tall were 

 quickly disposed of. Violets were 

 much better in quality than predicted 

 and sold well, as did sweet peas, valley 

 and orchids. Carnations and roses were 

 in big demand and the red in both 

 Beauties and Eichmond were quickly 

 bought up. E. A. S. 



North Tonawanda, N. Y.— E. P. 

 Lovejoy has resigned from the Lord & 

 Burnham Co. and become associated 

 with the King Construction Co. as vice- 

 president. The King company has, in 

 the last year, enlarged its field of opera- 

 tions to include the building of all de- 

 scriptions of ornamental conservatories 

 and many orders for this class of work 

 have already been executed. To han- 

 dle this department of the business, a 

 new factory building has just been 

 completed and special and modern 

 equipment is being installed. Mr. Love- 

 joy, in addition to assuming the duties 

 of vice-president, will become superin- 

 tendent of the plant. 



