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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Mat 4, 1911. 



NEW YORK, 



The Market. 



There is little change to record in 

 the condition of the wholesale cut 

 flower market. The supply of almost 

 everything continues enormous. The 

 only hope seems to be a lessening of 

 shipments and at the present rate some 

 things will soon be off crop. Koses es- 

 pecially have dominated the market, 

 and these, with the lilies, keep the ice- 

 boxes and cellars gorged, notwithstand- 

 ing sales at $10 per thousand on un- 

 opened boxes of roses. Killarneys are 

 exceptionally abundant. .American 

 Beauties and gardenias are on the 

 street and selling at one-tenth their 

 real value. Orchids and valley alone 

 have escaped the humiliation. 



Carnations never were finer or so 

 little appreciated; $10 per thousand 

 would buy the best of them April 29. 

 Orchids are down to 50 cents for the 

 best, and quite abundant. The wed- 

 dings may keep valley and orchids 

 steady; there are a lot of orders al- 

 ready booked for May and June. The 

 southern gardenias are here in shoals. 

 Of lilies there is no limit, and fine 

 flowers actually sold last week as low 

 as $10 per thousand; any time $3 per 

 hundred would buy the best stock and 

 many thousands at the week's end re- 

 mained unsold. 



This week probably will end the vio- 

 let shipments. Dozens of boxes came 

 down daily last week and were sold at 

 50 cents to $1 a box, unopened. Only 

 the best of the sweet peas are selling. 

 The fine tulips fetch 35 cents a dozen. 

 Bulbous stock of all kinds is abundant. 



Smilax is now arriving in larger 

 quantity and the price is falling. Fancy 

 ferns, however, are advancing and $3 

 per thousand is the asking price. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club will meet next 

 Monday evening, May 8, at the Grand 

 Opera House building. West Twenty- 

 third street, at 8 sharp. An interesting 

 program has been provided, and there 

 will be exhibits and refreshments. The 

 speakers of the evening are: J. Mc- 

 Hutchison, on "South America"; A. 

 T. Boddington, on "Bermuda"; W. B. 

 Du Eie, on "The Teachers' Work for 

 Floriculture"; A. Kakuda, on "Ja- 

 pan"; W. J. Stewart, on "The After- 

 math"; M. C. Ebel, on "Insects"; 

 Eobt. Schultz, on "Eoses." There will 

 be bowling in the afternoon at 

 Thumm's alleys, to which all club mem- 

 bers are invited. 



B. J. Slinn, Jr., and Paul Meconi are 

 going up to the large room of the 

 Coogan building, on the second floor, 

 where they will have greater facilities 

 for their increasing business. 



Walter Siebrecht, of Siebrecht & 

 Siebrecht, has undergone two painful 

 operations at the hospital for the re- 

 moval of a dozen carbuncles from his 

 neck. He is improving and hopes soon 

 to be on deck again. 



The warm weather of last week filled 

 the seed stores with buyers, and the 

 counter trade was immense. 



May 1 was moving day with several 

 of the wholesalers and retailers. James 

 McManus is now at 55 West Twenty- 

 eighth street, the Growers Cut Flower 

 Co. is at 111, J. J. Fellouris at 116 and 

 Kessler Bros, at 113. 



May 16 Maurice L. Glass, of the firm 

 of A. Moltz & Co., and Miss Eebecca 



Moltz will be married. The honey- 

 moon will be spent in the Adirondacks. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York will hold its exhibition at the 

 Museum building at Bronx park May 

 10 and 11. The exhibits will be cut 

 flowers, open to all, and plants, open 

 to non-commercial growers, and prizes 

 will be awarded. Richard Richter is 

 in charge. 



The Yonkers Horticultural Society 

 will have a social May 5. 



George Orth, for years on the force 

 of H. E. Froment, was married May 1. 

 The bride was Miss Limprecht, of Jer- 

 sey City. 



May 6 the annual meeting of the 

 Cut Flower Exchange will be held in 

 its headquarters at the Coogan build- 

 ing. 



Recent visitors reported by Arthur 

 T. Boddington 's were Mr. and Mrs. E. 

 Norman, of Lenox, Mass.; H. P. 

 Wookey, of Stockbridge, Mass., and 

 Geo. Thompson, of Lenox. 



A meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee of the National Sweet Pea Society 

 will be held at the Hotel Astor, Friday 

 evening. May 5. 



Reed & Keller announce a new book 

 of photographs of designs to be issued 

 in August. 



The bowling club commences on 

 Friday evening of this week its elimina- 

 tion contest for membership on the 

 team that is to represent this city at 

 the Baltimore convention. Tuesday the 

 Madison Gardeners' Club entertained 

 a team from the New York seed houses, 

 with Bert Chadwick in charge, and 

 Toten, Scott and the Eickards brothers 

 as assistants. Friday evening, April 

 28, the bowlers were Messrs. Lang, 

 Nugent, Chadwick, Scott, Kakuda, 

 Shaw, Holt, Manda and Will Eickards. 

 Chadwick made the high score — 199. 



C. C. Trepel will open the flower de- 

 partment of Gimbel Bros, in Phila- 

 delphia in September. Mr. Trepel says 

 his Easter sales in his three New York 

 stores totaled over $75,000. 



In the bowling contest Tuesday even- 

 ing. May 2, New York defeated Madi- 

 son two games out of three. The scores: 

 Madison, 2,284; New York, 2,417. The 

 New York players were Broton, W. 

 Eickards, Scott, A. Eickards and Chad- 

 wick; the Madison players, Eoss, Dunn, 

 Manda. Plusch and Duckham. High 

 score, 223, was made by Chadwick, who 

 acquired the prize offered by the 

 Revere Rubber Co. Rooting was by 

 Totty, Herrington, Ebel, Schultz, 

 Kakuda and Holt. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



CINCINNATI. 



Announcement is made that P. J. 

 dinger and C. J. Jones have formed a 

 partnership to handle the consignment 

 end of the business heretofore con- 

 ducted individually by Mr. dinger since 

 the dissolution of the firm of Weiland 

 & Olinger. They also will handle a 

 full line of florists' supplies. 



Cleburne, Tex. — J. S. Boyd is build- 

 ing an additional house, 40x110, with 

 concrete foundations. Business has 

 been good and his supply of stock is 

 inadequate. 



Lawrence, Mass. — Thornton Bros., 

 who have for many years conducted a 

 flower and general art store in the 

 Gleason building, recently announced 

 their retirement from all lines except 

 the flower and seed department, which 

 they intend to enlarge. 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



There is still a bountiful supply of 

 everything in the way of cut flowers, 

 and as business is exceptionally quiet, 

 a glutted market is the result. On 

 Saturday the retailers filled their cool- 

 ers and windows to their full capacity, 

 decorated their stores elaborately, ad- 

 vertised special sales on all cut stock 

 and then — "folded arms" and watched 

 it rain. 



Carnations were selling at 25 cents 

 per dozen; roses, good stock, were 

 going at 50 cents, and fine American 

 Beauties at $4 and $5. "It is an ill 

 wind," etc., and these ridiculously low 

 prices will at least educate the people 

 in buying flowers. 



Various Notes. 



Cleveland is to have a flower show! 

 Not a little exhibition, but a great, big 

 show, which will equal almost anything 

 of its kind that was ever held in the 

 country. At a joint meeting of the 

 Flower Club and the Cleveland Florists ' 

 Club, April 24, the committee's report 

 on the flower show was accepted, and 

 a committee was appointed by the 

 Florists' Club to meet with a like com- 

 mittee from the Flower Club and organ- 

 ize a board of control to further the 

 plans for the show. Central Armory 

 is the most favored place for the show, 

 and November 13 to 18 are the dates. 



The "greatest ever" is the report of 

 the Easter business coming from most 

 of the florists in the city. 



The Florists' Club will hold a May 

 party at the Chamber of Industry, May 

 11. A big crowd is expected, according 

 to the report of Secretary Frank Fried- 

 ley. C. D. F. 



PITTSBUBG. 



The Market. 



Better weather conditions are bring- 

 ing in stock of all kinds in quantities 

 that make it necessary to get rid of 

 them in large lots, and that is what the 

 wholesalers are endeavoring to do, but 

 in order to do so it is necessary to 

 have little regard for price. 



There is no one thing that is scarce 

 in this market, but there seems to be 

 no complaint, since the wholesale 

 houses get rid of their stock and the 

 retail shops are all busy, especially 

 those that handle seeds and plants. 

 Since it rains every Saturday in this 

 city, people are getting so accustomed 

 to it that business goes right along. 

 Th6Te were more good decorations last 

 Week than for a long time, but it is 

 said there is not much booked for later 

 than May 1. 



Various Notes. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. has 

 one of the new houses completed and 

 will begin planting roses this week. 



George Learzaf, of Mt. Washington, 

 is the latest to secure an auto truck. 

 His growing business makes it neces- 

 sary to keep up with the times. 



M. C. Dunlevy, of Carnegie, Pa., who 

 for years was one of our prominent car- 

 nation growers but now is in the small 

 fruit business, has the sympathy of 

 his host of friends in the loss of his 

 wife, who died suddenly Friday even- 

 ing, April 28. 



William Hamilton, for years superin- 

 tendent of Phipps Conservatory, Alle- 



