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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



March 28, 1912. 



will be ready for the big Easter show 

 there. 



Geo. Cotsonas & Co. had a fine supply 

 of arbutus last week and the week pre- 

 ceding, the first of the season. It is now 

 abundant. 



H. E. Froment was not subjected to 

 any serious loss by the fire above his 

 store March 18 and business was not in- 

 terrupted. 



Snyder's bulb stock is handled by 

 William Kessler. Among his stock of 

 Easter plants are the big daisies of 

 Woodsen & Christensen, of Woodbridge 

 and the bougainvilleas of Emil Savoy, 

 of Secaucus. 



The auction sales draw well and 

 prices have been good. Hardy roses 

 brought as high as 25 cents each, and 

 no variety has sold under $10 per hun- 

 dred. 



A visit at Max Schling's found that 

 gentleman and his thirty assistants all 

 busy with funeral work and dinner 

 decorations. Mr. Schling never com- 

 plains of lack of business. 



M. A. Bowe hopes to be in his new 

 store on Broadway by June 1. 



Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Nash were 

 fortunate to escape serious injury last 

 week in a runaway accident. 



Maurice L. Glass has undertaken a 

 wholesale business on his own account, 

 with headquarters in the Coogan build- 

 ing. 



John B. Nugent will celebrate his 

 ninetieth birthday April 8. He has been 

 in the florists' business for seventy-two 

 years. 



Charles Millang has almost recovered 

 from his severe accident and is on deck 

 again at his store. 



W. B. DuEie, of Kahway, celebrated 

 his seventy-second birthday on St. 

 Patrick's day. 



Schloss Bros, say sales of their rib- 

 bon specialties this spring are far in 

 advance of any other season. 



S. Jacobs & Sons, Brooklyn, are hav- 

 ing their busiest season and another 

 building this year is an absolute neces- 

 sity. 



The busy season is in full swing at 

 Arthur T. Boddington 's. Harry A. Bun- 

 yard is back from Chicago, all gingered 

 up for the spring rush and optimistic 

 as to business generally. 



L. J. Kervan, Sr., is having a fine 

 holiday, he writes, at his Florida home. 



Woodrow & Marketos have stocked 

 their big branch store, at 438 Sixth 

 avenue, with blooming plants. Mr. 

 Woodrow has recovered from his recent 

 illness. 



S. Masur, in Brooklyn, has a big 

 branch store for Easter, to handle the 

 overflow. 



Siebrecht & Siebrecht say the spring 

 crop of cattleyas, now due, will be 

 larger than in any previous year. 



Eobert Schultz, of Madison, who 

 ships to J. K. Allen, has a particularly 

 fine crop of Kichmonds. 



M. C. Ford has his windows filled 

 with blooming plants. 



W. H. Siebrecht has been forcing 

 valley for thirty-six years. 



The death of Herman Maenner is re- 

 ported in this week's obituary column. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Baur & Stein- 

 kamp are highly pleased with the way 

 their new red carnation has been sell- 

 ing and say they expect no trouble in 

 disposing of every cutting they will be 

 able to root up to the end of the sea- 

 son. 



KINO OPENS WESTERN OFFICE. 



The King Construction Co., of North 

 Tonawanda, N. Y., which recently 

 opened an eastern sales ofiice at New 

 York, now has established a western 

 office at Aurora, 111. The western rep- 

 resentative is H. G. Miller, who has 

 been with the King concern for many 

 years, but whose home is in the Chicago 

 suburb. His special field will be Chi- 

 cago and vicinity. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The market was in an overcrowded 

 condition every day last week. While 

 the retail trade was reported quite 

 good, there was not enough of it to con- 

 sume the large number of shipments 

 that came in. The stock is all of fxtra 



H. G. MUkf. 



good quality in all varieties with prices 

 lower than ever before at this time of 

 year for corresponding quality. 



Roses are especially heavy in all 

 grades. American Beauties, in the long 

 fancy class, are coming in with better 

 color and quality. Carnations, sweet 

 peas and violets are the flowers that 

 have glutted this market of late. Bulb 

 stock, too, is heavy in all the season- 

 able varieties, with tulips, lilies and 

 Dutch hyacinths in the majority. They 

 sell well, but at greatly reduced prices. 



Various Notes. 



Kuehn received a grand lot of aura- 

 tum lilies and lily of the valley last 

 week. 



Smith's had an abundance of violets 

 and peas daily all week from their 

 Kirkwood growers. 



Angermueller's Easter lilies sold well 

 and some nice orchids from Vesey's 

 were seen. 



Sunday we had the heaviest snow 

 storm of the season, which greatly 

 handicapped the retailers in delivering 

 their usual heavy Sunday morning 

 orders. 



William F. Kasting, of Buffalo, N. 

 Y., spent Thursday, March 21, in this 

 city on his way home from Hot Springs, 

 Ark. 



Frank A. Windier has been admitted 

 to the firm of W. C. Smith Wholesale 



Floral Co. The officers of the firm now 

 are: W. C. Smith, president; Frank A. 

 Windier, vice-president; William H. Os- 

 sick, secretary and treasurer. 



Charles Holzborn, the Oak Hill ave- 

 nue florist, is building a handsome resi- 

 dence on Hartford street adjoining his 

 greenhouse plant. 



Martin Eeukauf, representing H. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., of Philadelphia, 

 called on the local trade last week. 



City Forester Julius Koenig has a 

 large force of men trimming sidewalk 

 trees and replanting the dead ones. 



The J. W. Dunford store was bought 

 last week by the W. C. Smith Whole- 

 sale Floral Co., who in turn sold it to 

 Oscar Huettemann, of the Tower Floral 

 Co., who will use the fixtures and sup- 

 plies at their Grand avenue store. 



All the big plant stands in Union 

 market are still closed, whereas at this 

 time last year all were alive with 

 blooming plants. 



Max Herzog, who runs a pretty place 

 at the corner of California avenue and 

 Sidney street, is sporting an automo- 

 bile delivery car, with a removable 

 body, which makes it possible to trans 

 form it into a pleasure car. 



The stork made another visit in the 

 trade this week, calling at the home 

 of Otto Sander, where he left a pretty 

 baby girl. Otto says she is the flower 

 of the flock. 



C. Young & Sons Co. are again at- 

 tracting the passersby with a splendid 

 window display of garden seeds and 

 implements; also an incubator which 

 has just hatched out several dozen 

 chicks which are allowed to run loose 

 around the windows. 



Harry Young, treasurer of the St. 

 Louis Horticultural Society, reports 

 that the society has paid off all the in 

 debtedness of the last show and that 

 the question of disbanding the society 

 will be decided at a future meeting. 



The west end establishments are al- 

 ready showing some grand Easter 

 blooming plants. Those of Waldbart, 

 Ayers, F. C. Weber, F. H. Weber, Elli- 

 son, Kalisch, Sander and Young are a 

 beautiful sight. 



A petition has been going the rounds 

 requesting the directors of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden to open the garden 

 to the public every Sunday. As it is 

 now, only the first Sunday in June and 

 September are open to the public in ac- 

 cordance with the will of the late 

 Henry Shaw. J- J- ^• 



BOCHESTEB. 



The Market. 



The first day of spring was more like 

 the beginning of winter than the be- 

 ginning of spring, for the temperature 

 was decidedly low and we had a heavy 

 snow storm. After the delightful spring 

 weather we had been having, the re- 

 turn of winter was most trying and the 

 cold was felt more than ever. If this 

 weather continues, it will require more 

 firing on the part of the growers to 

 bring stock on for Easter trade. 



Spring openings, in almost all stores 

 where spring goods are sold, were held 

 last week. Strange to say, fewer plants 

 and cut flowers were used for decora- 

 tions this year than last. Artificial 

 foliage and flowers cut quite a figure 

 this spring for opening decorations. St. 

 Patrick's day favors and decorations 

 of all kinds sold well this year, because 

 the celebration was strung out three 

 days. 



