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The Florists' Review 



AUGUST' 1, 1912. 



turn home soon for the summer vaca- 

 tion. En route to Dayton, she will visit 

 in Canton and Akron. 



Mr. and Mrs. Joseph I. Shaeflfer spent' 

 the week end in camp, near Franklin, O. 



Miss Bertie Engle is entertaining 

 friends from Holton, Kan. 



Word has been received of the death 

 of Charles Knopf, of the Knopf Floral 

 Co., at Kichmond, Ind. The Dayton 

 friends of Mr. Knopf regret to hear this 

 sad news and extend to his bereaved 

 family their sincere sympathy. 



R. A. L. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Every grower seemed to run out of 

 roses and carnations at the same time. 

 The surplus of June and early July has 

 disappeared. No special demand has 

 materialized, but everything advanced 

 last week and even asters and gladioli 

 were appreciated, w^hile roses, orchids, 

 lilies and carnations rose in quotations 

 to a plane of encouraging respectability. 

 Prices remain steady at last week's 

 level as the week opens and these rates 

 are 100 to 200 per cent above the era of 

 depression through whiieh the market 

 passed this season. 



Just now the flood of .asters appears 

 and gladioli have already comipenced 

 their summer schedule, the supply from 

 local growers promising to be enormous, 

 America maintains its place at the head 

 of the procession. Lilies had the great- 

 est uplift, rising from $1.50 to $6 a 

 hundred. Any selected carnations ar- 

 riving are absorbed at once at good 

 prices, but these are few. Much of the 

 little that comes in is short-stemmed or 

 asleep. Roses, from Beauties to Maids, 

 all have advanced, but a gradual de- 

 cline in everything this week* is ex- 

 pected, because of the flood of the out- 

 door stock. Sweet peas are done, after 

 a season that gives great promise to 

 growers. Some large houses have been 

 built this year, in Jersey and on Long 

 Island, for the growing of this spe- 

 cialty. Valley always is in demand and 

 advanced in price with the others, as 

 did orchids, there being no surplus of 

 either. 



Various Notes. 



Chairman Traendly is still shy a con- 

 siderable number to guarantee that spe- 

 cial train from New York to the Chi- 

 cago convention. Acceptances are com- 

 ing in daily, but slowly, 100 reserva- 



tions being needed. The train will leave 

 Grand Central station at 10:30 a. m., 

 August 19, reaching Chicago Tuesday, 

 August 20, at 9 o'clock. The fare is 

 $18.15 each way. 



Emil Schloss and family are at As- 

 bury Park for the summer and his 

 brother and family are at Long Beach. 

 Schloss Bros, will have an exhibit at 

 the convention, as usual. 



William lies, of Horau's staff, is in 

 the Catskills, M. Jacobs, of Saltford's, 

 (n the Adirondacks, and J. Egenbrod, of 

 Badgley, Riedel & Meyer, at Lake 

 George. 



Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Newell, of Kan- 

 sas City, arrived in New York July 31, 

 and sailed for a vacation in Europe on 

 the Baltic August 1, celebrating their 

 twenty-first year in business. 



Claude Tyler, lately with the C. C. 

 Pollworth Co., of Milwaukee, is again 

 in charge of the carnation houses at the 

 Cottage Gard-ens, Queens, L. I. 



Many of the seedsmen complain of 

 a shortage in Harrisii. The Bermuda 

 stock is better in quality this year than 

 usual. 



The annual summer show of flowers 

 and vegetables last week at Southamp- 

 ton, L. I., was a great success. 



C. C. Trepel has been recuperating 

 in the mountains with his family after 

 a severe spell of illness. 



John Weir, of Brooklyn, had the 

 family order last week for the funeral 

 of Mr. Gibb, of Loeser & Co., one of 

 the city's wealthiest citizens. The 

 market was depleted of valley and 

 orchids. 



Sidney Hoffman, of Boston, motored 

 last week to New York, and Mr. Slat- 

 tery, now with W. J. Palmer, of Buffalo, 

 and formerly with Thorley, is enjoying 

 his holiday in New York. This city 

 continues to be the best summer resort 

 on the continent. 



P. Donegan, of M. C. Ford's staff, is 

 summering at Niagara Falls and Buf- 

 falo. 



Ed- Anker, with Traendly & Schenck, 

 has returned from a two weeks' vaca- 

 tion at Locust Valley. 



Miss McCabe, bookkeeper for the 

 Growers ' Cut Flower Co., enjoyed her 

 holiday at Stamford, N. Y. 



Charles Kessler, of the greenhouse 

 department of William Kessler, is 

 spending two weeks at the home of his 

 brother on the Shrewsbury river. 



Sunday, August 4, Angelo R. Dentale, 

 of Young & Nugent 's staff, will be 



Charles Millanj Ha« Recovered From Hi« Auto Accident. 



married at St. Anne's church, Jersey 

 City, to Miss Concetta Tortora. 



Sam Woodrow and wife are back 

 from Narragansett. 



H. E. Froment leaves this week for 

 his annual visit to Saratoga and Lake 

 George. 



Mrs. Charles Millang and daughter 

 are summering in the White mountains. 



Walter Siebrecht and family are at 

 their chicken farm near Saratoga. 

 George Siebrecht is booked for the auto- 

 boat race to Bermuda. 



John A. Foley and Nicholas Le- 

 cakes returned July 27 from a week'6 

 visit in Vermont. 



Joseph Levy and family are at Rock- 

 away Beach for the season. 



William Ford's country home is at 

 Chadds Ford, Pa. 



J. K. Allen visited many of his grow- 

 ers last week in his auto. 



Anton Schultheis and family, of Col- 

 lege Point, are at Rockaway for the 

 summer, as usual. 



Miss Mona Smedley, bookkeeper for 

 J. K. Allen, will enjoy her vacation at 

 Ocean Grove, N. J. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Wertheimer Bros, state that there 

 will probably be one or two new faces 

 in their sales force this fall. All their 

 men on the road, they advise, are meet- 

 ing with exceptional business, sales be- 

 ing far ahead of last season. Their 

 present sales force is constituted as fol- 

 lows: L. Goodfriend, Pacific coast; C. 

 M. Blazer, Rocky Mountain section; 

 Sam Seligman, ndddle west; George 

 Cohen, south; M. Cohen, middle west; 

 S. Eintracht, New England states and 

 southern New York; Charles Fleischer 

 and Saul Rosenfeld, local. Sydney B. 

 Wertheimer will visit his friends in 

 some of the leading cities this fall. 



' ' BICHABD IS HIMSEU* AGAIN. ' ' 



Charles Millang, the New York com- 

 mission florist who met so serious an 

 accident when, on his homeward way, 

 his auto skidded last winter, is himself 

 again, fully recovered and busy at busi- 

 ness, as the accompanying illustration 

 will show. He is an automobile enthu- 

 siast and has added to his cut flower 

 business an agency for the Ford Auto 

 Co. ^ 



OBITUARY. 



Casper Abrams. 



Casper Abrams, who died at his home 

 in New York city, July 24, was for 

 more than thirty-five years a prominent 

 Brooklyn florist. He retired from busi- 

 ness in 1900 and took up his residence 

 in Manhattan. He was born in Oet- 

 many eighty years ago and came to 

 this country in 1862 and settled in 

 Brooklyn. For the last forty years be 

 had been actively affiliated with the 

 prominent Jewish religious and frater- 

 nal organizations of that borough. He 

 leaves three daughters, two sons and 

 several grandchildren. The funeral was 

 held on the morning of July 26, at the 

 home of his daughter, Mrs. A. A. Meyer, 

 1980 Seventh avenue,'^ Manhattan. 



William Bester. 



William Bester, a well known citiz*" 

 of HagerstowH, being one of the pi^' 

 neer florists of western Maryland, di®" 

 July 24, aged 68 years. Announce* 

 ment was made that Mr. Bester had 

 died from heart failure. He lived about 



