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Apbil 3, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



23 



Flower Show Numbor 

 NEXT WEEK 



Advertising orders must reach The Review office in Chicago by 5 p. m., 



Tuesday, April 8, to be in time for this 



SPECIAL INTEREST ISSUE 



price, however. There was also a quan- 

 tity of shaky lilac in the wholesale 

 houses, which did not find sale. Lilies 

 were good and the supply was not up 

 to the demand. 



The week after Easter was rather a 

 peculiar one and trade was good until 

 the storm put us out of business. The 

 railroads were tied up the latter half 

 of the week and shipping was out of 

 the question, but the stock was all 

 moved out at some price. 



Taking the month as a whole, it was 

 quite satisfactory, notwithstanding the 

 loss during the flood week. 



Various Notes. 



J. W. Glenn, of Kittanning, Pa., was 

 in the city and could not get home for 

 two days. His store, which was in the 

 flood district, contained about three 

 feet of water. 



Arthur Langhans, of "Wheeling, W. 

 Va., lives on the island and was flooded 

 out of his home, but they are used to 

 that there and do not mind it much. 



Some southern daffodils have been 

 sent in by parcel post, but this plan 

 is not a success, as the boxes take up 

 the dampness and get badly mashed. 



The Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. duck 

 pin team again defeated the McCallum 

 Co. team March 28. The score will be 

 found under the head of Bowling, on 

 another page. Next week they will try 

 to defeat the J. B. Murdoch &; Co. 

 team. 



George Marshall, of the Pittsburgh 

 Cut Flower Co., was away Saturday 

 and Monday on account of the death of 

 his grandfather, who died suddenly in 

 his eighty-second year. 



The warm season is bringing shrub- 

 bery along rapidly. Willows and lilacs 

 are almost ft leaf and the early varie- 

 ties of magnolia are showing color. 



All violet and Beauty shipments were 

 delayed last week on account of the 

 floods, being always a day late in com- 

 ing in. Clarke. 



CINOINNATI. 



Tlie Gateway to the South. 



Cincinnati is flood-bound and abso- 

 lutely shut off from other parts of the 

 country by rail except to the south. 

 Except from Knoxville, Tenn., and 

 Maysville, Ky., there have been no flow- 

 ers shipped into this market since 

 March 24. Naturally, all local retail 

 business in every line but necessities is 

 practically at a standstill. The market 

 was, for the most of last week, well sup- 



plied with everything needed, although 

 had there been any really active de- 

 mand stock would have run short. 



Unless the water recedes so as to 

 give the local wholesalers a chance to 

 get their cut ferns out of storage across 

 the river, or unless shipments of these 

 come in from outside, there is danger 

 of a fern famine in this market. Only 

 one wholesale firm has ferns stored 

 where they are accessible now. 



Various Notes. 



Wm. Spech is now a proud granddad. 

 His daughter, Mrs. Ehlen, gave birth 

 to a baby boy March 24. 



C. E. Critchell has been having a 

 nice supply of home-grown lilies. 



During the flood the Cincinnati Cut 

 Flower Exchange is accommodating the 

 office force of a large wholesale grocery 

 concern whose establishment is in 

 water. Last week the Exchange had 

 from Bloomhurst Floral Co., at Lock- 

 land, and Hyde Park Rose Co. the great 

 bulk of the roses that were available 

 for use in this city. 



Wm. Gardner came down from New 

 Castle March 24 and has been unable to 

 return. He has, however, managed to 

 get in touch with the greenhouses there 

 and says they are shipping to Indiana 

 points from New Castle. None of P. J. 

 dinger's stock had, up to the begin- 

 ning of this week, arrived for an en- 

 tire week. 



E. G, Gillett's only shipments from 

 Monday until Saturday were from 

 Maysville, Ky. 



L. H. Kyrk says that he has received 

 word from hia out-of-town consignors 

 to the effect that as soon as the rail- 

 roads are open again his stock will ar- 

 rive regularly. C. H. H. 



DAYTON, O. 



[The news-letter of which the fol- 

 lowing is a small part was post-marked 

 in Dayton March 24, but it did not 

 reach The Review until April 2. It 

 contained no word of threatening 

 ^00 ds.] 



can hardly be said of the Easter 

 tradl^ that it was a great improvement 

 over that of last year, for last year's 

 trade was exceptionally good; but it 

 can be said that this year's business 

 was every bit as good as last year's. 

 The first part of the week was rather 

 quiet, but as the end of the week came 

 the demand increased rapidly, until on 

 Saturday it was all the florists could 

 do to manage the crowds of customers. 



Consequently everything cleaned up 

 nicely. 



Gussie Ehlenbach, who was in Athens, 

 O., returned to Dayton in time to help 

 out with tho Easter rush. Mr. Ehlen- 

 bach brought back with him Mrs. Gus- 

 sie Ehlenba/jh, who was formerly Miss 

 Mabel Hill, of Athens. The young 

 couple were married at the home of 

 the bride's parents March 15. 



Mrs. Joseph Bittner and son, Eugene, 

 left March 18 for Santa Barbara, Cal,, 

 where she will join Mr. Bittner, who 

 went there last September. Mr. Bitt- 

 ner was formerly associated with the 

 Miami Floral Co. 



E. E. Schaefer tells us that he has 

 recently incorporated, with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. The firm will continue 

 under the firm name of the Advance 

 Floral Co. 



W. G. Matthews, of the Dayton Flo- 

 ral Co., has been quite ill with the 

 grip, but owing to the Easter rush, 

 would not give up to go to bed. 



R. A. L. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



The Market. 



Weather conditions during the last 

 week have been more like Decembe'r 

 than March. Nevertheless business has 

 been exceptionally good, all flowering 

 plants having been entirely cleaned 

 out. Violets continue to sell well. 

 Bulbous stock is not so plentiful, but 

 choice roses and carnations are arriving 

 in quantity. Sweet peas also are sell- 

 ing well. 



Various Notes. 



Andrew McCrea is back at his store. 

 He reports his Easter trade away ahead 

 of last year. 



Alfred Osterman reports funeral 

 work exceptionally heavy last week. 



The Elm City Nursery Co. has com- 

 menced digging and shipping orders. 

 Several carloads of stock have been 

 shipped this week, one carload going 

 to Plainville, Conn., where the firm is 

 executing extensive alterations in one 

 of the parks. 



John N. Champion & Co. are still 

 conducting their branch store, where 

 they are doing good business. At their 

 Chapel street store they had a large 

 amount of funeral work, six pieces 

 being shipped out of town March 30. 



"Not enough to go around," was 

 Alfred Nyren's complaint. His roses 

 are in full crop and he has to cut 

 close every day to fill his orders. 



Jos. J. Sokol is busy getting his bed- 



