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The Florists' Review 



June 5, 1018. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The American Eose Society has been 

 invited to have as full a representation 

 as possible of its membership attend the 

 final exhibition and judging of the Hart- 

 ford Kose Gardens. It will be held 

 sometime in June. The judges named 

 by President Farenwald for the service 

 are as follows: Wallace R. Pierson, 

 Cromwell, Conn.; Eber Holmes, Mon- 

 trose, Mass., and John Huss, Hartford, 

 Conn. The Rose Gardens at Hartford 

 were adopted last year and encouraged 

 as far as possible by the executive com- 

 mittee, and a summer meeting of the 

 society. The reports that come from 

 the Hartford park department are most 

 encouraging for the work there done. 

 The garden is in Elizabeth park, Hart- 

 ford, Conn. 



The new officers chosen at the annual 

 meeting, held in April, will assume 

 their duties July 1, and are as follows: 

 President, Wallace R. Pierson, Crom- 

 well, Conn.; vice-president, Robert Pyle, 

 West Grove, Pa.; treasurer, Harry O. 

 May, Summit, N. J. The executive com- 

 mittee will comprise the following: J. H. 

 Dunlop, Toronto, Ont.; S. S. Pennock, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; August F. Poehlmann, 

 Morton Grove, 111.; Eber Holmes, Mon- 

 trose, Mass.; Frank R. Pierson, Tarry- 

 town, N. Y.; Robert Simpson, Clifton, 

 N. J. The secretary holds over. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'yi 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market wo!<e up early 

 last week and prices advanced consid- 

 erably from the early quotations, es- 

 pecially for carnations, which rose to 

 4 cents and 5 cents before the week 

 closed, with even more asked for the 

 novelties. The weather was abominable 

 until Thursday. Rain was continuous. 

 Shipments were light and prices indi- 

 cated the large shipping demand for 

 Memorial day. With the exception of 

 carnations, however, there was no 

 abnormal rise and of orchids and roses 

 there were enough and to spare. Val- 

 ley was up to 4 cents. 



Every day the peony flood grows and 

 some fine stock of the red and pink va- 

 rieties is seen. The present week is 

 expected to show high tide. There is 

 no shortage of sweet peas, stocks, dai- 

 sies or any of the seasonable flowers. 



June 3 the cut flower market began 

 to show signs of demoralization and 

 prices were sharply reduced. There 

 was every indication that the market 

 was to be badly glutted within a few 

 hours. 



Various Notes. 



At the Florists' Club's meeting next 

 Monday, June 9, there will be an ad- 

 dress by Adolph Farenwald, music by 

 the Edison Co., and discussion of "Affi- 

 liation" after Mr. Farenwald 's intro- 

 duction. Exhibits are promised and a 

 turkey lunch, as a fitting close to the 

 club's indoor activities for the season. 

 The club 's annual outdoor demonstra- 

 tion is July 1. 



Harry A. Bunyard returned .Tune 2 

 from a visit in Boston, whefe all ar- 

 rangements have been consummated for 

 the sweet pea convention. 



Wm. J. Sheehan, who has been man- 

 aging Thomas Young's wholesale store 

 on West Twenty-eighth street, now 

 closed, and who has been in Mr. 



i'oung 's service for eleven years, has 

 resigned his position. He has been a 

 tireless worker. The entire shipments 

 from Mr. Young's greenhouse plant at 

 Bound Brook, including gardenias and 

 orchids, will now be handled by Paul 

 Meconi. 



As a forecast of the June weddings, 

 Saturday, May 31, 265 marriage li- 

 censes were granted. Conference with 

 the retailers indicates a large booking 

 of orders for church and house decora- 

 tions during June. 



C. C. Trepel, in his big store at 

 Bloomingdale's, has devoted a large 

 window to wedding suggestions, in- 

 cluding the bride, with examples of 

 bridal bouquets. A young lady, clad 

 in bridal array, has posed and walked 

 for hours daily, and so potent has been 

 the novel attraction that the street at 

 times has been crowded and impass- 

 able. Mr. Trepel now has charge of 

 the flower departments in four of the 

 largest department stores in the city. 

 He certainly understands the secret of 

 publicity and is even threatening to in- 

 vade Fifth avenue with his enterprise. 



June 2 an ordinance was introduced 

 at the meeting of the board of alder- 

 men, setting aside the wide asphalt 

 space north of Union Square for a per- 

 manent flower market. No appropria- 

 tion is required. The Flower and Plant 

 Growers' Association has endorsed the 

 plans, as well as the borough president, 

 comptroller, and park commissioner. 



Arthur T. Boddington took time by 

 the forelock and commenced the Sat- 

 urday half holiday privilege for his em- 

 ployees May 31. Doubtless all the 

 !!-eedsmen will unite in this concession 

 after the most strenuous and profitable 

 season on record. 



P. H. Goodsell has removed his office 

 to the nursery grounds at 1905 West 

 Farms road, where large plantings have 

 been made this spring and where ship- 

 ping facilities are unexcelled. W. E. 

 Maynard is at the helm of this depart- 

 ment. 



Charles Millang has shelved his auto 

 department and is devoting his entire 

 time to his wholesale cut flower inter- 

 ests. 



Joseph Millang has moved into his 

 fine new office in the Coogan building, 

 second floor, rear. 



Walter Siebrecht is spending his 

 week ends at Glen Falls, where his fam- 

 ilv is located for the summer. 



To the florists in the city little profit 

 came in enlarged sales for Memorial 

 day, but the cemetery florists reaped a 

 rich harvest and were practically sold 

 out of everything that could be used 

 in loving memory of the departed. 



The florists' supply houses report the 

 best Memorial day business in their his- 

 tory. Shipments to the towns and 

 smaller cities were away ahead of for- 

 mer years. 



Alex. McConnell reports the best 

 nursery business of any season and is 

 still busy with some large landscape 

 contracts. In fact, it has been a ban- 

 ner year with all the nurserymen in 

 this vicinity. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar, of Boston, presi- 

 dent of the S. A. F., was a recent vis- 

 itor. The Minneapolis convention is 

 awakening interest and New York 

 promises to send quite a delegation, 

 notwithstanding the 1,500 miles. 



The Thomas A, Galvin building, op- 

 posite Thorley's, is going up rapidly. 

 The greenhouse on the roof, six stories 

 up, will be an attractive novelty. Va- 



rious are the retail opinions as to this 

 invasion from Boston, but the general 

 opinion is that New York can never be 

 overcrowded with anything that has 

 merit. 



Messrs. Bunyard, Armstrong and 

 Smythe anticipate a busy summer with 

 the millionaires at Newport and are 

 preparing to open there soon. 



J. A. Newsham, of New Orleans, 

 sailed May 29 from New York on the 

 steamer Baltic for a trip to Europe. 



A contract has been signed for a 

 flower show March 21 to 28, 1914, at 

 the Grand Central Palace, under the 

 auspices of the New York Florists' 

 Club and the Horticultural Society of 

 New York. 



The son of Charles Brown, the Broad- 

 way florist, died June 3, following an 

 operation. 



Mrs. H. H. Berger and Miss Berger 

 sailed May 31 on the steamer Lapland 

 to spend the summer in Europe. 



C. W. Scott and A. Kakuda, of the 

 Yokohama Nursery Co., returned June 

 3 by boat from Galveston, having spent 

 three weeks on a business trip in the 

 southwest. 



The New York and New Jersey Plant 

 Growers ' Association will hold its an- 

 nual outing this month at Delaware 

 Water Gap, remaining over night at the 

 Kittening hotel. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



H. Frank Darrow has received an in- 

 teresting letter from the Haerens Co., 

 which he represents in America, with 

 regard to its success in exhibiting aza- 

 leas at the Ghent show. It appears 

 that on seventeen entries ten first and 

 seven second prizes were secured. The 

 novelties attracted special interest. 

 Four of the best are said to be Haere- 

 will's Pink Pearl, light rose, a new 

 color; Mme. .Jean Haerens, rose; Haere- 

 will 's Alba, double white, and President 

 Wilson, double red. 



June 3, at Sherry's, on Fifth avenue, 

 Sydney B. Wertheimer, of the firm of 

 Wertheimer Bros., was united in mar- 

 riage to Miss Edna Leimdorfer. Mr. 

 Wertheimer and his bride sailed June 

 5 for Europe on the S. S. France. It 

 is their intention to tour the continent 

 and to return early in the autumn, when 

 they will reside in Brooklyn. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Wertheimer probably will visit 

 Minneapolis to attend the convention 

 of the S. A. ±'. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York will hold a show at Bronx park 

 June 7 and 8, premiums being ofl'ered 

 for peonies, hardy roses, shrub bloom, 

 herbaceous flowers and orchids. Wm. 

 Becker will have charge. 



SEDALIA, MO. 



Sedalia is soon to have extensive 

 greenhouses, to be located at Sixteenth 

 street and Limit avenue, and on which 

 work will be started in the immediate 

 future. Dr. .1. E. Cannaday is the pro- 

 moter of the enterprise, which will be 

 known as the State Fair Floral Co., and 

 which intends to do an extensive busi- 

 ness in a wholesale way to retailers 

 throughout the state. Although no an- 

 nouncement has officially been made as 

 to the cost of the proposed greenhouses, 

 it is said that when they are completed 

 expenditures of approximately $100,000 

 will have been made. Dr. Cannaday, 

 who returned May 22 from Chicago, 

 visited several of the large greenhouses 

 in that city, and secured valuable ideas 



