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June 19, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



ME. TOTTY APPRECIATIVE. 



Last week C. H. Totty was presented 

 with a silver service in recognition of 

 his work for the Third National Flower 



Show: 



To the members of the Society of American 

 Florists and National Association of Gardeners: 

 I wish to thank each and every one of you in- 

 dividually for the magnificent gift which I was 

 prespnted with last week in recognition of my 

 work as chairman of the International Flower 

 gliow. This present is all the more appreciated 

 because It was entirely unexpected. I feel the 

 Bucci^ss of the show was due, not so much to 

 my hard work as to your earnest cooperation 

 witli me in every way. I only regret I am un- 

 ablf to share this beautiful gift with my fellow 

 committeemen, who worked hard and faithfully 

 aud without whose assistance the show would be 

 an impossible undertaking. 



Trusting I may have the pleasure of reclpro- 

 c.iting in some way In the near future, I 

 reuuiin, 



Very sincerely yours. 



CHAS. H. TOTTY. 



BAUMANN'S BUILDINQS. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the establishment of L. Baumann & 

 Co., Chicago, as it looks today. The 

 two buildings afford a total of 34,000 

 square feet of floor space, representing 

 the growth of twelve years from a 

 start with 1,340 square feet. 



The partnership between L. Baumann 

 and F. H. Gelderman was formed in 

 1901, the place of business being on 

 the fifth floor at 84 Wabash avenue. A 

 line of fl >rists' supplies was carried and 

 the firm manufactured artificial flow- 

 ers. Soon more space was needed and 

 a move was made to 76 and 78 Wabash 

 avenue, where within three years an 

 entire floor was being used. In the 

 spring of 1908 a site was purchased on 

 Chicago avenue, where a 3-story and 

 basement brick building was put up. 

 This building is shown on the right in 

 the illustration. The floor space being 

 over 14,000 square feet, it was thought 

 that the housing problem was settled 

 for all time, but within two years it 

 was necessary to ront outside space for 

 storage purposes. The 4-story and base- 

 ment building shown on the left in the 

 illustration was acquired in 1911 and, 

 after alterations, including the cutting 

 of floors connecting the two structures, 

 possession was taken of the three upper 

 floors. The store and basement were 

 under lease to outside parties until 

 May 1 of this year, since which date 

 Baumann & Co. have made extensive 

 alterations, including the fitting up of 

 a handsome office, a feature of which is 

 a private telephone exchange with three 

 trunk lines. 



Mr. Baumann, who at present is on 

 the Pacific coast with his family, still 

 takes active charge of the foreign in- 

 terests of the firm. F. H. Gelderman 

 has charge of the general business. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



The local market is nothing to brag 

 aliout. There is a lot of good stock 

 <oniing in and a lot that is far from 

 good. Neither of these classes clean 

 up or for that matter can clean up 

 8^ the rate that stock is moving. Lo- 

 ^^\\y the retail business is slow. Mon- 

 '^^y, usually a busy day, found buyers 

 f'lr local stores buying stock sparingly. 

 ' I'ipping business is good. 



Beginning with the close of last 

 ^f'ek, we have had sweltering hot 

 ^pather and up to Monday of this 

 ^'f^k each succeeding day proved 

 farmer than the previous one. At the 



Butldiogs of L. Bautoann & Co., Chicago. 



time of this writing there is no imme- 

 diate relief in sight. As a result plants, 

 etc., that are out in the field need 

 rain and need it badly. The rose cuts 

 are large and include choice offerings 

 in Beauties, My Maryland, Taft, 

 Kaiserin, Killarney and White Killar- 

 ney. Enough of the first named are 

 offered to easily go around and of the 

 others there are far more than needs 

 require. This is especially true of the 

 last two named. 



The hot weather is telling on the 

 carnations. The supply of good stock 

 is rather limited. Quite a large part 

 of the receipts have either thrips or 

 red spider or are soft and are prac- 

 tically worthless. The general demand 

 for carnations is not large. 



Other stock shows as follows: Valley 

 finds a fair market; sweet peas, when 

 good, sell fairly well; gladioli offer- 

 ings contain some good stock and are 

 proving good property in a slow mar- 

 ket. A limited number of hardy hy- 

 drangeas have come in. Other receipts 

 include snapdragons, giganteum lilies, 

 cornflowers, feverfew and pond lilies. 



Various Notes. 



The outing committee, consisting of 

 C. H. Hoffmeister, A. C. Heckman, Jr., 

 and R. C. Witterstaetter, has made ar- 

 rangements to hold the florists' annual 

 outing and picnic at Coney Island on 

 Thursday, July 17. Tickets are being 

 mailed to members of the society. 



C. E. Critchell has rented the floor 

 above his present quarten:. It is his 



intention, as soon as his display cases, 

 etc., are installed, to use this floor for 

 offices and supplies and to devote his 

 present quarters entirely to cut flow- 

 ers. This arrangement gives him twice 

 his present floor space. Mr. Critchell 

 says that this expansion has been made 

 necessary by the growth of his busi- 

 ness. 



The Cincinnati Cut Flower Exchange 

 is receiving some fine lilies from Wm. 

 Schumann. 



Chas, Fommert, Amelia, O., is send- 

 ing excellent pond lilies, coreopsis and 

 feverfew to E. G. Gillett. 



Martin Reukauf, of Bayer sdorfer's; 

 Harry Balsley, Detroit, Mich., and Al. 

 Newman, Zanesville, O., called on the 

 trade here recently. Other visitors 

 were Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Klus, Ander- 

 son, Ind.; Mrs. Lampert and daughter, 

 Zanesville, O., and Chas. M. Uhl, rep- 

 resenting Uhl 's Greenhouses, Green- 

 field, 0. 



L. H. Kyrk has been getting in fine 

 Maryland and Kaiserin roses from W. 

 Frank & Sons, Portland, Ind. 



C. H. H. 



Salida, Colo. — Jacob Chaney and his 

 wife, who started in the greenhouse 

 business here last season, have taken 

 over the Salida Greenhouses, formerly 

 owned by J. H. Freeman, and have 

 combined the two places. In future 

 the business will be conducted under 

 the name of the Alpha Greenhouse. It 

 is the intention to thoroughly modern- 

 ize the houses, as business is good. 



