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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBER 4. IfWO. 



Liberty rose is improving in some 

 cases. The best I have seen came 

 from W. H. Elliott's and were about 

 a foot long. Some very good Princess 

 violets are coming in and have been 

 selling very readily at 75 cents per 100. 

 1^0 double ones have appeared yet. 



This fine weather is probably most 

 to blame for slowness of business as 

 It keeps a large part of the monied 

 people yet at their summer haunts by 

 the sea and among the mountains. 



News is off crop as usual. J. Austin 

 Shaw has been delighting us with his 

 expansive smile and genial way for 

 the past few days. He is one of the 

 strongest links that connects us with 

 the rest of the profession. 



October 1st, being the day when the 

 new leases went into effect under the 

 Park street spire, there was a general 

 shuffling around of the salesmen and 

 everybody was asking for the where- 

 abouts of everybody else. Several new 

 men were in and we are surely going 

 to be the people after this. 



J. J. Johnson reports the finish of a 

 150-foot addition to the length of his 

 rose houses. 



Salesman Manter is supplying his 

 brother salesmen with a new style du- 

 plicating book. B. T. 



^fEW YORK. 



The Market. 



There is not much to record of in- 

 terest to florists. In this city cut flow- 

 er trade is dull and the quantity of 

 flowers is increasing. Beauties lead in 

 quality and in demand. Small roses 

 are very plentiful, but you have to go 

 through a heap to get the few select 

 ones first class trade requires. Violets 

 are coming in in quantity and the 

 quality is fairly good. The wholesalers 

 ■dread what is before them in the mat- 

 ter of chrysanthemums. Cattleyas are 

 plentiful; it is a wonder to us the 

 ■western cities don't use more of them; 

 the Greeks will soon be selling them 

 ■on the sidewalks here. The continued 

 "warm weather is a lucky thing for 

 some growers who depend on the flow- 

 ers they can cut from their carnations 

 in the field. 



The Fairs. 



The several state and county horti- 

 cultural and agricultural fairs recently 

 held in this vicinity have all been 

 great successes. The local florists of 

 each district have made some very fine 

 displays at them. The one held at 

 Mineola was remarkable for its fruit, 

 flowers and vegetables. Clucas & Bod- 

 dington put up a magnificent lot of 

 liulbs there, and Chris. Besold, Ferd. 

 Boulon. W. L. Swan and others won 

 several well merited prizes for flowers 

 and plants. 



Decorated bicycles and autos were a 

 pretty feature of the Guttenburg Pair. 

 Mr. Warendorff won first prize for dec- 

 orated machine; this was illustrated in 

 Sunday's Herald. We are pleased to 



note the yearly increase of fioricultur- 

 al exhibits at these fairs; it does im- 

 mense good and we cannot have too 

 much of it. 



American Institute. 



There was a very pretty show given 

 in New York last week by the Amer- 

 ican Institute at the Berkeley Lyceum. 

 Admission was free. The floor space 

 was well covered with fine exhibits. 

 Lager & Hurrell had a table of choice 

 orchids; the gem of this collection was 

 a most beautiful cattleya; the general 

 effect of the flower is white with a 

 lip as sweet as that of a pretty girl, 

 flushed with exquisite coloring ,it is a 

 creation of C. Mendelii x. C. interme- 

 dia. 



Julius Roehrs won first prize for 

 group of orchids and decorative plants. 

 Geo. Hale and Wm. Turner equal sec- 

 onds in the same class; they were all 

 fine groups. Jas. Bell showed a table 

 of well grown and highly colored cala- 

 ciiums; his asparagus and Alocsfiii 

 violacea were splendid. N. Hallock 

 displayed a very fine collection of 

 phloxes, and J. Lewis Childs took all 

 the prizes in gladiolus. The Manhat- 

 tan State Hospital at Central Islip. L. 

 I., made an extensive exhibit of plants 

 and vegetables grown liy the inmates, 

 under the guidance of the veteran gar- 

 dener, W. Thompson. This exhibit got 

 high praise from the daily papers just 

 because it was given out that lunatics 

 grew the stock; we mention thirt to 

 give you a pointer how to get free ad- 

 vertising. Just say lunatics or mur- 

 derers grew your stock and you'll get 

 columns. 



The dahlia exhibit was the principal 

 feature of the show. Growers of these 

 flowers say it has been a very bad sea- 

 son for them on account of dry weath- 

 er. Some very fine flowers were shown. 

 H. F. Burt. Taunton, Mass.; Lathrop 

 & Higgins, East Bridgewater, Mass.; 

 Geo. H. Hale and Jas. Dowlen, of Sea- 

 bright, N. J.; Rowehl & Granz, Hicks- 

 ville, L. I.; W. Atlee Burpee & Co.. 

 Philadelphia, and H. Beaulieu, of 

 Woodhaven. took all the prizes. 

 Though there were a great quantity of 

 pompons, shows and fancies, the cac- 

 tus and decorative types were by far 

 the most attractive and are pre-emi- 

 nently the most suitable for florists' 

 trade. Very few singles were shown. 



Alex. McKenzie, Cedarhurst. L, I., 

 exhibited two well grown Acalypha 

 Sanderi; J. W. Duncan, Greenwich, 

 Conn., took flrst in hardy garden flow- 

 ers; Mrs. J. H. Troy showed some 

 well grown tea roses; Robert Kift, of 

 Philadelphia, made a display of his 

 decorative glasses and rods. These 

 have become a pretty feature at all our 

 shows. The Rural New Yorker staged 

 some very flne spikes of a new crim- 

 son gladiolus called "Princeps." 



W. C. Krick had his new plant 

 stands in use there, and Ellwanger & 

 Barry, of Rochester, made one of the 

 finest exhibits of fruit ever seen here; 

 they had about 100 varieties of pears, 

 50 varieties of apples and quinces; 



grapes and peaches were also a fea- 

 ture. Other exhibitors of fruit and 

 vegetables were Wm. Scott, Howard 

 Nifhols, W. Turner. A. Taaffe and Jas. 

 Cannel, each taking several prizes. 



A chrysanthemum show will be held 

 in the same place in November, and 

 as this will be the only one given in 

 this city this fall, there is sure to be 

 some keen competition. 



The bulb men report splendid busi- 

 ness in all classes of stock. 



Don't forget the club meets next 

 Monday night. J. I- D. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Cut Flower Trade. 



The last week in September showed 

 continued improvement in the cut 

 flower market. The increased demand 

 was largely for suburban orders. The 

 supply continues to increase and the 

 weather being too warm for the qual- 

 ity of the blooms to improve, prices 

 remain low, at about last week's fig- 

 ures. September, taken as a whole, 

 does not compare favorably with Sep- 

 tember, 1899. There are a number of 

 reasons given to explain this falling 

 off. The very warm weather, unset- 

 tled business conditions, the elections, 

 and so on. 



These reasons may all have some- 

 thing to do with the result, but the 

 most important is that our seasons 

 are gradually changing. June, with 

 its weddings, commencements and 

 garden parties, brings more business 

 aach year, while September with noth- 

 ing in particular to attract the gay 

 world to the city is becoming duller 

 year by year. It is probable that this 

 change is a blessing in disguise to the 

 cut flower grower whose houses are 

 intended for winter blooming as it 

 decreases the temptation to weaken 

 his plants by too heavy fall cutting. 



Plant Trade. 



Whether the plant trade has shown 

 an improvement over the correspond- 

 ing month of last year is difficult to 

 assert with certainty, the business be- 

 ing scattered and not concentrated as 

 in cut flowers. From all indications it 

 would appear that it has improved de- 

 cidedly. The convention being held 

 in the east in August brought the buy- 

 ers to New York and to this city. 

 Some of the New York growers did 

 so well that they have come here for 

 high grade stock which was cleaned 

 up at home. 



Then, last spring having been gen- 

 erally prosperous, the out of town 

 l)uyers are ordering the best, not the 

 cheapest, decorative plants, always a 

 good sign. Again, the west is realiz- 

 ing, as the east has realized, that home 

 grown palms are not only better, but 

 cheaper in the long run than import- 

 ed stock. All these causes, coupled 

 with the knowledge of some large 

 shipments, make the above assertion 

 a reasonably safe one. 



