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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



AUGUST U, 



cation looking as tliough Michigan air 

 had been an excellent tonic. 



The Hinsdale Rose Co. lost 2,8(X) 

 feet of glass during the recent hail 

 storm. Bassett & Washburn, whose 

 place is near by, lost only a few hun- 

 dred feet. 



W. J. Smyth has returned from a 

 week's outing at Antioch, 111. 



A party of delegates from the east' 

 to Omaha, headed by Alex. Wallace, of 

 New York, will reach Chicago at 7:'M 

 a. m., MouQay, ana after speiialng the 

 day here will leave for Omaha over 

 the Northwester; at 6:30 p. m. 



Among the things the Chicago flor- 

 ists will investigate at Milwaukee will 

 be the great Pabst brewery, probably 

 the largest in the world. There will 

 also be a car ride around the city and 

 a visit to one of the parks. There is 

 unfortunately too little time to see a 

 very great deal of the city's attrac- 

 tions. 



Mr. James Hartshorne is rejoicing 

 over the arrival of a daughter. 



Mr. Angus Morrison has a large 

 stock of greenhouse pipe and fittings 

 in his warehouse at 375 Lincoln ave- 

 nue, and is doing quite a trade with 

 florists. 



Bowling. 



Following are the scores and aver- 

 ages made at the alleys last Friday 

 evening: 



1st. 2na. 3d. 4th. 5th. Av. 



Fred Hills 157 138 189 107 167 151 



Robt. Schenk 166 121 160 129 171 145 



J S Wilson 104 167 146 130 132 135 



G. Stollery 142 139 131 116 135 132 



G L. Grant 153 126 147 119 106 130 



P Stollery 116 104 118 122 133 118 



C. Schweigert 108 99 106 163 HO 117 



NEW YORK. 



The Future. 



It is generally expected here that 

 our war with Spain will be very bene- 

 ficial to the florist trade, not only in 

 the increased prosperity that must 

 surely come, but that the annexation 

 of the islands will have tremendous 

 influence on horticulture in general. 

 Our new cities will be demanding the 

 finest Jersey roses, and we will be 

 taking trolley car excursions to 

 gather palms and bananas and cocoa- 

 nuts and orchids. Mr. Editor, if any 

 of the boys out west who have been 

 out to the Klondike are anxious to 

 start in our business, please don't di- 

 rect them to overcrowded New York, 

 but tell them to go to Santiago. Ha- 

 vana or some of the larger cities in 

 Porto Rico, where vegetables are now 

 worth their weight in gold and good 

 plants and flowers will soon be worth 

 their weight in diamonds. 



It is expected that our leading nur- 

 series will soon announce their ex- 

 tensive palm plantations in Porto 

 Rico and the Philippines. As these isl- 

 ands are believed to be adapted to the 

 cultivation of azaleas, etc, no doubt 

 we will soon grow our own and avoid 

 paying duty. Some day we may get 

 Bermuda and grow our own lilies. It 

 may be said that we grow our own 



there now; that may be, but our large 

 bulb growers, are becoming tired 



of something in Bermuda, for 

 many of them talk of giving 

 up their bulb farms there. It 

 seems to pay large growers better 

 to chip in and send out an investigat- 

 ing agent to buy their stock on the 

 farms. Wait till we start growing 

 them in Cuba. 



Whilst we are dealing with war. 

 perhaps you will be surprised to learn 

 that we had war in our very midst 

 during the past week, but it was only 

 a modern Greek war, where Greek 

 met Greek. 



Almost all the cut flower peddlers 

 of this city are Greeks. They work 

 under the padrone system and there 

 are several clans of them. It is re- 

 ported that one clan sold to another 

 the privilege of a flower stand outside 

 a music hall on Fourteenth street for 

 the sum of $500. After the transac- 

 tion the proprietor of the hall insist- 

 ed on a removal of the stand, and the 

 charge of bunco was brought. Iso- 

 lated Greeks of one section or an- 

 other have been waylaid and beaten 

 for several weeks, and flnally the two 

 gangs concerned, to the number of 

 forty, met at Twenty - eighth street 

 and Sixth avenue on August 3 and 

 began to batter one another with 

 crowbars, bouquets of flowers, bricks 

 and fists. The police reserves were 

 called out and ten were arrested and 

 fined $5 each. 



The Market. 



Owing to odd spurts in the way of 

 funeral work, there were days when 

 stock of any kind was scarce. On 

 Saturday there was not a carnation to 

 be had of any of the wholesalers. 

 Asters, too, were scarce, and roses of 

 any fair quality went well. At the 

 Thirty-fourth street market there was 

 quite a brisk business and good flow- 

 ers of any kind brought fair prices. 

 On Monday auratums brought .$2; 

 Gladiolus, from $1 to ?3 for fancy; 

 carnations, 75 cents; asters, 1 to 2 

 cents a bunch; tuberoses, 35 cents per 

 dozen spikes; roses, from $1 to $4; 

 Lilium album and rubnim, $1; Hy- 

 drangea paniculata. from $1 to $1.50 

 per hundred; lily of the valley, from 

 $1 to $2. Out-door flowers form the 

 principal stock in trade of many of 

 the wholesalers. 



Charley Millang and Traendly & 

 Schenck make a specialty of lilium 

 and gladiolus. 



J. K. Allen is receiving some very 

 good Meteors. MacDonald & Mc- 

 Manus make orchids their principal 

 stock. John Young, valley, asters and 

 fine roses. John I. Raynor has been 

 slig'htly indisposed for the past few 

 days, and Walter Sheridan has joined 

 the vacationists. 



'Various Notes. 



Mr. John Weir, of Brooklyn, is an 

 accomplished gentleman in numerous 

 ways; buying and selling florists' 

 stores and fixtures is his latest ac- 

 complishment. The flower business 



here, even with all its high-toned ar- 

 tists and Greek peddlers, would lack 

 considerable without John Weir. It is 

 one of the most interesting pictures 

 to see John surrounded by thousands 

 of lilies and gladiolus on Tierney's 

 wagon coming from the markets ev- 

 ery morning. 



Joseph Liske, Winfleld. L. I., makes 

 a specialty of tuberoses, cutting many 

 thousands every day. Leavitt & Law- 

 lor. Flushing, L. I., are growing a 

 large quantity of gardenias. Mr. Law- 

 lor says Gardenia Veitchii is the best 

 for cultivation under glass in winter. 

 Herman Bowman, Larchmont Man- 

 or, reports violets very promising. 

 Mr. Bowman has discarded Marie 

 Louise and will grow only the "Far 

 quhar" for cut flowers in future. He 

 claims it is a finer violet in every 

 way. a better cropper, larger and 

 sweeter flowers, and longer stems 

 than Marie Louise, and is not as sus- 

 ceptible to disease as that variety. 

 He grows Lady Campbell for pot 

 plants for Easter. All his violets are 

 grown in frames, of which he has 350 

 sash, and intends to extend his plant 

 to 600 sash in the near future. Con- 

 tinual cultivation and vigilance, with 

 plenty of water, are the secrets of his 

 success. 



J. H. Small & Sons are making some 

 very handsome displays in the win- 

 dows of their new store on Broadway. 

 Blooms of Egyptian lotus and fancy 

 nymphaeas in a miniature tank, sur- 

 rounded with banks of ferns, cause 

 considerable attraction. 



Geraniums and bedding plants of al- 

 most all kinds have so far done re- 

 markably poor in and around New 

 York this season. Cannas have been 

 more extensively used in window 

 boxes, vases and other forms of exte- 

 rior decorations this year. Most of 

 the large hotels and clubs here have 

 been decorated with cannas, both at 

 entrances and on roof gardens. Un- 

 fortunately, though, poor varieties 

 have been used. The sooner our large 

 canna growers discard these poor 

 sorts, the better for the canna. It is 

 as easy to grow a good one as a bad 

 one, and the result is better for all. 



C. H. Joosten left Saturday for Eu- 

 rope. 



Frank Millang, of the Thirty-fourth 

 street market, was the busiest man at 

 that busy place on Saturday morning. 

 He was receiving congratulations and 

 "setting 'em up." It's a young lady 

 this time. 



Mr. James Wood, of Mt. Kisco. has 

 had to use 16 boxes of 12x14 glass to 

 replace what was broken by the hail- 

 storm of July 1. 



Weidet Bros., Mt. Kisco, are build- 

 ing two new violet houses 12x72. 



I shall not be able to give you the 

 names of the warriors we shall send 

 to invade Omaha just now, but they 

 will be there on time. 



Many of W. R. Smith's friends are 

 deeply concerned about his health and 

 sincerely hope the grand old man of 

 Washington may soon recover. D. 



