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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBER G. 1S98. 



be cut through easily and quickly. We 

 consider this the most useful labor- 

 saving device we have on the place. 

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THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



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NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



"Coming events cast their shadows 

 before." That's what the wretched- 

 looking, half - developed chrysanthe- 

 mums and violets which are exhibited 

 in some of the Broauway stores seem 

 te want to tell us; and when we come 

 to look at matters in a clear light, it is 

 simply absurd how even the most in- 

 telligent of us hasten to chronicle the 

 first appearance of these flowers. We 

 ion't seem to give them time to show 

 their colors, and the high prices asked 

 for them as novelties do more harm 

 than good. 



Chrysanthemums are late this year, 

 and there are not nearly so many of 

 them grown as there were last year, 

 for which fact many are thankful. 

 Many of the houses formerly devoted 

 to mums are now filled with Boston 

 ferns and palms, great quantities of 

 which are destined for the auction 

 rooms and from there to the peddlers' 

 wagons. Growers who dump cheap, 

 rubbishy palms on the New York mar- 

 ket are injuring the plant trade enor- 

 mously. To say that much of the palm 

 stock seen on peddlers' wagons here 

 is more like bunches of grass than 

 palms is merely half-way description. 

 and the Lord only knows how long 

 they live; 'twere better they never ex- 

 isted. 



Very few of our wealthy people havo 

 returned to their city residences yet; 

 the weather is too fine and the coun- 

 try homes too charming to think of re- 

 suming city life, and the prospects of 

 an immeaiate change are very dim. 

 This is partly the reason why lovely 

 Cattleyas are going begging at the un- 

 precedented price of 20 cents; there 

 are lots of them on the market at 

 present. It's a great pity; we can 

 hardly ever get them when we want 

 them. Roses can still be bought at 

 one's own figures. Good carnations 

 are scarce and valley is on the flood - 



tide again. Dahlias are on top for the 

 time being and you can "get your 

 money's worth" from them. 



News Items. 



Rudolph Jahn has opened a florist's 

 store on Forty-second street, near 

 Sixth avenue, and Joseph Flanden 

 contemplates opening a retail store on 

 Broadway, near Thirty-seventh street. 



H. de M. Bodmer has taken charge 

 of the flower and plant department in 

 Wanamaker's dry goods store, Tenth 

 street and Broadway. H. Daeker, for- 

 merly bookkeeper for Thorley, is now 

 holding a like position with Fleisch- 

 mann. 



Recent visitors: Alexander Young, 

 superintendent for John Wanamaker, 

 Pniladelphia; Charles D. Ball, 

 Holmesburg, Pa., and J. F. Sullivan, 

 Detroit, Mich. 



Club Notes. 



The New York Gardeners' Society 

 will meet at 64 Madison avenue Satur- 

 day, October S, at S p. m. The society 

 is invited to attend the flower and 

 fruit snow at the Academy of Design 

 the same evening. 



The New York Florists' Club will 

 meet at 19 West Twenty-seventh street 

 on Monday, October 10. Mr. E. V. 

 Hallock, who has just returned from 

 an extended tour of Europe, will give 

 a talk on "Impressions Abroad." This 

 will be very interesting and a large 

 meeting is looked for. A bowling club 

 will no doubt be organized at this 

 meeting. 



Exhibition at Academy of Design. 



This Is the second and last week of 

 the show at the Academy of Design. 

 Among the new attractions for this 

 week are a superb collection of 113 

 varieties of pears, exhibited by Ell- 

 wanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. We 

 feel safe in saying that a finer display 

 of pears has never been seen on this 

 continent, and in the class calling for 

 twenty-flve varieties, this flrm receives 

 first prizes. H. Jeroloman, Hilton, N. 

 J., wins first for ten varieties of pears. 



George E. Boggs, Waynesville, N. C; 

 H. Jeroloman, the Eastern New York 

 Horticultural Society. State Experi- 

 mental Station, Geneva. N. Y., and W. 

 S. Teator, Red Hook, Dutchess county, 

 N. Y., make splendid displays of ap- 

 ples. Mr. Teator shows fifty varieties, 

 among which is a pretty new red win- 

 ter apple called "Pride of the Hud- 

 son." 



Wm. Duckham. Madison, N. J.; Wm. 

 Turner, Tarrytown, N. Y.. and Julius 

 Roehrs, Carlton Hill, N. J., exhibit ta- 

 bles of grand decorative plants. 

 Messrs. Duckham and Roehrs have ex- 

 tra fine cattleyas in their group, and 

 Mr. Turner's crotons are magnificent- 

 ly colored. 



F. R. Pierson Company shows new 

 cannas and dahlias. 



Perhaps finer or more interesting 

 displays of cut flowers have never been 



shown than those exhibited by A. Her- 

 rington, Madison, N. J., J. Dowlen, 

 and Geo. H. Hale, both of Sea Bright, 

 N. J. These three exhibits fill several 

 hundred vases with as many varieties, 

 of flowers, fllling a large room br 

 themselves, and are an object lessoa 

 to any learned man. 



W. BrennecKe, Evergreen, L. I., dis- 

 plays a group of well - grown gera- 

 niums. Lehing & Winnefeld. Hacken- 

 sack, N. J., put up a bench of remark- 

 ably well grown cyclamen. 



In the rose classes, L. M. Noe, Madi- 

 son. N. J., and F. R. & P. M. Pierson, 

 Scarborough, N. Y., are even on Amer- 

 ican Beauty. Pierson's vase of Me- 

 teors are grand, and F. Boulon, Sea 

 Cliffe, L. I., exhibits a vase of hand- 

 some out-door grown roses and many 

 varieties of carnations. 



H. A. Dreer, i>,iverton, N. J., shows it 

 beautiful new ageratum called Prin- 

 cess Pauline. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Cut Flower Trade. 



Cut flower business continues to im- 

 prove with prices auout the same as 

 one week ago. The quality of the- 

 stock offered has fallen off a trifle, not 

 seriously, through the warm weather 

 of the past tew days. The same sum- 

 mery influence has increased the quan- 

 tity, but most of the growers are hold- 

 ing this floriferousness of their plant* 

 in check by fierce disbudding. 



Joseph iieacock sums up his im- 

 pressions of the September rose mar- 

 ket in this way: Prices a little lower 

 than in 1897, but volume of business 

 larger; results satisfactory. This is a 

 very fair view of the situation. Prices 

 in September, '97. were better than for 

 the same month of '96. 



Chrysanthemums have come. Ge ). 

 E. Campbell sent in a few white (?) 

 Lady Fitzwygram to W. J. Baker 

 Thursday of last week. They wer» 

 promptly seized by Robert Kift, wh» 

 is aptly termed the "Thorley of Phila- 

 delphia," because if there is anything 

 good in sight he always wants it — an4 

 borne off in triumph. The considera- 

 tion, we are told, was 75 cents for six. 



Plant Trade. 



The plant trade continues to be ex- 

 ceedingly active. \v uliam K. Harris 

 and Robert Craig & Son have eack 

 sent a carload of assorted decorative 

 stock over to New York to be sold at 

 auction on Tuesday of this week bf 

 William Elliott & Sons. Mr. Craig no- 

 tices an improvement over last year ia 

 his sales of this class of plants. The- 

 store men in this city, who take board- 

 ers in their conservatories, are not yet 

 buying many plants, and will not un- 

 til their customers return to town 

 later in the season. 



Charles D. Ball found a slight fall- 

 ing off in the palm sales for August 

 over a year ago. but for September 

 there was an increase of 33 1-3 per 



