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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



OCTOBER 13, 1898. 



for bulb stock of all kinds, with a 

 scarcity of Japan longiflorum, and 

 more than an average demand for 

 forcing tulips. 



Chas. H. Allen, of New York, and A. 

 C. Dimmock. of St. Albans, England, 

 have been visitors this week. P. 



NEW YORK. 



Business Conditions. 

 It may be truly stated that business 

 is steadily improving, and that from 

 now on every florist will find some- 

 thing to do. This will not interfere 

 with the market only to raise the price 

 on a few specialties. Flowers are very 

 abundant and are likely to be so until 

 the cold weather sets in. There are 

 no such things as set prices these 

 days, for one day there may be a run 

 on" a certain flower and prices stiffen, 

 the next week they are away down; 

 for instance, good roses could be 

 bought for $3. .50 per thousand last 

 week, and carnations brought double 

 that; this week it may be otherwise, 

 still at time of writing Cattlyeas are 

 from 3.5 to 40 cents; they are plentiful 

 and very fine. Valley is abundant and 

 brings from $2 to ?3; some especially 

 fine from Jurgens, of Newport, was 

 seen at John Young's. 



Roses are from 50 cents to $4; Beau- 

 ties from $5 to $25; Asparagus, $50 for 

 long strings; smilax, $10; violets, 50 to 

 75 cents; chrysanthemums, from $1 to 

 $3 per dozen; adiantum, 75 cents; 

 dahlias, 50 cents to $1; Bouvardia 

 Humboldti, 25 cents a bunch; tube- 

 roses, 35 cents per dozen spikes; car- 

 nations, 75 cents to $1. 



Thirty-fourth street market on early 

 mornings is a sight. We were there at 

 6 a. m. Saturday last and counted no 

 less than 200 buyers and growers. It 

 was a busy spot and any visitor to 

 New York City should visit this place; 

 it is full of interesting sights. Every 

 phase of New York florist life may be 

 sen there, and whilst we're on the ques- 

 tion of visitors, many complaints have 

 been made regarding the snobbishness 

 and imperial attitudes assumed In 

 many stores here. Our country cous- 

 ins must excuse the actions of many 

 city dudes, because they know no bet- 

 ter. If the friends of The Review will 

 kindly call on its humble writer here 

 he will do his best to show them or 

 direct them to the points of interest 

 in New York floriculture. 



Every store is clean and bright, well 

 furnished with plants, and most of the 

 windows show beautiful arrangementb 

 of flowers and ferns. There is nothing 

 specially new to be seen. Cattlyeas are 

 shown in all wreaths with water 

 glasses attached. Many windows are 

 full of orchid plants. Adiantum Far- 

 leyense is seen in every prominent 

 store and it is fine. Mums are still 

 poor and scarce. Violets are poor; 

 roses are getting to be presentable. 

 There are many new roses on the mar- 

 ket, but we will deal with them later. 



Florist Club Meeting. 

 There was quite an enthusiastic 

 meeting of the Florists' Club held on 

 Monday, Oct. 10. Our smiling, good 

 natured Wm. Plumb occupied the chair 

 and had his hands full deciding which 

 was the better authority, Cushing or 

 Hoyle. Parliamentary frills choke ofl: 

 many a practical discussion and it is 

 often merely a kind of Greek fire to 

 illumine a sad waste of valuable time. 

 However, the meeting was a most in- 

 teresting one, and much good was ac- 

 complished. 



Messrs. Alex. Burns. Theo. Lang, 

 Lawrence Hafner, E. Leuly and Theo. 

 Roehrs were appointed a committee to 

 organize a bowling club as an adjunct 

 to the Florists' Club; so hereafter the 

 New York Florists' Club will be offi- 

 cially represented by a good team at 

 the conventions, and so forth; Phil- 

 adelphia, Buffalo and St. Louis bowl- 

 ers, please make a note of it. 



Mr. H. A. Siebrecht brought up the 

 question of steamship companies refus- 

 ing to receipt for flowers sent to pas- 

 sengers. A committee was appointed 

 to wait on these different companies 

 and lay the matter before them and in- 

 duce them to give receipts for flowers 

 thus sent. Mr. O'Mara, as a member 

 of the legislative committee, reported 

 that they had made arrangements with 

 the express agents in Jersey that flor- 

 ists' goods marked "Florists' Stock" 

 would be delivered promptly and with- 

 out the delays of inspection, and that 

 nursery stock should be accompanied 

 with a certificate of inspection in order 

 to facilitate its delivery. Several new 

 members were proposed. 



Mr. E. Asmus, West Hoboken, ex- 

 hibited a vase of his grand new hybrid 

 tea rose. Liberty. This rose is most 

 appropriately named and promises to 

 be one of the best acquisitions to com- 

 mercial roses seen here in many years; 

 it resembles the Meteor In form and 

 substance, but if it can be grown 

 cheaper it will replace that rose be- 

 cause it is sweeter. The judges are to 

 examine the rose as growing in the 

 greenhouse and report on it. 



The Rosary Flower Co. exhibited a 

 new cattlyea named C. labiata Mrs. 

 Clarence H. Mackay. This was a beau- 

 tiful plant with eighteen blooms; it 

 will be illustrated and described in an 

 early issue. 



Mr. E. V. Hallock, the speaker of the 

 evening, was then introduced ahd gave 

 a most interesting talk on "Impres- 

 sions Gathered Abroad." After de- 

 scribing the Botanical Gardens and 

 Parks of Ireland. Scotland, England 

 and France, he said his advice to ev- 

 ery young man was that there was no 

 country which gave the same opportu- 

 nities as the United States; that there 

 was room for energy and intelligence 

 everywhere, but it brought better re- 

 sults here. He paid high tribute to 

 the taste displayed amongst the flor- 

 ists of Paris, and thought they came 

 nxt to our own. A long discussion fol- 



lowed on methods of disposing of 

 stock, public markets, etc., and this 

 matter promises to lead to interesting 

 results at some future meeting. 



The Gardeners' Society met on Oct. 

 8 and a committee consisting of 

 Messrs. Withers, Donlan, Manda and 

 Marshall were appointed to arrange for 

 a chrysanthemum show for next meet- 

 ing. Robert Angus will read a paper 

 on Violets, and John Shore one on cel- 

 ery at the November meetmg. 



Notes. 



Wenham has opened a florist store 

 at 2G East Forty-second, directly op- 

 posite the new store of John S. Nicho- 

 las, at 37 East Forty-second. This 

 street promises to be a florists' cen- 

 ter. 



Recent visitors: Carl Jurgens, New- 

 port, R. I.; Thos. Galvin and Wm. E. 

 Doyle, Boston, Mass. D. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Trade in cut flowers has been fairly 

 good the past week, with demand for 

 good stuff not ahead of supply. There 

 is hardly a scarcity in any kind of 

 roses except it be good long Beauties. 

 In roses there are plenty of Brides, 

 Maids, Meteors, Perles and Woottons. 

 Price runs all the way from $1 to $4 

 per hundred. 



Carnations are not scarce by any 

 means, only In fancy stock Is there 

 any scarcity. Price remains the same, 

 75 cents and $1 per hundred. 



Good violets are still absent, though 

 a few singles are coming in that are 

 fair and sell at 25 cents. On valley 

 the price remains $4, stock good but 

 not overplentiful. 



Chrysanthemums are arriving slow- 

 ly; none are in bloom as yet among 

 our local growers. Cosmos Is now com- 

 ing in better and quite plentiful at 50 

 and 75 cents. Tuberose spikes sell well 

 at $3 and $4. Smilax, adiantum and 

 asparagus had quite a call last week. 



Decorations at 'Veiled Prophets' Ball. 



The decorations at the Veiled Proph- 

 ets ball last Tuesday night were elab- 

 orate. Quite a number of hanging 

 baskets were used. About ten wagon 

 loads of plants and 2,000 strings of smi- 

 lax. Taken as a whole the effect was 

 fine and much admired by all. The 

 Riessen Floral Co. surely deserve great 

 credit for the manner in which they 

 executed the work. The flowers used 

 by the majority attending were Beau- 

 ties, Meteors and carnations; bunches 

 mostly carried, although many were 

 worn. 



Exhibition Awards. 



The floral and plant exhibition at 

 the thirty-eighth annual St. Louis fair, 

 held October 3 to S. was a grand suc- 

 cess and quite a number of florists were 

 in attendance. On big Thursday priz- 

 es were awarded on cut flowers, de- 



