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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNE 22, 1«I9. 



were well pleased with the little argu- 

 ment for we were astonished that any- 

 one would admit that our nurserymen 

 grew their stuff in such a crude way, 

 and delighted to hear that a proper 

 and real nurserymen's methods are 

 likely to prevail. To plant a Norway 

 spruce 6 inches high and about 6 inch- 

 es in the rows and leave them 5 or 6 

 years and then sell them is nothing 

 less than a fraud and they are not nur- 

 serymen who do it, they are fruit 

 farmers with a little nursery stock on 

 the side. 



Mr. Harry Balsley has just arrived 

 accompanied by his sub-watering bot- 

 tomless pot, "patent applied for." I 

 am more favorably impressed with 

 this new device than I have been pre- 

 viously and for violets it looks like a 

 go. An experiment with them can't be 

 a failure so on the bench goes 1,000. 

 Mr Harry has just been re-elected 

 president of the Detroit Park board. 

 This is a great honor and what a sen- 

 sible thing for the mayor of a city to 

 appoint an active young business man 

 on a Park Board instead of aged fos- 

 sils who have acquired wealth as their 

 sole recognition to honor and have no 

 more taste or knowledge of park mat- 

 ters, roads, grounds or trees, than a 

 polar bear of the future world. 



Mr. Geo. Fancourt and Mr. Carr of 

 Wilkesbarre are in town attending a 

 large convention. Have not interviewed 

 them yet. W. S. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The weather has changed for the bet- 

 ter somewhat, still many of the crops 

 both in fruit, vegetables and farm pro- 

 ducts are injured beyond repair. Even 

 the flowers of June have been scorched 

 and hurried into premature oblivion, 

 and that too so quickly that in antici- 

 pating the appearance of many old 

 favorites we only find that they had 

 passed. Flowers in the wholesale 

 market, that is the great bulk of them, 

 are of such variety and quality as to 

 be scarcely worth much notice. The 

 largest buyers are the street venders; 

 the average retailer is shy on buying 

 these days, and the only flowers seen 

 on parade are the kind that are loud- 

 est and live longest. There are heaps 

 of Harrisiis coming in at the 34th st. 

 market, and when they can be bought 

 for 2 or 3 cts, as they can at present, 

 you can rest assured that all other 

 stock is low, very low. The commis- 

 sion men who attend this Ferry Mar- 

 ket take turns at cornering the market 

 on lilies, but the quantity coming in 

 and the condition of trade have com- 

 pelled them to desist from the corner- 

 ing act. 



Carnations are very abundant, every 

 small grower has heaps of them now, 

 and they can be got at from 25 to 50 

 cts per 100 or even less. Roses are go- 

 ing at from 50 cts to $4.00 per 100, and 

 the majority of soft stock is of more 

 weight than value. Paeonies are about 

 over, and good named varieties were 

 rather scarce this year, which looks as 



if the roots had been divided up for 

 plant trade. 



Variouf Items. 

 Why certainly we have an aristo- 

 cracy in our profession; the pink shirt 

 element of our trade, who turn their 

 noses up at photographs of the past; 

 they are vastly amusing and quite 

 harmless. 



Everybody is considering plans for 

 vacations; many are gone to Europe, 

 others are enjoying mosquito fights in 

 the country. 



Lawrence Hafner is thoroughly en- 

 joying the luxury of a fine new home 

 he has just built for himself and fam- 

 ily at Patchogue, L. I. Enviable Law- 

 rence; but no one begrudges him for 

 though retired from the florist busi- 

 ness he is always to the front in any 

 movement for its advancement. 



Alfred Dimmock sailed for his other 

 home on Saturday last on the Cam- 

 pania; there was a crowd of the boys 

 down to wish him bon voyage. 



The Westchester County Gardeners' 

 Association will have an "outing" to 

 Dreer's sometime in August. Cheap 

 rates have been secured for the trip 

 and a good time is assured. Robert 

 Jenkins, Rye, N. Y., can tell you about 

 it. 



A. Bridgeman, formerly with the 

 Bridgeman Co., which recently went 

 under and "soaked" everybody, is now 

 associated with Small & Sons on 

 Broadway. 



New florists' stores are appearing 

 in every nook and corner here. A new 

 census of them will show a large in- 

 crease. 



The Tarrytown gardeners will meet 

 in the New Fire House, Main St., Tar- 

 rytown, on Thursday, June 29. A grand 

 flower show in that locality— the home 

 of millionaires — this November will be 

 the subject on the table, and the mat- 

 ter already assumes the shape of a 

 success. 



The American Institute free show on 

 June 14 and 15 was a success consid- 

 ering the terrible heat; the following 

 were the winners. Roses, 24 varieties, 

 Chas. Weise; 12 varieties, Chas. Weise; 

 6 varieties, Chas. Weise; 3 varieties, 

 Wm. Turner; 12 blooms, 1 var..Wm, 

 Turner, M. H. Walsh, Woods Holl, 

 Mass., made a fine display of some 

 sixty varieties of roses, among 

 which was a new dark one, "J. 

 S. Fay." The roses shown in above 

 were the usual old standard sorts 

 well known here. Mr. Walsh al- 

 so exhibited 14 vases of paeonies, 

 taking first prize in that class. J. L. 

 Childs captured first for herbaceous 

 flowers, amongst which were some 

 new early phlox; the same exhibitor 

 showed some very fine gloxinias. C. H. 

 Allen exhibited several vases of carna- 

 tions, and H. Siebrecht & Son display- 

 ed herbaceous flowers and shrubs and 

 a few specimen orchids. J. W. Dun- 

 can, Greenwich, Conn., took first for 

 collection of flowering shrubs. Lager 

 & Hurrell, Summit, N. J., exhibited 

 several splendidly grown orchids 

 which were easily the principal feature 

 in flowers. Some interesting collec- 



tions of vegetables were shown in 

 which Andrew Taaffe won first and 

 Wm. Scott second. John Marshall won 

 first in tomatoes with "Lorillard," and 

 again in melons with "Hero of Loc- 

 kinge." Wm. Turner won first in let- 

 tuce with "Big Boston," and peaches 

 with "Mountain Rose." Wm. C. Win- 

 ter, Mansfield, Mass., got second in the 

 latter class with "Hale's Early." 



There was quite some competition in 

 strawberries; Robert Jenkins won two 

 firsts with Sharpless, Henry, Mary, 

 Glen May, and Gandy. Henry Jerolo- 

 man, of Hilton, N. J., who said he was 

 then picking over 2,000 quarts a day, 

 captured first prize for ten varieties 

 with Clyde, Henry, Mary, H & H No. 

 3, Bubach, Plough City, Hilton Gem, 

 Sharpless, Glen Mary, and Seedling 

 No. 4. 



Amongst the flowering shrubs we 

 noticed two that stood out very promi- 

 nently and were very beautiful. The 

 red Wiegela "Eva Rathke" and Phila- 

 delphus "Yokohama." Both are very 

 good and we recommend them to 

 growers of that class of stock. Wm. E. 

 Marshall showed a pot grown bulb in 

 flower of Haemanthus puniceus for 

 which he received a certificate. 



The funeral of the late Augustin 

 Daly, the great playwright and the- 

 atrical manager, took place at St. Pat- 

 rick's Cathedral in this city, June 19. 

 The beautiful edifice was filled with 

 representatives of every art and pro- 

 fession. No flowers adorned the casket, 

 which was of polished oak with gold 

 handles. There were some two dozen 

 designs sent by the different clubs and 

 theatrical companies, but they were 

 ordinary large pieces. There was noth- 

 ing new amongst them. A large stand- 

 ing cross of Harrisiis was perhaps the 

 most imposing. There .were a few 

 wreaths of orchids and galax leaves 

 (what a combination!) and a large 

 lyre of purple peas on one side, white 

 on the other. The preponderance of 

 galax leaves at all funerals is sicken- 

 ing; they have a disgustingly cheap 

 appearance about them and oh! what 

 "get ups." Are we getting too lazy to 

 stem flowers? they are certainly not 

 expensive or scarce, or are we doing 

 our best (unintentionally of course), 

 to destroy the funeral flower trade? 

 'Twould seem so. 



We visited the alleys where the flor- 

 ist bowlers were to have met this eve- 

 ning and were informed that the only 

 one that turned up was the captain, 

 and he left in disgust. Perhaps 'twas 

 the weather; anyhow patience needs 

 be a good strong plant these days. 



IVERA. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Market Conditions. 

 The cool weather of the past few 

 days and the closing of the schools 

 brightened up the cut flower trade 

 considerably last week. This week 

 will be Elks' convention week and 

 quite a good business in our line is 

 expected, and a few large orders have 

 been booked with the commission 



