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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Sei'temueu 26, 1901. 



Pan-American. 



The grounds arc looking as good as 

 ever, excepting what a severe blow did 

 to the taller growing plants. At last 

 the wonderful display of gladiolus which 

 Messrs. H. H. Groff, of Simcoe, Ont., and 

 his colleague, Arthur Cowec, of Berlin, 

 N. Y., have kept up for over two months, 

 is at an end. About a quarter of a mil- 

 lion spikes have been staged, and in va- 

 riety and beauty of flowers it is quite 

 safe to say that it surpassed anything 

 ever before seen in the gladiolus line. 

 Mr. John Faj Kennell, of Rochester, 

 keeps up his splendid exhibit of the va- 

 riety "1900." 



The dahlia exhibit opened with sev- 

 eral fine tables of bloom. The largest 

 exhibit came with the owner, H. F. Burt, 

 of Taunton, Mass. He staged some 

 splendid flowers in many classes. The 

 next largest exhibit was from James 

 Vick's Sons, of Rochester, who entered 

 in ten classes. W. P. Lothrop, of East 

 Bridgewater, Mass., entered in four 

 classes and sent very fine flowers. Of 

 all the flowers the cactus section, ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Burt, attracted the most 

 attention. They are truly beautiful 

 flowers. If they can be grown with any 

 stem they surpass for decorative use by 

 a long way the more stiff and formal 

 show varieties. 



Though not floriculture, it is worth 

 mentioning just now, that the display 

 of fruit in the Horticultural Hall is 

 well worth a long journey to see. It is 

 not only a great display of all our tem- 

 perate zone fruits but you can see the 

 products of Florida, the West Indies, 

 Mexico and our Pacific slope. From 

 now till the close of the fair will be 

 the greatest show of fruit. W. S. 



NEW YORK. 



This is a very busy week for almost 

 every one connected with the trade here. 

 Our auctioneers will be too busy talking 

 to do anything else this week, for there 

 are no less than seven plant auctions 

 this week. Only the few know why 

 things are so bunched. It seems to the 

 uninitiated rather a mistake. The buy- 

 ers haven't time to calculate. Yester- 

 day was Dreyer's annual sale at Wood- 

 side. The affair was a good success. 

 Some of the plants, notably tall kentias, 

 brought more than could be got at pri- 

 vate sale. Wipperman, of Brooklyn, was 

 a large buyer of ferns ; he got 2,000 at 

 2i cents. Schmutz went for Araucaria 

 excelsa at big prices, and Mike Lawlor, 

 the wit of the gathering, plunged on 

 small arecas. Alf Zeller had his eye on 

 dracEenas and rhapis, and there were 

 one or two hotel men there who got 

 their plants for less than they would 

 have to pay the retailer. Auctions in 

 this sense are a drawback to the busi- 

 ness, but I suppose this is a free coun- 

 try and there is no trust on poor plants. 

 We have a three-day flower show 

 which opens to-day at the Beikeley Ly- 

 ceum. It will be principally of dahlias 

 and we'll let them alone till next issue. 

 Business is picking up on all sides, 

 though many seem reluctant to admit it. 

 Dutch bulbs are good and Japan longi- 

 florums came in last week. If you hap- 

 pen to go on any of the boats plying 

 round New York you are apt to be 

 blocked by cases of bulbs going from 

 those who have the good sense to adver- 

 tise in this paper. There promises to 

 be plenty of bulbous flowers this win- 

 ter. 



Cut flowers are daily getting better 

 and prices are, according to the demand, 

 raising little by little. Violets have ap- 

 peared. Some we saw from Stanton 

 Rockefeller, of Rhinebeok, at Thomas 

 Young, Jr.'s, were exceptionally sweet 

 and fairly good for the time of the year. 

 This time last year some good mums 

 were seen on Broadway; so far there is 

 no indication of any coming to the mar- 

 ket; in fact they seem all far behind 

 time. 



The general plant trade is good, very 

 good considering of course there is no 

 one in town yet, but the store men must 

 have their stock and in this sense we 

 mean business is good from the growers' 

 point. 



There is nothing specially exciting in 

 florists' circles. All is preparation for 

 the great show in Madison Square Gar- 

 den next week. Wm. Plumb has been 

 appointed manager, and that ought to 

 please quite a crowd, but the club will 

 have to give the public something far 

 above the ordinary American flower show 

 to make things pay this time of the 

 year. 



The latest we have to write about is 

 the possible formation of two more 

 bowling clubs in this city. Last night 

 a few of the boys from the wholesale 

 district got together on the alleys and 

 decided to organize. They will issue a 

 challenge to the boys in the retail stores 

 next week. Now some persons may 

 commence to think that there is some 

 measure of opposition in this matter ; let 

 us assure all that there is nothing of 

 the kind contemplated. There is a, vast 

 army of young men in this town Who do 

 not now belong to any florists' club' or 

 society. The bosses are not wanted in 

 this party; it\i3 thought that the em- 

 ployes ought to have some fun to them- 

 selves. We know this paper will always 

 be at the service of everything that will 

 elevate man or master; both are alike 

 to us. But as to the scores: 



Wm. Sampson 128 140 150 



H. C. Riedel 130 125 136 



G. Dyde 120 128 115 



A. Hunt 140 136 125 



A. Riedllnger 133 144 126 



Ivera 125 140 150 



The New York Florists' Bowling Club 

 held their annual meeting on the Arling- 

 ton alleys last night. There is a new in- 

 fusion of life in this club since it won 

 something at Buffalo and there prom- 

 ises to be a team here able to meet any 

 in the country. At last night's meeting 

 Wm. Siebrecht was elected president, 

 Theo. J. Lang captain, Fred Lentz sec- 

 retary, Alex Burns treasurer. Lentz 

 broke the record among the florists last 

 night. He averaged 201 in the four 

 games. The scores were: 



Traendly 99 139 118 120 



Lang 173 202 172 170 



Burns ...149 132 139 133 



Young 92 152 130 99 



Sheridan 139 119 117 123 



Theilmann 167 140 182 146 



O'Mara 166 154 141 143 



Lentz 220 180 198 208 



Siebrecht 192 141 137 136 



Plumb .: 132 107 111 119 



Merrlam 80 86 S3 62 



Mansfleld 92 148 171 130 



J. I. D. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market- 



The cut flower trade remains station- 

 ary. We are not receiving the large 

 shipments of roses each morning that 

 we were a week ago, owing to a few days 

 of very cool weather, though enough are 

 still coming in to supply the demand. 

 Choice stock has a good demand and 



will have from now on. The wholesale 

 men claim that the ^hippinu' tiail.^ is 

 improving greatly. A ^jnii ilr:il ni ihe 

 rose stock is still small. -In. win.; iliat it, 

 has been cut from you]iL,' plant h. Scmie 

 extra fine Brides and Jlaids were seen 

 the past week, which brought as high 

 as .$4 per 100; Meteors and Perles the 

 same price. As the bulk of the stock 

 is small, the average price is about $2 

 per 100. Beauties have been somewhat 

 scarce of late, that is, fancy stock; 

 plenty of shorts in the market that sell 

 from $2 to $o per 100; fancies as high 

 as $1.50 to $2 per dozen. 



Carnations seem to come in a great 

 deal better and each week sees improve- 

 ment. The bulk are sold at $1; some 

 fancy stock as high as $2 per 100. Flora 

 Hill and Triumph are the best in the 

 market at present. Asters are all cut 

 out now and only a few come in, which 

 sell very slowly. Some fine valley jsold 

 well the past week at $3 and $4; .this 

 flower always sells well when at its best. 

 Smilax is again in the market, but 

 small; this seems to sell well at $12.50. 

 All other green has a good demand. 



Notes- ' 



Lloyd Vaughan, the popular salesman, 

 representing "E. H. Hunt, Chicago, spent 

 a \veek with us. He is doing more busi- 

 ness than ever. j 



Last week Fred C. Weber had toj un- 

 dergo a very painful operation on' his 

 shoulder and is now doing nicely,] al- 

 though he will not be able to bowl ivith 

 us for abcnil three weeks. ; 



The two daughters of our frien^l J. 

 Austin Shaw were in town the past 

 week with "The Burgomaster" company 

 at the Century theater. They are very 

 clever girls and made quite an impres- 

 sion on several of the florists who went 

 to see them. 



C. Young & Sons Co. are now sending 

 out their fall catalogue, which is quite 

 attractive. They are very busy just 

 now filling bulb orders for the fall trade. 



Gus Eggeling, on Grand avenue, re- 

 ports that he will have a fine lot of cut 

 chrysanthemums this fall, which he ex- 

 pects to exhibit at the fall show. So 

 look out for him. 



Mrs. and Mrs. Ed. Bueehel, of the Ki- 

 essen Floral Co., returned from their 

 northern trip two weeks ago. They re- 

 port that trade has been very good all 

 summer. They will again have charge 

 of the decorations for the great Veiled 

 Prophets' ball. It will be decided in a 

 few days whether the ball will be held 

 in the Merchants' Exchange hall or the 

 Coliseum (Exposition building). 



George Waldbart's place on Grand 

 avenue looks well; it's filled with the 

 choicest plants of all kinds. 



Mrs. M. M. Ayers and Mary Oster- 

 tag, the other Grand avenue florists, 

 have their places also looking snow white 

 with fresh paint and well filled with 

 fine palms and plants of all kinds. The 

 Grand avenue folks are ready for a good 

 winter's business. 



Show Matters. 



Chrysanthemum show matters are 

 progressing very satisfactorily, from 

 the reports of the different members of 

 the committee. They expect to meet 

 each week from now on to work on the 

 prize list, which they expect to have 

 out by the end of October. The show 

 will be as large as ever and, as the loca- 

 tion is better, should make some money. 

 The show will last three days, Novem- 



