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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



FEBRUARY 1. 1900. 



insure a representative competition 

 from growers distant from New York, 

 and will place their competition on an 

 even basis. 



LEONARD BARRON, Sec'y. 



NEW YORK. 



Trade Conditions, 



This is supposed to he the Inisiest 

 time of the year. Certain it is there 

 are innumerable lialls, dinners, etc., 

 and though there appear many news- 

 paper decorations still we hear of very 

 lew being o\'errushed with business. 

 Cold weather has shortened some crops 

 and good prices are obtainable for high 

 grade stock. Nothing specially new is 

 seen on the market or in the stores 

 with the exception of sove artificial 

 roses in a Broadway florist's window. 

 The Bowery may have a poor reputa- 

 tion, but it was never guilty of a thing 

 like that, and yet some fellows out in 

 Kankakee think there's no place like 

 Broadway. 



Death of J. M. Hodg>on. 



John M. Hodgson, one of the oldest 

 florists in thi.s city, died Wednesday 

 night, .January i'-lth. from a stroke of 

 apople.xy. at his home. 30 'West Fifty- 

 ninth street. 



Mr. Hodgson was born in Durham, 

 England. 73 years ago. In 1862 he 

 went to the front as a member of the 

 Ninth New .Jersey and was a corporal 

 in that regiment when honorably dis- 

 charged at the close of the war. 



Ijike many more of our best florists 

 he started lowly and rose to the top. 

 It was over in Englewood. N. ,J.. that 

 we first find him making rustic wood 

 garden embellishments. In 1SC8 he 

 hired the rear of .John Henderson's 

 store, between Nineteenth and Twenti- 

 eth streets on Broadway, and there 

 sold his hanging baskets and rustic 

 vases. About 1870 he moved to the 

 old n ansion then standing on the 

 block at Thirty-seventh street and 

 Fifth avenue, built a small and won- 

 derful greenhouse there and spread hi.s 

 woodwork on the lawn in front. From 

 there he moved into what was then a 

 very large store at Forty-fifth street 

 and P'ifth avenue, remaining there for 

 over twenty years. The large new store 

 he recently opened at Fifty-sixth street 

 and P'ifth avenue, and which was il- 

 lustrated a few weeks ago in the Re- 

 view, is undoubtedly one of the finest 

 florist's stores to be seen anywhere. 

 Many years ago he opened an exten- 

 sive place at Newport. R. I. 



His trade wa? anirng ihe old weilthy 

 families of New York. His wife died 

 in ISil.'i; three da\ig!iters and a son re- 

 main. His sons-in-law. R. Merritt and 

 A. Spalding, have tor numy years man- 

 aged his extensive business, and it is 

 thought will (ontinue to do so under 

 the old firm name. Many old time 

 florists attended the services on Sat- 

 urday morning. The interment took 

 place at Newport, R. 1., on Sunday. 



Committee Meetings. 



The committee having charge of the 

 horticultural exhibit in connection 

 with the S. A. F. convention met at 

 the Grand Central Palace. January 29. 

 A. Herrington was elected permanent 

 chairman of the co i mittee, Mr. But- 

 terbach declining to serve, as he ex- 

 pects to visit the Paris exhibition in 

 early summer. The preliminary list 

 of classes was arranged, this will be 

 submitted to the club at the next meet- 

 ing, and it is expected the list will be 

 sent out the first week in March. In 

 addition to money prizes and S. A. F. 

 gold medals, the Florists' Clubs will 

 offer 50 silver and 50 bronze medals to 

 be competed for in this section of the 

 show. 



The committee of the American 

 Rose Society will meet at 119 'West 

 Twenty-third street. 2 p. m.. February 

 3rd, to complete arrangements for the 

 rose show at the Eden Musee in March. 



Bowling. 



A tournament has been arranged be- 

 tween the New York. Flatbush and 

 Hoboken florists' bowling clubs and 

 the first match ga" es will be rolled at 

 Heflich's assembly rooms, Paterson 

 and Summit avenues, Hoboken, N. J., 

 on "Wednesday evening. February 7th. 

 Several old scores are to be wiped out 

 on this occasion, and altogether t 

 warm time is looked for. It is unfor- 

 tunate for many that the Poughkeep- 

 sie dinner also occurs on the same 

 date. Following scores were made on 

 the New York alleys. January 29th: 



1st. 2d 3d. 

 T ],;ine 171 IHS r2,l 



•K kochrs;;:;;: m m iis 



H. Bunvard Ht 141 (b 



J Taylor 92 S5 S> 



W. Siebrecht ..' 92 130 11? 



E Steffens HI m "' 



S: Br^wn Vf_ 121 ]^ 



A. Burns H' If ]<;' 



F. Traendly J? }1? 



I.. Hafner ■■■ "S '» 



J. Mantla 15b 111 



A. Schiiltheis 155 Ui 



\V. Stewart Ij' 1"2 



I'- Elliott 133 114 



A. Shaw •. S5 10b 



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AMONG MADISON GROWERS. 



One day rerently the representative 

 of The Florists' Review roamed 

 among the I'ose growers of Madison, 

 N. J. This is a delightful section of 

 the country, a scattering town of 

 5,000 inhal)itants (two wretched so- 

 called reslatirants), distance 25 miles 

 from New York. The place is fa- 

 mous for its rcse culture, there be- 

 ing over a million square feet of glass 

 devoted to that branch of floriculture. 

 There are over fifty separate rose 

 growing establishments, which are 

 dotted over an area of three or four 

 square miles, and would require sev- 

 eral days to visit and study. On this 

 oi-casion we had but half the day and 

 (■(uild but see the few. 



Henry Heintz, Jr., has one of the 

 finest sets of rose houses we have 

 seen. Everything is as eompact, 

 warm, and clean as a ball room, and 



the stock grown here is among the 

 very finest sent to the New York mar- 

 ket. A model potting shed 35ii feet 

 long runs the entire length of the 

 range and underneath are the boiler 

 and storage rooms. There are nine 

 houses and 34,000 square feet of glass; 

 seven houses are planted with Beau- 

 ties in the center benches. Maids and 

 Brides on the sides, and two houses 

 with Bridesmaids. They are a pic- 

 ture, and if you are interested in rose 

 culture, are well worth seeing. 



Jas. E. Milton, the modest but 

 thoroughly efficient manager. de- 

 serves great credit for what he has 

 done and the condition of his place. 

 Mr. Milton managed to have a crop 

 of fine Beauties in for Christmas, aiid 

 altogether it has been a very success- 

 ful season. In speaking of two-year- 

 old Bridesmaids, his experience was 

 that young stock gave them finer 

 blooms and there was very little dif- 

 ference in ultimate results. 



Elwood Brant has leased James 

 Slaughter's old place, which consists 

 of 44,000 square feet of glass. Beau- 

 ties. Maids, and Brides are grown 

 here, and Mr. Brant has been very 

 successful, especially with Beauties. 



At Marmaduke Tilden's, genial M. 

 McNulty has everything in fine con- 

 dition. This place has about 20,1100 

 feet of g'.ass. Here also there was an 

 immense crop of Beauties in for 

 Christmas, and everything shows great 

 promise. 



There is but a 25-foot road dividing 

 the places of h. A. and L. M. Noe. 

 The former has 45.000 square feet of 

 glass, and a new hou.-e is being built 

 by Lord & Burn ham. Jos. Ruzicka 

 is foreman here and deserves credit 

 for the condition and results of his 

 Beauties; 400 extra grade blooms had 

 been cut that day ready for shipment. 

 He will soon have a good crop of Me- 

 teors. The Brides and Maids have 

 been badly attacked with eel-worm. 



L. M. Noe's place consists of some 

 50,0(10 feet of glass. Here also a new 

 house has just been finished by Lord 

 & Burnham. Ed l.aesser is in charge 

 here, and Meteors have been very 

 fine with him this season. 



There is a good deal of the same 

 thing to be seen in every place in 

 Madison. Crops promise to be good 

 from now on till after Easter, .Amer- 

 ican Beauties at $1.50 each is the Mad- 

 ison rose grower's ideal. 



We notice that a few of the places 

 employ cheap Italian labor, and their 

 stock shows it. (Jne cannot expect 

 blood from a stone, and the attempt 

 to disregard intelligence usually ends 

 disastrously. Oood rose soil is be- 

 coming scarcer every year in this 

 section; many of the smaller growers 

 even now have to purchase their tiu'f 

 dearly. It is possible that carnations 

 and violets will take the place now 

 occupied by roses in many a house in 

 this section. I). Shannon reports fair 

 success with his house of violets this 

 season. 



We hope to be able to visit others 

 out there before long. 



J. I. nONLAN. 



