January 16, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



253 



View in the Store of the Texas Seed and Floral Co., Dallas, Texas. 



lection of a manager was left to the ex- 

 hibition committee. 



The treasurer's report showed a bal- 

 ance of nearly .$G00 on hand, and there 

 are 233 members on the books. Twenty- 

 seven new members were elected during 

 1901. The secretary made a full and 

 complete report of the work of the club 

 during the past year. It was decided to 

 in future issue a printed report. 



Mr. F. Kelsey addressed the club on 

 the subject of the San Jose scale and 

 prospective legislation concerning it. 

 Mr. Ward told of his expensive experi- 

 ments in destroying the pest by fumiga- 

 tion. He thought that legislation was 

 the proper remedy. 



The various standing committees for 

 the year were appointed. 



A Carnation Lecture. 



At the meeting of the New York Hor- 

 ticultural Society Jan. 8 Mr. C. W. 

 Ward, of Queens, delivered his interest- 

 ing lecture to as large an audience as 

 has been gathered in the rooms of the 

 American Institute under the society's 

 auspices. 



The lecture was illustrated by many 

 stereopticon pictures and a great display 

 of cut blooms. He traced the history of 

 the carnation from 300 years before 

 Christ, when the Greeks adored it, down 

 through all its stages to the present day. 

 He compared the present development 

 with the English carnation of seventy 

 years ago and dwelt especially upon the 

 fact that our plants are now being ex- 

 ported in large quantities to Europe. 



He gave special praise to the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society as a powerful fac- 

 tor in the march of improvement during 

 recent years. 



The pictures illustrated clearly the 

 processes of development from a 5-petaI 

 flower, an inch in diameter, to the 100- 

 petal 4-inch beauty of today. Reproduc- 



tions of many of these pictures appeared 

 in the Review of May 10, 1900. Mr. 

 Ward stated that carnation culture in 

 this countr}' employs 5,000 people, pro- 

 duces over 100.000.000 of blooms vearlv, 

 with a value of .$8,000,000. 



The display of cut blooms was espe- 

 cially good. In addition to a vase of 

 fifty seedlings, some of them of great 

 size and beauty, there were vases of Lor- 

 na. Prosperity. Gov. Roosevelt, Gov. Bliss 

 (the new scarlet), Dorothy Whitney, 

 Harry Fenn, Harvard Crimson, Golden 

 Beauty (the new yellow), Viola Allen, 

 and the latest of all, Mrs. Theo. Roose- 

 velt, a pink of the Lawson type, but 

 lighter in color, that should become a 

 very popular commercial variety. 



In addition to the above there were 

 some handsome orchid flowers shown. 



Various Items. 



The second annual beefsteak dinner of 

 the New York Florists' Club will be 

 given Saturday evening, Feb. 8, in the 

 club parlors. Elaborate cuisinic and 

 vaudevilleic preparations are being made. 

 The tickets are $3 and provision will be 

 made for 100. 



The guarantee list for the fall show of 

 1902 already approaches .$3,000. The 

 various committees are hard at work and 

 the show will not fail of success through 

 any lack of early preparation, efficient 

 management and novelty. 



Next Monday evening will be "prize" 

 bowling night on the New York alleys, 

 to which all florists are invited and in 

 which every contributor of a prize worth 

 $1 or more can participate. 



Arthur Merritt, of J. H. Small & Sons, 

 whose accident at the Waldorf-Astoria 

 while engaged in arranging Christmas 

 decorations has kept him on the shelf ever 

 since, is now out on crutches, but it will 

 be some time before his broken ankle 

 will allow him to practice his usual agil- 

 ity. 



Albert Wadley, of Wadley & Smythe, 

 the Fifth avenue florists, is still in the 

 hospital and will be for some time. His 

 injuries in the awful accident in the 

 N. Y. C. tunnel last week will fortun- 

 ately not prove fatal, but his escape from 

 death was a narrow one. Both less 

 were broken below the knee. Mr. Chas. 

 See. of Siebrecht & Son. who was on the 

 train, escaped with a few scratches and 

 bruises. Other florists living at New 

 Rochelle who usually take the train that 

 was wrecked luckily all took earlier or 

 later trains the morning of the disaster. 



A rumor is in circulation to the effect 

 that the venerable Thirty-fourth street 

 cut flower market and the Twenty-third 

 street "exchange" may soon be doing 

 business under one roof, a consummation 

 devoutly to be wished. 



Tree planting in the streets of New 

 Y'^ork is Ijeing earnestly agitated by the 

 different local societies. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions for Jan. 5-1 1. 



Very quiet along the "Lordly 

 Charles!" Everything is really short 

 except nights and floral accounts. Cash 

 receipts particularly so. Pinks and bulb 

 goods come the nearest to being plenti- 

 ful, but there are not enough of the 

 former to supply anything like the traf- 

 fic we ought to be having. 



Prices have been quite stationary since 

 New Year's. American Beauties run 

 from six inches to three feet in length 

 at from $8 to $75 per 100; other red 

 roses average small, and to the best of 

 my knowledge do not beat $16 per 100, 

 with $4 as a starting point. Pink and 

 white ones are coming very good and 

 range from $3 to $25 per 100. Yellow 

 ones and Morgans, small and reasonable 

 in figure, the former very scarce. First- 

 class carnations are not overabundant 



