January 23, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



283 



Bench of Carnation Dorothy, at the Establishment of Mr. W.IK. Partridge, Lockland, Ohio. 



There are several novelties to be seen. 

 Edward Reid is receiving fine white 

 lilacs. He anticipates a steady supply. 

 Calendula blooms are also to be seen. 

 Tulips are improving. Some pretty pink 

 and wliite flowers have been added to the 

 colors before noted. Daffodils are fairly 

 plentiful. The single Von Sions are 

 e.xcellent, but the French grown doubles 

 are poor, being partly green; $4 per 100 

 is the market price for good bulbous 

 stock, with $5 asked for something 

 really choice. 



Julius Koehlcr & Son are cutting 

 good Harrisii lilies, which bring $1.50 

 per dozen. 



Samuel S. Pennock is receiving Cat- 

 tleya Trianae, which brings $G per dozen. 



The varieties of carnations are rein- 

 forced by many seedlings. E. Bern- 

 heimer is receiving two which especially 

 please him. One resembles an im- 

 proved America, very large and full; 

 the other is a white with deep pink 

 markings. 



White carnations have been in better 

 demand than colored ones of late, Nor- 

 way, White Cloud and Flora Hill being 

 special favorites. In pink Joost is con- 

 sidered superior to Ethel Crocker at this 

 season, the latter not proving wholly sat- 

 isfactory to the buyers. 



Flowering plants are becoming more 

 plentiful: azaleas and primulas being 

 leaders. Asparagus and small ferns suit- 

 able for ferneries are scarce and in de- 

 mand. 



Notes. > 



It is rumored that Meyers & Samt- 

 man. of Wyndmoor, Pa., will add one- 

 third more glass to their plant, the whole 

 to bo devoted to their specialty, Ameri- 

 can Beauties. 



An informal contest was arranged for 

 last Monday between Weiss, of Hatboro. 

 and Knorr, of Fox Chase, for the best 

 25 Bridesmaid roses. Both make this 

 rose a specialty. The modesty of the 

 winner prevents announcement of the 

 result. 



The Henry A. Dreer Co. consider Grus 

 An Teplitz the greatest of outdoor roses. 

 It is described as being free as Hermosa 

 and of a rich red color, beside which 

 Agrippina would pale. 



The Florists' Bowling Club journeyed 



to Wissahickon last week and won three 

 straight games from the Pencoyd team, 

 each man making an average of over 170 

 pins a game. A great performance. 

 This match sent Pencoyd from first to 

 third place in the struggle for the pen- 

 nant. Phil. 



NEW YORK. 



The weather has been ideal during the 

 past week, clear, crisp, just cool enough 

 for comfort — the kind of weather retail- 

 ers like, and they have been bus.v. Re- 

 ceptions, balls, grand opera, all have 

 tended to keep the Bon Ton florists in 

 good humor W'hile the general trade has 

 been very encouraging. 



Cut flowers, especially roses and car- 

 nations, command excellent prices from 

 the growers' standpoint. Saturday a 

 rose of any kind was worth 4 cents; 

 good stock brought 10 and 15 cents easi- 

 ly and fancy Brides and Maids were ab- 

 sorbed at 25 cents as rapidly as they 

 reached the commission houses. Beau- 

 ties and Liberties are not plentiful 

 enough for the demand. Carnations hold 

 their own and the fancy varieties easily 

 command .$10 per 100; Prosperit.y, Mrs. 

 Lawson and Mrs. Roosevelt are the 

 queens in this respect (and, by the by, 

 a good many of them come from Queens, 

 L. I.). Mrs. Roosevelt was the observed 

 of all observers in Tborley's window Sat- 

 urday evening and was the attraction 

 for a never decreasing crowd for hours. 

 These massed in the center window with 

 beautiful branches of acacia at the side 

 made a most charming picture. 



From Twenty-third to Thirtieth street 

 nn Broadway are many of the greatest 

 flower stores in the world. Between these 

 extremes at all times and especially on 

 Saturday afternoons and far into the 

 night the crowd is constant and enor- 

 mous. No wonder the florists manifest 

 some of their skill and originality there. 

 No such opportunity for legitimate ad- 

 vertising is found elsewhere in this coun- 

 try. Fleishniann's window had its per- 

 ennial crowd. The noveltv this week 

 was a daintv parasol cflfect. white silk 

 parachutes decorated with ribbons and 

 natural flowers fornfins: an iminue at- 

 traction for feminine eves. I'p at Small's 

 a blaze of light from innumerable elec- 



trics fell upon banks of handsome palms 

 and blooming azaleas and vases of the 

 new carnations; while at Warendorff's 

 new store, with its wonderful mirror ef- 

 fects, the proprietor was deftly con- 

 structing, in full view of the crowd, a 

 "wheel" of galax leaves and violets that 

 Sir Thomas Lipton would have been 

 proud to accept had he "lifted the cup." 



As an illustration of the enormous 

 number of violets used in the metropo- 

 lis and, near it, one of the wholesale 

 houses showed me an order for 75,000 

 to be used by one retail florist this week 

 in connection with the Yale festivities. 



Thorley has the branch microbe ac- 

 tively working. To his stores on Broad- 

 way "and Fifth avenue he will soon add 

 another on Columbus avenue up in the 

 select section of the west side. The 

 "branch business" is under consideration 

 by others. Looks as though the "trust" 

 idea was working. 



Brooklyn has had its share of balls 

 lately. The "Emerald," as usual, fell 

 into the hands of Jas. Mallon's Sons, 

 who bring much sentiment into their dec- 

 oration for this event yearly, having 

 "emerald blood" in their veins. They 

 did themselves proud and I have no 

 doubt their great-grandchildren will be 

 decorating for the "Emeralds" long after 

 they have retired. 



The Jewish ball was another floral 

 cataclysm that James Weir's Sons at- 

 tended to with the skill and prodigality 

 that the name suggests. 



All his friends will be glad to hear 

 of Mr. Wadley's improvement and al- 

 most certain recovery from his accident 

 in the New York Central wreck. It 

 looked at one time as though he would 

 have to be content with half the usual 

 number of legs, but that danger is passed 

 and he mil soon be "on his feet" again. 



The beefsteak dinner Saturday even- 

 ing. February 8, promises to be "a bird." 

 though no birds will be used. We shall 

 draw on your town for the steak and 

 on Kalamazoo for the celery, but the 

 "old musty ale" and the "vaudevillians" 

 are our own. And I'll tell you what 

 happened later. Julius Lang is the 

 "chief cook" of this affair and it isn't 

 his first effort, but he says it will be his 

 best. 



The New York Florists' Club is al- 

 ready active in its preparations for an 

 eventful year. The beefsteak dinner, the 

 summer outing, now are assured facts 

 and the great flower show this fall suc- 

 ceeding the convention at Asheville, 

 which many will attend, make up a pro- 

 gramme that involves constant efl'ort 

 and interest by all its active members. 

 It looks, as Mr. O'Mara says: "As 

 though the New York Florists' Club will 

 be able to point with pride to its record." 

 The great floral exhibition in Madison 

 Square Garden this fall will eclipse any- 

 thing ever attempted in America. 



I noticed in a department store win- 

 dow, over a mound of fern balls well 

 dried and shrunk in the air and sun, "29 

 cents each." No wonder the fern ball 

 industry languishes! I made inquiries 

 and found a svndicate had purchased 

 several thousand of these balls ..from a 

 .Japanese importing house at a price as 

 low as that quoted to' the legitimate 

 florist jobbing houses and not having 

 been posted on the subject of "keeping 

 moist" and fearful of the balls shrinking 

 out of sight altogether, they put a re- 

 tail price on them lower than the whole- 

 sale florist can afford to sell them to 

 flic trade, and so make this beautiful 

 novelty a laughing stock and a byword. 



