March 13. 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



529 



View in the Store of the Walter Mott Seed and Bulb Co., Jamestown, N. Y. 



elected to Qouncil at the recent, election. 

 His opponent was W. Jennings, of Jen- 

 nings Bros. 



The Estelle carnation as grown by Wm. 

 Wunder, of Pittville, is certainly a good 

 one. Mr. Wunder will grow more of this 

 variety next year. 



Samuel J. Bunting, Elmwood Ave., 

 and 58th St., has a fine lot of Easter 

 stock in good shape, including 10,000 

 lilies. 



The Bartram Greenhouses are turning 

 out some very fine Kaiserin roses with 

 4-foot stems. They have been blooming 

 all summer and are still at it. Phil. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The past week was almost a repeti- 

 tion of its predecessor in weather, low 

 prices of stock and general depression in 

 tjusiness. The beginning saw a cold snap, 

 another blizzard and complete stagna- 

 tion, and the closing days were as rainy 

 and disagreeable as they could be. The 

 low quotations of last week were not im- 

 proved upon and everything was in ex- 

 cess of demand. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club's monthly meeting 

 was well attended. The outing commit- 

 tee, through Mr. Wm. Elliott, reported 

 the possible engagement of a suitable 

 boat for the prospective outing of the 

 club this summer. 



The resignation of Mr. Wm. Plumb, 

 on account of continued ill health, as 

 manager of the flower show next fall, 

 was accepted, and the club will under- 

 take the management itself, placing the 

 trade exhibit in charge of a competent 

 assistant. The National Society of 

 Sculptors indicated its willingness to co- 

 operate with the Florists' Club in mak- 

 ing a joint exhibit this fall, and every- 

 thing points to a grand success.. 



Several new members were elected. 

 Resolutions in memory of the father of 



Lawrence C. Hafner were reported and 

 ordered sent to Mr. Hafner. 



A vase of Gov. Wolcott carnations, sent 

 by Peter Fisher, Ellis, Mass., were an at- 

 traction, and the blooms scored 87 

 points. A shipment from the Chicago 

 Carnation Co. did not arrive in time for 

 exhibition. 



Mr. Ward's stereopticou lecture on the 

 carnation will be given on '"Ladies' 

 Night, ' ' and the club anticipates a large 

 attendance. 



Messrs. M. H. Norton, P. Welch and 

 W. W.' Edgar, Boston, were visitors, and 

 favored the club with interesting ad- 

 dresses. These were, followed by an ad- 

 dress by Secretary Stewart on his trip 

 to Asheville, with elaborate details about 

 the southern "moonshine," the trip 

 amongst the mountains, the glories of the 

 early spring and the prospects for a 

 grand convention next August. The 

 beauties of "Biltmore" were described, 

 and the magnificence of the mountain 

 views evidently charmed the delegates be- 

 yond power of expression. 



Mr. Wallace gave an eloquent descrip- 

 tion of the glory of the mountain scenery, 

 the closeness of the "angels' feet" and 

 the delightful southern hospitality. 



Items. 



Thorley received an order to keep the 

 rooms of Prince Henry decorated during 

 his return home on the Deutschland. The 

 flowers are to be stored in the steward's 

 cooling room till needed. Violets are to 

 be used the first day, valley the second, 

 carnations the third, and roses every 

 other day during the voyage. 



On Fi'iday the Prince was entertained 

 at the Mills mansion and the floral dec- 

 orations were remarkably elaborate. 

 Among the flowers used were 1,200 or- 

 chids, 1,500 long-stemmed American 

 Beauty roses, 10,000 valley, and palms 

 and smilax as accessories. 



On Friday evening 1,400 Teutons 

 greeted the Prince at the Waldorf-Asto- 

 ria, and the decorations equaled those of 

 the press banquet a week ago. 



At the dinner given the Prince by Mr. 

 and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Saturday 

 evening, the decorations were arranged 

 by Small & Sons. On the table the flow- 

 ers were red camellias, with gardenias 

 and daphne iu the finger bowls. The 

 other rooms were decorated with Beau- 

 ties, Liberties, valley and acacia. 



The meeting of the American Rose So- 

 ciety this week was a very interesting 

 event. Some of the papers read appear 

 elsewhere in this issue. 



Bowling. 



The semi-annual meeting of the club 

 has been postponed until next Monday 

 evening. 



Following are the scores of three 



games rolled last Monday afternoon: 



Thielmann 193 1T6 178 



Laug 183 180 176 



Hatner 150 171 150 



.Siebrecht 162 169 143 



Traendly 16S 133 126 



Butterfleia 150 132 131 



Shaw 147 131 152 



Austin. 



BOSTON, 



Trade Conditions for March 3-8. 



With the assistance of the magnificent 

 Prince Henry decorations things went off 

 very well. These decorations probably 

 far exceeded anything ever attempted be- 

 fore in the city and utilized a large 

 amount of both local and imported ma- 

 terial. The daily papers made much of 

 an item of it, embellished with a fine 

 picture of Mr. Galvin. 



The bad weather has, of course, held 

 back much material, so that prices have 

 held up fairly well and goods have been 

 generally well sold out, but naturally the 

 reverse must be expected after a few sun- 

 shiny days, whenever they happen to 

 come. 



Items. 



As a result of the freshet of Feb. 28, 

 the boilers of F. W. Fletcher & Co., at 

 Auburndale, were entirely submerged by 

 water. One night there was no fire in 

 the boilers, but after that, by using 

 pumps night and day, with 18 men to 

 man the same, the water has been kept 

 below the fires. At present writing 

 (March 8) there seems little less water 

 than a week ago, although the water is 

 being pumped out at the rate of 120,000 

 gallons a day. Jlr. Fletcher believes the 

 water comes from one of the city's drains 

 and has filed a claim to that effect. The 

 loss will amount to several hundred dol- 

 lars, and this, following their $2,000 tire 

 in December, seems a little like "piling 

 it on." 



For three years the sign "Penn, the 

 Florist," has made us believe we had 

 him safely "penned" in his small quar- 

 ters on Chapman Place. But he breaks 

 away and is fitting up new and more 

 elegantly at 43 Bromfield street. This 

 is partly because it is understood the 

 building now sheltering him is to come 

 down sooner or later, and partly because 

 his rapidly increasing business demands 

 it. Penn is a hard fellow to pen, but 

 I think it safe to pen the prophecy of 

 success in his developments. 



Trade Exhibition. 



It was all right and probably all that 

 could be expected but was somewhat 

 marred by the carnations being now ofC 

 crop and generally a bit decrepit on ac- 

 count of bad weather. And the absence 

 of Ward's usual large exhibit from Long 



