APRIL 24, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



777 



A Bed of Narcissus Horsfieldi in a Garden in England. 



■wind's breath and begin to "fold their 

 A\ings and silently steal away;" $3 per 

 1.000 is adding insult to injury. Bulb- 

 ous stock and sweet peas are excellent 

 and not overplentiful, and lily of the 

 \alley, when at its best, is valued at $4 

 per 100. Eoses are deteriorating slowly, 

 though some grand stock still reaches 

 the market, and carnations are as long 

 stemmed and as much in demand as ever. 



Notes. 



The moving day of the old East Thir- 

 ty-fourth Street Market, May 1, to its 

 new home on West Twenty-sixth street 

 and Sixth avenue promises to be a gala 

 event with ceremonies and celebrations 

 appropriate to the occasion. This will 

 be a busy corner from now on, with its 

 two immense floors devoted to floricul- 

 tural interests, and its bowling and other 

 kindred facilities for leisure hours. 



Friends of Mr. William Plumb will 

 be glad to know that he has taken the 

 management of his old place at Oyster 

 Ba_y and has fully recovered his health. 

 He intends building a range of green- 

 houses this season. 



The auction sales of plants at El- 

 liott's and Cleary's continue twice week- 

 ly. Buyers are numerous and pi'ices ex- 

 cellent. It is difficult to realize the ex- 

 tent of this industry without being an 

 eye-witness of its magnitude and the 

 crowds that attend. 



The florist supply season hero has 

 been a great success. Every one of the 

 establishments in that line in New York 

 report their largest year's business to 

 date. Mr. Kreshover tells me: "It's a 

 constant hustle to keep pace with the or- 

 ders," and that his business grows be- 

 yond his expectations. 



Mr. Alex. J. Guttman opens May 1 at 

 49 Broad street, in the heart of the Wall 

 street district close to the U. S. Treasury 

 and Stock Exchange and the great offices 

 of J. P. Morgan and Henry Clews & Co., 

 a retail florist establishment that cannot 

 fail to be a great success. It will be 

 elaborately fitted up in keeping with its 

 location and the bulls and bears of Wall 

 street will have an excellent and con- 

 venient outlet for some of their daily 

 profits, and great flower buyers they are 

 when Aings go their way. iir. Guttman 

 is very poijular with his brother florists 



and everybody predicts his success and 

 wishes him well. Mr. Ladiges, for years 

 with Fleischmann, will manage the en- 

 tei-prise. 



Visitors have been quite nummerous 

 lately, and some from afar ; among them, 

 J. H. Sievers, from San Francisco, and 

 E. G. Hill, from Indiana. 



The Newport season promises to be 

 early and strenuous. Wadley & Smythe, 

 Siebreeht & Sons and the Hodgson Co. 

 are well under way with preparations 

 for their openings there. The first of 

 these have just filled an order for $2,000 

 worth of palms for the new mansion of 

 Clarence McKay on Long Island. 



The retail stores everywhere in the 

 city have brilliant spring windows, some 

 of them very charming and attractive. 



The exodus to Europe is great and 

 growing and the demand for farewell 

 floral greetings encouraging to the re- 

 tailers. These are sent generally loose, 

 the formal baskets and set pieces of 

 other days gradually becoming obsolete 

 and unpopular. 



Dailledouze Bros., of Flatbush, have 

 added to their establishment the prop- 

 erty adjoining, owned for many years by 

 Joseph Gard, one of the pioneers of that 

 neighborhood. 



H. C. Steinhoff & Son, of West Hobo- 

 ken, are enjoying the rest those 10,000 

 Easter Crimson Eamblcrs afforded and 

 will combine business and pleasure with 

 a month's trip to the Windward Islands, 

 Porto Eico and Bermuda. 



Mansfield, of Lexington avenue, has 

 the branch microbe, and illustrates it by 

 purchasing the store of G. A. Nicholas, 

 on Seventh avenue. Mr. Nicholas has the 

 Western fever and soon leaves for his 

 ranch in Oklahoma. 



Louis Schmutz, Sr., has been having a 

 tussle with his old enemy, rheumatism, 

 and it has taken another fall out of him. 

 It will take more than common, ordinary 

 rheumatism to keep Louis a\vay from 

 Asheville and the angels' feet. 



Paul M. Pierson, Lincoln Pierson, 

 Wm. Sefton, L. M. Noe and Chas. G. 

 Hunter are the incorporators of the 

 Pierson, Sefton Co.. of Madison, N. J., 

 with a capital of $85,000. 



Jchn H. Taylor, of Bayside, has had 

 a sorer experience than the prevalent 

 check swindler, a measly thief having 



ap^propriated his horse, wagon and ap- 

 purtenances last Wednesday evening. 



On May 14 and 15 the Horticultural 

 Society of New York will give an exhi- 

 bition at the Botanical Garden that 

 promises to be of great interest. Dr. 

 liritton's lecture on New Zealand, with 

 stereoptieon exhibits, will be a feature 

 of the event. Austin. 



BOSTON. 



' Week Ending April 19. 



I think it was a very good week my- 

 self, but I heard some squealing among 

 both the growers and the retailers con- 

 cerning hardships in the business. Well, 

 each one sees the drawbt^cks in his own 

 business plainest, and generally imagines 

 the other fellow is having the easiest 

 lime. It is well, however, to remember 

 the dangers of "fieeing from the evils 

 we have to those we wot not of," which 

 old saying never was so true as since 

 lii'siness competition became so acute. 



The almanac seems to have got slightly 

 rattled and mixed up "ult." and "inst.," 

 so that old Father Time can hardly know 

 his own children, but things are getting 

 slightly more April-like and the flowers 

 are showing it. They are arising to the 

 occasion very fragrantly! Beauties, Lib- 

 erties, Jacks, Brunners, Meteors, Goulds, 

 Carnots, Maids, Brides, Perles, all kinds 

 of pinks, about all kinds of bulb mate- 

 rial, lilies, snap dragon, violets, etc. You 

 can mix this list all up and name it over 

 ;nid over again in different ways and 

 there will be goods enough to supply each 

 list. Prices are wavering; growers call 

 them low, but buyers robustly pronounce 

 them exorbitantly high. And "when doc- 

 tors disagree who shall decide?" 



Come and buy! 



Items. 



Tliose Carnots of John McFarlane's are 

 :iU right. 



Violets are not overplentiful, but there 

 are some quite good ones. 



The auction sales of plants, etc., are 

 progressing finely. Somebody has money 

 vet. 



Walter Mott, of the Walter Mott Seed 

 & Bulb Co., Jamestown, N. Y., was a re- 

 cent visitor. 



George Ward, Beverley Cove, has pur- 

 chased real estate on North street, Sa- 



