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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



July 24, 1902. 



house 100x22 feet and is now replacing 

 it with a fine house 100x25 feet. 



Leo Niessen has altered his store so as 

 to give more room for his office, a very 

 neat and attractive room. 



The young son of Adolph Fahrenwald 

 met with a painful, though it is hoped 

 not a serious, accident last week. 



Fire caused serious loss at John A. 

 Eoebhng's Sons, Trenton, this week. 

 Loss is said to be fully covered by in- 

 surance. This firm supply wire rose 

 stakes to our growers. 



John Mclntyre, with Edward Eeid, is 

 off on his vacation. 



Thomas Butler's genial ha-ha manner 

 wins the private gardeners. 



Edwin Lonsdale has planted another 

 house of Ivory, making four in all. 



Wm. J. Moore expects to move from 

 his present location some time next 

 month. 



Phil. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Of course prices are low. Asters are 

 sold at from 2 to 5 cents a bunch, roses 

 at from $1 to $4 per 100 for ordinary. 

 Sweet peas you can get at any price. 

 Some of the bunching of these flowers is 

 wonderful. There is surely less trouble 

 and more profit in putting 25 or 50 spikes 

 of peas in a bunch and we fail to see 

 why twine is wasted in tying them in 

 sixes and twelves. Lilies are bringing 

 from $4 to $5, carnatons from 50 cents 

 to $1. The majority of the rest of the 

 stock you can get at prices to suit. 



There is nothing particular going on 

 except an occasional funeral design. By 

 the way, a tip to cattleya dealers and 

 growers. John W. Mackay 's remains will 

 be brought to New York, and his favor- 

 ite flower and his son's and daughter- 

 in-law's flower is the dark cattleya. So 

 look out, there will be lots of them used 

 on that occasion. And valley will be in 

 it too. 



Notes. 



Hodgson has the decorating for the 

 Oelrich-Martin wedding in Newport this 

 week, and quite a quantity of roses and 

 cattleyas was shipped on from here for 

 the occasion. 



We all regret the death of the old- 

 timer, John Bradshaw, of Sing Sing, 

 which occurred on Friday last. His re- 

 mains were interred in the family plot 

 at Ossining on Sunday afternoon. Many 

 beautiful floral designs were sent by the 

 wholesalers of this city. Mr. Bradshaw 

 was identified with the early history of 

 the trade here. Always hospitable,' en- 

 couraging and hopeful, he will be deeply 

 regretted. He was 73 years old and 

 death was due to Bright 's disease. 



John Scott, of Brooklyn, expects to sail 

 to the land o' cakes on the 26th, and we 

 are informed that John Nicols, the vet- 

 eran geranium grower, has also gone on 

 a short visit over the water. 



We visited the Cottage Gardens, 

 Queens, L. I., during the week and found 

 that Mr. Ward was away inspecting the 

 peach crop in Georgia. Mr. Ward grows 

 peaches at his extensive place at Queens, 

 but the fruit is not ripe yet, so don't 

 visit there for a few weeks yet. We 

 found his manager, Mr. Theodore Heng- 

 stenberg, very busy getting the houses 

 ready for carnations. One house of 

 Lawsons is already planted and from now 

 on other sorts will follow. Mr. Ward is 



sterilizing his carnation soil this year. He 

 has acres of carnation plants in the field 

 and they are all in tip top shape. A 

 batch of some 7,000 seedlings promise 

 millions. 



Mr. Ward has gone into the nursery 

 business. His acres of phlox and other 

 herbaceous plants are fine, and among 

 the many thousands of ornamentals we 

 saw, there is nothing more promising 

 than his several hundred of specimen 

 Pieea pungens glauca. 



J. I. D. 



THE FOSTER FERN. 



We were recently afforded an oppor- 

 tunity to examine a plant of the new 

 fern, Nephrolepis Anna Foster, that orig- 

 inated with Mr. L. H. Foster, Dorchester, 

 Mass., and it certainly seems to be a very 

 desirable addition to the Bostoniensis 

 family. The pinna; of the fronds are 

 deeply serrated and are miniature fronds 

 themselves, adding very greatly to its 

 decorative value, and the growth is very 

 robust. A plant in a 6-inch pot is a 

 very beautilul object. 



It is a sport from the Boston fern 

 and was found in a bench of Boston 

 ferns by Mr. Fester in November, 1900. 

 The fact that Mr. Foster has since that 

 date been able to easily work up a large 

 enough stock to introduce the fern this 

 year shows that it happily possesses the 

 same quality of rapid increase as the 

 valuable parent of this new variety. And 

 the plant shown us gave ample evidence 

 that the variety does possess this es- 

 sential characteristic of a trade fern. 

 And that this plant, which had been 

 transported a thousand miles, and packed 

 and repacked a great number of times, 

 showed no effects from this rough treat- 

 ment, surely speaks well for its tough- 

 ness and lasting qualities. 



A striking peculiarity is that each of 

 the pinuK unfold in the same manner 

 as the main frond, "unwinding" being 

 a more appropriate word than would ap- 

 pear so without having noted this charac- 

 teristic. Mr. Foster certainly seems to 

 have a very useful new fern. 



The motive power that has transported 

 the plant mentioned to Chicago and vi- 

 cinity is Mr. J. Austin Shaw, who has 

 been presenting the merits of this nov- 

 elty to the florists of tliis section, and 

 who will have charge of an exhibit of the 

 fern at the Asheville convention. 



LONDON, ONT. 



Rain, thunder storms, wet, showers and 

 more rain is about as near a descrip- 

 tion of the weather as one can come 

 at these days. It is becoming serious, 

 and many reports of ruined crops and 

 inundated land are to be heard. In our 

 immediate locality there has as yet been 

 no real damage, excepting to a few hay 

 crops, but should this weather continue 

 much longer it will have a serious effect 

 generally. 



Trade has fallen flat. An occasional 

 funeral order is about all that is going. 

 Carnations are still plentiful and of good 

 quality. Roses are short, but there is 

 an abundance of outdoor flowers of all 

 descriptions. 



F. Dicks complains that stem rot is 

 making an appearance in the field, owing, 

 probably, to the continued wet weather. 



Fred Mitchell, of Innerkip, lost 1500 

 lights of glass in a recent hail storm. 



Gammage & Sons report a good whole- 

 sale trade in Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, 



Asparagus plumosus and palms. They 

 will make a trade exhibit at the coming 

 convention in Hamilton. 



We regret to hear that Mr. Ewing's 

 duties at his new position, gardener for 

 the Hon. J. M. Sutherland, Cabinet Min- 

 ister, at Woodstock, are such that he has 

 to relinquish the secretaryship of the 

 Canadian Horticultural Association. 

 There has been considerable talk of re- 

 establishing the Canadian trade paper, 

 and it was confidently hoped that Mr. 

 Ewing's versatile pen would have contrib- 

 uted to its columns editorially. 



LOND. 



NEW ORLEANS. 



Seed Firm Liquidates, 



The Eichling Seed & Nursery Co., 

 Ltd., is going into liquidation by mu- 

 tual consent of all parties interested. 

 The circumstances leading to liquidation 

 are peculiar. Last January the holder 

 of one-half of the stock left the city to 

 attend to other business and transferred 

 his stock to a local seedsman, a competi- 

 tor of the firm, who became secretary 

 and treasurer by virtue of his holdings. 

 It is plain that such a condition of af- 

 fairs could not last long and Mr. C. W. 

 Eichling, the founder of the house in 

 1884, insisted on liquidation. Mr. Eich- 

 ling has, by honest and intelligent work, 

 built up an enviable reputation and a 

 fine trade. He will continue the business 

 on his own account. With his knowledge 

 of business and energy his success is as- 

 ured. 



No Rain H^rc. 



We have had about l ur months of 

 dry weather this spring, longer than ever 

 known here before. Almost everj-thing is 

 dying. Flowers are scarcer than in win- 

 ter. You in the north must be getting 

 our share of the rain as well 'as your 

 own. P. 



LOSS OF BRITISH FLORISTS. 



How great will be the loss of thou- 

 sands who had expected to reap for- 

 tunes during the coronation ceremonies 

 in London it has been impossible to esti- 

 mate. Here is one item alone in which 

 the losses are practically irreparable: 



In anticipation of an enormous de- 

 mand for roses — the coronation flower — 

 the florists of England and the continent 

 laid out large tracts of land with rose 

 bushes, planning it so that the flowers 

 would be ready in these last days of 

 June. 



It was estimated that the King's sub- 

 jects would wear and use for decorations 

 at least 60,000,000 red roses alone and 

 would be willing to pay from two cents 

 to four cents apiece for them. This was 

 a moderate estimate. As coronation 

 week approached, it was feared that the 

 supply would not equal the demand. 



The English retail florists poured in 

 orders for thousands of blooms upon 

 the gardeners. The fortunes in pros- 

 pect seemed to be very close at hand, 

 for the price of roses went steadily up 

 in anticipation of a scarcity. 



Now it is all at an end. Instead of 

 great profits there will be great losses. 

 No one wants red roses now. The flor- 

 ists who ordered and have literally tons 

 of flowers coming from the continent 

 which they will be unable to use will 

 boar the loss in part. But most of it 

 will fall upon the growers, in whose of- 



