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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



August 21, 1902. 



old times" renew their youtli and start 

 business at the same old stand. This 

 week sees many of the popular play 

 houses in full blast, and the public dem- 

 onstrations of Flora's beauty will soon 

 be made "oyer the footlights" as of yore. 

 The holiday season has had a goodly in- 

 fluence upon the wholesale men — they 

 are coming back to town with healthful 

 glows and hopeful faces ready for the 

 prosperity that the trusts have promised 

 t() all, and that the wonderful harvests 

 of the glorious West have coniirmed. 



The convention has been the principal 

 topic of late, and its seductive power 

 has drawn many to the southland. Later 

 in the week we can tell who they are 

 and how they have honored the metrop- 

 olis by their experiences "above the 

 cloud?" at this outing. Everything indi- 

 cates , a large attendance at Asheville 

 from ;New York and vicinity. Mr. Lang- 

 jahr, the wholesale florist of Brooklyn, 

 was entrusted with the commissary de- 

 partment, and had everything in apple- 

 pie order for his charge (including the 

 apple pies) so that the good beginning 

 of the journey is assured. The stop- 

 over at Washington is a comforting 

 assurance as we board the train. The 

 outlook for a grand time is most encour- 

 aging and the accumulating happiness of 

 the excursionists bids fair to overflow 

 before the angels' feet appear. 



H. J. Smith of Hinsdale, Mass., was 

 a visitor Saturday on his way to Ashe- 

 ville with a fine exhibit of his ferns and 

 other specialties peculiar to the north. 

 He should have a fraternal welcome from 

 those wild smilax and galax men, for 

 between them the decorators have been 

 able to make their reputations, and now 

 we "cannot live without them." 



Schloss Bros., the ribbon men of .533 

 Broadway, will also make a brilliant dis- 

 play of their new shades and specialties. 



The trade exhibit promises to be much 

 larger and more interesting than was 

 anticipated. Mr. Krick of Brooklyn will 

 be there with his letters and novelties 

 and inventions. 



Stunipp & Walter Company have sent 

 a bulb and supply exhibit under the 

 superintendency of Mr. Henry Kicke, and 

 Mr. R. N. Loekwood of this house will 

 also be at Asheville, where his residence 

 of nearly a year has inspired him with 

 eloquent appreciation of its loveliness. 

 Mr. Walter is back from his summer 

 rest full of physical refreshment, and 

 Mr. Stumpp looks able to "make the 

 fight of his life" for business in the 

 two big stores of this progressive firm. 



I saw Andrew McKnight ("Uncle An- 

 drew," the "pansy king") at Elliott's the 

 other day hale and hearty at 81 and 

 "good for a hundred," so he says. He 

 can "remember the father of William 

 Elliott when he was a boy," which is 

 going back a long, long time. 



George Saltford is ready for the vio- 

 lets and to defend his title, and is antici- 

 pating a wonderful season with the so- 

 ciety flower. His book on violet culture 

 is having a great sale, and deserves it. 



Mr. Thielmann of Brooklyn was in 

 town Saturday from his summer home 

 at Mount Kocono, Pa., in greatly im- 

 proved health, and hopeful of being at 

 Asheville with his better half. 



Two who will be greatly missed at the 

 convention are President Sheridan of 

 the New York Florists' Club and Treas- 

 urer Charles Weathered. Mr. Weathered 

 has just completed his "latest improved 



sectional boiler," one of the largest ever 

 manufactured. He reports a wonderfully 

 busy season. 



Mr. J. F. McConnell of the New York 

 Cut Flower Company is back from his 

 vacation, which included a cruise through 

 the sound and a visit at all the fashion- 

 able resorts, a dissipation that must be 

 wonderfully beneficial, from the looks of 

 things. 



Mr. Plagemann has returned from his 

 trip well and happy, and Mr. Meyer is 

 now away for a well-deserved rest under 

 country skies and "harvest moons." 



Mr. Butterfield of the Exchange was 

 "out of danger" when last heard from, 

 and all who know him will rejoice in 

 his recovery. 



Mrs. Burns' accident was a most severe 

 one, and Alex Burns has the sympathy of 

 all in the anxiety he still endures. Ho 

 will be greatly missed by his bowling 

 conferees. 



James Weir, son of John Weir, the 

 veteran florist, of Brooklyn, has been 

 very ill. 



Mr. and Mrs. Kreshover are enjoying 

 an outing among the Sullivan county 

 mountains. 



H. H. Berger & Co.'s importation of 

 French bulbs has just arrived in fine con- 

 dition. They report freesias scarce on 

 account of the drought in California, and 

 callas also, as a telegram from that sec- 

 tion for a shipment of the latter attested 

 when I called. This firm has orders al- 

 ready for over 200,000 freesias and a 

 ijuarter of a million Asparagus plumosus 

 seed and 400,000 kentia seed. 



John E. Sutton, from Reading, Eng- 

 land, of the firm of Sutton & Sons, was 

 in the city last week calling on his 

 friend, Mr. Lessner of Suzuki & lida. 

 Mr. Lessner says this firm has seven miles 

 of seed farms and do the largest seed 

 business in the world and spend half a 

 million dollars annually in advertising. 



Mr. Joosten reports a large importa- 

 tion of bulbs, palms and azaleas from the 

 Exotic Nurseries of Ghent, Belgium. 



Arthur Newell of Kansas City arrived 

 from England Thursday morning via the 

 Teutonic in good health and too happy 

 in his desire to see his American family 

 to stay over for the convention. 



A. L. Miller of Brooklyn is too busy 

 for Asheville. His place looks very at- 

 tractive now, and his new range at 

 .Jamaica and the thirteen acres he has 

 acquired there promise a great showing 

 in hardy herbaceous plants, California 

 privet and shrubs in due time. He has 

 over sixty of the best varieties of cannas, 

 including a good stock of La France, an 

 orchid-flowering variety equal to Black 

 Beauty in foliage, and his new dwarf, 

 an orange-scarlet with yellow band, an 

 improvement on Crozy — larger and a 

 freer bloomer. A fine tree hydrangea 

 on the old home place, twenty-five years 

 of age, is the finest specimen I have seen 

 anywhere. His stock of camelliaiflora 

 dahlias is very large, as usual. Repairs, 

 new boilers, and attention to his range 

 of glass at Jamaica prevent his enjoy- 

 ing the trip to Asheville, as he antici- 

 pated. 



Captain Lang will be on hand with a 

 team of bowlers ready to capture all 

 the prizes — if they can — and he thinks 

 they will. His stay in the country has 

 developed a "200 arm" that seems in- 

 vincible. 



As to the next place of meeting a 

 general satisfaction is expressed concern- 



ing ililwaukee's graceful and brotherly 

 sentiment, and after a season near the. 

 skyland it seems only right the effect 

 should be somewhat counteracted by a 

 visit to the "famous" city by the lake, 

 where brotherly communion may be en- 

 hanced by flowing bumpers of something 

 almost as exhilarating as the "mountain 

 dew" of the sunny south. 



Austin Sh.wv. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market, 



There is j>ractieally nu change in mar- 

 ket conditions since last report. The 

 last few days of the past week witnessed 

 a slight improvement. With a.i active 

 demand and rather small supply, the 

 stock was easily moved at fair prices. 

 The current week, however, opened in a 

 listless, mid-summer fashion with largely 

 increased supply on account of a change 

 from a chilly fall atmosphere lo fairly 

 warm weather. 



Roses are improving fast. The ex- 

 ceptionally cool weather which has pre- 

 vailed practically all summer has been 

 an almost ideal condition for stock uuder 

 glass. Roses now look more promising. 

 Beauties are making rapid strides, both 

 in growth and quality of bloom. The 

 cool weather enables the growers to fum- 

 igate freely, hence less trouble with 

 thrips. Teas also show an improvement, 

 although by far the largest cuts are still 

 very short, and this grade of stock is 

 rather difficult to nuive. 



Carnations from the field are coming 

 in more freely. Quality in thi-; line is 

 also improving somewhat, but still stem.s 

 are very short in most cases. 



Asters remain with us in immense 

 quantities. The poorer grades, especially 

 in colored sorts, are a drug. Gladioli 

 have shortened up some, but are still 

 more than plentiful in supply and sell 

 very low. 



Prices: Beauties, long per doz. $2 to 

 $2.50; medium, ^1 to $2; short, per 100. 

 $2 to $5. Maids, per 100, $1 to $4; 

 Brides, $1 to $4; Kaiserins, $1 to .$6; 

 Meteors, $1 to $-5. Carnations, 1 to 

 $1.50. 



Various Items. 



Oscar .T. Friedman, the Michigan Ave. 

 florist, was married Aug. 12th, tlie bride 

 being Miss Clara Schlesinger. 



Recent visitors: Samuel Murray, 

 Kansas City, Mo.; James Hayes, Topeka, 

 Kans. ; Henry C. Fruck and Harry G. 

 Smith, Grosse Pointe Farms, Detroit, 

 Mich.; E. S. Thompson, South Haven. 

 Mich. ; Thomas Chapman, Denver, Colo., 

 and C. L. Brunson of C. L. Brunson & 

 Co., Paducah, Ky. 



Uncle John Thorpe was unable to at- 

 tend the Asheville Convention on account 

 of the serious illness of his daughter, 

 Mrs. Roseoe, of Park Ridge, N. J. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Roseoe came to Chicago for a 

 short visit and Mrs. Roseoe was taken 

 ill soon after arriving. 



The latest report in regard to Edgar 

 Sanders was very favorable, Mrs. H. P. 

 Victor reporting that the family has 

 every reason to be encouraged about his 

 condition. 



A PAEONY SOCIETY. 



In this issue appears a call for the 

 organization of a society to be devoted 

 to the interests of the paeony. The grow- 

 ing importance of this flower should cer- 

 tainly make such a society useful and we 

 wish the movement success. 



