SEa^TEMBER 4. 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



477 



Fancy Bedding at the National Soldiers' Home, Grant County, Ind. Carl Anderson, Gardener. 



Parade is worth a special visit. The Cir- 

 cle as you euter it from aristocratic 

 North street, is about perfection. It 

 strikes you as charming, and I will just 

 say here that the flower gardening was 

 never equalled in our parks. It is well 

 done and splendidly maintained. The 

 glorious meadow, with its natural undu- 

 lating surface and stately trees has been 

 kept mowed and never looked so well. 

 The word park is much abused and twist- 

 ed. There are picnic parks and shoot- 

 ing parks and driving parks that are as 

 much entitled to be called parks as a 

 bowling alley. Here in this "Meadow" 

 is a true park, and loug may it survive 

 any encrcaehment of a cinder path or 

 speeding path or anything that will in 

 the least mar its pastoral beauty. 



Much more could I say, but in con- 

 clusion I must with great pleasure in- 

 form you that all the defacement or in- 

 jury done by the Pan-American by its 

 use of the lake and its surroundings is 

 entirely unobservable even at this early 

 date. The shrubs that were cut down 

 are not missed; they were overgrown 

 and badly needed thinning out. An 

 emerald lawn now covers the slopes of 

 the lake whore the madding crowd viewed 

 the fireworks, n. tritling sum has re- 

 stored what little surface damage was 

 done, and our parks were never more 

 beautiful and should be the pride of 

 every citizen. W. S. 



FANCY BEDDING. 



The accompanying engraving is from 

 a photograph of some bedding on the 

 grounds of the National Military Home, 

 Grant Co., Ind., where Carl Anderson is 

 gardener. The triangle is 90 feet long 

 and 80 feet at base. In one corner are 

 Florence Vaughan canuas and Stella 

 Gumey ageratums, in the next are Phil- 

 adelphia cannas and Vinca major, and 

 in the third are Mme. Crozy cannas and 

 coleus. As will be seen by the picture, 

 these are surrounded by carpet bedding 

 effects. It took about 20,000 plants to 

 plant this triangle. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market- 



BatHrday, as usual in the wholesale 

 market, was encouraging, as it cleared 

 the ice boxes of accumulations and gave 



business a chance to commence operations 

 with a clean sheet on Monday morning. 

 But prices and quality are at low tide 

 and extremely hot weather at the start 

 iif this week, with Labor Day closing 

 make a bad beginning for September. 



Carnations begin to appreciate in 

 price, and have climbed to $10 per 1,000 

 for the best. Good roses are scarce and 

 bring fair prices, while long stemmed 

 asters are in demand and in some cases 

 have commanded as high as $4 per 100. 

 Lilies are abundant and there seems to 

 be no end to the shipments of gladioli. 

 The very best sell for $10 per 1,000, but 

 90 per cent of the stock goes for 50 

 cents per 100. 



Items. 



The coal question will uot down, and 

 a great multitude of tlorists are looking 

 with anxious eyes for the good news of 

 the strike termination. Senator Piatt 

 says it will come within two weeks. One 

 big dealer is ' ' offering to take orders 

 for October delivery at $6 a ton," whicn 

 is evidently a blui¥. Meantime $12 to 

 $1-4 is the price, and the bins are empty. 

 No assurance of relief is yet in sight, 

 and only those whose very existence de- 

 pends upon a break in prices can realize 

 the anxiety of the thousands of growers 

 in this vicinity. 



The wholesale men, with hardly an 

 exception, have remodeled, enlarged and 

 repainted their offices and stores, so that 

 at the beginning of no season for years 

 have these establishments looked so in- 

 viting, or prepared so elaborately for a 

 jreat business. 



The great floral fete at Saratoga be- 

 gins to-day (Monday) and will eclipse 

 all its predecessors as a gorgeous spec- 

 tacle. The ball decorations to-night will 

 use an enormous quantity of smilax, lau- 

 rel and giaclioli. The floral parade is on 

 Thursday and will be the event of the 

 week. The demand for flowers of all 

 kinds ought to deplete this market. 



The Newport season is about over. An- 

 other week will see the end. Society 

 moves to Lennox. The President will be 

 there and the luncheon and ball in his 

 honor, Wednesday, is to be an elaborate 

 affair. 



The season at Newport has been one 

 of the best the florists have ever enjoyed. 

 All have been overwhelmed with work 



and each one claims the best summer of 

 his experience there. 



Mr. Wadley, who was so badly injured 

 in the Central tunnel disaster some 

 months ago, is now convalescent and >harB 

 just returned from a stay in the moun- 

 tains almost himself again. Ho will bo 

 back in New York tliis winter at the 

 old stand. 



Siebrecht & Son are completely remod- 

 eling their old store at 409 5th avenue, 

 having just re-leased the property for 

 a term of years. Practically, it will be 

 a new store and conservatory. The old 

 greenhouse, 35x25 feet, will be rebuilt 

 with irou frames and heavy glass, and 

 the new conservatory, 130x25 feet, will 

 be a model, with rookeries, grottos, and 

 every modern convenience. 



J. H. Troy is absorbing a week's ocean 

 air at Bar Harbcr with a touch of busi- 

 ness on the side. Mrs. Troy and son are 

 summering in the Catskills. 



Mr. Downing of the "Rosary" has 

 been outing from one end of Long Island 

 to the other. Mrs. Kelly, the genial 

 bookkeeper of this firm, takes her holiday 

 abroad next season. 



Herrmann is overwhelmed with orders. 

 His warerooras are stocked with filled 

 boxes, labeled for shipment in Septem- 

 ber, and already the amount of business 

 (September 1) is sufficient to guarantee 

 a large month's outgo. 



Mr. Nash has returned from the moun- 

 tains "brown as a berry" and in excel- 

 lent health. Mr. John Krai of this es- 

 tablishment is away for a week's camp- 

 ing on Captains' Island. 



H. J. Mcintosh, of Broadway, has been 

 summering at Long Branch, and among 

 his other accomplishments, saved a bal- 

 loonist from drowning. Unfortunately it 

 was a male aeronaut and there are "no 

 cards," but he "save! his man" all 

 right and would have saved him faster 

 if he had been a lady. 



Mrs. Savin, the popular bookkeeper 

 at Traendly & Schenck's, is back from 

 a two weeks' sojourn in Canada. 



John P. Cleary looks thoroughly re- 

 freshed and ready for the strain on his 

 voice which begins next Friday with the 

 first auction of the seasou. On Wednes- 

 day, September 23, he conducts the an- 

 nual auction at Dreyer's greenhouse* 3t 

 Woodside, L. I, __" '■'.■- ,_■, 



Alex. Burns has the sympathy of the 



