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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



September 11, 1902. 



flower. These were good sellers last win- 

 ter and it is thought that there will be 

 more demand this year. 



George McLean, of Walker & McLean, 

 Youngstown, 0., is visiting old friends 

 here. He looks well and says he feels 

 it. George says they are building two 

 more houses to meet the increased de- 

 mand for stock. He thinks he would 

 rather sell flowers in Youngstown than 

 Philadelphia. Not so much competition. 



The recent cool nights have started 

 growers te thinking about coal. It looks 

 now as though tliere would be a great 

 deal of soft coal used the coming winter. 



M. 



NEW YORK. 



Qub Meeting. 



One of the most interesting meetings 

 of the club ever held took place at Civic 

 Hall last Monday evening. Nearly 50 

 members were present. The "outing" 

 committee made its final report through 

 Mr. Bunyard, announcing a balance on 

 •the right side of the ledger, and thereby 

 earning an honorable discharge. This 

 happy result betokens another and a 

 larger outing in 1903. 



The transportation committee, whose 

 services made the trip to Asheville so 

 agreeable and "satisfying," were thanked 

 and their bills honored by the club in full 

 with no adverse criticism, and almost a 

 "certificate of merit" added, as a token 

 of apjireciated effort. 



The exhibition committee, through Mr. 

 O'Mara, reported a. joint meeting willi 

 the committee of tlie Seidpture Society, 

 and much harmonious progress in plans 

 and arrangements for the great fall ex- 

 hibition in Madison Square. Novel and 

 beautiful eflfects will be produced, elab- 

 orate details have been considered, and 

 the mingling of flowers and statuary 

 promises to provide a unique, chaste and 

 massive coml>ination "befitting the dig- 

 nity of the city," and the reputation of 

 the societies interested. The space for 

 exhibits is rapidly being taken and ad- 

 vice is given to all intending to make 

 display to secure the room desired before 

 it is too late. Tlie combination of the 

 societies makes even the great garden 

 small for the purpose intended. The co- 

 operation and interest of many of the 

 prominent citizens is being enlisted and 

 the exhibition will undoubtedly be the 

 grandest, and will draw the largest 

 crowds, of any floral show ever given in 

 this country. 



The New York Florists' flub <iii 

 nounced the appointment of Mr. O'Mara 

 as its representative at the Plant Breed- 

 ing Conference, September .30 and fol- 

 lowing daj-s, in this city. 



Handsome photographs of previous ex- 

 hibitions by the Sculpture Society were 

 shown to indicate the elaborate anil beau- 

 tiful effects possible even without the 

 co-operation of plants and flowers; to- 

 gether, the garden will be transformed 

 into a fairyland. 



The absence of Mr. Hammond, of Fish- 

 ■ kill, whose address on the convention at 

 Asheville had been announced, was great- 

 ly regretted. 



The other speaker of the evening was 

 Mr. O'Mara, and his "Memories" were 

 listened to with great interest liy all, 

 and especially by those who found it im- 

 possible to be there. He covered the 

 ground, and the time — day and night — 

 to and from Asheville, with all its busi- 

 ness, its feasts, its drives, its "mountain 



dew," its interesting evolvement, inter- 

 spersing his remarks with humorous an- 

 ecdotes and incidents, for all of which 

 he claimed the merit of absolute accu- 

 racy. He characterized the landscaping at 

 Biltmore as a "demonstration of super 

 abundant munificence;" told of the grat- 

 itude and appreciation of leading Ashe- 

 ville citizens as to the wonderful benefit 

 the florists' convention had been to the 

 city, placing it on a par with Biltmore, 

 or "next to it, in its efi'ects for progress. 

 The club by a rising vote manifested its 

 thanks for the able address given. 



Mr. Wallace, Mr. Kelsey, Mr. Henshaw 

 and others followed and quite a discus- 

 sion concerning landscape effects was in- 

 dulged in. 



Votes of thanks were also given to the 

 Washington florists for their liberal wel- 

 come and the Southern R. R. for its 

 courtesy. 



The exhibits were numerous and hand- 

 some and a committee composed of Mr. 

 Herrington, Mr. McMahon and Mr. At- 

 kins passed upon them. The "Anna Fos- 

 ter" fern exhibited by L. H. Foster of 

 Dorchester, and the cactus dahlias shown 

 by W. Duckham of Madison, each re- 

 ceived a certificate of merit. 



Votes of thanks were given H. Beau- 

 lieu of Woodhaven, Peter Henderson & 

 Co. of New York, A. L. ililler, of Brook- 

 lyn, and Charles Lenker of Freeport, for 

 grand displays of cannas and dahlias. 

 Mr. Miller staged 35 varieties of cannas, 

 tlie best of which were his own seed- 

 ling. La France and Fuerst von Hohen- 

 loe? Buttercup, President Jleyer. G. A. 

 Strohlein, Niagara, David Harum, Egan- 

 dale, Martha ' Washington, Kate Grey, 

 Conite de Bouchard. Beaute Poitevine. J. 

 D. Eisele and Crimson Bedder. Peter 

 Henderson & Co. sent Gov. Roosevelt 

 and four new French varieties of dahlias. 

 Souvenir de Francois Porcher, Oliphant, 

 Directeur Potier, and Meritique. 



Chas. Lenker of Frcep<Ht had several 

 vases of grand dahlia stock, among them 

 Germania Giant, Ernest Glasser, Sonne 

 of Berlin, and Jumbo, a dark red of 

 great size and dwarf liabit. 



H. Beaulieu made a fine showing with 

 Chameleon, a novelty of three colors, 

 and Gloire de Lyon, white; Mme. De 

 Lavansayes; .Tupiter. dwarf red; Mal- 

 vina. pink; Herbert, amaranth; Muriel, 

 light yellow; Daybreak, yellow, spotted 

 red and brown; Souvenir de Constadt^, 

 chamois, dwarf; Mme. Lorton, white, 

 edged red-salmon; Wm. Eawlings, crim- 

 son; Mary Service, pink; Cajitain Broad, 

 red; Minos, dark maroon; Perle de- la 

 Tete d'Or, white; Grand Duke -Alexis, 

 white; Lovely Eynsford, amber color: 

 Mme. Victor Vaissier, yellow. 



■Various Items. 



The advent of cooler weather the last 

 of the week had a bracing effect upon 

 the cut flower trade, both wholesale and 

 retail. The opening of the schools, 

 which indicates the coming home of sum- 

 mer tourists in multitudes, cannot fail 

 to have a beneficial influence upon trade, 

 and Saturday found a depleted whole- 

 sale stock at better prices for good flow- 

 ers, and handsomely decorated retail es- 

 tablishments all over the city, with the 

 usual display of palms and ficus and 

 Bostons in front of many of the stores, 

 so that it may safely be said that the 

 fall trade has opened "auspiciously." 



The number of new stores is signifi- 

 cant, not on Broadway nor Fifth avenue, 

 but on the Boulevard and Amsterdam^ 

 and in Harlem and wherever fine apart- 



ment houses have been erected. It looks 

 like a good season if one may judge by 

 the preparations which anticipate it and 

 the enterprise of those who are under- 

 taking to "tempt fickle fortune." The 

 new stores are almost invariably neat, 

 handsomely fitted up, and well stocked. 



Prices have not advanced perceptibly 

 sxcep* for the better grade of roses, good 

 stock bringing 6 cents on Saturday. Fine 

 Beauties were worth 25 cents. Carna- 

 tions have advanced to $1 per 100 with 

 an upward tendency. Asters and dahlias 

 and gladioli are running, or rather creep- 

 ing, neck and neck, at about 50 cents 

 per 100. Lilies of all kinds hold their 

 own, the stock being excellent and 

 abundant. The novelties are violets and 

 mums, and their quality compares with 

 their scarcity yet. Another week of cool 

 weatiter will see the whole market on a 

 firmer and advancing basis. 



The "auctions" did not materialize 

 last Friday. A little early, but they will 

 soon be in full swing. The Dreyer auc- 

 tion at the greenhouses at Woodside will 

 occur on the •22nd of tlie month. Mr. 

 Cleary officiating. And about the last of 

 September, Mr. Elliott vnW have some- 

 thing to say of the value of ferns and^ 

 palms and rubbers .it Mr. Scott's Keap 

 Street Greenhouses. 



W. G. Gormley has been away for "in- 

 spiration" at Bar Harbor. His store on 

 Twenty-eighth street has been enlarged 

 and decorated and his new gold galax 

 leaf sign is an attractive frontispiece. 



S. .Jacobs & Sons of Flushing avenue, 

 Brooklyn, have had a wonderful season. 

 Their stock of greenhouse glass, gulf cy- 

 press and hot bed sash is immense, and' 

 for 31 years in and arouiul New York 

 this house has been in business. Their 

 output of hot bed sash is an average of 

 over 30,000 a year. In contemplation is 

 the erection of a five-story brick building 

 100 feet square in which all their 

 branches may be combined. Their "guar- 

 anteed putty" is used to the tvine of 90 

 tons yearly in their own sash business, 

 while their shipments amount to over 

 2.500 tubs per annum. Average sales of 

 glass over 10,000 Ixixes. They are spe- 

 cial agents for the Hender.son boiler with 

 its new coal saving im])rovement, and 

 have two depots in New York City. 



C. F. Anderson of the Isabella Green- 

 houses, Babylon, was in town Saturday 

 arranging for the building of several 

 new greenhouses. He grows only carna- 

 tions, and has all the new varieties, and 

 some fine seedlings that will be heard 

 from later. 



C. W. Ward of the Cottage Gardens, 

 started for Michigan on his return from 

 Asheville. 



.Julius Lang has returned from his 

 summer recreation in excellent health. 



.John Scott and wife have been away 

 for seven weeks in Scotland. Jlr. Scott's 

 birthplace, and have visited France, Hol- 

 land and Belgium while away. His es- 

 tablishment has Ijeen under the manage- 

 ment of Mr. D. M. Kenzie in his ab- 

 sence. Mr. Scott will reach home on 

 the 14th. He has a new fern — a sport 

 from the Boston, which he will exhibit 

 at the Madison Square Garden show this 

 fall; a most handsome plant, which he 

 intends propagating and placing on the 

 market in 1904. It is a more compact 

 grower than the Boston, with narrower 

 and more graceful fronds; and other- 

 wise an exact counterpart of it. Mr. 

 Scott has a sample plant of "Anna Fos- 

 ter" which he has been growing this 

 summer to test its qualities under hia 



