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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



October 2, 1902. 



spending his vacation. He brought with 

 him a new rose, called No. 444 at pres- 

 ent, of which he thinks a great deal. 

 The color is light yellow at edge of petals, 

 shading to orange at center, has a very 

 good stem and looks to be a great pro- 

 ducer. Mr. Heller says that all the large 

 plants about New Castle are in fine 

 shape, and from present indications there 

 will be great quantities of Al stock 

 cut there this winter. 



Other visitors were: Mrs. J. F. Young 

 and daughter, and H. M. Altick of Day- 

 ton, Ohio; Mr. Washburn, of Bassett & 

 Washburn, Chicago; John Bertermann 

 of Indianapolis, Ind. ; C. A. Rieman, 

 Louisville, Ky. C. J. Ohmer. 



NEW YORK. 



Few of the retail florists have yet been 

 seen at the weekly auctions. Doubtless 

 a little later the regular auction buyers 

 will be seen, and yesterday several of the 

 critical buyers of decorative plants were 

 on hand at the disposal of the large 

 specimens in the Bottomley shipment 

 from Asheville. 



The Bloomingdale Conservatories are 

 being enlarged this fall and the usual 

 fine display of good stock at good prices 

 is already in evidence. Mr. Burnham's 

 management has been a success from the 

 start and his sustaining of prices has 

 commended him to his brethren in the 

 regular retail stores. 



Hicks & Crawbuck, of Brooklyn, have 

 opened their New York store at 45 W. 

 Twenty-ninth street, directly opposite 

 Saltford's. Mr. Hicks is presiding on 

 the New York side and has a very neat 

 and attractive place, with good prospects 

 of securing his share of the trade. 



All the seed and bulb men have been 

 exceedingly busy during the past week. 

 Shipments are enormous this year and 

 stock never better. 



Clucas & Boddington were crowded 

 with stock, even with the added facili- 

 ties of the new store, and evidently when 

 I called it was "their busy day." We 

 shall have something to say later of 

 their acres of cannas. 



The "wholesale cut flower district," 

 which includes Twenty-sixth to Thirtieth 

 streets, was the center of excitement on 

 Saturday, when on Tiventy-ninth street, 

 close to several of the florists' estab- 

 lishments, occurred one of the most ter- 

 rible murders ever known in the coun- 

 try. 



The Brooklyn Horticultural Society 

 will meet the third Monday in October. 

 In behalf of the carnation convention in 

 February already a very large sum of 

 money has been subscribed and great 

 preparations for a "banner gathering" 

 are under way. An attendance of at 

 least 300 is expected outside of New 

 York, and it is not generally known that 

 on Long Island alone there are 486 flor- 

 ists in business, every one of whom ought 

 to take an interest. 



Tlie Assembly rooms of the Academy 

 of Music will be a grand place for the 

 meeting, and the Union League Club — 

 the largest in the city — will be none too 

 large for the banquet. 



The venerable Jas. Mallon, when I 

 called, was superintending the improve- 

 ments at his headquarters on South 

 street and is looking remarkably well. 



Langjahr has about decided to give 

 all his spare time to the interests of the 

 carnation convention and to postpone the 

 opening of a New York wholesale branch 

 until the fall of 1903. 



C. H. Joosten is back from the Shaw- 



angunk Mountains of Ulster County, the 

 better for his two weeks' fresh air and 

 freedom. His Dutch Romans are going 

 fast, and he considers them better than 

 the French stock, when the higher prices 

 for the latter are taken-<nto account. 

 His American grown, own root rose stock 

 is exceptionally good this year. 



H. H. Berger & Co. report a large 

 shortage in Chinese narcissus, only about 

 30 per cent of orders having been deliv- 

 ered to the importers owing to the cold 

 and drouth in the "far East." 



The anniversary services of the 

 Stumpp & Walter Co. are in progress to- 

 day and congratulations from all sides 

 are numerous and hearty. 



"Charlie Arick," as everybody knew 

 him, who 27 years ago commenced his 

 work vrith Siebrecht & Son, and who 

 later has been with Wadley & Smythe, 

 died of pneumonia, Saturday, Septem- 

 ber 20, leaving a widow and daughter. 

 He was popular and a good artist. Quite 

 a number of the craft were at his funer- 

 al, which was in charge of the Masonic 

 order, and several handsome floral pieces 

 were sent by his old employers and his 

 friends. 



Alex. McConnell this week made a very 

 beautiful decoration at the fimeral of 

 Mr. Berkmans, of the Tiffany Co., the 

 casket being banked with vases of Amer- 

 ican Beauties, Kaiserins and other roses, 

 white chrysanthemums, lily of the valley 

 and smilax, nearly fifty vases being used 

 in producing the effect, and over 1,000 

 of the finest roses; twenty strings of 

 smilax and a pall of cattleyas that was 

 especially beautiful. For several days 

 this decoration was continued. 



Mr. McConnell's work at Lakefield 

 seems to be interminable. His plantings 

 of hardy stock on the Gould place have 

 been enormous during the past year. 



The exhibition of the New York Hor- 

 ticultural Society at the American Insti- 

 tute last week was one of the best of 

 recent years. The exhibits were far in 

 excess of the room provided, and many 

 were obliged to use the gallery and ad- 

 jacent rooms to compete at all. The at- 

 tendance was only fair, but the rainy 

 weather was a suflieient reason for ap- 

 parent want of appreciation. 



EUwanger & Barry, of Rochester, were 

 represented by jVIr. William Barry, and 

 their show of varieties of fruit was 

 very large as usual. Frank Weinberg. 

 of Woodside, had a creditable display of 

 cacti, 150 varieties, among them several 

 new ones. The new dwarf begonia of the 

 Vernon type, which he has named "Ger- 

 trudiana." and which is in color very 

 like La Reine, but with a much smaller 

 flower, was much admired. 



Wm. Slack, gardener for Mrs. Hoyt, of 

 Stamford, had some gi-and bunches of 

 foreign grapes, as fine as any ever ex- 

 hibited. White & Rice, of Yorktown, 

 had also an excellent fruit exhibit of 

 about everything in their line. Siebrecht 

 & Son displayed fine staghom ferns and 

 many palms donated for decorative pur- 

 poses. 



Lager & Hurrell, as is their custom, 

 staged a fine assortment of orchids, 

 among them the "Dove" or "Holy Ghost" 

 orchid, Cattleya Hardyana, C. chryso- 

 toxa, C. Harrisonce, C. Bowringiana, 

 Rodriguezia secunda and Zygopetalum 

 Gautierii. James Dowlan. of Seabright, 

 had a fine bank of foliage plants, and 

 any quantity of fruit, on which he cap- 

 tured a good share of the prizes offered. 



Tlie Central part of the hall was de- 

 voted to an exhilution by the Manhat- 

 tan State Hospital for the Insane, the en- 



tire exhibit being the work of the in- 

 sane patients. Wm. Thompson ;s the 

 gardener of the institution and will he 

 remembered by many in Chicago, where 

 at the World's Fair and at private places 

 he spent five years before coming east. 

 The display he made included about ev- 

 erything in fruit and vegetables Long 

 Island can produce, including peanuts, 

 "strawberry tomatoes" and a 140-pound 

 pumpkin, which brought back memories 

 of "pies like mother used to make." 



Geo. H. Hale, gardener for i;. D. 

 Adams, of Seabright, had an ornament- 

 al group that was very creditable, and 

 among his novelties a green rose that 

 everybody wanted to see. Julius Roehrs 

 took first prize for his bank of foliage 

 plants, a most artistic group, added to 

 in effect by the use of Cattleya labiata, 

 Vanda caerulea, Oncidiums tigrinum and 

 ornithorhynehum, and many fine Oncid- 

 ium varicosum. 



In addition to those before mentioned, 

 Lager & Hurrell had fine plants of Odon- 

 toglossom grande, Cattleya Forbesii, Mil- 

 tonia Candida, Oncidium ornithorhyn- 

 ehum, Brassavola fragians and Laelia 

 Dayana. Wi A. Manda showed some fine 

 specimens in pots of his new golden 

 privet. 



The dahlia exhibit was a grand one. 

 Geo. Hale's Salmon Queen was a special 

 favorite. Other exhibitors were Rowehl 

 & Granz, Hieksville. L. I. : Tlieo. Have- 

 meyer, Hempstead, L. I. ; W. H. Waite, 

 Yonkers; L. A. Martin. Greenwich, 

 Conn.; C. W. Bolton, Pelham, N. Y.; 

 J. C. Sorenson, Stamford, Conn. ; Geo. 

 Burchett, Montclair, N. J.; W. P. 

 Lothrop, East Bridgewater, Mass.; H. 

 F. Burt. Taunton, Mass.; E. S. MU- 

 ler. Wading PJver, L. I. ; Jas. Allen, 

 Tuxedo Park; Geo. H. Hale, Seabright; 

 W. L. Bell, Sparkill, N. Y.; H. McCar- 

 ron, Seabright; S. Clifton Bell, Sparkill, 

 N. Y. ; P. Sayre, Irvington; Alex. Mann, 

 Oakdale, L. I.; E. F. Bourne. Oakdale, L. 

 I., and W. Van Fleet, Little Silver, N. J. 

 It would take much time and space to do 

 all the exhibitors justice. The whole was 

 worthy of unstinted commendation. 



At this writing the absorbing topic 

 is the coal supply and the serious out- 

 look for all. not only those with small 

 plants and limited means, but the great 

 growers, whose cellars are empty and 

 who cannot maintain their establish- 

 ments mthout hundreds of tons of the 

 "black diamonds" in some cases. 



Walter Sheridan's reputation for 

 "Beauties" does not diminish. On Satur- 

 day last his counters were loaded with 

 the finest stock I have seen this season. 

 All that is needed now is a reasonable 

 demand for the goods. 



Ghormley's store is all ready for a 

 big season's business, enlarged, painted, 

 facilities unequalled, new and unique 

 signs, stock of first quality. Everything 

 betokens enterprise and expectation. 



John Yoimg's big store looks bright 

 and hopeful in its new dress and here 

 may always be found the best of every- 

 thing and the earliest novelties. The 

 outlook here, and with all the wholesal- 

 ers, is hopeful, and with the fuel ques- 

 tion solved, the "opening of the season" 

 will be all that is anticipated. 



John J. Perkins, of West Tliirtieth 

 street, is handling some extra fine Brides 

 and Maids. His experience dates back 

 to 1872, when the cut flower business was 

 in its infancy, and his reminiscences are 

 decidedly interesting. 



Mr. Doiflvcr, the naturalist, has made 

 several of the Bon-Ton florist store win- 

 dows attractive with exhibits of his 



