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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBEE 23, 1902. 



only a few that can be called extras or 

 select. 



Liberties and Meteors sell well and 

 are in good supply. The Liberties aie 

 much improved in quality, and with 

 the advent of colder weather, better 

 prices will be obtained for them. A 

 great many short-stemmed and medium 

 Golden Gates are coming in, ind as they 

 are fine to use in design work, they sell 

 very well. 



Of coui-se chrysanthemums take the 

 lead at present and they are doing very 

 well in this market this season. The 

 prices obtained for them are fully equal 

 to those of last year, and more are be- 

 ing handled. Some of poor quality 

 have to be sacrificed in order to move 

 them, but quality counts here as in 

 everything else in the florists' trade. 

 Tlie mid-season varieties are just becin- 

 ning to be cut. Many of the mums tliat 

 are being cut at present are scarcely 

 ready, but as there is a demand for 

 them, prices are the same as for fully 

 matured flowers. 



There is a demand for violets now, 

 but only a few are coming in and the 

 quality is poor. Good violets would now 

 bring a good price. 



There was a chrysanthemum before 

 the Chrysanthemum committee on Sat- 

 urday, which originated with Hirry Al- 

 tick, of Davton, O. It is a white sport 

 of Glory of the Pacific, very similar to 

 Polly Rose, but more built up in the 

 center and the foliage is more evenly 

 distributed along the stem. It scored 

 high enough to secure a certificate. It 

 is named "Estelle." 



Two new wholesale cut flower houses 

 will be opened for business next Mon- 

 day morning. One will be conducted 

 by Wm. 3\Iurphy, who. owing to the large 

 increase in his business the past sea- 

 son, his been obliged to seek more com- 

 modious quarters, and hereafter will be 

 found at 130 East Third street, where 

 he will have better facilities for han- 

 dling his shipping trade. The other 

 will be under the management of Louis 

 Kysk, who is at present the manager 

 of the cut flower business of J. M. Mc- 

 Cullough's Sons. Al. Heckmann, of 

 Covington, Ky., will succeed Mr Kvsk 

 at McCullough's. •'^ 



A recent visit to Mr. B. P. Critffhell's 

 establishment showed some of the finest 

 mums I have seen this season. Althoun-h 

 not yet reidy to cut, the blooms of the 

 mid-season varieties were very laro-e 

 and with a few days' time will make 

 Al blooms. Glory of the Pacific, Rob- 

 inson, Henderson and O. P. Bassett were 

 all m equally fine condition. In later 

 varieties Murdock and Appleton are 

 showing up fine. Mr. Critchell also 

 grows much small stock for bedding be- 

 .sides palms, ferns, etc. Mr. Wm. Diiley 

 IS the grower, and the fine condition of 

 the stock IS a tribute to his ability 



Mr. H. M. Altick, Dayton, 0.. was a 

 '^'S'toi-- e. J. Ohmeb. 



NEW YORK. 



Among the Retailers, 



David Clark's Sons are now fully set- 

 tled in their new home, 2139 Broadway, 

 and room and facilities for retail work 

 are unequalled. There is room for 

 everything now, including a handsome 

 suite of offices. The appointments are all 

 perfect, the electric efl"ects striking, and 

 the space for inside decoration well em- 

 ployed. The gieenhouses further up the 



avenue will be retained another year. 

 Mr. Marshall Clark is about as well as 

 ever after his severe fight with appendi- 

 citis. 



Jas. McGarrett, for the last ten years 

 with John N. Hauser, of Madison ave- 

 nue and Fifty-sixth street, and formerly 

 with Alex. McConnell, Chas. Thorley and 

 Walter Reid, has resigned his position 

 on account of ill health. His son George 

 has been with Mr. McConnell for four- 

 teen years. The decoration of All Souls 

 church was made by this house for the 

 wedding of Miss Maud Furness, the ac- 

 tress, to Alex. Dow, the millionaire, last 

 Wednesday morning. 



Hanft ISros., of 615 Madison avenue, 

 have done some very effective decorative 

 work lately. At the Post-Gallatin wed- 

 ding at Bayport. L. I., a carload of palms 

 and flowers was used. The church was 

 beautiful with white roses. The bride's 

 shower bouquet was made of Kaiserin 

 and lily of the valley; the bridesmaids' 

 bouquets of Testout roses. On the 15th 

 they had the Brooks-Sawj'er wedding at 

 South Xyack, the flowers used being 

 Bridesmaid roses and white chrysanthe- 

 mums, and on November 18 they have 

 an elaborate afi'air, the wedding of the 

 daughter of A. P. Fitch, ex-Comptroller 

 and president of the American Trust 

 Company. For the Colonel Dupont fu- 

 neral at Mont Chain, Del., they sent a 

 handsome casket cover of violets and 

 orchids, a cross of white roses and lily 

 of the valley and a 30-inch wreath of 

 valley and orchids. 



H. Warrendorff, of 635 Madison ave- 

 nue, will open his new store in the An- 

 souia Apartment Hotel on December 1, 

 Seventy-fourtli street and Broadway. 

 Tliere will be two palm gardens in this 

 greatest of apartment hostelries, one on 

 the ground floor and one on the sixteenth 

 floor, under his care, and the store is to 

 be he says, "the most elegantly appointed 

 shop in the city." 



The "Fernery," on Thirty-third street, 

 west, opposite the Waldorf-Astoria, is 

 owned and managed by two young ladies 

 who have made a wonderful success. 

 They have some of the first families of 

 the city among their patrons. They liave 

 added an "afternoon tea" department 

 to their store, which is unique and re- 

 munerative, and their prosperity is a 

 demonstration of the possibilities of the 

 "woman in floriculture" that is more 

 than creditable. 



Tlie two great weddings during the 

 last few days by Thorley have been the 

 Norton wedding on Staten Island and 

 the Gager-Strong wedding. At the lat- 

 ter over 7,000 American Beauties were 

 used in the decoration. 



Scallen's new store at 1259 Broadway 

 is now entirely devoted to the business 

 and the change from the other side of the 

 street seems to have been a wise move. 

 The window decorations here are always 

 striking and novel. 



Mcintosh, of 1192 Broadway, had the 

 Hageman-Hunting wedding last week at 

 the Church of the Heavenly Rest and the 

 breakfast and reception decorations at 

 the Victoria Hotel. An immense auto- 

 mobile of orchids and valley in his win- 

 dow was very attractive, and at all times 

 his windows are artistic. 



Small's electric window effects are 

 again in evidence. Farleyense and pur- 

 ple cosmos made a beautiful window last 

 week. Cibotium and Boston ferns are 

 lavishly used here and autumn leaves 

 and eulalia are utilized in producing 

 charming effects. 



Thos. Young, Jr., has his retail stores 

 on Sixth avenue and Fifty-eighth street, 

 and on West Twenty-eighth street in full 

 swing and both elaborately lighted and 

 stocked with the best in the market. 

 Louis Rossow, formerly manager and 

 secretary of the Fleishmann Co., and 

 prior to that bookkeeper for Thorley, is 

 manager of the Fifty-eighth street store, 

 and William Hanft is associated with 

 him. 



At George Stumpp's I found every- 

 thing in grand order for an anticipated 

 season of the usual success, and a fine 

 stock of palms and ferns of recent im- 

 portation and purchase from the best 

 home markets. The illustration of the 

 banquet given to Prince Henry in your 

 issue of this date indicates the class of 

 work done by Mr. Stumpp and his effi- 

 cient staff, the original designer being 

 Mr. Frank Schlotzhaver, who has been 

 thirteen years in Mr. Stumpp's service. 



The Auctions. 



The auction season is in full blast, 

 but the "congregations" are hardly up 

 to those of other years, nor the prices 

 equal to the old time average. Sanders' 

 orchid sale was fairly well attended and 

 good prices were realized. 



Elliott has been disposing of a lot of 

 palms and ficuses and other plants, and 

 some rare bargains have been picked up. 

 His sale of Scott's stock in Brooklyn 

 Monday was a sacrifice. Buyers were 

 few and largely from Brooklyn, Mallon, 

 Phillips and Tielman being the princi- 

 pal retailers present. Mi-. Scott had 

 some fine Bostons, pandanus, kentias and 

 ferns "on tap,'' but the sale was charac- 

 terized by Mr. Elliott a ; "the worst of 

 the season" in the way of i ealized values. 



Brooklyn Horticultural Society. 



Monday night at 502 Fulton street 

 the regular meeting of the Brooklyn Hor- 

 ticultural Society was held, and an at- 

 tendance of about forty members at- 

 tested the interest already being taken 

 in the February carnation convention. 

 Mr. C. W. Ward, the president, was in 

 the chair. 



The membership now numbers fifty- 

 four, and the subscriptions amount to 

 nearly $1,200. A very fine exhibition of 

 over seventy-five varieties of dahlias was 

 made by H. Beaulieu, of Woodhaven, 

 and a committee, composed of Messrs. 

 Hicks, Crawbuck and Langjahr, reported 

 the exhibit ".a most creditable one, es- 

 pecially the seedlings," and suggested a 

 vote of thanks, which was unanimously 

 carried. 



Mr. Bunyard, manager of the New 

 York exhibition, presented its claim to 

 the society and received assurance of 

 its practical interest. 



Mr. W. H. Barnes, secretary of the 

 Kansas State Horticultural Society, and 

 a veteran of the civil war, on his way 

 home from Washington, was present and 

 gave a very interesting address. He 

 spoke of the forty local county horticul- 

 tural societies of Kansas, and the great 

 work they were doing in every part of 

 that wonderful state. He was bom in 

 Brooklyn and has many prominent rela- 

 tives in the city. Has lived in Kansas 

 twenty-two years. 



The Germania Club was suggested for 

 the convention banquet, with 300 diners 

 as the basis, and no limit as to the 

 number who would be expected and wel- 

 come. 



Members were appointed by the presi- 

 dent for the ways and means, member- 



