October 23, 1902. 



Tne Weekly Florists' Review. 



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ship, exhibition, entertainment and 

 finance committees, and the monthly 

 meetings provided for. 



Much unanimity was evident in the 

 general desire to make the convention a 

 brilliant success, and about every prom- 

 inent member of the society accepted 

 a place on the committees. 



Items. 



Ernst Asmus has fully recovered from 

 his hunting experience with the moose, 

 in which his arm and hand were injured. 

 The rumor that the injury came from 

 lifting a plebeian box of bulbs is there- 

 fore without foundation. 



Today a few of Jlr. Asmus' friends will 

 inspect his new and wonderful house 

 of Beauties, 350 by 54 feet, and next 

 week we will trv to tell you more about 

 it. 



The catalogue title page of the exhibi- 

 tion is a gem and the whole show gives 

 promise of results that will cause it to 

 excel anything of the kind every at- 

 tempted in this countrj', Kansas Citj' not 

 excepted. The 30th of this month will 

 see everything in readiness for the open- 

 ing and next week we can tell you more 

 about it. 



B. S. Slinn, Jr., in the Coogan build- 

 ing, is handling 10,000 violets daily al- 

 ready and will soon increase this to an 

 average of 20,000. In addition to this, 

 5,000 single violets daily, and swain- 

 sona as a specialty, of which in its sea- 

 son he probably handles the largest quan- 

 tity in the market. 



J. K. Allen is handling daily a grand 

 stock of Maids and Brides. His store 

 has been brightened up for the antici- 

 pated rush, which cannot be long de- 

 layed. 



Ghormley's store was so crowded with 

 mums on Saturday there was hardly 

 room for customers. Violets are com- 

 ing in, 20,000 a day. Cowee's gladioli 

 are spoken for alieady for 1903. 



Bradshaw & Hartman report a glut of 

 out door grown mums and carnations, 

 with short smilax abundant, but plant 

 trade is booming and prospects encour- 

 aging in their new holly enterprise. The 

 "street" wondered at the procession of 

 strangers here all day Saturday, until 

 the fact appeared that "registration'" of 

 the political strata was going on. 



Ed. Horan moves this week to his 

 new store at 55 West Twenty-eighth 

 street. 



Stumpp & Walter Co. show a grand 

 assortment of all the standard varieties 

 of apples from the nursery of Stephen 

 Hoyt's Sons, of Connecticut, at their 

 Barclay street store this week. This 

 firm is developing an extensive nursery 

 trade, in addition to its other lines. 

 Their bulb shipments have been immense 

 this season. 



J. & W. Leach, of Astoria, grow about 

 30,000 mums and 40,000 lilies yearly, 

 the entire output of their houses being 

 handled by James McManus, of West 

 Thirtieth street. Wesley B. Leach, of 

 the firm, is now with Mr. McManus. 



Window boxes of evergreens have be- 

 come immensely popular here, and they 

 may be seen on every prominent street. 

 The effect is excellent, and the general 

 use of this method of winter decoration 

 of houses is commended to all the large 

 cities. 



The "comfortable feeling" among the 

 growers is increasing since the culmina- 

 tion of the coal strike has been an- 

 nounced. Already the prices have fallen 

 to almost respectable figures, and an- 



other week will doubtless find the condi- 

 tion of things normal. With oil burn- 

 ers, pe.at and "many inventions" which 

 must result from the ordeal through 

 which the long suffering florist has just 

 passed, it is doubtful if ever the trade 

 will be caught napping again. 



Dunne & Co. have a factory now "up 

 the state," where they manufacture the 

 immense quantities of rustic work for 

 which they are already famous. Mj-. 

 Dunne is a designer of great experience 

 and merit. The increase in trade neces- 

 sitates an added store house in the city, 

 which will soon be occupied. 



S. Jacobs & Sons, of 1365 Flushing 

 avenue, Brooklyn, have had a phenome- 

 nal sale of gi-eenhouse glass this fall. 



Chas. Millang's greenhouse is about 

 completed. It is "built to stay." by 

 the looks of it, and Mr. Millang expects 

 to do a fine wholesale plant business this 

 winter. 



Jas. B. Kidd, who has been with El- 

 liott during the past two years, has ac- 

 cepted a position as traveling representa- 

 tive of the Cox Seed Co., of San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Papa Zeller is not a-s well as usual 

 tliis fall and is obliged to conserve his 

 strength, but manages to visit the "al- 

 leys" occasionally and gives a little 

 time to his favorite "budding" every day. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers have not yet awakened for 

 the season, and only four were on hand 

 on the regular night. The scores follow: 



Lang 174 171 160 505 



Traendly 132 192 148 472 



Hansen 149 151 173 473 



Bowman 142 126 139 407 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Seed Trade News. 



The outllook for supplies for next 

 season is certainly not very encourag- 

 ing. Referring to the situation, Messrs. 

 W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, 

 say: "It now looks as if wix beans 

 are going to be very short, while green 

 pods will not be in much better sup- 

 ply. All early sweet corn is very short 

 and there is a perfect famine in cucum- 

 ber seed. There is certainly nut going to 

 be sufficient cucumber seed to see 

 the trade through the season. 

 Onion seed of some varieties is 

 only half a crop. Many varieties of 

 peas are less than half a crop and in 

 some cases the growers will not get back 

 their seed stock. All vine seeds are 

 exceedingly scarce, especially muskmel- 

 ons. While watermelons are in better 

 supply, there is still quite a scarcity 

 on some varieties. Squash and pump- 

 kins are both going to be very scarce, 

 especially the winter varieties of 

 squashes." 



J. J. Bell, of Deposit, N. Y., reports 

 under dite of Oct. 18: "Last season 

 was exceptionally good for seed trade. 

 The coming season seems to promise 

 well. Yield of all flower seed here is 

 about an average crop. Pansies pro- 

 duced scarcely no seed till September; 

 since then they are seeding well. Asters 

 are producing a better crop than usual. 

 Verbenas and mxny others will be short 

 with us this season. Europe has been 

 the main source for flower seed, yet it 

 seems that this industry might be de- 

 veloped in this country, as all common 

 flowers seed well in this and many other 

 localities. Flowers look well through- 



out the country, and the displays at 

 fairs are mucli better than usual. Never 

 S3W dahlias as good as this season; they 

 seem to enjoy the wet." 



Boston. — Mr. W. W. Rawson, who 

 has carried on a seed business in this 

 city for many years, under the firm 

 name of W. W. Rawson & Co., has ad- 

 mitted to partnership his son, Herbert 

 W. Rawson, who has been actively inter- 

 ested in the business for the past five 

 years, and Harry E. Fiske, who has 

 been with the firm fourteen years and 

 has been manager for the pa.st nine 

 years. Mr. Rawson continues the mar- 

 ket gardening business at Arlington as 

 before. The flowers, plants, shrubs and 

 hardy perennials are now to be handled 

 in connection with the seed store. 



The Alfred J. Brown Seed Co., Grand 

 Rapids. Mich., says that the bad we;i- 

 ther during the bean hirvest will cut 

 the crop short to a large extent. They 

 believe that in their section one-third, 

 and possibly more, of the acreage was 

 entirely lost. Only early maturing 

 crops were saved. All others were more 

 or less damaged, while in many cases 

 the fields will never be harvested at all. 

 The incessxnt downpour of rain night 

 and day for nearly two weeks simply 

 rotted the beans in the field. All the 

 growers could do was to wait for better 

 weather, which did not come till it was 

 too late and the crops were ruined. 



The seed business conducted by H. 

 L. Holmes at Harrisburg, Pa., has been 

 succeeded by the Holmes Seed Co., in- 

 corporated Sept. 19, 1902, under the 

 laws of Pennsylvania, with a capital of 

 $50,000. OflScers: George A. Gorgas, 

 president; H. L. Holmes, vice president 

 and general manager; E. E. Beidleman, 

 secretary; E. Z. Gross, treasurer; Cha^. 

 S. Boll, R. C. Neal, Sr., and B. F. 

 Myers, directors. The new firm expects 

 to increase its business largely, both 

 wholesale and retail. 



St. Paul. — L. L. May & Co. Lave 

 placed new cleaning machinery in their 

 warehouse, put up additional elevators 

 and erected a two-hundred-bushel bin on 

 the roof of their Como avenue warehouse. 



Goodrich, Me. — The Baylis Seed Co. 

 has purchased the Turner farm and will 

 make a number of improvements. They 

 will also build an addition to their al- 

 ready commodious potato house. 



Salt Lake City. — Bailey & Sons say 

 the crop of alfalfa is very short here this 

 year, and that wheat is being rapidly 

 shipped to Colorado and Texas. 



Mr. Robert Buist, the Philadelphia 

 seedsman, has been ill with typhoid fe- 

 ver at the Marlborough Hotel, Atlantic 

 City, N. J., since Aug. 28, but is now 



convalescent. 



Columbus, Fla. — The Columbus Seed 

 & Implement Company has been in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $10,- 

 000. J. T. Davis, Jr., is president. 



Santa Clara, Cal. — The Morse Seed 

 Co. has leased 800 acres of the Martin 

 estate near Gilroy to extend their seed 

 production. 



There is a heavy and increased de- 

 mand for raffia, both natural and colored. 

 It is used to make baskets and other 

 fancy articles, and even ladies' hats are 

 made of it. The fad seems to have ta- 

 ken root over the entire country, to 

 judge by the widely separated localities 

 from which the orders come. 



