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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



Decembkr 10, 1903. 



attractive. Holly, wild smilax ami 

 Christmas greens form an effective back- 

 ground for tbe decorations'. One of the 

 large Broadway stores had a great dis- 

 play of selected fruit iu fancy baskets 

 dressed with asparagus, as a center to 

 a windoAv decoration, the sides of the 

 window drajjed with immense curtains 

 of purple velvet and satin caught up 

 with tassels and gold cords and ribbons. 



Alex. JlcConnell has had quite a run 

 of weddings lately, the Preyu-Metcalf 

 affair at the Church of the Incarnation 

 being the most notable. Mr. McConnell 

 has made every arrangement for the ac- 

 commodation of out-of-town florists 

 whose customers send boxes of flowers to 

 their New York friends at Christmas. 



Hanft Bros, are sending two men to 

 Troy for a big reception decoration this 

 week. At a dinner of the New York 

 Yacht Club at Delmonico 's last week, 

 the center piece ^yas a model of the siup 

 Revolution, three and one-half feet long, 

 the hull of white carnations, deck of 

 Liberty roses and fittings of American 

 Beauties, a handsome conception com- 

 pleted by their froce within an hour. 

 Last Saturday they had the shell dinno"- 

 of the Peanut Club, of which Mr. Hant* 

 is a member. Smilax and sea-grass, witli 

 Beauties, formed the decorations. 



M. A. Bowe is delighted with the im- 

 provement in business, his handsome 

 store in the heart of the city feeling the 

 first effects of renewed prosperity. The 

 windows here are always attractive, the 

 best of everything being used in tlicir 

 decoration. 



Various Items. 



Bradshaw & Hartnian ^vill occupy thcii 

 branch at 4S West Twenty-eighth" street 

 until the end of the year. It is gay witii 

 plants, Christmas greens and bells. Mi-. 

 Hartman has been ill tliis week. 



H. H. Berger & Co. report the besr 

 fall business in recent years. They have 

 just received a large importation of cocos 

 and kentia seeds. 



John Scott, of Brooklyn, will place 

 his new nephrolepis, Scottii, on the mar- 

 ket June 1. The leading seed and bulb 

 houses are cataloguing it and it is very 

 popular locally, and wherever it has been 

 exhibited, ilr. Scott has some beautiful 

 specimens of Piersoni in 8-inch pans, and 

 lus Anna Foster and Bostons well entitle 

 him to the designation, ' ' fern specialist. ' ' 

 Herman Dreyer is a good example of 

 the old adage that "everything comes to 

 him who waits. ' ' The Peimsylvania rail- 

 road is reported to have just counted our 

 $126,000 for his property at Woodside. 

 There is a thoroughfare known as ' ' Easy 

 Street" close by the greenhouses and 

 Mr. Dreyer is located on the sunny sifle. 

 Wm. Ghormley is receiving some fine 

 mums and expects the supply to holil 

 out until after Christmas. He receives a 

 good cut of Beauties and has violets ' ' to 

 beat the band, " as he expresses it. Last 

 year he handled 300,000 for Christmas 

 and expects it will be half a million this 

 time. 



Darid Cook, a well-known landscape 

 gardener and florist, is dead at his home 

 in Fishkill Landing, aged 72 years. 



Frank and August Millang and Bonnot 

 Bros, maintain life in the Cut Flower Ex- 

 change long after "the battling crowd" 

 departs; in fact, from 6 in the morning 

 until the evening shadows fall, they may 

 always be found at their headquarters 

 and the amount of business they are do- 

 ing would make any of the wholesalers 

 a Merry Christmas. 



The sympathy of his many friends is 

 extended to Charles Weathered and fam- 

 ily on account of the death of Thomas 

 W. Weathered, wdiose nmne has been as- 

 sociated with the greenhouse heating and 

 building business for many years. Mr. 

 Weathered iliod on Friday nu)rning, De- 

 cember 4, H(^ was in his S.')th year, Tlie 

 funeral was held on Sunday, many floris:- 

 attending. 



.hulicious advertising, enterprise and 

 square dealing always pay; James Mi- 

 Manus is an excellent demonstration of 

 the fact. His business has increased 100 

 per cent during the past year. The prog- 

 ress of the orchid department is especially 

 encouraging. Some of the largest grow- 

 ers are on his list, and his shipments go 

 daily to many of the large cities. 



The belated consignment of roses, rho- 

 dodendrons, etc., has arrived at El- 

 liott's and this week Friday completes 

 the season of auction sales. Holly trees 

 also will be offered and some very nice 

 stock will be offered for Christmas. 



Stumpp & Walter are very optimistic 

 as to Ihe Christmas trade in e\-ery line 

 and report a season's business to date, 

 more than double that of last year. 

 Their output of holly will reach nearly 

 1,000 cases. English mistletoe is a spe- 

 cialty here and their big stores on Bar- 

 clay" and Thirty-fourth streets are gay 

 with Christmas bells and evergreens of 

 every kind. 



Alex Guttman's specialty in plants 

 for Christmas will be cyclamen in 6-inch 

 pots, as usual. He disposes of a large 

 quantity of tliis popular plant every 

 year. His facilities for an extensive 

 wholesale cut flower business have in- 

 creased greatly since Christmas, 1902. 



Charles Millang has installed his new- 

 telephone, with switch connections w-ith 

 his office, conservatory and wholesale cut 

 flower department. 



J. K. Allen is celebrating these days, 

 for he is ' ' sweet sixteen. ' ' Every morn- 

 ing since 1887 on deck at 5 o 'clock is a 

 pretty good market record. 



Heed & Keller are completely sold out 

 of their folding bells, their sales of this 

 specialty aggregating 30,000 exclusive of 

 those sold by their agencies in St. Louis 

 and Chicago. Every bell was sold to the 

 trade, the department stores being relig- 

 iously avoided. This firm report a great 

 business on every line this year, their in- 

 ventions alone forming a large percent- 

 age of their output. 



On Saturday evening, December 5, 

 Fred Smith, of Woodside, the "good 

 twin," was married > to Miss Eberhardt, 

 of the same place. 



Moore, Hentz & Nash are again re- 

 ceiving fine stock of the Queen of Edgely 

 rose, for which they are sole agents in 

 New York city. 



James A. Hammond makes a specialty 

 for Christmas of the orange tree, as 

 usual. Handling over 1,000 fine plants 

 each season, from 5-ineh pots at .'fl each, 

 up to some specimens that easily com- 

 mand $10 to $15 in the bon ton retail 

 stores. 



Slinn & Hughes are handling all of 

 .Jerome Suydara 's carnations, and are the 

 New- York agents for his red. Amaze, 

 which w^s so much admired at the Brook- 

 lyn ccmvention. Their business has grown 

 rapidly since the formation of the part- 

 nership in the early fall. 



L. J. Kreshover is, like all the supply 

 men, overwhelmed with business. His 

 space will have to be greatly enlarged to 

 accommodate the increase. He finds the 

 demand for immortelles unprecedented. 



Bouquet green is short and many orders 

 will remain unfilled. Five carloads of 

 hollj' and -nMld smilax in great quantities 

 are amongst the prepai-ations for the in- 

 evitable demand. 



N. Lecakes has purchased the famous 

 fourteen-acre lily jjond jit Norwalk, 

 Conn., known all over that state and en- 

 suring him an immense supply of the 

 popular flower in its season. This com- 

 pany, with its branch store and stands 

 in the markets, is doing a great busi- 

 ness in green goods, not only now-, but 

 throughout the year. 



Hicks (St Craw-buck report their florist 

 su]iply department a greater success than 

 they anticipated and the convenience for 

 the Brooklyn florists is thoroughly appre- 

 ciated. This firm will handle about 

 everything in the supply line for Christ- 

 mas. 



Ealph M. Ward returned from Europe 

 Friday, December 4. 



The contemplated flower show and sale 

 of plants at the Herald Square Exhibi- 

 tion Hall, where the chrysanthemum show- 

 was held, will take place the week be- 

 fore Easter and not the week before 

 Christmas, as stated last week. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



PITTSBURG CLUB MEETING. 



The Pittsburg and Alkghuiy Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club held its regular 

 monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, De- 

 cember 1. The subject before the club 

 -was Christmas plants, flowers and ma- 

 terials. Antoine Schultheis, College 

 Point, N. Y., exhibited a nice lot of 

 young Dalms, solanums in berry and cape 

 heaths." The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. 

 had a large assortment of wreaths, bells, 

 statice, everlastings, boxwood, chenille 

 cord and Christmas greens, ferns and 

 misletoe. Julius and Gustave Ludwig 

 had an assortment of Christmas greens, 

 including large branches of the strikingly 

 beautiful Dahoon holly from northern 

 Florida, also flowers. John Bader had a 

 magnificent specimen of English holly, 

 scarlet all over with berries; also an as- 

 sortment of palms, araucarias, screw- 

 pines, begonias, azaleas and cut flowers. 

 Eandolph & McClements had big plants 

 of the Anna Foster and Piersoni ferns, 

 and Schenley park sent some pretty Lor- 

 raine begonias. 



Altogether there w-as a very nice exhi- 

 bition and abundant food for thought and 

 eliseussion, and we did discuss things' 

 quite lively, too. Nothing very new, 

 either in materials or make-up, was 

 elicited. The growing scarcity of 

 ground pine, hence higher price, was 

 talked about. All expected a big Christ- 

 mas trade, so all were happy. 



The Cut Flower Co, declared they had 

 perhaps the finest green boxwood ever 

 offered for sale, and Mr. Clarke waxed 

 warm when he assured the boys that his 

 folks had everything in the line of 

 Christmas materials on liand that could 

 be found anywhere. John Bader raid he 

 would sell that holly for $.5, as he had 

 lots more of it at home. Some of the 

 boys tried to squeeze out of him how- 

 much he paid for it in Holland; they 

 wanted to know what profits he was mak- 

 ing, but John didn't tell all he knew. 

 He urged, however, that holly just as 

 good could be gro-wn in our southern 

 states. 



.Jackson Dawson, superintendent of 

 Arnold Arboretum, Boston, sent a lot of 

 \ery bright and beautiful haw, holly, 

 barberry and other hardy berries that 

 might be used to good advantage in win- 



