Deck-MBKK 17, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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optimistic and inspiring address and was 

 heartily appreciated by all. 



Mr. "Siebrecht, Mr. Traendly and Mr. 

 Lang urged the present as an opportune 

 hour for the formation of the New York 

 Bowling Club for l.;04 and a do^en mem- 

 bers were enrolled and arrangements 

 made for active worlf the first Monday in 

 January. Nearly all tiie prominent bowl- 

 ers of the club signed the roll and the 

 new year will find an enthusiastic mem- 

 bership and the nucleus of a club that 

 will do itself and the city credit iu the 

 great tournament at St. Louis in August. 

 And so ended one of the best meetings 

 in the New York Florists' Club's his- 

 tory. The new ofiScers are men of ex- 

 perience, ability and untiring energy and 

 they will give a good account of them- 

 selves. 



Varioxjs Notes. 

 Last Friday and Saturday the up state 

 storm delayed the arrival of violets so 

 seriously, especially the later day that 

 thousands were left over for Sunday 

 sales, which a terrific rain storm pre- 

 vented, and by Monday the whole lot 

 was unsalable. The shipments of vio- 

 lets continue in enormous quantities and 

 it is seldom that the specials touch the 

 top figure of $1.50; 75 cents to $1 is 

 high tide many a day. The high values 

 of other years need no longer be counted 

 on, even for the holiday trade. 



J. A. Peterson, of Cincinnati, has been 

 here with his samples of Farleyense and 

 Begonia Lorraine. Local oiferings of 

 the latter are greatly in excess of last 

 season 's supply. 



E. Chauroux, of Flushing, a member of 

 the Cut Flower Exchange, died on De- 

 cember 5. The business will be contin- 

 ued by his son. 



.John Ct. Esler, of Saddle Eiver, N. J. ; 

 C. W. Cox, of San Francisco ; J. D. 

 Thompson, of Joliet, and E. G. Hill, 

 of Richmond, Ind., are recent visitors. 

 Mr. Hill will remain several days and is 

 visiting the leading carnation and chrys- 

 anthemum growers' of this section. 



The Cut Flower Co. is handling grand 

 Beauties from the Scarboro factory of 

 Paul M. Pierson, where every house is 

 devoted to this variety, and the "Beau- 

 ty King ' ' declares he believes the Christ- 

 mas rush will be quite up to other years. 

 Traendly & Schenck are handling their 

 usual superb quality of violets and 

 among their roses Golden Gate is coming 

 especially strong and salable. 



Not so long ago, it was difficult to get 

 orders for Princess pine at 7 cents a 

 pound ; now good stock readily commands 

 12 cents, the poorest grade brings 10 

 cents and there will be nowhere near 

 enough to go around. 



Dunne & Co. have added to their sun- 

 dries an invention by Mr. Dunne, a strap 

 lock for valises and light trunks that 

 is very serviceable and are having quite 

 an extensive demand for it. 



Jas. McManus has been shipping cat- 

 tleyas and Dendrobium formosum to 

 Philadelphia, Chicago, Memphis and New 

 Orleans and finds the demand growing 

 rapidly. 



M. Rice, of Philadelphia, was in the 

 city Tuesday, visiting friends and mak- 

 ing fraternal calls upon the supply and 

 wholesale houses. 



John J. Perkins is celebrating his 

 thirty-first Christmas in the business 

 this year, and has among his growers 

 some who have been loyal : to him_over -a. 

 quarter of a century. He is handling 

 some special Brides and Maids and this 

 season has a good stock of single violets 

 for the holidavs. 



One of Mr. Ghormley's violet shippers 

 is very patriotic, bunches of "red, white 

 and blue" violets neatly arranged form- 

 ing a uni<iue and rapid selling novelty for 

 Christmas. 



Leopold Osternei, traveling salesman 

 for Siebrecht & Son, known to all his 

 customers as Leo, is just up from a four 

 weeks' lay olf in bed, the result of a 

 horse kick on the knee. 



Robert Kift, of Philadelphia, was in 

 the city Wednesday and Thursday, vis- 

 iting the growers and retailers and ab- 

 sorbing metropolitan conceptions for 

 Christmas, which added to his own orig- 

 inal methods, ought to wake up the pro- 

 verbially restful town, and doubtless vrill. 

 He anticipates a "conservative" holi- 

 day season. 



Mrs. Henry Siebrecht, Sr., of New 

 Eochelle, is recovering slowly from her 

 long illness o.nd is now out of danger. 



The ' ' white palace ' ' being erected 

 by Siebrecht & Son at Fifth avenue and 

 Thirty-eighth street, is nearing comple- 

 tion and "the immense store, the finest in 

 America, if not in the world, will open 

 December 20 in time for Christmas and 

 with appointments and. conveniences un- 

 excelled. 



Many of Phi! Breitmeyer's friends in 

 the east think the President would have 

 been a more appropriate name for the 

 new rose than La Detroit, but the beauti- 

 ful convention city deserved some such 

 recognition. It was a shame to have to 

 miss the christening. Seems as though 

 such a ceremony should take place during 

 a convention week. 



The Horticultural Society, of New 

 York met last Wednesday and J. T. 

 Scott, of Randall's Island', spoke inter- 

 estingly on his system of teaching hor- 

 ticulture there. Dr. Britton also gave an 

 illustrated lecture and Nathan Smith 

 & Son exhibited their new late pink chrys- 

 anthemum John Burton. 



A. J. Fellouris has an extra large 

 force at work these days, preparing 

 itock for his Christmas trade in ever- 

 greens of every kind. He handles enor- 

 mous quantities of galax and ferns and 

 has excelient facilities for their presenta- 

 tion. His brother is expected back from 

 Europe shortly. 



John I. Raynor will hereafter receive 

 a steady supply of the Croweanum fern, 

 the sale of which he controls in New 

 York. J. Austin Shaw. 



BUFFALO. 



A Stormy Sunday. 



The blizzard which struck Buffalo on 

 Sunday morning is not at all local. The 

 weather, like armies iu the field, is no 

 respecter of any particular :lay of rhe 

 week, and hurls its fierce blast at us 

 whether it is going to keep us ircm 

 ihurch or not. In the little viltage where 

 1 weathered out yesterday's storm, there 

 is a population of 400 all told. There are 

 five churches and five congregations, if 

 five or six families can be called such. 

 At last night 's Episcopal service there 

 were just two individuals iu ine church, 

 beside the parson and the five boys and 

 girls of the choir. When the dominie be- 

 gan, ' ' Dearly beloved brethren, the 

 scripture moveth us in sundry places, 

 etc.," it sounded funny, because both 

 the two brethren were women. Why 

 not all get together and have one good 

 church and pay some able man who could 

 talk and entertain and morally instruct? 

 Living is cheap in the country and a 

 gifted young graduate might be induced 



to practice on this small community at 

 $15 per week and house rent, but with 

 such a division of creeds and split up 

 into handfulls you can't pay big wages, 

 although perhaps the salaries paid at 

 present are a fair equivalent for the ar- 

 ticle received. Of those things I am a 

 poor judge. A hundred years ago the 

 congregations got their money's worth 

 in the very liberal amount of fire and 

 sulphur that was promised them in the 

 indefinite future, but since roasting, 

 toasting and brimstone no longer ema- 

 nate from the pulpit there is an aching 

 void. Yet what a lot there is to talk 

 and act before "We'll brithers be for 

 a ' that. ' ' 



Stock Shorter. 



Flowers are decidedly shorter iu sup- 

 ply. Our papers are full of accounts of 

 social entertainments, which helps all 

 along the line, but T ha-ve not heard of 

 any events taxing the local market. We 

 expect a merry and prosperous holiday- 

 season. Buffalo has grown greatly in 

 population and manufactures within the 

 past ten years and no labor troubles have 

 arisen to upset the business equilibrium. 

 Holly is arriving in quantity and of fair 

 quality. It seems there is a scarcity of 

 ground pine. Poor Lo and his squaw got 

 snowed in this year, we can believe. 



Hill and the Great West. 



We were sitting almost in the gloam- 

 ing, making carnation cuttings one day 

 last week, when we heard in a muifled 

 and strange voice a request for a carna- 

 tion buttonhole. Striking a match we 

 discovered we were honored vrith a visit 

 from E. G. Hill. I would just as soon 

 have expected to see Speaker Cannon or 

 Elijah Dowie, but not half as well 

 pleased. The time was all too short, 

 but outside of floriculture I got E. G. 

 to give me ten minutes' talk on the 

 sights of the Pacific coast, the Canadian 

 Pacific railroad, etc. It strikes me that 

 at our next convention nothing would be 

 more interesting than a half hour's talk 

 from Mr. Hill on horticulture on the 

 Pacific coast, not confining him strictly 

 to horticulture, for who wouldn't like 

 to hear from a truthful witness of the 

 stupendous works of nature in a region 

 that was almost an undiscovered eoimtry 

 but a few years ago. We want to hear 

 more of the Canadian Rockies and Mr. 

 Hill 's shooting adventures. Who among 

 you realizes that this ardent, studious 

 horticulturist of international fame is 

 keen after big game. A florist of Van- 

 couver strolled forth into the big tim- 

 ber with Mr. Hill and within five miles 

 of his greenhouse chased up three bears, 

 large ones. E. G. 's trusty aim made two 

 of them bite the dust and he would 

 have bagged the third, but he paused to 

 contemplate the mammoth trees. Those 

 who don 't believe he shot the bears will 

 please bear with this story. W. S. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of Committees. 



BcsTON, November 28. — Seedling No. 

 .T-.3-01, light pink, shown by Nathan 

 Smith & Son. Adrian, Mich., scored 73 

 points exhibition scale. 



Philadelphia', December 12. — The va- 

 riety John Burton, an incurved Japanese 

 of a soft Davbreak nink color, shown by 

 Nathan Smith & Son. Adrian, Mich., 

 scored SO points commercial scale. 



Fred H. Lemojj, Sec. 



