Januaby 21. 1304. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



411 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The market seems to have steadied 

 at the quotations given last week and 

 the bottom doubtless has been seen for 

 the winter season. From now until Lent 

 there sliould be a gradual improvement, 

 and there is little danger of the utterly 

 abnormal conditions that have prevailed 

 since the New Year. It has been Lent 

 for the growers and wholesalers for more 

 than forty days. While the rest of the 

 world is in mourning for their sins let 

 us hope the florists may rejoice. They 

 certainly deserve to and their sins have 

 surely been atoned for. 



On Saturday there was a tendency to 

 improve in the special Beauty market. 

 As high as 35 cents was reached by a 

 few of them, though many were cleared 

 out at 25 cents. Lower grades remained 

 quiet, and the short stems were having a 

 hard time of it, and many were unsal- 

 able. Bridesmaids hold their own al- 

 ways, good ones, and are the first to 

 feel the upward movement. The best 

 stock found a ready sale at a higher 

 price as the week closed, and the present 

 week with its balls, its notable weddings 

 and its society show in the automobile 

 line should be about the best of the uew 

 year to date. 



Fine Liberties have held quite as high 

 a value as Beauties lately. The carna- 

 tion market has been in the dumps in 

 more ways than one. The "dump'' has 

 engulfel thousands of the common ones, 

 while the fancy and novelty grades have 

 lost about half their prestige. Even or- 

 chids have been too plentiful for the de- 

 mand and prices have fallen. Tulips, 

 narcissi and hyacinths are abundant, 

 sweet peas also and mignonette. The 

 latter is this season more abundant and 

 worth less than ever before. Violets are 

 swayed by the ebb and flow of demand. 

 In supply there is always an abundance ; 

 in quality they are unsurpassed. But 

 the prices are a nightmare and manv 

 boxes that go down the line come back 

 unopened. It's a good thing "hope 

 springs eternal in the human breast.'' 



Various Items. 



The Young Arion ball last Friday 

 evening was decorated from basement to 

 roof by Hanft Bros., and in addition to 

 azaleas, lilacs, poinsettias and other 

 flowering plants, immense quantities of 

 laurel, hemlock and needle pines were 

 used and twenty cases of wild smilax. 



The severe weather continues to add to 

 its victims. William Duckham, of Madi- 

 son, has been very ill with an abscess 

 of the ear. 



J. W. Bebus, of Wm. Elliott & Sons, 

 has just recovered from a ten days' siege 

 with grippe. 



John N. May. of Summit, has been 

 confined to the house for a month and 

 convalesces slowly. 



W. J. Elliott leaves next week for his 

 annual trip to Bermuda. 



Arthur Herrington, president of the- 

 Chrysanthemum Society, sails on the Lu- 

 cania next Saturday for England, ming- 

 ling business with pleasure. 



Weeber & Don report particularly gra- 

 tifying results from their catalogue and 

 all the wholesale houses have dissemin- 

 ated handsomer catalogues than usual 

 this year in evident anticipation of a 

 continuance of the good times of 1903. 



There is a rumor concerning the con- 



templated plunge of a well-known bach- 

 elor into the seething sea of matrimony; 

 a seedsman who has long held out against 

 the attractiveness of the gentler sex. 



Too much gas has caused a severe loss 

 in the greenhouses of Geo. M. Stumpp, 

 the Fifth avenue florist. 



The slim attendance at the Flatbush 

 alleys on Thursday is partially accounted 

 for by the western trip of Paul Daille- 

 douze among the western carnationists 

 and the fatherly solicitude of Carl Woer- 

 ner, whose wife presented him with an- 

 other florist, the boy being his first born 

 and none of Carl 's hats large enough 

 to venture out in the freezing weather. 

 Wm. Fogarty also has had a visit from 

 the stork. This also was a boy. 



Our old friend James Dean maintains 

 his place in the estimation of his neigh- 

 bors, having just been honored with the 

 presidency of the Freeport, L. I., Club 

 for the third consecutive year. 



Lewis Collins, secretary of the former 

 Brooklyn Tree Planting Society, died 

 Saturday, January 9, aged 71. 



The next meeting of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York at the American 

 Institute, will be held the second Wednes- 

 day in February, and will be devoted to 

 the subject ' ' Orchids, ' ' and by a unan- 

 imous vote it was decided to try the 

 holding of meetings in the evenings in- 

 stead of the afternoons with a view to 

 an enlarged attendance. At the Janu- 

 ary meeting, the president had on ex- 

 hibition superb samples of cucumbers, 

 cauliflower, tomatoes, radishes and water- 

 cress. The day was stormy and disagree- 

 able and the attendance light, but the 

 program was very interesting and in- 

 structive. Henry A. Siebrecht discoursed 

 on ornamental trees, shrubs and plants, 

 giving a practical lecture involving every 

 variety of desirable tree and shrub 

 utilized in American horticulture. T. 

 Withers followed in an interesting ad- 

 dress on "Our Native Trees in Land- 

 scape, ' ' evidencing a thorough, practical 

 knowledge of his subject. 



The ' ' smoker ' ' at Madison last 

 Wednesday evening was well attended. 

 Its details will doubtless be covered by 

 your regular correspondent. The vaude- 

 ville entertainment was excellent. The 

 chicken, celery and punch of 1904 "vint- 

 age. ' ' and the formal meeting of the so- 

 ciety showed a most prosperous condi- 

 tion of affairs. The presentation of the 

 Moore, Hentz & Nash silver cup to J. 

 F. Eusicka, rose grower for L. A. Noe, 

 of Madison, was a pleasing feature. 



Slinn & Hughes report a growing de- 

 mand for Amaze, Jerome Suydam's fine 

 red carnation, which they say has brought 

 :fo per 100 during the season. Mr. 

 Slinn spent last Sunday with the violet 

 growers of Ehinebeek. 



Bonnot Bros., of the Exchange, are 

 handling daily some very fine Golden 

 Gates, which rose is a specialty with 

 them. 



.Jos. Millang, the Beauty king, saj-s 

 American Beauties will not touch lower 

 prices again this season and that a bet- 

 ter business from now on in all lines is 

 confidently anticipated. Joseph and 

 Frank Millang had an all-night fire fight 

 Sunday evening at Bayside. where they 

 reside, and are prominent members of 

 the fire department. Joe says he carried 

 a piano out himself, but rumor says it 

 was the pianist that he saved. 



Mr. Krashover says he is hanelling an 

 average of 150 cases of wild smilax 

 weekly, and that the demand for all kinds 



of decorative gre'en goods is quite up 

 to last season. 



At the next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club, February 8, it has been 

 decided by the executive committee to 

 hold a carnation exhibition, to which an 

 invitation to all carnation growers is 

 cordially extended. The ladies also are 

 invited and a most interesting evening 

 is confidently anticipated. The outing 

 committee met at President Traendly 's 

 ofiice on Monday evening and Chas. 

 Sehenck was appointed treasurer and 

 Mr. Shaw, secretary. Mr. Elliott, the 

 chairman, was directed to engage the 

 boat and grove utilized last year for the 

 most desirable day .possibly the last week 

 in June. 



A splendid attendance and much en- 

 thusiasm materialized at the first meet- 

 ing of the New York Bowling Club, 

 Monday evening at the new alleys, Twen- 

 ty-third street and Tenth avenue. Cap- 

 tain Young has called a meeting for 

 7:30 sharp n".xt week Monady, when ofii 

 cers will be appointed and all arrange- 

 ments as to prizes, match games and 

 other interesting features will be then 

 consummated. The bowlers were a little 

 nervous, as the appended records indi- 

 eatc. Another week of practice and 

 there will be a different story. Here are 

 the best games of each participant: 



Lang 158 169 1S4 169 



Elliott 109 129 144 157 



Craw 130 94 OS 



HatEiier 122 177 141 I'u 



Siebrecht 191 15.S 145 12.S 



Traendly 1.34 1,36 141 



Gibbs 137 158 15(1 145 



Shaw 140 121 108 122 



Nugent 70 6.S 76 84 



Wallace 112 106 



Butterfleld 155 140 



Young 139 



Ford 126 



Thirteen members, altogether, a lucky 

 number. The alleys are very satisfac- 

 tory. A spirit of fraternity and good 

 will was prevalent and it was midnight 

 before the last of the enthusiasts de- 

 parted. Sister clubs will be heartily wel- 

 comed and every effort made to have the 

 weekly meeting helpful and harmonious. 

 A larger attendance next Monday is re- 

 quested. At least twenty regulars are 

 expected and there is ample accommoda- 

 tion for all. J. Austin Shaw. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market, 



Trade has pursued the even tenor of 

 its way this week, with few features 

 out of the common. Beginning last 

 Saturday there was a little stiffening in 

 values, but not enough to count for 

 much. Beauties are not so plentiful as 

 a few weeks ago and quality has de- 

 teriorated, particularly in the shorter 

 lengths. Tea roses are now pretty well 

 off crop and good stock commands ready 

 sale at fair prices, but most of it goes 

 out on shipping orders, for local busi- 

 ness is still very quiet. There are plenty 

 of carnations but the market is in better 

 shape than a week ago, when average 

 returns to the growers were the lowest 

 in a long time. But still very good 

 stock is to be had at $20 per 1000. 

 White sells best. Violets have not bene- 

 fited by the slight improvement which 

 has taken place, even though receipts 

 are reduced. Some of the eastern grow- 

 ers who found this market profitable 

 around Christmas have stopped shipping, 

 but this does not seem to help the sale 

 of the locally grown Campbells, for 

 after a taste of high life in the form 



