Januaky 28, 1B04. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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lation than anything else and that he 

 has not decided whether he will sublet 

 or put in a candy or flower store. The 

 Fleischman Company, he states, has no 

 thought of moving from the Palmer 

 House, where they recently made a new 

 lease. 



T. D. Moseonesotes, of the Masonic 

 Temple, has leased a room at North 

 State and Division streets and will 

 shortly open a store there. It is not 

 far from Wienhoeber's on one side and 

 Wittbold's on the other. 



The building occupied by the Ander- 

 son Floral Company is to be demol- 

 ished May 1 and Otto Young will build 

 a sky-scraper there. 



Bassett & Washburn are still cutting 

 fine Liberties, stock that sells at $2 to 

 $2.50 per dozen. 



Peter Eeinberg has placed an order 

 with George M. Garland for close to 

 4,000 feet of iron gutter to be used in 

 rebuilding the big section of his place 

 running from the residence to Balmoral 

 avenue. It will be a big job, and the 

 old houses, only up about ten years, are 

 still in fair shape, but Mr. Eeinberg is 

 80 well pleased with the high gutter 

 range erected last year that he thinks 

 it will pay to put this piece in the 

 same shape. 



On the night of January 22 the Chi- 

 cago branch of the Pittsburg Plate Glass 

 Company was burned out for the second 

 time within a year. This time it was a 

 total loss, approximately $200,000. The 

 company has booked several good sized 

 orders for greenhouse glass for early 

 spring, but delivery will not be delayed 

 on account of the fire. 



On January 20 Herman Eennock, who 

 shot Oscar Kreitling, was found not 

 guilty of murder. In a previous trial 

 the verdict was for conviction. 



C. W. McKellar is making orchids ;i 

 specialty, handling laelias and others 

 as well as cattleyas and cj^jripediums. 



James Hartshorne brought vases of 

 Dorothy Whitney, Fiancee, Harlowar- 

 den, Eeliance and Crusader to the Grow- 

 ers' Market last Saturday. It was all 

 very good stock and he booked a num- 

 ber of orders for cuttings on the 

 strength of the display. He says he 

 already has orders for 175,000 Fiancee, 

 to be sent out in 1905. 



It is reported that labor troubles are 

 imminent in the wooden box factories 

 and the wholesalers are filling all avail- 

 able space with boxes "in the knock- 

 down." 



The Florists' Cluh will hold its sec- 

 ond outside meeting this evening at 

 Metropolitan hall, 856 North California 

 avenue. Tlie subjects scheduled for the 

 last regular meeting, having to do with 

 greenhouse building, will be discussed. 



W. H. Hilton is at home from his 

 trip to Cuba, having stopped for a day 

 or two in New Orleans. 



Mardi Gras at New Orleans comes 

 February 15 and 16. It always brings 

 a good many orders to this market. 



Benthey & Co. are going into the 

 rooted cutting business on an extensive 

 scale, having made arrangements to 

 supply practically everything in this 

 line. * 



Leonard Kill has recently proposed 

 twenty-four names for membership in 

 the Florists' Club. 



H. W. F. Goetz, with John B. Goetz, 

 Saginaw, was a recent visitor. 



C. Pruner, of Winterson's, is at his 

 tome in Ohio trying to get weU. 



John Zeck, of J. A. Budlong's, has 

 been hobbling this week as the result 

 of a fall on the ice which severely in- 

 jured one knee. 



J. Stern, the Philadelphia supply 

 dealer, was in town this week, visiting 

 his brother and the trade. 



NEW YORK. 



Tue Market. 



The opening of the week finds us en- 

 during another siege of old-time winter 

 weather, the outskirts, doubtless, of the 

 cold wave that envelopes Chicago in a 

 temperature of 20 degrees below zero. 

 A few hours ago it was raining and over- 

 coats were a burden. Now the festive 

 ear muff is again in evidence. These 

 sudden changes ktep the growers on the 

 anxious seat and accentuate the univers- 

 ality of the bronchial epidemic, which 

 seems to affect about everyone in the 

 trade. 



There seems to be enough and to spare 

 of every kind of cut flower stock. The 

 very finest American Beauties touched 

 40 cents occasionally last week and 

 Maids in a few special lots reached 12 to 

 15 cents. There was little change in the 

 ordinary grades. Violets and carnations 

 are plentiful and superb again in qual- 

 ity. Orchids are being called for by 

 out-of-town buyers and hold steady. 



Bulbous stock of all kinds commands 

 low rates in comparison with last year, 

 and in fact everything, when compared 

 with the same dates in 1903, shows a 

 marked recession from the prices then 

 obtained. The outlook for improvement 

 is some brighter, and a continuation of 

 extreme cold weather will doubtless be 

 reflected in a general improvement in 

 demand. All the social functions, the 

 iipera, weddings and dinners are in full 

 blast and balls of national repute will 

 fill the intervening weeks till Lent with 

 abundance of festivity and floral decora- 

 tions. 



Various Notes. 



' ' Carnation night ' ' at the next meet- 

 ing, on February 8, of the New York 

 Florists' Club promises to be of unusual 

 interest. ' The rooms at the Grand 

 Opera House building, corner of Twenty- 

 third street and Eighth avenue, will be 

 crowded, not only with members and ex- 

 hibitors, but the ladies have been invited 

 to attend the exhibition and will be the 

 recipients of snecial courtesy. Not only 

 members of the club who are carnation- 

 ists are expected to exhibit, but displays 

 will be welcomed from any grower de- 

 siring to place flowers of any kind on 

 exhibition. They may be sent to Sec- 

 retary John Young, 51 West Twenty- 

 eighth street, who will properly care for 

 and stage them for any unable to give 

 them personal attention. Exhibits are 

 expected from the leading growers of the 

 country. It will be a splendid oppor- 

 tunity for all having novelties to make 

 a preliminary display prior to the great 

 convention a few weeks later, at De- 

 troit. 



Friday of tliis week is Carnation day 

 and McKinley day, and it is much to 

 be desired that the enthusiastic efforts 

 of our friend Altick, of Dayton, in be- 

 half of the McKinley memorial fund, 

 are meeting with merited recognition and 

 that the custom of wearing a carnation 

 on January 29 in memory of the 

 martyred president may be universally 

 observed. 



A. J. Fellouris is receiving splendid 

 stock of galax and leucothoe daily and 

 reports a busy season. 



Nicholas Lecakes, of Twenty-ninth 

 street, whose dealings in green goods of 

 every kind have been rapidly increasing, 

 has sailed for a well earned rest in Eu- 

 rope and will doubtless plant wild smi- 

 lax on Mars Hill and in the pass of 

 Thermopylfe before his return. 



The large phoenix sold by the collector 

 of the port of New "iork last week on 

 account of siezure by the customs au- 

 thorities, were disposed of at famine 

 prices, some stock worth $20 going at 

 $4. Few florists were in attendance. 

 The plants were ten to twelve feet high. 

 Charles Millang 's conservatory proves 

 a great convenience for city florists and 

 the number of palms, ferns and flower- 

 ing plants handled daily there is far in 

 excess of expectations. Mr. Millang 

 contemplates adding considerably to his 

 room and facilities, having leased the 

 whole building at 50 West Twenty-ninth 

 street. He disposes of several thousand 

 small ferns daily. 



Croweanum holds steady at $1.50 per 

 100 at .John I. Eaynor's, the only New 

 York source of supply for this beautiful 

 novelty. 



J. K. Allen is receiving a nice stock 

 elaily of the fine pink gladiolus Shakes- 

 peare, excellent quality for the season 

 and for wliich there is a ready sale. 



F. E. Pierson 's new dark crimson car- 

 nation is a beautiful thing. It origi- 

 nated with W. C. Eussell, superintendent 

 of the C. F. Dietrich estate at Millbrook, 

 and the stock was purchased by Mr. 

 Pierson. The Pierson Co. also has a 

 good novelty in a new smilax, Medeola 

 asparagoides myrtifolia, a German intro- 

 duction for which they have the Ameri- 

 can agency. 



The winter residence of E. W. Clucas, 

 of Clucus & Boddington Co., was er- 

 roneously stated in my last to be Orange. 

 It should have been Summit, N. J. This 

 firm has just received a large shipment 

 from Japan of flowering wistarias, 

 plums, peaches and cherries trimmed in 

 attractive shapes and in fine condition, 

 also immense quantities of tuberoses 

 from their southern plantation. 



On Thursday evening the fifth annual 

 dinner of the Tarrytown Horticultural 

 Society will be held in the new hotel 

 there and the secretary, Mr. Newbrand, 

 announces the certainty of a large at- 

 tendance. 



Benj. Dorrance, of Dorranceton, Pa., 

 will bask in the sunshine of the Florida 

 climate during the balance of the winter. 

 Paul DaiUedouze was delighted with 

 his western visit, and the courtesy of 

 his reception everywhere. 



The trade extends its sympathy to A. 

 L. Don, of Weeber & Don, seedsmen, in 

 the loss of his mother in Scotland. The 

 deceased lady was in her eighty-seventh 

 year. 



Hicks & Crawbuck, of Brooklyn, find 

 the florists' supply department a good 

 business venture, and havb just added a 

 fine team and new wagon to their facili- 

 ties. 



Theo. Paits, one of the old-time florists 

 of New Lots avenue, East New York, 

 died suddenly and alone at his green- 

 houses last Wednesday. For years he 

 made his daily calls on the florists with 

 hyacinths and valley as his spei-ialties 

 and personal memories of his frequent 

 visits ten years ago remind me of his 

 faithfulness to promises and sterling 

 honesty that more than atoned for ec- 



