Febbuakv 4. 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



505 



quality in the glass now made is in a 

 large measure due to the discovery of 

 veins of -nhiter sand. Following the 

 discussion, which also touched upon 

 putty and paint, a lunch was served to 

 a merry crowd. 



Lost evening the club held its regu- 

 lar meeting at Handel hall, the latest 

 improvements in greenhouse construction 

 being up for discussion, the various 

 builders having been invited to display 

 models, drawings or photographs of 

 their innovations. On Saturday even- 

 ing, February 13, the third and prob- 

 ably the last of the outside meetings 

 will be held at the Drexel cafe, corner 

 of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty- 

 ninth street. An attractive program is 

 being arranged and a large attendance 

 is looked for. 



On February 17 the club will hold a 

 large exhibition of roses, carnations, vio- 

 lets and any other seasonable cut flowers 

 at Handel hall. The exhibition will be 

 open to the public in the afternoon and 

 ■- the evening there will be a club meet- 

 ing or supper. P. J. Hauswirth is man- 

 ager of the exhibition, and requests that 

 out-of-town exhibitors who cannot come 

 in person send stock in care of Benthey 

 Co., 35 Eandolph street. It will be 

 carefully staged. 



Wm. A. Moak will speak at the Drexel 

 cafe meeting, discussing club member- 

 ship and its benefits to the business man. 



Various Notes. 



George M. Garland says that the num- 

 ber of inquiries received would indicate 

 either that there are to- be even more 

 greenhouses built this year than usual 

 or that a much larger proportion are 

 to be put up with iron gutters. 



Anton Then's father and mother cele- 

 brated their golden wedding last Sun- 

 day with appropriate ceremonies. 



JIartin Petersen has a well equipped 

 store at 752 West Division street and 

 is doing a nice trade, although he says 

 the effects of the Iroquois disaster are 

 still felt. 



George Eeinberg has placed an order 

 with the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. for 

 1,200 boxes of glass for his new range. 

 It is all B grade, he being one of those 

 who have found B glass nowadays bet- 

 ter quality than the A glass was when 

 he built his first houses. He expects to 

 get the new range up for early planting 

 to roses. 



1I5-S. George Asmus suffered a hard 

 fall one afternoon last week and received 

 injuries which will necessitate her keep- 

 ing quiet for some time. 



Reports from St. Louis ehronicle the 

 suicide there of W. E. Mannheimer, a 

 young man who has worked in Chicago 

 "flower stores up to a short time ago. 



Slow business with some of the local 

 retailers is setting the wholesalers to 

 thinking about collections. 



A. L. Randall says he doubts if many 

 violets will hold their quality till Easter 

 and thinks that good violets should be 

 pretty fair property before long. 



John Zeck, formerly with J. A. Bud- 

 long, is now with E. C. Amling. 



Peter Reinberg has been iU and in bed 

 for the past few days. 



George Baldwin, of Oak Park, is re- 

 ported to have lost $600 through frost 

 as the result of his boiler giving out. 



Daniel Branch was called to Minne- 

 apolis last Saturday by the illness of 

 his mother. 



J. W. Lyon, of Belvidere, says tiat 

 with him Norway has ^r-^-'^r\ to be the 

 I p=t white carnation this winter. 



Bassctt & Washburn report that this 

 iMiM weather seems just right for rose 

 grafting. They are making about 1,000 

 grafts a day and practically all are 

 sufeessful. Their grafted Brides and 

 Maids are just coming in crop with a 

 siilendid lot o*' flowers. 



Tliose who have the Helios-Upton re- 

 cording thermometers outside their 

 greenhouses are getting some interest- 

 iniT records these mornings. From 10 

 to 20 degrees below zero is the regular 

 tiling with many a day which sees no 

 mark above zero. January averaged 13 

 degrees colder than last year and in 

 ten woeks there has been only one pe- 

 riod when it thawed; then it rained for 

 two days. Whether or not the ground- 

 lion- saw his shadow on Tuesday depends 

 nn the hour of his perambulations. All 

 in the trade will welcome warmer 

 weather. 



Last Saturday there was a small fire 

 in the basement of the Atlas block, 

 burning through a partition and destroy- 

 ing a few bales of moss belonging to 

 the E. F. Winterson Company. 



E. A. Fetters, Mrs. Fetters and daugh- 

 ter, of Cleveland, were visitors this 

 week, en route to California. Walter 

 Bertermann, of Indianapolis, and J. W. 

 Lyon, of Belvidere, were also in town. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The market holds steady at about last 

 week's quotations. The demand is away 

 below last year's average and the supply 

 of every variety of stock ample for all 

 requirements. But with the possible ex- 

 ception of violets there is a tendency to- 

 ward improvement. Good roses and car- 

 nations command fair values. Violets 

 have "shot their bolt" for this season 

 and it takes 100 selected flowers of the 

 finest quality to touch the dollar mark. 

 Thousands of the finest bunches last 

 week were cleared at 50 cents per 100. 

 Left-over stock went to the street mer- 

 chants at one-half this figure and often 

 less. The quantity of bulbous stock that 

 comes to market increases daily. Prices 

 are low. Even lily of the valley and or- 

 chids are dragging on the bottom. 



The society balls and dinners are in 

 full swing, and an abundance of them. 

 The charity ball this week at the Wal- 

 dorf-Astoria and the Arion next Friday 

 at Madison Square Garden will be the 

 events of the season. The decorations 

 will exceed anything ever before at- 

 tempted at these celebrations, and Small 

 & Sons and Hanft Bros, will have oppor- 

 tunity to enhance their reputations for 

 artistic and beautiful effects. 



Club Doings. 



Next Monday the carnation exhibition 

 at the club's rooms in the Grand Opera 

 House building gives promise of a great 

 success. The exhibitors are numerous 

 and include all parts of the country, 

 from Boston to Chicago. The ladies will 

 be entertained with refreshments. Ma- 

 zetti, the caterer, has been engaged and 

 the club will leave nothing undone to add 

 to the enjoyment of their fair visitors. 

 This is a happy departure under the new 

 oflScial leadership of the club, that gives 

 promise of a year of surprises that will 

 add to both interest and membership. 



The business meeting will be called to 

 order at 7:30 that evening. 



The club's annual banquet will take 

 place, as usual, at St. Denis Hotel, on 

 Saturday evening, .February 20. A fine 

 musical program, with vaudeville dress- 

 ing, will be served and, as to the dinner 

 itself, those who have enjoyed these 

 yearly festivities in the past need no 

 assurance as to their excellence. Every 

 member of the club should attend. Send 

 check to Walter F. Sheridan, 39 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, as soon as possible 

 to facilitate the arrangements. Law- 

 rence Haflfner and Lyman D. Craw are 

 the other members of the committee. 

 Many prominent florists from other cities 

 are expected. The banquet hall will seat 

 200 comfortably. The dinner will be 

 served at 7:30. 



The summer outing of the club has 

 been set for Wednesday, June 29, at 

 the same place as the last two years, 

 Witzel 's Point, and by boat as usual. 

 The committee is already busy preparing 

 for it. The athletic competitions will 

 be the features of the day, next to the 

 shore dinner, and many valuable prizes 

 will be offered. 



Various Notes. 



The trade has suffered heavily from 

 the prevailing winter afiliction, la grippe, 

 the changeable climate being hard to 

 overcome. In one week we had zero, rain 

 and a blizzard at intervals of forty-eight 

 hours. One has to have an iron con- 

 stitution to pull through. H. C. Riedel 

 has had a week of it. Percy Eichter, of 

 Asmus ', was seriously iU. Many are 

 suffering from severe colds and ought to 

 be secluded, by the looks of them. But 

 this is the winter when few can afford 

 the luxury of being sick abed. 



The Easter flower show and sale, which 

 is to be held in the exhibition hall at 

 the top of the Macy building, promises 

 to be quite a success, the manager, Mr. 

 Chasseaud, already having let a large 

 quantity of space to prominent growers 

 around New York and to some large 

 plantsmen within fifty miles of the city. 

 Every facility for display and delivery is 

 to be given the esliibitors and an enor- 

 mous attendance is provided for. The ad- 

 mission during the day is free. Music 

 and a small charge will make the even- 

 ing popular. 



William H. Keubler has opened a 

 wholesale store at 19 Boerum place. 

 Brooklyn, formerly A. H. Langjahr 's 

 headquarters. 



The announcement of Wm. J. EUiott 's 

 departure for Bermuda on Wednesday 

 of last week was premature. He will not 

 leave for a week or ten days, and will be 

 back before March 8, on which date the 

 strenuous auction season will open. 



It is announced that another auction 

 house will make a bid for public recog- 

 nition, at 62 Vesey street, this spring, 

 and that some familiar faces will be seen 

 there. 



Hugh Nelson, of J. J. Perkins' force, 

 has gone to Kells, Meade county, Ire- 

 land, on account of the death of his 

 father and to complete the settlement of 

 an estate that will place him on easy 

 street. 



Wm. Ford, of Ford Brothers, the new 

 secretary of the Florists' Bowling Club, 

 proves to be an expert with the balls, and 

 will prove a valuable addition to the 

 active staff at the St. Louis competition. 

 Jas. McManus is handling large quan- 



