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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



ilABCH 10, 1904. 



m-eeting will be presided over by the 

 vice-president of the society. All chair- 

 men will receive notice when and where 

 to meet. 



Notes. 



H. G. Ude has left Kirkwood and is 

 now located at Hichmond. Ind.. but not 

 in the flower business. H. Hartman. who 

 was formerly employed by Mr. Ude, is 

 now in charge of the place. 



The father of Wm. Adels died on 

 March 4, after an iUness of three weeks. 

 Mr. Adels has the sympathy of the trade. 



Bowling. 



The Florists' Bowling Club entertained 

 the executive board of the S. A. F. and 

 other visitors on Monday night. Our 

 visitors were Theo. Wirth. H. M. Altick, 

 Phil Hauswirth, L. B. Craw, H. B. 

 Beatty and Paul Berkowitz. The fol- 

 lowing scores were made during the 

 evening : 



Team No. 1— 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Tl 



J. J. Beneke 147 181 156 202 6S6 



Theo. Miller 167 177 164 153 681 



v.. W. Guy 113 142 144 145 544 



F. M. Ellib. 141 126 102 118 485 



Phil Hauswirth 164 159 143 173 639 



Totals 732 785 709 789 3015 



Team No. 2— 1st 2Ed 3rd 4th T'l 



I'. A. Kuehn 199 17S 1S6 147 710 



A. Y. Ellison 183 191) 180 ISS 741 



O. R. Beueke 143 147 136 145 541 



H. M Altick 119 1(J9 lc>7 124 45:1 



F. C. Weber 135 115 182 128 5,58 



Totals 779 739 791 700 3009 



Team No. 3— 1st 2od 3rd T'l 



Theo. Wirth 152 127 121 400 



F. H. Meinhardt 143 112 182 437 



R. F. Tesson 141 178 148 467 



John Young 106 lOO 129 335 



D. B Craw 75 102 87 254 



F. Weber. Jr 154 133 126 415 



Totals 769 7.')4 7<>.'; 2.3ns 



J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



Monday was one of the most disagree- 

 able days of the year. A cold, drizzling 

 rain from farly morning until long after 

 midnight added to the stagnation in the 

 wholesale market. There was literally 

 nothing doing in the florist business and 

 conditions give little evidence of improve- 

 ment during the continuance of Lent. 

 There is an abundance of everything, 

 prices have sagged steadily and the 

 weather has retired the street venders, 

 so that even at unprecedented low prices 

 thfse gentry hold aloof and so destroy 

 this last hope of clearing the ice boxes 

 and giving a semblance of demand to 

 meet the enormous supply. 



Bulbous stock is in evidence every- 

 where. Fine narcissi are offered at $1 

 a dozen bunches. Tulips are unsalable 

 at any price and as to violets, the very 

 best do not go above 3.5 cents and hun- 

 dreds of thousands have cleaned up at 

 $1 a 1,000. On Monday I saw a box 

 of 5,500 splendid single violets, thrown 

 into the barrel utterly unsalable. But 

 the bottom has certainly been reached 

 and the improvement will soon begin. 

 Easter is so near that a general feeling 

 of hope and expectation prevails. 



Various Notes. 



The first auction of the season took 

 place at Elliott's on Tuesday. A fair 

 attendance and good prices encouraged 

 the veteran autocrat of the gavel and 

 from now on, every Friday and Tuesday, 

 the voice of the spring harbinger will be 

 heard until further notice. Next week 



there will be offerings of Easter goods 

 and the amount of importations of hardy 

 stock for this purpose this season is ex- 

 ceptionally large. 



All arrangements for rose night at 

 the New York Florists' Club, Eight)i 

 avenue and Twenty-third street, are now 

 completed. A splendid exhibit by many 

 of the leading rose growers of the coun- 

 try is assured and a very large attend- 

 ance is anticipated. All florists, whether 

 members of the club or not, are cordially 

 invited to attend. The bowling club 

 will meet at its alleys at 3 p. m. on 

 Monday. The membership of the club 

 i.< growing steadily and the attendance 

 constantly increasing. 



Dr. F. M. Hexamer, the veteran of 

 the American Institute, is very ill with 

 rheumatism at his home in Stamford, 

 (.'onn. 



Ralph Perkins is not expected to re- 

 cover from a second attack of pneumonia 

 and pleurisy. 



On Saturday the father of E. B. 

 Punne, of West Thirtieth street, died of 

 pneumonia, after a six weeks' illness, at 

 the age of 78. 



The mother of Chas. Habermann, the 

 retail florist of One Hundred and First 

 street and Broadway, died last week of 

 asthma. 



E. W. Young, of Avondale, N. J., is 

 sending some splendid shipments of 

 sweet peas to John Young of West 

 Twenty-eighth street. 



Jas. McManus says the demand for or- 

 chids continues brisk from out-of-town 

 buyers and shipments to other cities are 

 made by him daily. 



The amount of violets left over last 

 Sunday was enormous. One wholesaler 

 on Twenty-ninth street had over 100,000 

 to dispose of Monday. It was a slaugh- 

 ter. 



The New York visitors to the Detroit 

 convention have a very happy experience 

 to remember, judging by their enthusias- 

 tic references to the trip. Mrs. Guttman. 

 the only lady visitor from the east, was 

 especially delighted with the courtesy 

 manifested and the delightful time af- 

 forded at the theater and banquet by the 

 Detroit ladies. Mr. Guttman says the 

 craft misses an invaluable opportunity 

 for benefit by failing to attend the con- 

 ventions and that every man who takes 

 a practical interest in his business can- 

 not afford to miss them. He considered 

 the banquet and entertainment provided 

 the most elaborate and enjoyable in his 

 experience. Everything was most credit- 

 able to the Detroit Club. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Guttman visited Buffalo and the Falls on 

 their return. Adam A. Treppel, of 

 Brooklyn, has been added to Mr. Gutt- 

 man 's force of salesmen. 



President Traendly and .Tno. B. Nu- 

 gent, who traveled together to Detroit 

 arrived home on Saturday in good con- 

 dition and full of enthusiasm, and gave 

 a glowing account of the exhibition and 

 the generous reception accorded them 

 by the Detroit brethren. They were par- 

 ticularly reminiscent as to the banquet 

 and vaudeville entertainment, the visit to 

 the baths at Mt. Clemens and the glories 

 of the new rose at President Breitmey- 

 er 's, which they say is sure to become 

 very popular and to meet with universal 

 demand. 



Geo. Bradshaw has added fern balls 

 and lilies in pots to his supply department 

 and is handling large quantities of fine 

 pmilax and Sprengeri daily. 



Fred Zahn, who has been verv ill for 



three months, lias entirely recovered his 

 health and his many friends in the 

 trade will be glad to know he expects to 

 open his new store on One Hundred and 

 Twenty-fifth street, in time for the Easter 

 trade. His present address is 137 West 

 One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street. 

 His experience in floral decorating cov- 

 ers a period of over twenty years in 

 New York City. 



Johanu C. O. Schulze, of West Nyack, 

 disappeared December 21, from G. E. 

 Bradshaw 's wholesale store, 53 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, and has not been 

 seen nor heard from since that time. 

 Any information as to his whereabouts 

 would be gratefully received, either by 

 Mr. Bradshaw or by the wife, Mrs. 

 Schulze, at West Nyack, N. Y. His age 

 is 41, height five feet two inches, round 

 face, sandy mustache, gray hair, light 

 blue eyes, the right lid partially closed, 

 weight 160 pounds. It is thought that 

 he is in the west. He had considerable 

 money with him the day he disappeared. 



The bowlers are doing finely. The at- 

 tendance increases each week and the 

 scores show that there will be close riv- 

 alry for positions on the strong team 

 which will represent New Y''ork at the St. 

 Louis convention. Following are four 

 games of Monday night's scores: 



Pljiver 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 



Haffner 148 173 178 147 



I,ang 167 169 159 157 



Siebreoht 144 163 155 1 79 



Traendly 135 157 183 141 



O'Mara 156 168 112 133 



Mansfield US 148 168 137 



\u<^ent 75 88 100 122 



Thielman 164 133 158 182 



Sampson 160 138 134 122 



.Shaw 135 158 135 133 



Frank 125 107 113 144 



Gibbs 161 134 130 ... 



Boehrs 123 115 



.J. Austin Shaw. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The volume of business continues to ex- 

 ceed expectations. Lent is proving bet- 

 ter than the rather quiet winter led one 

 to expect. Roses are not very plentiful, 

 though Liberties are coming in more 

 freely. Beauties are still scarce, with 

 no immediate prospects of a heavy in- 

 crease. The changes in the market from 

 last week 's report are the increased quan- 

 tity of Easter lilies, all the commission 

 houses and the Flower Market being well 

 supplied; the demand for gardenias, 

 which are taking well at reduced rates, 

 and the falling off in demand for sweet 

 peas, which will probably come to the 

 front again immediately after Easter. 

 There are some good varieties of fancy 

 tulips to be had in limited quantities and 

 thousands of daffodils. 



Commissioo House Change. 



The firm of C. F. Edgar & Co. has 

 succeeded C. A. Dunn & Co., at 1516 and 

 1518 Sanson! street. Mr. Edgar, who 

 has been with the old firm since it start- 

 ed last fall, has just returned from a 

 flying trip through the center of the 

 state, where he received many assurances 

 of support from both growers and buy- 

 ers. The firm 's growers have shown their 

 confidence to a man by continuing regu- 

 lar shipments while several new consign- 

 ors have been added to the list. Mr. 

 Edgar and his able assistant, Mr. Muth. 

 have the best wishes of their many 

 friends for the success of their enter- 

 prise. 



