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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



May 



1904. 



on tlieir summer programs. Geller is al- 

 ready there and others contemplate the 

 voyage before tlie close of May. The\ 

 have all earned the holiday and have had 

 one of the best seasons on record. 



Wild smila.x is about at an end for 

 the present, an occasional bo.\ now and 

 then coming to town, but the supply is 

 about exhausted. 



The daily papers are giving a great 

 deal of valuable publicity to the growers' 

 plant nuirket in llie big tents at Canal 

 and West streets. 



Ne.xt Monday the bedding plant ex- 

 hibit at the New York Club rooms 

 should attract a creditable e.xliibition and 

 a large attendance. The regular monthly 

 meeting of the club will be held and 

 William Elliott will read his paper on 

 the "Idiosyncrasies of the Auction Busi- 

 ness." 



Dr. Earle, of the New York Botanic 

 Garden, has been appointed director of 

 the new agricultural station at Santiago 

 da las Velas, Cuba, some twelve miles 

 from Havana, 



A. Miller, a member of the New York 

 Florists' Club and for some time fore- 

 man at the Botanic Garden conservator- 

 ies, has taken a position as head garden- 

 er with Millionaire Barley, of Mount 

 ■Vernon, N. Y., where his skill in de- 

 veloping a new place will have ample 

 opportunity. 



To give some conception of the enorm- 

 ous sums expended in the vicinity of 

 New York on country estates, L. Blair, 

 of Far Hills, N. J., is stocking his hand- 

 some estate with rare shrubs and trees, 

 and making landscape and other improve- 

 ments that will entail an outlay of 

 nearly a million dollars. The Stow es- 

 tate, at Westbury, L. I., is another ex- 

 ample of horticultural enterprise and 

 development, over half a million dollars 

 having been expended here during the 

 past year. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York holds its annual exhibition at 

 Bronx Park Botanic Garden next 

 Wednesday and Thursday. Leonard Bar- 

 ron, secretary, will forward the schedule 

 of premiums, etc., to all applicants. It 

 includes the usual $50 prize for the best 

 horticultural novelty. It is more than 

 likely another fern applicant for popu- 

 lar approbation may carry off the coveted 

 honor. The attendance at this meeting 

 should be large. In addition to the added 

 enjoyment of a visit to this beautiful 

 park, an illustrated lecture by J. Horace 

 McFarland, of Harrisburg, will be de- 

 livered on Wednesday afternoon at 4 

 o'clock on "Common Trees and Their 

 Uncommon Flowers." 



Geo. Saltford has had a two week's 

 rest on the cushioned seats of the jury 

 box, and returns much refreshed to his 

 arduous wholesale duties. 



John N. May has returned from the 

 sunny south much improved in health. 



Thursday of this week the stockholders 

 of the Cut Flower Exchange will hold 

 their annual meeting in their office in the 

 Coogan building. The retiring directors 

 are John Johnson, Charles Smith, Philip 

 Miller, Wm. Duncan and John Taylor. 



The Bonnot Bros, are the king bees 

 at Flemington, N. J., where their green- 

 house plants will be overhauled and 

 added to materially this summer. 



One of the old retail houses of New 

 York, so long established where the great 

 Flat Iron building now stands, and later 

 across the way on Broadway, has landed 

 in the swim on Fifth avenue, and will 



shortly open a handsome store between 

 Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets, 

 liglit in the heart of llic retail district 

 and surrounded by some of the largest 

 florists' establishments in New Y'ork. 



Bowe had the Picard-McAlpin wedding 

 last week, with elaborate church and 

 house decorations, the ceremony takini; 

 place at the Collegiate church. Seventy- 

 seventh street and Broadway, and the 

 reception in the palm room of the SI. 

 Andrews hotel. Valley and American 

 Beauties were used profusely, with can- 

 opy of white lilac, sweet peas and white 

 roses. 



Capt Lang, of the bowling club, has 

 been quite ill and a felon on his best 

 bowling finger has kept him out of the 

 game for weeks. He hopes soon to be 

 in condition for his 200 average. Mrs. 

 Lang still favors her dislocated shoulder. 



Armin Kretchmar, of Brooklyn, is 

 now in San Francisco in one of the lead- 

 ing retail stores of that city. His imcle. 

 Julius Kretschmar, who suffered a strolce 

 of paralysis some weeks ago, is mucli 

 improved and hopes are entertained of 

 his complete recovery. 



The development of the new fern, 

 Scotti, is remarkable. Its rapidity of 

 growth is phenomenal. When I visited 



NOTE 



The Editor is pleased 

 when EL Beader 

 presents his ideas 

 on any subject treated 

 in the BEVIE'W. As 

 experience is the best 

 teacher, so do we 

 learn fastest by an 

 ezchang'e of experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are bronerht oat 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelling and gram- 

 mar, though desirable, are not neces- 

 sary. V?rlte as you would talk when 

 doing your best. 



WE SHALL BE GLAD 

 TO HEAR PROM YOU. 



J 



its headquarters two or three weeks be- 

 fore Easter there were three houses of 

 stock in pots and benches, now there are 

 six at Flatbush and one house full at 

 Keap street, in the city. There are many 

 thousands of the small plants in 214-inch 

 pots ready for June 1 delivery, as well 

 as grand stock in 4-incli pots, which 

 will be ready to transplant into 6-inch. 

 Hundreds of specimens in 6 and 8-inch 

 pots for the retail trade and in pots and 

 tubs up to 14-ineh, will also be ready for 

 distribution. All the leading retailers 

 in this vicinity have placed orders with 

 Mr. Scott, who welcomes visitors at any 

 time. 



President Traendly. of the FlorLsts' 

 Club, is taking a warm personal interest 

 in the success of the annual outing and 

 suggests that all firms desiring to help 

 the program of sports, communicate witii 

 Chas. Schenck, the treasurer of the com- 

 mittee, to whom all remittances may bo 

 made. It is necessary, also, to know 

 at once how many will attend, that 

 proper arrangements may be made for 

 the comfort and convenience of all. And 

 it is sincerely hoped that not a member 



of the club will refuse to show a practical 

 interest in its welfare by the return of 

 the tickets already in their hands. 



The American Institute of New York 

 has all arrangements made for its dahlia 

 show in September, and for its elaborate 

 effort in November, which in addition to 

 the chrysanthemum exhibition will in- 

 clude fruits and vegetables. Dr. Kobert 

 Taylor is manager of both, and the veter- 

 an C. L. Allen declares that "from the 

 encouragement given I think it will be 

 the greatest display of agricultural ana 

 horticultural products ever seen in this 

 or any other country." 



Bowling. 



Tlie Bowling Club was fairly attended 

 on Jlonday evening, some distinguished 

 visitors being present. Next Monday- 

 afternoon at 3 o'clock, the club will meet 

 at the usual place, instead of in the eve- 

 ning. A cordial invitation is extended 

 to all who intend being present at the 

 club meeting in the evening to visit thei 

 alleys and enjoy the sport. Matters of 

 importance must be decided and the club 

 selected for the St. Louis convention and 

 President Siebrecht asks a full attend- 

 ance. The following scores show which 

 way the wind blows: 



Craw 98 127 



Stewart 73 US 



Traendly 98 174 



Koplitz 109 125 



Glbbs 98 99 110 138 



Frank 136 136 144 154 162 ... 



Shaw 122 126 133 135 136 139 



Siebrecht 115 123 142 146 161 18S 



.Tames 156 157 170 176 179 ISO 



At Flatbush, 

 It is always bowling night on Thurs- 

 days at Flatbush. It is a comfort to- 

 visit where harmony prevails, loyalty to- 

 the club's interests is in evidence and se- 

 clusion and hospitality assured. Eugen!.>- 

 Dailledouze was an interested spectator 

 last week, his bowling back still being- 

 like his will, unbending. The Flatbush 

 Club can send a strong team to St. Louis- 

 if it wants to. They are open to chal- 

 lenge from any adjacent club, preferably 

 New York. Some of the old stand-bys- 

 were absent, among them John I. Eay- 

 nor. Will Siebrecht and Davy Mellis. 

 Riley absorbed the lion's share of the 

 pots, as usual. The scores follow: 



Riley 1.32 151 166 185 



Schmutz 104 105 106 162 



TVocker 120 143 155 181 



Irwin 1.38 142 148 174 



e. Dailledouze 123 132 143 144 



Shaw -..104 113 147 17S 



P. Dailledouze 1.32 133 137 



Zeller 138 156 



J. Austin Sha-w. 



BRITISH HAIL ASSOCL^TION, 



The Nurserymen's, Market Gardeners' 

 and General Hailstorm Insurance Corpo- 

 ration of Great Britain has been in ex- 

 istence nine years. Harry J. Veitch is 

 chairman. The company now insures 

 .'!4,423,363 square feet of glass and the 

 luemium payments last year were about 

 $12,000. The reserve is $37,500. But 

 only seven losses were paid in the year. 



Montreal, Que. — Hall & Robinson 

 have a white sport of Mrs. Lnwson which 

 is considered a fine thing by all who 

 have seen it. They will work up a 

 stock of it. 



Eagle Grove, Ia. — ^W. E. Garrett is a 

 thoroughly competent florist and nursery- 

 man, but finds little opportunity for ei- 

 ther business in this vicinity. JEis pres- 

 ent business is exclusively gardening and 

 small fruit growing. 



