JUy 12. 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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pressive occasion. Thousands of children 

 with appropriate ceremonies, planted in 

 the school yards trees that will give shade 

 to coming generations. 



The interest in suburban gardening has 

 grown immensely of late and the effect of 

 this is most apparent in the conditions 

 in every seed store in the city. Without 

 an exception this has been a wonderful 

 season. Retail sales are beating all 

 records. Stores are overwhelmed with 

 both mail orders and customers. There 

 seems to be a growth in public sentiment 

 almost abnormal as to country homes and 

 gradually but surely the development of 

 this taste and love for nature is taking 

 into the small towns and villages within 

 easy distance of New York, everybody 

 who can afford the luxury of a country 

 summer home and thousands who yearly 

 make their venture a permanent invest- 

 ment. 



Among the visitors last week were P. 

 Welch, of Boston; W. P. Craig, of Phila- 

 delphia, and J. M. Gasser, of Cleveland. 



The auctions are in full blast now, the 

 splendid weather and tine assortment of 

 stock drawing hosts of suburbanites. 

 Few of the faces are familiar. The pub- 

 lic has caught on to opportunities for 

 bargains they never dreamed of and the 

 merry auctioneer rejoices ' ' up his 

 sleeve ' ' in the development of his mis- 

 sion. 



Carl Woerner, with Chas. Zeller & Son, 

 Flatbush. has the sympathy of all in the 

 loss of his wife last Wednesday. 



His many friends also tender W. J. 

 Stewart, of Boston, their condolences in 

 the death of his grandson on Monday. 



Traendly & Schenck, the wholesalers, 

 who for ten years have been located at 38 

 West Twenty-eighth street, will remove to 

 their new store at No. 44 about the end 

 of the present month. They have leased 

 the whole building and will fit the upper 

 stories for offices, putting in a new front 

 in their own department and making 

 alterations that will give them, including 

 their basement facilities, one of the 

 largest and best stores in their line in the 

 country. 



Louis Schmutz, of Flatbush, has 

 yielded to the tide of building necessity 

 on the part of the public and sold $15,000 

 worth of his property there. From a 

 population of 15,000 a few years ago 

 when I knew it ' ' not wisely ' ' there has 

 been an increase to over 60,000, a straw 

 which shows whicli way the wind is 

 blowing around New York and an indi- 

 cation of what may be expected as the 

 years increase. 



Some very handsome wistarias in pots, 

 from the Hinode Floral Co., beautify the 

 windows of Wm. Ghormley, the wholesale 

 florist. 



The old board of directors was re- 

 elected at the annual meeting of the Cut 

 Flower Exchange last week and the new 

 members appointed were J. Donaldson, 

 Thos. C. Duncan, John Snyder, Charles 

 Smith and Herman Maenner. 



Mrs. William Siebrecht, of Astoria, 

 leaves next week on the steamer Eotter- 

 dam for a European tour, accompanied 

 bv her son, W, Siebrecht, Jr„ who at the 

 age of '31 has just taken his degree at 

 the New York Law School. 



John Dutcher, of Nyack, who has a 

 stand on the second floor of the Coogan 

 building, was married on Monday of this 

 week, and his friends extend congratu- 

 lations. 



John H. Taylor, of Bayside, is devot- 

 ing 300 acres of his estate to residential 

 sites. It is one of the finest sections for 

 this purpose on Long Island. 



The annual exhibition of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New Y''ork is on at 

 Bronx park today. There is an attractive 

 premium list and close competition in 

 many of the classes. The chief interest 

 centers in the fifty-dollar prize for the 

 best novelty. 



Charles F. Meyer, the importer and 

 exporter, has removed his office from 19 

 Barclay street to more commodious quar- 

 ters at 99 Warren street. 



The managers of the Coogan building, 

 where the Cut Flower Exchange, the Cut 

 Flower Co., and other growers and deal- 

 ers are located, have decided to devote 

 the entire first floor to the interests 

 of the trade, under the title of the New 

 York Flower Market. They are now re- 

 modeling the place, throwing it all into 

 6ne large room corresponding to the two 

 floors above. This' is a step toward con- 

 centration that has been talked of for a 

 long time. J. Austin Shaw, 



HORTICULTUKAL AUCTIONS. 



[The following is a synopsis of the remarlis 

 of W. J. Elliott, before the New York Florists' 

 Club. Monday evening. May 9.] 



The discourse which I am to enter 

 upon this evening is styled the ' ' Idiosyn- 

 crasies of the Auction Business. ' ' No 

 doubt this word will need a definition 

 and owing to my scant knowledge of 

 Latin I am helpless in the matter, but as 

 I see a light in the firmament, maybe 

 Mr. C'Mara will come to my relief. At 



NOTE 



The Editor is pleased 

 when a Header 

 presents his ideas 

 on any snbject treated 

 In the BEVIEW. As 

 experience is the best 

 teacher, so do we 

 learn fastest by an 

 ezchang'e of experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are broncfht ont 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelling and ^ram- 

 tnar, though desirable, are not neces- 

 sary. Write as you would talk when 

 doing your best. 



WE SHALL BE QLAD 

 TO HEAR FROM YOU. 



any rate, as near as Hoyle can come to 

 it in his materia medica, the definition is 

 what may agree with one might be dis- 

 tastsful to others. 



Which brings to my mind a story of a 

 young medical student passing his final 

 examination on materia medica. After 

 being plied with a number of questions 

 he was finally asked what an expectorant 

 was. He seemed worried for the time and 

 in sheer desperation blurted out, ' ' some- 

 tliing which comes before .tou expect 

 it." I presume he got a good mark; but 

 to get back on my subject: 



The auction business started at 9 John 

 street, in the sixties, by offering at its 

 first sale a consignment of butter, a 

 strange commodity along with plants. It 

 certainly had the greasing qualities to a 

 future, for at that time the sales were 

 insignificant in comparison with today. 

 They were easily satisfied with $300 while 

 today it reaches $1,000 to $1,200. 



Among the notable sales was the ' 

 George Such sale of orchids, which took 

 an entire week and amounted to $40,000. 

 Then there was Mrs. Morgan's $200,000 

 sale in which Vanda Sanderiana was sold 

 for $800. These were the palmy days for 

 orchids. 



We used to have great rivalry and it 

 caused a new house to spring xip and 

 prosper for a time and was succeeded by 

 Koclker & Son. Others jumped in but 

 did not last long. Cleary & Co. suc- 

 ceeded Koelker. Another came by the 

 name of Gardiner. But all of which have 

 gone to sleep. So you see the pioneer 

 house did not have it all its own way. 



The monotony of ' ' going, going, 

 gone" is occasionally broken by some 

 joker who butts in and makes a commo- 

 tion to draw the attention of the audience 

 from the auction and then in the most 

 polite manner wants to know if he can 

 have a bid, which is recognized, and he 

 deliberately ' ' bids ' ' you a good morning 

 and takes his departure. Of course, the 

 laugh is on the auctioneer without a 

 doubt. 



It has been only of late years that the 

 Netherlands have favored us with such 

 large consignments. They certainly see a 

 future for their goods and their returns 

 are of a satisfactory nature, from ac- 

 knowledgments. Japan seems to be get- 

 ting there, as well as Porto Eieo. 



Thanking you, gentlemen, for your at- 

 tention, I will close by reciting to you an 

 instance of two shipwrecked salesmen, a 

 story fitting the occasion. Ikey and 

 Sammy Stobosky, who were unfortunately 

 wrecked on the high seas, were the only 

 fortunate ones to have a boat all by 

 themselves, which was not so bad to start 

 with, until after the third day, when 

 Ikey got tired looking for a sail and 

 thereupon the sponge laid down. 

 Sammy took the watch and in the course 

 of time spied a sail and in his ecstasies 

 shouted to Ikey: "Awake, awake, a sail 

 in sight." Ikey, in the throes of death, 

 remarked, ' ' and I haven 't got a cata- 

 logue. " 



, PORTLAND, ORE, 



Portland, Ore., is most favorably situ- 

 ated, having every advantage that a big 

 city requires. Its water facilities are of 

 the best, the Willamette river coursing 

 directly through the city and spanned by 

 four substantial bridges is deep enough 

 to accommodate the largest ocean vessel. 

 At the north flows the mighty Columbia, 

 which connects us with the Pacific ocean. 

 Eising abruptly at the south and west 

 limits of the city, and towering several 

 hundred feet above, are the Portland and 

 Willamette heights, from which is af- 

 forded a magnificent view of the sur- 

 rounding country and the Lewis and 

 Clark fair grounds. These lofty eleva- 

 tions, reached by street car service, are 

 clothed with a thick growth of fir, dog- 

 wood and lilac, and at this writing are 

 especially interesting to the visitor. A 

 number of elegant homes are situated 

 here and an immense electric sign bear- 

 ing the figures 1905 seems to remind the 

 public that there will be something do- 

 ing in Portland next year. H. J. M. 



We are in receipt of a query from a 

 reader who says his greenhouses are "al- 

 most polluted with ' ' a little white fly 

 which he is very anxious to be rid of, but 

 he doesn't sign his name, which is neces- 

 sary for queries to receive attention. 



