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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



393 



attendance at the convention, while its 

 value as an advertising medium is great- 

 ly enhanced and it cannot fail to be of 

 service to its patrons. Milwaukee, judg- 

 ing by its buildings and pleasure resorts 

 and parks, must be an ideal convention 

 city and the society will have no cause to 

 regrel the enthusiastic majority that de- 

 cided in its favor. 



Mr. James, of Bermuda, the Harnsii 

 lily grower, left on Saturday for his isl- 

 and home. 



The bulb houses here are rejoicing in 

 the break of the foreign hyacinth market 

 and the establishing at last of a basis 

 for prices that makes intelligent quota 

 tions and sales a possibility. Talking 

 of "breaks," the smash in the stock 

 market affected seriously some of the 

 best patrons of the horticulturists, losses 

 aggregating millions having fallen upou 

 some of them, men whose country homes 

 and estates are marvels of landscape ef- 

 fects and plantings. It is much to the 

 credit of the florists themselves that no 

 wings have been scorched and no invest- 

 ments made by any of the speculative 

 among them that have been on the 

 wrong side of the market. Real estate 

 seems to be the florists ' specialty any- 

 way, and several of the leaders have ac- 

 quired independence thereby, so that their 

 florist interests have become simply a 

 pastime. 



There will be a fall flower show this 

 year that promises great things and the 

 facilities for its accomplishment have 

 never been equalled. The new Herald 

 Square Exhibition Hall, when 1 the show 

 is to be held, is on the top floor of the 

 new Macy building at Thirty-fourth 

 street ami Broadway, a hall with double 

 the square feet of space for exhibits 

 that the immense Madison Square build- 

 ing afforded. A dozen passenger ele- 

 vators running directly to the hall, an 

 acre of glass and a magnificent dome, 

 with every convenience known to mod- 

 ern architecture, a superb and contin- 

 uous lighting system and a perfect loca- 

 tion all combine in making it the ideal 

 exhibition hall of the country. Mr. Her- 

 rington is to be congratulated on the 

 work he has accomplished and the splen- 

 did accommodations provided for the so- 

 ciety of which he has the honor to be 

 president. Seventy thousand square feet 

 of space will give ample room for the 

 greatest palm, and plant exhibit ever 

 made in America. 



The great subway in New York ap- 

 proaches completion. The demoraliza- 

 tion of the streets and the destruction 

 of trees and shrubbery has been com- 

 plete. Such hopeless desolation can 

 only be imagined. But before another 

 year all the former beauty, from a hor- 

 ticultural standpoint, is to be restored. 

 The park department will have charge 

 of the restoration, and we will then 

 hope to restore to the metropolis its old 

 time name of "the Paris of tin- New 

 "World. ' ' 



In my last I mentioned the fact that 

 one of the eastern exhibitors at the con- 

 vention would send a car load of his 

 wares. I should have said several of 

 them. It is surprising how many will 

 be there "with the goods" and' what 

 quantities are already on the way. Sie- 

 brecht & Son and Reed & Keller each 

 have a car load in transit. Everybody is 

 sending early, much earlier than usual. 

 It is a good idea. Xow Tuesday morn- 

 ing in Milwaukee will see everything in 

 apple pie order and an attentive business 

 opening is thereby assured. 



Henry Siebrecht, Jr., is in Kentucky 



on his way via Detroit to Milwaukee, 

 where he will superintend the exhibit of 



the firm. Nearly everybody is, has 1 n, 



or will be away for his, or her, annual 

 rest and recreation. Few will be left in 

 this generous system of the leading 

 wholesale and retail houses of the trade. 

 With coats of tan on the proprietors and 

 their assistants and new coats of paint 

 on the stores generally, as is the annual 

 custom, the first of September should 

 see everybody ready for what in this 

 strenuous age will surely be the best 

 flower season of the century. 



The New York Cut Flower Co. is add- 

 ing to its room and conveniences, and 

 the "Beauty King" says it will be "the 

 greatest fall and winter in the flower 

 business we have ever seen." 



All the supply houses here are very 

 busy and many of them are already in 

 receipt of their importations. Nearly 

 all of them will make fine displays at 

 Milwaukee. Sigmund Geller has a space 

 of 200 feet secured there and will ex- 

 hibit many novelties of his European 

 purchases, among them some unique de- 

 signs in vases and ornaments of the lat- 

 est styles. On his trip he visited Italy, 

 France, Switzerland, Austria and Ger- 

 many, reaching home on July 9. He has 

 a variety of waterproof paper that will 

 surely be popular. As a reward for duty 

 well done and safe return, Mrs. Geller 

 presented him last Tuesday with a fine 

 boy, the first visit of the stork to his 

 home, and now business is sure to boom. 



The Ozone Park nurseries have at 

 Ozone Park, N. Y., a manager well 

 known to the trade, Mr. C. B. Knick- 

 man, and they commence business with 

 the good wishes of his many friends. 

 They are devoting forty acres to the 

 growing .jf fancy nursery stock, making 

 roses their specialty. The firm has 

 nearly 100,000 ruses already planted, 

 ami have contracted for extensive work 

 in tin laying out of private estates. The 

 other members of the firm are Charles 

 Iflinger and Edwin Weber. Long Island 

 i-:, developing an abundance of nurseries, 

 but the field is wide and there is 

 room for all. The fine nursery already 

 established at Queens by C. W. Ward, 



of the Cottage Gardens, L. I„ is n t- 



ing with exceptional encouragement and 

 the demand for his high-class stock and 

 specimens is already far in excess of 

 the supply. Mr. Ward is recuperating at 

 present in New Hampshire, with his 

 family, and hopes to be at the i men- 

 tion. 



John Hildebrandt, of John Young's 

 staff, left on Saturday for his vacation, 

 as did A. Dacre, of Young & Nugent 's. 



Fred J. Bleeher, of the Thomas J. 

 Young, Jr. 's, forces, has beeu entertain- 

 ing his mother and sister, of Cleveland, 

 during his three weeks ' outing. W. 

 Donaghue, Jr., ..I' the same house, has 

 departed for Saratoga, Cleveland and 

 Chicago and will be the guest of Mr. and 

 Mrs. B. B. Preble while in Cleveland. 

 Mr. Smith, of Smith & Fetters, of that 

 city, is now in New York, after a visit 

 to his old home in Bridgeport, Conn. 



Robert Rennison, of Wadley & Smythe, 

 had a very unique contract on Monday 



in Greenv, I, the lining of a grave with 



pink and white mses and the complete 

 covering of the plot with the same flow- 

 ers, witli a groundwork of Clematis pani- 

 culata. 



George Nash, head gardener at the 

 New York Botanical Gardens, left Sat- 

 urday for Ilayti for a five weeks' bo- 



tanical investigation, and Commissioner 

 of Patents W. R. Wilcox sailed for the 

 old country to study the park systems of 

 London and Scotland. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



HOTELS OF MILWAUKEE. 

 The following downtown hotels in 

 Milwaukee are within five or ten min- 

 utes' walk of the convention hall. Rooms 

 for convention week may be reserved at 

 any time: 



Aberdeen Hotel. Grand Ave.— Rates. $10 to $14 

 per week. American plan. 

 Hotel Atlas, Third and Sycamore Sts.— Rate. $2 



Hotel Blatz. City Hall Square — Rate, $1 per 

 day and upward, European plan. 



Globe Hotel, Wisconsin and diss Sts.— Weekly 

 rates; American plan, $1" t" $15; European plan. 

 $5 to $10. 



Kirhy House. E. Water and Mason Sts.— Rates. 

 $2 to $2.50 per day. 



Hotel Pfister, Wisconsin aid Jefferson Sts. — 

 Rates. American plan, $3 to $5 per day; Euro- 

 pean plan. $1.50 to $3.50 per day. 



Planklnton House. Grand Ave. — Rates. Amer- 

 ican plan. $2.50 and upward per day; European 

 plan. $1 and upward per day. 



Republican House. Third and Cedar Sts. — Rates, 

 American plan. $2 to $3 per day; European plan, 

 $1 and upward. 



Sehlitz Hotel. Grand Ave. and Third St. — Rate, 

 European plan, $1 per day and upward. 



St. Charles Hotel, City Hall Square— Rates, 

 per day, one person, $2 to $3.50; two persons. 

 fr..m $1 to $6. 



RADIATION. 



I am building a house 19x70 for roses. 

 If I start with a 4-inch flow and upon 

 entering the house branch to two 3-incii 

 Hows running to the farther end of the 

 house, returning each with eight IJ-incb 

 pipes, sixteen in all, will I have radiation 

 enough to maintain a temperature of 65 

 degrees when the thermometer outdoors 

 registers 10 degrees below zero? The 

 house i- three-quarter span, long span to 

 the south ; no glass in side walls. 



L. R. A. 



He will have ample surface in the rose 

 house with the pipe arrangement he de- 

 scribes, provided he gets a perfect circu- 

 lation. Henry ** t 



LOWELLVILLE. O. Frank Whetstone. 



in West Lowellville, is building a green- 

 house. D. E. Hamilton has the con- 

 tract. 



Toronto, Ohio. — David Aten's business 

 has increased so that he is not able to 

 handle it alone and he has taken his 

 son-in-law, S. B. Wilson, into partner- 

 ship, the firm name now being Aten & 

 Wilson. They were cleaned out of all 

 stock this spring. Trade is now quiet, but 

 they are busy painting and repairing. 



Fort Dodge, Ia. — P. L. Larson is the 

 only florist here since the Fort Dodge 

 Greenhouse Company went out of busi- 

 ness. He had a good season and is ready 

 for another, building two houses 20x75, 

 using 16x18 D. S. A. glass. He has his 

 roses and carnations all benched and two 

 houses of carnations, 22x125. Mr. Lar- 

 son will be at the convention. 



Washington, Pa.— The Washington 

 Floral Company has completed its in- 

 corporation. The company was organ- 

 ized early in the year, purchased the 

 MeBurney place and has erected the most 

 extensive greenhouses in the county. The 

 stockholders named are, W. J. Warrick. 

 Edward Culbertson, J. W. Warrick, John 

 M. Wilson, George H. Warrick, A. J. 

 Culbertson, William Christman, P. G. 

 Kennedy, Todd Culbertson, John Salmons 

 and J. M. Dickson. 



