September 3, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



597 



wheeling and was obliged to resort to 

 tho train. 



Tho closing hour is again 6:30 p. m. 



Visitors: S. M. Wyatt, Watseka, 111.; 

 Fred. C. Smith, Ashland, Wis. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 

 The condition of business at the pres- 

 ent time is an exact counterpart of last 

 week's report, after one of the worst 

 fortnights of the year. But the end of 

 all things discouraging approaches and 

 before we know it schools will open, 

 theaters will again demonstrate their 

 value to the trade and the return of the 

 "600" from country resorts will begin. 

 Already signs of autumn appear. Vio- 

 lets are in the market, chrysanthemums 

 will soon be with us, and fall shows and 

 well-stocked retail stores before another 

 moon. New coats of fresco ornament 

 the walls and ceilings, and both whole- 

 salers and retailers are getting ready for 

 the good times when the discouragements 

 of the unprofitable summer will be for- 

 gotten. 



Various Items. 



Charlie Carlin, of Thorley's, is back 

 from the mountains and the season may 

 be safely said to have begun. 



Small 's windows are very attractive 

 this week, one with a fine display of 

 Nympha»a Devoniensis, and the other 

 banked with Anna Foster ferns. 



The yacht races are about over and 

 their influence caused hardly a ripple on 

 the floricultural sea. A good active, ris- 

 ing market down on Wall street would 

 do more for the flower business in a day 

 than all the yacht races ever sailed. 



Employers and employes have about 

 all had their turn at outings, and have 

 come back, brown and healthy, for an- 

 other try at the battle of life. 



A. Warendorff has been summering at 

 Averne-by-the-Sea. 



The New Jersey Cut Flower Co. will 

 open its wholesale department on Sep- 

 tember 15. 



Alex. McConnell, of Fifth avenue, re- 

 ceived orders for two fine wreaths this 

 week from J. Ogden Armour, of Chi- 

 cago, and Lolita Armour, whose recovery 

 through the agency of Dr. Lorenz made 

 her famous. The designs were made of 

 cattleyas, cypripediums and valley and 

 were- very handsome. This firm had the 

 decorations for the Allcock wedding at 

 the Holland House last week, using many 

 palms, American Beauties, Bridesmaids 

 and valley, and keeping the display intact 

 for many days. 



A large clock of handsome design, and 

 abundant fresco work, make the Fifth 

 avenue store of Thomas Young, Jr., as 

 good as new. 



J. H. Troy, of the Bosary, has many 

 interesting stories to tell of his trip 

 abroad, and looks several years youneer 

 since he visited the scenes of his youth. 

 He must have some good neighbors near 

 Ms new store at Thirty-fourth street, as 

 he has the street decorated with bays, 

 bamboos and topiary work nearly from 

 Fifth avenue to Madison. 



A communication from Wm. Elliott re- 

 joices in the wresting of the silver lov- 

 ing cup from the Boston Club by the 

 New Jersey Bowling Green Club, of 

 which he is a member, after a three 

 years' struggle. The match was played 

 on the grounds of the Boston Curling 

 Club, Cambridge. Mass., and he says the 



.lii-' viirs made their opponents "look 

 like 30 cents." 



A card from John Nash, dated Paris, 

 indicates a very happy European trip 

 and an early return to the activities of 

 the Coogan building. Mr. Nash will 

 reach New York early the coming week. 



All the European travelers are return- 

 ing. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent, of "White 

 Marsh, Md., have already arrived at their 

 southern home. 



Nearly all the wholesalers are now re- 

 ceiving shipments of violets, and may be 

 said to be " rushing the season, ' ' as the 

 demand is very limited. With the open- 

 ing of many theaters next week a market 

 will doubtless be provided for all first- 

 class stock that reaches the city. 



H. E. Froment, bookkeeper at W. 

 Ghormley's, is away for a two weeks' 

 holiday in the mountains. 



The weather for five days has been as 

 little like the delightful brand furnished 

 at Milwaukee, as conventionists can im- 

 agine. From the sunny climate of Chi- 

 cago, even with its 90 degrees of hu- 

 midity and heat, the transition to the 

 storm and cold of the metropolis was 

 distressing. Five days of chilling rain 

 and a storm that strewed the shores of 

 the Sound with wreckage was an unsea- 

 sonable welcome home to those who tar- 

 ried by the way. But a delightful Sep- 

 tember and October are promised in re- 

 ward for this "ye;u without a summer," 

 and no more charming autumns are en- 

 ji ved on the covitii.€-nt than right here in 

 old New York, the delightful tempera- 

 ture often reaching beyond the Christmas 



Frederick Zahn, who has for some 

 years conducted a successful florist busi- 

 ness at 70 West One Hundred and Twen- 

 ty-fifth street, Harlem, has removed to 

 2603 Broadway, near Ninety-eighth 

 street, a splendid part of the city, where 

 opportunity for a bon ton clientage is 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



WAVERLY, MASS. 



Death of Frederick Law Olmsted. 



Frederick Law Olmsted, the noted land- 

 scape architect, died here August 28, at 

 the age of 81. Mr. Olmsted has left 

 the impress of his genius on many of 

 the finest park systems of the countrv. 

 He it was who laid out- the World's 

 Fair grounds in Chicago in 1892— a 

 scheme of landscape gardening which 

 drew forth unstinted praise from ar- 

 tists of the old and new world. He cre- 

 ated the schemes for Central park, New 

 York; the South Park system, Chicaso; 

 Prospect park, Brooklyn; the Boston 

 park system, Biltmore, at Asheville, N. 

 C, and many other important works. 

 Boston in 1901 perpetuated Mr. Olm- 

 sted 's name by uniting Lavarett and 

 Jamaica parks and renaming the new 

 vista Olmsted park. 



Mr. Olmsted was born in Hartford, 

 Conn., in 1822, and studied engineering 

 at Yale in 1845 and 1846. After a few 

 years spent in practical farming Tie 

 made, in 1850, a pedestrian tour of Great 

 Britain and the continent of Europe. A 

 few years afterward he took another 

 journey through France, Italy and Ger- 

 many. In 1856 he began the work of 

 preparing the plans for the building of 

 Central park, New York. Four years 

 were devoted to the superintendeney of 

 the execution of those plans, and Mr. 

 Olmsted returned to Europe for a brief 



For two years the great outdoor artist 

 worked in California as a member of 

 the commission having in charge the Na- 

 tional park of the Yosemite, and on his 

 return to New York in 1866 he began 

 to plan Prospect park, Brooklyn, in as- 

 sociation with Calvert Vaux. 



Almost to the time of his death Mr. 

 Olmsted looked like a man in the prime 

 of life. His journeyings abroad, his 

 long rides on horseback through the 

 south, and his love for outdoor exercise 

 gave him a constitution like iron. He 

 had a summer home on Deer Isle, Me., 

 which he seldom left before Thanksgiv- 

 ing. Mr. Olmsted is survived by his 

 wife, a daughter and his sons, who are 

 following their father's profession at 

 Brookline, Mass. 



TROUBLE WITH CYCAS. 



We have cycas on which the old leaves 

 turn yellow as soon as a new whorl grows. 

 They have had plenty of heat and water. 

 Shall we feed them? J. J. L. 



A cycas in good health should hold its 

 foliage for two years, and if the plants 

 in question are not newly imported stock 

 and are well-established, it would seem 

 as though it were a case of starvation. 

 Supposing such to be the case, it would 

 be beneficial to give them some liquid 

 manure of moderate strength about once 

 a week, though repotting would be more 

 permanently helpful. With newly im- 

 ported cycas stems there is sometimes a 

 loss of foliage from defective or insuf- 

 ficient root action, and in the latter con- 

 dition overwatering might aggravate the 

 trouble. W. II. Tapltn. 



FUNERAL FLOWERS. 

 A Washington publication, The New 

 Century, prints the following: 



A correspondent asks us "to attack" the 

 custom of lavishly displaying garlands and 

 "set pieces" of flowers at funerals. We should 

 be glad to oblige our correspondent if we 

 thought "attacks" on this sort of thing ever 

 did any good. 



It Is natural enough that bereaved friends, 

 kindly acquaintances and sympathetic neighbors 

 should wish to offer some beautiful tribute to 

 the dead, and flowers are the most appropriate 

 pnssibk- symbols of love and hope. It is not 

 true that the offering of flowers in memory of 

 the dead is a "Pagan custom," as our friend 

 says, in an un-Christian sense. Everything la 

 Paganism was not antagonistic to Christian sen- 

 timent. If the rose was a symbol of Venus. 

 C: ristians have made it a symbol of the Blessed 

 Virgin; and It Is no unusual thing. In 

 Christian symbolical pictures, to see lilies left 

 In the tomb of the Immaculate, as she ascends 

 to Heaven. Whether a man be Pagan or 

 Christian, the natural desire to reverence the 

 dead, t* show love for them, springs in his 

 heart; It must take some form, and, in all 

 ages, especially In the case of the young, it 

 has takeu the form of a tribute of flowers. 



The oflering of flowers at the grave of the 

 dead is a beautiful and human custom. It Is 

 perfunctory, if it becomes a mere matter of 

 fashion, if it loses its simplicity and taxes 



the 





Wm. F. Gude states that the editor 

 published this matter without reference 

 to any florist and that it nearly escaped 

 notice, but on being called to the at- 

 tention of the Washington Florists ' Club 

 the following resolutions were adopted: 



Whereas, the New Century, a weekly paper 

 published in this city, has given expn-ssion 

 through its editor favoring the use of tlnwers 

 at funerals and other memorial occasions, evi- 

 dencing by his editorials not only his broad- 

 ness of views, but also his love for the beau- 

 tiful. 



Therefore, be it resolved by the Wash- 

 ington Florists' Club that the thanks of this 

 association are due and are hereby tendered 

 to Hon. D. I. Murphy, the editor of the said 

 paper. Resolved, that a copy of these reso- 

 lutions be forwarded to the New Century and 

 insorilicd on our minutes. 



