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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Oci'O I 1003 



E the West 

 sts are very attraotho. especially 

 those of 1'. C. Weber, Mrs. M. M. Ayres 

 and George Waldbart. 



The Iadj florists' bowling i lub rolled 



si games lasl Wednesd; 



noon at the Blue Ribbon alleys. Sixteen 



■• sponded to the call. In the three 



illed Mrs. Theo. Miller was high; 



making an average i E ion in tin.-. ^:i ~, 



Mrs. i a i eond and Miss 



Birdie Mcinhardt third. Fred C. Weber 

 and -T. .1. Hencko assisted tin- Indies and 



kept b Miss Till,. Meinhardt was 



sitors from tiie 



. win. witnessed the bowling were 



Mr. and Mrs. .T. I', Immaim, oi Edwards- 



ville. 111.: Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Guy and 



i and Mrs. Fehr. of Belleville, 



111., and Miss Sehnell. of East St. Louis, 



. ry Wednesday aften will find 



the ladies bowling, commencing al J 



• I. D. I ar ly, of Evansville, I ml., is 



spending a i. n dai s in St. Louis, readii [> 

 "O'Mar.i to i lie Resi lie ' ' and 

 ing what »ill have to say 



in the next issm 



The florist bowlers oi \l i il 

 rolled three games and the scores shov 



; m.\ emenl o\ er i he n i el 

 Then. Miller w;is high, I nil Rev, i 

 ond and Will Adels third. Following arc 

 the scores: 



The Market. 



Busii 



ii ii in New Yurk city 

 in the cut flower department, both whole- 

 sale and retail, seem to reflect the condi- 



ti E securities in Wall street A bull 



market there is synonymous with pros- 

 perity in the florist business. That 

 gt eat li:i n. meter id' I lade i- .' i thi .1 ps 



and the effect of losses there by the men 



'all str me.,, p osperitj for the 



Fork floriculturists. Fortunateli 

 is a bottom to everything and the 



eiers i hosi the dull tin £ the year 



epress things, so that the natural 



: oi the | lulum nil] bring bet tei 



■ nisi about the period when chrys- 

 imums an- ripe and the busy fall 

 n actually begins. Watch things 

 in ■teller and expect a great hol- 

 season. It is as i ertain as was the 

 a I depression of the summi i . a acl 

 commencement of the good times 

 \g cannot De long delayed. The 

 > men have already had a splendid 

 ing season and all seem more than 

 ied with w Inn has been accomplished 

 the work in prospect from oon on 



Institute Exhibition. 



•.Vrl»T I l 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



I In nea.i her lias been slight I 



for the past week, .and as a consequence 

 trade has been better. Roses and carna- 

 tions show a deeided improvement in 

 quality, but these, with a few asters, 



i.i tin ly etit flowers to be had 



here at present. Prices remain un- 

 changed. The .1. M. Gasser Co. cut the 

 first chrysanthemums last week, and it 

 will not be long 

 in quantities. 



Notes. 



Quite a number of our growers are 

 talking of putting natural gas burners 

 under their boilers and using gas in- 

 stead of coal f ating then plai es 



Bramley & Son and I-'. W.' Zichman have 

 it already in. and are prepared for cold 



weather." They think that it will I 



great saving in both money ami labor. 



P. T. Evans is back from a three 

 week-' vacation, spenl in the 



Somi i i inn Kaiseri ses were 



at thi r i; Williams 

 place. 



The i I . , , ■ 1 ; , i , . I Flerist i lid. held its 

 annual pi. nie mi Septcmlr 

 City park. While the date was late in 

 day was fine, and a large 

 florists, with their famil 

 friends, had a jolly good time. E. 



r.\D. The ]■;. G. Hill 

 title, by 



b Uangi . -e twi 



acres "t adjacent property belonging t < > 

 the city. A new heating plant and 

 quite a guild sized addition to the range 



1.. I., for the strenuous winter season. 

 Mr. Hammond is handling palms and 

 plants as usual and litis some fine, large 

 decorative phoenix on exhibition. 



John J. Perkins reopens his branch 

 store at 4s West Thirtieth street this 

 ne.k and his foreman, Hugh Nelson, 

 ],t urns from his European trip at the 

 sain.- time. 



S. Masur, for five and one-half years 

 with J. A'. Phillips, has opened a retail 

 stun at l'.jS Fulton street. Brooklyn. 

 Like many a retailer, he was stocking up 

 the n.v, store with palms ." 1 1 n 1 ferns at 

 Elliott's lasi week, where the auctions 

 afford many bargain opportunities. 



Mr. Humphrey, of Thorlev's, met with 

 a painful accident at Pell Port, L. I.. 



uple nt' weeks ago -a fall from a 



pinvh i hai disl led his shoulder and 



laid mm '". the shelf for six days. He is 

 now in harness again. A large wedding 

 out of town is under way, which will en 

 gage his best efforts early in October. 



Tin- Jewish holidays last week were a 

 i.i. tor in thi improvement in business 

 earh. whirh emphasized their value by 

 the decrease noted before the Meek was 

 over. 



Chrysanthemums are asserting them- 

 selves quite prominently. < >u Monday 

 Thorley had a window of them that was 

 . . . effect • . banked with crotons. 



Rudolph Wimli. of St. Louis, has , nine 

 to town, backed by the excellent testi- 

 mony of Vice-President Beneke, and has 

 secured employment with .1. Ti. Small & 



Sens. 



11. I.'amin. of So -minis, is cutting 

 fine Bergmami chrysanthemums, which 

 a re • onsigned to John Venue. 



Mrs. Kelly, bookkeeper for the Rosary, 

 lias returned to New York after a seven 

 e eeks ' \ "it at her el. I home in the Em 



stemmed, averaging live inches in diam- 

 eter, a splendid shipper, and deemed 



Merlin lo th.- judge of a special prize 

 John Lewi- i )ii I.I- . ■ v 1 1 1 1 . i t .•■ I an immense 

 :i-s,,rt meni ..! reieiis. tan.y ealadiunis 

 and ..ther ornamental plants. Lagei ,V 

 Hurrell, of Summit. X. .1.. had their 

 usual fine display ol orchids in large va 

 rietv. and Siebrecht ,\ S m, of New Ro- 

 chelle, and Julius Roehrs, of Ruther- 

 ford, grand bank- oi pi ins, 01 namental 

 plants and or aids is en ditable as any 



t he-.' fii in- Ua\ .- ... i ila. ed ixhibi 



t ion. The shov ing I fa ney a ml cactus 



dahlias was huge ami - rl. in qualitv. 



The new pink dahlia, shown by H. F. 

 Burt, of Taunton. .Mass.. U as especially 

 handsome. Charles H. Allen, of Floral 

 Park, again exhibited his new White 



I. .i"s. m carnal and G T Schune 



man. of Baldwins, L. L, violets. L. A. 

 Martin, of Greenwich, Conn.. Hugh Mc- 



t.ine\ grasses and lianh tlewers. As is 



their custom, Ellwangei & Barry, of 

 Rochester, had a grand exlnl.it of fruits 

 of all kinds. II. r. Burl was one of the 

 principal prize winners in the dahlia 



la-s, S] \Y. P. l.olhn.p also lie o; 



prominently. .1. 1'. Sorenson, Stamford. 

 i onn . J. Dowlin, Seabright, \. J., L. 



A. Martin, (ireenw ieh, ' and others 



ood show ings. 



Various Notes. 

 Reed & Keller have a fine novelty in 



their folding Christmas bells and the de- 

 mand ha- --ii.ii n.i cable 



already. 



• I. s A. Hammond lias returned from 



Dr. 



\.w York 



month's horticultural tour in Cuba. 



Arthur I '■ wei . the glade, in- expert. 

 Ma- iii the . . t s las, week. His exhibit 

 of Groff's hybrids at the New York 



Stati I'. t Svra -use »as , f the 



lines, displays of the great rearly exhi- 

 bition. 



Mr. and Mrs. Hauswirtll and Miss 

 Ixreitline. of Chicago, enjoyed a four 

 days' staj in New York on their way 

 from the Atlantic City Redmen's eon 

 - ention. 



\ Meek from next Monday the open 



ing meeting of the New York Florists' 

 club for the sens..,, takes place at its 

 rooms in the Grand Opera Eouse. Some 

 n.o eli ie- in flowers will l.e on exhil.it ion 

 and a large attendance is anticipated. 



President Herrington was in the city 

 last week, full of enthusiasm as to the 

 coming chrysanthemum exhibition. There 

 is no doubt of the show being a grand 



A brief .all at TairMoe Satutd.-n 



demonstrated the influence of the S \ 

 F. convention exhibit as t,. Piersoni, 

 (.ex.- and ■ rates of this great fern be 

 ing in process ..t' packing and shipment, 

 and the demand growing daily for eom- 

 mereial sizes in 6 and 8-inch pots, of 

 which then is still an abundance sufn- 

 . ient to last until the cold weather makes 

 shipment risky. 



Fred ' . Chaclborn, of Newburg. 1.1.-1 

 dent of the Chadbom Automatic Ventila 

 tor Co.. reports a growing demand for 

 the Mutilator since the convention, and 

 the new factory seems ;■■ have made .. 

 wise provision, as Hell as a necessity 



