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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



September 10, 



ABUTILON. 



A subscriber sends a leaf of Abutilon 

 vexillarium and says: "I enclose a leaf 



of abutilon maple. It grows about eight- 

 een inches high and compact. Give me 

 the name of it and tell me where to get 



Instead of a compact grower 1 should 

 call it a spreading or almost creeping 

 plant. The pretty orange and green vari- 



agation of the foliage made it quite a 

 favorite some years ago. I have seen-ft 

 used in tlewer gardening with good effect 

 and we still use it largely in veranda 

 boxes and vases. You can buy it of any 

 catalogue house in the business. Perhaps 

 a neighbor has some. If so, get some cut- 

 tings about the middle of September. 

 Take only the tender tops of the shoots, 

 put them in the sand and keep wet. They 

 don't root in the fall as easily as ager- 

 atums, but they root. 



William Scott. 



LONGIFLORUMS FOR SUMMER. 



I can use some longiflorum lilies during 

 June and July. Do I have to get them 

 from cold storage, or can I get bulbs 

 late this fall, pot them up, keep them 

 outside in a frame on the north side of 

 the greenhouses and take inside about 

 March 1? P. O. 



If you took them into the greenhouse 

 by March 1, they would be in flower by 

 the end of May. The best you could 

 do by keeping them in a cold frame all 

 winter (and that's risky in pots) would 

 be to have them in flower by the end of 

 June, their natural flowering season. It 

 is much better to buy them from a firm 

 that makes a business of keeping them in 

 cold storage, and for July and later this 

 is all you could do. Leave the retarding 

 to the specialist who has the correct meth- 

 ods of doing it, and you will save money 

 and much labor. 



William Scott. 



DETROIT. 



President Gets a Watch. 



A most pleasant event occurred on 

 Thursday evening, September 3, when the 

 newly elected president of the S. A. F. 

 was decoyed into taking an auto ride to 

 the Rusch House at Grosse Pointe, where 

 he found about forty of his florist friends 

 in waiting and a table spread with g'^d 

 things to eat, the decorations consist- 

 ing entirely of newly cut grass, with 

 which the table was covered. After en- 

 joying the ' ' feed ' ' and something to 

 wash it down, Mr. Breitmeyer was pre- 

 sented with an elegant gold watch to re- 

 place the one stolen at Milwaukee. He 

 was completely surprised, but rallied as 

 only a Detroit man can and made a verv 

 good speech. George Reynolds then took 

 hold as toastmaster and called on C. W. 

 Ward and F. W. Creighton, who were 

 visitors, and Rev. Collins, J. P. Sullivan, 

 R. Plowerday, F. H. Beard and others, 

 of Detroit, who all helped to make the 

 occasion one long to be remembered. " 



Since the meeting of the directors of 

 the American Carnation Society at Mil- 

 waukee the premium lists for the March 

 meeting have been increased by the ad- 

 dition of three $25 cups, donated by the 

 Foley Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, 

 one of which Mr. Foley wish..] t<> give 

 to the Michigan grower who will ex- 

 hibit the best vase of his own seedlings 



The other two will be placed later. Now 

 we may expect some fine seedlings from 

 (fraud Rapids. Saginaw, Mt. Clemens 

 and other towns in Michigan. Rag. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Sir Thomas failed to lift the cup and 

 the festivities which have attended his 

 entertainment, the opening of the schools 

 and the theatrical first nights have so 

 far failed to lift the market. Still a 

 slight improvement is already discernible 

 and every day draws us nearer to the 

 change in the tide. It will all be sun- 

 shine soon, and the long experience of 

 ' ' low water ' ' will be forgotten. As was 

 to be expected, the warm spell put a 

 quietus on the violet's prematureness, 

 and it is well. No one wants to wear 

 violets before October. 



These are anxious days for the Broad- 

 way florists. The Rapid Transit people 

 want to open the street from Fourteenth 

 to Forty-second, and a protest that can 

 be heard from Harlem to the Battery has 

 already reached the powers that be. 

 Should the great thoroughfare be torn 

 up again, it would completely paralyze 

 that section of the florist business and 

 entail losses that with many would be 

 ruinous. The latest scheme is to work 

 only at night and board over the exposed 

 section by day, a compromise that does 

 not meet with much approval. Mean- 

 time the trade is hoping for the best 

 and making its window decorations the 

 finest in the world, a reputation which 

 floriculture on Broadway has long en- 

 joyed, and deservedly. 



Various Notes. 



On September 3 'the most gorgeous 

 wedding of the year, the Thayer-Brooks, 

 took place at Newport. Over 3,000 in- 

 vitations were given. The floral decora- 

 tions at the church and home were very 

 elaborate, and the wedding breakfast had 

 over a thousand guests. The steamboat 

 companies ran excursions for sight-seers 

 and altogether it was a strenuous time. 

 Carte blanche, as is often the case with 

 the "600," was the florist's order, a 

 commission that makes the remainder of 

 the society season ' ' velvet. ' ' 



The renovating, enlarging and painting 

 of the wholesale stores continues. Geo. 

 Saltford now has one of the largest and 

 most convenient places on the street. The 

 store is double its former size and is 

 very neatly arranged and decorated. His 

 early experiences in the violet business 

 have borne much fruit. From being a 

 pioneer in Duchess county he now finds 

 over seventy growers of the favorite flow- 

 ers. He predicts an enormous output 

 for the season. He has returned, fully 

 recovered from his recent illness, and 

 ready for the enlarged trade for which 

 he has prepared. 



Fred Atkins and wife have returned 

 from Europe, after a very successful and 

 pleasant journey. Now look out for 

 agricultural and horticultural novelties 

 and plenty of them. 



Patrick O'Mara's indisposition at Mil- 

 waukee was short lived, though sufficient 

 to prevent his enjo3'ment of the boat 

 ride and the Chicago convention festivi- 

 ties, much to his regret. He feels that 

 the O. H. section of the society deserves 

 respectful recognition and predicts the 

 election of Prof. Cowell in 1904. Mean- 

 time he agrees with all of us that Presi- 

 dent Breitmeyer is the right man in the 

 right place. 



W. J. Elliott has returned from North- 

 port, L. I., where shooting, yachting, fish- 

 ing and automobiling combined to make 

 his holiday a healthful one. Next Tues- 

 day begin the auctions, and with no on- 

 position the field should prove remunera- 

 tive. 



Emil Schloss has returned from the 

 west, having called at all the large cities 

 on his way home from the convention. 



The firm of Holton & Hunkel, of Mil- 

 waukee, was fortunate in securing the 

 entire exhibit of Reed & Keller at the 

 convention. 



L. J. Kreshover and wife are enjoying 

 their final outing this week at Atlantic 

 City. 



Scallen's new store on Broadway is 

 now occupied by the firm, and on the ex- 

 act site where the old establishment ex- 

 isted for so many years. It is a hand- 

 some and commodious spot. 



George W. Crawbuck, of Hicks & 

 Crawbuck, is at Chatham, N. J., with his 

 family, and Mr. Hicks, of the same firm, 

 returns the last of the month from his 

 summer home at Wantaugh, L. I. 



J. W. Bebus, with W. J. Elliott & Sons, 

 and a son of the late Jacob L. Bebus, 

 one of New York's pioneer florists, has 

 returned from his summer outing at 

 Alexandria Bay. 



C. \V. Ward is on a western trip. His 

 article on the peony in the September 

 number of Floral Life is a most inter- 

 esting one, splendidly illustrated, and oc- 

 cupies the place of honor in the issue. 



Sigmund Geller has rented a large 

 storehouse, 15S-160 West Twenty-seventh 

 street, for the convenience of his over- 

 flow, and his facilities for his increasing 

 trade are thus largely provided for. 



Values are rising in real estate in the 

 vicinity of the wholesale district, Twen- 

 ty-sixth to Thirtieth streets, on account 

 of the projected building of the new 

 Pennsylvania depot. 



Tuesday of this week Charles L. Al- 

 len, of Floral Park, gave his lecture on 

 ' ' The Inner Life of Plants, or the Soul 

 of Nature," at the exhibition of the 

 Lenox, Mass., Horticultural Society. 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



HARTFORD, CONN. 

 The florists' clubs of Hartford, Bridge- 

 port and New Haven held a meeting and 

 outing August 27, at Lake Compounce. 

 About forty members from the three cit- 

 ies were present. The morning was oc- 

 cupied with social intercourse. After 

 dinner there was speaking by members of 

 the club, the toastmaster being A. C. 

 Sternberg, of West Hartford. He made 

 a short speech, after which Theodore 

 Wirth, president of the Hartford Flor- 

 ists' Club, made a few remarks. He was 

 followed by G. X. Amrhyn, president of 

 the New Haven club. The other speak- 

 ers were C. E. Keith, president of the 

 Bridgeport club, J. A. Thomson, of 

 WeM Hartford, W. E. Reck, of Bridge- 

 port, 11. E. Ferrier, of New Haven and 

 o* President McRonald, of the Hartford 

 eluli. After the speeehmnking the mem- 

 bers went to the bowling alley and rolled 

 tenpins for a handsome loving cup. 



Elgin, III. — George Souster has just 

 returned from a month at Mt. Clemens, 

 where he succeeded in getting rid of his 

 rheumatism. 



Toledo, O. — -Henry Krueger, of Krue- 

 ger Bros., and Miss Agnes Smith, were 

 married September 1, and are on a wed- 

 ding trip to Niagara Falls. 



