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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



September 17, 



addition and have just completed six 

 large greenhouses for Bowehl „v Granz, 



Hicksville. L. I. They also built a 2, 



dollar conservatory I'm- the Isabella Hei- 

 math Home in Brooklyn, three 350-foot 

 houses for Wendelhergcr. of Yonk.Ts. 

 and three for McMillan & Son, of Hud- 

 -. V .1. 

 Park Commissioner Young, of Brook- 

 lyn, who is a thorough Scotchman, has 

 built a "green'' through the suggestion 

 of our own 1'avv Mollis, when 



others ma.] indulge in the 

 i lis! game of bowls, a1 which 



his club won the silver cup. There will 

 be a grand opening soon, at which the 

 regular S. A. P. bowlers will have an 

 opportunity to demonstrate their lack 

 of knowledge. 



Elliott & Sons won the silver medal 

 for the exhibit at the "Volkfest" at 

 Ridgewood Park. L. I., last week, a 

 great annual festival, where the cus- 

 toms of the fatherland are perpetuate! 

 and the German florists illustrate their 

 artistic ability in carpet, bedding, lawn 

 decoration and plant groupings. The 

 judges of exhibits were Anton Sehul- 

 theis, of College Point; Carl Woerner, 

 of Flatbush, and Carl Zill.of Weekawken, 

 and among the prize winners were Bob- 

 bink & Atkins, A. L. Miller, Aug. 

 Sehraeder, John Baumann, Jaques Web- 

 ber, E. T. Buckingham, Henry Botzer, 

 II. Ma.-nnor. .1. Miesem, Charles Al- 

 arquhardt and P. Dann- 

 Aiehmann is president of 

 id the attendance reached 



brecht, 

 hauser. 



the so.-i 

 25,000 a day. 



J. P. Meekan, with Mackintosh, Broad- 

 way, has returned from his week's out- 

 ing at Saratoga. Mackintosh saved his 

 sixth drowning case at Long Branch a 

 few days ago, one of his ' ' salvage ' ' 

 victims being a lady weighing over 300 

 pounds. If she had got her arms around 

 bis neck, as she tried to do, she would 

 have sunk him sure, but he managed to 

 have her postpone her gratitude and 

 towed her to safety. 



Phil P/itzenberger, of Ghormley's. will 

 marry a week from next Wednesday, 

 with appropriate fireworks by his asso- 

 ciates. 



The new firm of Slinn & Hughes should 

 make considerable stir this winter. B. 

 S. Slinn, Jr., has been conducting a sue 

 cessful business for some time, and Wai- 

 ter Hughes, who has been salesman for 

 Jerome Kuydani, of Flatbush, is well 

 and favorably known. They will handle 

 Mr. Kuydani 's fine carnation stock as 

 usual and have some other good growers 

 on their list. Their headquarters will 

 be with the New York Cut Flower Co., 

 in the Coogan building. 



The regular board meeting of the 

 Cut Flower Company was held yester- 

 day. The company has just installed 

 a new switch board with numerous trunk 

 wires, so that each of their many depart- 

 ments is now connected with the central 

 office, thereby increasing their conveni- 

 ences and facilities. 



To illustrate the enormous shipments 

 of asters to this market, Mr. Ghormley 

 showed me 9,400 from one shipper on 

 Saturday last, and the same glut pre- 

 vails in nearly every wholesale estab- 

 lishment in the city. In several of the 

 wholesale stores 15,000 to 20,000 asters 

 are handled daily. 



C. W. Ward reports every carnation 

 plant disposed of already and the same 

 scarcity prevails all over the east, the 

 supply nowhere equalling the healthy de- 

 mand. 



\V. C. Mansfield, of Lexington avenue, 

 has returned from the Thousand Islands 

 with some big pickerel stories. He was 

 accompanied by Messrs. Roberts and 

 Grunewahl, the retailers of Columbus 

 avenue, and left them there still fish- 

 ing in these prolific waters. 



John Young reports a continuous de- 

 mand for orchids of all kinds, especially 

 C.i it leva labiata. 



A. J I. Langjahr, of Brooklyn, who has 

 conducted a wholesale cut flower busi- 

 ness there since 1891, has decided to try 

 the "store in two cities" idea and will 

 shortly open at 53 West Twenty-eighth 

 street. New York, first floor left, a splen- 

 did location. Mr. Langjahr will con- 

 tinue his Brooklyn store as usual. 



Mrs. Siebrecht, wife of Henry Sie- 

 brecht, Sr., has been very ill for some 

 weeks and is still suffering from an at- 

 tack of pleurisy which at one time threat- 

 ened -erions results. Hopes are now en- 

 tertained for her recovery. 



Henry Siebrecht. Jr., and wife and 

 Will Siebrecht and wife have returned 

 from a pleasure trip to Montreal, Que- 

 bec, the White Mountains and Saratoga. 



Mrs. P. Keidel is rapidly recovering 

 from a serious operation at one of the 

 hospitals. 



The bowling captain has returned from 

 a summer in the Catskills ready to kill 

 the pins this winter, and anxious to get 

 together a team that will bowl as well 

 as he does, and trim the pride of those 

 Philadelphia absorbers, who are never 

 happy unless they w~in everything in 

 sight. It's a long lane that has no turn. 

 I predict at St. Louis the descendants 

 of William Penn wil] not be ' ' one. two, 

 three." as Billy Easting scientifically 

 expresses it. Meantime, if any mem- 

 bers of the New York Florists' Club 

 will send their names to Captain Lang 

 and express their willingness to join the 

 bowling club, it will be only a few days 

 until the nucleus of a winning team for 

 1901 will be at work, and New York, 

 when it gets its mind thoroughly made 

 up. can whip any two teams in the coun- 

 try. ' J. Austin Shaw. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



I '.'i- - !" -ins to show some improve- 

 ment. The retailers report that they 

 lirly busy during the past week. 

 while ,-i great deal of funeral work, with 

 a !'■!' weddings, kepi some of us on the 

 jump for a few days. The shipping 

 trade also begins to show improvement 

 among the wholesalers. The weather is 

 fine; warm, bright days and cool nights, 

 which they say is just the kind of 

 weather to make the young stock grow 

 and which improves the cut blooms. 



Night tiring has not yet become a n »« 



sity. Nearly all the growers are busy 

 putting in their fall bulbs. 



firing in with improved 

 foliage and blooms. The demand for 

 high grade stock is good, but supply is 

 limited as yet. Good Beauties are still 

 somewhat scarce, but plenty of shorts 

 are in the market; $2 per dozen is the 

 top price. .Meteors are also better and 

 Brides and Carnots are of good quality. 

 Maids. Perles and Gates are small as 

 yet, but promise better soon. The best 

 roses bring $5 per 100 and there seem 

 to be plenty for the demand. Carna- 

 tions are fairly plentiful, but cannot be 

 called choice. They clean up fairly well, 

 but, like outdoor stock, the stems are 

 short, although the blooms are fair. The 



best grade does not bring over $1.50 per 

 100, while, some of the ordinary stock is 

 sold at 50 cents. The supply of fancies 

 is very limited. 



Lily of the valley sold somewhat bet- 

 ter the past week, owing to the fall wed- 

 dings. Asters have shortened up, but 

 enough are shipped in to supply the de- 

 mand at $1 and $1.50 per 100. Heads 

 of hydrangea when clean sell well ; so 

 does Clematis paniculata. The long 

 sprays of the latter would be effective in 

 decorations, but very little of that kind 

 of work is now on hand. Cosmos is com- 

 ing in. but not in sufficient quantities to 

 make a quotation on it. Gladioli are 

 about gone. These, with other outdoor 

 stock, sell slowly. In the line of green, 

 adiantum has some demand. Smilax also 

 moves well. With galas. Sprengeri 

 and plenty of fancy ferns, the green 

 market is in good condition at. the pres- 

 ent time. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club held its September 

 meeting in Edwardsville, 111., at the home 

 of Fred Ammann. It was the most en- 

 thusiastic meeting held by the club this 

 year, and thirty members were in at- 

 tendance. The members were met at 

 the Court House square by Mr. Am- 

 mann and his foreman, Mr. Blixen, and 

 were escorted to their place. After the 

 inspection of this well kept establish- 

 ment all were of the same opinion, that 

 everything was in fine shape. The young 

 rose stock, especially the Perles. Beau- 

 ties, Ivory and Brides, looked fine, and 

 the short-roof Dietsch houses were voted 

 a success; the Wolf ventilator was also 

 vrell spoken of. 



The meeting opened up at 3 o'clock, 

 with President Dunford in the chair. 

 All committees reported and were dis- 

 charged with thanks. Mr. Ammann was 

 requested to read his Milwaukee speech. 

 Frederick Balthis was elected a member 

 of the club, and Wm. Bouche, land- 

 s', made application for 

 All essays left over will 

 be read at the next meeting. The instal- 

 lation of officers took place. With a 

 few appropriate remarks President Dun- 

 ford left the chair, which he has so ablv 

 filled the past year to J. J. Beneke, the 

 newly elected president. Via President 

 w inter, Se retary Schray Treasurer 

 Koenig and Trustees ixoma 



Halstedt 

 ed. The 



3 the list 

 readv at 



a letter from 

 the S. A. F.. 

 f meeting of 

 ich will have 

 ■ntertainment 

 id. and that 

 fj 

 already been 



tin-tot s were requested 



of essays for the fall u 

 the next meeting of the 



The president then re 

 W. J. Stewart, secretary 

 and said that by the 

 the club the committees 

 charge of the S. A. I 

 next August will be t 

 the place for the me 

 hall and bowling alleys ] 

 spoken for. Ever] member present sig- 

 nified his willingness to work, and work 

 hard, for the success of the convention 

 next year. 



The question box contained a lot of 

 interesting queries and a big discussion 

 was brought out on stem-rot in carna- 

 tions, in which Messrs. Fillmore, liny, 

 Halstedt, Ammann. Herzog and Dun- 

 ford had a lively mix-up, but it ended 

 happily and made the meeting quite 

 interesting-. 



After adjournment Mr. Ammann in- 

 vited the members to a fine lunch, which 

 was spread on the lawn and which was 

 served by Mrs. Ammann and her dau?h- 

 ters. assisted by Mrs. Blixen. After 



