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bunch of each variety. Mont Blane is a 

 white-flowered eanna and no doubt the 

 whitest known eanna. It is very striking. 

 And Buttercup is the purest and bright- 

 est yellow eanna and of excellent sub- 

 stance. It is also a fine winter bloomer 

 in the greenhouse. We saw it in glorious 

 form in l'iers. m's greenhouses, at Tar- 

 rytown, last winter. Niagara has full, 

 bold spikes of rich crimson flowers, broad- 

 ly edged with gold. This is an excep- 

 tionally fine eanna. Brandywine has in- 

 tense crimson-red flowers. Cherokee was 

 still darker and more vividly glowing. 

 Duke of York has very large, deep crim- 

 son petals edged with yellow, throat 

 tinged white. Betsy Ross is a light sal- 

 mon-pink and so distinct and striking that 

 the learned Prof. Fisher had to get right 

 up in meeting and tell us all about the 

 Hnss. who she was, the 

 and where she lived. 

 ins were Hiawatha, big 

 fine bronze foliage; Evo- 

 yellow, shading pink; 

 West Grove, very large coral pink, and 

 Gladiator, extra large yellow blossoms 

 spotted with crimson. 



Schenley park contributed a large 

 showing of its standard varieties, such 

 as Henderson, Bouvier, Yellow Crozy, 

 Kate Gray, Florence Vaughan, J. L>. 

 Kisele, Defender, yellow and red, one ol 

 John Jones' greatest favorites, and sev- 

 eral others. 



About a hundred varieties of dahlia 

 were represented in the several collec- 

 tions and these included cactus-flowered, 

 large- flowered show sorts, fancy, pom- 

 pons, single and crested, and all were sur- 

 prisingly beautiful. Mr. Pierson's lot 

 was strong in vivid and variegated cac- 

 tus flowers, the Peacock lot in large show 

 flowers and the strangely crested beauty, 

 President Viger. The Vincent group was 

 the largest and Mr. Vincent came him- 

 self all the way from Maryland to tell 

 us how to grow dahlias, held the floor 

 for half an hour and has promised to 

 come back again. Gus and Julius Lud- 

 wig had several vases of fine, showy blos- 

 soms, especially of their type of A. D. 

 Livoni, which they call Ludwigiana. 



Mr. Vincent mentioned the following 

 sorts as being extra good: Patrick Henry 

 and Grand Duke Alexis, white; Mrs. E. 

 V. Hallock and Arabella, yellow; Mrs. 

 Bennett, scarlet; Earl of Pembroke and 

 Eureka, pink; Fern-leaved Beauty, Frank 

 Smith, Maid of Kent, Apple Blossom and 

 Mrs. Laugtry as fancy sorts. Among 

 pompons he named Fairy Queen and A. 

 D. Livoni, pink; Elphin, white: Sunshine, 

 scarlet, and Miss Louis Kramer, fancy. 

 Comtess of Lonsdale, salmon pink; John 

 Welsh, crimson, and Austin Canneil, pur- 

 ple, he said, were fine cactus varieties. 

 Wm. Falconer. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



When I wrote a week ago of October 

 weather and sunshine we were at the 

 close of the ten most charming days of 

 the year. But since last Wednesday we 

 have had the longest and worst storm 

 ever known around New York, as you 

 have seen in the daily papers. The in 

 jury to the florists is great and the de- 

 struction in the parks is widespread. On 

 Monday night it is still raining. Ths 

 rivers are all above their banks and the 

 dread of further catastrophe remains. 



Many of the growers from Jersey and 

 up the Hudson were in the city on Sat- 

 urday hours before their shipments ar- 

 rived. Xvaek goods were still on the 



road at (i p. m. and Dorrencetou roses 

 were not in at four in the afternoon. 

 These are only samples of the general 

 disappointment, and yet enough stock 

 had arrived to flood the wholesalers and 

 a general air of depression prevailed. 

 Prices were at low ebb and the demand 

 unuoticeable, while on every hand the 

 chrysanthemum was abundant. What 

 will it be wHen the autumn queen really 

 begins to assert Itself? Prices have no 

 stability. Everything shared lust week 

 in the genera] slump, with the possible 

 excepti f the highest grade of Ameri- 

 can Beauties. Dahlias are now relegated 

 to the rear and asters are but a memory. 

 Violets stay at 50 cents for the best in 

 the market and are abundant. Thousands 

 of the second and third rate stock are 

 on the street. 



Club Meeting. 



The last meeting of the New York 

 Florists ' Club was held June S, so that 

 the first meeting of the new season, Oc- 

 tober 12, was very much like a reunion. 

 About forty members attended and a 

 more interesting meeting has seldom been 

 held. The next meeting occurs Novem- 

 ber 9, the day before the opening of the 

 great chrysanthemum exhibition here, 

 and, as tickets to the flower show will be 

 distributed to every member present, 

 timely notice is hereby given, so that 



will be disappointed. In addition 



the entertainment committee announces 

 special features for that evening that 

 should insure an attendance of at least 

 lf.it of its membership of 230. The new 

 rooms are perfect and the club has never 

 been so efficiently housed or conveniently 

 located. 



The outing committee reported a total 

 expenditure of $888 in providing the 

 splendid success of the summer holiday, 

 a considerable excess of receipts over ex- 

 penses. General satisfaction w\as ex- 

 pressed and a commendatory speech by 

 Mr. Sheridan was followed by his own re- 

 port of the transportation committee, 

 which Mr. Wallace took occasion to also 

 commend. In Mr. Weathered 's final re- 

 port of the flower show of last year it 

 was announced that almost the entire 

 guarantee fund had been collected. Four 



i inations for membership were made, 



and President Troy then called upon 

 Alex. Wallace for his impressions of the 

 S. A. F. convention. Mr. Wallace paid a 

 fitting tribute to its benefits aud accom- 

 plishments, the important committees that 

 were appointed, the huge attendance, and 

 the immensity of its trade exhibits, 

 which he characterized as the finest that 

 had ever been seen at any convention in 

 his experience. He dwelt eloquently 

 upon the delights of the boat trip and 

 the generosity of the .Milwaukee and the 

 Chicago florists, closing with the assur- 



i that it will "go down in history 



as the finest convention the S. A. F. has 

 ever enjoyed." 



Mr. O'Mara followed in a practical 

 review of tin mention from the mo- 

 ment he placed his destiny in the hands 

 of the efficient transportation committee 

 until the draughts and bree/es of the 

 Cream city placed him hors du combat 

 and forced him to return home minus 

 the dosing ceremonies and festivities. He 

 dwelt humorously on the up-to-date char- 

 acter of .Milwaukee and its ability to 

 take ■•time" by the forelock, as demon 

 strated in the theft of so many watches 

 from the society's members. His disap- 

 point nts included the club's bowling 



record, but he found occasion for com- 

 fort in the fact that the three highest 

 scores compared favorably with those of 



any team in the tournament, and the 

 grand record of 3,041 made by the New 

 lork team some years ago, which still 

 stands unbeaten and five pins ahead of 

 all competitors since the society was 

 born. He was delighted with the Mil- 

 waukee parks, especially the aquatics and 

 hardy perennials. He gave an interest- 

 ing criticism of the president's address 

 at Milwaukee, referring to labor unions, 

 the peony committee, and the coal strike. 

 He also dwelt upon the benefits which 

 had developed as a result of the Ashe- 

 ville convention and upon the wonderful 

 success that had been accomplished by 

 the Milwaukee florists. 



Mr. Du Rie told of the enjoyment 

 which the convention afforded him, of 

 the beauty of Milwaukee, the pleasure of 

 his visit to Joliet, and his surprise at the 

 changes that had been wrought in Chi- 

 cngo since his last visit before the fire. 



Fred Kelsey gave a very interesting 

 address on the inside history of the great 

 coal strike, with which he is thoroughly 

 conversant. The club moved a vote of 

 thanks in recognition of the unexcelled 

 courtesies of the Milwaukee and Chicago 

 florists, which was unanimously ap- 

 plauded. 



Messrs. Lenker, Scott and Duckham 

 were appointed a committee to pass upon 

 an exhibit of seedling dahlias by H. 

 Beaulieu, of Woodhaven, and accorded 

 that gentleman a vote of thanks. 



Arthur Herrington gave an interest- 

 ing address concerning the chrysanthe- 

 mum show to be given jointly by the 

 American Institute of New York and 

 the Chrysanthemum Society of America, 

 November 10, 11 and 12, in the great 

 hall at the top of the immense Macy 

 building. He spoke enthusiastically of 

 the prospects of this, the only flower 

 show in New York this year, and said its 

 success was already assured, as the co- 

 operation of ten regularly organized hor- 

 ticultural societies had been promised, in- 

 cluding those of Massachusetts and Penn- 

 sylvania and every society of importance 

 near New York city. The premium lists 

 are large, tickets exceeding 25,000 are 

 already printed and in his own words: 

 "it will lie an exhibition of chrysanthe- 

 mums such as the world has never seen 

 before. ' ' 



Mr. O'Mara spoke favorably of the 

 flower show, the interest which the club 

 would assuredly take, and the desire that 

 it would be continued under such aus- 

 pices for many years to come. 



H. Beernaert.'of tin- (hands Etablisse- 



nts d 'Horticulture, of Belgium, was a 



visitor, chaperoned by Fred Atkins, and 

 spent at the club his first night in 

 America. Several of the members who 

 had visited Europe during the summer 

 were present, but the modesty of the 

 president, who was one of them, and the 

 lateness of the hour, postponed the for- 

 eign impressions until later in the season. 



Various Notes. 



Sidney Nash, son of J. Nash, of the 

 firm of Moore, Hentz & Nash, and book- 

 keeper for this company, has decided to 

 anticipate a cold winter and has gone 

 into the woolen goods business with his 

 brother-in-law. His brother, Arthur, just 

 home from England, will take his place, 

 (iommersall, of Nyaek, is shipping fine 

 begonias to this house. 



Leach Bros., of Jersey City, have a 

 good assortment of early 'mums in 6- 

 inch pots at John Young's, including 

 Cremo, Polly Rose and Glory of Pacific. 



Ernst Asmus is still quite ill, after a 

 rally that led his friends to hope for a 

 speedy and complete convalescence. 



