The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1027 



club on its fine attendance, its beautiful 

 hall and the good feeling so evident, 

 making in conclusion a short plea for co- 

 operation in furthering the interests of 

 the S. A. F. 



President Rackham enjoyed his first 

 visit to any florists ' club outside of his 

 home town, Detroit, and dwelt eloquently 

 upon the coming carnation convention in 

 March and tendered a hearty invitation 

 to all to come and enjoy it. He prom- 

 ised the largest and most comprehensive 

 premium list ever offered. 



Elmer Smith and Peter Crow.- gave 

 interesting addresses and the meeting 

 closed with mutual congratulations and 

 evident faith in the triumph of the 

 great 'mum exhibition to which the bal- 

 ance of the week will be devoted. Every- 

 thing at this writing indicates a success 

 far beyond the general expectations. 



The advance guard of invaders arrived 

 on Monday in New York, President 

 Breitmeyer and President Rackham. of 

 Detroit ; Elmer D. Smith, of Adrian, and 

 Peter Crowe, of Utica. 



The Kurzman-Dacre Co. had a fine 

 decoration on Monday evening at Del- 

 monico's, the annual alumni dinner of 

 the British university graduates living in 

 New York. 



Some of the retailers are still busy 

 with weddings, banquets and out of town 

 festivities. Thomas Young. Jr.. had a 

 big wedding last week at Goshen. Mc- 

 Connell cared for the interests "1 the 

 Olney-Mitchell union in Harlem, and 

 Hodgson on. Tuesday catered to royalty 

 at the nuptials of Miss Goelet and the 

 Duke. 



The ribbon house of Schloss Bros, lias 

 had a fine trade since the convention and 

 report an increasing demand for their 

 novelties. The orders for Thanksgiving 

 .nine from all sections of the country. 



Sigmund Geller opened his factory at 

 133 W. Twenty-eighth street lasl week 

 for the manufacture of florists' supplies. 

 Mr. Geller reports a fine demand this 

 fall. 



The pioneer house of J. K. Allen main- 

 tains its reputation for extensive out-of- 

 town shipments and early attention to 

 n- customers. Six in the morning finds 

 •■J. K." on deck, ready for business, 365 

 days in the year. 



A. II. Langjahr extends the courtesy 

 • ■i In- cittiee conveniences to all horticul 

 tural visitors to the metropolis. 



John X. May and wife, of St. Paul, 

 are visiting Xew York. Mr. May has 

 been in the employ of his uncle, I.. I.. 

 Max. tor many years. 



The shipments of violets and A 



Beauties to Walter Sheridan continue 

 in a lined, but the quality of the stock 

 maintains its reputation. 



Charles Millang has taken a long lease 

 of the whole building at 50 West 

 Twenty ninth street, and contemplates 

 extensive improvements. He will put ; n 

 a new steam boiler, extend his green- 

 house to the limit of his room and n°e 

 the piesent glass as an adjunct to his 

 cut flower department. 



James McManus has developed a fine 

 oivhid demand during the past year, 



ipping 



duilv 



the large cities and 



receiving consignments from many of 

 the large privati estates, as well as the 

 regular growers. 



Ralph M. Ward & Co. is the nai <' 



a new exporting and invoorting nouce 

 at 17 Battery place. Mr. Ward has lately 

 been a partner with Hagemann & Co. 

 He lias with him C. Wayne Ward and 

 J. IT. Thomas. J. AUSTIN Shaw. 



The Market. 



The market here the pasl week was still 

 in a very much overcrowded condition. 

 I'll, weather has been ideal but the de- 

 mand for cut flowers is very unsteady at 

 the retail stores. The wholesale florists 

 are not in the best of humor, as the 

 abundance of chrysanthemum blooms has 

 forced prices on everything else down 

 to the lowest limit. Chrysanthemums 

 themselves are cheaper than ever before 

 and good large blooms can be bought 

 i dozen and $15 in hundred lots. 

 Appleton, Mrs. Perrin, Robinson and 

 Ivory are among the best sellers just 

 now. Some extra fine Timothy Eaton 

 are promised for this week and a fine 

 lot of Jerome Jones and Major Bonnaffon 

 are in today, which are really fine and 

 bringing top price, $2.50 per dozen. 



In roses the same conditions prevail, 

 except in the case of a little extra fancy 

 stock, which is selling at what it is 

 really worth. Brides, Bridesmaids and 

 Meteors of good quality are selling at 75 

 cents per 100 and cheaper in 1,000 lots. 

 American Beauties are not quite so bad 

 and the price is kept up on first quality 

 stock. These are not what you would 

 call over-plentiful, still enough for the 

 demand. 



Carnations are also suffering for want 

 of demand and some good stock is going 

 to waste. The street fakir is making his 

 own price on these and the store men 

 are Imying only the best at $1 and $1.50 

 per 100. Gov. Wolcott is the best whiti 

 and E. Crocker the best pink, with a few 

 good Crane for red. 



Violets the past week had to juffei 

 from the warm weather and the demand 

 was light, with the supply fairly plentiful 

 at 35 cents and 50 rent- per 100. Lily 

 of the valley is still selling well, with the 

 supply somewhat limited; $4 and $5 

 is the price now. A few callas and Paper 

 While- are in but not enough to quote 

 prices. All green had a good demand. 

 especially smilax. 



Various Notes. 

 George VY. Goldner, representing Reed 

 & [Seller, of Xew fork, was with us the 

 past week. -Mr. (ioldner reports that he 

 i- meeting with good success in florists' 

 supplies of all kinds. 



Miss Belle Miller, of Springfield. 111., 

 was a visiter the past week. ..-ailing on 

 the trade and friends about town. 



The Koenig Floral Co. place at North 

 St. I.miis is making a fine show of pot 

 . hiysanth. iininis. Among them are some 

 of the best varieties, such as Appleton, 

 Robinson and Mrs Perrin. which are look- 

 ing line and selling well. 



At Meinhardts', a little north of 

 Kn.ing's, they are also making a good 

 show of potted chrysai thi d ims and 

 choice i nt flowers of all kinds. Fred re- 

 ports trade as very good in all lim -. 



i Vnnng & Sons Co. is making a fine 

 exhibition of chrysanthemums at the 

 store nil Olive street. John Young re- 

 ports business brisk in the bulb line. 



Grimm & Gorley are spurting a fine 

 new delivery wagon. They furnished the 

 decorations 1 for the opening of a large 

 department store in their neighborhood 

 in which a big lot of wild smilax was 

 used and a fine lot of plants. 



Karl\ Saturday morning tli bid 



house at Shaw's Garden was partly de- 

 al i oyed b\ tire. The loss is estimated at 

 si. iioo and a great many of the fine 

 plants suffered very muclj from smoke 



and heat. Superintendent H. C. Irish 

 and a large force of men worked hard 

 to save the other houses, which they final- 

 ly did. 



Ostertag Bros, made a very fine deco- 

 tion at Eaust 's for ' horse show week. 

 Henry reports that they used a big lot 

 of stock of all kinds and it made one of 

 the prettiest decorations seen for a long 

 time at a place of this kind. 



Some very pretty horse show decora- 

 tions were made in the show windows of 

 the local florists. Among the best were 

 those of the Ellison Floral Co., at Grand 

 and Olive streets, Miss Newman and 

 Miss T. Badaraeco. All business houses 

 down town were decorated with horso 

 show colors, green and white, in which 

 a good many white pot chrysanthemums 

 were used. 



Philip Breitmeyer, of Detroit, in a let- 

 ter has promised the local club an ex- 

 hibition of the new rose for its meeting 

 next week. Baur & Smith, of Indianap- 

 olis, will send a bunch of their new car- 

 nation, Indianapolis. James Hartshorne 

 will try to send a few of Fiancee and 

 all of 'them will be looked for with in- 

 terest by the members of the club. 



F. W. Maa-. of the St. Louis Seed Co., 

 was mad.- happy the past week by the 

 arrival of a twelve-pounder at his home. 

 Mother ami child are doing nicely. 



The St. Louis bowlers congratulate the 

 i 'hi. -ago Florists' Bowling Club on its 

 selection of George Asmus as its presi- 

 dent. A better selection could not have 

 been made. 



Bowling. 

 The bowlers rolled three games on 

 Monday night, and a few good scores 

 were made, which were as follows: 



Player. 1st. 2d. 3d. T'l. 



C. A." Kiielin 170 211 129 500 



.1 .1. Beneke 172 156 171 499 



F. C. Weber 162 169 111 472 



I M Ellis 162 134 137 433 



John Young 127 137 130 394 



r J. Meinhardt 14:: 14:: 132 41S 



ill.-.. Mill. i 129 1.13 1112 3S4 



F, Weber 142 106 269 



Os. . <■ Beneke 102 9.S 149 341 



Friday night this week the florists' 

 team will bowl the Belleville Club at 

 the Blue Ribbon alleys. The team se- 

 lected to bowl is made up of Kuehn, 

 Beter, Miller. Guy and Beneke. 



J. J. B. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



Mrs. William Billingsley died of fever 

 November 8 at her home! The remains 

 were taken to her former home in New 

 Fork state for interment. Her death 

 came as a great surprise to her many 

 friends in tin- craft, as she had not been 

 ill long and was supposed to be improv- 

 ing since the day of the crisis. Several 

 members of the craft sent floral pieces, 

 but many heard the sad news too late to 

 send anything. Mr. Billingsley has the 

 sympathj of the craft in his bereave- 

 ment. A. B. 



We like the Review better than ever 

 and would not want to do without it— 

 \V\i. I ini k. Three Rivers, Mich. 



The beautiful picture mi the title page 



of thi- issue is from i pyrighted photo 



graph posed by < '. H. Anderson, artist of 

 the Elite I'hotographie Studio. San Fran 

 cisco, Cal., and i- used by the courtesy of 

 Paul l.otz. proprietor. 



Flint. Mich.— -B. Hasselbring lias 



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