December -23. 1X97 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



197 



belle, friend Schiller, or is Mary-land 

 simply a coincidence? Come, 'fess up ! 



A trip around the trade revealed the 

 fact that preparations for the coming 

 season are already being made and an 

 air of activity pefvades these stores. The 

 last proofs of the catalogues are in the 

 printers' hands, and "all we've got to do 

 now," said one man, "is to sit down and 

 just wait." 



Peter Henderson & Co.'s new store is a 

 mar\-el of "white and gold." (the old 

 store has been thoroughly renovated), 

 and the win<iows are specially attractive 

 with Christmas gifts in the way of palms 

 and prettilv filled jardinieres. Mr. Forbes 

 is specially proud of the innovations. 



J. M. Thorburn it Co. have been 

 making some heavy esporlations of seed, 

 etc., and as far distant as Australia. 



Stumpp & Walter Co., the "youngest 

 firm in the trade," are going after the 

 "big fellows" and are making timely 

 preparations for the .spring. Their trade 

 for "Christmas greens" was very satis- 

 factory. 



Mr.' Arthur Boddington, who is the lit- 

 erary end of the firm of Clucas & Bod- 

 dington Co , in answer to a question 

 about the motto on their trade mark, said 

 the translation was "We stand wherever 

 thrown," which I suppose nienns, " Vou 

 can't throw them down." The Irade mark 

 is a cartoon of the coat of arms of the 

 Isle of Man, of which Mr. Clucas is (was) 

 a native. 



Mr. J. E. Killen, the well known rep- 

 resentative of C. H. Joosteu, has returned 

 from a very extensive and profitable trip. 

 Mr. Joosten is making a specialty of 

 hardy roses and sales in this line are well 

 up to the average. 



Mr. W. C. Langbridge, who represents 

 the well known firm of Jerome B. Rice 

 & Co. Cambridge, N. Y., is a visitor 

 this week. 



In our notes in issue of December 9 

 the following error appeared in the seed 

 and bulb paragraph: Chinese lilies "real- 

 ize $30.00 per iOW," should read $30.00 

 per J, 000. 



Miscellaneous. 



F. R. Pierson Co., of Tarrytown, 

 were recently notified that thej- were 

 awarded a silver medal for their exten- 

 sive exhibit of cannas, etc., at the Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., Exposition last summer. 



J. P. Cleary & Co. have turned their 

 spacious salesrooms into a holh- and 

 wreathing mart for the holidays and it 

 seems to be a wise investment if the visi- 

 tors are an indication of business. 



Waldemar Bart, who is the present 

 owner of the old Roenbeck Place at 

 Bayonne, N. J., which was for years fa- 

 mous for its comprehensive collection of 

 ferns, will open a retail store "up town" 

 during the winter. 



On Sunday last between three and four 

 in the afternoon, a fire occurred in the 

 house of Frederick H. Dressel, Iloboken, 

 X. J.; damage to the amount of eight 

 hundred dollars; fulh- covered by insur- 

 ance. 



Visitors, Benjamin Dorrance, Dor- 

 rancetown. Pa.; L. Bonnot, Flemington, 

 N. J., Wm. Coe, representing D. M. 

 Ferry. H. A. B. 



Greeting! the Florists' Review wishes 

 you all a happy and prosperous Christmas. 



JOHN YOUNG. 



Mr. John Young, who was unanimously 

 re-elected to the secretaryshi]) of the 

 Greater New York Florists' Club Dec. 

 13th, is one of the best known wholesalers 

 on " the street, " and besides being an all 



round good fellow is a member of Colum- 

 bian Commandery, a Knight Templar, 

 thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, 

 member of Mecca Temple and a Mystic 

 Shriner. We have pleasure in presenting 

 his portrait herewith. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The first Ouakertown letter to the 

 Florists' Review came from the 

 bustling halls of the chrysanthemum 

 show where victor and vanquished met in 

 friendlv greeting after the fray. The 

 second letter evidently beguiled a dull 

 half hour in a store in the center of the 

 citv. The scribe can almost be seen as 

 he leans Ijack in his chair, reaches for his 

 telephone to find out the market quota- 

 tions, and then thinks better of it and 

 turns again to his accounts of the weather 

 and Christmas greens. 60 in all fairness 

 letter numljer three should be devoted to 

 the grower who is now nearing his 

 inning, we are told, provided, of course, 

 he is smart enough to take it. 



Among the Growers. 

 Coine with me on the breezy turnpike 

 road ten miles out of town, for an hour 

 with one of our best Beauty growers. 

 "Robber Barons' they have been called, 

 either by a wag or some chap who did 

 not know how much brains had to be 

 mixed with hard work when this rose is 

 well grown. Many of us are too busy at 

 this season to see the results of the year's 

 preparation in other places, so I will de- 

 scribe what I saw that morning. 



House after house, freshly painted, 

 neat and clean, filled with strong Beauties 

 in perfect condition, full of bloom, every 

 plant tied up in place with plenty of 

 room to grow and doing its fair share of 

 work. 



There was no rushing on for the holi- 

 da\s with an excess of heat and moist- 

 ure. The plants had been well timed to 

 flower at this season and could be kept at 

 their regular temperature, about 60° at 

 night, without fear of their being too 

 late. No one who has not been through 

 the worry and anxiety of getting a crop 

 of flowers at this season can understand 

 how difficult it is; impossible without 

 proper conditions and thorough knowl- 

 edge. Brains are well paid in every walk 

 of life when properly directed. 



Beauty blooms have been in brisk 

 demand' in this market. Many have 

 been shipped out of town by the com- 

 mission men and the large growers, and 

 the quantity consumed by the local 

 dealers is still increasing. There seems 

 lefs waste in this rose than in any other. 

 Even the short stemmed blooms are 

 eagerly sought, though not at very re- 

 munerative prices. 



Stock promises to be fairly plentiful 

 this Christmas. I think the demand will 

 equal if it does not exceed the supply, 

 unless the growers make the mistake of 

 holding back their stock too long. The de- 

 mand for foliage and flowering plaiits is 

 most encouraging. The latter are likely 

 to l)e in short supply. 



Notes, 



■| he dealers' enemy is the fakir. The 

 gro•^^ ers' enemy is the private gardener 

 who sells .some of his stock. This was 

 reversed last week when one of these 

 semi-commercial growers from a nearby 

 state came to this city and gave one of 

 our storekeepers a dreadful tongue lash- 

 ing because the latter had written in a 

 trade paper that cypripedium "Edwnn 

 Lonsdale" was the first native American 

 cypripedium to bloom. "Indeed," the 

 visitor said, "you Philadelphians ought 

 to go to school!" This was rather rough 

 as a neighbor of our bright visitor is said 

 to have given the information which 

 caused the rebuke. The storekeeper 

 might have answered by informing his 

 visitor that chrysanthemum Col. Wm. B. 

 Smith is quite as well known and as 

 much appreciated in Philadelphia as in 

 England. 



A merry Christmas to vou all. 



J. W. Y. 



The Grower and Buyer Talk. 



By the time this appears in print, the 

 trade will be neck and shoulders in the 

 grand annual Christmas maneuvers, and 

 such a time as it is, everybody busy in 

 the extreme, and all hands clamoring for 

 more stuff. The condition of trade now 

 is in this shape: the grower he struts 

 "with that independent air" like the 

 man that broke tlie bank at Monte Carlo, 

 and quotes figures on his product with a 

 satisfied feeling which truly calls forth a 

 feeling of semi-respect from the buyer. 

 The other side: "Well, Mr. Grower, can't 

 you get prices up a bit higher? We can 

 stand it, but on the dead level don't you 



