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The Weekly Florists* Review* 



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Group of Nepbrolepis Piersoni at the Tarrytown Exhibition. 



Palmer, J. \V. Young. Mr. Bunting be- 

 ing elected by the boaid will serve un- 

 til the next annual meeting in October, 

 when his term will expire, with those 

 of his one year colleagues. 



The auction sale on Saturday morning 

 was well attended. W. K. Harris wield- 

 ed the hammer in a way that showed 

 that he was master of the situation. 

 The prices realized for the auction of 

 stalls were A-ary satisfactory when it is 

 considered that no one knows yet just 

 what a choice position is worth. All 

 the "Fifth Avenue" stalls went first, 

 F. and H. Mergenthaler securing first 

 choice for $16. The total ainount real- 

 ized was $1.50..50. 



Florists' Supplies. 



H. H. Battles remarked the other day 

 that nine-tenths of the dinner tables in 

 Philadelphia were oval shaped, so Rob- 

 ert Craig ordered oval shaped pans as 

 an experiment to be filled with Lorraine 

 liegoiiias edged with tiny asparagus. H. 

 liayersdorfer & Co. are now making 

 tasty birch-bark covers for these oval 

 |ians. which promise to be a taking nov- 

 elty. They were pretty busy in this 

 bustling establishment, but both part- 

 ners took a little time to chat a few mo- 

 ments about business, and Jlr. Berkowitz 

 showed some of the interesting things 

 in the great warehouse. Baskets are 

 coming this season with unusually long 

 handles, probably to better display flow- 

 <rs and to give room for big bows of 

 ribbon. A very attractive basket was 

 made of some sort of green braid, very 

 narrow in shape like a boat. The size 

 " f the demand for immortelles is start- 

 ling, the last steamer alone brought in 

 386 cases, of which 274 were at once 

 shipped away on orders. There are very 

 [irelty artifieial holly wreaths, most nat- 

 ural in appearance, and many other last- 

 ing reproductions of perishable varieties 

 of fnliagc. 



A New Departure. 



Only a few year.s ago all the ribbon 

 used by our city florists came from the 

 wholesale millinery houses; then S. S. 

 Pennock took up this branch as a side 

 issue to his wholesale florist business; a 

 few months ago M. Piice & Co. added rib- 

 bon to their florists' supplies. Now this 

 city boasts of a simon pure florins" rib- 



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wonderfully cleared up the bulbs which 

 up to that time had been selling slowly. 

 Jlr. Sherry, who is with this firm, no- 

 tices a scarcity in scarlet tulips, espe- 

 cially Belle Alliance. White Romans 

 and paper whites went slowly, but are 

 now nearly all sold. Some of the daffo- 

 dils, especially Von Sion. are in over 

 supply. Named hyacinths and tulips 

 are eagerly sought. The bulb business 

 has increased fully .5 per cent over last 

 year. 



John Ruppert. who is with the H. A. 

 Dreer Co.: says that they expect to have 

 18,000 plants of Pandanus Sanderi by 

 next autumn. Orders are being booked 

 now for delivery next October. He an- 

 ticipates that the entire stock to be of- 

 fered will not prove sufficient to meet 

 the demand. Phil. 



bon firm. The firm name is Turnbull & 

 Crawford, composed of .J. Q. A. Turn- 

 bull, formerly with both the above firms, 

 and W. \V. Crawford, son of Robert 

 t'rawford. Jr., the well known retail 

 florist. They are doing an encouraging 

 amount of business and expect in a short 

 time to have an unusually desirable se- 

 lection of ribbons and novelties. 



Bowling. 



The Florists' bowling team defeated 

 (he strong Penn Coyd team on the lat- 

 tor's alleys last week. This was a great 

 victory, as the Penn Coyd is a very 

 strong club, while the Florists' team is 

 a new one. The scores were very close, 

 the Florists winning the first game by 

 1.5 pins and the last by 70. The team 

 consisted of Moss. Conner, Gibson, Po- 

 ntes and Yeates. There are six clubs in 

 the Bowlers' League; each playa three 

 matches of three games each with all 

 the others. The Florists now lead with 

 a score of six games won with three lost. 



Notes. 



11. II. Battler, had the decorations for 

 the president's dinner and reception on 

 Founders' day. The work was on a very 

 elaborate scale, great quantities of Beau- 

 ties, white chrysanthemums, violets and 

 orchids were used, besides many other 

 plants and greens. The effects in the 

 dining room were in red. white and blue 

 heightened by electric lights. The entire 

 decorations were pronounced more beau- 

 tiful than any before seen in the Union 

 League. 



Jos. Kift & Son had the decorations 

 for the dinner given by Charles Emory 

 Smith on Saturday to the president. 

 Bridesmaid roses and Farleyense ferns 

 were chiefly used. Man}' distinguished 

 guests were present. 



Hugh Graham had a very handsome 

 wedding decoration for the daughter of 

 a senior member of a well known depart- 

 ment store, at the Mercantile Club on 

 Miinday. (ireal (piantitics of chrysan- 

 llH'muni> and roses were used. 



J. J. Ilabermehl's Sons received one 

 order of 800 yellow chrysanthemums 

 from Fred Ehret on Wednesday. 



Ernst (i. Asmus, of West Hoboken. 

 was in the city on Saturday. 



Johnson & Stokes state that the open 

 weatliei- of the last three weeks has 



BUFFALO. 



A week of dull weather, but bright 

 business is the record for the past week. 

 No event of great moment has occurred, 

 simply a general all around good de- 

 mand, which is the healthy state of af- 

 fairs. I always like to visit the busy 

 emporium of W. F. Kasting and see a 

 scramble for flowers and the place about 

 cleaned out, and that's the state of af- 

 fairs for some two weeks of late. When 

 you see a place piled up with second and 

 third class stuff you get a dull, depress- 

 ing sensation similar to that produced 

 by three feet of snow having broken in 

 your roof. Brother florists agree with 

 me that chrysanthemums have sold bet- 

 ter this year than for the past four or 

 five years; every quality has been in 

 di'mand. Very good flowers have 

 l)rought $4 per dozen, although more 

 have been sold at $3. and we even know 

 of one fashionable firm which charged 

 $9 per dozen for some fairly good flow- 

 ers. These are Thorley prices, and possi- 

 bly Thorley accessories may account for 

 the artistic figure. 



Being more in the city of late we are 

 not doomed to miss the delightful pleas- 

 ure of seeing visitors of the profession 

 who stray this way. Quite recently that 

 very bright young antipodean. Mr. 

 McHutchison. gave us a call. If he is a 

 fair sample of the product of that island 

 continent of the southern seas, no won- 

 der they are a progressive people. And 

 thej- are nearly on top in more ways 

 than one — in their almost ideal govern- 

 ment: in their liberal and advanced 

 thought; their high average of wealth 

 distributed among all the people, far 

 better than here; their high rate of 

 wages, and yet cheap living gives its 

 classes plenty of time and opportunity 

 for social and sportive recreation, and 

 they are a nation of sports. With his 

 wide knowledge of the profession and 

 business faculty I can see nothing but 

 success for this cosmopolitan IVtr. Me. 



A visitor of a dilfercnt type, but also 

 willing to sell you something was Mr. Pe- 

 terson, of Cincinnati. He liad some 

 splendid samples of Begonia Gloire de 

 Lorraine and Pandanus Veitehii sent on. 

 and at the Genesee hotel invited the 

 florists of the city to inspect them. He 

 must have taken some good orders, for 

 whoever saw his plants could scarcely re- 

 sist buying. T was largely interested to 

 bring jlr. P. and our local Royal Dane 

 within speaking distance. There is no 

 interest oi' pleasure in introducing Eng- 

 lishmen or Germans or Irish or even 

 Scotch. Poles or Italians, because with 

 us they are on every street corner, and 

 some of the nationalities compose whole 



