December 25, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



185 



Group of leading Eastern Florists at "Briarcliff," Scarborough, N. Y., to inspect the new Greenhouse. 



Jlr. Meyer is a very handsome one, and 

 must be seen to be appreciated. 



H. H. Berger & Co. have received and 

 shipped their entire first importation of 

 Japanese fern designs in birds, houses 

 and every kind of novelty. 



Stunipp & Walter have a fine grade 

 of holly as usual. Their $10 a case 

 English mistletoe is thoroughly Amer- 

 ican by this time. It was "special" 

 mid departed rapidly to many destina- 

 tions. 



Joosten's branch at Cleary's was a busy 

 place last week and little remains to tell 

 the tale of "holly trees and evergreens." 



Tlie Tarrytown Horticultural Society 

 holds its regular meeting the last Thurs- 

 day of each month. Tlie membership is 

 now crowding 200. The annual dinner 

 occurs January 14 at the Florence Hotel. 

 It will he a "bird." 



John Young has handled a superb lot 

 of cyclamen for Christmas. His novel- 

 ties in carnations for Christmas will 

 almost transport the "Cottage Gardens" 

 to New York. 



Bradshaw & Hartman's 1,000 cases of 

 holly have vanished; the enterprise has 

 proved a wise one. The best always 

 finds a ready market. Saturday it was 

 hard sledding to get past the crush of 

 boxes. 



The Retail Stores. 



Tlie retail stores were only "getting 

 ready" for Chri.stmas up to Monday and 

 few of the windows were complete. 

 Fleischnian had an immense canopy of 

 red paper bells and balls with a bank of 

 of dracaenas beneath. 



Thorley's golden chariots, silver water- 

 ing pots and heliotrope trunks were all 

 quite new. Filled with flowers these will 

 he real novelties. 



Small's promise to be the most elab- 

 orate windows on the street. Masses 

 of heather and ardisias made a brilliant 

 center. Wild smilax and holly made 

 the whole store sylvan and attractive. 

 Great red plush curtains added richness 

 and warmth to it all. It is worth going 

 miles to see. 



Dnvid Clarke's Sons fortunately are 



able to retain their greenhouse conven- 

 iences on Broadway until May. This 

 has given them opportunity for one more 

 grand display of flowering Christmas 

 plants and other decorative stock. They 

 have an abundance of Lorraine, oranges 

 and poiiiscttias and some fine Farleyense 

 of their own growing at the new place 

 at Fordham Heights, where in the spring 

 the iron frame houses at Seventy-eighth 

 street will be removed. This firm had 

 the Griffith wedding on Seventy-second 

 street last week, an elaborate afl'air, and 

 a large reception Saturday, with a larg- 

 er affair arranged for on the 30th. 



Donker's aquariums are quite a fea- 

 ture of the new store, where red and 

 chifl'on Japanese gold fish disport in 

 value up to .$25 each. Few of the large 

 retail stores are without these self-sus- 

 taining ornaments. Tricker's water 

 plants preserve the water pure for many 

 weeks without change or attention. 



Hanft Bros., on Madison avenue, were 

 so crowded that the whole lower floor 

 of the big hotel across the way had been 

 secured as an annex, and here this firm 

 with an added force of twenty-five, man- 

 ufacture all their wreaths and roping. 

 Their specialty, as usual, is the hamper 

 plant basket with galvanized iron lining, 

 which they make in all sizes and values 

 up to $50 each. The firm had a large 

 order of Queen of Edgley roses for South 

 Carolina among their Christmas orders. 



At Stumpp's, on Fifth avenue and 

 Fifty-eiglith street, everything is in read- 

 iness for the usual demand, and the class 

 and condition of everything was of the 

 l)est. Great wreaths of evergreen and 

 holly tied with wide red satin ribbon, 

 baskets and electric lighted autos of bril- 

 liant blooming plants, poinsettia.s, aza- 

 leas, heather, cyclamen, bougainvillea, 

 dracaenas, oranges, holly trees and 

 Christmas trees, selected and perfect, 

 on every side, out of doors, and a bril- 

 liant crowded window of orange trees in 

 full fruit. 



To describe one of the windows on 

 Fifth avenue is to describe them all. 

 In iiciulv cverv store the same varieties 



of blooming plants are in evidence anJ 

 everywhere artistic arrangement prevails. 



Hodgson's window of poinsettias was 

 very eirective, and the other of cyclamen 

 ami orange trees with fern embellish- 

 ments equally pleasing. Dracaenas bril- 

 liantly colored were unusually used this 

 year and added greatly to the beauty of 

 the baskets and the hampers. Hodgson 

 had the Luther-Kiuitz wedding Saturday 

 on East Fifty-seventh street, one of the 

 events of the season, and two others al- 

 most as elaborate. 



Alex. McConnell was about sold out 

 on Tuesday, not a begonia basket left, 

 and the big annex almost depleted, with 

 orders enough booked to leave the resi- 

 due on Wednesday evening unworthy of 

 consideration. Here, too, baskets of 

 plants handsomely arranged and bril- 

 liant with colors, prevailed. 



Across the way Thorley's Fifth avenue 

 store was a counterpart of his establish- 

 ment on Broadway, the golden chariots, 

 sedan chairs and trunks being the novel- 

 ties u.sed, while the big store was crowd- 

 ed to the ceiling with blooming plants of 

 every description. Mr. Humphreys, the 

 manager here, who has been ill with 

 blood poisoning from the effects of a 

 prick by a rose thorn, is recovering, and 

 is expected back at his post the first of 

 the year. Here and everywhere may be 

 seen a profusion of the red bells and 

 balls, the most popular window decora- 

 tion of the year. 



Tlie Rosemary Roseries have one of 

 the handsomest electric signs on the 

 avenue, and with rustic entrance, mirrors 

 and artistic decorations, are "in the 

 swim" already. The president of the 

 company is an importer of English sheep 

 dogs and makes their breeding a rec- 

 reative side issue. This firm has dec- 

 orated all the Huyler stores in both 

 cities, and have in view one of the larg- 

 est weddings of the new year. 



Wadley & Smythe have a handsomely 

 stocked store as usual, with a beautiful 

 window. Mr. Wadley has recovered suf- 

 ficiently from his severe accident to 

 speiiil a good deal of his time in the city 



