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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



December 25, 1902. 



and will be on deck constantly for the 

 Christmas trade. 



Siebrecht & Son's place, at Thirty- 

 seventh street and Fifth avenue, was 

 never possessed of such facilities as now 

 for an immense holiday trade, and their 

 window decorations were never more 

 artistic. Their window ice box is the 

 only one in the city and it is filled at all 

 times with the best orchids from their 

 own conservatories and the finest roses 

 and cut flowers the market affords. 



To repeat the story of window dec- 

 orations and plant selections would be- 

 come monotonous. The Fernery, on 

 Thirty-third street; Bowe's, at " 1294 

 Broadway; Scallen's, Warreudorff's. Mc- 

 intosh's, Butler's, Brower's and Thos. 

 Young's, in fact, all the great stores 

 from Twenty-third to Fort^'-second on 

 Broadway and from Thirty-fourth to 

 Fifty-ninth on Fifth avenue, have made 

 special efforts to have their supplies 

 worthy of the great city and the great 

 festival they celebrate. Never was the 

 decoration so elaborate or the stock 

 more perfect. 



And not only on these two great ar- 

 teries of the city's life, but all over New 

 York and Brooklyn the same prodigality 

 prevails. In Brooklyn Weir and Phil- 

 lips and Whippernian and Tliielman and 

 a host of others have made the city of 

 churches look like a Maine forest in 

 aut\imn with green and color. 



In New York on Madison avenue 

 Dards and Hauser and Hession and 

 Hart and Mansfield and .Jaeger have 

 "done themselves proud." On Sixth ave- 

 nue Traendly and Lang and Burns and 

 Scars and Kuhn and Bogart and Chris- 

 tatos all make handsome displaj's worthy 

 of any avenue in anj' city. 



On the West Side Nicholas and Ila- 

 bermann and Roberts & Grunewald and 

 many others, take their places among 

 the representative florists of the city. 



Away up in Harlem, Zahn aiid 

 Schenck, and on the Bowery J.,e Moult 

 and Foley do their share to make this 

 a merry Christmas. Their name is le- 

 gion. 



Few realize the host of retailers,' per- 

 manent and occasional, that make New 

 York the greatest flower center of the 

 world. 



With a continuance of the pleasant 

 weather of Monday this will l>e the 

 ..i-..,.l..s' Christmas ever known in the 

 metropolis. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Tbe Market. 



The cut flower trade the past week was 

 not very encouraging; Christmas orders 

 seem to come in rather slowlj', and the 

 wretched weather the latter part of the 

 week interfered considerably with tran- 

 sient trade. There was no scarcity of 

 anything the past week and the whole- 

 sale houses were loaded down with plen- 

 ty of everything. Even violets, which 

 have been somewhat scarce all along, 

 were quite plentiful. 



The sales of holiday greens are more 

 than satisfactory, and the demand for 

 holly is ahead of last season. Mistletoe 

 is unusually fine this year and is arriv- 

 ing in perfect condition. Ground pine 

 is selling very cheap, $2. ,50 for 100 

 pounds at the commission houses, and 

 the fakirs are peddling wreaths, festoon- 

 ing, holly and mistletoe on all street cor- 

 ners at very low prices. The approach 



of Christmas is the subject which most 

 interests the retailers at present, and 

 the chances are that cut flowers will be 

 high in price and not of the best qual- 

 ity, with the exception of Romans, valley 

 and paper white, which, the wholesalers 

 say, will be plentiful and at the usual 

 price. 



American Beauties will be $12 per 

 dozen for the best, and other roses from 

 $8 to .$15 per 100; carnations from $4 

 to $8 and violets .$3 per 100. This (Mon- 

 day) morning a fine lot of carnations are 

 coming in; roses and violets not so 

 many, and there is plenty of bulb stock. 

 These are all selling at Christmas prices 

 and buyers seem plentiful. 



Notes. 



The store at 4248 Olive street, former- 

 ly owned by Chas. Connon, of which R. 

 F. Tesson was trustee, was sold last 

 week to L. G. Townsend. the new firm 

 taking charge last Wednesday. Will 

 Sanders, formerly with H. G. Berning, 

 is now with Mr. Townsend. 



^Ir. A. J. Hardin, of the Chicago 

 Tiade Press Bureau, was a • caller 

 the past week. Mr. Hardin says the 

 Re\7EW is found among all the florists. 



As all hands are busy at this writing 

 and news somewhat scarce, I will close 

 by wishing all a merry Christmas and 

 a happy New Year. J. J. B. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



We are in the midst of a f rcmeiulous 

 business. Tliere is a heavy demand for 

 cut flowers and sufficient supply of 

 many varieties to meet it. Beauties 

 and carnations are fine and plentiful, 

 niere are a few fine cattleyas and 

 some good chrysanthemums — yellow and 

 white. Valley is very fine. The sup- 

 ply of pickled stuff that sufi'ered a col- 

 lapse on its arrival is something awful. 

 Much of it would have brought good 

 prices last week, and now? Oh, the ir- 

 ritation of it; why won't the growers 

 learn? Tlie business done in greens, 

 holly, laurel wreathing, and also wild 

 smilax was something enormous. 



NoUs. 



The Florists' Club meeting on Tues- 

 day evening, .January 6, in Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Broad and Locust streets, 

 will be a carnation meeting as well as a 

 "smoker." It is proposed to have a dis- 

 play of new and meritorious varieties 

 of carnations, and all the fortunate pos- 

 sessors of seedlings or promising var- 

 ieties not in general cultivation are in- 

 vited to bring or send an exhibit of 

 flowers. Secretary Lonsdale expects a 

 number of fine varieties. A large at- 

 tendance of members is confidently ex- 

 pected. 



Ernst G. Asmus is sending some fine 

 valley to the Flower Market. 



George Burton cut 500 special Beau- 

 ties from his father's new place for 

 Christmas. 



William Berger has taken his son, 

 Fred Berger, into partnership. Tlie 

 firm has a fine store, and a few blocks 

 away a fine range of glass. They are 

 doing a heavy business. 



Henry F. Michell has a blight idea 

 in his new "handy order sheet." A space 

 is left opposite each item where orders 

 for that article can be jotted down. It 

 saves a lot of wniting. 



Charles E. Meehan says that a flower 



market violet grower was so much 

 pleased with his returns that he is get- 

 ting his neighbors to send their violets 

 too. 



.John Burton had some nice Bruimers 

 for Christmas. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. have had a 

 rush of business that taxed even their 

 large establishment to its utmost. Fruit 

 baskets are an interesting feature here. 



Geo. M. Moss handled a very nice lot 

 of clean and well berried holly. 



Eugene Bernhcimer has a Christmas 

 n'ovelty in bunches of hardy evergreens 

 — Arborvitae, I think. 



Samuel S. Pennock received 500 or 

 more fine cattleyas for Christmas. 



Edward Reid has a superb lot of car- 

 nations and other stock. 



Leo Niessen is an important factor in 

 the Beauty market this Christmas. 



W. .T. Brinton, Christiana, Pa., is 

 sending some fine Asparagus Sprengeri 

 to W. .J. Baker. 



Here's wishing you a happy New 

 Year. " PHIL. . 



CROMWELL, CONN. 



The largest greenhouse establishment 

 in the east is situated here and the 

 trade to which this place caters is en- 

 tirely different from the trade on which 

 the majority of growers are dependent. 

 Many of the New England cities, such as 

 Hartford, Springfield, llolyoke, North- 

 ampton, Worcester, ileriden. New Brit- 

 ain and New Haven depend upon Crom- 

 well as a sure source of supply. What 

 the local growers do not have they call 

 for here and seldom fail to get what 

 they want. The New York market is 

 also a large factor and much of the very 

 finest grown here is sold there. 



With such a trade as this the variety 

 of stuff grown is large, in fact nearly 

 everything is grown here. Roses have 

 always Ix'en the leading article, but car- 

 nations, lily of the valley, other bulb- 

 ous stuft', chrysanthemums, palms and 

 ferns, orchids, and a large variety of 

 other flowers are grown in quantity. 

 The ])lace has nearly one-half million 

 square feet of glass and gives employ- 

 ment to over one hundred and twenty- ^M 

 five men. ^| 



Notes from such a place as this must 

 bo largely about the general work of 

 the place and a few of these notes will 

 appear from time to time in the Re- 

 view. A fairly accurate account of ev- 

 erything is kept, such as, for example, 

 the cut from the houses and the re- 

 turns from the various houses, and here 

 we judge produce on the market value. 

 In fact we have no use for weak-necked 

 chrysanthenunns. 



Generally si)eaking business has been 

 good, but flowers do not thrive with a 

 heavy coating of snow and ice on the 

 roof as has been the ease the greater part 

 of the last two weeks. American Beau- 

 ties are in their prime, however, and 

 never ha^■e \\e had better success with 

 them. Beauties with six-foot stems are 

 common and bring top prices. In car- 

 nations the prospects are all that we 

 can reasonably desire for Christmas. 

 Lawson is in its prime and the cut 

 from these will be heavy. Early propa- 

 gation combined with early benching 

 and good care will bring out the won- 

 derful projwrties of this variety. 



The trade on Adiantnm Farleyense 

 has never been lietler than it has been 

 this fall and winter. Good plants of 

 this beautiful fern are hard to obtain. 



