December 11, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



97 



House of Flora Hill Carnations at J. A. Budlong's, Chicago. Planted Sept. 15. 

 Photographed Oct. 28. 



tnums and pink roses with wild smilax 

 ■were used at the mansion. 



A new store at 509 5th avenue was 

 •opened December 3 under the aesthetic 

 name of the Rosemary Roseries, Inc. B. 

 <3. Meyer is president and is a Yale grad- 

 uate as are many of the stockholders, 

 among whom are Marcus Daly, Horace 

 Gould and Messrs. Havermeyer and Whit- 

 law Reid, Jr., as well as Miss Minnie 

 Ashley, the prominent actress. The 

 firm's conservatories are at Glenbrook, 

 Conn., where are grown valley. Brides, 

 Maids and Beauties. The New York 

 papers gave elaborate accounts of the 

 opening and the probable patronage of 

 the 400. 



Ralph Armstrong, for the past ten 

 years with Siebrecht & Son, and Miss 

 Alice McLeod, the firm's secretary and 

 stenographer, were married last week. 

 Miss McLeod was very popular and her 

 services were much appreciated. 



The Rosary has had a very attractive 

 ■window of poinsettias and orange trees 

 lately with moss trimmings. Mr. Troy, 

 manager, just elected president of the 

 New York Florists' Club, leaves this 

 ■week for Aitkin, South Carolina, where 

 he is arranging for the planting of an 

 immense Italian garden. 



Siebrecht & Sons have now completed 

 their fine conservatory and greenhouses 

 at 409 5th avenue, and have enlarged and 

 redecorated their store so that in com- 

 pleteness and conveniences, the estab- 

 lishment is unequalled anywhere in the 

 city. 



Mcintosh had the DonohueConville 

 ■wedding at St. Vincent churcli last week, 

 in which decoration of white and pink 

 mums prevailed. The bride's bouquet 

 ■n'as of white orchids and valley and the 

 bridemaids' "muffs" of Golden Gate roses, 

 ■with shower bouquets. 



A. Warendorff's windows were gay 

 with Christmas bells and Lorraine be- 

 gonia baskets backed by Anna Foster 

 ferns. 



Thos. Young, jr., finds his 58tli street 

 branch a valuable adjunct to his bon 

 ton clientage. He used a large number 

 of white and yellow mums. Bridesmaids 

 and white orchids, at the Arms wedding 

 in St. Thomas church on 58th street. 

 The new store displays an attractive elec- 



tric sign and its windows are always 

 beautifully arranged. 



Julius Roehrs is finding demand for 

 flowering plants this year far beyond his 

 even, as he thought, inexhaustible supply. 



Bobbink & Atkins have just received 

 an additional importation of bay trees 

 and large kentias; also holly trees well 

 berried, for their Christmas trade. 

 Their sales of evergreens for hotels, 

 clubs and the large private mansions of 

 the city have been very extensive. 

 Other interesting late importations are 

 apples, pears, peaches and cherries, pot 

 grown for forcing, and 5,000 forcing 

 rhododendrons, of 50 cents to $5 values, 

 finely budded. Two specimen Araucaria 

 imbricata, twenty feet in height, were a 

 novel addition to their shipment. 



H. H. Berger & Co. report a complete 

 cleaning out of all their Holland and 

 French goods and a late importation of 

 tree and herbaceous paeonias from Japan 

 for Easter fiowering, and double flowering 

 cherries at $50 per 100, which retail read- 

 ily at Easter for $5 each. 



Patrick Welsh of Boston, was a late 

 visitor on his way to Philadelphia. 



Jas. Hammond is handling some very 

 fine orange trees for Christmas, 1,000 of 

 them having already been sold. His cut 

 flower trade grows steadily. 



J. J. Perkins, one of the veterans, still 

 maintains his reputation for Brides 

 and Maids, some stock last week being 

 superb with 3 1-2 foot stems. Over 1,000 

 cyps pass weekly through his hands. 



Riedel & Co. have a fine grade of Sun- 

 rise and Sunset among other stock and 

 feel much encouraged with their recep- 

 tion into the ranks of the wholesalers. 



As early as 5:30 a. m. Mr. Bradshaw 

 was reminded last week of his 35th 

 birthday by the delivery of an immense 

 5-foot horse shoe of flowers at his resi- 

 dence. He suspects his partner and tne 

 staff. 



Lecakes & Co. are sole New York 

 agents for W. A. Davis & Co.'s special 

 leucothoe sprays, handling a quarter of 

 a million yearly. 



Kerwin '& Co. make a specialty of 

 small table Christmas trees and fine 

 needle pines. Their new store on 27th 

 street is wonderfully convenient. 



David Clarke's Sons' new store is al- 



ready crowded with Christmas goods, and 

 their immense windows have all the nov- 

 elties of the season. They expect a great 

 holiday trade and are ready for it. 



L. J. Kreshover is overwhelmed with 

 orders and reports the greatest season's 

 business in his history. 



Mr. Ghormley, who was the first to 

 use the Sefton corrugated boxes, and 

 through whose influence the wholesale 

 growers adopted them, speaks highly of 

 their value and the saving effected by 

 their use. He expects a great demand 

 for red roses and carnations for Christ- 

 mas, but looks for the usual two weeks 

 of insufferable dullness between now and 

 Christmas. The fall in values immedi- 

 ately after Tlianksgiving he estimates at 

 fully 100 per cent., and this conclusion 

 seems to be general and well foiinded. 



Reed & Keller are not only novelty 

 handlers, but inventors. Their season 

 has been beyond expectations and their 

 extra force is busy day and night. 



J. A. Millang, manager of the New 

 York Cut Flower Co., is now being called 

 the "Beauty King." He says Beauties 

 are never off crop and that an extra fine 

 crop is assured for the Christmas trade. 

 Advance orders are numerous. 



Chas. Millang finds his cut flower trade 

 again dominant. Hyacinths and narcis- 

 sus in great demand, and violets appreci- 

 ated by those who can see before buying 

 in the light of his new conservatory. 



The opportunity for further accommo- 

 dations for wholesale florists in the 

 Coogan building is lost, the floor space 

 available having a week ago been rented 

 for other business. 



The prospects generally for a fine 

 Christmas trade in all lines are excel- 

 lent. A general evidence of cheerful ex- 

 pectation is everywhere evident, and that 

 all may have a very merry and profit- 

 able Christmas is the sincere wish of 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Florists' Club. 



In the evening the rain came down in 

 torrents, nevertheless 24 members came 

 to the club meeting. The talk was 

 about Christmas greens, plants and ma- 

 terials. William Scow, one of our larg- 

 est dealers, complained of the serious 

 railway blockade. He has a great deal of 

 stuff coming from the South and else- 

 where that should have been here before 

 now. but it is lost on the railways some- 

 where and he doesn't know where. Other 

 dealers had similar complaints. 



The firm of Gustave & Julius Ludwig 

 exhibited a variety of Christmas mate- 

 rials. The Out' Flower Co. showed 

 some neat bells made of papier mache 

 lined inside green and covered on out- 

 side with red immortelles. They also 

 had finely berried mistletoe from Texas, 

 and something of a novelty from the 

 South in the way of leafless smilax vines 

 full of clusters of scarlet berries. It 

 was thought these would mix up fine 

 in holly and other evergreen wreathing. 

 Schenley Park sent some sprays of ber- 

 ried shrubs. 



Fromi John Dunbar, assistant super- 

 intendent of the Rochester, N. Y., parks, 

 came a large assortment of sprays of 

 scarlet fruited berried shrubs, including 

 roses, euonymus, berberis, HyTus, cra- 

 tiPgus, celastrus, solanum, lyeium and 

 winterberry that were suggestive and 

 nuich appreciated. Sprays of the bright- 

 er berried berberis mixed in among ever- 

 green would be excellent for cemetery 



