Janlakv 29, l'J03. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



365 



which tlie committee came into being. 

 According to the official record this mo- 

 tion was made by Mr. P. O'Mara and 

 reads as follows: 



"I therefore move that tlie president of tbis 

 society be re<juested to appoint, at bis earliest 

 convenience, a committee of nine on tbe paeon.v, 

 who shall report at tlie next convention the lat- 

 est facts they may discover in relation to tbe 

 paeony." 



This motion was seconded by Mr. 

 Ward, who had previously brought to 

 the attention of the society the fact 

 that a national peony society was al- 

 ready being organized, and was adopted 

 without dissent. 



The criticism that the committee ex- 

 ceeded its powers certainly seems to be 

 based upon fact. How it could assume 

 the right to form an association under 

 the action taken at the convention in 

 Asheville is a mystery. 



In Mr. Watson's "explanation" print- 

 ed abo\e the deprecation of a "self con- 

 stituted dictatorship" is interesting in 

 view of the high-handed and unwarranted 

 action of the committee. To the aver- 

 age mind, luifamiliar with the intricacies 

 of thought occasionally afi'ected by Mr. 

 Watson, the committee and the secretary 

 of the S. A. F. have already evolved a 

 "self-constituted dictatorship." We shall 

 l)e much surprised if their action in 

 forming an "association" is not repudi- 

 ated by the membership of the S. A. F. 

 at the Milwaukee convention. 



NEW YORK. 



The pa.st week dispenscil tlie usual 

 changes of climate so peculiar to New 

 York and closed its strenuous experiences 

 with a good old-fashioned Canadian 

 snow storm. Monday was raw and de- 

 pressing and the cut flower trade was de- 

 pressed in sympathy. Jt has been a liard 

 week for the retail department apart 

 from the decorations elsewhere referred 

 to. Nevertheless the florists' windows 

 everywhere are charmingly decorated, 

 and in many of them the "first har- 

 bingers of spring" already are abundant 

 — great vases of spiraea, forsythia and 

 double flowering plum and almond with 

 azaleas and daffodils. 



The back of the excessive coal price is 

 said to be broken. A few days now, 

 it is said, will see the price down where 

 every florist may rejoice, and with even 

 average weather the possibility of ca- 

 lamity is past. 



Reports of extensive building of new 

 greenhouses within a radius of 50 miles 

 of New York this spring are well founded 

 and the coming season indicates no let-up 

 in the expansion of floriculture within 

 and around New York. There will be 

 enough violets grown along the Hudson 

 next season to perfume the continent. 



.John Scallen. for twenty-two years a 

 l?road\vay florist, died suddenly Wednes- 

 day morning of heart failure. 



The next meeting of the Brooklyn 

 Horticultural Society will be held at 

 the Germania Club rooms next Monday 

 evening, February 2. This will be an 

 especially important meeting and a full 

 attendance is urgently requested. Every 

 member should be present. Subscrip- 

 tions continue to arrive, new members 

 are added, handsome prpmiums are do- 

 nated, and little remains to be done but 

 the finishing touches, ere the society's 

 "welcome" is complete. 



An added feature is now contemplated, 

 and that is the opportunity for a bowl- 

 ing tournament on the grand alleys of 

 the Flatbush Club, only a short distance 



by trolley from the place of meeting. 

 There are plenty of alleys for a dozen 

 teams, alleys for individual bowlers, and 

 altogether a great night can be arranged 

 for and may be, if present "simmerings'' 

 should boil; meantime outsiders might 

 wisely telegraph their wishes as to this 

 to Vice-President Langjahr, Brooklyn, so 

 that complete arrangements for the tour- 

 nament may be made in time should this 

 added recreation seem generally desired. 



The dinner committee of the New York 

 Florists' Club met at ex-President Sher- 

 idan's office last Saturday and com- 

 pleted its arrangements. A fine attend- 

 ance is assured and a menu "fit for the 

 go<ls'' has been acquired. The musical 

 and vaudevillian part of the evening will 

 be high class, and with President Troy 

 as toastmaster and impromptu addresses 

 and genial companionship this is ex- 

 pected to be one of the dinners that you 

 read about. 



Paul Dailledouze returned ]a.st Tues- 

 day after a very pleasant trip and has 

 very many complimentary things to say 

 of his visit, not only in and around 

 Chicago, but all through the west, 



Tlie John J. Crooke Co., the extensive 

 tinfoil house, has moved to 1.55-163 Ave- 

 nue D, New Y'ork, from 186 Grand street, 

 where greater facilities are enjoyed. The 

 florist trade of this establishment shows 

 a steady increase. 



The American Institute's show of roses, 

 carnations, fruits and vegetables opens 

 today (Wednesday) at the Berkeley Ly- 

 ceum, 44th street. For a new rose not 

 yet in commerce a silver medal is of- 

 fered. There will also be a meeting of 

 the Farmers' Institute at which Geo. M. 

 Powell will speak and Professors Bailey, 

 Jordan Hall and Johnson. 



Tlie Irvington plant of the Lord & 

 Burnham Co. is growing rapidly and its 

 capacity will be nearly doubled this sea- 

 son. 



Theo. E. and Frank Hahn's store at 

 2574 Broadway, which opened last Octo- 

 ber, is a handsome addition to the flor- 

 ist invasion of upper Broadway and 

 gro\\ing rapidly. Mr. Hahn is a son of 

 the veteran R. F. Hahn, of Cornwall- 

 on-the-Hudson, whose plant and nursery 

 have done business there during the 

 past 36 years. The Broadway house 

 uses a large amount of the output of 

 the parent establishment. 



Tlie Siegel & Cooper conservatory will 

 revert to the company's own manage- 

 ment. Mr. Louis Schmutz, Jr., having 

 decided to return to the Flatbush estab- 

 lishment, giving up his lease on February 

 1. This greenhouse on the roof has had 

 a checkered career and several moves 

 have been made, more or less profitable 

 since the opening when Mr. Henry Sie- 

 brecht, Jr., was in charge. 



.T. H. Troy, of New Rochelle, has been 

 doing some extensive landscaping at Ai- 

 ken, S. C, and has a large force of men 

 busy there on three different estates. On 

 their completion the whole force will be- 

 gin a similar work in Virginia, near 

 Washington, where Mr. Troy will go tlie 

 week following the club banquet. 



Cha.s. Jackson Dawson, of Jamaica 

 Plains, is in the city in the interests 

 of the nursery there, 



Siebrecht & Son's windows are voi"y 

 handsomely furnished since the comple- 

 tion of their city conservatory and green- 

 house at 40n Fifth avenue. No facilities 

 are equal to these in the city. Spring 

 efl'ects abound and the rock and mirror 

 effects in the large conservatory are 

 unique. 



.Tos. G. Leikens, assistant manager for 



this firm, will be married on Sunday to 

 the daughter of Colonel Cutter of this 

 city. Mr. Leikens is a Californian and 

 has been with Siebrecht & Son during 

 the last eight years. Tlie wedding trip 

 includes the falls and Canada. 



H. H, Berger & Co. have received a 

 shipment of valley pips from Germany 

 that are of unu.sually fine quality. 



Some idea of the extent of the wi!<l 

 sniilax shipments to New York may be 

 estimated by the statement that during 

 the first three days of this week Mr. 

 Kreshover's share alone was 184 cases 

 or about five tons. Reckon what this 

 average indicates for the decorative sea- 

 son. 



M. A. Bowe's corner on Broadway, op- 

 posite Maci.-'s new store, is reaping the 

 benefit of an increased transient popula- 

 tion, and its windows are always attrac- 

 tively arranged. 



The Collier "Japanese dinner" Sun- 

 day was truly .Japanese in all its details- 

 and the musicale was made notable by 

 the presence of Mme. Senibrieh. The re- 

 ception room was turned into an im- 

 mense Japanese arbor covered with- 

 blooms of the Japan quince. Japanese 

 silk cloth, Japanese plants and trees 

 on the tables with a miniature lake in 

 the center in which Japanese gold fish 

 abounded, Tlie walls were garlanded 

 with Japan quince and plum blossoms 

 and asparagus, the whole effect intensi- 

 fied by myriads of little electric lights. 

 At the dinner the guests sat down to 

 twenty tables, each one distinct in deco- 

 ration, and in the center of each a Jap- 

 anese basket filled with corsages and bou- 

 tonnieres, a tall candle in the center of 

 the baskets surmounted by a handsome 

 silk Japanese shade. Wadley & Smythe 

 were the decorators and the entire force 

 had a busy day of it. 



The greatest decoration of the week 

 and one of the most beautiful ever seen 

 in the country was that of Mrs. Geo. 

 Gould's on I'>iday, and about which the 

 Metropolitan press still raves. Tlie ta- 

 bles were 18x0 feet with inner tables 

 lowered — 12x3 feet — on which growing 

 orchids were J>anked ^vith adiantuni. 

 Tlie end table was in horseshoe form of 

 similar dimensions and construction. At 

 the end of each table rcse grand speci- 

 mens of Dicksonia antarctica ferns with 

 a spread of 6 feet and 8 feet above the 

 surface; and from each one was sus- 

 pended a hundred handsome orchids in 

 glass tubes. The tables were connected 

 with low banks of orchids and Farley- 

 ense. Some idea of its beauty may be 

 gathered from the fact thiat nearly 

 2.000 orchid blooms were used in the 

 work and the choicest stock of John 

 Young and Julius Roehrs was drawn 

 upon. 



In the great conservatory the- roof 

 and sides were covered with asparagus 

 interspersed with cut orchids in tubes. 

 Banks of Dicksonias and kentias were 

 numerous. Tlie reception room was 

 turned into a spring prophecy by an 

 abundance of double flowering almond, 

 Japan quince and spiraea prunifolia 

 from the forcing houses of Chas. Bird, 

 of Arlington. The mantels were of for- 

 sythia while the gold room reveled in 

 American Beauties. Competent judges 

 claimed it to be the most unique deco- 

 ration ever seen in this city and its con- 

 summation reflects great credit on Alex. 

 McConnell, of 45th street and Fifth av- 

 enue, under whose supervision the whole 

 charming effect was accomplished. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



