April 30, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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NEW YORK STORES AT EASTER 



We present this -week a second install- 

 ment of views of New York stores at 

 Easter. 



Bowe's place at 1294 Broadway was 

 a handsome sight the Saturday before 

 Easter as the photo indicates. Sunday 

 everything was gone, including that .$50 

 azalea in the window. Acacias, hydran- 

 geas and lilies were especially abundant 

 here. 



The splendid store of J. H. Small & 

 Sons on Broadway was a flower show in 

 itself. At the rear of the store is a 

 conservatory on the second floor, the 

 steps leading to it being seen in the pic- 

 ture. Tlie photograph is so clear that 



The New Jersey Cut Flower Co. at 37 

 West •28th street is the new departure of 

 A. WarendorfT and forms the last of the 

 trio of combination flower store.s where 

 wholesale and retail branches flourish in 

 harmony. 



ROSES. 



Seasonable Hints. 



During this and the few succeeding 

 weeks before planting time commences 

 in earnest, the care of the young stock 

 will be one of the principal duties as 

 this is the most critical and trying stage 

 in the life of the rose. 



Plants which have withstood all the 



one inch, which ought to be sudicieiii 

 to carry them along till planting time. 



Beauties which are designed to bo 

 benched before June should now be in 

 4-inch pots. To keep this variety in the 

 best condition it should never be allowed 

 to approach being pot-hound. 



Brides, Bridesmaids, Golden Gates and 

 Ivory should now receive their last pot- 

 ting, in fact all stock which is designed 

 for benching Ijcforc the old and well dc- 

 frncd date, 4th of July, should by the 

 time this reaches your readers be in 

 process of receiving their last shift. 



With the room acquired by Easier 

 sales, and that which we will get after 

 carnation planting there will be no ex- 

 cuse for crowding our young plants; 

 give them plenty of breathing space, this 

 may mean a little extra work, but it 

 will save the lower leaves and give 

 health and robustness to the plants. 



A periodical handling of the young 

 stock is also beneficial ; it saves the 

 roots from dipping into the material on 

 which they are placed, which is often 

 of such a nature and in such a state of 

 sourness that it cannot add tone to their 

 constitution, it also affords the oppor- 

 tunity to present the other side of the 



View in the store of M. A. Bowe, New York, at Easter. 



a good idea is given of the high quality 

 and treatment in a decorative way of the 

 plants in stock. 



The Sicbrecht conservatory on Fifth 

 avenue is only partly shown in the pic- 

 ture and there was also a host of plants 

 in the store as well. The amount of 

 stock sold here was enormous. 



The Warendorff shop in the Ansonia 

 is one of the finest florist stores in the 

 world. The grand ice box, the splendid 

 features of the electric lighting and the 

 artistic decorations are here only par- 

 tially shown. 



vicissitudes of bad management during 

 the comparatively cool season of the past 

 two months will" now begin to show the 

 effects of such treatment. Stock which 

 has l)cen in any way neglected in getting 

 a shift at the proper time will require 

 extra care now before the real warm 

 weather commences. It is better to give 

 such stock a shift of half an inch than 

 to subject them in their weakened con- 

 dition to the dangerous chances of a 

 larger one. Young stock which has 

 l>een carefully handled from the start 

 can with all safety be given a shift of 



plant to the sun, giving it a chance to 

 develop all eyes equally and to form a 

 more symmetrical plant. 



During hot weather extra care should 

 l>e given to Beauties and Meteors as they 

 are very liable to be attacked by red 

 spider. If this pest once gets a foot- 

 hold amonn voung stock of these varie- 

 ties it is very dillicult to get rid of, the 

 foliage bring so dense and so close to 

 the pot that it is hard to reach the 

 under side of the leaves with the syringe 

 and that is just the particular spot 

 wliich must be reached, as that is their 



