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TheWeckly Florists' Review^ 



April 30, 1903. 



variety planted in a bed by itself, have 

 been very popular this season. Many 

 of these* gardens are laid out in geo- 

 metrical designs and planted to grow a 

 succession of flowers from early spring 

 until late fall. 



William Robertson, of Quakertown, 

 had a well-grown liydrangea on exhibi- 

 tion in Henry F. iviichell's store this 

 week. The plant could hardly liave 

 been grown from Michell's seed, though 

 stranger things have happened, but it 

 must have been grown from a Michell 

 cutting. 



Walter Whetstone will reopen the pipe 

 question before the Florists' Club next 

 Tuesday evening. W%etstone promises 

 some practical demonstrations, which 

 should make the meeting vei-y full of 

 interest. A large attendance of mem- 

 bers is expected despite the busy season. 



Mr. Bayei-sdorfer, of K. Bayersdorfer 

 & Co.. accompanied by his wife, will sail 

 for Etirope on his annual purchasing 

 trip on May 9. Phil. 



BOSTON, 



Market Conditions. 



The condition here has been quite 

 South African for the seven days pre- 

 vious to date of this writing, and I 

 "regret to state" that the gi'owers got 

 Boer-ed unmercifully, because, althougli 

 much material was sold at our sched- 

 ule prices, large quantities went upon 

 the street at cut figures. Everything 

 seemed overplentiful during part of tlie 

 week, even to violets, many of which 

 were particularly good for the time of 

 year. Wednesday was a surprise on the 

 carnation question, bringing in more 

 blooms than all that had been in since 

 Easter, and the supply has kept up 

 fairly well since. 



Tlie biggest surprise during the week 

 was the assignment of J. ]M. Cohen, of 

 Chapman Place. He was regarded as 

 quite sound. No particulars are as yet 

 known, but fears are entertained that 

 the liabilities are quite heavy and widely 

 scattered. 



C. P. Grimmer is utilizing the rather 

 slack condition of the times by putting 

 in an elegant new mahogany and glass 

 front to his store, whicli is going to give 

 him added window facilities as well as 

 general improvement. 



Elegant new teams are coming out 

 among the retailers and growers now 

 and then, and you have not seen the 

 latest unless you have caught ai glimpse 

 of that of E. "N. Peirce & Sons. 



Much talk is being made about a cer- 

 tain amount of retailing that has been 

 done by stall liolders at the Columbus 

 Avenue Co-Operative Jlarket. This mat- 

 ter will regulate itself shortly, because 

 it hais been done only by those who 

 need; the wholesale trade of the city 

 most; smaller growers not remaining 

 in town long enougli to catch retail 

 business. Those few large growers will 

 veiy soon be brought to tenns. I think, 

 because the city does not really over- 

 flow with retail business more than five 

 or six days in the year. 



Our old friend George W. Marshall, 

 formerly of Woodlawn, has removed 

 fron> South Sudbury to Montrose, be- 

 coming a neighbor to N. F. McCarthy. 

 He \\n\\ once more engage in the flower 

 growing industry at his new home. 



It is learned that the death of Michael 

 McGee, a well known florist of Chelsea, 

 occurred upon Saturday last. He con- 



tracted a severe cold at a ball game 

 on Patriots' day, which developed into 

 such a severe case of pneumonia that 

 lie could not recover from its effects. 

 He was a strictly upright man. much 

 respected by those who knew him, and 

 will be missed in his circle of acquaint- 

 ances. J. S. Manter. 



NEW YORK* 



Last week was about as full of un- 

 seasonable weather and diseouraging ex- 

 periences as could be desired by the 

 man who takes a gloomy view of things 

 and has not the courage to hope and 

 wait till the clouds roll by. The actual 

 volume of business for the week was 

 decidedly encouraging. Prices of cut 

 flowers naturally slumped in value from 

 tiic opening cost, as indicated in our 

 last report, and before the week was 

 over the very finest Beauties sent to the 

 city could be had in quantities at as 

 low a price as $10 per hundred. The 

 same retrogression was evident as to 

 Brides and Maids, and. in fact, in al- 

 most eveiy line a considerable decrease 

 in values was noticeable. As the week 

 closed the temperature became more 

 springlike until on Saturday the retail 

 windows, the singing of the robins, the 

 gorgeous colorings of the tulip Ijeds in 

 all the parks and the universal opening 

 of the leaves demonstrated the actual 

 arrival of the springtime. Everything 

 new lietokcns the existence of the long- 

 delayed season, and the exodus of "the 

 four hundred" to Europe has begun. 

 Steamers are filled with flowers, to speed 

 the departures of the "Carnegies" and 

 the "Morgans," and tlie weddings and 

 the dinners increase in numbers and 

 decorative beauty as the ;May time ap- 

 pears. All the florists' windows arc 

 filled with spring bloom of every kind, 

 and forsythia and .Tapan quince and 

 dogwood and magnolia are all in bloom. 



The great event of the week was the 

 opening of the new Palace of Finance 

 on Wall street, the decorations for 

 which were elaborate and beautiful. 

 Every I'ooni and eveiy stairway from 

 six stories below the street to ten above 

 were ablaze with blooming plants and 

 baskets of roses and evergreen screens, 

 the l)est the market could aft'ord. and 

 supplied carte blanche for the occasion 

 bv the fortunate decorators, Dunne & 

 Co. of West Thirtieth street. The ag- 

 gregate amount of wealth represented at 

 the opening ceremonies at the Exchange 

 amounted to over twenty billions of dol- 

 lars. I never expect to see as much 

 "gold" in one room again until I get 

 to the country where the streets are 

 made of gold. It takes a fellow of a 

 very cheerful disposition to sit amidst 

 all this splendor with only thirty 

 cents in his pocket and not feel envious. 

 The most interesting feature of the 

 opening was the prayer of the Bishop, 

 in which he forgot to supplicate for a 

 constant addition to the number of 

 "lambs" for shearing purposes, but pos- 

 sibly this part of the pra}-er was un- 

 necessary, as the lamb crop has always 

 been ample in the past and the shoals 

 of "suckers" seem to run larger every 

 season. 



All the big retail stores have been doing 

 a lot of decorating since Easter. April 

 29th, McConnell 'has the Eiker-Riker 

 wedding, at which the bride will carry 

 a gardenia shower bouquet. On IMaj' 6 

 he has the Fearons-Skillin Ax-edding at 

 the Sherman Square Hotel, utilizing the 



immense main dining-room for the piu'- 

 pose. The canopy will be of asparagus 

 and white lilac. Au immense arcli will 

 be built, covered with asparagus and 

 white roses, and an artificial aisle con- 

 sti-ucted with decorative posts covered 

 artistically with the same variety of 

 decoration. The bride's bouquet will 

 be of lil.y of the valley and white or- 

 chids. He has also the Anhalt-Hene 

 wedding at Delmonico's and a large re- 

 ception at the Masonic Temple, and the 

 farewell dinner and depaiture of the 

 Carnegies draw also heavily upon his 

 supplies and the best efforts of his art- 

 ists. Several of these functions yielded 

 in the neighborhood of $.500. 



Hanft I?ros. had a very unique dis- 

 play at the dinner of the New York 

 Bankers' Association in honor of Sec- 

 retary Gage at the New York Athletic 

 Club. A model of the United States 

 Treasury was a feature. The entire 

 floral decoration was of Bridesmaids and 

 the room wa.s l>anked with palms on 

 every side. The flowers on the tables 

 were arranged to represent the dollar 

 mark. The whole affair was considered 

 very creditable to this house. 



Tlie Rosary will leave its present quar- 

 ters Slay 1 for its new store on Thirty- 

 fourth street, between JIadison and 

 Fifth avenues, where an elaborate place 

 is being fitted up with an evident view 

 to permanency. Mr. Troy is sparing no 

 exjiense to make this worthy of the fine 

 family trade which he commands 

 among "the four hundred," and will 

 have on the roof a grand eonservatoiy 

 which will give him long-nee<led facili- 

 ties. The "ojjening" will doubtless be 

 an elaborate affair. 



Mr. .Joyner, manager of the "Rose- 

 mary Roseries," was in Baltimore last 

 week attending the funeral of his 

 brother, who was aceiilentally killed. 

 This firm has leased their present quar- 

 ters on Fifth avenue for another year. 



Bradshaw & Hartman, on Twenty- 

 eighth street, are handling a good many 

 developed fern balls at present, and dis- 

 posing of them at the very reasonable 

 rate of $50 a hundred. Tlie undeveloped 

 fern ball business this year has not met 

 the expectations of the wholesalers, and, 

 through the enormous sales made by 

 the- department stoies everywhere of 

 this once favorite novelty it has become 

 as coinmon. and almost as unappreci- 

 ated, as a Kansas sunflower. An indi- 

 cation of its deterioration may be gath- 

 ered from the fact that the balls were 

 selling in nearly all the large diygoods 

 stores as low as 20 cents each soon after 

 they were placed upon the market. 



On the 13th of May the Horticultural 

 Society of New York will hold its an- 

 nual meeting at the New York Botanical 

 Garden. At the same time an exhibition 

 will be given in the iluseum Building, 

 and prizes for cut flowers and plants 

 awarded, amongst them the $50 prize 

 for the best horticultural novelty. 



On Saturday of this week stockholders 

 of the Cut Flower Exchange will hold 

 their regular meeting at their offices in 

 the Coogan Building. 



Dr. Britton is back from his exploring 

 trip to Cuba with some trophies in the 

 way of choice native plants, to be added 

 to the Botanical Garden. 



Charles H. Atkins of Madi.son has 

 severed his connection with the Twombly 

 Estate there and has joined his brother, 

 Mr. Fred Atkins, of the firm of Bob- 

 bink & Atkins, of Rutherford, N. J., tak- 

 ing charge of the landscape department 



