1004 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 



1003. 



2.500 in one shipment this week from 

 a grower wlio gives his novelty but lim- 

 ited space as yet. 



M. ' Rice & Co. have experienced a 

 liea^-y and an early demand for Decora- 

 tion' Day goods, especially for metal 

 wreaths " and cycas leaves. Their stock 

 has received some very encoirraging 

 commendations from customers lately. 

 The experiment of a ribbon department 

 has proved a success and will be pushed. 



Phil. 



BOSTON. 



Everything has been working on full 

 time. Goods have lieen coming in very 

 plentifully and moving out in very good 

 shape, except that many have to be sold 

 at low prices. I can only maintain 

 that there is never such a thing as a 

 market price, because it always differs 

 with different customers of a large 

 grower, but the price list in another 

 column gives my best trial for the time. 

 Goods sold to the street I make no ef- 

 fort to schedule. A feature of the case 

 is the practical disappearance of bulb 

 goods, as there are only a few tulips 

 and jonquils left. Tliose that were not 

 sold have gone to pieces and the out- 

 door ones are now in full glory. 



Xo business in New Eiigland has in- 

 creased faster of late years than that of 

 the florist, and there are signs in the 

 air of much heavier transactions in the 

 near future, and the removal and en- 

 largement of the Co-operative Market is 

 bringing them to a focus. Among them 

 is the rental of the whole floor above 

 that market to Mr. W. H. Elliott, who, 

 I understand, intends subletting a large 

 part of this space, as even his immense 

 cuts of Massachusetts and New Hamp- 

 shire goods cannot require more than a 

 small portion of it. 



•J. J. McCormack, ever irrepressible, 

 has given up his floral efforts at Hough- 

 ton & Dutton's, and established a whole- 

 sale and retail depot at 54 Pemberton 



square, and retail counters at Butler's 

 Branch, on Winter street and at Wool- 

 worth's Five Cent store, on Washington 

 street. He also at times runs a counter 

 at Joslyn's. Maiden's huge general store. 

 Watch him and learn how to hustle. 



Heavier operations than usual on 

 Boston Commons are now in order. 

 About all of it has been w-ell ploughed, 

 harrowed, manured in the good old way 

 our gi'andfathers would have done it, 

 and is to be seeded down much as they 

 would have done it, with crops of oats, 

 rye. and other cereals. Tliis course is 

 taken with a view of extending the life 

 and usefulness of the trees upon the 

 commons which have been showing 

 signs of degeneracj'. 



An informal meeting of some of the 

 creditors of J. M. Cohen has been held 

 and organization effected by the selec- 

 tion of chairman W. H. Elliott, and 

 secretary J. S. Manter. Tlie only for- 

 mal proceeding was the appointment 'of 

 Messrs. Elliott, Allen, Peirce, and Wil- 

 liam Anderson, a committee to wait 

 upon Mr. Cohen and his attorney with 

 the information that unless a substan- 

 tial cash dividend is immediatelv pro- 

 vided, bankruptcy proceedings will be 

 taKcn right away. Liabilities are esti- 

 mated at from .$4,000 to .$5,000. 



J. S. Manter. 



NEW YORK. 



A trip through the wholesale district 

 down town where the seedsmen congi'c- 

 gate is all one requires to demonstrate 

 the fact that this is an exceptionally 

 profitable season with them. The stores 

 are crowded daily, the staff of assist- 

 ants has been added to everywhere, and 

 day and night are occupied in "catching 

 up" to the overwhelming avalanche of 

 orders that has crowned the season's 

 fruition. Specification is uncalled for. 

 Every house in the seed and bulb line 

 has shared in the general prosperity. 



Prizes continue to arrive liberally for 

 the New York Florists' Club outing. 



Since our last report Louis Rossow. 

 manager of Thos. Young's Fifth avenue 

 store, gives a beautiful .$10 doll for 

 the girls' race, under fourteen; Clucas 

 & Boddington, two prizes for the win- 

 ners of the three-legged race; Lager & 

 Hurrell, for the 22-yard foot race, open 

 to all; Julius Roehrs, a $5 prize for the 

 quarter mile walking match; W. J. El- 

 liott, the bicycle race, one-iuilf mile, for 

 boys under twelve; John Birnie, a vol- 

 ume of Bm-ns' poems for the best bowler 

 of the "Press" — Job excluded; and Pat- 

 rick O'Mara, a handsome momento to 

 the lady of any age over sweet sixteen 

 who can trip the light fantastic fastest 

 for 50 yards. An attendance of about 

 400 is now expected. 



The Florists' Club holds its regular 

 meeting at the new rooms in the Grand 

 Opera House building next Monday 

 evening. There will be exhibits, outing 

 news and a general discussion as to con- 

 vention matters that should insure a 

 good attendance. 



Mr. Cleary and Mr. Dimmock are now 

 at 136 Liberty street. New York, and 

 the auction business is now in the ef- 

 ficient hands of Mr. Wm. -T. Elliott, no 

 other house occupying this important 

 field. 



ilr. Frith, of Bermuda, an employe 

 of the Ehglish government and a Har- 

 risii lily grower on the side, is in the 

 city disposing of his stock of 300,000 

 bulbs. 



H. H. Berger & Co. report the French 

 bulb market still unsettled, no orders 

 having lieen placed for paper whites and 

 Romans except conditional ones at mar- 

 ket prices. 



The statement that Suzuki & lida had 

 leased the greenhouses of Alex. Burns 

 is said to be incorrect. Tlie firm of 

 Kokuda & Co., of Secaucus. N. J., is 

 understood to have taken them. 



Jlr. Suzuki sailed a week ago on the 

 Kaiserin- Augusta for Europe. 



Hitchings & Co. are installing their 

 heating system in the greenhouses of 



Vie'w in the Store of Wm. Berger, Germantown, Philadelphia, at Easter. 



