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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



llAV 21, 1003. 



Mount Airy avenue, past "Gray Towers," 

 .looking like Windsor Castle, the Eng- 

 lishman said, past Eoslyn Height. Just 

 .as you think Willow Grove must be near 

 iby you reach Hillside. All was quiet 

 •there that day. Only a few signs of 

 jjrcparation showed what was coming. 

 like the sand shower on the deck of 

 the ship, a sure sign of action. 



It is curious how quickly Hillside has 

 sprung into prominence as a recognized 

 horticultural Mecca. Ernst Asmus 

 went there when in Philadelphia not 

 long before. He hardly went anywhere 

 else. A good many other New Yorkers 

 have gone there. Yet the place is new 

 and not large, or rather it was not 

 large then. The reason of the pilgrim- 

 ages of so many horticultural lights to 

 this distant shrine is easily told. They 

 go to see roses handled in a different 

 way than is generally seen, and it may 

 be incidentally added wholesalers are 

 also subjected to a different and most 

 skillful course of treatment. 



But to return to the roses. Tliose 

 -chiefly grown are American Beauty and 

 Liberty. They are wonderfully strong 

 and vigorous, with shoots like ax han- 

 .dles. as one of the party remarked. It 

 would not be surprising if some day 

 the system of growing there would be 

 named "Why nolt?" just as Fahrenheit 

 is the sta-'-lard for measuring heat, and 

 so may tne Farenwald method become 

 the standard for growing Beauties and 

 Liberties. 



Briefly speaking, this system or 

 method of growing aims at getting 

 stuff when it's wanted, and it may be 

 applied to any stock tliat is forced. Its 

 introducer gets more out of a house in 

 a month than some growers do in a 

 year. The idea is to get the stock in a 

 certain condition and then let it rip. 

 The danger is that you may have to rip 

 the plants out before you get well 

 started. You are pretty sure to strike 

 on a rock unless you thoroughly mas- 

 ter the intricacies of the system. For 

 further information you must go to 

 Hillside. 



Notes. 



Leonard Barron, secretary of the 

 American Eose Society, has been in this 

 city lately arranging the final details 

 for the national rose show to be held 

 here in March, 1904. The schedule has 

 gone to press and will be issued in a 

 couple of weeks. 



Leo Niessen is receiving peonies reg- 

 ularly and expects heavy shipments for 

 Decoration day. 



Iflie Flower" Market is handling some 

 of the old-fashioned Marechal Niel 

 roses. These come from C. Haemii's 

 ■Sons. 



Peonies are now in quantity, but the 

 ■demand is only limited. Harris is cut- 

 ting heavily of the early red variety. 



Japanese snowballs are now in full 

 flower and meet with a fair demand, as 

 does mock orange. 



There were some nice Centaurea im- 

 perialis in Battles ease lately. 



Edwin Lonsdale sends a few of the 

 new yellow calla lily to the market. 

 This seems like a good thing if it could 

 be had in quantity. 



There is quite a demand for Japanese 

 maples in pots. They are decorative ^on 

 lawns. 



The Ivory rose is proving what its 

 Introducer claimed for it. viz.: that it 

 •was a good rose for summer. The qua) 

 ity keeps up during the hot weather. 



The Philadelphia Carnation Companv 

 (Dumont & Crawford) is pushing work 

 on its new houses. Most of the young 

 stock is in the field and doing nicelv. 



J. F. Blakeborough, Clayton, N. J., 

 says his carnations have done very w-ell 

 this winter. He is building up a very 

 nice local trade in the short time he 

 has been located there. 



R. G. Palmer, the popular manager 

 of the Doylestown base ball club, has his 

 hands full these days. It took him all 

 of one day hunting through Jersey with 

 "Bill" Davis to find a good pitcher, but 

 he got there. 



Albert Knapper, who moved to Ant- 

 lers last fall, is sending good sweet 

 peas to the Flower JIarket, also some 

 very fine purple pansies, and a novelty 

 in the way of a new polyantha rose. 



Mary Plender, wife of the late John 

 Plender, recently sold a property on 

 Twelfth street used by John Plender 

 as his store years ago. The selling 

 price was in the neighlx)rhood of $30,- 

 000. and the cost of this property was 

 about $.5,000. This looks as though it 

 would be the right thing for all florists 

 to own their own stores. Phil. 



NEW YORK. 



The Exhibition. 



The fourth annual meeting of the 

 New I'ork Horticultural Society was 

 held last week Wednesday and Thurs- 

 dav in the Museum building at Bronx 

 Park. The donation of $150 by the 

 Council to the Chrysanthemum Society 

 for the exhibition next November was 

 greatly appreciated. The yearly report 

 by Secretary Barron was an encouraging 

 one, showing a handsome surplus in the 

 treasury. The lecture by Mr. Far- 

 quhar, of Boston, was an able effort, 

 and on his favorite subject, "The Flow- 

 ers. Fields and Woods of Japan." The 

 annual exhibition was hardly up to last 

 year's splendid showing, especially in 

 novelties. The prize of $50 for the 

 best novelty was captured by Siebrecht 

 & Son with a specimen of Phoenix Roe- 

 belenii. This firm also received first 

 prizes for groups of palms and foliage 

 plants, for crotons and for collection of 

 ferns, and second prize for collection of 

 orchids. Lager & Hurrell took first 

 prize for orchids with a collection of 

 nearly fifty varieties. The prize for ex- 

 hibits of wild fiowers was won by the 

 Bedford Agassiz Association. F. Wein- 

 berg took first prize for a collection of 

 agaves, and showed also his sport of 

 Begonia Vernon. L. A. Martin, of 

 Greenwich. Conn., took first prize for 

 his «ollection of flowering shrubs, con- 

 sisting of nearly 100 varieties. Mr. 

 Martin also received a gratuity for his 

 syringa exhibit, as did G. Smith for 

 peonies. 



Bronx Park, under Dr. Britton's ad- 

 ministration, grows more interesting 

 daily, and its magnificent con.servatories 

 draw immense crowds, especially on 

 Sundays, when they are enjoyed by 

 thousands of visitors. 



Local Notes. 



Tlie long drought, extending over a 

 month, is beginning to aflfect vegetation 

 seriously, and while the florists have 

 felt no alarm to date, the nurserymen 

 and gardeners already realize damage 

 that cannot be added to without con- 

 siderable loss. All the early vegetables 

 have about doubled in price. Long 

 Island farmers particularly are com- 

 plaining. 



All lines of business feel the effects 

 of the labor troubles, and florists on 

 the subway route are especially nerv- 

 ous. 



David Clarke's Sons, whose fine new 



store was illustrated just after Easter, 

 will leave the old greenhouse stand on 

 Broadway about July 1, removing the 

 conservatories to their new property on 

 Fordham Heights, and the greatest 

 apartment house in the world will be 

 erected on the block they have occupied 

 so many years. They have a surplus of 

 large kentias and arecas, too high for 

 accommodation in the new houses, which 

 they will offer at auction in June. 



The Rosary, with its Taylor wedding 

 and its moving to the new quarters on 

 Thirty-fourth street, has had a busy 

 week. The new store is very handsome 

 and convenient. 



Jos. G. Leikens left for Newport Tues- 

 day to take charge of the business of 

 Siebrecht & Son and to prepare for an 

 early opening. This firm will vacate 

 its store on Thirty-seventh street in 

 New Y'ork July 1 and make, its Arcade 

 store on Forty-sixth street and Fifth 

 avenue its headquarters until the open- 

 ing of its new store at Thirty-eighth 

 street about the end of November. Two 

 bay trees may be seen in front of the 

 Thirty-seventh street store, the largest 

 ever on exhibition here, it is claimed, 

 measuring over nine feet in diameter 

 and fourteen feet in height. These 

 trees are held at $1,600 for the pair, 

 which gives a better idea of their pro- 

 portions. 



Hicks & Crawbuek have been very suc- 

 cessful with their "two stores in two 

 cities." but have decided to close the 

 New Y'ork branch until fall. 



The Fifth avenue store of Thos. 

 Young. Jr., had a unique decoration 

 last week for the opening night of "The 

 Runaways," a new comedy at the Ca- 

 sino. A horse and carriage were made, 

 ten feet in length, tlie cart of red roses 

 and sniilax and the horse of white roses 

 and swainsona. tied with blue ribbon. 

 The value was $200 and the effect was 

 excellent. On ilonday ilr. Y'oung had 

 the decoration at the dinner of the 

 Union League club, the principal table 

 design being a rug of flowers made of 

 Asparagus pluraosus and Brunner roses. 



The violet season has reached the end. 

 It began early in September and lasted 

 late, and was the greatest on record. 

 Some idea of its magnitude may be re- 

 alized when it is stated one wholesaler 

 handled 4,725,000 flowers in the eight 

 months. 



The outing committee has extended the 

 time for receiving advertisements and 

 prizes until next Monday, May 25, on 

 which date the programme will posi- 

 tively be handed to the publishers. Any- 

 one who has forgotten to send can for- 

 ward copy immediately to F. H. 

 Traendly. who reports a general interest 

 in the club's festive day, July 1, and 

 the sale of enough tickets to insure a 

 verv much greater attendance than that 

 of 1902. 



The great convention at Milwaukee is 

 a theme of interest now in the east 

 and preparations are already under way 

 for a record crowd, which promises to 

 be away ahead of any year to date. The 

 New Y'ork Florists' Club voted unani- 

 mously at its last meeting to go via 

 Chicaigo. 



Herman Schoelzel has purchased the 

 greenhouses of Rudolph Asmus, at New 

 Durham. He is a young man of fine 

 ability as a plantsman and developed 

 the old Thumann establishmen,t into a 

 most successful venture. 



P. J. Berckmans, of Augusta, Ga., 

 was a recent visitor. 



H. C. Steinhoff has returned from his 

 annual excursion to Bermuda. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



