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The Florists^ Review 



Jdnb 29, 1016. 



NEW YOBE. 



Tlie Iilarket. 



The weather at last is seasonable, and 

 the market in general is as good as that 

 of a year ago. There are numerous wed- 

 dings this week and each of the leading 

 florists seems to have his share. 



Conditions were satisfactory June 24 

 in that the surplus of nearly everything 

 cleared. One retail florist had an order 

 of half a million .flowers for distribu- 

 tion Sunday morning. The supply of 

 roses is not excessive, any surplus be- 

 ing readily absorbed at $10 per thou- 

 sand. Apart from American Beauties, 

 Hadley and Prima Donna, few roses 

 sold above $5 per hundred. Ophelia con- 

 tinues as popular as ever. Beauties are 

 not of good quality, although there are 

 rare exceptions. There are not many 

 Hadley — fortunate have been the men 

 who grow them and the wholesalers who 

 helped to make them popular. 



There still are many peonies, the best 

 selling at 50 to 75 cents per dozen. The 

 wet weather and storms of the early 

 part of last week played havoc among 

 them. The cold storage stock now is 

 appearing. There is enough of it to 

 last well into July. Carnations had an 

 uplift June 24, but it was not an ex- 

 tended one. The best could be had at 

 $1.50 per hundred. The popular quota- 

 tion was $10 to $12.50 per thousand. 

 Anything aged or sleepy was disposed 

 of to the peddlers at $2.50 to $5 per 

 thousand. Shipments are expected to 

 decrease rapidly. The top price for or- 

 chids seems to be 35 cents then down 

 to 10 cents. "Valley continues to be 

 the wonder of the market. The best 

 brought $6 per hundred and some 

 claimed even $8. The short-stemmed 

 stock sold as low as $2. iLongiflorum 

 lilies do not advance; $4 per hundred is 

 the top price, and short ones go as low 

 as $2. This surely must be the bottom 

 again for many a month to come. 



Sweet peas will soon have the center 

 of the stage. Some grand stock is ar- 

 riving daily, but the short-stemmed 

 blooms do not sell at a price high 

 enough to pay for the picking and ship- 

 ping. Immense quantities of mountain 

 laurel are offered; also branches of va- 

 rious ramblers. Outdoor rosea are now 

 at their best and field daisies are un- 

 limited. Large quantities of sweet Wil- 

 liam and feverfew were sold June 24 

 and helped wonderfully with the half- 

 million order, which was. of no small 

 moment to an overburdened market. 

 The usual variety of stocks, calendulas, 

 coreopsis, forget-me-nots, etc., com- 

 pletes the list of seasonable offerings. 



Various Notes. 



Secretary Bunyard, of the American 

 Sweet Pea Society, is busy with the 

 preliminary arrangements for the an- 

 nual meeting and exhibition of the so- 

 ciety at Bar Harbor. The New York 

 contingent will go by boat and a large 

 gathering of the florists and gardeners 

 from this section is anticipated. 



The plant auctions closed June 23. 

 A great quantity of bedding plants, 

 palms and evergreens was disposed of. 



Frank Traendly and family will spend 

 the summer at Kowayton, Conn. 



They call Joseph Fenrich the ' ' Ophelia 

 King." Daily shipments of longiflorum 

 lilies from Miesem continue. The Flo- 

 rists* Club's outing to Barnegat bay 



will be under the management of Cap- 

 tain Fenrich. 



July 6 is the date of the Greek- Amer- 

 ican outing. The New York Florists' 

 Club has passed its annual outing this 

 season, much to the regret of the young 

 folks. 



Jack Gunther and family are summer- 

 ing at Midland Beach, Staten island. 



William Cahill, with E. J. Irwin, has 

 completed a successful trip in the state. 



Joseph Trepel, of Brooklyn, secured 

 that order for half a million flowers, to 

 be made into bouquets for a street sale 

 for charity. Jack Trepel was busy two 

 days purchasing the stock and it re- 

 quired many autos to carry the accumu- 

 lations to headquarters. Mrs. Trepel, 

 from whom $2,000 worth of diamonds 

 was stolen last year, has secured a judg- 

 ment against the Bathing Co. for the 

 full amount of her loss. 



June 17 the stork left a boy at the 

 home of Barney Jacobs, manager of the 

 Walter Siebrecht Co. ^ 



Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Allen will enjoy 

 a holiday at Ocean Grove, N. J., in 

 July. 



J. D. Cockcroft and son, of North- 

 port, N. Y., were in the city July 24. 

 Mr. Cockcroft is shipping eight varie- 

 ties of carnations weekly to Goldstein 

 & Futterman. 



September 22 R. J. Irwin and Wal- 

 lace Pierson start on their annual moose 

 hunting trip to the north woods of New 

 Brunswick. 



The Kervan Co. has never had .so 

 busy a season as this one. Shipments 

 continue good. 



William Kessler's store now is com- 

 plete and there are no better facilities 

 on the famous wholesale street. The 

 novelty window is of daily interest. 



The Geo. W. Crawbuck Co. is already 

 suffering from lack of room. 



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William E. White is with the Greater 

 New York Co., on Livingston street, 

 Brooklyn. 



Samuel Woodrow and Miss Cadeux 

 leave for Narragansett Pier July 1 to 

 open their branch store at the famous 

 resort. J. Austin Shaw. 



TABBYTOWN, N. Y. 



The June exhibition of roses, sweet 

 peas and strawberries, given annually 

 by the Tarrytown Horticultural Society, 

 was held in the Y. M. C. A. building at 

 Tarrytown, June 20. Because of the 

 backwardness of the season and the in- 

 clement weather during the week pre- 

 ceding the show, the entries were not 

 quite up to the usual standard. The 

 exhibits of roses and strawberries w^re 

 fine, but sweet peas, owing to the heavy 

 rains, fell short of their record of the 

 previous year's show. 



The principal exhibitors and winners 

 were: The F. R. Pierson Co., of Tarry- 

 town; Thomas Lee, gardener for Mrs. 

 Carl Victor; P. W. Popp, gardener for 

 Mrs. H. Darlington; Abel Weeks^ gar- 

 dener for Mrs. S. Hermann; W. Jamie- 

 son, gardener for E. Berolzheimer ; 

 George Mcintosh, gardener for Dr. C. C. 

 Brace; Howard Nichols, gardener for 

 Mrs. J. B. Trevor; John Orr, gardener 

 for F. S. Wheeler; John Woodcock, gar- 

 dener for Gen. E. A. McAlpin; W. 

 Woodger, gardener foT John D. Rocke- 

 feller; James Currie, gardener for 

 Henry Sidenberg; Henry Fuchs, gar- 

 dener for Mrs. E. Schwartz; Frank 

 Heid, gardener for Col. Jacob Ruppert. 



The judges were George Middleton, 

 gardener for William Rockefeller; 

 ArthuiV Griffin, superintendent for Sam- 

 uel Untermyer; Henry Kastberg, super- 

 intendent for the Misses Masters. 



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Foxboro, Mass. — M. B. Faxon is re- 

 establishing his seed, plant and nurs- 

 ery business here, specializing on pansy 

 seed as in the old days. 



Tewksbury, Mass. — Patten & Co. have 

 placed an order with P. A. Gavin, Bos- 

 ton representative of the King Con- 

 struction Co., for the erection of an 

 iron-frame house 42x200. 



Natick, Mass. — James Wheeler has 

 placed an order for the materials for a 

 semi-iron house 35x200 feet, with P. A. 

 Gavin, the Boston representative of 

 the King Construction Co., North Tona- 

 wanda. N. Y. 



Newburjrport, Mass. — A schooner — 

 the kind that goes down to the sea — 

 recently was cast ashore at Salisbury 

 beach in a badly damaged condition. 

 A salvage sale was held on the beach, 

 the wreck going at a low price to J. J. 

 Comley. Mr. Comley, being a florist and 

 not a skipper, at the time, did not know 

 what he was going to do with his 

 unique purchase, except that he in- 

 tended to unload the sixty cords of 

 high-grade hard wood in the hold of the 

 vessel. 



Wellesley, Mass. — At the estate of 

 Walter Hunnewell a number of im- 

 provements are being made, the most 

 extensive being the replacing of the old 

 greenhouses by a range of modern 

 houses to be erected by the King Con- 

 struction Co., of North Tonawanda, N. 

 Y. The houses are to be of the latest 

 type of steel construction, having 

 curved glass eaves, ornamental gutters 

 at the spring line and side vents below 

 the gutters. The range is to consist of 

 palm house 25x60 feet, orchid house 

 25x60 feet, carnation house 25x60 feet, 

 plant house 25x60 feet and grapery 25x 

 60 feet, each house being divided into 

 two compartments. The range of houses 

 is to be novel in that instead of the 

 usual way of having the growing houses 

 valley into the palm house, they are to 

 be connected with the palm house with 

 small passages and the palm house in 

 turn will be connected with the potting 

 shed by means of a passage 12x16 feet, 

 which will be used for propagating. T. 

 D. Hatfield, the superintendent of the 

 estate, is well known throughout the 

 country, having been in charge of this 

 place for nearly thirty years. 



