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The Florists' Review 



23 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The end of last week was encourag- 

 ing and it is apparent that good Satur- 

 days are here again. Everyone seems 

 optimistic. The outlook for a busy 

 season was never brighter, as all lines 

 of trade are booming. Everybody has 

 money to spend — and they are spending 

 it. 



Good American Beauties are in wide 

 demand. The prices are firmer and the 

 quality is rapidly improving. So it may 

 be said of all roses, although great 

 quantities of those with small heads and 

 short stems still are arriving. Hadley 

 is fast advancing in size and beauty, 

 and so is Prima Donna, Ward, Mock, 

 Russell and Stanley. Gorgeous and 

 Tipperary roses are quite popular and 

 Cleveland is fancied by the novelty 

 lovers. 



Mums soon will hold the center of 

 the stage. Some grand ones are here 

 already, especially Smith's Advance, 

 and the new pink, Alexander Guttman. 

 Prices range from 50 cents each down 

 to that of the smaller Golden Glow 

 mums, which sell at $1 and lower per 

 dozen. Some violets are here and sell 

 at 50 cents per hundred and less. Car- 

 nations are changing slowly for the bet- 

 ter, both in quality and numbers. Few 

 of them command over $2 per hundred 

 and there are quantities of the short- 

 stemmed blooms that go begging at 50 

 cents. 



Valley is steady at $1 to $5 per hun- 

 dred. Lilies make 5 to 10 cents each, 

 with no surplus, even rubrums being 

 at last appreciated at about half the 

 quotation for longiflorums. There are 

 few asters now worthy of the name. 

 There are some gladioli remaining and 

 these bring good prices, because of 

 their scarcity. 



Dahlia was king last week in New 

 York. The retailers featured them in 

 window displays, using them in good 

 basket and vase effects. Last, but not 

 least, the orchids are slowly dropping 

 in price and increasing in quantity. 

 There are plenty of bouvardias, tri- 

 tomas and marigolds. 



Various Notes. 



October 9 is the date of the next 

 meeting of the New York Florists' 

 Olub. There will be mum exhibits and 

 novelties, a good fall collation and a 

 lecture on irises, illustrated, by Arthur 

 Herrington. 



The auctions grow. Big sales of 

 bulbs are made at low prices, consid- 

 ering quality. Sales of large decora- 

 tive palms, bays and ferns are made at 

 most reasonable figures. While many 

 retailers are stocking up for the winter, 

 the auctions do not seem to interfere 

 with the usual sales by the plantsmen 

 of this section. 



Jos. S. Fenrich, like many of the 

 New York wholesalers, has been out on 

 Long Island visiting his growers and 

 John Donaldson, of Patchogue, on the 

 side. 



There are twenty retail florists be- 

 tween Forty-second and Eighty-sixth 

 ■streets on Madison avenue. The latest 

 addition is Siebrecht Bros., who will 

 occupy a large corner store on the ave- 

 nue early in October. 



Much sympathy is felt for Wm. Gom- 

 mersall, of Nyack, in the loss of his son 

 in the prevailing epidemic of infantile 

 paralysis. 



Boman J. Irwin is on his.annual hunt- 

 ing trip in New Brunswick. 



Senator Heacock, of Philadelphia, 

 was a recent visitor. 



Joseph Trepel will open his seventh 

 store m Brooklyn about November 1. 

 He says it will surpass his place of 

 1,000 mirrors on Lewis avenue. 



Herman Anderson, of Bayside, whose 

 specialties are carnations and ferns for 

 the New York market, has opened a 

 neat retail store in his own town. 



Woodrow & Marketos filled a large 

 order last week for palms, boxwoods 

 and assorted ornamentals. Mr. Wood- 

 row is devoting much of his time to 

 landscape work, his brother being in 

 charge of the retail department of the 

 business. J. Austin Shaw. 



Shipments received this week by Mc- 

 Hutchison & Co. include 500 bales of 

 raffia and 22,000 pieces of raffiacloth, 

 which was introduced by them for the 

 manufacture of men's hats. 



GABDENEBS' ESSAY CONTEST. 



The closing date of the essay contest 

 of the National Association of Garden- 

 ers, for assistant gardeners, is drawing 

 near. The prizes offered by President 



William N. Craig— $25 gold for first 

 prize; $15 gold as second prize; $10 gold 

 for third prize — are for any subject per- 

 taining to any branch of horticulture. 

 The essays are limited to 2,500 words 

 and must be signed with a nom de 

 plume, must bear no evidence of the 

 author's identification and be mailed in 

 a plain envelope before November 1, on 

 which date the contest closes, carefully 

 addressed to the chairman of the essay 

 committee, William H. Waite, Box 290, 

 Madison, N. J. 



The contestant also will place his 

 name and full address, stating the posi- 

 tion he holds, in an envelope, writing 

 the nom de plume he signed to his essay 

 on the outside of this envelope, and 

 mail same enclosed in an envelope to 

 the secretary, M. C. Ebel, of Madison, 

 N. J. This will not be opened until 

 the judges have rendered their decision 

 on the contest. 



The successful contestants will be 

 announced at the annual convention of 

 the association, which will be held in 

 Washington, D. C, the first week of 

 December. 



The rules must be strictly followed to 

 avoid disqualification. The essay must 

 be written distinctly and on one side 

 of the paper only. 



Praorie Picl^ups^ 



Aubiim, Neb. — C. G. Milan is adding 

 1,000 square feet of glass to his range 

 and attending to numerous improve- 

 ments at his home. 



Minden, Neb. — Greenhouses are to be 

 erected here by O. D. Atwater, who 

 for four years has been associated with 

 C. B. Tanner & Co., of Hastings, Neb. 



Greensburg, Ind. — A dissolution of 

 partnership has made two concerns out 

 of the Clark -Bertsch Floral Co., namely, 

 Ira Clark & Co. and the Bertsch Floral 

 Co. 



Hammond, Ind. — The Ove Gnatt Co. 

 has been incorporated at $30,000 by 

 Ove Gnatt, Gerda Gnatt, James K. 

 Stinson, Harry G. MacLellan and Ethel 

 S. MacLellan. 



Des Moines, la. — The business of 

 William Dew, at 202 Hillside avenue, 

 has been acquired by 'Herman Roller, 

 who will specialize in plants. At pres- 

 ent Mr. Roller is growing lettuce. 



De Kalh, 111. — Mrs. J. L. Johnson, 

 store manager for the De Kalb green- 

 houses, has resumed her work, after a 

 complete recovery from injuries re- 

 ceived when the street car in which 

 she was a passenger was struck by a 

 freight train. 



Freeport, IlL— The Bauscher car dec- 

 orated with Russell roses took first prize 

 in the floral parade September 25. Ac- 

 companying the car were the five 

 Bauscher brothers who are conducting 

 the business of their father, John 

 Bauscher. The brothers and their de- 

 partments are: George, foreman of the 

 rose section; Lester, foreman of the 

 carnation section; Clarence, foreman of 

 the pot plant section; John, Jr., in 

 charge of delivery; Arthur, manager. 



Forest City, la. — Mr. and Mrs. A. G. 

 Larson, who formerly conducted a 

 fiorists' business at Galva, 111., have 

 purchased the Hill City Greenhouses. 

 Friends will recall that Mr. and Mrs. 

 Larson retired from the business about 

 three years ago, to take up farming in 

 Minnesota, but, like most florists who 

 leave the trade, they have "come 

 back." 



Elgin, HI. — A new greenhouse estab- 

 lishment has been started at Elgin, 

 under the direction of Harold A. Olson 

 and Theodore Olson, who have pur- 

 chased property and greenhouses from 

 William Grote. Four greenhouses and 

 twenty-three lots also have been trans- 

 ferred to the new owners, by a lease 

 from H. E. Sandy, a vegetable grower 

 of South Elgin. Harold Olson for sev- 

 eral years was associated with Dumser, 

 the Florist, and Theodore Olson comes 

 from Chicago Heights. Olson Bros, is 

 the firm name. 



Anderson, Ind.— The firm of Stuart & 

 Haugh, composed of J. Stuart and J. A. 

 E. Haugh, has, by mutual consent, dis- 

 solved partnership, J. A. E. Haugh re- 

 tiring. The new firm will be composed 

 of J. S. Stuart and J. Edgar Stuart, 

 under the name of J. S. Stuart & Son. 

 The old firm has existed for twenty-one 

 years, expanding from a small place to 

 one commensurate with the thriving 

 city, and now has the reputation of be- 

 ing one of the largest and most up-to- 

 date retail places of any Indiana city 

 of its class. The new firm begins busi- 

 ness under the most promising condi- 

 tions. J. S. Stuart is one of the pio- 

 neer florists of the middle west. His 

 soft, J. Edgar Stuart, has been connected 

 with the firm since 1902 and has all the 

 energy and ability required in a modern 

 establishment. 





