August 16, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



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NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



iere have been few weeks in the 

 liiaflSfry of the cut flower market so 

 qtlwWas last week, declared the whole- 

 sanwfl* Apart from the call for flowers 

 for i^uneral work, there was practically 

 no demand. American Beauty roses still 

 are worth $3 per dozen, the demand 

 coming from the nearby fashionable 

 summer resorts. Few rose specialties 

 and novelties are arriving. The young 

 plants are beginning to do their share in 

 supplying roses, but those that arrive 

 are small and short-stemmed. Few 

 bring more than $5 per thousand. 



The few carnations that arrive are 

 hardly worth the $1 per hundred asked 

 for them. Valley is scarce and August 

 11 the market was bare, as high as $8 

 per hundred being offered for it. Lilies 

 hold at $6 per hundred for selects. 

 Gigas are as hard to find as valley, and 

 as high as $1 each was offered for them 

 August 11. 



Of the outdoor flowers there is a veri- 

 table flood. There is an oversupply of 

 asters, although the large and high-class 

 flowers are few. Golden Glow chrysan- 

 themums have arrived. Gladioli are in 

 such quantities that they cannot be 

 disposed of. Cosmos are here. Dahlias 

 are of good size and color. There also 

 are pond lilies, daisies, goldenrod, lark- 

 spurs, zinnias, calendulas and other 

 summer flowers. 



Club Meeting. 



The meeting of the Florists' Club 

 August 13 was attended by fifty of the 

 faithful. A. L. Miller reported progress 

 for his entertainment committee and 

 Mr. Kessler for the committee in 

 charge of the ladies' auxiliary and their 

 reception at the McAlpin hotel. C. H. 

 Totty reported for his reception com- 

 mittee and the decoration duties, under 

 the chairmanship of Mr. Kervan, are 

 all arranged for. There was some dis- 

 cussion by Messrs. Traendly, Manda and 

 Totty as to the president's reception, 

 which will take place at the Grand 

 Central Palace. 



Messrs. Hunt and Goldberg were elect- 

 ed to membership and the latter ad- 

 dressed the meeting, pledging loyalty. 



The only exhibit was the new fern. 

 President Wilson, which was staged 

 by its producer, Fritz Dressel, of Wee- 

 hawken, N. J. It is a sport of Teddy, 

 Junior, and received a certificate of 

 merit at the International Flower Show. 

 A graceful letter from Mr. Wilson was 

 read, accepting the name. The club's 

 certificate of merit was accorded it. 

 Mr. Dressel said it will be distributed 

 next year. 



Secretary Young made an optimistic 

 address as to the coming convention, 

 predicting a large attendance and great 

 patronage for the trade exhibitors. 



The resignation from the club of Phil 

 J. Fol^v, of Chicago, was accepted with 

 regret. \ 



The meeting of the club September 10 

 will be dahlia night. H. C. Riedel, of 

 Riedel & Meyer, 49 West Twenty-eighth 

 street, will take care of the shipments 

 of exhibitors. 



Pre-Conventlon Notes. 

 Members of the Xew York Florists' 

 Club, who are to be hosts to the con- 

 vention visitors, are ready to receive 

 their guests. Already they are urging 

 the visitors to arrange to stay longer 

 than the three days of the convention. 

 Thej' say there are so many things to 



see in New York city that it will be im- 

 possible to make the rounds in so short 

 a time. There are the parks of New 

 York and Brooklyn, the Bronx Park In- 

 stitute close to the Convention Garden, 

 the Museum of Art, the Museum of 

 Natural History, the library, aquarium, 

 the zoo, the Statue of Liberty and 

 Coney Island, all being worth a visit. 



Of course, every visitor to the conven- 

 tion will want to see the retail flower 

 stores, which as a whole are the finest in 

 the world. Their owners are preparing 

 to welcome the guests. 



Surrounding New York are growers of 

 national reputation. Their establish- 

 ments are large and interesting. They, 

 too, will be glad to have the convention- 

 ists pay them a visit. 



Captain Fenrich, of the New York 

 Florists' Club bowling team, reports 

 that entries for the bowing contest are 

 slow in coming in. So far the Phila- 

 delphia Club team is the only one en- 

 tered, but it is expected that others will 

 be on hand to compete for the cham- 

 pionship. 



E. J. Irwin, who last week attended 

 the conventin of the Canadian Horticul- 

 tural Association at Montreal, reports 

 that a number of Canadian florists ex- 

 pressed their intention of being present 

 at the S. A. F. meeting. 



The exhibition of the American Gladi- 

 olus Society dovetails in with the S. A. 

 F. convention, opening on the closing 

 day of the latter meeting. 



Various Notes. 



Max Schling has returned from a busi- 

 ness trip to Cleveland and St. Louis. 



J. K. Allen and Mrs. Allen left Au- 

 gust 13 for a vacation in the mountains 

 of Warren county, N. J. Mr. Allen will 

 return for the S. A. F, convention. 



Many of Alex. McConnell's employees 

 are enjoying their summer vacations. 

 Mr. McConnell's nursery business has 

 been exceptionally good this year. His 



grounds at New Rochelle are beauti- 

 fully arranged. Catalpa Bungei, Jap- 

 anese maples and silver spruce are at- 

 tractive items there. 



Tlie first (ioldcn (J low chrysanthe- 

 mums of the season came from J. Chio- 

 tis, of Flushing, L. I. His shipments 

 are handled bv the Ignited Cut Flower 

 Co. 



Fred Sniythe, of Wadley <fc Smythe, 

 leaves August 23 for Cuba, where he 

 has a large landscape contract. 



Walter Siebreclit and Clarence Slinn, 

 who made a trip to the Pacific coast by 

 automobile, returned to their liomes Au- 

 gust 13. 



Wm. Cotter, of tlio Montreal Cut 

 Flower Exchange, and Mrs. Cotter were 

 in New York August 11, on their way 

 to Dansville. Mr. Cotter will return for 

 the convention. 



R. J. Irwin was at the C. H. A. con- 

 vention in Montreal for several days 

 and says he had ' ' a grand and glorious 

 time.' ' 



Thomas Boothe de Forest and family 

 are spending the summer at Irvington. 



Charles Futterman and family are 

 spjO'nding two weeks at Hyde Park, N. Y. 



W. H. Miller now is in charge of the 

 Osgood estate at Lawrence Beach, L. I. 



C. McGinnis is spending the summer 

 at Lawrence, L. I. 



Edward P. Tracey, president of the 

 Albany Cut Flower Exchange, Albany, 

 N. Y., was a visitor August 9. 



A. Fischman and Edward Brenner, of 

 George Siebrecht's force, are spending 

 the summer at Rockaway Park. 



Harry A. Bunyard now is with the im- 

 porting house of W. R. Grace & Co., New 

 York. 



C. H. Atkins, Rutherford, N. J., was 

 married August 4. He is a successful 

 landscape artist. 



David Ward, of the Cottage Gardens 

 Co., Queens, N. Y., is serving his coun- 

 try, and soon expects to be called to 

 France. J. Austin Shaw. 



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Hatcher's Flower Shop, Schenectady, 

 N. Y., lias a window attraction in a 

 plant labeled "Night-blooming cereus. 

 Watch it bloom." A remark was over- 

 heard that it might afford a reasonable 

 excuse for staying out late, as the cur- 

 few law exists in that busv old town. 



W. T. Showers, Schenectady, N. Y., 

 observed that the heavy hail storm of 

 August 9 cut up his outdoor stock con- 

 siderably. Hitherto the call for cut 

 flowers for hospital use had been good. 

 It is claimed that the liospital atmos- 

 ]ihere is more congenial to blooms from 

 the open than to those from the ice- 

 box. 



Julius Eger, of Sclienectady, N. Y., 

 lias a fine showing of gladioli and may 

 enter some of them for exhibition at the 

 S. A. F. convention. 



Admiring some handsome specimens 

 of Roster's blue spruce at Danker 's 

 Nursery on the Albany road, it was re- 

 called that in Danker 's Journal of 1780 

 reference is. made to trading with tho 

 Hollanders. "So," remarked Fred A. 

 Danker, "it is but natural that we miss 

 trading with them at this time." 



"The most successful method with us 

 (*)f growing cyclamen,'' observed Fred 

 Goldring, Slingerlands, N. Y., "is to 



stand the plants on inverted pots and 

 spread a good thickness of tobacco 

 stems underneath. This keejis the plants 

 healthy. Many growers sjiray with a 

 contact insecticide to keep down the 

 so-called mite which is believed to ger- 

 minate with the seed. Undoubtedly, 

 the cyclamen will be one of the most 

 popular house plants next season. It is 

 easily grown, the more care given the 

 plant the better, and enough seeds can 

 be saved at home for all our needs." 



' ' This hot spell is rather hard on 

 lieather culture," remarked W. W. 

 Hannell, Watervliet, N. Y., "but we 

 have it down pretty fine, so that such a 

 thing as a complete failure can hardly 

 happen. Unfortunately it is stocik 

 that cannot bo grown so easily as a ge- 

 ranium, else it would be even more pop- 

 ular, as it could be sold at a lower 

 figure. On the other hand, it being in 

 the class of aristocrats, so to speak, it 

 finds ready sale with plants of high 

 grade. ' ' 



J. O. Graham, Little Falls, N. Y., was 

 not a sufferer from the storm of August 

 9, but had he been as hard hit as James 

 Coates, Fonda, N. Y., that new range 

 under contemplation for some time 

 would now be a certaintv. W. M. 



