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The Florists^ Review 



Septemuek 13, 1917. 



Do not be in too great a hurry to dig 

 your dahlias. It is a mistake to do so 

 as soon as frost arrives. If you have 

 no dahlias, visit some specialist now 

 and pick out some good varieties, or go 

 to one of the many fairs and exhibitions 

 where dahlias are always a prominent 

 feature at this season. 



Hard-Wooded Plants. 



All plants of azaleas, camellias, ericas 

 and other hard-wooded plants should be 

 lifted now and potted without delay. If 

 the balls are at all dry, soak them in a 

 tub of water before potting. If you 

 pot and trust to an ordinary watering 

 to wet dry balls, it may mean a loss of 

 the plants. There should be no need to 

 place hard-wooded stock under glass for 

 some time yet. Spray the plants freely 

 for a few days after lifting and be sure 

 the plants have an adequate supply of 

 water. In regard to potting, always use 

 a rammer or flat-pointed stick to firm 

 the soil well around the sides of the 

 pots. You can hardly pot hard-wooded 

 plants too firmly; those loosely potted 

 will never thrive. 



Freesias. 



The earliest batch of freesias have 

 now made considerable growth, and if 

 you want them for the holidays, at 

 which time freesias make fancy whole- 

 sale prices, stand them on a bench, or, 

 better still, on a shelf in a house where 

 a night temperature of 52 to 55 degrees 

 is maintained. I prefer to grow freesias 

 in pans to flats, as the spikes are much 

 stronger and more easily supported. Be 

 sure to give the plants an adequate 

 supply of water and later in the season 

 weak doses of liquid manure are good; 

 but avoid strong doses, which will cause 

 the ends of the foliage to burn brown, 

 as also will heavy fumigations. Start a 

 later batch of freesias now and another 

 batch can go in as late as the middle 

 of October. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Business in both the wholesale and re- 

 tail stores continues quiet, while stock 

 is plentiful, so mucli so that there was 

 a large surplus left when selling ceased 

 September 8. There was a flood of as- 

 ters, and the quality of some of the late 

 varieties was exceptionally good. Fancy 

 prices were obtained for the select 

 stock, but not more than one-half of the 

 supply was absorbed. Some fine King 

 and America gladioli are arriving and 

 are selling well. Most of the shipments, 

 however, bring only .10 cents to $1 per 

 hundred. 



Chrysanthemums are more plentiful, 

 some fine October Frost and Golden 

 Glow flowers being offered. The best of 

 these sold for $1.50 per dozen Septem- 

 ber 8. Dahlias are abundant. Valley 

 is scarce and prices continue high. 

 There was none to be had at any price 

 at the close of business September 8. 

 Longiflorum lilies of the best quality 

 brought $5 and $6 per hundred Septem- 

 ber 8, but other flowers sold as low as $3 

 per hundred. Prices of orchids have 

 dropped, the best of tlie gigas now sell- 

 ing for 75 cents apiece, while other 

 flowers range in price down to 25 cents 

 apiece. The demand for orchids has 

 been light. 



Eoses are slowly advancing in botli 

 price and quality, although there is still 

 an abundance of ones, twos and tlirocs 



at from 50 cents to $3 per hundred. The 

 best of the hybrids, Ophelia, Mock and 

 Stanley, sell readily at from $5 to $8 per 

 hundred. Few Hadley or Prima Donna 

 roses have arrived. White roses are in 

 greatest demand. American Beauties 

 are more plentiful and prices are lower. 

 Carnations are short-stemmed, but al- 

 ready are abundant. Good flowers sell 

 for from $1 to $1.50 per hundred. On- 

 cidiums are now seen and there is still 

 a quantity of outdoor flowers. 



Club Meeting. 



The monthly meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held September 10, President 

 Stumpp in the chair. The attendance 

 was over 100. Chairman Knight, of the 

 exhibitions committee, succeeded splen- 

 didly in securing shipments and the dis- 

 play was one of the best and most inter- 

 esting of the year. C. H. Totty staged 

 a vase of the new pink rose, Columbia, 

 which the committee pronounced "very 

 promising" and asked to see again. W. 



A. Manda showed twenty-five blooms of 

 his new red dahlia, No. 1000, which re- 

 ceived a cultural certificate. Wil- 

 liam A. Finger, of Hicksville, L. I., 

 staged many vases of dahlias in great 

 variety, featuring the Elsie Burgess, 

 pink, highly commended. V. Zuber & 

 Sons, of Whitestone, L. I., showed two 

 vases of assorted dahlias and received 

 the thanks of the club. The exhibits of 



B. Hammond Tracy, of Wenham, Mass., 

 and R. W. Swett, of Saxonville, Mass., 

 were delayed and not shown. 



Secretary Young staged the exhibit 

 of the Cottage Gardens Nurseries, of Eu- 

 reka, Cal., which had failed to arrive 

 in time for the S. A. F. convention. It 

 consisted of daffodil, Darwin tulip 

 hyacinth, crocus and narcissus bulbs, 

 also rhododendrons, boxwoods, retinis- 

 poras, azaleas and a number of interest- 

 ing photos. The exhibit was highly 

 commended. 



Mr. Young said the committee of the 

 spring flower show of 1918 will hold its 

 preliminary meeting next month . and 

 that applications for trade space already 

 are promising. 



W. J. Guille and Thos. J. Nolan were 

 proposed for membership. Walter Gott, 

 of St. Albans, England, was elected a 

 member. 



J. H. Fiesser, vice-president, reported 

 tlie afternoon meeting of the board of 

 trustees, Messrs. Schenck, Irwin, Rick- 

 ards and himself in attendance. 



A. L. Miller proposed that the club 

 liave a ladies' night, and the time, place 

 and all arrangements were put in charge 

 of the house committee. 



The principal topic of the evening's 

 discussion was the publicity movement. 

 The club's decision as to participation 

 was postponed to the next meeting. Va- 

 rious sums up to $1,000 were suggested 

 us the club's subscription to the move- 

 ment. Messrs. Miller, Young, Siebreclit, 

 O'Mara, Schultheis, Schling, Manda, 

 Weston, Guttman, Stumpp and other 

 orators took part in the discussion. 

 Messrs. Fiesser and Schwake subscribed 

 $25 each. 



P. B. Rigby, Philip Kessler and L. 

 W. Kervan reported for convention com- 

 mittees and were given a vote of thanks. 



The house committee served refresli- 

 ments, as usual. 



Various Notes. 

 George L. Stillman, of Westerly, R. I., 

 has an exhibit of his dahlia specialties 

 and new varieties at the store of Alex. 

 McConnell, Forty-niiitli street and 

 Fifth avenue. 



It is said that some of the large grow- 

 ers of lilies will replace them with roses 

 next season. 



Funeral work was the principal busi- 

 ness of the retailers last week, there be- 

 ing few receptions, weddings and dinner 

 decorations. New York florists, who 

 have branches at the nearby summer 

 resorts, say that the demand there has 

 been light this season. 



R. J. Irwin's latest cable dispatch 

 causes him to expect that his entire or- 

 der of Dutch bulbs will arrive on the 

 steamer Waaldyk. Mr. Irwin, with 

 Wallace Pierson, of Cromwell, Conn., 

 and several other friends, will leave 

 soon for Maine on a hunting trip. 



Frederick Zahn has opened a flower 

 store at 2445 Jerome avenue, which he 

 has named the University Flower Shop. 

 Mr. Zahn also owns a store at 137 West 

 One Hundred Twenty-sixth street. 



George J. Polykranas had some fine 

 white and pink bouvardia last week. 



The Cadieux Co. has just filled a large 

 order from the Hotel Majestic for box- 

 woods and palms. 



William Barnes, of Chicago, was the 

 guest of George S. Sullivan last week. 



Miss Augusta Nerenston, bookkeeper 

 for C. C. Trepel, has returned from two 

 weeks' vacation spent at Atlantic City 

 and Averne. 



Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Levy, of the 

 Brooklyn Wholesale Cut Flower Market, 

 celebrated their seventeenth wedding 

 .anniversary September 5. They re- 

 ceived many remembrances from 

 friends. 



Frank Duggan, of Peth & Duggan, 

 lias returned from a four weeks' vaca- 

 tion, spent on the estate of George S. 

 Phipps, Netcong, N. J., where Chauncey 

 Leclare is superintendent. 



Miss Laura Weber, daughter of 

 Charles Weber, of Lynbrook, L. I., has 

 charge of her father's flower store at 

 Long Beach, a nearby summer resort. 

 The store is located in the postoffice 

 building and Miss Weber says it has 

 been a great success. 



William P. Ford has so far recovered 

 from the effects of a recent operation 

 as to be able to be at his store, 



Russia & Hanfling say that the season 

 has been by far the best in their expe- 

 rience. 



John Gunther, of Gunther Bros., has 

 returned to New York, after a pleasant 

 summer spent at Midland beach, 

 Staten island. 



David Clarke's Sons report a busy 

 season with weddings and receptions. 



John Mallon, the veteran of Brook- 

 lyn, is greatly interested in the Red 

 Cross work in the City of Churches. 



J. Austin Shaw, 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York will hold a dahlia exhibition Satur- 

 day and Sunday, September 22 and 23, 

 in the Museum building. New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden, Bronx park. The exhi- 

 bition is open free to the public Satur- 

 day from 2 to 5 p, m. and Sunday from 

 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Schedules are now 

 ready for distribution and may be had 

 by addressing the secretary, George V. 

 Nash, New York Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx park, New York city. 



Newark, O, — A controlling interest in 

 tlie Columbus Floral Co. establishment, 

 at Columbus O., has been acquired by 

 W. S. Weiant & Son, who, it is reported, 

 will devote the Columbus range to vege- 

 tables after the mum crop is over. 



