Jandaby 12, 1822 



The Rorists^ Review 



39 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market is in a peculiar 

 condition for the season. Arrivals of 

 stock are inordinately light, and the de- 

 mand is much less than usual for Jan- 

 uary. So many reasons have of late 

 been advanced fo' the small demand 

 that it is hard to put forward a new one, 

 but the real fact is that the public is not 

 buying flowers. It may be fortunate 

 rather than otherwise that the supply is 

 not up to the mark, and this opinion is 

 reflected in the prices of flowers, which 

 are not unduly inflated. 



Roses are in exceedingly light supply, 

 and while local demands are sufficiently 

 covered, shipping orders are hard to fill. 

 It seems ridiculous that when an order 

 comes in by wire late in an afternoon 

 for a couple of hundred or so roses, 

 considerable shopping is necessary to 

 turn them up, but such is the case in 

 this great New York market. American 

 Beauty is in sufficient supply to meet 

 demands, but sales drag, with prices ad- 

 vanced to $125 per hundred for best spe- 

 cials. Hybrid teas are rather short in 

 supply, but price increases are mainly 

 confined to the higher grades of stock. 



Carnations are in fairly good supply, 

 but move slowly. 



Cattleyas are in somewhat larger sup- 

 ply than the demand will cover; conse- 

 quently, prices have gone down to a 

 range of $35 to $75 per hundred for cat- 

 tleyas, with hybrids bringing $100. 



White lilies are plentiful, but move 

 slowly. Lily of the valley is some 

 what in oversupply, and top grades with 

 difficulty are forced to the $6 per hun- 

 dred mark. Bubrum lilies are in in- 

 creased supply, but move fairly well at 

 $8 to $15 per hundred. 



Violets are plentiful, but not in great 

 demand. A good supply of fine quality 

 sweet peas checks violet sales. 



Miscellaneous flowers are quite plenti- 

 ful, and the list is augmented by the 

 arrival of acacia, which moves at about 

 $2 to $5 per bunch. Other items are 

 iris, heliotrope, myosotis, gladioli, cal- 

 endulas, freesias, wallflowers, mignon- 

 ette, pansies, daisies, cornflowers and 

 bouvardia. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. Charles W. Scott, wife of C. W. 

 Scott, of the Yokohama Nursery Co., left 

 January 6 on a trip to Japan, in com- 

 pany with a party of friends, the itiner- 

 ary including calls at Cuba and Panama 

 canal ports. 



Henry Weston, of Hempstead, L. L, is 

 laid up with a carbuncle, which has 

 necessitated surgical aid and is proving 

 obstinate enough to keep him within 

 doors. 



Anton Schultheis, of College Point, L. 

 I., with Mrs. Schultheis, left Monday, 

 January 9, for Florida, where they will 

 pass a few weeks. 



Monday, January 9, was a busy day 

 at Secretary Young's offices. In the 

 morning there was a meeting of repre- 

 sentatives of the American Rose So- 

 ciety, at which details in regard to the 

 society's part in the premium list of the 

 national flower show were arranged; also 

 a meeting of a special committee of the 

 Allied Florists' Trade Association. In 

 the afternoon was a meeting of the in- 

 ternational flower show committee. 



The Tarrytown Horticultural Society 

 held its annual dinner at the Florence 

 Inn, in Tarrytown, Tuesday, January 10. 



Roman J. Irwin, the newly elected 



president of the New York Florists' 

 Club, gave a dinner at the Pennsylvania 

 hotel to the chairmen of the committees 

 chosen for his administration, to the 

 other officers and to a few friends, 

 Wednesday evening, January 4. It was 

 a most enjoyable affair. Among the 

 guests were the following: Treasurer 

 Wm. C. Rickards, Jr., Retiring President 

 I. 8. Hendrickson, Emil Schloss, Peter 

 Gerlaird, C. W. Knight, A. T. De La 

 Mare, Max Schling, Anton Schultheis, 

 Vice-president-elect Anton Schultheis, 

 Jr., A. L. Miller, A. M. Henshaw, Aubrey 

 Nash, Arthur Herrington, Joseph A. 

 Manda, E. A. Dupuy, Paul Rigo, John 

 H. Pepper, A. F. Faulkner, Clifford 

 Lowther and William Saville. After the 

 enjoyment of an excellent menu every- 

 one present was called upon by the host 

 for a few remarks upon the work of the 

 club for the year just opened, and sev- 

 eral innovations were informally dis- 

 cussed as being desirable for the good 

 of the club. 



Visitors: S. S. Pennock, Philadelphia; 

 Robert Pyle, West Grove, Pa.; W. R. 

 Pierson, Cromwell, Conn.; Thomas Ro- 

 land, Nahant, Mass. ; Alfred and August 

 Locker, Wauwatosa, Wis. J. H. P. 



ADIANTTTM FASLEYENSE. 



"The most beantiful of the maiden- 

 hair ferns" — this has been the descrip- 

 tive title of Adiantum Farleyense ever 

 since its introduction from Barbados 

 some forty-five years ago, and a glance 

 at the accompanying illustration will 

 readily prove that this description is 

 fully warranted. Adiantum tenerum 

 Farleyense is what botanists tell us the 

 fern should be called, from the fact that 

 it is simply a variety of A. tenerum and 

 not a species in its own right, but, be 

 that as it may, it deserves all its present 



popularity and even more. It is a warm- 

 house fern, and therefore cannot be 

 grown satisfactorily in company with 

 the more hardy pteris and other ferns of 

 that the class that are being prepared 

 for table ferneries, but where Farleyense 

 can be given the treatment it deserves, 

 there is none that can compete with it. 



It, Is usually conceded that A. Far- 

 leyense does not bear fertile spores, 

 hence its reproduction depends upon di- 

 vision of the crowns. This division is 

 usually performed in spring, at or about 

 the period when active growth begins. 

 All the fronds are cut off the old plants, 

 the soil is shaken out and the crowns are 

 then separated into small segments. 

 These are planted in rows in a propagat- 

 ing frame in a warm house, kept moist, 

 and ^nally potted up into small pots as 

 Boon as they make one or two fronds. 



The young stock must be protected 

 from sun and wind, and should be 

 picked out and shifted on into larger 

 pots before they become too much pot- 

 bound. As the plants increase in size, 

 give additional space between the pots, 

 for the foliage is liable to suffer if the 

 plants become too crowded. Plants that 

 have reached salable sizes — that is, those 

 in 4-inch to 7-inch pots — should be grad- 

 ually hardened off toward autumn, in 

 readiness for use. The hardening proc- 

 ess consists chiefly in giving more light 

 and air, but always keeping in mind the 

 fact that strong drafts of air are likely 

 to injure the young leaves. 



A night temperature of 62 to 65 de- 

 grees is best for this fern, and a rather 

 strong soil may be used. The writer 

 has had good results from a soil consist- 

 ing of one-third dried cow manure and 

 two-thirds rotted sod, but the plants so 

 treated require careful watering for 

 some time after potting, in order to 

 avoid getting the soil soured. W. H. T. 



Adiantnm Farleyense. 



