SSFTKMBEB 18, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



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completed, with a cellar beneath for the 

 storage of stock. T. R. Beers was at 

 the New York state fair in charge of 

 the company's display of plants. 



One of the saddest funerals ever held 

 in Cromwell was that of Alvin Ander- 

 son, who was accidentally shot by his 

 brother, Emil, while duck hunting Sep- 

 tember 4. Both young men were em- 

 ployed in the chrysanthemum depart- 

 ment of A. N. Pierson, Inc., and were 

 held in highest esteem by their employ- 

 ers and fellow workmen. R. C. S. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



With cooler weather, returning voyag- 

 ors, schools and theaters in full blast, 

 summer resorts closed, retail stores all 

 redecorated and refurnished, the market 

 l)egin8 to feel the inevitable thrill of 

 renewed activity. Prices are steadying. 



There are large supplies of roses, and 

 they are getting better every day. The 

 best ones. Beauties, Shawyer, Russell, 

 Milady, Double Killarney, Sunburst 

 iind all the others, go quickly. It is 

 hard work to get rid of the short stems, 

 but they go at some price. There are a 

 few good carnations at last; the end 

 of the week will see a lot of 

 them. There still are plenty of gladioli 

 as well as asters, and the coming week 

 is dahlia week, but only the best of 

 these are wanted. Lots of them go to 

 the discard. Orchids hold well, but the 

 supply has begun tjK increase. Good 

 values have prevail^ for several weeks, 

 owing to their scarcity. Cypripediums 

 .Tnd oncidiums are fine. Lilies have 

 been firm, and valley also. Hydrangeas 

 Jire abundant and widely used in the 

 retail windows. Mums are increasing. 



Various Notes. 



The death of Mayor Gaynor and his 

 public funeral September 22, after lying 

 in state for two days in City hallj will 

 be the occasion of a showing of flowers 

 such as this city has seldom if ever 

 seen. 



The plant auctions began September 

 16. The MacNiflE Horticultural Co. has 

 largely increased its facilities in this 

 <lepartment and importations are arriv- 

 ing daily. Mr. MacNiff reached home 

 a week ago in splendid health after his 

 European trip. 



Burnett Bros, now are comfortably 

 settled in their new store at 98 Cham- 

 bers street, close to Broadway, where 

 live floors and two basements give them 

 every facility for handling a large busi- 

 ness. The progress of this house during 

 tlie last nine years has been rapid. 



Wm. Elias, one of the old-time -garden- 

 •rs, superintendent of the Bliss estate 

 at Bernardsville, N. J., died suddenly 

 •"September 12. Funeral services and in- 

 terment took place September 13 at 

 •Stapleton, L. I. 



The Stumpp & Walter Co. had a fine 

 "lisplay of gladioli in their windows at 

 •>0 Barclay street last week, including 

 l^eace. War, Dawn and Afterglow. In 

 l^he new store the immense windows are 

 "1 place and the commodious offices are 

 'omplete. By the end of the week the 

 'ransfer will be accomplished without a 

 moment's interruption to business. 



Weeber & Don have been repainting 

 •ind refitting their store on Chambers 

 f-treet and report business extremely 

 satisfactory. 



Marshall Clarke, of David Clarke's 

 • ons, is back from his vacation in the 



"WHO'S WHO-AND WHY" 



ADOLPH JAENICKE. 



OF THE hundreds and hundreds of florists who have handled the bushy little 

 Begonia Erfordii, how many have been aware of the fact that the originator 

 of the plant is now a resident of St. Louis and that his name frequently 

 appears in The Review's St. Louis news-letters? Now don't raise your hand 

 unless you really did know all about it. His name is Adolph Jaenicke and he was 

 recently elected vice-president of the St. Louis Florists' Club. Why shouldn't this 

 club be of some consequence, with such men as officers? Mr. Jaenicke is a native of 

 Germany. For a number of years he was superintendent of the greenhouse 

 department of Haage & Schmidt, at Erfurt, Germany, and it was through that 

 firm that he gave Begonia Erfordii to the trade. After coming to America, he 

 was for some years at Floral Park, N. Y., where he had charge of John Lewis 

 Childs' plant, landscape and exhibition departments. For two years he was head 

 gardener at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, and he is now teacher of 

 horticulture at the Principia School and superintendent of the estate of C. H. 

 Howard, at St. Louis. 



Thousand Islands and Gilmour Clarke 

 from his trip on the great lakes to 

 Duluth, including his visit at Minne- 

 apolis during the S. A. F. convention. 



Hamilton Scott, of Morristown, N. J., 

 superintendent of the C. W. McAlpin 

 estate, Glen Alpine, was in New York 

 September 13. 



Mr. and Mrs. Bock, of Boston, are 

 spending their vacation in New York. 

 Mr, Bock is with Thomas F. Galvin at 

 the Hub and seems to prefer Boston to 

 his old home town, much to the surprise 

 of his New York friends. Galvin 's 

 New York branch opens this week, and 

 is thoroughly up to date. 

 . Miss HoUingshead, bookkeeper for 

 Thomas Young, has returned from a 

 vacation at Asbury Park, N. J. 



Bert Chadwick, with Charles F. 



Meyer, is preparing for an extensive 

 business trip beginning early in Octo- 

 ber. 



Alex. McConnell decorated the house 

 and grounds last week for the wedding 

 of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. 

 Ward at the Cottage Gardens, Queen's, 

 L. I. 



George Sykes, manager of the west- 

 ern branch of the Lord & Burnham Co., 

 was in New York last week and reports 

 a big business year. The Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co. has a contract running to $400,- 

 000 for the immense conservatory of 

 •T. K. DeLamar, of Glen Cove, L. I., 

 the largest enterprise of its kind ever 

 undertaken in this country. This build- 

 ing is 60x200, the top of the center 

 dome being fifty-eight feet high. In 

 the center is a swimming pool forty feet 



