NOVEMBEB 12, 1014. 





The Florists^ Review 



39 



SCHUNQ AND HIS HAltDIWOBK. 



For the recent Tercentenary affair 

 in New York Max Schling decorated 

 his delivery car and created a mild 

 sort of sensation. As Mr. Schling ex- 

 presses it, "In one class we got $100 

 as a prize, and I thought that was all, 

 but on Monday morning I received a 

 large medal, almost a pound in weight, 

 as a special prize for the most artis- 

 tically decorated car." The picture 

 shows Mr. Schling inspecting the car 

 as it was ready to start out. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The Indian summer weather continued 

 all through the last week, and the cut 

 flower market showed no improvement 

 until Saturday. It was a week of sacri- 

 fice. Many vanloads found an outlet 

 through the department stores. The bar- 

 gains were largely in the rose and car- 

 nation departments. 



■The flood of chrysanthemums is at its 

 height. Prices are at least fifty per cent 

 lower than in other years, and few of 

 the best flowers have gone above $3 to 

 $4 per dozen. There will be a splendid 

 supply of mums for Thanksgiving, and 

 some of the wholesalers are already 

 booking orders for Christmas. 



The shipments of roses of all kinds 

 are now at high tide and the quality im- 

 proves daily. American Beauties are 

 superb. With twenty-five varieties of 

 roses to select from daily, no taste need 

 go unsatisfied. Some of the new vari- 

 eties of roses are quite popular, espe- 

 cially Hadley and Ophelia. 



Carnations sold all the week at half 

 their Value. There is little hope of nor- 

 mal prices for these and the short- 

 stemmed roses until the mum shipments 

 grow less. Both lilies and valley are 

 firm at present quotations. Rubrums 

 are low. Longiflorums show a harden- 

 ing tendency. 



Daisies, narcissi and sweet peas are 

 now abundant and prices nominal. The 

 violet men are talking $1 for the Yale 

 game on Saturday, but have been glad 

 to take a third of that figure for the 

 best during the week past. The colder 

 weather will bring a gradual improve- 

 ment. There is little, if any, advance 

 in price in the orchid market and no 

 decrease in quantity. 



Club Meeting. 



President Duckham was promptly in 

 the chair as usual when the meeting of 

 the Florists' Club was called to order, 

 November 4. The fair faces of nearly 

 a hundred ladies graced the occasion 

 and an even larger number of the 

 sterner sex were present, nearly every 

 prominent member of the club attend- 

 ing. The business session was brief. 

 Resolutions of sympathy on the death 

 of Miss Lillian Shaw were read bv Emil 

 Schloss, for the committee, and a mes- 

 sage of hope and greeting was sent to 

 Charles Totty, dangerously ill at Over- 

 look hospital. Summit, N. J., following 

 an operation for appendicitis, Novem- 

 ber 6. 



James Fraser, of Morristown, and 

 bamuel Batchellor and P. W. Popp, of 

 Mamaroneck, were elected to member- 

 ship, c. Tedema was proposed. The 

 nominating committee announced as 

 contestants for the various oflBces of 

 the year 1915, for president, Messrs. 

 Duckham, Bunyard and Hendrickson; 



Max Schling Inspects His Delivery Car Decorated for the Tercentenary. 



for vice-president, Messrs. Mieaem, 

 Koehne and Henshaw; for secretary, 

 Messrs. Young, Tuthill and Ebel; 'for 

 treasurer, Messrs. Rickards, Schenck and 

 Roehrs; for trustees, Messrs. Hogg, 

 Cobb, Schloss, Fiesser, Boehler and 

 Maynard. 



Mr. Duckham made a graceful ad- 

 dress of recognition of the club's cour- 

 tesy in withdrawing his name for the 

 ofiice for another year. 



The rooms were handsomely decorated 

 with chrysanthemums, roses and oak 

 leaves and banks of palms, provided by 

 Wm. Kessler, Paul Meconi, Walter F. 

 Sheridan, Jas. McManus, Traendly & 

 Schenck, Gunther Bros., United Cut 

 Flower Co., C. Slinn, New York Flo- 

 rists' Supply Co., L. B. Nason, J. K. 

 Allen, Badgley, Riedel & Meyer, H. E. 

 Froment, Pennock-Meehan Co., E. C. 

 Horan, Geo. Siebrecht, Henshaw & Fen- 

 rich, Growers' Cut Flower Co., Young 

 & Nugent, P. J. Smith, Woodrow & Mar- 

 ketos, W. P. Ford, Kervan Co. and Gutt- 

 man & Raynor. The bouquets for the 

 artists were made by Messrs. Hanft and 

 Dentale, of Young & Nugent 's staff. The 

 ribbons were the gift of Schloss Bros. 

 The banquet table was adorned with 

 chrysanthemums and smilax. The menu 

 was satisfactory, as usual, and the musi- 

 cal and literary entertainment the best 

 ever afforded. The various artists do- 

 nated their services and the club's 

 thanks were hearty and universal. A. J. 

 Guttman presided and with eloquence, 

 wit and humor conducted the affair to a 

 great success. Messrs. Duggan, Gutt- 

 man and Musto deserve credit for their 

 good work as officers of the house com- 

 mittee. 



Various Notes. 



Thos. F. Galvin,'s window decorations 

 at his store on Fifth avenue are attract- 

 ing much attention; they are sometimes 

 changed twice daily. 



James Coyle's best seller last week 

 was the white Arline. He also displayed 

 the first of the Enguehards. 



Alex. McConnell's importations of 

 boxwood from Holland for window and 

 vestibule decoration have arrived and 

 are of superior quality. This firm has 



had during the last week several nota- 

 ble church wedding decorations. 



A message from his father called A. 

 H. Henshaw suddenly to England No- 

 vember 7. 



M. Aronowitz, of the Barclay Nursery, 

 has leased the large corner store at 

 Barclay street and West Broadway for 

 a term of years. It is a splendid loca- 

 tion for a dealer in bulbs and plants. 



Guttman & Raynor 's new store is ap- 

 proaching completion and will be one 

 of the largest and most convenient 

 wholesale establishments on Twenty- 

 eighth street. 



One hears no complaints as to general 

 business at the seed stores, and all seem 

 to be doing as well as in ordinary years 

 when no wars prevailed. 



The immense windows of the Stumpp 

 & Walter Co. are featuring bulbs at 

 present. 



The sessions of the MacNiff Horti- 

 cultural Co. will continue until after the 

 holidays, if the weather prophets are to 

 be believed. 



The monthly meeting of the directors 

 of the Cut Flower Exchange was held 

 Saturday, November 7. at Queensboro 

 plaza, in the office of W. H. Siebrecht, 

 Jr., liong Island City. 



B. Rosens, the supply man, has a 

 great assortment of novelties for the 

 holidays, and is the sole importer, he 

 says, of the popular frieze roping from 

 Japan. 



Woodrow & Marketos are still busy 

 with landscape contracts, which wiil 

 take the rest of the year to complete. 



Dierks & Arenwald have removed 

 their enterprise to Brooklyn and have a 

 department with Abraham & Strauss, of 

 that city. 



The wedding of Miss Alice Clarke to 

 John Ashwell took place at St. Pat- 

 rick's church, Jersey City, November 4. 

 The bride was given in marriage by her 

 father, Charles Clarke, and the maid of 

 honor was Miss Grace Miller, daughter 

 of Wm. H. Miller. The best man was 

 Geo. W. Ashwell, brother of the groom. 

 The reception was held at the home of 

 the bride's father, at 66 Wegman place, 

 Jersey Qityv 



