JaMUAUY 14, 1U15. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



NEW YOJIK. 



The Market. 



Demoralized is the word to describe 

 the New york wholesale cut flower mar- 

 ket all last week, and especially on 

 Saturday; night arrived with every ice- 

 box full. Such a condition in January 

 has never been known, according to 

 wholesalers who have been thirty years 

 in this business. 



Prices are hard to quote. There was 

 literally no bottom to anything. Ship- 

 ments were exceedingly large. There 

 was no shortage in any department, 

 and values were at the mercy of the 

 large buyers. 



American Beauties have dropped to 

 less than half the quotations of the 

 first week of the new year. Naturally, 

 the whole rose market falls in line 

 when Beauties retreat, and so the nov- 

 elties and specials dropped also. The 

 general list, including the Killarneys, 

 were taken by the department stores. 



The carnation shipments have been 

 enormous. Special sales of these were 

 advertised in nearly all the retail win- 

 dows at 25 cents per dozen, but the 

 supply on Twenty-eighth street con- 

 tinued inexhaustible. A few of the 

 novelties held at fair prices. 



Lilies are abundant and low in price. 

 Valley, too, is off. Gardenias hold 

 fairly well and are not yet in over- 

 supply. 



Orchids have been the greatest dis- 

 appointment. Some good cattleyas 

 were sold Saturday at 10 cents each. 

 The best could be had for $25 per 

 hundred. 



Mums are still here, but are almost 

 unsalable; I excellent stock is hard to 

 clean up at $1 per dozen, flowers worth 

 three times that three weeks ago. All 

 the other seasonable flowers are here, 

 and plenty of them — daisies, pansies, 

 hyacinths, bouvardia, sweet peas, wall 

 flowers and forget-me-nots. 



Club Meeting. 



There were 150 present when the a§w 

 officers of the Florists' Club were in- 

 stalled, January 11. President Bun- 

 yard read an excellent address and ap- 

 pointed standing committees as fol- 

 lows: 



Legislative — W. F. Slieridan, chairman; P. 

 O'Mara, W. H. Siebrecht, Sr., John Donaldson, 

 F. R. Pierson, Jas. McHutchlson, J. G. Esler. 



Essay and Lecture — Leonard Barron, chairman; 

 J. Harrison Dick, J. Austin Shaw, John H. Pep- 

 per, M. G. Ebel. 



Exhibition — Max Schling, chairman; Joseph A. 

 Manda, Jas. Bell, A. N. Kinney, John Bimie, 

 J. K. Allen, J. A. Mnller. 



House — Philip Keaaler, chairman; Geo. Mustoe, 

 Meyer Othile. 



Annual Dinner — Chas. Schenck, chairman; J. B. 

 Nugent, Geo. B. M. Stumpp, W. F. Sheridan, 

 Thos. Boothe de Forest, A. L. Miller, W. E. 

 Maynard. 



Outing — P. W. Armltage, chairman; Loaia 

 Schmutz, Jr., A. J. Gnttman, E. W. Holt, Vic- 

 tor I. Morgan, J. W. Wagenfohr, A. M. Henshaw. 

 J. ^anck, A. T. Bums, Jr., Peter Denyse, Jr., 

 Jos. J. Lane, L. W. Tuthlll. B. G. Wilson. Air. 

 DerreuRv. Jr.. E. A. Manda, Samuel Redstone, 

 J. A. Bnerlein, Emll Sohloss, J. W. Reimels, 

 A. H. Donaldson, Victor Dorval. 



Awards — W. H. Diickham, chairman. Rose 

 Section: Frank H. Traendly, F. R. Pierson, 

 Robert Simpson, Wallace Pierson, Chas. H. 

 Brown, W. P. Ford, L. B. Coddlngton. Chrysan- 

 themum Section: Charles H. Tottr. Jas. E. 

 Scott, Peter Duff, Thos. Head, J. Canning, F. H. 

 Wllshire, William Tricker. Sweet Pea Section: 

 Geo. T. Scbnneman, Henry Weston, Chas. Knight, 

 W. A. Sperling, A. E. Hogg, H. Mamitch. P. W. 

 Popp. Carnation Section: R. T. Brown, Eugene 

 Dallledouze, Frank Nlquet, Louis Renter, Chas. 

 Weber, H. B. Froment, Julius Chevalley. Gladio- 

 lus Section: I. S. Hendrlckson. Arthur Cowee, 

 H. C. RIe.Ifl. A. R. Kennedy. W. H. Long, J. A. 

 Rassbach, Ed. Sceery. Orchid Section; Joseph A. 

 Manda, Henry Hurrt^ll, August Junge, John E. 

 Lager, Jas. McManus, Julius Roehrs, Geo. Bald- 

 win. Plant Section: W. A. Manda, Philip Cox, 

 Anton Schnlthels, Jr., Frits Dressel, F. L. Atkins, 

 Anthony Manda, H. D. Darlington. 



P. W. Popp, of Mamaroneck, staged a 



fine vase of Biiddleia Asiatica and was 

 awarded a cultural certificate. .1. A. 

 Peterson, from Cincinnati, brought 

 Melior, Glory of Cincinnati and Mrs. 

 J. A. Peterson begonias, highly com- 

 mended and granted certificates. Chas. 

 Weber exhibited Laura Weber carna- 

 tion. A cultural certificate was award- 

 ed the pink seedling carnation, Mrs. C. 

 Edward Akehurst, shown for Akehurst 

 & Son, of White Marsh, Md., by the 

 Pennock-Meehan Co. The Geo T. 

 Schuneman Co. made a fine display of 

 sweet peas in many varieties and was 

 awarded thanks and cultural certifi- 

 cates. 



Mr. Shaw read resolutions on the 

 death of David Mollis. Messrs. Ebel, 

 Sheridan and Eickards were appointed 

 to draw up resolutions en the sudden 

 death of Charles McTaggart. 



A motion in favor of the club's an- 

 nual dinner was unanimously carried. 



J. G. Leikens, David S. Ward and 

 Herman Weiss were elected to mem- 

 bership and Louis Strauss and Andrew 

 Schlevogt were proposed. Resignations 

 of C. Vermeille and Theo. Roehrs were 

 accepted with regret. 



The reports of the trustees, secretary 

 and treasurer were read. The club's 

 balance is $6,868.35, a gain of $1,164.64 

 over the preceding year. 



A committee consisting of Messrs. 

 Totty, Hendrickson, Pepper, Traendly 

 and Kessler wjU report on the presi- 

 dent's address in February. 



Various Notes. '^ = 



Louis H. Schaefer, wholesale seeds- 

 man, of Albany, N. Y., was a recent 

 visitor. 



Archibald Henshaw, of Henshaw & 

 Fenrich, has returned from England. 



Charles Weathered is again on deck, 

 after a six weeks' struggle with his 

 old enemy, rheumatism. 



Miss Mabel Conklin, bookkeeper for 

 H. E. Froment, was among those held 

 two hours in the subway by the acci- 

 dent and fire that came near to being 

 one of the big city's greatest trag- 

 edies. " * 



There was a fire in the upper stories 

 of Young & Nugent 's headquarters, on 

 Twenty-eighth street, Tuesday, January 

 5, but fortunately the damage was 

 prevented from extending to the flo- 

 rists' department. 



Messrs. Dierks and Arenwald are no 

 longer with C. Abrams, of Brooklyn, 

 and contemplate opening a retail store 

 iu New York city. 



Meyer Othile, of Badgley, Riedel & 

 Meyer, accompanied by C. Abrams, of 

 Brooklyn, rested last week at Atlantic 

 City. Owing to an accident to his 

 feet, H. C. Riedel was unable to par- 

 ticipate in the bowling club's Thurs- 

 day evening competition. 



'The annual dinner of the Northern 

 Westchester County Horticultural and 

 Agricultural Society will be held at 

 New Castle Inn, Thursday evening, 

 .Tanuary 21. The society's regular 

 business session will precede the ban- 

 quet. 



John V. Phillips, of 272 Fulton 

 street, Brooklyn, has been established 

 sirce 1874, over forty years. His son 

 William is now manager. 



A. L. Young and Samuel Keller are 

 doing jury service. 



Lena Hart, of Madison avenue, had 

 charge of the elaborate decorations for 

 tlie Armour wedding. 



Among recent visitors were Wm. F. 

 Kasting, of Buffalo; C. H. Totty, of 



AFadisoii, N. J.; ThoM. Roland, of Xa- 

 Itaut, Mass.; E. Allan Peirce, of Wal- 

 tham, Mass., and Adolph Farenwald, of 

 Roslyn, Pa. 



W. E. Marshall, the seedsman, is 

 making his annual western trip. 



The Growers* Cut Flower Co. en- 

 joyed its regular quarterly meeting 

 Saturday, January 9, followed by a 

 banquet. J. Austin Shaw. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York 's exhibition of plants and flow- 

 ers, to be held Wednesday, January 20, 

 at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, is open to all, whether mem- 

 bers of the society or not. The day 

 of the exhibition has been changed 

 to Wednesday, as it was thought this 

 would be more convenient to gardeners 

 than Saturday, the day upon which 

 former exhibitions have been held. 

 Schedules will be sent on application 

 to the secretary, George V. Nash, New 

 York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, 

 New York. W. N. Craig, of Brook- 

 line, Mass., will lecture at 4 p. m., 

 January 20, in the east assembly hall 

 of the museum on "The Home Veg- 

 etable Garden." 



OBITUARY. 



Cliarles C. McTaggart. 



Charles C. McTaggart, traveling rep- 

 resentative of W. E. Marshall & Co., 

 New York, was instantly killed by an 

 Erie train at noon Sunday, January 

 10, near his home at Kearney, N. J. 

 Ho leaves an aged mother, to whom 

 he was greatly devoted. Mr. McTag- 

 gart was 45 years of age and was es- 

 teemed aiad beloved by all who knew 

 him. He was born in Scotland. His 

 first experience in the seed trade was 

 with Peter Henderson & Co. He was 

 with Weeber & Don six years and with 

 Thorburn & Co. two years. 'During the 

 last five years he has been head sales- 

 man for Marshall & Co. He was a 

 member of the New York Florists' 

 Club and the National Association of 

 Gardeners. 



George Petrie. 



George Petrie, until recently cm- 

 ployed in the greenhouses of W. A. 

 Riggs, Auburndale, Mass., died Janu- 

 ary 6 in the Newton hospital. The 

 deceased, who was a trained gardener, 

 was a native of Peeside, Aberdeen- 

 shire, Scotland, and, since coining to 

 New England, haid worked for the 

 Spaulding estate, 5. W. Vose, of Hyde 

 Park, and othera He was unmarried 

 and leaves no relatives, so far as 

 known, in Ameries^ 



John gallon. 



John Fallon, a retired florist, 73 

 years of age, died January 7, at his 

 home on the Middlq Neck road, Great 

 Neck, L. I. He was born in Ireland 

 and is survived by several children. 



Belleville, m. — Jupt to show the pros- 

 perousness of the florists' business here, 

 Adolph G. Fehr gives a list of his ad- 

 ditions, two honses for carnations, each 

 28x150, last year, and a rose house, 

 28x150, and a plant house, 20x150, this 

 year. He has built a concrete boiler 

 house and put up a ffO-horsepower boiler 

 to heat the range by steam. The farm, 

 where he j^ows about 20,000 plants, 

 went into winter quarters in good shape, 

 says Mr. Fehr. 



