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The Florists^ Review 



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not so low tliat the street merchants 

 could offer them. The same cannot be 

 said of gardenias," for the street men 

 have them, as well as valley, at every 

 corner. Lilies have held at the late 

 quotations, the best touching $6 per 

 hundred, owing doubtless to lighter 

 shipments. Valley is lower, and must 

 now compete with, the outdoor offerings. 

 Lilac was abundant last week, immense 

 •receipts accumulating and prices falling 

 as the locat^^pply increased. Of tulips, 

 sweet peas, gftidioli, pansies and stocks 

 there is ***~«nnelegant suflSciency. " 



A big M^emorial day business isy ex- 

 pected and the^lant growers .ar,e ready 

 for the anticipated demand.- The plant 

 auctions will continue until July and 

 special sales of bedding plants will .be 

 held before Memorial day. . " 



Club Meeting, 



An unusually interesting, meeting of 

 the Florists' Club took place May 10, 

 when over 100 members were present 

 and the club had as its guests Miss 

 Anna Jarvis, the originator of Mothers ' 

 day, and E. H. Wilson, the Chinese ex- 

 plorer. Miss Jarvis gave an address, 

 dwelling on her years of devotion and 

 the efforts she has made to establish 

 Mothers' day as a worldv movement, 

 emphasizing the choice of \ the white 

 carnation as indicative of the purity 

 of the mother life. She said the white 

 carnation was an international flower 

 and the society she represents desires 

 its continuance as the emblem of 

 Mothers' day. She said the creation 

 of interest in New York had not been 

 encouraging and that in Buffalo Moth- 

 ers' day is called Narcissus day, in 

 Washington, Cornflower day, and in 

 Chicago "any kind of flower would 

 do." Miss Jarvis made/4n eloquent 

 plea to the club/ for it^support and 

 was loudly cheeked at the close of her 

 address. / 



Mr. Wilson gave an excellent illus- 

 trated lecture on his travels and in- 

 teresting addresses were made by J. K. 

 M. L. Farqahir, K. Vincent, Jr., T. A. 

 Havemeyjer and others. 



President Bunyard appointed as the 

 flower show committee Messrs. Traend- 

 ly, Duckham, Miller, Atkins, F. E. 

 Pierson, Young, Stumpp, Boehrs and 

 W. B. Pierson. 



George L, Stillman, Westerly, K. L; 

 John Everitt, Glen Cove, N. Y.; Rob- 

 ert G. Caldweji, Flushmg, L. I., and 

 Louis A. Nq<^ Madison, N. J., were 

 elected to inembershin( T. A. Have- 

 meyer, Wm. T. Rodmin, H. E. Meug- 

 ham, B,^rwin and P/ter Gailard were 

 proposed. 



J. B. Nugent and A. J. Guttman 

 spoke of the treatment of florists by 

 the elevated and subway of&cials, 

 whereby packages containing cut flow- 

 ers or plants are barred from all trains. 

 A strong protest to the officials by a 

 committee from the club was suggested. 



Resolutions on the deaths of Mrs. 

 Nugent, Dorothy Gunther, Simon Eodh 

 and John Niquet were read by Messrs. 

 Sheridan, Pepper and Shaw and spread 

 on the minutes. 



The exhibits were numerous and ex- 

 cellent. S. J. Batchelor, Mamaroneck, 

 showed Carnation Baroness de Brenner, 

 scoring 86 points. Max Schling showed 

 forget-me-not and Darwin tulips; A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., a large assortment of 

 stock; John Birnie, a fine lot of bed- 

 ding plants; Charles Hunt, of Staten 

 Island, pansies;' Charles Schineg, of 

 Elmhurst, Reider's strain of bellis. 



Dftring the Afternoon sev6n commit- 

 tees, the bowlers and the dahlia grow- 

 ers held meetings. 



The Bronx Show. 



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The flower show of the Horticultural 

 Society of .l»Iew York, in. the Museum 

 bjuilding at the New York Botanical 

 Garjien, May 8 and ^, was an interest- 

 ing affair. .The attend'jince was large, 

 «speciall^ oil Sunday, and George V. 

 Nasli had a large g,ndience f or hi^ stefe- 

 opticoh lecture on;' ''Flowers f 01* the 

 Spring Garden.'^' '.Of special excellence 

 wefe.the calce^olariais from James Stu- 

 art, gardener, for Mrs. F. A. Constable, 

 of Mamaroneck; James Duane, gardener 

 for George D. Barron, of Eye, and John 

 Mellis, gardener for L. C. Tiffany, of 

 Oyster Bay. P. W. Popp also made a 

 fine display of herbaceous stock, bulb- 

 ous flowers, pelargoniums^ calceolarias, 

 etc. Samuel Batchelor, gardener for 

 F. C. Littleton, showed some exti'emely 

 large blooms of his new pink carnation, 

 Baroness de Brenner. 



Various Notes. / 



The spirits of the trade have been de- 

 pressed by the latest tragedy, the sink- 

 ing of the Lusitania, which transcends 

 all the horrors of this infernal conflict. 

 Many of the patrons of the leading re- 

 tailers are among the 1,200 who lost 

 their lives. 



H. A. Siebrecht, Sr., of New Bochelle, 

 who recently returned from San Fran- 

 cisco, says there is no place like Cali- 

 fornia, and his description of its climate 

 and the beauties of the ^eat exposition 

 are entrancing. According to Mr. Sie- 

 brecht, the twenty-five N©^ Yorkers 

 who attend the S. A. F. convention will 



have no reason to regret their journey. 



The memorial services for Karl Bit- 

 ter, at thQ hall of the Ethical Culture 

 Society, last week were rendered more. 

 'impressive . and beautiful by the mas- 

 'sive decorative floral panels, the worlc 

 of Max Schling, and by tne artistic 

 groupings of the design? and palms. 



Alfred Kottmiller, 426 Madison ave- 

 nue, has opened a braneh stor^ in the' 

 Vdnderbilt hotel. 

 ^^ Paul -Erber, of Murray Hill, N;. J,, 

 is shipping- excellent Radiance and 

 Shawyer roses to Badgley, Eiedel & 

 Meyer. , - 



A. L. Miller, of Jamaica, celebrated 



his fiftieth birthday May 1. Among 



. the guests at the feast were Mr. and 



Mrs. F. H. Traendly and Mr. and Mrs. 



Charles Schenck. J. Austin Shaw. 



When the American steamer Green- 

 brier sank in the North Sea as the re- 

 sult of striking a mine a large cargo of 

 miscellaneous German products, from 

 Bremen to New York, was lost. Among 

 the florists' supplies that went down 

 were ten cases consigned to the New 

 York Florists' Supply Co. 



The Madison Floral Co. has leased a 

 store in the building at the southeast 

 corner of Madison avenue and Thirty- 

 third street. 



John B. Nugent, Jr., Charles H. 

 Brown and M. A. Bowe appeared before 

 the public service commissioners May 

 5 in behalf of the New York Florists' 

 Club, to protest against the restrictions 

 made by the Interborough and B. R. T. 

 lines on passengers carrying packages. 

 Delivery boys carrying small packages 

 of flowers have been barred from the 

 ears by employees of the roads. 



Springfield, Mas&— Robert C. Bath, of 

 641 Riverdale street, has obtained a 

 permit to build a greenhouse at an es- 

 timated cost of $600. 



St. Petersburg, Fla. — Another green- 

 house, 20x100 feet, will be added by 

 the Royal Poinciana Nursery Co. 

 shortly. Palms of various kinds are 

 this concern's specialty. 



KankaJcee, 111. — A range of vegetable 

 houses is being erected by the D. F. 

 Harrison Co. The order for twehty- 

 five ventilating machines for the houses 

 has been booked by the John A. Evans 

 Co., of Richmond, Ind. 



Lima, O. — An addition to his range to 

 cost $25,000 is planned by Rolf Zetlitz 

 for the coming summer. The town 

 council has granted his petition for the 

 vacation of the alley leading from the 

 Spencerville road to Wales avenue. He 

 will therefore be able to connect the 

 new range with the old houses. 

 /Fairfield, la. — Operations are pro- 

 gressing steadily on the service build- 

 ing that is being built at the range of 

 E. H. Montgomery for the greenhouse 

 that is to be erected by the John C. 

 Moninger Co., Chicago, early in June. 

 Mr. Montgomery has installed a 

 Herrick display refrigerator, and is 

 putting in a number of improvements 

 this spring. 



New Carlisle, O.— Charles Taynor is 

 adding another house to meet the in- 

 creasing demand for plants. 



Ottawa, Dl.— The Davis & Steiner 

 Co. is adding a 900-foot house, in which 

 will be used the Challenge ventUating 

 machine of the John A. Evans Co., 

 Richmond, Ind. 



Conneaut, O. — L. A. Eaton & Son 

 have purchased the greenhouse formerly 

 used by Arthur Venen, on State street. 

 They will rebuild it at their range on 

 Center street. The structure is 18x65 

 feet. 



Wilmington, Del. — M. F. Hayden is 

 adding a greenhouse for roses at his 

 range on Newport pike. The construc- 

 tion is being done by the King Con- 

 struction Co., of North Tonawanda, 

 N. Y. 



Moorhead, Minn. — As soon as the 

 Northern Pacific Railway Co. ratifies 

 the lease by the city of Moorhead of 

 part of Stodder park, at the corner of 

 Front and Eighth streets, J. W. Briggs 

 will commence the erection of a green- 

 house on the land. The railroad has 

 allowed the city the use of the land 

 for a park, and will ratify the lease, 

 as Mr. Briggs will plant flowers and 

 shrubbery on that part of the area not 

 covered by the greenhouse. 



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