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The Florists^ Review 



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Colonial hotel. There were included 

 thirty-six corsage bouquets, as well as 

 the table decorations. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



Business was excellent all of last 

 week, until October 15, when the higher 

 temperature and the arrival of larger 

 shipments of mums and roses combined 

 to weaken the market. But if ship- 

 ments and attending conditions will 

 hold values where they are until 

 Thanksgiving, there will be no cause 

 for complaint. The "street" was sold 

 clean several days. There seems to be 

 a wider area than ever to cover this 

 fall and a larger number of florists in 

 the retail field. Already there have 

 been some notable banquets and wed- 

 dings, and many retailers report a 

 busy half month in October. Besides, 

 football demands will materialize soon 

 and Thanksgiving is near. 



The buyers last week wore long faces 

 and have complained because of the de-- 

 parture of bargain days. But they are 

 likely to have another opportunity be- 

 fore the present week is over, if the 

 mum arrivals come anywhere near the 

 estimates. In fact, the chrysanthemum 

 already dominates the market and the 

 flood has only just begun. Monrovia, 

 Unaka, Polly Rose, Cljrysolora, Yellow 

 Frost and Golden Queen are numerous. 

 Before another week passes there will 

 be as many varieties of mums as of 

 roses. 



The prices of roses of all kinds are 

 weakening, including even the novelties 

 and Beauties; Short-stemmed roses, in 

 quantity, sell at from $1 to $2 per hun- 

 dred, but growers certainly have no 

 cause for complaint. 



By the end of this week there should 

 be no left-overs of yellow mums, roses 

 or daisies, as the yellows, including yel- 

 low dahlias, also, if frost does not pre- 

 vent, will be honored by the suffra- 

 gettes, in their grand march up Fifth 

 avenue, October 23. 



Beauties were down to 25 cents Octo- 

 ber 16. There was a break of about 

 twenty per cent in almost everything, 

 as compared with the week previous. 

 Orchids are down again, bringing only 

 25 cents for selected sorts. Gigas and 

 Dowiana in limited quantities are in 

 the market and these command higher 

 quotations. Oncidiums, however, are 

 selling at better prices than a week ago. 



Dahlias are still a market feature. 

 The show and cactus kinds sell readily 

 at good prices, some as high as 50 cents 

 to $1 per dozen. Pansies, daisies, stevias 

 and calendulas are more abundant, and 

 violets have begun their six months' 

 visitation. 



Good carnations are not yet plenti- 

 ful and the best of them sold at $4 per 

 hundred toward the close of last week. 

 There are plenty of arrivals not worth 

 half that price. 



Tritomas, hydrangeas and calla lilies 

 are abundant. Gardenias improve daily. 

 Valley is not so scarce this week and 

 the best goes at $4 per hundred. Longi- 

 florum lilies hold well at the average 

 level of the month, the top price being 

 $8 per hundred. 



Various Notes. 



The Growers' Cut Flower Co. held its 

 annual meeting last week and elected 

 the following officers: President, Anton 



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Schultheis; vice-president, J. Hauck; 

 secretary, P. Beuerlein; treasurer, R. J. 

 Rogers; directors, Harry Weston, J. J. 

 Brozart, G. Bain and J. Bracker. J. J. 

 Coan will continue as manager. The 

 company has had a thoroughly success- 

 ful year under the managment of Mr. 

 Coan. 



Komitsch & Junge, of Secaucus, are 

 sending Traendly & Schenck some 

 splendid Chrysolora, white and yellow 

 Frost, Rosiere and Monrovia. 



The Walter R. Siebrecht Co. states 

 that its new auto delivery is proving a 

 great convenience as well as a hand- 

 some vehicle. 



The future meetings of the flower 

 show committee, it is said, will be held 

 at the Breslin hotel, at Twenty-ninth 

 street and Broadway. The Breslin is 

 one of the popular stopping places of 

 visiting florists. 



A sign reading, "Time to Plant 

 Bulbs," partially covers the display 

 window of the Harry A. Bunyard Co. 

 Vice-president Frank Duggan has made 

 an effective arrangement of seasonable 

 bulbs. 



October 15 the stork paid its third 

 visit to the home of Peter F. McKen- 

 ney and left another boy. 



New York had another dahlia show 

 last week, at Galvin's, where Frank CL. 

 Deery, of Boston, is manager. The big 

 show windows were a perfect riot of 

 color, over 200 varieties of Geo. L. Still- 

 man's prize-winning dahlias being used. 

 Mr. Stillman was present. Mr. Deery 

 has located with his family at Murray 

 Hill, L. I. He was at Boston October 

 16, superintending a large wedding job. 



Siebrecht Bros., Inc., is the title of 

 the successor of Siebrecht & Son, at 619 

 Fifth avenue. Mr. Siebrecht, Sr., has 

 been active in the retail business of 

 New York since 1867. He will now give 

 his undivided attention to his nursery 

 and landscape work and to the grow- 

 ing of orchids, roses, etc., for the whole- 



dale market. Wm. R. Siebrecht has had 

 the management of the retail store 

 since 1900 and is president and man- 

 ager of the new corporation. 



George Stumpp, of the Stumpp & 

 Walter Co., has returned from a pleas- 

 ant and profitable western trip, which 

 included a visit to Chicago. 



R. W. Jackson is one of the selling 

 force of Riedel & Meyer, Inc. 



President Patrick Welch, of the S. A. 

 F., was a recent visitor. 



Woodrow & Marketos had a "full 

 house" last week. They packed and 

 shipped $20,000 worth of palms, ever- 

 greens and plant novelties to fill an 

 order for the Berkshires. The firm also 

 has an order for a large Jierbaceous 

 garden at Ridgefield, Conn., and another 

 for the planting of evergreens in Straus 

 park, at One Hundred Seventh street 

 and Broadway. 



The MacNiff Horticultural Co., in 

 locating its new retail store at 182 

 Fulton street, obtained a site that is 

 close to the Hudson terminal. The 

 auction sales at Vesey street are well 

 attended. 



The fall exhibitions of the Morris 

 County Gardeners' and Florists' So- 

 ciety, at Madison, N. J.; the Dutchess 

 County Horticultural Society, Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y., and the Monmouth 

 County Horticultural Society, at Red 

 Bank, N. J., will be held on the same 

 dates, October 27 to 29. The Glen Cove 

 show will close October 29. Oyster Bay 

 will have its exhibition November 2. 



Charles F. Kessler, salesman for his 

 brother, William Kessler, will be mar- 

 ried October 23 to Miss M. Bente, at 

 her home, 327 West Twenty-eighth 

 street. It is needless to say that the 

 fioral decorations will be elaborate. 



The South Park Floral Co., Newcas- 

 tle, Ind., is sending George Elger roses 

 to the John Young Co. The variety, a 

 companion to Cecile Brunner, is known 

 to many as Baby .Doll. 



