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OCTOBEB 28, 1915. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



stop. This is where millions of gera- 

 nium cuttings are raised annually. His 

 immense houses of stock plants are a 

 sight pleasant to look upon. Houses of 

 Asparagus plumosus, in 2i^-inch pots, 

 were Hoted. Mr. Herr is rooting a fine 

 ,stock"T6f Buddleia Asiatica. This beau- 

 tiful ?#bwer has a great future as a 

 gree^Buse cut flower. 



Kli^m)h Nagel 's establishment was 

 inspw^ along with the rest. He is 

 erecting two new houses and installing 

 a large Kroeschell boiler. His early 

 mums are nearly all cut. The principal 

 varieties were Smith's Advance, Unaka 

 and Golden Glow, all of which were 

 grown to perfection. His Alice Salo- 

 mon, Pink Gem and Chieftain, as well 

 ;is a house of singles and pompons, are 

 looking well. Geranium cuttings are 

 one of his specialties. 



The next call was at H. D, Eohrer's 

 houses, on East Orange street, where 

 the growth of Bonnaffon mums gives 

 promise of a large cut. William Tur- 

 ner, Chieftain, Dolly Dimple and the 

 Chadwicks are grown also. In carna- 

 tions, Matchless, Enchantress Supreme, 

 White Wonder, Alice and Sacrlet Won- 

 der are grown, and indications point to 

 a good cut of blooms. Orchid-flower- 

 ing peas are well advanced. Beds of 

 myosotis and Primula malacoides are 

 in good shape. 



A call was made at the greenhouses 

 of the late George G. Goldbach. His 

 Matchless and Mrs. Ward carnations 

 looked well. Snapdragons, calla lilies, 

 calendulas, sweet peas, violets and a 

 house of Kaiserin roses, all give prom- 

 ise of a good cut of blooms throughout 

 the season. 



J. P. Siebold was the last grower 

 visited. Rooted geranium cuttings are 

 his main stock. His plants are in fine 

 condition. H. K. R. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The week ending October 23 was 

 not quite up to expectations, until its 

 close, at which time the usual Saturday 

 strength materialized and the Sunday 

 morning call absorbed everything of 

 value except the chrysanthemums, with 

 the surplus of which we must now 

 reckon daily until Thanksgiving. In 

 the suffrage parade, October 23, yellow 

 mums were much in evidence, but grow- 

 ers must have had this event in mind, 

 if the flood of yellow flowers in the 

 market was an indication. 



The p,resent week opened with clear, 

 cold wesiither and the fall season fairly 

 started.. Shipments of all kinds of sea- 

 sonable „flowers are rapidly increasing. 

 A fewij^rysanthemums of exceptional 

 size brought $4 and $5 per dozen, but 

 $2.50 to $3 per dozen more accurately 

 represents the value of the special 

 blooms. From these prices down to 50 

 cents per dozen and even less sums up 

 the gradations. 



This week ends the dahlia season, the 

 best year of its experience. Sweet peas 

 are again arriving, the Spencers bring- 

 ing fair prices. There are few high 

 grade gardenias and these are quickly 

 absorbed at fancy prices. The short- 

 stemmed stock even is firm at higher 

 rates, than usual at this date. There 

 is still a sufficiency of orchids and 

 prices continue abnormally low for late 

 October. Valley is abundant and can 

 be bought at $2 to $3 per hundred. 

 I^ongiflorum lilies are also down, the 



Show Room in the New Bulb House of B. Hammond Tracy. 



best last week selling as low as $6 

 per hundred. The New York market 

 never has seen finer cosmos. 



Violets are rapidly improving in 

 quality and shipments grow heavier 

 daily. The top price to date has been 

 50 cents, but a better violet season than 

 usual is generally anticipated. 



The shortage in carnations is over and 

 the quality and size are much more at- 

 tractive to buyers, but with twenty-five 

 varieties of roses to pick from, and as 

 many of chrysanthemums, the old-time 

 prices for carnations seem to be unat- 

 tainable. Blooms had to be large and 

 perfect last week to command $3 per 

 hundred. 



Beauties must be perfect to hold the 

 top quotations, with so many novelty 

 roses now bidding for recognition and 

 rapidly approaching their best in size 

 and stem. With Key, Hadley, Hoosier 

 Beauty, Radiance, Shawyer, Ward, Sun- 

 burst, Ophelia, Mock, Russell and Stan- 

 ley all in good shape, it is hard to say 

 which is the favorite. 



Various Notes. 



Flower shows this week at Red Bank, 

 Madison and Glen Cove and next week 

 at Oyster Bay, Tarrytown and New 

 York make these the gala weeks of the 

 fast waning autumn season. From No- 

 vember 3 to 7 the flower lovers of New 

 York city will have a continuous op- 

 portunity, the American Institute ex- 



liibition running from November 3 to 

 5, and that of the New York Horti- 

 cultural Society, at the Museum of 

 Natural History, from November 4 to 7. 



Richard Vincent, Jr., president of the 

 American Dahlia Society, will give a 

 stereopticon lecture before the Rose- 

 bank Garden Club, on Staten Island, 

 on the afternoon of November 5. 



Charles H. Totty, of Madison, will 

 lecture on "Hardy Chrysanthemums," 

 on the afternoon of November I, at the 

 rooms of the Country Life Permanent 

 Exposition, above the waiting room of 

 the Grand Central Terminal, on Forty- 

 second street. Monthly flower shows 

 from this date on will add interest and 

 variety to this enterprise. 



Max Schling says he has had twenty- 

 one wedding decorations in the last 

 eleven days. 



G. E. M. Stumpp is at home from 

 his summer enterprise at Southampton, 

 L. I., where he has had a most prosper- 

 ous season. 



T. Murray, manager of the Tuxedo 

 Park Association nursery. Tuxedo, N. J., 

 was a recent visitor. 



Frederick Zahn now is manager of 

 Charles R. Jaeger's flower store at 

 2109 Seventh avenue, one of the best 

 localities in upper New York, 



The new Kervan building, at 115 

 West Twenty-eighth street, is rapidly 

 approaching completion and will be al- 



New Fireproof Bulb House of B. Hammond Tracy, Wenham, Mats. 



