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JUKI 9, 1904. 



Bronx Park, -where on Wednesday and 

 Thursday the summer meeting and ex- 

 hibition takes place under the auspices 

 of the Horticultural Society of New York. 

 Added to their display of roses, straw- 

 berries and peonies will be the exhibi- 

 tion of the American Peony Society. At 

 3 p. m. Wednesday a public meeting will 

 be in charge of the Peony Society, when 

 papers on this popular flower will be 

 discussed. Afterwards the museum, her- 

 barium, library, greenhouses and labora- 

 tories will be open for inspection. Valu- 

 able prizes will be awardexi for exhibits, 

 among them a gold medal for the collec- 

 tion of the largest number of varieties 

 of herbaceous peonies. Many of the 

 leading growers of this flower are ex- 

 pected to be at the meeting, from Ne- 

 braska, Chicaigo, Cleveland, Massachusetts 

 and Eochester, as well as the nearer cities 

 of Philadelphia and Boston. 



Next Monday evening at the rooms of 

 the New York Florists' Club another 

 peony exhibit will be made, this being 

 the last regular club meeting for the 

 summer. There will also be an exhibit 

 of strawberries with cream and the la- 

 dies are specially invited. John Bimie 

 has a "surprise" for the occasion and 

 some fine vaudeville talent will add to 

 the evening's enjoyment. Several peony 

 experts are expected to address the as- 

 sembly and preparations are being 

 made to accommodate an attendance of 

 300. 



The Plant Market. 



A call at the plant market last Satur- 

 day morning at 2 o'clock was an inter- 

 esting experience. Even at that early 

 hour a large niunber of growers were on 

 hand and several buyers were already 

 selecting stock for the day's require- 

 ments. Later the numbers rapidly in- 

 creased and before 3 a. m. the business 

 was in full swing and a majority of the 

 stock engaged. The veteran Johnny 

 Weir, who never sleeps, was one of the 

 earliest and most wakeful buyers. Mal- 

 lon, of Brooklyn, and Wadley & Smythe, 

 of Now York, had representatives on 

 hand early picking up some choice goods. 

 Prices are very reasonable and the qual- 

 ity was superb. The new market is still 

 the topic of interest. That very morn- 

 ing the comptroller had sent a message 

 asking the attendance of a committee 

 to confer with him. Up to date this year 

 132 different growers have brought their 

 plants to the market and the average at- 

 tendance eighty-five. Outside of the 

 tents a good many utilize the spaces, 

 paying a nominal rental of $1 daily, or 

 $15 for the season. Fritz Dressel and A. 

 Schultheis have their stands on the out- 

 side. 



L. H. Eisenburg ships a good deal to 

 adjacent towns and cities, making heavy 

 purchases daily. SteinhofF still has a fine 

 display of Crimson Ramblers now sell- 

 ing at popular prices. He has disposed 

 of 20,000 this year ranging in prices 

 from $25 to $1. Lehnig & Winnefelo 

 had a fine display of petunias. B. Dreyer 

 brought lilac, privet and hydrangeas in 

 pots, Charles Hunt made a fine exhibit 

 of pansies, sometimes disposing of 200 

 boxes in a morning. Leach had an 

 abundance of yellow daisies and petunias. 

 Darsley, Harrison, Hunt and Daly Bros, 

 all had geraniums. John Bimie, the 

 * * foundation stone of the structure ' ' 

 these many years, maintains his record 

 as the verbena and fuchsia king of the 

 market. 



These are strenuous hours, 2 a. m. to 

 7. It seems as though the necessity for 

 such an unnatural start might be 

 avoided. Day after day for months this 

 turning night into day- is maintained. 

 How the regulars preserve their health 

 and stay in a business that makes such 

 a system a necessity it is hard to un- 

 derstand. The new building will inaugur- 

 ate a different system, more modern and 

 less unreasonable let us hope, And that 

 it's .early completion may be announced 

 is the universal desire of the trade. 



Vaiiotis Notes. 



Traendly & Sohenck have removed to 

 their new building, 44 West Twenty- 

 eighth stripet, where they will have 5,400 

 square feet of floor space, double coun- 

 ters, electric lights in store and base- 

 ment and all the modern conveniences. 

 Ten years ago the firm commenced busi- 

 ness at this very address and now they 

 have a long lease of the entire four-story 

 building and will doubtless make this 

 their permanent abode. Their business 

 shows a steady increase. 



Young & Nugent handled last week 

 some of the finest Cattleya gigas the 

 New York market has seen, readily de- 

 manding 60 cents. Their daily ship- 

 mets of Liberties show no diminution 

 in quantity. 



John Scott, of Brooklyn, is now ship- 

 ping his new fern, Scottii. The advance 

 orders have been enormous. The stock 

 in 6 to 14-inch pots for the retail trade 

 is now being grown for early fall dis- 

 tribution. The future of the fern seems 

 assured. 



B. M. Ward, the importer, left for a 

 European trip on May 31, via the steamer 

 Crown Prince. 



H. H. Berger & Co. report an immense 

 sale of fancy leaved caladiums from 

 Brazil. 



The auction sales are still well at- 

 tended. Bedding stock brings excellent 

 prices. A few more weeks will see the 

 close of a very prosperous season. 



George M. Stumpp, of the Stumpp & 

 Walter Company, has returned from a 

 week's visit at the St. Louis exposition. 

 Mr. Walter is there now. The exhibit of 

 the firm will interest conventionists. A 

 special exhibit will also be sent in Au- 

 gust. Mr. Stumpp speaks highly of the 

 exposition and enjoyed its many inter- 

 esting features exceedingly. He suggests 

 the securing of room accommodations by 

 the S. A. F. visitors from New York well 

 in advance of their arrival. 



Charles Zarembo, of West Hoboken, a 

 florist 60 years of age, had the misfor- 

 tune to lose his bam and greenhouses 

 by fire Friday, May 13, and a subscrip- 

 tion has been raised by his friends in 

 the trade toward making another ven- 

 ture possible. P. Owerkert, of Jersey 

 City, has consented to act as custodian 

 of the subscriptions made in Mr. 

 Zarembo 's behalf. 



Bowling. 



It is impossible yet to state the exact 

 make-up of the team that will bowl at 

 St. Louis, but a fair guess would make 

 it Lang, Traendly, O'Mara, Siebrecht, 

 Ford and Guttman. 



The Bowling Club is well pleased with 

 the new alleys and the attendance, con- 

 sidering the heat, is encouraging. The 

 prizes donated for high scoring by Capt. 

 Lang were won by himself and William 

 Siebrecht. The intense temperature for 

 the present week is likely to reduce en- 



thusiasm. Scores last Tuesday were as 

 follows : 



FalB 82 92 



Outtman 157 122 120 



Glbbg Ill 163 147 111 



Nugent 78 179 86 189 



James 135 156 128 IfiS 



lAOK 122 138 132 118 184 



Butterfleld 114. 122 160 124 103 



Siebrecht 146 184 181 154 155 



' J. Austin Shaw. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Conditions changed for the worse! dur- 

 ing the later days of last week and 

 the market now has so much poor stock 

 it is impossible to sell it all and so 

 little good stock that wholesalers hold on 

 to it for country customers and cannot 

 get enough. There is a fair out of town 

 demand, befcause of the large number 

 of spring weddings and the annual 

 school closings and local trade is rea- 

 sonably active by virtue of the same 

 causes. There are great quantities of 

 roses coming in, but very few of them 

 are) of a quality which will permit their 

 use in the better class of work. The 

 good roses, if they may be called such, 

 bring a very fair price but the larger 

 end of the receipts is sold to the Gredks 

 by the wagon load. Some of the car- 

 nations are good for so late in the sea- 

 son, but lack, keeping quality, as has 

 been the case for somef little time, and 

 many complaints come from the buyers. 

 Another part of the carnation receipts 

 is worth little or nothing upon arrival 

 and generally goes to the dump, so the 

 average is vefry low indeed. 



Peonies did better last we^ than had 

 been expected. The southern crop came 

 to an abrupt end and left a fefw days 

 interval before the local cut was ready. 

 Up to Monday prices were fairly firm; 

 the exception to this was the poorer 

 grades, the single varieties and the Old 

 Red which came in large quantities. 

 None of these were salable. The local 

 cut has been heavy this week and prices 

 vary widely. 



Longiflorum lilies are still one of the 

 problems on the hands of the whole- 

 salers and valley is another. Spring 

 weddings are taking a greiat deal of in- 

 door valley at a fair figure but there 

 are very large receipts ot the outdoor 

 stock which are moved with diflBculty. 

 The outdoor tulips are at an end. Sweet 

 peas of good quality command a fair 

 price, but the indifferent and low grades, 

 which predominate, are not wanted. 

 There are large supplies of feverfew, 

 daisies, pansies and candytuft. Still a 

 few jasmines, lilacs, etc., none of which 

 are in active demand. New ferns are 

 coming in. Asparagus strings have 

 shortened up, but smilax is fairly plen- 

 tiful, the reverse of the condition which 

 has maintained for several months. 



Various Notes. 



It is announced that the Albert Fuchs 

 auction sale, beginning next Wednes- 

 day, will continue from 2 to 7 p. m. 

 to give everybody a chance. 



Peter Weiland writes that he struck 

 good business at Cincinnati at the time 

 of opening his new wholesale store, it 

 being the week of school closing, but 

 since then business has been quiet. He 

 is putting his peonies in cold storage. 



Mr. and Mrs. Harold McCormick last 

 Thursday gave the most elaborate gar- 

 den party Chicago society has ever 

 known. They employed an architect to 



