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August 4, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



469 



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NEW YORK. 



The Market 



The week opened with floods of rain 

 and floods of gladioli and asters. The 

 best stock brings a fairly good price in 

 small quantities, but the buyer who can 

 use large lots can make las own prices. 

 I saw 3,000 offered for $10! The regu- 

 lar rate is TO cents per 100 and this 

 will be tEe prevailing figure for weeks 

 to come. Occasionally 2 cents and even 

 3 cents has been asked for selected stock 

 and colors of the new varieties. Good 

 asters seehi to be in fair demand at en- 

 couraging prices, but ordinary stock is 

 not wanted and cannot be disposed ox. 



The new roses are arriving in larger 

 quantities daily, but in most cases qual 

 ity is sadly lacking. The best Beauties 

 and Brides command even better rates 

 than the quoted prices, and none are left 

 unsold. Dahlias have only just arrived 

 and go freely. Sweet peas are about out 

 of the running. Business is exceedingly 

 dull and no indications of a revival are 

 yet in evidence. Another month will see 

 the clouds dissipated and the premoni- 

 tory evidences of a return to life. 



Various Notes. 



B. Suzuki, of Suzuki & lida, arrived 

 safely at Yokohama and Chas. Loechner, 

 of the same house, has returned from his 

 European trip, which he has devoted the 

 last three months to his firm's interests. 

 Messrs. Suzuki & lida are introducing 

 Japanese grown freesias, finding a good 

 demand for them. 



The convention is so near that it be- 

 comes a more interesting topic daily. 

 The New York delegation, it is hoped, 

 will be worthy of the city. A lesser num- 

 ber than fifty would hardly be creditable 

 to the greatest floricultural center in the 

 world. It is hard to understand, with 

 the added attraction of the World's 

 Fair, how anyone with the time and 

 reasonable cost to spare, can afford to 

 stay away. St. Louis has had ideal tem- 

 perature this year. Every preparation 

 has been made for the comfort of the 

 florists while there, and I predict the 

 greatest meeting the society has ever en- 

 joyed. 



As to 1905, the east is entitled to fa 



vor, as the south and west and north 

 have been remembered since 1901. This 

 seems to be the era of the young man 

 and it is rumored that this year another 

 young Lochinvar will come out of the 

 west, a young man of universal populari- 

 ty, whose executive ability is conceded 

 and whose devotion to the enjoyment of 

 the members of the S. A. F. at the annual 

 gatherings has been constant. 



The New Yorkers will leave for St. 

 Louis on Sunday, August 14, at 10 a. m., 

 from the Liberty street station of the 

 Baltimore & Ohio, arriving in the Fair 

 city at 6 o 'clock on Monday evening. Mr. 

 O'Mara is chairman of the transporta- 

 tion committee and all who intend to go 

 should notify him at once so that com- 

 plete arrangements for their comfort 

 may be made. From present indications 

 the bowling team will include Messrs. 

 Lang, Traendly, O'Mara, Siebrecht and 

 Guttman, a good team with a capable av- 

 erage of 150, if the nerve supply does 

 not become exhausted. 



A. J. Fellouris, the green goods man, 

 is visiting his customers as far west as 

 Chicago and will end his trip among his 

 growers and shippers in North Carolina 

 and Virginia. 



Last Monday, at the Church of the Sa- 

 cred Heart, Bay Shore, Miss Ida Millang 

 was married to William Kelley, of Long 

 Island City. The young lady has been 

 associated with her brother, August, in 

 his retail florists' business and the trade 

 extends hearty good wishes and congrat- 

 ulations. The happy couple are enjoying 

 their honeymoon in the Catskills. 



James Hammond, the wholesaler of 

 West Thirtieth street, is enjoying his 

 holidays with his family at Monticello, 

 N. Y. 



William Ford, of Ford Bros. ,is resting 

 a week with his family at Rockaway be- 

 fore the serious recreations of his fishing 

 trip at Barnegat. 



Miss Foran, bookkeeper for the New 

 York Cut Flower Company, leaves for her 

 holidays next week and will rest amid 

 familiar scenes at her old home near 

 Quebec, Canada. 



H. H. Berger & Co. report their Har- 

 risii in good shape, as well as oxalis and 

 freesia. Their importations of French 

 stocks are due this week. 



John Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, 

 will have a grand exhibition of gladioli 

 at the Eden Musee August 15 to 21. The 

 Musee has been the scene of many a 

 floricultural display and this will be made 

 as extensive and popular as any. The 

 exhibition is practically free, as no ad- 

 vance in prices has been made by the 

 management, 



F. H. Traendly and Mrs. Traendly 

 will leave for St. Louis a week in ad- 

 vance of the i^ew York contingent and 

 devote some days to sight-seeing at the 

 Fair. 



Mrs. Weigert, wife of M. Weigert, of 

 709 Ninth avenue, died on Thursday of 

 last week after an operation for appen- 

 dicitis. The deceased had several rela- 

 tives connected with the florists' busi- 

 ness in New York and many handsome 

 designs in flowers were sent to the 

 funeral. 



Jas. McManus reports a steady daily 

 demand for orchids and is handling at 

 present sixteen popular varieties, some 

 especially fine sprays of Oncidium va- . 

 ricosum among them, commanding top 

 figures. Prices range from 15 cents tc 

 75 cents. 



Frank Good, with Jos. Fenrich, has re- 

 turned from Boston, where he attended 

 the funeral of his mother on Thursday. 

 His friends extend their sympathy. 



Very many of the florists this season 

 have adopted the commendable and 

 sensible plan of locating at resorts with- 

 in easy distance of New York, coming in 

 daily to i±^e demands of business and 

 breathing the ozone of the mountains or » 

 reveling in the enjoyments of surf bath- 

 ing in the afternoons and evenings. 



John J. Gunther and family are at 

 Rockaway and W. J. Gunther and fam- 

 ily find Seagirt, N. J., convenient and 

 healthful, wnn Barnegat in hailing dis- 

 tance. 



Alex. Guttman and family are bSfek 

 from a month's holiday in Freeport. On 

 his return from the St. Louis convention 

 he will build an extension to his store, 

 largely increasing his shipping facilities. 



Phil. Litzenberger, of unormley's, ind 

 wife have returned from a two weeks' 

 visit to Palm Beach, Fla., where an 

 average of 100 degrees in the shade tem- 

 perature makes New York seem as cool 

 as the promised laud. 



Wm. Ghormley was in the city on Sat- 

 urday, the first time since his serious and 

 prolonged illness. He is now convalescing 

 rapidly and will be ready for the usual 

 strenuous labors of the fall. This house 

 is hanajing some superb asters and there 

 are fine Liberties and Beauties from "up 

 state" this week at Young & Nugent 's. 



S. S. Butterfield, vice-president of the 

 New York Florists' Club, is enjoying his 

 two weeks' recuperation at his old home 

 in Jamestown, N. Y. 



Miss Anna Chapman, bookkeeper for 

 A. H. Langjahr, at Twenty-eighth street, 

 will leave on Saturday for her yearly 

 holiday at Ocean Grove, N. J., where she 

 will take part in the great musical festi- 

 val. 



Mr. O'Mara is anxious that all who 

 intend to go to the St. Louis convention 

 with the New "Strk delegation notify 

 him at once, as any further delay will 

 make proper arrangements for the com- 

 fort of the company difticult. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Ashland, O.— R. H. Gwinner, the 

 attorney, has established a business 

 growing vegetable plants and is working 

 into plants and cut flowers. 



