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August 25, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



667 



Our New Importations 



ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES-— 



But the house of Bayersdorfer & Co. has always been •the 

 Largest and Best Equipped Florists^ Supply House in America^ 

 so why expatiate on the Correctness of Style or High-class Work- 

 manship of this yearns Novelties^ although they are considerably 

 better than usual? All these Merits are expected^ as a matter 

 of course, of the goods from— 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



50-52-54^56 N. 4th Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



and gladioli. The asters in now are of 

 poor quality, with a big demand for 

 white and purple. We have had plenty 

 of rain of late, which has made outdoor 

 stock in fine condition. Plenty of greens 

 in the market for all demands. 



Various Notes. 



The St. Louis boys are delighted with 

 the selection of Washington for next 

 year's convention and we know that our 

 friends, Gude, Freeman and Papa Smith, 

 will give us a good time next year. 



The presents received by Messrs. Breit- 

 meyer, Hauswirth, Kuehn and Mein- 

 hardt were much admired by their 

 friends and they certainly deserve them 

 for their hard work during the conven- 

 tion. 



We are glad Chicago won the bowling 

 match and they certainly have a great 

 bowler to lead them in young Stevens. 

 We came in second, and did pot expect 

 so good a position in the race, for a tired 

 lot of bowlers, overworked a week in ad- 

 vance. Patrick O'Mara was the proud- 

 est man of all for winning the "spare" 

 prize. We are glad of it, as he has 

 many admirers among the St. Louis boys. 



Robt. Craig will remain ten days 

 longer to act as judge at the World's 

 Fair. A great many of the S. A. F. mem- 

 bers remain over this week to take in all 

 the sights of the Fair. 



William Scott surely had the boys in 

 good humor all of the week, telling them 

 funny stories, and those who never knew 

 him before think him Great Scott sure 

 enough. 



The general entertainment committee 

 will meet this week Thursday to settle up 

 convention matters, so as to report at the 

 next meeting of the club, September 8, 



when a big time is expected. Installa- 

 tion of officers will take place at this 

 meeting and every member is expected to 

 be present to honor the new president. 



J. J. B. 



NEWPORT, R. L 



The Market. 



The summer season is at its height, 

 and the florists have all been busy dur- 

 ing the past two weeks. Cut flowers 

 stay about where they were in price, 

 except sweet peas and gardenias. Sweet 

 peas, owing to the wet weather, are 

 scarce and find a ready market at 25 

 cents per hundred wholesale. Gardenias 

 are in large demand and good flowers 

 bring $6 a dozen at retail, and half this 

 amount to the dealers. Orchids also 

 have been very scarce, as so many are 

 used every day now for dinner decora- 

 tions; and the growers cut them very 

 closely. 



Various Notes, 



The last meeting for August of the 

 Newport Horticultural Society took 

 place Wednesday evening, with Presi- 

 dent James J. Sullivan in the chair. 

 The committee on prizes reported that 

 several very liberal special prizes had 

 been given the society since the last 

 meeting, to be awarded at the Septem- 

 ber exhibition. The following commit- 

 tee of arrangements to serve at the 

 autumn show, September 20 to 22, was 

 appointed: William F. Smith, Samuel 

 Speers, John T. Allan, John Baumgart- 

 ner and Andrew Christiansen. There 

 having been considerable confusion at 

 past exhibitions regarding the classifica- 

 tion of dahlias, the society chose a com- 

 mittee, consisting of James Robertson, 



M. B. Faxon and Alexander McLellan, 

 to prepare a list of the various types 

 and classes, to be used by the exhibitors 

 at the coming exhibition when many 

 dahlias will be shown. 



The J. M. Hodgson greenhouses and 

 lily pond, on Bellevue and Le Roy ave- 

 nues, is one of the commercial show 

 places of Newport. A number of very 

 handsome greenhouses have recently 

 been completed, and are daily inspected 

 by the cottagers and visitors to the city. 

 Hodgson has now one of the largest and 

 most complete floral establishments here, 

 and has been doing a great deal of good 

 work in dinner and luncheon decorations. 



The California privet hedges are ue- 

 ing trimmed for the second time this 

 summer. Owing to so much wet weather 

 they have made a great growth and are 

 most beautifully green. These hedges 

 are always thoroughlyV trimmed jtwice 

 each season, once early in June and now 

 again in August; Newport's privet 

 hedges are on^ of the features of the 

 place, there being miles and miles of 

 them, more, I feel sure, than in any 

 other one section in this country. 



Recent visitors: Mr. Hayes, repre- 

 senting Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia; 

 A. H. Folger, New Rochelle, N. Y.; W. 

 P. Johnson, of the Albert Dickinson 

 Co., Chicago, and James J. Mulry, rep- 

 resenting Sigmund Geller, New York. 



New York, N. Y.— Schedules in the 

 bankruptcy proceedings of George E. 

 Bradshaw, wholesale florist at 53 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, show liabilities of 

 $2,368 and nominal assets of $1,863 con- 

 sisting of b^ok accounts amounting to 

 $1,839, a check for $14 and $10 ia 

 currency. 



