Skptkmbkb 22, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



S55 



awarded a sihser medal last spring by 

 the Newport Horticultural Society. It is 

 of the Vernon type, but unlike the Ver- 

 non in that the flowers are double and of 

 a most beautiful cerise pink. Being very 

 dwarf, it has every appearance of being 

 a most desirable acquisition, not only 

 for bedding but also for summer flower 

 dishes for table decoration, as it is in 

 its beat bloom during the warm weather. 



Zero. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The market shows but little anima- 

 tion. Saturday and Monday the usual 

 week's improvement was evident. Good 

 stock sells readily, but the mass of in- 

 ferior stuff overwhelms the market and 

 makes the average low. In another week 

 the first battalions of mums will be here. 

 Everything indicates a tremendous sup- 

 ply. Asters and gladioli are nearing 

 their end. The price of the latter has 

 materially advanced. Dahlias, except the 

 cactus varieties and the new sorts, are 

 practically unsalable. The prospects are 

 for an enormous carnation supply. Some 

 wonderful new varieties in red are soon 

 to assert their claims for precedence. 

 Ideal, Testout and Mrs. Morgan roses 

 are growing in number weekly. Violets 

 continue to arrive in small quantities, 

 but are not yet wanted, and it would be 

 far better policy to hold them until Oc- 

 tober. Geo. Saltford predicts a good 

 violet year and so agrees with the other 

 experts who have investigated personally 

 the prospects for the coming season. The 

 plants were never in better condition. 



Various Notes. 



The New York Botanical Garden opens 

 its fall lecture season on October 1. The 

 lectures will be given every Saturday at 

 4:30 p. m. in the museum building. 

 Prof. Hugo de Vries will be the first 

 speaker and his subject is "The Origin 

 of Species as Illustrated by the Evening 

 Primroses." Dr. Britton, who has been 

 recently in the Bahamas, will speak Oc- 

 tober 8 on the results of his botanical 

 explorations there. Other speakers will 

 be Prof. Lloyd, Prof. Underwood, Dr. 

 Murrill, Dr. Hollick, Dr. Richards and 

 Dr. McDougaU. The whole series prom- 

 ises to be very interesting. 



Wednesday and Thursday of this week 

 the New York dahlia show at the rooms 

 of the American Institute takes place. 

 A good display is assured. 



Four new houses are being erected at 

 Ldttleneck, N. Y., by Hitchings & Co., 

 for W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. The range 

 will be devoted to carnations, roses and 

 palms and will be very complete and ar- 

 tistic. 



The American Bankers' Association 

 has been lavishly entertained by the 

 bankers in New York during the past 

 week, one feature being a banquet at 

 the Waldorf, the floral decorations for 

 which were unlimited, American Beauties 

 being used with lavish prodigality. J. 

 H. Small & Sons secured the coveted com- 

 mission. Wm. A. Peterson, of Chicago, 

 was among the visiting bankers. 



At the funeral of T. Dewitt Osborn, 

 a prominent politician, a few days ago, 

 it required ten carriages to carry the 

 floral offerings, some of the designs be- 

 ing of exquisite beauty and unstinted 

 value. The leading BrookljTi florists se- 

 «!ured the bulk of the orders. Apart 

 from funeral work there is little doing 



with the retailers, though the theaters 

 and schools are now in full blast and the 

 return of the 400 to the city has begun. 



The cyclonic storm of a week ago did 

 considerable damage to outdoor flowers, 

 nothing equaling it in severity or down- 

 pour having occurred during the whole 

 season. 



Not only the retailers but many of the 

 wholesale cut flower men have displays 

 of Scottii ferns in their windows. Every 

 week adds to its popularity. 



Job. Fenrich had his first shipment of 

 white chrysanthemums on Saturday. 



Wm. Ghormley was again at his desk 

 on Saturday, after many weeks of ill- 

 ness, and seems on the high road to com- 

 plete recovery. 



Young & Nugent have their new front 

 about &iished and will have one of the 

 handsomest stores on Twenty-eighth 

 street. 



John Daire is foreman for A. J. Gutt- 

 man, at Summit, N. J. 



Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Kreshover have 

 just returned from a long and greatly 

 enjoyed European trip. 



Bowling. 



Last Thursday evening the Flatbush 

 Bowling Club had a large attendance and 

 enthusiastic contest. One is always cer- 

 tain of a welcome and a^ interesting 

 evening's sport every Thursday of the 

 year, an example to a " sister club " in a 

 neighboring borough it would do well 

 to heed if any cups are to be won at 

 Washington in 1905. Meantime Flat- 

 bush may be depended on to send a rep- 

 resentative team there and it has a 

 young "Steve" of its own by the name 

 of Irwin who will be heard from. The 

 scores were as follows: 



Player. 1st li«l :!<! T'l 



Mollis : 116 134 



Wocker 108 125 12« 



H. DalUedouze 134 147 1(H 



P. DalUedouze 115 140 14S 



Zeller Ill 135 148 



S<hmutz 117 137 142 144 



Rlley 127 l.-W 137 104 



Sowerby 98 12!» 1.3» 156 



Pepper 63 66 71 76 



Shaw 122 1.-54 141 150 



Irwin 136 173 180 180 



The New York Bowling Club for the 

 season of 1904-1905 will be organized the 

 first week in October and already a 

 large attendance is assured, the follow- 

 ing nanm^aving been placed on the 

 roll as a roundation for what ought to 

 be the winning club, at Washington; 

 Theodore Lang, F. H. Traendly, P. 

 O'Mara, Julius Koehrs, Jr., W. E. Mar- 

 shall, Alex. Burns, John I. Raynor, J. 

 B. Nugent, Alex. J. Guttman, Jos. A. 

 Manda, Jos. Fenrich, J. A. Pepper, Wm. 

 H. Siebrecht and J. A. Shaw. A dozen 

 more are to be heard from. The club 

 when complete should total twenty active 

 members. J. Austin Shaw. 



ST. LOUia 



The Market. 



The remarkably cool weather the early 

 part of the past week and a few warm 

 days later made trade in cut flowers both 

 good and bad. Most of the business 

 done last week was decorations for the 

 downtown stores, that had their fall 

 openings. A number of early fall wed- 

 ding decorations are reported for this 

 week. Funeral work, too, has been some- 

 what slow with some of us, while others 

 report plenty. 



Regarding stock at the commission 

 houses, we might say that it is of fairly 

 good quality. It is very gratifying to 



the trade that some really good carna- 

 tions are to be had again and from now 

 on plenty of these will be in the market 

 at cheap prices until Thanksgiving. 

 Really good stock can be bought for $1 

 per 100, more white than any others. 



There is certainly no scarcity in white 

 and pink roses, $6 per 100 buying the 

 best of these. Moteor and Liberty are 

 not so plentiful just now. Some good 

 Chatenay and Camot are to be had, but 

 not in large lots. American Beauties are 

 somewhat scarce, that is, long fancy. 

 Shorts are abundant at $3 and $4 per 

 1"00. Fancies are up to $3 and $3.50 per 

 dozen. Valley is of extra quality at $3 

 and $4 per 100. Very little outdoor 

 stock is coming in. Asters and hydran- 

 geas are nearly all gone, so are gladioli 

 and tuberose stocks. Smilax and aspara- 

 gus are looking better, with plenty of 

 other greens in the market. 



The growers report that about two- 

 thirds of the carnations are already 

 boused and that the plants are uniformly 

 fine and so far are free from rust and 

 that plenty of first-class stock will soon 

 be in the market. 



Various Notes. 



We had for visitors the past week, J. 

 J. Hess, wife and son, from Omaha, 

 Neb. They spent ten days here seeing 

 the sights at the World 's Fair. Mr. Al- 

 lan, of George & Allan, Cincinnati, and 

 Mr. Hunkel, of Holton & Hunkel, Mil- 

 waukee, also took in the sights. They 

 killed some little time at the big floral 

 clock. H, B. Beatty, treasurer of the 

 S. A. F., also spent a week at the 

 World's Fair. 



Henry Ostertag had a busy week dec- 

 orating at the World's Fair. The dec- 

 oration at the Tyrolean Alps for the Na- 

 tional Peace Commission was one of the 

 most elaborate ever given at this famous 

 resort. A big lot of cut stock was used. 



The Beyer boys had a few of those big 

 fall openings downtown the past week, 

 which kept all hands busy and made 

 their place look like mowing day. 



Miss Schnell, of East St. Louis, re- 

 ports business good, with plenty of fu- 

 neral work at all times. 



Messrs. Allen of Mississippi, Miller of 

 Ohio, and Betts of Montana, who are 

 members of the National Commission at 

 the World's Fair, are heartily in favor 

 of a grand national flower show in No- 

 vember to be held in the Horticulture 

 building. Superintendent Hadkinson is 

 already laying his plans in that direc- 

 tion. 



Nathan Smith & Son, of Adrian, 

 Mich., have a fine bed of the dark red 

 caana named Express at the World's 

 Fair, which attracts much attention from 

 visitors in the trade. This bed, with 

 those of Kasting, Schray and Obermey- 

 er, of Parkersburg, all received a medal 

 from the judges the past week. 



J. J. B. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The week opened auspiciously, there be- 

 ing marked activity among the decorat- 

 ors, with a fair number of out of town 

 orders. The dahlia is now seen in splen- 

 did form, the best varieties coming into 

 bloom with increasing freedom. Samuel 

 S, Pennock received 6,000 on Monday 

 from L. K. Peacock, of Atco, who states 

 that the plants have recovered from the 

 effects of the terrific storm of last week. 



