Septembeb 29, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



903 



the nominees are as follows: For presi- 

 dent, W. N. Rudd; vice-president, J. P. 

 Risch; recording secretary, Robert 

 Johnstone; financial secretary, Greorge 

 Asmus; treasurer, Edgar Sanders; 

 trustees, F. F. Benthey, "W. L. Palinsky, 

 M. Barker, H. B. Howard and Leonard 

 Kill. For the committee on exhibits of 

 the evening, M. Barker recommended 

 that a certificate of merit be awarded 

 Gladiolus princeps exhibited by 

 Vaughan's Seed Store. 



At Lincoln Park. 



There hasn't been a geranium in 

 sight in the big parterre at Lincoln 

 park this season. One of the most at- 

 tractive beds was planted with small 

 rubbers with Grevillea robusta between. 

 A novelty here was the use of Pennise- 

 tum Rupelianum as an edging for big 

 beds of Egandale canna and P. macrou- 

 rum for beds of Souvenir d'Antoine 

 Crozy. The effect was fine but would 

 have been even better had Egandale at- 

 tained its usual height this season; it 

 is quite a little short of it. In the ser- 

 vice houses they have a splendid lot of 

 cattleyas in a growing collection of 

 orchids, many freshly imported. The 

 mums are in fine shape. There is a nice 

 lot of cyclamens and Lorraines for later 

 show. To apply insecticides and fun- 

 gicides they use a sprayer which seems 

 an unusually good one. It is made by the 

 Rice Automatic Sprayer Co., at East 

 Windsor Hill, Conn. A new cool house, 

 for azaleas, etc., is being built. It will 

 be 34x95 with a lean-to. 



Various Notes, 



H. Klunder, on State street, has at- 

 1 tracted attention to his window this 

 week with a bowl of Tritoma Pfitzeri. 



Capt. H. Schiienemann starts north 

 next week after his annual cargo of 

 Christmas trees and bouquet green. He 

 is going to an entirely new field this 

 year, the old pickings having been pret- 

 ty well exhausted. 



John Muir has one of the handsomest 

 stores in town at his new place at 4647 

 Grand boulevard and probably the best 

 arranged store in the west. At the 

 opening, September 21, he had hundreds 

 of visitors and made a fine show of 

 stock. 



J. F. Wilcox, of Council Bluffs, was 

 in town Monday with his son, Roy, 

 whom he will see started at college at 

 Cornell and then go on to New York 

 for a few days. The second son of the 

 house of Wienhoeber also started for 

 Cornell this week. 



0. J. Friedman has a big decoration 

 on this week for Carson, Pirie, Scott & 

 Co., whose manager is his brother-in- 

 law. 



C. W. McKellar is again getting cat- 

 tleyas, a scarce article for some months. 



Bernard Zalinger is now John Sin- 

 ner's assistant at the Exchange. 



George Asmus is putting in an ice 

 box worth $275 at the Schiller store on 

 West Madison street. 



Sol Garland is sending Percy Jones 

 some exceptionally good Princess of 

 Wales violets in good quantity, also, 

 for so early. 



L. Coatsworth has returned from a 

 few days' visit at New Castle. He re- 

 ports everything looking good. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. has been making 

 wire work faster than it sold this sum- 

 mer and have stock enough on hand for 

 another of their popular sales. 



H. Luedtke, at Maywood, says Lady 

 Bountiful is the best white carnation to 

 date, but he likes Albatross also. Flam- 

 ingo won't develop its flowers for him; 

 buds just stand still. 



A. L. Randall Co. says there is no 

 further occasion to complain about the 

 quality of rosea. Mr, Thomas is looking 

 for unlimited supplies of violets again 

 this year, quality rather better than 

 last year, according to the growers. 



Gunnar Teilmann, Marion, Ind., has 

 been sending E. C. Amling very fine 

 Monrovia mums this week. While Mr. 

 Amling was out on a little business 

 trip one day last week he took time 

 to catch a ten and a half pound pick- 

 erel. 



Eli Cross, of Grand Rapids, was over 

 on Monday and says violets are looking 

 fine there. 



A. L. Vaughan went to Grand Rapids 

 yesterday for a few days stay. 



Other visitors: H. A. Catlin, White 

 Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Theo. Miller, 

 St. Louis; Wm. Rayner, Oconomowoc, 

 Wis. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



It was a case of "freeze out" last 

 week up the Hudson and cold enough in 

 and around New York to chill the out- 

 door stock and so remove a menace to 

 the general market that the wholesalers 

 very much appreciate. The temperature 

 fell below 32° in many places up the 

 state and in the neighborhood of Nyack 

 and Poughkeepsie a winter temperature 

 prevailed. Asters, dahlias and gladioli, 

 therefore, are of some account and the 

 prices realized for good stock are at last 

 satisfactory. Violets come daily, but in 

 limited quantities and of very poor qual- 

 ity. Far better hold them until the mid- 

 dle of October, especially as their value 

 is cheapened by the early sidewalk mer- 

 chants' offerings. 



Chrysanthemums have made an early 

 start and some excellent stock of Mar- 

 quis de Montmort and Mme. Gastellier 

 has arrived. The indications are for a 

 flood of them before October is a week 

 old. Orchids have been short in supply 

 for a week and the demand for them 

 shows a steady growth, out of town or- 

 ders growing constantly in numbers. 



The supply of roses increases every 

 day and good stock finds a ready mar- 

 ket, but enormous quantities of the me- 

 dium and lower grades can be had in 

 large lots at the buyer's offer. 



Little hope of a satisfactory revival 

 can be counted on until the smoke, of the 

 election contest has cleared away. Then 

 we look confidently for the best season 

 the cut fiower and general florists' busi- 

 ness has ever known in this country. 

 This seems to be the general opinion of 

 all branches of the trade. 



The Institute Exhibition. 



Exhibitions began with the American 

 Institute in New York in 1831. The 

 seventy-third took place last Wednesday 

 and Thursday and was a great success, 

 both in quality of exhibits and attend- 

 ance. Special premiums were numerous. 

 The banks of flowering and decorative 

 plants exhibited by Julius Roehrs and 

 Sicbrecht & Son were up to their stand- 

 ard and Lager & Hurrell staged an ef- 

 fective display of cattleyas. odontoglos- 

 sums and cypripediums. The Clucas & 



Boddington Co. received special pre- 

 miums for dahlias, phlox and herbaceous 

 flowers and made a large and beautiful 

 exhibit. 



A. L. Miller, of Brooklyn, received a 

 special for his display of his new white 

 dahlia, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, and 

 the F. R. Pierson Co. got a diploma for 

 their new fern, Tarrytown, John Lewis 

 Childs showed gladioli and tuberous be- 

 gonias and Beaulieu, of Woodhaven, had 

 a collection of dahlias. In addition to 

 prize winners already mentioned were 

 Geo. H. Hale, Seabright, N. J,; J. P, 

 Sorensou, Stamford, Conn,; C. W. Bol- 

 ton, Pelham, N. Y. ; H. L. Burt, Taunton, 

 Mass; W. P. Lothrop, East Bridgewater, 

 Mass. ; Thos. J. Holland, Malvern, Pa. ; 

 Geo. H. Hemming, Brooklyn, N, Y. ; 

 James Kennedy, Deal, N. J.; Frank H. 

 Presby, Montclair, N. J. 



With the Bulb Houses. 



These are the busy days among the 

 bulb houses, immense shipments leaving 

 the city every day. Thorburn, Hender- 

 son, Stumpp & Walter Co., Elliott, Bod- 

 dington, H. H. Berger & Co., Suzuki & 

 lida, Henry & Lee, Ralph Ward & Co., 

 Meyer and Joosten all report the busiest 

 fall trade in their experience. 



H. H. Berger & Co. have just received 

 their first importation of Cattleya Har- 

 risoniana from Brazil and will have or- 

 chid shipments throughout the year. Their 

 comment on business is that "this has 

 been an unusually good season." 



A. T. Boddington 's store on West 

 Fourteenth street has been rearranged 

 and is crowded to the doors by their im- 

 portations. Their second shipment of 

 azaleas has arrived. Mr. Boddington is 

 visiting his eastern customers this week 

 and Mr, Begbie has just returned from 

 a two weeks' outing among his friends 

 in North Carolina. 



Various Notes. 



The dahlia supply from Atco's 100- 

 acre base is handled in New York by 

 Gunther and Ghormley, Some very fine 

 stock has been arriving daily until the 

 cold snap intervened. 



The orchid growers of this vicinity 

 are exhibiting at the flower shows in 

 quantity, Lager & Hurrell and Julius 

 Roehrs having splendid exhibits at the 

 American Institute exhibition here last 

 week and at Boston. 



The wheels move slowly in the auction 

 business. In the city it is hard to draw 

 the buyers. Small audiences have been 

 the rule. It would be a shame to men- 

 tion some of the prices realized. The out 

 of town sales of Bird, at Arlington, N, 

 J,, and Troy, at New Rochelle, N, Y,, 

 failed to attract the buyers the merits of 

 the goods deserved. 



Tuesday, September 20, that expert in 

 American Beauty specials, Henry Hentz, 

 Jr., of Madison, N. J., was presented 

 with his first daughter. 



N. LeCakes & Co. are much pleased 

 with the establishment of their head- 

 quarters on Twenty-eighth street and 

 have added a plant department to their 

 business. They will handle holly for 

 Thanksgiving and Christmas in large 

 quantities, John A, Foley, formerly 

 with Bradshaw, is bookkeeper for "Mr, 

 LeCakes. 



Wm. Ford, of Ford Bros., has been 

 out of the city during the past week 

 but is now fully recuperated and ready 

 for the fall rush, which he anticipates 

 will commence earlier than usual. 



