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OCTOBEB 27, 1904. 



nrhc Weekly Florists' Review* 



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A. L. Glaser. Dubuque, la., and His Deliveiy Outfit. 



of visitors inside. E. C. Hayden reports 

 an active shipping business, chiefly in 

 Brides, Maids and carnations. 



Edward Eeid has the shipping busi- 

 ness down to a very fine point. He 

 knows just how many petals of a rose 

 ought to be open for each hundred miles 

 of railroad to be traversed and just how 

 far open a carnation should be to give 

 perfect satisfaction on arriving at its 

 destination. 



William J. Baker will have a splendid 

 lot of Ivory and other white chrysan- 

 themums just right for Hallowe'en and 

 All Saints' day. 



John K. North, of Sewell, N. J., is 

 sending fine chrysanthemums and cailad 

 to the Flower Market. 



Paul Eichter, of the Henry F. Michell 

 Co., is authority for the statement that 

 their business exceeds that of last sea- 

 son very considerably. Money has been 

 spent in advertising and it is yielding 

 returns. 



M. Eice and Eugfene "Weiss went out 

 of Flourtown a few days ago to see 

 George E. Campbell. Mr. Eice reports 

 the Brides and Maids in good condition, 

 full of buds as fine in size and color as 

 in winter. 



Myers & Samtman are cutting count- 

 less numbers of Beauties, chiefly me- 

 dium and short stems. They go to the 

 Flower Market. 



Eugene Bemheimer has been doing a 

 lot of business with oak leaves and other 

 autumn foliage. He receives many 

 chrysanthemums of quality and some 

 Queen of Edgely. 



J, liddon Pennock and Mrs. Pennock 

 are expected back from Bermuda next 

 week. 



Fred Ehret is keeping up the reputa- 

 tion of his fine Maids and Brides. His 

 plade is very pretty. It is finished in 

 white, with plenty of green about. 



John Burton is cutting Liberty roses 

 by the thousands. 



To G. E., of West Grove, Pa.: Both 

 Mr. Conner and I fully realized that we 

 could not see many of the Chester county 

 places in so short a time. We hope to 

 see them all at some future time. 



Phil. 



RADIATION. 



I have a house 18x90, ten feet to ridge, 

 south sash bars twelve feet long, north 

 bars nine feet; glass on west end, side 

 walls four and one-half feet high, double 

 boarded with paper between. From the 

 boiler there is a 4-inch flow feeding two 

 2%-inch flows on the purlin posts and 



ten 1^/^-inch returns. Have I enough ra- 

 diation for 60 degrees in zero weather. 



L. E. W. 



The piping which has been provided 

 gives more than 500 feet of radiation, 

 while the requirements of the house are 

 only a little more than 400 feet. If the 

 boiler has sufficient capacity and is set 

 so as to provide sufficient fall in the 

 pipes the plant, if properly fired, should 

 give satisfaction. L. C. C. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market. 



The market at the opening of the week 

 resembles the Johnstown flood, for it is 

 simply overwhelmed, not only with chrys- 

 anthemums, but roses, carnations and 

 even violets, which are here in almost mid- 

 winter profusion. Nearly 100 boxes ar- 

 rived on a single train on Saturday even- 

 ing. Thousands were disposed of as low 

 as 20 cents per hundred and specials have 

 not been above 75 cents. Orchids 

 touched bottom last week, fine cattleyas 

 going as low as $15 per hundred. The 

 tendency is now toward better prices. 

 Even the street merchants took a flyer 

 in them on Saturday. 



Two weeks more of the low tide and 

 the rush of the returning waters will 

 make welcome music. Thanksgiving is 

 very near and before it arrives there will 

 be abundant cause for it. 



Various Notes. 



Franz Pammer, 33 years old, was 

 found dead in his office at Tarrytown one 

 day last week, apparently a suicide, with 

 a bullet in his left temple and his re- 

 volver beside him. He was a genial and 

 popular man and his rash act is much 

 regretted. 



Carl Beckstedt, of Oswego, N. Y., one 

 of that city's prominent florists, is vis- 

 iting Geo. Saltford. 



William Matthews, of Great Neck, L. 

 I., son of the veteran florist, George 

 Matthews, has started in the growing 

 business, building this fall three houses 

 20x180 and utilizing two and one-half 

 'Seres of excellent land for nursery pur- 

 poses. 



Elliott's red letter sale did not draw 

 the crowd expected, owing to stormy 

 weather, and it will be repeated shortly. 

 The apathy shown by the retail florists 

 of New York and vicinity this season 

 is unusual. Even the clearing sale at 

 Dreyer's saw few of the Broadway and 

 Fifth avenue contingent usually in evi- 

 dence on these bargain occasions. In- 



stead, the representatives of the depart- 

 ment store conservatories were out in 

 force and managed to absorb most of 

 the "good things" offered. Cleary's 

 has a new voice at the stand, Ambrose 

 Cleary now officiating. 



Mr. Burnham is rejoicing in the com- 

 pletion of the Bloomingdale store and 

 conservatory. Both are a credit to his 

 management and no better facilities for 

 a successful florist business can be found 

 in the city. 



Thursday sees the formal opening of 

 the great subway and floral displays will 

 signalize the ceremonies. 



Last week the re-opening of the old 

 Weber & Field's Music Hall was an 

 occasion for floral elaboration in which 

 Twenty-eighth street was especially in- 

 terested. Not only were all the promi- 

 nent retailers called upon for flowers, 

 but many of the wholesalers, as is their 

 yearly custom, sent enormous quantities 

 of them in all manner of artistic arrange- 

 ment. 



The great fall exhibitions are in full 

 blast, or will be by the time this paper 

 reaches its readers. Madison celebrates 

 on Thursday and Friday; next week Tar- 

 rytown and Philadelphia, and so on for 

 a score of days, culminating in the great 

 show of the American Institute in New 

 York, November 10 to 17. 



President Traendly has already re- 

 ceived many promises of exhibits of 

 chrysanthemums for the club's next meet- 

 ing, the second Monday in November,, 

 and urges all intending exhibitors to- 

 send their applications for space in time 

 and their stock to Secretary Young, 

 where it will be given proper care. 



Sigmund Geller has advanced to a 

 ground floor convenience at 110 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, where he occupie* 

 the whole store and basement, giving 

 him greatly increased facilities. 



In a late report of Flatbush bowlinfj 

 the veteran, Louis Schmutz, Sr., was 

 not credited with his scores for three 

 games, which netted him an average of 

 over 200. There are nights when Louie 

 can sing the Marseillaise and secure all 

 the pots at the same time, and this was 

 one of them. He will doubtless be on 

 the team that rolls the New York club 

 in the near future in the "tri-city" 

 ^umament, in which Hoboken is ex- 

 pected to participate as the third com- 

 petitor. 



William Siebrecht, of Astoria, who 

 has the best cold storage plant in this 

 vicinity, if not in the country, is the 

 acknowledged bulb king, handling over 

 a million lily of the valley yearly, in 

 addition to many thousands of narcissi, 

 lilies and hyacinths. Five acres are de- 

 voted to peonies, lilacs, snow balls and 

 garden vegetables, and his glass totals 

 over 25,000 square feet. 



Condon, of Brooklyn, will hold his 

 yearly chrysanthemum show from Novem- 

 ber 1 to 15. 



Arthur Boddington's big store looks 

 lonely since the fall shipments. Hardly 

 a bulb remains unsold. 



The first Paper White narcissi of the 

 season made their appearance at J. K. 

 Allen's on Saturday, also the new car- 

 nations Bellmore and Mrs. Clarence 

 Mackay, grown by E. P. Jeffrey & Son, 

 of Bellmore, L. I., the former a brick 

 red of splendid strength and brilliance 

 that should make a popular novelty. 



Ghormley's new ice box is complete 

 and is a monster. 



Langjahr has been putting in a large 

 share of his time since the St. Louis 



