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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBKB 27, 1904. 



convention among his growers and is 

 now "ready for all the busino5=s 'hiit 

 comes his way. ' ' 



The creditors of George E. Bradsl.aw, 

 who is in bankruptcy, will hold their 

 first meeting in the office of ISi. S. 

 Smith, referee, 68 William street, Novem- 

 ber 2, at 1:30 p. ni. 



Hanfling & Kleppner are doing an in- 

 creasing business in supplies, particu- 

 larly baskets and pot covers. They showed 

 ^ nice line at the S. A. F. convention. 



A. D. Young & Co. are handling some 

 •extra fine Enchantress, Genevieve Lord 

 :and Goethe from Theodore Hengsten- 

 berg, of Hempstead. 



Phil Kessler. manager of the Cut 

 Flower Exchange, reports the early in- 

 stallation of a new ice box 8x15 feet 

 for the accommodation of the growers 

 who may liave stock left over from the 

 early morning sales. 



Charles Smith, Sr., of Woodside, leaves 

 Saturday for Scotland, where he will 

 join his wife and enjoy a three months' 

 iioliday. His business will be in the 

 hands of his three sons and under their 

 management in the future. 



JL W- Perkins is back from the moun- 

 tains, fully recovered, and again asso- 

 ciated trith his father, the veteran whole- 

 saler, John J. Perkins. 



Jos. Leikens has a very pretty store 

 at 7 East Thirty-third street' and will 

 build a conservatory at the rear. His 

 nearness to the popular Waldorf-Astoria 

 •will be of great advantage and his suc- 

 cess at Newport during the past summer 

 has developed a class of customers that 

 make smooth seas. 



All the other Newport florists who 

 have New York connections, Hodgson, 

 Siebrecht and Wadley & Smyth, are back 

 jigain at headquarters, evidently satisfied 

 -with their summer. Siebrecht & Son 

 have again established their branch es- 

 tablishment at the Arcade, Fifth avenue 

 and Forty-sixth street. 



Bowlins;. 



Tlie following are the scores made by 



the bowlers Monday evening. 



Plaver. Ist 2(1 3d 



Traeiidly Hi« H.t 143 



Holt ori l«l i<>7 



Kewln- 111."! Ill 127 



Bwna lint 158 121 



Jjlrl>re<«t 158 131 141 



Bntterneld ftS 110 112 



Marahiill I'll 118 104 



Sbnw 114 »7 148 



O'Mam 1'<.'> 145 



■OuttDiHii 147 127 



Hoffman 148 



i-'ord 143 



J. Austin Shaw. 



SALT LAKE QTY. 



■LaTv Bros., of Butte, Mont., have 

 bought the retail store of the Salt Lake- 

 Huddart Floral Co., and the business is 

 now purely a wholesale one, conducted 

 by the proprietor, Mr. Bausford. The 

 Law Bros, are doing nicely with the re- 

 tail end. P. T. Huddart is no longer 

 connected with the concern and has 

 opened a store of his own on Second 

 Southeast street. 



The B. C. Morris Floral Co. 's green- 

 houses are in good shape, all the stock 

 looking well. W. .1. Burnette is the 

 grower in charge. They do one of the 

 largest retail businesses in town, Thomas 

 Hobday being the manager. 



The weather is cool, with frost and 

 occasional snow. Business is fair. B. 



Wyomissixg, Pa. — Frank Shearer will 

 ilcvote a part of his space to forcing 

 -cauliflower this winter. 



BUFFALO. 



Various Notes of Interest. 



There is rather too much politics these 

 days for business to be very brisk, but 

 a good many October weddings have 

 helped. Carnations are now more plenti- 

 ful and, for this early season, were never 

 so fine. Enchantress, Lawson, Estelle, 

 The Queen, Queen Louise, Boston Mar- 

 ket and old Joost are all giving us fine 

 flowers and stems. It sometimes takes 

 years to find out th6 true value of a 

 variety. A bed of fistelle planted on 

 July 5 has giveq us flowers as large 

 as average Lawson and stems eighteen 

 inches long. I am afraid many scarlets 

 sent out since, with a fine character and 

 costly price, will go, or have gone, down 

 to oblivion "unhonored and unsung," 

 while Estelle is better than it was four 

 years ago. Everyone who was fortunate 

 enough to purchase The Queen has noth- 

 ing but praise for it. This is what we 

 expected from seeing it grow last win- 

 ter. Now that Peter Fisher has immor- 

 talized himself by giving us Lawson and 

 E'nchantress, he might be good enough 

 to give us a flower with the incomparable 

 habit, freedom and size of Enchantress 

 with the color of Joost. Then we will 

 let him go home, Harlowarden is prov- 

 ing itself the king of the crimson. It 

 is giving us fine, long-stemmed fiowers in 

 abundance, 



Violets are plentiful, but not moving 

 very fast. Chrysanthemums are just as 

 much in demand as they have been for 

 the past seven or eight years. Just as 

 much, and that is saying a good deal, 

 for it evaporates the idea held by many 

 that the great furore in their favor ten 

 or twelve years ago was a fleeting fad 

 and that they would soon drop into the 

 unnoticeable. The mum is going to fill 

 its place in the cycle of the season as 

 favorably as any other flower. True, 

 there are no more $8 to ."OlO per dozen 

 monsters wanted. 'Twas vulgar when 

 they were. From $2 to $4 or $5 per 

 dozen is now the popular flower. People 

 with good purposes and a taste for flow- 

 ers expect to get a dozen good mums for 

 $3, and so they can. 



Bye the by, is there any leading flower 

 or plant you can think of that has gone 

 up in price within the past five or 

 six years? I can't, with one important 

 exception. During this time all ma- 

 terial with which we construct, with the 

 fuel to keep up heat and the labor to 

 do the work, has gone up from twenty-five 

 to seventy-five per cent. The exception is, 

 of course, the carnation, and why that 

 has risen from fifty to 100 per cent, both 

 wholesale and retail, within less than ten 

 years, is by the simplest of economic 

 laws, excellence of product. The quality 

 of the carnation, more particularly within 

 three or four years, in all that makes a 

 flower admired and desired has im- 

 proved 100 per cent and the price has 

 risen with it. 



We had a good business meeting of the 

 club last week. Mr. Gould, of Middle- 

 port, was present ; came in forty miles 

 to attend a meeting. • How is that, you 

 city boys? A preliminary premium list 

 for the Sweeney Co. 's spring show was 

 presented to the club and adopted. The 

 firm gives $1,100 in cash prizes and they 

 are almost entirely for Eapter stock. As 

 this show will be held about two weeks 

 before Easter, it will be a splendid op- 

 portunity, not only to capture some good 



prizes, but to show the public what you 

 have to offer. 



The H. A. Meldrum Show. 



Everything is progressing most favor- 

 ably. Although there are great attrac- 

 tions both east and west of us, we fully 

 expect many of the foremost growers of 

 the country to be represented. C. H. 

 Keitsch, the manager, has had many in- 

 quiries from the leading specialists. D, 

 B. Long was appointed chairman of the 

 press committee, with power to appoint 

 his assistants. This committee is not so 

 much for the daily press alone as for the 

 "diffusion of knowledge" and explain 

 to visitors the different classes, premiums, 

 etc. Simple as it may seem to us, the 

 general public has a vague and confused 

 conception of what all those first, sec- 

 ond and third clas's cards really mean. 

 W, T, Bell, of Franklin, Pa,, Peter 

 Crowe, of Utica, N. Y,, and our own 

 Prof, Cowell will be the judges. 



Now, last November the florists from 

 surrounding cities, towns and hamlets 

 came in to us in goodly numbers, and 

 that was most gratifying. Come aigain 

 and you won't be disappointed and we 

 shall be delighted. 



It is a question whether the Buffalo 

 florists, that is. all of them, fully realize 

 what the H. A. Meldrum Co, is doing 

 for our trade. It is not philanthropy on 

 their part. It is business. It is adver- 

 tising, and I am sure we all hope sin- 

 cerely that this novel method of adver- 

 tising will repay them. But that does 

 not detract in the least from the great 

 benefit it does to our business at large 

 and for the glorious chrysanthemum in 

 particular. 



We have not found any individual or 

 syndicate of florists in our town willing 

 (if they were able) to stand the loss of 

 a flower show. So the problem is solved. 

 Five times as many people see your prod- 

 ucts as would were an admission fee 

 charged and that's the chief benefit to 

 us of holding exhibitions. So it is your 

 duty, fellow florists, one and all, to make 

 an exhibit if you have anything at all 

 meritorious. We can't all be first, and 

 for that matter the third prize m any 

 class will pay you well for your flowers. 

 In all competitions there must be a 

 number of the ' ' also rans, ' ' and the man 

 who refrains from making an exhibit be- 

 cause he has been told and thinks that 

 someone else has better flowers needs a 

 good injection of dope to make him 

 dance up to the barrier. If it is im- 

 possible for you to exhibit, then attend 

 the show as often as you can lend us the 

 light of your countenance and genial 

 presence. Talk it up to your customer 

 at every opportunity and in every way 

 do all you ^an to help the show and en- 

 courage this enterprising and worths 

 firm. W. S. ' 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The horse show always has an in- 

 vigorating effect on the demand and 

 this, coupled with reduced receipts, has 

 served to put the market in a much bet- 

 ter condition than last week, Thurs- 

 day, Friday and Saturday were very dull 

 days, much below the average for this 

 season of the year, although receipts 

 were above the ordinary, Monday, how- 

 ever, found a brisk demand and all good 

 stock cleaned out early in the day, and 

 Tuesday, usually a quiet day, was good. 



