NOVEMBER 10, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1255b 



the next morning. The cause has not 

 as yet been explained. It is not merely 

 one man's stock, but all. 



Violets are having a great sale, both 

 single and double, and not enough come 

 in to supply the demand. Califomias 

 sell at 50 cents and doubles at $1. In 

 bulb stock, valley, Paper Whites and 

 callas are fine, with a fair demand at 

 tht ir usual price. Of greens the market 

 has plenty. 



Various Notes. 



As the time for the opening of the 

 big show approached everybody was 

 busily at work in the conservatory at the 

 World's Fair getting things in shape for 

 the opening. The prospects for a suc- 

 cessful show are very flattering, as the 

 daily papers have given it some great 

 notices and have gotten the general pub- 

 lic to talking about it. Manager Haus- 

 wirth, of Chicago, and Fred Meinhardt, 

 uf this city, have been busy all of the 

 I)ast week. Great wagon loads of plants 

 from the local florists were placed in 

 Die building on Sunday. Taking every- 

 thing into consideration, it will be the 

 largest flower show ever held in this 

 country. 



On Wednesday, October 26, the First 

 National Conference of Horticultural 8o- 

 ciety Officers and Workers was held in 

 the Horticulture Building, World's Fair. 

 The conference was called to order by 

 President C. F. Hale, of Michigan.. 



George E. Kessler, chief of the land- 

 scape department of the World's Fair, 

 returned Friday to St. Louis from his 

 home in Kansas City to attend the meet- 

 ing of the park restoration committee, 

 which will confer this week regarding 

 tlie question of restoring Forest park 

 after the fair closes. 



Some of the street fakirs are still sell- 

 ing flowers on the street comers, despite 

 the order from the city officials and the 

 great efforts of the downtown florists, 

 uho say that they will not molest them 

 if they keep within certain limits. 



The club meeting this week will be 

 lield Thursday in the Horticulture build- 

 ing at the fair, so that out-of-town vis- 

 itors can take part in the proceedings. 

 This was decided at a meeting on Mon- 

 day. * *•'( 



The opening of the new city hall on 

 Friday night was a social affair. All 

 the offices ware decorated with plants 

 and flowers, mostly chrysanthemums, the 

 ladies carrying large bunches of flowers. 

 The opening must have been a profitable 

 one for the local trade. J. J- B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The market during the past week was 

 unworthy of the name. All the whole- 

 salers were flooded, Prices at times 

 were bottomless; stagnation was univer- 

 sal. Never was stock more perfect and 

 never, it is claimed, has so discouraging 

 a week been experienced in the street's 

 record. The present week shows no im- 

 provment at its opening. With the elec- 

 tion over, the weather seasonable and the 

 demand of society once more in evi- 

 dence, the close of the week may see the 

 longed-for turn of the tide. That it 

 may be so is the sincere desire of the 

 Beview, to whose patrons and friends 

 we wish abundant reason now and always 

 for unlimited Thanksgiving. 



Various Notes. '" ;"'*'*^ 



deary's Horticultural Hall is now an 



established enterprise, ably managed and 

 with every indication of permanent suc- 

 cess. A big sale of hardy roses in the 

 near future is announced and every 

 Tuesday and Friday the auctions will 

 continue until ' Christmaa. Ambrose 

 Cleary is a model auctioneer. 



The Hinode Co., of Whitestone, L. 1., 

 is now rejoicing in the completion of its 

 new greenhouses. Their stock of Easter 

 lilies will be enormous and their sales 

 of the tiny Japanese plants have been 

 far above their expectations. 



Alfred Dimraock, of Sander & Sons, 

 St. Albans, England, is enjoying a very 

 successful season among his many Amer- 

 ican customers and gracing the fall ex- 

 hibitions with his breezy presence. 



Wm. H. Siebrecht, Jr., of Astoria, has 

 hung out his shingle at 277 Broadway as 

 a full-fledged attorney at law. 



Sigmund Geller's new store on the 

 ground floor is proving a great conven- 

 ience, and an additional zinc-lined room 

 just built gives him one of the most com- 

 plete establishments in the supply line in 

 the country. 



Alex. Guttman's new red carnation, 

 Victory, grows in popularity wherever ex- 

 hibited. Boston demonstrated its faith 

 in the future of this flower. It will be 

 exhibited at the next meeting of the 

 New York Florists' Club, Monday, No- 

 vember 14, with many other attractive 

 novelties. This meeting promises to be- 

 come one of the best of the year. In the 

 afternoon the bowling club will meet and 

 lunch will be served in ample time for 

 the evening meeting. All out-of-town 

 visitors are invited. 



It is hardly to be wondered that en- 

 thusiasm as to a New York exhibition 

 similar to those which have proved so 

 costly to their promoters, is a hard thing 

 to materialize, and yet the show under 

 the auspices of the American Institute, 

 which begins on Thursday and continues 

 for ten days, promises to break the spell 

 and renew the record breaking attend- 

 ances of other years. Not only flowers, 

 but everything pertaining to horticulture 

 will be displayed. Many thousands of 

 complimentary tickets are distributed and 

 the officials place their estimate of antici- 

 pated attendance at 100,000. 



Eight opposite the big hall, above 

 Macey's where the show takes place, is 

 M. A. Bowe's, where for some weeks, 

 with orchids and mums in abundance, 

 most beautiful windows have been cre- 

 ated. 



Arthur T. Boddington has large im- 

 portations of hardy roses, peonies, Ulacs 

 and nursery stock generally arriving and 

 shows some fine wedding bells. White 

 Romans are going fast. The depletion 

 of all kinds of bulbs is decide^y en- 

 couraging. 



F. E. Pierson's artistic hand was in 

 evidence everywhere at the successful 

 Tarrytown show. His new fern is win- 

 ning recognition wherever exhibited. 



Qhormley's facilities for handling his 

 immense shipments were never so good 

 as now. The immense ice box is now com- 

 plete. Mr. Ghormley has entirely recov- 

 ered his health and is quite hopeful as 

 to an immediate improvement in business. 



L. Wertheimber & Co., 39 Barclay 

 street, are making a specialty of Alpha 

 Christmas bells, for which they find a 

 heavy demand, last season being entirely 

 unable to fill their orders. 



Warrendorff opened a fine branch at 

 One Hundred and Twenty-second street 

 and Seventh avenue last Saturday. Sev- 

 eral branches will be established in other 

 desirable parts of the city during the 



winter. The business is to be incopo- 

 rated under the title of The Warrendorff 

 Co. 



Ehmann is celebrating his fifth anni- 

 versary by installing electric lights, 

 while a block away David Clarke's Sons 

 have elaborately decorated and filled 

 their immense establishment for Thanks- 

 giving. For Scottii they find a ^eat and 

 increasing demand. They consider this 

 the best commercial fern in the market. 



Mrs. Warrendorff, Sr., has been very 

 ill for several weeks but is convalescing 

 slowly. 



The sixth annual flower show in the 

 Central Park greenhouses is now open. 



F. H. Traendly was a visitor at the 

 Boston show and dwells enthusiastically 

 upon the fine exhibits, the new seedling 

 carnations at Peter Fisher's and the 

 grand stock of Patten and Nicholson. 



Ford Bros, are receiving some splendid 

 Appletons, Jones and Maud Dean from 

 O. Boehler, of West Hoboken, and their 

 Enchantress, Dorothy and violets are as 

 fine as the finest. 



Capt. Fenrich has his store spick and 

 span for Thanksgiving and is fast build- 

 ing up a business that promises to com- 

 pare favorably with many of the veter- 

 ans. 



The orchid's popularity grows and 

 prices are again normal and the supply 

 rone too abundant for the universal use 

 that seems inevitable. McManus handles 

 many varieties daily and is ready for 

 the certain shipping demand that he has 

 done so much to develop in other cities, 

 shipping them from Montreal to New 

 Orleans and Chicago. 



Charles Millang's special conservatory 

 is ablaze with light and color and his 

 greenhouse stocked with an abundance 

 for the city retailers. 



Jos. Millang, manager of the Cut 

 Flower Co., maintains his reputation as 

 "the Beauty king," the special stock 

 he is now handling being as fine as any 

 that has ever reached the New York 

 market. 



J. K. Allen is increasing his sources 

 of supply this fall, many new growers 

 having been added to his clientele. 



The Clucas & Boddington Co. has 

 about completed one of the busiest sea- 

 sons in its history. The nurseries at 

 Sparkhill have been developing rapidly 

 this year. 



Lecakes & Co. find their cut flower de- 

 partment, under the management of John 

 A. Foley, a very profitable addition to 

 their large fern and galax butiness. 

 They also handle plants of all kinds 

 and will have some fine holly for Thanks- 

 giving. 



Reed & Keller report a fine run on 

 their novelties and inventions, many of 

 them especially adapted for the holiday 

 requirements. 



Schloss Bros, have many handsome 

 novelties this fall. They have only sat- 

 isfactory criticisms to make as to the 

 increase in their business during 1904. 



Lcikens' store on Thirty-third street 

 is a little gem and his prospects for a 

 big business this winter encouraging. 



Condon's chrysanthemum show is 

 drawing large crowds in Brooklyn. 



Bowling. 

 is the record for Novem- 



FoUowing 

 ber 7: 



Boma 129 



Holt 91 



Manda 168 



Shaw 119 



Ford 133 



T^ng 172 



Kessler ...202 



134 Traendly ..151 182 



144 Fenrich. ..147 10* 



149 Hoffmelr ..104 116 



184 Donaldson.. 126 146 



122 Marshall . .16T 178 



102 Lents! 169 136 



Guttman ..114 



