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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



XOVEMBEB 24, 1904. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market 



Between horse shows, football and sea- 

 sonable weather the last of the week saw 

 the beginning of better days. There is 

 surely a rising tendency in the market. 

 One hais only to journey observantly up 

 and down the great avenues of trade to 

 realize that Wall street is not the only 

 thing that is experiencing the autumn 

 rise. It may be the coming of Thanks- 

 giving, or the first faint sounds of the 

 approaching Christmas, or the opening 

 of the opera season, with all the wealth 

 of floral accompaniments it indicates, 

 but the fact cannot be gainsaid. The 

 retailers are all as busy as they can be. 

 Chrysanthemums have had tiieir day. 

 Stock of high grade from now on will be 

 absorbed as quickly as it arrives. The 

 flood is over. The best roses have ad- 

 vanced already and will doubtless hold 

 their improved averages. Carnations are 

 superb in quality and unlimited in vari- 

 ety. The new ones assert their impor- 

 tance and command high values, as they 

 deserve to do. Orchids have started again 

 for winter prices. Their growing pop- 

 ularity in all the large cities has a tend- 

 ency to make them independent of mar- 

 ket fluctuations. Violets again lift up 

 their heads. Any price asked could be 

 had on Saturday in honor of Yale and 

 football. 



Various Notes. 



The final sales in the auction market 

 draw near. Cleary's Horticultural Hall 

 had its great sale Tuesday of the pres- 

 ent week. 



Haerens Bros., of Belgium, have dis- 

 solved partnership, August Haerens re- 

 maining in control and A. RolKer & Sons 

 continuing as American representatives. 



F. W. O. Schmitz's importation of 

 nursery stock is larger this fall than 

 usual and of great variety. 



All the violet specialists were crowded 

 with orders for New Haven on Satur- 

 day. One house shipped 55,000 out of 

 M-ders for 80,000, another 40,000 out of 

 orders for 60,000, and so on down the 

 line on Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth 

 streets. The demand was unprecedented, 

 V, the market was depleted and fair prices 

 prevailed. It is unlikely that violets 

 will reach above $1.50 per hundred this 

 season except on very special holidays, 

 like Christmas or Easter, and then $2 

 will be the limit. 



The new ice box at the Cut Flower Ex- 

 change in the Coogan building has been 

 installed. It is immense and will prove 

 a most desirable convenience. L. J. 

 Kreshover has removed to much lighter 

 and better quarters in the building and 

 his branch store there is complete. 



Frank Millang, on the early car Sun- 

 day morning on his way to his oflice, 

 was badly cut by glass from a broken 

 window. Bauman is sending some fine 

 Maud Dean and Jerome Jones chrysan- 

 themums to Mr. Millang daily. 



Bonnot Bros, are shipping a good 

 many roses at present to Scranton and 

 other Pennsylvania cities. 



Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, of Wood- 

 side, have completed their visit in Scot- 

 land and left for New York on Saturday. 



W. E. Marshall, bulb and seed import- 

 er, has taken commodious quarters at 

 146 West Twenty-third street, near Sixth 

 avenue, on one of the busiest streets in 

 the city. 



D. J, Mackintosh had a unique and 

 handsome window last week in which he 

 combined Ihe foot ball colors of Yale and 

 Harvard with silver stirrups and laurel 

 collar emblematic of the horse show. 

 He has opened a branch store in the New 

 Breslin hotel, Twenty-ninth street and 

 Broadway, and has associated with him 

 James H. Carroll, for eighteen years 

 with Thorley. 



The Kervan Co., 20 West Twenty-sev- 

 enth street, near Broadway, anticipate a 

 fine season and have splsndid facilrties 

 for handling their growpg trade. They 

 will make a speciality of small Christ- 

 mas trees, as usual, this year. 



Wertheimber & Co. have sold over 100,- 

 000 of their Alpha Christmas bells. Ad- 

 vance orders have completely exhausted 

 their stock. 



Leikens reports a big increase in busi- 

 ness horse show week. Among other 

 crumbs was a large order for the land- 

 scaping and planting of a millionaire's 

 estate. 



S. Masur, 238 Fulton street, Brooklyn, 

 has built up a good business in less than 

 two years on his own account. He was 

 with J. V. Phillips seven years. Last 

 week he had a decoration for the annual 

 banquet and ball of the U. S. Battleship 

 Kearsage at the Palm Garden, New York 

 city. Over 800 bouquets were used and 

 the decorations were elaborate. A promi- 

 nent bookmaker's death the other day 

 brought orders for several $50 wreaths 

 and designs. 



J. v. Phillips has enlarged his store 

 and added to his window space until he 

 has one of the most attractive florists' 

 stores in the City of Churches. 



Jos. Fenrieh has an unnamed new pink 

 mum on exhibition that is very brilliant 

 and a great keeper. He has purchased 

 the entire stock and already made ar- 

 rangements for growing it extensively 

 next year. He is handling a large and 

 especially fine stock of Bonnaffon daily. 



Flatbush Bowling Notes. 



Last Thursday evening's attendance 

 was light at the Flatbush alleys bu,t the 

 bowling was heavy. Davy Mellis, Will 

 Siebrecht and the Dailledouze boys had 

 finished their\ preparations for the match 

 with the New York Club and thought 

 they would need no further practice to 

 win, so they embalmed their arms in 

 witch hazel and ginger and rested. From 

 the scores appended it looks like a stren- 

 uous evening. Riley absorbed nearly all 

 the pots as usual. Ever since his first 

 born son arrived, Pat has been banking 

 these weekly offerings until now he has 

 to use a barrel and before the kid is 21 

 he will have several thousand dollars put 

 away for him. The veteran, Louis 

 Schmutz, has come to lifev again with a 

 200 record. The best gamek^follow : 



Rllgy 166 177 184 l50^ 192 



Sohmutz 133 148 149 150 207 



Zeller 131 131 143 144 171 



Worker 114 115 140 147 177 



Shaw 113 123 131 139 169 



Bowlms;. 



Mr. Fenrieh 's ambition as captain of 

 the bowling club is to have a team that 

 will arrive at Washington next August 

 with an unbeaten record. The trouble is 

 now nearly every member of the club is 

 good enough to be a member of the team, 

 60 the plan of choosing from the aver- 

 ages made weekly will be adopted, giving 

 every member encouragement to win a 

 place on the champion aggregation. 



A challenge from Philadelphia will re- 

 ceive immediate recognition. Hereafter 



matches with other teams will be bowled 

 on other than club evenings, so that the 

 regular bowling will not be interfered 

 with. This does not apply to the first 

 match game with Hoboken, which will 

 take place on the club's alleys next Mon- 

 day evening, November 28, when John 

 Birnie and his faithful Scots will meet 

 their Waterloo. 



The contest with Flatbush Monday 

 night was a great success. A crowd of 

 over thirty visitors was in attendance. 

 The excitement was intense and the din- 

 ner elaborate. Flatbush was handicapped 

 by the absence of the Dailledouze boys 

 and were obliged to use Mesisrs. Fenrieh, 

 Siebrecht and Shaw to complete the 

 team. As a consequence they went down 

 to an honorable defeat and the promise of 

 a turning of tjie tables at the return 

 match in Flatbush. Following was the 

 score : ,^^ 



Flatbush— , >v 1st 2d T*! 



Fenrieh >>WOy 148 278 



Sohmuta 113 170 283 



Wocker Ill 117 228 



Zeller 141 121 262 



Siebrecht 140 151 291 



Shaw 102 101 208 



Riley 155 178 333 



Totals 892 986 1.877 



New York— 1st 2d T*l 



Ford 145 163 308 



Traendly 106 188 264 



Kessler 134 119 253 



Marsliall 146 135 281 



Bwrtia. 133 141 274 



Manda 156 140 296 



Lang 170 168 338 



Totals 990 1,024 2,014 



The match with Hoboken was post- 

 ]X)ned until a week from Thursday even- 

 ing and will take place on the New York 

 alleys. J. Austin Shaw. 



BOWLING CLUB RULES. 



The following are the rules and reg- 

 ulations recently adopted by the New 

 York Florists' Bowling Club, which are 

 presented for purposes of comparison 

 with those of other similar organiza- 

 tions : 



1. The club's membership shall consist en- 

 tirely of members of the New York Florists' 

 Club, no others being eligible. 



2. Visitors, residents of the city, endorsed by 

 any of the club's members, will be permitted to 

 bowl with the club on payment of 50 cents and 

 the usual evening's assessments. 



3. Out of town ylsltors, not members of tbe 

 New York Florists' Club, to the club's meetings 

 will be entertained and welcomed withont 

 charge. 



4. The monthly dues until further notice will 

 be fl, payable in udvance, and no one will be 

 entitled to bowl with the club until the dues 

 are paid. 



5. Business meetings of the club, if necessary, 

 will be held weekly at the Bowling Club's room 

 at the conclusion of the regular luncheon. 



6. Any individual eligible for membership In 

 the S. A. F., but not a member of the New 

 York Florists' Club, may become an associate 

 member of the Bowling Club by a unanimous 

 vote of the club members. Associate members 

 will be subject to the same rules and regulations 

 as regular members of the club. 



We are very much pleased with the 

 Kbiview; there is much important news 

 in it every week. — SPEilirGFiELD Seed 

 Co., Springfield, Mo. 



Springfield, Mo. — The Springfield 

 Seed Co. has just completed two green- 

 houses 30x80 and will go into plant 

 growing with a general line of stock. 



Joliet, III. — Ernest Crantz, who has 

 been working for the Chicago Carnation 

 Co., was fatally injured November 3 by 

 being struck by an electric car. 



FiTZGEEiALD, Ga. — We have had an un- 

 usually early frost, which put an end to 

 outdoor stock and has made trade very 

 good, so Joel Thomas says. He is the 

 only florist here. 



