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Decembeb 22, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



259 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



After Monday of last week the market 

 declined until before the end of the week 

 values had shrunken fully twenty-five per 

 cent from the early quotations. The week 

 before Christmas is always the dullest of 

 the winter season. Dark, cold weather 

 aided in the general depression. The 

 gupply of stock was not over-abundatii 

 ncyr the quality the best. With a con- 

 tinuance of the cloudy skies there seems 

 no possibility of an oversupply for 

 Christmas or any excuse for pickling, the 

 market readily absorbing all the growers 

 can send in from day to day. So far as 

 consultation with those who dispose of 

 the flowers can aid us, we estimate on 

 another page the probable prices for Sat- 

 urday of the present week. There is no 

 good reason apparent why they should go 

 higher and at these figures not a flower 

 need be left unsold. 



Everything now indicates a good, 

 healthy, normal Christmas trade, with an 

 abundance for all in the aggregate and 

 universal cause among growers, whole- 

 salers and retailers for a Merry Christ- 

 mas. 



The Plant Trade. 



It has become fashionable of late years 

 to designate the holiday as "a plant 

 Christmas" and this will be no excep- 

 tion to the rule. Baskets and boxes and, 

 liampers and many novelties will do ser- 

 vice, kettles, tripods, wooden shoes, mail 

 pouches and the Russian green pompon 

 designs in many a unique form will all 

 be seen. Plants of oranges, ericas, 

 hyacinths, primulas, cyclamens, poinset- 

 tias, Lorraine begonias, lilies, ardisias, 

 orchids and azaleas will be most in evi- 

 dence, Avhile draca'nas, arauearias and 

 Scottii and elegantissima ferns, among 

 plants, will be largest in demand. 



Christmas Greens. 



The supply of first-class holly is not 

 abundant. The poor quality sells in the 

 open market at just half the price of the 

 legitimate, and is worth less than half. 

 To those on the ground where examina- 

 tion of both grades is possible it is very 

 easy to appreciate the difference, but the 

 out of town florist cannot seem to com- 

 prehend it. Far better to give orders 

 in advance at reasonable prices and se- 

 cure the supply through the regular trade 

 sources than to depend on the unsalable 

 stuff that reaches the wholesale butcher 

 and grocer commission man from any- 

 where and everywhere and is dear at any 

 price. 



There will be millions of galax used 

 this year. Holly wreaths of immense size 

 made to order by the wholesale green 

 goods men sell as high as $5 each. None 

 but first-class goods of this kind are now 

 handled by the retail stores. To the 

 butcher and the grocer has been passed 

 over all the cheap trade in wreaths and 

 stars and roping and all Christmas trees 

 and, all things considered, it is a blessed 

 relief to the average florist to escape the 

 additional labor and risk entailed by this 

 unremunerative trade. 



Various Notes. 



Stumpp & Walter Co. has purchased a 

 trial ground farm at Dumont, N. J. This 

 house is one of the most energetic and 

 progressive in its line and is making 

 rapid progress. 



Ditzenberger Bros., who have been in 

 the business twenty-three years at Bay 



Frank H, Traendly. 



(Unanimously re-elected president of the New York Florists' Club.) 



Ridge, Brooklyn, will dissolve partnership 

 in June, their property having been pur- 

 chased by a real estate company. Twenty- 

 one houses, about 25,000 square feet of 

 glass, will be sold by auction at that time. 

 Phillip, son of one of the brothers, is one 

 of Ghormley's lieutenants on West Twen- 

 ty-eighth street. 



M. Limprecht has opened a Christmas 

 branch, where he is liaudling all kinds of 

 evergreens, at 38 West Twenty-ninth 

 street, Geo. E. Bradshaw being in charge. 



Dice & Co. is another green goods 

 house having a throw for Christmas trade 

 at 30 West Twenty-ninth street, occupy- 

 ing a part of W. H. Gunther's wholesale 

 quarters. 



Jos. Fenrich is sending out a handsome 

 Christmas calendar. 



Chas. Feast, of Baltimore, was in the 

 city last week. 



Bowling. 



Tlie New Yorkers who visited Madison, 

 N. J., last week were very hospitably en- 

 tertained and hadly beaten. Here is the 

 score : 



MndlHon. l»t 2(1 .^(l TI 



IIcrriiiKtoM IWl 1«r> 16."1 .M" 



Diickham 14."> !!»."> 1 :i.s 47S 



Connors KU l!).s 1 47 47« 



I'liKli H!I 1.-i7 l.m 4.14 



Kc.Ttlnjr 1«2 107 11.'{ 442 



Totty 14!> lOS 140 ;j»7 



Totals O.-J? 900 837 2764 



-New York. Ist 2(1 .^d Tl 



Iturns 122 14!) l.'il 422 



Kessler 12.'i 1.">:! 124 402 



Mnndn IIS 114 14!) 401 



Kcnrlch 105 i:!4 14.1 .•!S4 



Holt 117 i:{ti 112 ."^G") 



(Jiittninn !•:{ 114 107 314 



Totals 700 SOO 7aS 22SS 



The bowlcM made the following scores 

 December 19: 



BEGONIA GLOIRE DE SCEAUX. 



Among winter flowering begonias this 

 variety possesses distinct characters, both 

 in the habit of its growth and the color 

 of its foliage, and these attributes, apart 

 from its great value as a flowering plant, 

 arc sufficiently good to secure for it gen- 

 eral cultivation. When grown during 

 the summer, with liberal rooting space, 

 and under warm stove conditions, it 

 forms large specimens, too large really 

 for general use, though we have found 

 j)lants of this description valuable for 

 grouping. Plants for ordinary purposes 

 are best grown in a cooler temperature, 

 and when they are coming into bloom 

 it is especially undesirable to subject 

 them to a high temperature, as this would 

 shorten their flowering season. They 

 are most satisfactory when placed, while" 

 in flower, in a warm, moderately dry 

 and light position, and given weak sup- 

 plies of liquid manure. Care should be 

 taken to keep the stems well secured to 

 stakes, otherwise the plants may be 

 greatly damaged, owing to the weight of 

 their heads. — Gardeners' Magazine. 



