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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mabch 30, 1905. 



SUPPLIES 

 CONSTANTLY 

 ON HAND 



WILD SMILAX 



READY EOR 

 IMMEDIATE 

 SHIPMENT 



Have you ordered your CUT FLOWER BOXES for Easter? We sell them. Send for catalogue at once. 



Galax Leaves 



$1.00 per 



tooo. 



Fancy Ferns *^<oS(f 



SWEET PEAS, 75c to $(.00 per f 00. x . VIOLETS, 50c to 75c per 100* 



TEA ROSES, per tOO, $2.50 to $6.00. > ^ ^' CARNATIONS, per 100, ${.50 to $2.50; 



ALL OTHER CUT FLOWERS IN SEASON AT CORRESPONOINO PRICES. 



TlNJl BKBET MOBS, f 8.60 per tobl., t. o. b. ChloagTo; 98.00 per bbl., f. o. b. lUoMffMi- 



60 

 Ave. 



Vaughan & Sperfy,*€;f Chicago 





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NEV YORK. 



The Market 



With the coming of spring showers, 

 zephyrs and sunshine the market lias 

 begun to ' ' sit up and take notice ' ' and 

 a spirit of optimism prevails which will 

 continue right through the Easter cele- 

 bration. Prices have undoubtedly touched 

 bottom and if there is any immediate 

 change it must be for the better. There 

 is consolation in clearing the ice-boxes 

 daily at some figure. The street mer- 

 chants virtually monopolize the violet 

 business. Eoses are plentiful and of 

 superb quality. Carnations must be 

 first-class to "bring satisfactory figures 

 and the medium and low grades go at 

 the buyers' offer. 



Lilies have steadied in value and are 

 beginning their march toward the Eas- 

 ter standard. Orders for the best stock 

 in pots have been heavily booked at 12 

 cents a flower. This will probably be 

 the top, but there is no longer any doubt 

 that the best quality will maintain this 

 quotation to the end. Bulbous stock has 

 decreased in volume. Smilax still brings 

 15 cents for the highest grade. The 

 plant delivery has already begun, judg- 

 ing by the retail windows. It looks as 

 though it would be a continuous Easter 

 in that respect from now until the day 

 itself arrives. 



At Rutherford. 



A visit to the establishment of Bob- 

 bink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J., is in- 

 spiring nowadays, so various and extens- 

 ive are the interests of this enterprising 

 firm. In the nursery department an im- 

 mense force is already busy packing and 

 shipping to all parts of the country. 

 The plant tub factory is in full blast 

 and the stock of roses, lilies, azaleas, 

 lilacs, rhododendrons and other blooming 

 plants for Easter seems unlimited. Bob- 

 bink & Atkins have just issued their 

 new catalogue, a handsome book of over 

 100 pages and some idea of the progress 

 of the house may be seen in the work, 

 which is issued at a cost of 50 cents each. 



Over the way, at the great establish- 

 ment of the Julius Boehrs Co., the stock 

 of Easter flowering plants is only limited 

 by the capacity of the houses. It is all 

 in fine condition and comprises many 

 novelties and all the old standard sorts. 

 There must be 20,000 pots of lilies on 

 the way. The orchid department, under 

 the management of Edward Eoehrs, is 

 growing. Another new house is to be 

 erected at once for the overflow. The 



company was reorganized in February 

 and under its present name will doubt- 

 less continue for a century. Julius 

 Eoehrs, Sr., is president, Julius Eoehrs, 

 Jr., treasurer, and Edward Eoehrs, di- 

 rector. 



Various Notes. 



Prof. Dacre, with Young & Nugent, 

 demonstrates his skill by artistic window 

 dressing daily. A dream in valley and 

 E'nchantress was his Saturday offering. 

 There is a continual change worthy of 

 Broadway here. 



Among the visitors last week were 

 H. Schroeter and Fred Breitmeyer, of 

 Detroit, and G. Tidy, of Toronto. 



The .New York visitors to the rose 

 show included "W. F. Sheridan, F. HJ 

 Traendly, J. B. Nugent, A. J. Guttman 

 and Harry May. They all report a de- 

 lightful time. 



Ford Bros, took possession of their 

 new quarters Saturday and seem delighted 

 with the change to Twenty-eighth 

 street. They have one of the roomiest 

 and best stores in New York for their 

 wholesale business and their ice-box is 

 about the size of a summer cottage. An 

 immense cellar adds to their facilities. 

 Electric lights, large oflSce convenicrices 

 and splendid ventilation • and natural 

 light at the end of the store leave noth- 

 ing to be desired. Their confreres wel- 

 come th^m to easy street. 



Additional subscriptions from A. Mil- 

 ler, Moore, Hentz & Nash and the 

 Beauty King to the outing athletic fund 

 have arrived. Every member of the 

 club will have a hand in making this 

 year's outing a great success. 



April 10 is Easter plant night at the 

 club, a fine opportunity for the 

 growers. There are no better plants- 

 men in America than in and around New 

 York. 



Geo. Hildenbrand, salesman with 

 John Young, has announced the advent 

 of the youngest wholesaler on Twenty- 

 eighth street, John Hildenbrand, Jr., a 

 twelve-pounder, who arrived safely last 

 week from the land of perpetual flow- 

 er^ • 



The Parker-Bruen Mfg. Co., under 

 new management, has opened an oflBce 

 at 1133 Broadway. The factory remains 

 at Harrison, N. J., where wire supports 

 for carnations and tomatoes, pot hang- 

 ers, glazing tacks, and other novelties 

 are manufactured. The works are now 

 being enlarged and facilities for a 

 much larger business established. A 

 large demand for their patent tomato 



support is developing from the south at 

 present. 



That violet syndicate at Ehinebeck re- 

 ferred to in our last is a reality and six 

 big houses go up this summer as a 

 starter. These with the fifty smaller 

 ones already contracted for make the 

 outlook for the violet season of 1905-06 

 somewhat hazy. 



John Scott, of Brooklyn, has pur- 

 chased a fine home near his Flatbush 

 greenhouses, where he will reside close 

 to his Scottii factory, where Dame Na- 

 ture is working overtime to be in readi-> , 

 ness for the spring demand. 



Bowline. 



. The following are the scores made 

 Friday evening at Newark, N. J., in the 

 match between the New York club and 

 the bowlers from Madison: 



New York. let 2d 3d T'l 



Langr 181 186 193 660 



Kessler 153 134 147 434 



Manda 114 167 150 431 



Rlebrecht 120 135 173 428 



O'Mara 132 126 160 418 



Fenrlch 128 130 138 396 



Totals 828 878 961 2667 



Madison. 1st 2d 3d T'l 



Plusch 195 356 194 646 



Keating 144 201 163 498 



Connors 155 198 133 486 



Cook 132 147 163 432 



Duckham 97 151 146 393 



Herrlngton 144 105 140 389 



Totals 867 958 918 2743 



The scores Monday evening were: 



Repper 109 89 89 107 96 91 



Fenrlch 134 160 105 188 164 166 



Holt 142 185 144 144 142 144 



Shaw 116 157 118 118 113 138 



Manda 188 99 137 164 125 ... 



Slebrecht 170 133 116 162 163 ... 



Hoffmeyer 116 104 156 123 101 ... 



Guttman 121 124 146 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BOWLING. 



In the issue of March 23 your New 

 York correspondent says among other 

 things that on a certain day the Madison 

 bowling team would "take its medi- 

 cine" from which we may infer that in 

 the final match at that date between the 

 New York Florists' Club and the Madi- 

 son Florists' Club, the New Yorkers 

 were destined to win without question. 

 The ' ' medicine ' ' must have been a tonic, 

 for Madison won and the muse of Alfred 

 Austin has fled. The only song he can 

 sing over the occasion is a funeral dirge, 

 for even his loose change was confiscated 

 on that "black Friday" night and to 

 quote his own words, "All that is left 

 is a memory of better days." 



There was really no basis for suppos- 

 ing that New York had an easy thing, 

 since Madison had won four out of the 



