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The Weekly Fbrists' Review. 



Mat 4, 1905. 



Miller, will leave the etid of this month 

 for a trip to Germany, to be gone three 

 months. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club will hold 

 its regular monthly meeting next Thurs- 

 day afternoon. May 11, at 2 o'clock. A 

 talk by the growers, retailers and com- 

 mission men on Easter business will be 

 one of the features. The officers look 

 forward to an interesting meeting and 

 President Juengel expects every member 

 to be present and join in the different 

 discussions which will come up. 



The plant stands at Union Market are 

 handling some extra fine' blooming plants 

 and report a rushing business the past 

 week. 



All the local growers will commence 

 planting this week. Plenty of rain of 

 late put the ground in splendid condi- 

 tion for this kind of work. Heavy or- 

 ders are already in for all kinds of bed- 

 ding stock, of which plenty is to be had. 



Only four members of the bowling club 

 showed up on Monday night, so a match 

 of six games was arranged between 

 Kuehn and Miller and Beneke and Mein- 

 hardt. The first pair won by a margin 

 of two pins, each team winning three 

 games as follows: Kuehn, 1,050; Miller, 

 892; Beneke, 980; Meinhardt, 960. High 

 single score, Beneke, 212; Kuehn, 200. 



J. D. Thompson, of the Thompson 

 Carnation Co., Joliet, 111., spent Mon- 

 day and Tuesday among the trade here. 

 Mr. Thompson entertained the boys on 

 the great Chicago strike and the hard- 

 ships of the wholesalers in that city 

 at present. J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



Since the close of Lent, weddings have 

 been numerous. Everything in cut 

 flowers has cleaned up at low prices and 

 business has settled down to "the even 

 tenor of its way" in the spring, with 

 supplies abundant and the tendency to 

 lower figures. Lilies were actually sold 

 one day last week at $10 a thousand. 



Orchids and valley are firm at good 

 prices, thanks to the potency of the old, 

 old story and the many ventures upon 

 matrimony's sea. There cannot be too 

 many weddings this spring to "even up 

 things" for the patient fiorists and to 

 end encouragingly the most strenuous 

 season in their experience. 



Bulbous stock is now very plentiful. 

 Violets are no longer quotable and few 

 are arriving. The continued cool weather 

 has wonderfully prolonged their season. 

 Valley and smilax are bringing good 

 prices. Maids and Brides are down. 

 The best of them could be had for $5 

 on Saturday. 



The weather on Monday was chilly, 

 approaching freezing up the state and 

 too cold for anything less than overcoats 

 in New York. This seemed to have a 

 beneficial effect on business in all de- 

 partments of the cut flower section, and 

 everything went at better prices. Good 

 Beauties were quite scarce and anything 

 extra commanded $25 per hundred. 



Various Notei. 



It is reported that the Fernery has 

 engaged a store on Fifth avenue, near 

 Twenty-ninth street, and Jos. Fleishman 

 has taken a corner store at Forty-third 

 street and Fifth avenue, right in the 

 midst of the fine establishmetits of 



Smythe, Young, Thorley and McConnell. 

 Concentration is going forward with a 

 vengeance. 



Now that Easter is but a "has been" 

 we must turn to the coming day of hal- 

 lowed memories. Decoration day is 

 close at hand. Its importance to floricul- 

 ture grows with the years. With consis- 

 tent care and skill the plantsmen have 

 prepared for it as never before and the 

 supply for the occasion never has been 

 so extensive and beautiful. Hydrangeas, 

 Crimson Ramblers and lilies form the 

 bulk of the supply. There are thou- 

 sands of them that will be ready for the 

 demand, which is already in evidence, 

 but none too many for th« extraordinary 

 requirements of the Memorial day. 



Next Monday will be the New York 

 Florists' Club's bedding plant festival. 

 There ought to be a good display. The 

 veteran critic, Birnie, is master of cere- 

 monies. There will be less discussion and 

 more entertainment than usual. The 

 Brooklyn park board, with its idiotic ex- 

 pulsion of children from its greenhouses, 

 will get "what is coming to it" from 

 the president and his committee and 

 other matters of importance will receive 

 consideration. 



Elliott & Sons stay in their old quar- 

 ters on Dey street a month or two 

 longer, gradually moving to the new 

 place on Fulton street. The auction de- 

 partment will continue meantime at the 

 old stand. 



The sale of orchids at deary's last 

 ders of all kinds of nursery stock, often 

 draws crowds on auction days. Few fa- 

 miliar faces among the buyers these days. 

 At both places seldom a retail florist can 

 be seen. The crowd is largely suburb- 

 anites and the! prices obtained are often 

 excellent, thereby. 



The streets down-town are full of ven- 

 dors of all kinds of nursery stock, often 

 "fearfully and wonderfully" labeled and 

 much of it thoroughly warmed and dried 

 in the afternoon sunshine, until one's 

 heart warms toward the unfortunate 

 countryman who goes home "weary and 

 heavy laden" with great expectations. 



The big seed stores that cater to the 

 retail public have had and are now hav- 

 ing a wonderfully prosperous season. The 

 places of business are all crowded and 

 in some of them last week standing room 

 was at a premium. There is no city in 

 the world with such an enormous and 

 constantly growing suburban clientage. 

 The) tendency of the seedsmen and bulb 

 men is northward. Perhaps this is in 

 anticipation of the Pennsylvania termi- 

 nal at Thirty-fourth street. 



Salph Ward & Co. have advanced sev- 

 eral blocks. Elliott goes to Fulton 

 street, Marshall & Co. are on Twenty- 

 third street. Clucas & Boddington Co. 

 are now located on the! same great re- 

 tail thoroughfare. Arthur T. Bodding- 

 ton is on Fourteenth street. Thorburn 

 and Henderson remain on Cortlandt 

 street, opposite each other on what will 

 always be the great retail street of lower 

 New' York, though the transfer of the 

 Pennsylvania traffic northward must 

 certainly be a disadvantage later on. 



The convention at Washington already 

 is a subject for discussion in New York. 

 The Washington florists are full of en- 

 thusiasm. Great plans for the reception 

 of a record breaking crowd and over- 

 bubbling interest are manifest. The dele- 

 gation from New York should exceed 



that at Buffalo, which certainly was a 

 credit to the metropolis, nearly 200 

 strong. There is no more interesting 

 city than Washington. I predict an at- 

 tendance of 2,000. 



W. C. Krick and his sister have the 

 sympathy of the trade in the death of 

 Henry Grebe, of Jamaica, a mai£K)f excel- 

 lent character and a successful florist, 

 who while temporarily insane shot him- 

 self last week. He leaves a widow and 

 two children. He had an abundance of 

 means and everything to live for. * 



The) woman florist has been a success 

 in this country generally and has shown 

 good financial ability. So the failure 

 of Miss Cohn, of 17 East Fifty-ninth 

 street, just at Easter time is hard to 

 understand. The assets consist of $20 in 

 uncollected bills, but the liabilities total 

 the unusual margin of $3,989. 



Bowline, 



The Bowling Club held its last ses- 

 sion at the old rooms on West Thirtieth 

 street Monday evening. President Traend- 

 ly in the chair. It was decided to hold 

 a decisive session at the club rooms next 

 Monday evening in the Grand Opera 

 House building, where the club will be 

 re-organized and arrangements made for 

 weekly practice at Thum's alleys on 

 Broadway and Thirtieth street, close to 

 the wholesale section. In this way the 

 team to represent the club at Washing- 

 ton will be selected. With a more con- 

 venient center for practice, and an even- 

 ing more satisfactory to the majority, it 

 is hoped a representative! team may be 

 got together to do itself and the) Flo- 

 rists' Club honor at the August conven- 

 tion. The final scores of the old guard 

 made Monday evening were: 



Player. lat 2d 3rt 



Capt. Fenrlch 168 



Treas. Guttman 127 158 17S 



Sec. Shaw 116 117 125 



Rooter Manda 143 151 158 



Lieut. Holt 119 134 144 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Prices are generally lower than a week 

 ago. In spite of social activity, the 

 quantity of flowers now coming in is 

 more than the market can properly 

 digest and naturally a good many find 

 their way into the hands of street ven- 

 ders or remain in the ice chests. Of 

 course, good stock sells readily, as it 

 always does. Beauties are quite plenti- 

 ful 'ahd lower in price. The shorter- 

 stemmed grades of Brides and Brides- 

 maids are very cheap, many being sold 

 at $1 per hundred. While especially 

 good carnations have realized $3 to $4, 

 the average price for good stock has been 

 $2 to $2.50. Enchantress, Fair Maid, 

 Lawson and Nelson Fisher, owing to the 

 comparatively cool weather, still come 

 of fine size and excellent color. 



A "few violets still come in, principally 

 doubles, but the present week will see a 

 finish of these. Bulbous stock sells de- 

 cidedly better than a year ago. Quite a 

 lot of white and colored stocks come in, 

 but these are hard to sell except at 

 Decoration day, unless of extra good 

 quality. There is a fair demand for 

 lilies for society weddings, of which we 

 have had a good many the past week. 

 Sweet peas are very abundant and 

 cheaper. Adiantum is lower, as the new 



