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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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A journey through the wholesale cut 

 flower market of New York last Sat- 

 urday was anything but an inspiration. 

 The quantity of stock on hand was ab- 

 normal, even in this season of big ship- 

 ments, and the prices, as one wholesaler 

 put it, "anything we can get," with 

 iew exceptions. Beauties were very poor. 

 A lot of the stock was entirely unsalable. 

 I saw box after box of Maids and 

 Brides go out as originally shipped as 

 low as $1 per hundred. 



Retailers and wholesalers both com- 

 plain of the bad influence of the big 

 shipments and "stealings" of lilac. By 

 the stealings I mean that the streets 

 are filled with venders, many of them 

 boys who have scoured the adjacent coun- 

 try and appropriated all the lilac they 

 could lay their hands on and who then 

 turn an honest peBHyj by supplying the 

 unsophisticated New Yorkers. Even the 

 wealthy people, the retailers declare, have 

 been making their homes spring-like and 

 their tables suggestive of the simple 

 country life by buying lilac in preference 

 to roses, valley and carnations. How 

 have the mighty fallen! Wild violets 

 have taken the place of tlie very "tame" 

 ones and even the blossoms from the 

 orchards and the woods make up the 

 decorations of the retail windows and 

 gladden the hearts of the people who 

 pass. 



The fakirs will soon be oflP to the big 

 summer resorts and the demand from 

 that source will perceptibly lessen, to the 

 annoyance of the wholesaler, to whom, 

 in the daily cleaning up process, these 

 gentry have become a necessity. 



Outdoor lily of the valley is abundant 

 and prices of the real thing have fallen, 

 notwithstanding that wedduigs continue. 

 The Siebrecht factory, at Astoria, how- 

 ever, keeps on every day in the year 

 turning out its daily and excellent sup- 

 ply. No need of any marriage ceremony 

 being postponed because of a shortage of 

 valley. Cold storage becomes, therefore, 

 a preliminary of wedding festivities and 

 the valley bouquet is always in season. 



Lilies of fine quality command only 

 $2 to $4 per hundred for the best of 

 them. The "bulbist" who grows them 

 must have moments of unspeakable 

 thoughts. Cornflowers, gladioli and cam- 

 panulas are arriving profusely. There 

 seems to be no shortage of anything. 

 The $1 boxes of cut flowers are again 

 in the windows, a sure barometer as_ to 

 bargains. They certainly look tempting 

 and they are great value, from the pub- 

 lic standpoint. 



Monday was another bad day in the 

 wholesale market. Looks like summer 

 prices had arrived on an early train. 

 But the skies will clear somewhat for 

 Decoration day and there will be an 

 upward tendency shortly. 



Hortkultftral Sodety't Show. 



The annual exhibition of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New York was held 

 last Wednesday and Thursday at the 

 Bronx park museum building. The of- 

 ^cers of last year were re-elected. The 

 membership now totals nearly 200. An 

 interesting lecture was delivered on 

 ■"Summer in the Fruit Garden," by Prof. 

 Fletcher, of Cornell University. A very 

 fflnall percentage of the 4,000,000 people 

 in- New York City's borders were pres- 



ent, rather less than usual. Dr. Britton 

 exhibited some results of his recent 

 travels south. The native dracsena from 

 Honduras was the most interesting; D. 

 Americana is its name. He brought a 

 Me^can opuntia and Luther Burbank 

 seut blooms of the Australian fadeless 

 flower. The exhibits :>rere not numerous. 

 F. B. Pierson Co. displayed a fine bank 

 of decorative plants and cut flowers, Sie- 

 brecht & Son the same. Julius Boehrs 

 and Lager & Hurrell had their usual as- 

 sortments of orchids, both plants and 

 cut flowers. Weinberg showed succulent 

 plants and cacti. Mrs. Glibes and Ger- 

 trude Paddock, of Woodsidef, also exhibit- 

 ed their collections. Loiiis Dupuy, of 

 Whitestone, showed several fine plants of 

 Crassula hybrida coccinea. Wild flowers 

 and shrubs were exhibited by the Bed- 

 ford Agassiz Association, P. Nelson, 

 Mrs. Kauffman, H. S. Wood and Julia 

 J. Knott. The New York Botanical Gar- 

 den had flowering shrubs and decorative 



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Various Notes. 



Outdoor valley brings from 50 cents 

 per hundred down. Kessler handled 

 10,000 Saturday at the Cut Flower Ex- 

 change. Wm, Amos was re-elected presi- 

 dent of this organization last week and 

 the old board was reinstated, except that 

 David Deans took the place of George 

 Qolsner. 



Bonnot, of Newark and Jersey City, on 

 Saturday opened his new store, 25x125, 

 with conservatory at the back running 

 to another street, the finest floral estab- 

 lishment in Jersey. 



Geo. Saltford will again cater to the 

 interests of the Dutchess County Horti- 

 cultural Society's exhibition on June 10, 

 at Annandale, as curator, in which ca- 

 pacity he won last year the plaudits of 

 ' ' the 400, ' ' who grow things up the Hud- 

 son. Amateurs and professionals, rich 

 and otherwise, vie with each other in 

 fruit and floral display here yearly. Mr. 

 Saltford after June 1 will have floods 

 of gladioli at his wholesale market in 

 New York. 



Brooklyn has a quartette of wholesalers 

 now who make the church city quite in- 

 dependent. Hicks & Crawbuck handle 



grand stock and an abundance of it. 

 Kuebler, with his two brothers as lieu- 

 tenants, is rapidly Iwiiding up a fine 

 business and has made ItU "iMldquarters 

 quite metropolitan in appearance. Bonnot 

 & Blake are doing well at 26 Boerum 

 place and in addition to their cut flower 

 trade are selling agents for the Lever 

 cane clip, a most useful invention for 

 rose and chrysanthemum growers, made 

 by B. S. Blake & Son, of Bochester. 

 Crawbuck & Wiles have monopolized the 

 "green goods" trade across the bridge 

 and keep on hand about everything in 

 that line the florist needs. 



In the retail department down-town 

 Mallon, Wier, Phillips and Masur all 

 rejoice in ap extra prosperous Easter 

 season. Mr. Masur, at 238 Fulton street, 

 tells me sales were double last year and 

 that his business has grown so that 

 larger quarters will soon be necessary. 

 Mr. Phillips' store has already been en- 

 larged. 



On May 11 the daughter of Julius Z. 

 Schoma, of 627 DeKalb avenue, Brook- 

 lyn, a young lady of 17 years, who had 

 just graduated from the Brooklyn busi- 

 ness college, died suddenly. 



On Saturday, Harry, the son of H. 

 Hermann, retail florist of Broadway, 

 Brooklyn, 15 years of age, fell through 

 a trap-door at Kenny's, the wire manu- 

 facturer on Dean street, fracturing his 

 skull and dying later in the day at St. 

 John's hoE^ital. The sorrowing parents 

 have the sincere sympathy of the trade 

 in their bereavement. 



Secretary Peter Bisset, of the Washing- 

 ton Club, who was here last week, an- 

 nounces extensive preparations for the 

 great convention there in August, with 

 an abundance of interesting surprises for 

 the thousands of visitors expected. 



The New York Club's outing is dose 

 at hand. Those who have not already 

 done so are requested to engage their 

 tickets at once from President Traendly. 

 The meeting of the club on June 12 wUl 

 be ladies' and peony night and a great 

 attendance is anticipated. 



W. G. Badgley, of Chatham, was in the 

 city Saturday. His roses are superb and 

 he contemplates adding to his 10,000 

 square feet of glass at an early date. 

 His stock has been handled since his first 

 shipment by A. J. Guttman. 



W. F. Kasting, of Bu^lo, was a recent 

 visitor, none the worse for his illness. 



John and William Blake, private gar- 

 deners of Pasadena, Cal., were in the 

 city Monday on their way to Europe. 



A. T. Boddington reports a very good 

 business on his seed specialties. 



The Clucas & Boddington Co. are set- 

 tled in their new home on West Twenty- 

 third street and seem delighted with the 

 change. They report a great increase in 

 their nursery business at Sparkill this 

 season. 



Ralph M. Ward & Co. are also de- 

 lighted with their enlarged space and 

 added conveniences in their new quarters 

 at 12 West Broadway. 



Edwin A. Denham is in Europe replen- 

 ishing his stock of Flanders pottery at 

 31 Barclay street. 



The leading retailers on Broadvray and 

 Fifth avenue are closing at 8 o'clock. 

 A few stragglers still keep open an hour 

 later. What good it does them it is 

 hard to underhand. It seems easy for 

 some to forget the long days and all 

 night sessions of the strenuous winter 

 and Easter season. J. Austin Shaw. 



