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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 13, 1905. 



special messengers with the designs or- 

 dered here. Mr. Trumpore, of Small's, 

 tells me that never in his experience has 

 he seen a greater display of orchids, 

 some of th3 wreaths sent aggregating in 

 value from $100 to $200 each. 



A very large number of orchids were 

 used in New York last week and for- 

 tunately the supply was equal to the 

 abnormal demand. No finer cattleyas 

 have ever been seen here. Mr. Mc- 

 Manus reports that prices have held 

 very firm. Carnations, when perfect, 

 bring fair prices, but the enormous 

 quantity of inferior stock can hardly be 

 disposed of at all. Roses are sold with- 

 out unpacking the boxes in most cases, 

 and as low as 25 cents a hundred for 

 them as they run has been accepted. 

 Sweet peas cannot be given away. 

 Thousands of strings of smilax re- 

 mained unsold at the close of last week. 

 Street merchants have gone to the sum- 

 mer resorts, and so closed the popular 

 outlet for surplus stuff. Lilies continue 

 excellent in quality and abundant. The 

 Croweanum fern looks very familiar, 

 and is no longer considered a specialty. 

 Several houses are now handling it and 

 the demand for it grows as the price 

 becomes reasonable. 



The Triple Alliance. 

 The Burnham-Hitchings-Pierson Co. 

 has acquired the business interests of the 

 Lord & Burnham Co., Hitchings & Co. 

 and the Pierson-Sefton Co., with offices 

 at 1133 Broadway and a branch office in 

 the Tremont building, Boston. The new 

 company will finish all uncompleted con- 

 tracts made by the three concerns and 

 the active members of each will continue 

 in the management. There can be no 

 doubt of the efficiency of the new cor- 

 poration, owning, as it does, all the best 

 patented features of the constructions of 

 the old firms and doing business on eco- 

 nomic lines. The company has unequaled 

 manufacturing facilities. The Lord & 

 Burnham Company's extensive iron and 

 woodworking factories and foundry at 

 Irvington, N. Y., cover about six acres 

 and their dock facilities and conveniences 

 for shipping are unequaled. The Hitch- 

 ings factory at Jersey City has a large 

 capacity and a national reputation and 

 the Pierson-Sefton Company's plant in- 

 cludes two factories. All three industries 

 will continue, as at present, in the man- 

 ufacture of their specialties. 



Various Notes. 



As noted briefly last week the 

 Thomas Young, Jr., Co. has been incor- 

 porated with a capital of $50,000. The 

 members of the firm are John F. Shar- 

 key, William Sausan and Eugene Mc- 

 Aniney. Ihe company will continue the 

 retail business which Mr. Young has 

 established at his several stores. Mr. 

 Young himself, after his vacation in 

 Europe, will give his entire attention to 

 the wholesale business at 43 West 

 Twenty-eighth street. It is hardly 

 necessary to refer to Mr. Young's rec- 

 ord as a wholesaler^ covering, as it does, 

 so many years of the commission cut 

 flower business. He is probably as well 

 known to the growers of this country 

 as any man who has ever handled cut 

 flowers in America. 



The New York club 's outing is now 

 but a memory, but there are still echoes 

 from it that will be heard a year from 

 now. If we can change the date so that 

 we may not have to contend against the 

 school closings, and if the committee 

 can decide upon a resort that will 



please everybody, next year's outing 

 should easily gather an attendance of 

 500. Enough sports and prizes were 

 provided this year to cover a week of 

 outings. 



F. H. Kramer, of Washington, was in 

 town last week with items of interest 

 as to the convention of the Society of 

 American Florists. Nothing has been 

 left undone to make this convention, he 

 says, the greatest in the society's his- 

 tory. A "jarge attendance is certain 

 from New York. In fact, inquiry 

 among the club members indicates that 

 very few will be absent. Arrangements 

 have already been made by many for 

 the excellent accommodations sug- 

 gested, and Mr. Gud6 claims to have 

 fixed things with the weather man so 

 that no discomfort need be feared. 



New York will have a bowling team 

 at the convention. Hot weather and 

 honeymoons and "harmony" have com- 

 bined to make further practice evident- 

 ly unnecessary. We have such a lot of 

 good bowlers that we have decided that 

 we can make up a club that will make 

 a good run for first honors without any 

 further preparation. 



Down at Flatbush last Thursday even- 

 ing we sa-v another illustration of how 

 a bowling club can be maintained and 

 good fellowship perpetuated through 

 nearly a score of years. Never a Thurs- 

 day night in the year can one visit 

 Flatbush and be disappointed. There is 

 always a quorum and an abundance of 

 jollity and enthusiasm. Davy Mellis 

 leaves this week for his month's vaca- 

 tion in tho Vermont mountains with his 

 family. Naturally he led all the bowl- 

 ers and secured all the profits of the 

 evening. The team from Flatbush will 

 probably include Riley, Zeller, Schmutz 

 and one of the Dailledouze boys, in ad- 

 dition to Mr. Mellis, and if they can 

 bowl as w-«ll at Washington as they do 

 at home they will bring back some of 

 the handsome prizes of which we are 

 told there will be an abundance there. 



Thomas Sharkey, who has been book- 

 keeper for Thomas Young, Jr., for four- 

 teen years, received his first visit from 

 the stork 'ast week and both the girl 

 baby and its mother are doing nicely. 



The vacation season is in full blast. 

 Next week J. Nash, of Moore, Hentz & 

 Nash, will begin his two weeks' outing 

 at Blairstcwn, N. J. John Krai, head 

 salesman for the same firm, is now on 

 his farm at Port Chester, N. Y., enjoying 

 a three weeks' vacation. 



On Thursday last Joseph Volke, fore- 

 man for W. H. Seibrecht, and Miss 

 Crozier, of Astoria, were married. 



Miss Riley, bookkeeper for J. K. Al- 

 len, will be away enjoying her vacation 

 in the mountains until August. The 

 veteran '"J. K. " himself will take in 

 the Washington convention this year in- 

 stead of going to Europe. Mr. Allen, 

 in the eighteen years he has been in the 

 wholesale business, has the record of 

 never having disappointed a grower, not 

 once in all that time failing to send on 

 each Tuesday morning a check for 

 every dollar due, a record of which any 

 man has reason to be proud. There are 

 a number of others in the wholesale sec- 

 tion who hold similar records for 

 promptness. 



Lion & Wertheimer and Schloss Bros, 

 will both have extensive exhibits of 

 their ribbon specialties at the Washing- 

 ton convention. These firms both re- 

 port an unusual year's business. 



The yearly redecoration of the whole- 



sale stores is now in full swing. Clos- 

 ing hour comes earlier every day and 

 quite a number find opportunity to re- 

 tire from active duty at noon. If the 

 system of early closing could only be 

 made universal among the retailers it 

 would cause general satisfaction. Some 

 of the retail stores actually remain open 

 until 10 o'clock at night and until 6 

 o'clock on Sunday. These are not only 

 the smaller stores, but the very best in 

 the business maintain this antiquated 

 system, even during July and August. 

 The only r'isult that I can detect is the 

 dissatisfaction of faithful employees^ 

 who feel that some concession is due 

 them, at any rate during the "dog 

 days," after ten months of continuous 

 service when n'o stated hours are pos- 

 sible. 



The worst wind and rain storm of a 

 decade visited New York Monday after- 

 noon. J. M. Thorburn & Co. suffered 

 quite a loss by the breaking of a sky- 

 light. 



Reed & Keller have a large assort- 

 ment of novelties already packed and 

 ready for early shipment to the S. A. F. 

 trade exhibit. H. H. Berger & Co. will 

 be there with bulbs and imported 

 plants. Julius Roehrs Co. has its usual 

 fine exhibit selected. 



Mr. Keller, of Reed & Keller, leaves 

 July 23 on the Deutschland for a trip 

 to Germany. 



P. Riley, for many years private gar- 

 dener for Millionaire Brown, of Flat- 

 bush, since the death of that gentleman 

 and the sale of the greenhouse stock has 

 joined the Dailledouze Bros, and is 

 now doing his share in raising as fine 

 carnations and mums as reach the New 

 York market. 



The Newport season has opened slow- 

 ly, but thi3 week sees the majority of 

 the New York force of all having 

 branches there on their way to the 

 strenuous society functions of the 400 

 in the city by the sea. A great sea- 

 son there is anticipated. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Market. 



Business the past week has been very 

 quiet. Stock of all kinds is practically 

 gone, that is, good stock, such as roses 

 and carnations. Outdoor stuff seems 

 very poor. The craft in general depends 

 entirely on the northern market for good 

 stock of all kinds. Considerable call has 

 been made for funeral flowers. Among 

 the growers some have housed, their car- 

 nations. Roses have all been planted 

 and in general look very healthy and the 

 outlook for the coming season is very 

 bright. Among those who are building 

 and rebuilding are Robert Bowlder, 

 Theodore Deidrich and F. H. Kramer, 

 mostly for carnations, as this flower is 

 increasing in popular favor each season. 



G>nvention Matters. 



The various committees have nearly 

 completed their work for the coming S. 

 A. F. convention. There will be some 

 slight changes to follow the program. 

 The reception will take place at Carroll 

 hall, a handsome building adjoining the 

 exhibition hall, or on the lawn of Loef- 

 fler's park. If on the latter, it will be 

 quite a novelty. 



TLe men's bowling will take place two 

 squares from the exhibition hall. The 

 six alleys are the finest in the country. 

 The ladies will bowl about three blocks 

 from the exhibition hall, on the Spar- 



