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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 3, 1905. 



Everything nowadays is scarce except 

 asters and gladioli. This is their day 

 and they dominate everywhere. Even 

 the retail windows have little else and 

 manage to make quite a creditable show- 

 ing with these modest flowers and Scottii 

 fern. Everybody uses Scottii. It is a 

 fine keeper and wUl have a big sale this 

 winter. 



Boses and carnations are not only 

 scarce, but largely inferior, short- 

 stemmed, small-headed and altogether un- 

 satisfactory. The supply of orchids is 

 at a low ebb and will grow less until the 

 end of August. Newport wants every- 

 thing good which the New York demand 

 does not absorb. 



Various Notes. 



It has been decided by the transpor- 

 tation committee that the New York 

 special will go to the convention via the 

 Pennsylvania railroad Monday, August 

 14, at 10:55 a. m.. Twenty-third street 

 ferry. The fare is $8.80 to Washington 

 and return. 



We have ordered a special brand of 

 comfortable temperature for the con- 

 vention. We are all counting on Brother 

 Gude making good. He has promised 

 something out of the ordinary in weather 

 and has a reputation for veracity. We 

 are going 100 strong and more to fol- 

 low. Almost 100 are booked and. doz- 

 ens who are going have not yet sent their 

 names to Secretary Young. This is hardly 

 fair to the commissary department, and 

 to themselves. Some have the notion 

 membership in the S. A. F. or the New 

 York Florists' Club is necessary before 

 the advantages of the special train are 

 available. This is not so. Everybody is 

 welcome and if the decision to become 

 members of these organizations should 

 later materialize, so much the better. It 

 is an honor to have membership in 

 either of them. 



Arthur C. Dacre, with Young & Nu- 

 gent, leaves this week for his annual rest 

 in the Catskills. This firm had charge 

 of the decorations last week at the 

 Japanese club, at the dinner given in 

 honor of Baron Kamura, and will have 

 an elaborate floral display at the grand 

 reception this week, when every Japan- 

 ese of note in the country will be here 

 to "Banzai" for his country and its 

 eminent representatives, 



M. A. Bowe and family are automo- 

 biling in Jersey with headquarters at 

 Asbury Park. Mr. Bowe and his em- 

 ployes will enjoy a short dinner to- 

 gether at Newport next Sunday, a happy 

 innovation. 



Lion & Wertheimer have a whole room 

 engaged at the exhibition hall in Wash- 

 ington for their extensive exhibit, where 

 chairs, writing materials and other con- 

 veniences for their customers and others 

 may be found during the convention. 

 Their specialty will be lace effects in 

 chiffons, but they will have a liberal dis- 

 play of everything choice and novel in 

 the ribbon line. 



H. H. Berger & Co. report exceptional 

 quality in Harrisii this season, and a 

 big demand. This firm is adding to its 

 facilities for a much enlarged trade and 

 will be represented by a fine exhibit at 

 the Washington convention. 



Elliott & Sons are now comfortably 

 settled in their new home on Fulton 

 street and in ship-shape for the fall 

 business. Their double floors for the 

 suction department is a new departure 

 and with elevator facilities everything 

 for the convenience of their customers is 

 up-to-date. They report a big business 



\ MEET US IN WASHINGTON I 



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You will get ideas from our exhibit that will 

 amply repay you for all your time and expense 

 in reaching Washington* 



Give us the pleasure of greeting you there. 



I H. Bayersdorfer & Co. 



i The Florists' Supply House of America 



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on Captain's Island Harrisii and Koman 

 hyacinths are in to add to their activi- 

 ties. 



A unique decoration at Newport last 

 week was at an affair given by Mrs. 

 Stuyvesant Fish. Each table had an 

 immense mound of white flowers as a 

 center-piece, from which arose a large 

 floral umbrella. Each rib was outlined 

 in green and flowers, producing a most 

 charming effect. Artificial trellises in 

 the immense halls were covered with 

 bloom, great masses of blue hydrangeas 

 adding to the beauty of the ensemble. 



All the New York florists at Newport 

 now report the season in full swing, 

 with dinners innumerable and great ex- 

 pectations for a brilliant summer. 



J. K. Allen 's headquarters is becom- 

 ing a great matrimonial center. The 

 record of three weddings in a year will 

 hardly be equaled on the street. A couple 

 of weeks ago the faithful bookkeeper of 

 half a score of years. Miss Eiley, be- 

 came Mrs. Bohlman. Her husband is a 

 wholesale and retail florist at Broadway 

 and Gates avenue, Brooklyn. Mrs. Bohl- 

 man will continue at the office until 

 Easter. On Monday of this week the 

 veteran's son, George James Allen, mar- 

 ried Miss Caroline Rossler and will spend 

 his honeymoon among the Long Island 

 watering places. 



Chir prophesy that E. G. Hill would 

 not find Europe sufficiently attractive to 

 hold him beyond convention time was ful- 

 filled by his return last week on the 

 Campania. Mrs. Hill accompanied him. 



John Birnie is also back from Scot- 

 land. 



William Ghormley left on Monday for 

 a month's sojourn in the Adirondacks. 



George Saltford is enjoying the cooler 

 air of northern New York, as usual dur- 

 ing August. , 



A. J. Guttman and family are at Ellen- 

 ville, in central New York. 



Phil Kessler has the sympathy of his 

 many friends in the serious illness of his 

 father, who suffered a stroke of paralysis 

 lately. 



Warren B. Craw and William Duckham 



are among the late voyagers to the old 

 country and the end is not yet. 



The Burnham-Hitehings-Pierson Co. 's 

 offices on Broadway are a busy center 

 these days. The amalgamation of these 

 great enterprises is developing an enor- 

 mous business. J. Austin Shaw. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Market. 



Cut flowers of all kinds are rather 

 scarce, with practically no demand, with 

 the exception of a little funeral work, 

 which helps along. At the present time 

 the craft is paying more attention to con- 

 vention matters than to business. 



Various Notes. 



The growers are getting ready to bench 

 carnations. C. A. Shaffer, in Alexandria, 

 has his houses planted with carnations 

 and his stock is doing well. The estab- 

 lishments of Minder Bros., J. R. Free- 

 man, J. L. Loose and Gude Bros, never 

 looked better. 



Recent visitors in the city are Fred 

 Michell, J. C. Vaughan, Edwin Seide- 

 witz and Phil Hauswirth. 



Otto Bauer is very seriously ill and 

 has been sent to the hospital, suffering 

 with typhoid fever. He has the sym- 

 pathy of his many friends. 



Frank Slye and J. C. Powell have re- 

 turned after spending several weeks in 

 the mountains. 



There was a meeting of the Florists' 

 Club Monday night to complete all ar- 

 rangements for the convention. From all 

 indications this promises to be the ban- 

 ner convention in the history of the so- 

 ciety. Vice-President Freeman, with the 

 aid of the committees, has worked hard 

 to make this a successful convention. 

 Supt. Cooke has sold all available space 

 and claims the exhibits will far surpass 

 any previous convention. Chairman 

 Ernest has closed all contracts pertain- 

 ing to bowling and promises the boys a 

 big time. The alleys secured for the 

 occasion are second to none. F. H. K. 



