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AraosT 31. 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



823 



himself at Merriam, Kan., where he did 

 a tbriving business until about five years 

 ago, when he entered into a partnership 

 with ^. L. Kock, and located at Sixty- 

 fifth and Ti'oost avenue, where they have 

 achieved remarkable success and are to- 

 day among our representative men. 



W.' J. Barnes comes next in the list, 

 starting in business with a capital of $45 

 and an unlimited amount of stick-to-it- 

 iveness. He built a lean-to against the 

 south side of his dwelling and by eco- 

 nomical expenditures and hard work 

 made for himself a place in the business 

 world and today is the proud possessor of 

 over 10,000 feet of glass, a modem home 

 and a bank balance that makes some of 

 us green with envy. 



This, with possibly, one or two excep- 

 tions, is the history of the florists' busi- 

 ness in this town; a history of bard 

 knocks, of unselfish devotion to the pro- 

 fession in the face of what seemed at that 

 time unsurmountable obstacles; where it 

 became a work of love to educate the 

 people; where fortunes were not made, 

 but where a living was procured, but only 

 by almost superhuman efforts; where 

 the man worked all day and his wife 

 helped to fire at night, struggling to 

 make both ends meet. There are only 

 a few of the old ones left. Brown, 

 Adkics, Manning, Murray, Bridgeland, 

 Heite and Payne are all that are 

 left, the others having gone on be- 

 fore, leaving behind them a memory 

 dear to us and of which we love to speak. 

 And when we gather together in the pot- 

 ting shed we love to call up the days we 

 worked and fought for a living, until 

 today we can look back on our early 

 struggles with a sigh of satisfaction that 

 for us the struggle is over and the path 

 made easier for those who follow. 



Narcissus. 



NEW YOHK. 



The Market 



"Better, thank you," is the general 

 response when inquiry is made as to the 

 condition of the market. Not with refer- 

 ence to prices, which remain "about the 

 same" as the doctor says of his patient 

 with a slow fever, but as to cleaning up, 

 which was really quite encouraging on 

 \f onday, when the evening found the ice- 

 boxes empty. But it was pathetic to see 

 a box of Brides and Maids, over 300 of 

 them, go for $2, and from this may be 

 gathered a fair idea of what the New 

 York wholesale market is in August. 

 But everybody is satisfied and happy, 

 for conditions are exactly as they have 

 been other years at this date and noth- 

 ing more is expected. ^-'^ 



Everybody is comfortable in his clean 

 and redecorated store. The help has had 

 its outing and everybody has a coat of 

 tan. The principals are well rested and 

 for necessary excitement to keep the 

 blood in motion have had Saratoga and 

 now Sheepshead Bay to draw upon. 

 There is really nothing to discourage 

 anybody. Everyone looks healthy and 

 cheerful and iEill are ready for the best 

 season in our experience. 



American Beauties are of a little bet- 

 ter quality and abundant. All roses 

 show the symptoms of improvement. 

 Carnations are short-stemmed and scarce. 

 Lilies of all kinds are in full supply. 

 Orchids are few and far between and 

 prices are maintained. Mr. McManus 

 entertained one of his New Orleans cus- 

 tomers last week, who was loud in praise 



of safe shipment to that far away city. 



Nobpdy seems to want dahlias yet. One 

 wholesaler expressed himself concerning 

 them in the old fai^iliar way: ,"We 

 can 't give them away. ' ' . Some splendid 

 stock of gladioli is in the market and 

 floods of the common kinds. Cosmos has 

 given sweet peas a deserved vacation. 

 The retail windows are full of panicu- 

 lata. The price seldom goes above $10 

 per thousand. There seems to be no end 

 of it and every garden in and around 

 New York within a radius of fifty miles 

 is full of it. It is surely the subur- 

 banites ' most popular flower and deserves 

 to be. 



September, with its school and theater 

 re-openings, will mark the opening of the 

 new season and start the retail wheels in 

 motion. For weeks there has been liter- 

 ally no business in the New York retail 

 stores. Those who migrate to Newport 

 report a boom. 



Various Notes. 



The fall exhibitions are very near. The 

 seventy-fourth fair of the American In- 

 stitute will take place at the Berkeley 

 Lyceum, 19 West Forty-fourth street, on 

 September 20 and 21. Many premiums 

 for plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables 

 will be given, while the great exhibition 

 of farm and garden crops and the big 

 chrysanthemum show will be held at the 

 Herald Square exhibition hall October 31 

 to November 3. 



On September 11 the New York Flo- 

 rists' Club opens its fall and winter 

 season. This will be herbaceous plant 

 night and a fine exhibit is anticipated. 

 An invitation is extended to all the mem- 

 bers to make displays and Secretary 

 Young will, as usual, take good care of 

 the shipments. Every member of the 

 club is requested to be present. There 

 are many matters of importance to be 

 discussed. The question box will be re- 

 lieved of its summer accumulation and 

 everyone who was at the Washington 

 convention will relate his experience. Mr. 

 O'Mara will be back from Portland and 

 Mr. Nugent never fails in exceeding what 

 is expected of hinl in provision for the 

 demands of appetite. 



The Clucas & Boddington Co. is send- 

 ing out hundreds of sample boxes of 

 twenty-five varieties of phlox from their 

 collection of forty, some of recent Euro- 

 pean introduction. They report a great 

 demand for them. The firm has tMrty- 

 five acres at Sparkill now devoted to 

 herbaceous perennials and evergreens. 



Fred Atkins, of Bobbink & Atkins, is 

 back from Europe^ after a very success- 

 ful business trip. 



Hall and Allen, of the McManus staff, 

 are back from the Catskills. 



Mr. and Mrs. Quttman enjoyed a con- 

 tinuance of their convention holiday at 

 Philadelphia and Atlantic City. 



N. Lecakes & Co. have a new front 

 in keeping with the palatial wholesale 

 stores of Twenty-eighth street. 



Phil Hauswirth and the Poehlmann 

 Brothers voted Ford Bros.' ice-box the 

 finest in the country. 



Ed. Winterson and wife made a brief 

 call here on their homeward journey. So 

 did George Asmus and wife and Mrs. 

 Kreitling, all of Chicago, and several 

 other modest westerners who forgot to 

 register, Mr. Valentine, of far away 

 Denver, among them. Many others from 

 the east and north stopped over for a 

 day. 



Herbert Greensmith is back from Eu- 

 rope. 



Fred S. Peterson has gone to Boches- 

 ter and will join the office force of Man* 

 deville & King, the seedsmen. Mr. Peter- 

 son has been for some years with. Wm. 

 Elliott & Sons aiid before that with 

 Weeber & Don, Landreth and Peter 

 Henderson & Co. He began his career in 

 Edinburgh, with Downie & Land, and 

 was afterwards in the employ of Little 

 & Ballantyne, the largest seed merchants 

 in the north of England. He is an able 

 man, very popular with the gardeners. 



Mr. Nash is still shaking hands with 

 himself because of his narrow escape and 

 nursing his bruises. Mrs. Nash will re- 

 turn next week from her summer trip 

 with her daughter in Germany. 



Miss Anna Dorrance, of Dorranceton, 

 Pa., left last week for a tour in Great 

 Britain and the continent. 



Harry Bunyard is still wrestling with 

 a severe attack of rheumatism and his 

 friends all wish him a speedy recovery. 



Wm. H. Gunther has had a happy 

 Bunoimer outing with his family at tiie 

 favorite Jersey resorts. He has increased 

 his store in size and facilities meantime, 

 so be has now one of the largest places 

 in the wholesale district. 



AH who attended the Washington con- 

 vention have returned more than de- 

 lighted with their experiences. There 

 seems to be but perfect and general sat- 

 isfaction. The grand treatment ac- 

 corded everybody by the Washington and 

 Baltimore boys will never be forgotten. 



Bowe has repainted and briUiantly 

 lighted his store "in the heart of New 

 York" and is ready for a big winter 

 season. 



Myer Otherl, of Guttman 's, is off on a 

 two weeks' vacation. 



A new wholesale firm, Starkey & Kline, 

 has been formed for the sale of plants 

 and will occupy the present store of A. J. 

 Guttman after his removal to 43 West 

 Twenty-eighth street about October 1. 



L. Mutinos will on Saturday open a 

 very pretty store at 1274 Broadway. His 

 stand at Twenty-third street was for 

 years a prosperous one and he has ad- 

 vanced into the realm of the bon tons. 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Sufiicient stock continues to corns in 

 for requirements, as the demand remains 

 comparatively light. Eoses are rather 

 more plentiful Quite a nomber of ths 

 new crop of Brides and Maids are arriv- 

 ing, but these are mostly small. Prieee 

 on tea roses have varied from $1 to $8 

 per hundred. Beauties are coming of 

 very good quality for the season. Prices 

 remain about the same on these. Some 

 very good Wellesley are now seen at the 

 stores. These seU well. Carnations are 

 decidedly scarce. They have averaged $Z 

 per hundred, some going higher and 

 poor ones lower. Sweet peas are practi- 

 cally done for the season. Asters have 

 sold at better prices, 50 cents per hun- 

 dred being prevailing prices, some extra 

 fine white and light pink flowers making 

 $1.50. There. has only been a fair de- 

 mand for gladioli. Speciosum lilies from 

 outside are appearing, the white selling 

 best. Dahlias are seen, but are not good 

 sellers in our market. 



The Exhibition. 



^ The last of the free weekly prize exhi- 

 bitions of the season was held on August 

 26. The exhibits were varied and inter- 



