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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



September 7, 1905. 



bounded by Nostrand, Park and Marcy 

 avenues and Floyd street. 



As building operations began about 

 him he part«^ with the grounQ he occu- 

 pied until only ai small ^ g^eq^house re-, 

 mained, and this was retained more for 

 his own pleasure. He was a widower, 

 his wife having died twelve years ago. 

 He was survived by two sons and two 

 'laughters. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Never did the flower trade in New 

 York speed more gladly the parting 

 guest than when it said good-by to 

 August, a month that will, go down in 

 metropolitan floral records as "the 

 worst ever." For low prices, abun- 

 dance of stock and stagnation of busi- 

 ness, wholesale and retail, it has never 

 had an equal. The end of the" week 

 showed no improvement and Sunday 

 and Labor day saw a premature equi- 

 noctial storm that was almost a flood. 



Stock of all kinds is abundant, ex- 

 cept orchids and carnations. Of roses, 

 asters, gladioli and hydrangeas there is 

 no end. The buyer is king and his dic- 

 tum as to the value goes. An offer is 

 snapped up more quickly than an old 

 maid says "yes" when she knows her 

 last chance has come. Oncidium vari- 

 cosum is in evidence, excellent in quality 

 and demand. 



Various Notes. 



Carl Jurgens, of Newport, is send- 

 ing some fine valley to McManus. 



John Young's windows were resplen- 

 dent ^aturdaj' with cactus dahlias, 

 grand stock from the headquarters at 

 Cottage Gardens. 



Gunther's additional room is for 

 chrysanthemum display. But it will be 

 large enough for about everything in 

 the phenomenal season that all antici- 

 pate. 



The Sigmund Geller Co. has added a 

 neat office to its store on West Twenty- 

 ninth street and has the facilities for a 

 iarge business. 



George Saltford is back from his 

 stay at the old home amid the Rhine- 

 beck violet factories, bronzed and. 

 healthy, looking much like the great 

 Russian diplomat, Witte, and quite as 

 diplomatic in his dealings with all 

 classes. 



Geo. Cotsonas & Co. have been re- 

 ceiving and putting in cold storage an 

 immense quantity of ferns and other 

 ' ' green goods ' ' for the winter demand 

 and find their big store none too large 

 this year for their increasing business. 



Alex. Guttman moves to 43 West 

 Twent3'-eighth street on Saturday, Sep- 

 tember 9, where he will open his new 

 wholesale store with appropriate cele- 

 bration three A\ceks ahead of his first in- 

 tention. 



Kline & Starkey will take possession 

 of Mr. Guttman 's old premises, at 52 

 West Twenty-ninth, street, the same 

 day. 



Thos. Young, Jr., opens his new 

 wholesale store at 43 West Twenty- 

 eigiith street, occupying the whole floor 

 above his old quarters, this week, and 

 Phil Kessler also begins active business 

 in his handsome place above Young & 

 Nugent 's. » 



Birthday celebrations are in order. J. 

 K. Allen passed his fiftieth milestone 

 on August 20 and Louis Schmutz went 



him ten better a few days later. Both 

 are as lively as two-year-olds. 



The clubj meeting Monday night 

 promises a big attendance. It will be 

 ift the nature of k reuMion after the 

 three months' vacation. Mr. Nugent 

 promises the needful articles with which 

 to properly start the ship in motion. 

 Pres. Traendly will take the helm for 

 the closing months of his captaincy and 

 will try to steer the ship into a peaceful 

 harbor. John Birnie will probably dis- 

 course on the "Ideal Employer" from 

 a practical standpoint and there will be 

 eloquence on the convention and other 

 topics sufficient to interest the most 

 blase of the club's membership. The 

 exhibit of herbaceous flowers should be 

 a large and interesting one. There will 

 be no bowling in the afternoon, but a 

 new bowling club will soon be formed. 



Wm. H. Donohoe left on Sunday for 

 Saratoga, where he has charge of the 

 decoration of the Grand Union Hotel 

 for the carnival week. The entire effect 

 is in red. Liberty roses, red dahlias and 



Please cut out the plants in 

 my advertisement in 



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Stock is running out very 

 rapidly. Have had an excellent 

 trade for Primroses and Gnera- 

 rias. The Review is doing Grand 

 and Noble work. 



JOHN F. RUPP. 



Shiremanstown, Pa., 

 Sept. 2, 1905. 



gladioli with an aDundance of wild smi- 

 lax ^ being used profusely. Two men 

 had been busy some days on the work 

 before Mr. Donohoe 's arrival. 



Some large decorations are reported 

 from Newport. Three weeks will about 

 close the festivities there and by that 

 time the metropolitan wheels will be in 

 motion. 



The schedule of prizes for the seven- 

 ty-fourth annual fair of the American 

 Institute is published. The veteran. Dr. 

 F. M. Hexamer, is in charge. Medals, 

 diplomas and certificates are numerous. 

 The fair will last four days. A good 

 many $100, $50, $40 and $30 prizes are 

 listed, the total reaching into the thou- 

 sands, and about everything in trade 

 exhibits is enumerated. 



One sign of fall that never fails is the 

 opening of the auction rooms for the 

 sale of horticultural goods and another 

 week will see both Wm. Elliott & Son's 

 and Cleary's Horticultural Hall in full 

 blast. Next week Tuesday and Friday 

 the melodious voices of the criers will 

 be heard again, doubtless more melif- 

 luous and persausive than ever. 



Bro. Gillett, of Cincinnati, drifted into 

 town last week after a dip with his 

 family in the brine at Ocean Grove and 

 Asbury. He thinks it beats the Ohio for 

 flavor, but the perfume of Anheuser is 



missing from the air. Mr. Gillett thinks 

 Dayton an ideal spot for the convention. 

 Thos. Langton, of Brooklyn, has 

 joi^ied the rheumatic featernity ' and* 

 with Lo|enz and Harry' Bunyard. has 

 had a h*rd fight with the enemy.? 



The wholesalers in Brooklyn are all 

 hopeful as to the coming season. Craw- 

 buck & Wiles have a great abundance of 

 everything stored away in "green 

 goods" and are reaching out for a ship- 

 ping trade and getting ready for it. 

 Their growth has been a rapid one and 

 the need for just such a store in Brook- 

 lyn has been amply demonstrated. 



Hicks & Crawbuck, the wholesale cut 

 flower and supply men, will move to 76 

 Comb street, Brooklyn, next month, 

 where they will have increased facilities 

 for their business, with 6,000 square feet 

 of floor space at their disposal. 



A call on Thos. Devoy & Son, of 

 Poughkeepsie, found the violet housing 

 making rapid progress and the stock 

 exceptionally fine. Telegraph geranium 

 is especially brilliant, notwithstanding 

 the storms and the early chill, and the 

 demand for this great novelty continues. 

 Some excellent stock is being shipped 

 daily. Mr. Devoy, Sr., has been quite 

 ill, but is again well and wonderfully ac- 

 tive for a man in the seventies. 



Mr. Saltford 's fine place on the lead- 

 ing avenue of the city of Poughkeepsie 

 never looked better, his bedding work 

 being especially attractive. His exten- 

 sive greenhouses, in which he grows 

 about everything, are not capable of 

 supplying half the stock demanded by 

 his retail store, where his sons are in 

 charge. One of the boys was rejoicing 

 in the advent of his first born and the 

 other was at the Thousand Islands on 

 his wedding trip when I called. 



Up at Hyde Park and toward Rhine- 

 beck one hears little else but violets and 

 every farmer has a house of them, or is 

 going to have, and most of them are 

 studying Geo. Saltford 's handy little 

 volume, "How to Grow Violets," or else 

 have already mastered it. It was an 

 enormous responsibility to write that 

 book. One realizes it when he gets 

 where the people use it more than the 

 Bible in their family devotions. 



The Japan Daily Herald, of Yoko- 

 hama, printed in our own language, has 

 a full page in its August 5 issue de- 

 voted to the Yokohama Nursery Co., 

 with illustrations. The amount of land 

 devoted to irises, lilies, sago palms, con- 

 iferae and other nursery stock is very 

 extensive. Mr. Suzuki places his expor- 

 tations of lily bulbs last year at over 

 four millions and of fern balls 150,000 

 and iris 100,000. Greenhouses have re- 

 cently been added. Over 5,000 bales of 

 sphagnum moss are used yearly for 

 packing. Considerable space is devoted 

 to the description of the wonderful 

 dwarf trees, of which this firm sends 

 many thousands yearly to America. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Junction City, Kan. — An evidence 

 of the growth of the people's apprecia- 

 tion of flowers is the increase in amount 

 of glass in small towns. In 1898 the 

 Junction City Floral Co. started with 

 1,000 square feet of glass. Now it has 

 12,000 feet. General greenhouse stock 

 is found there but cut flowers are the 

 principal stock; 4,000 carnations, 1,000 

 roses, 600 mums and a house of violets. 

 They supply the local trade and neigh- 

 boring towns. 



