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The Weekly Rorists^ Review^ 



OCTOBKB 26, 1905. 



any other large city of the north, com- 

 pelled to send away for its cut flowers. 

 With a retail demand of splendid pro- 

 portions, the local supply of cut flowers 

 is very inadequate and every day large 

 quantities of material are shipped in 

 from St. Louis and Chicago. Others have 

 recognized that Kansas City affords a 

 splendid field for a large wholesale cut 

 flower producing establishment. To Mr. 

 Shaeffer the realization has come in the 

 few months of his connection with the 

 trade. With realization in this case came 

 determination and action will not long 

 be delayed. Unless Mr. Shaeffer changes 

 his plans, which is not likely, except it 

 be to broaden them, he will early next 

 spring erect a range of 200,000 feet of 

 glass for roses and carnations, the nu- 

 cleus for a plant which will have all the 

 backing necessary to meet the needs of 

 Kansas City's growing demand. During 

 a recent period Mr. Shaeffer has been 

 visiting large growers around Chicago 

 and in the east, familiarizing himself 

 with methods of construction, etc. In 

 the meantime he has formed a partner- 

 ship with James Bigham and Theo. 

 Kahma to open a wholesale supply store, 

 which is to be developed as the business 

 grows. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



' ' The prayers of the righteous avail- 

 eth much" and the long delayed frost 

 has come to gladden the hearts of the 

 growers, wholesalers and retailers and 

 set the market's wheels in motion for 

 the long journey that will not end until 

 after April 15, when Easter comes again. 



Saturday was quite encouraging, the 

 demand depleting the ice-boxes and bet- 

 ter prices prevailing than for weeks. 

 Monday kept up the good work and, al- 

 though prices improved slowly, every- 

 thing of good quality was taken and a 

 general spirit of cheerfulness prevailed. 



Chrysanthemums are asserting them- 

 selves, almost flooding the market, even 

 at this early date. Mrs. Bobinson and 

 Wm. Duckham are bringing good prices. 

 There is an abundance of fine stock. 

 Top prices seem to be $3 a dozen for 

 the best, while the small and ordinary 

 varieties already have fallen to as low 

 as $1 per hundred. Beautiful blooms 

 of the popular varieties sold Monday 

 evening at $12 per hundred. 



All roses are advancing slowly but 

 surely and not to retrograde again this 

 year, we hope. Carnations are improv- 

 ing in color, stem and numbers daily. 

 Some of the novelties command good 

 prices. The frost has not yet got down 

 to the dahlia farms and shipments con- 

 tinue. A wonderful rise in popularity is 

 the record of this fine old garden flower 

 this season. Never have they been grown 

 so perfectly and the new varieties of sin- 

 gle and cactus tjpes have surely come to 

 stay. Cosmos is everywhere and never 

 so popular and beautiful. 



The rotund and genial G. H. Pieser, 

 of Kennicott Bros. Co., Chicago, has been 

 visiting Kew York and also made his 

 presence felt at Rhinebeck. This may 

 account for light shipments and higher 

 prices for violets, good stock going up 

 to 75 cents a hundred on Monday even- 

 ing and occasionally touching $1, if re- 

 ports were correct concerning them. The 

 bulk of the shipments, however, did not 

 bring over 50 cents. Nevertheless the 

 big horse show in the west and the visit 

 of the big "promoter" certainly was a 



factor in the New York market in its 

 violet department. 



Cattleyas and other orchids are still 

 abundant. Every retail window that 

 amounts to anything utilized them in 

 decoration. Siebrecht & Son's big store 

 was crowded with them from their own 

 conservatories. Plants as well as flow- 

 ers were everywhere. The effect was very 

 beautiful. McManus has an excellent 

 assortment of dendrobiums, vandas and 

 oncidiums. White orchids, so popular 

 this season for wedding bouquets, are 

 apparently at all times sufficient for the 

 demand. 



Fifty per cent of the wholesale stores 

 are handling mum plants. Some fine 

 stock is seen. Ficus, palms and ferns 

 are also abundant. A retailer can get 

 about anything he wants between Twen- 

 ty-fifth street and Thirtieth, including 

 all the l-itost novelties and inventions in 

 the supply line. New York is growing 

 wonderfully convenient. "If you don't 

 see what you want ask for it" and you 

 will get it. 



Various Notes. 



The exhibitions will soon be "too 

 numerous to mention " or to see, for un- 

 fortunately many of them have chosen 

 the same days. The big show in New 



Here is our check for $19.80 in pay- 

 ment of our account to date. Please 

 discontinue our advertisement in 



as we are sold out until next July or 

 August. Orders for spring delivery 

 came in such large numbers that we 

 have to refuse orders every day. We 

 do not know^ of anything^ that 

 paid us as 'well as advertis- 

 ings in your paper, and for such 

 a small outlay. 



A.C OELSCHIG & SON 

 Savannah, Ga. 

 Oct. % 1905. 



York begins October 31 and lasts until 

 November 3. This is already an as- 

 sured success. About all the space is 

 taken and it will surely draw immense 

 crowds in addition to the 20,000 com- 

 plimentary tickets that are to be dis- 

 tributed. 



Right around us the other exhibitions 

 proceed with independent spirit. This 

 week Bay Shore celebrates and the tenth 

 annual at Madison takes place. Tarry- 

 town clashes with the New York show, 

 more's the pity, for the TarrytoT^ites 

 put up a show that is worth going more 

 than twenty-five miles to see. Glen Cove, 

 down on Long Island, chose November 

 1 and 2 and Red Bank thought the same 

 dates would be about right, while Tux- 

 edo, with good forethought, waited for 

 every place else to finish and November 

 3 to 5 will doubtless make as good an 

 exhibition as any of its brethren. 



Philip Breitmeyer, Detroit, was a wel- 

 come visitor last week. 



Ludwig Friedlander, one of the oldest 



florists of New York, whose store on 

 Broadway has been occupied by him for 

 a generation, passed away last week at 

 the age of 81 years. His widow is still 

 hale and hearty and has been the active 

 buyer and manager of the store as long 

 as most of us can remember. 



Mr. Parsons has been appointed park 

 commissioner by the mayor, John J. 

 Pallas, the former commissioner, having 

 died suddenly on October 16 at the early 

 age of 43. 



November 8 at Bronx park the New 

 York Horticultural Society will have an 

 exhibition of fruits, nuts and plants and 

 Dr. Britton will lecture with stereopticon 

 illustrations. 



November 13 the last of the chrysan- 

 themum exhibits for the year will be 

 seen at the regular monthly meeting of 

 the New York Florists' Club. This will 

 be mum night and is expected to be the 

 largest meeting of the year to date. The 

 nominating committee will announce the 

 candidates for the club's offices for 1906 

 and special features will make the even- 

 ing one of general interest. It is none 

 too early now for exhibitors to begin to 

 prepare for it. 



Those who desire membership in the 

 new bowling club are requested to send 

 their names to President Traendly. If 

 a sufficient number respond, the first 

 meeting and practice will take place on 

 the afternoon of November 13. 



The Rosary decorations are now com- 

 plete. White bark covers every part of 

 the big store outside and in. Anything 

 more unique or artistic in flower stores 

 would be difficult to conceive. It is 

 worth a visit from every dealer in the 

 metropolis and any florist visiting New 

 York. There is nothing just like it. All 

 the retail stores have completed their 

 burnishing and decorating and have 

 made an early start in brilliant window 

 effects, so that one can hardly realize 

 the winter season has not fully arrived. 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



THE' COAL MARKET. 



Of the coal situation the Black Dia- 

 mond says: "Transportation is the pre- 

 dominant factor in the coal trade, condi- 

 tions, if anything, as to movement of 

 tonnage from all the bituminous fields 

 being slightly worse than they were a 

 week ago. Prices are holding steady on 

 all descriptions of domestic coal for 

 western shipment, while the steam coals, 

 with the exception of the poorer grades 

 of screenings, are slightly firmer. There 

 have been no further price advances, but 

 the indications are that some coals will 

 be higher with the advent of November 

 than they are at present. Most of the 

 large shipping companies are running 

 behind with their orders, owing to in- 

 ability to secure cars at the mines, pro- 

 duction being at the minimum point so 

 far this year." 



Bloomixgtox, Ind. — J. H. Cain and 

 ^liss Helen Gray were married here Oc- 

 tober 4, at St. Charles Catholic church, 

 which was handsomely decorated for the 

 occasion. Their wedding trip was to In- 

 dianapolis and other points in the state. 



Denver, Colo. — The Park Floral Co. 

 is installing a Morehead trap to take 

 care of the condensation in the steam 

 heating pipes. Mr. Valentine stopped in 

 Detroit, where the trap is made, while on 

 his way home from the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion, and visited the maker. 



