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ThcWcckly Florists^ Review* 



NOVEMRBB 30, 1905. 



VICTORY 



The best scarlet carnation — requires only ordinary culture 



NEV YORK. 



The Market 



The market during the past week was 

 as dull as the weather was beautiful. 

 At this season of the year the two do 

 not harmonize. The praying for frost 

 goes on incessantly, with better pros- 

 pects for an answer as December ap- 

 proaches. 



Mums are lessening rapidly. Thanks- 

 giving and then good-bye. They have 

 made a great record this year. Prices 

 always reasonable, popularity growing, 

 quality superb. There are too many 

 roses, especially Maids and Brides, often 

 unsalable because of their numbers. 

 Quality is the best. Richmond and Lib- 

 erty are always in demand and increasing 

 in price as the stems lengthen. Violets 

 are steady and no prospect of great ad- 

 vancement during the coming season, 

 $1.50 looking like top. Valley, gardenias 

 and orchids are firm and the best always 

 in demand. 



With the Retailers. 



Business must be quite good "in the 

 heart of New York City." I noticed 

 Mr. Bowe, with his own Victoria, coach- 

 man and footman riding in Central park 

 the other day and it was hard to distin- 

 guish him from the millionaires. Mr. 

 Bowe had two notable weddings last 

 week, one the Benedict wedding at the 

 Dakota, with appropriate colors in roses 

 for the white, pink and red rooms; the 

 other the daughter of "Farmer Scott," 

 the sage of Elmhurst. 



All the retailers seem to be busy and 

 contented, now that dinners are "the 

 thing" and the opera season is in full 

 swing. Thanksgiving, too, is here with 

 its added benediction and every table 

 will have holly and red roses. 



At the Battenburg dinner, Leikens 

 "did himself proud" with an American 

 Beauty decoration, over 700 specials be- 

 ing used in the display. 



In Brooklyn. 



The widening of Livingston street in 

 Brooklyn will make the moving of Wm. 

 H. Kuebler necessary. Notice of this 

 and a week of jury duty illustrate the 

 old adage that ' * troubles never come 

 singly." Kuebler has built up a nice 

 business in his old location. He has 

 been handling much of tne fine mum 

 stock of the Richmond Hill growers. 

 He hopes to be well located before 

 Christmas. 



Bonnet & Blake, on Boerum place, were 

 fortunate in escaping the widening pro- 

 cess, though their business has been wid- 

 ening encouragingly and the class of 

 rose stock they handle is as good as the 

 best. They have grown rapidly during 

 the last year and are a permanent addi- 

 tion to the wholesale cut flower indus- 

 tries of Brooklyn. 



Crawbuck & Wiles are reaching out 



for trade beyond their own city with 

 great success. They booked over $1,000 

 in orders last week in New York City 

 for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Ten 

 tons of Princess pine are already in 

 stock. Anticipating the street's re- 

 requirements. Hicks & Crawbuck moved 

 in time to their new premises on Court 

 street, where they have one of the largest 

 and most up-to-date wholesale establish-. 

 ments in the east. Half a dozen large 

 rooms are occupied by their florists' 

 supply departments and cut flower trade, 

 with smaller rooms for wheat, crepe 

 paper and luncheon conveniences. In 

 the latter the touch of a bell brings in 

 a sumptuous repast at any time, from 

 a restaurant above them. The office is 

 large and light and with all modern 

 conveniences, electricity included. Every- 

 thing but ribbons is handled. 



Abundance. 



A visit to Great Neck last week and to 

 Rudolph Fischer's found Abundance in 

 its glory. Five houses of about 12,000 

 square feet are almost entirely devoted 

 to this carnation. In fact, for years Mr. 

 Fischer has grown no other variety, and 

 he does not need to. This white seedling 

 is a cross of Scott and McGowen and 

 combines the qualities of its parentage. 

 Its productive quality has delayed its 

 introduction. It has been grown here 

 since 1895 and seems to improve every 

 year. It has never shown disease and its 

 price has always been maintained. It is 

 very sweet, a great keeper, blooms often 

 retaining their beauty for a week, often 

 thirty flowering shoots to a plant, con- 

 stantly throwing up new shoots. Cutting 

 begins early and the plants are never 

 thrown out before August and then only 

 for his white seedling aster, a variety 

 as large as a chrysanthemum. Mr. 

 Fischer also has a fine freesia, pure 

 white, called Purity, which is very popu- 

 lar. He has lived at Great Neck for 

 twelve years. His foreman, Clarence 

 Connolly, has been with him since 1893. 



Various Notes. 



A. J. Guttman is back from his travels 

 with Victory and greatly delighted with 

 its reception and the personal courte- 

 sies he received. In his big ice box this 

 week the Maud Dean, Chadwick and 

 Timothy Eaton chrysanthemums were a 

 special feature. Mr. Reidel, of his force 

 of lieutenants, is making a great bowling 

 record this fall, two of his recent scores 

 being 243 and 265. 



The sympathy of the trade is extended 

 to George Burnett, of Burnett Bros., 

 seedsmen, in the loss of his wife. 



The "improvements" to be made by 

 the railroads downtown on Cortlandt 

 street are not te the liking of the big 

 seed houses on that busy thoroughfare. 

 The station will be so near Broadway, 

 that, while it removes the Thorburn head- 

 quarters completely, it will unload its 



human freight beyond the doors of the 

 Peter Henderson Co. 's big store and 

 divert much of the street traffic from its 

 long accustomed way. So carefully made 

 plans, that seem, when laid, good for a 

 century, have to sometimes in this swift 

 city be changed completely in a day. 

 Meantime a million every five years is 

 added to the population. 



The big World's Fair in 1909, the 

 three hundredth anniversay of the dis- 

 covery of the Hudson river, is now al- 

 most assured, the committee meeting 

 last Friday being practically unanimous 

 in favor of the project. 



Mrs. Clarke, of Portland, mother of 

 the Clarke brothers, the florists, arrived 

 from Dresden by the Pennsylvania on 

 Friday and spent a few days with friends 

 in Brooklyn before leaving for home, via 

 Oakland, where Mr. Clarke and her son 

 have one of the best greenhouse plants 

 in California. Miss Clarke remains in 

 Germany to complete her musical educa- 

 tion. 



In a reference to the Cut Flower Ex- 

 change in the issue of November 16, in 

 speaking of Mr. Jackson, the word jani- 

 tor was omitted. J. Austin Shaw. 



ancAGo. 



The Great Central Market. 



At the close of last week there was a 

 gradual stiffening in prices, due to the 

 near approach of Thanksgiving. Mon- 

 day opened with considerable long-dis- 

 tance shipping but not much else doing. 

 Thanksgiving prices were in force and 

 local retailers bought only for immediate 

 needs. Tuesday found every house with 

 all the shipping it could handle, but 

 supplies of stock were large and every- 

 thing points to a record-breaking 

 Thanksgiving business. 



The Beauty cuts are heavy but most 

 of the stock comes in the extra long 

 class. It has been possible to fill all 

 orders for the long-stemmed stock but 

 a great many orders call for medium 

 grades, which it has been impossible to 

 supply. Brides and Maids are equal to 

 all requirements. Some splendid Rich- 

 mond and Liberty are seen and these, 

 with Beauties, are the popular roses. 

 Uncle John is also in unusually good 

 form and large supply. The carnation 

 growers have evidently been holding back 

 stock, for receipts Monday and Tuesday 

 were heavy and some of the consign- 

 ments showed evidences of pickling. In 

 general, however, the stock graded very 

 good. Prices are strongly held but or- 

 ders have been filled. Chrysanthemums, 

 especially of the medium size are in 

 large supply, Bonnaffon being especially 

 numerous. The demand has been excel- 

 lent and stock cleaning up in first-class 

 shape. It is reported that the season 

 is well over with a good many of the 

 large growers. 



