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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 23, 1906. 



each credit for his share. The wreath 

 was the work of John Mangel, the photo- 

 graph by the Geo. B. Lawrence Co., and 

 the drawing and engraving by the Cres- 

 cent Engraving Co. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market 



The New York cut flower market has 

 settled down to the usual midsummer 

 dullness which characterizes August of 

 every year. Everybody in the wholesale 

 section is evidently conscious of the near 

 approach of the fall season. The allied 

 trades are every one of them already 

 booming in anticipation of the extraor- 

 dinary demand. Never were the nursery- 

 men so overwhelmed with orders, the 

 seed and bulb men are working night 

 and day, and the stocks and novelties 

 of the supply men exceed all past ac- 

 cumulations, with advance orders already 

 received for large quantities of goods. 



There is an abundance of everything 

 in the cut flower markets, and at most 

 reasonable prices. The quality of every- 

 thing is improving, the supply of asters 

 and gladioli is unlimited. American 

 Beauty roses are abundant, and the fin- 

 est of them command 20 to 25 cents. 

 The new Bride and Maid roses are 

 short-stemmed and cheap, often clean- 

 ing up at as low as 25 to 50 cents per 

 hundred. There are few good carna- 

 tions arriving yet, though a slight im- 

 provement is noticed in their quality 

 each week, and soon they will resume 

 their place and popularity. Orchids are 

 being called for in excess of the supply, 

 and prices remain firm at the regular 

 quotation. McManus reports out of 

 town inquiries and engaceinelfts^ in ex- 

 cess of other years, and predicts an 

 abundant supply of everything before 

 September 1. His trip to the west seems 

 to be already bearing fruit, and he 

 claims that not a large city within a 

 thousand miles of New York will pass 

 the season without a regular daily ship- 

 ment from headquarters. 



There are plenty of lilies and valley 

 to be had at reasonable prices, and the 

 green goods and water lily men seem 

 to be busier than usual. We look for 

 a return to the rush and activity of the 

 fall season as early as September 1. 



Variottt Notes. 



The east is splendidly represented at 

 the convention, both in attendance and 

 exhibits, and the conventionists surely 

 appreciate the splendid displays which 

 the New Yorkers have sent to Dayton. 



Almost every employee of the whole- 

 salers has been privileged with a liberal 

 vacation, and the lady bookkeepers are 

 all at their desks again with the glow 

 of . health on their faces; in some cases, 

 this promises to be the * ' home stretch ' ' 

 for a few of them. Dame Kumor an- 

 nounces the marriage of two of the most 

 popular among them early in September, 

 and as an indication of faithful service, 

 the happy benedict in each case is a 

 wholesale florist. Congratulations will 

 be in order shortly. 



J. K. Allen came back on Monday 

 from his two weeks ' outing in time to 

 join the New York contingent on its way 

 to Dayton. W. H. Elliott, of Boston, 

 and wife honored the New Yorkers with 

 their company. 



Penjamin Hammond, of Fishkill, 

 joined the company at Albany. 



Miss Behan, of John Young's oflScc 



force, is spending her holidays i^ the 

 Catskills. ^ 



Alexander McConnell has his beautiful 

 yacht in commission, and is with a party 

 of friends, enjoying a two weeks' sail 

 on the Sound. ^ 



A. J. Guttman celebrated his twenty- 

 ninth birthday August 15 with his fam- 

 ily at Atlantic City. y 



A. L. Young & Co. have enlarged their 

 store considerably, and have repainted 

 and repaired it so that it now afl^rds 



Mist Bessie E. Dorobusch, of Dayton, O. 



Author of the poem delivered at the re$i^tlon 

 ^iven In honor of PreB. KastlncT 



abundant room for their increasing busi- 

 ness. 



Traendly & Schenck are repainting 

 their establishment, and their employees 

 were surprised by a call from a protesting 

 union delegate ' of the painters ' union, 

 who demanded his society's authority 

 before any further decoration was done. 

 The delegate woke up suddenly when 

 he received a "skidoo" order and dis- 

 appeared. 



J. B, Waldis, of Roanoke, Va., who 

 had been visiting in Switzerland, re- 



turned last week and left for his south- 

 ern home on 'Thursday, Arthur Weise, 

 with Froment, is a son-in-law of Mr. 

 Waldis, 



Miss WoUrich, bookkeeper for Selig- 

 man & Co., will leave in about two weeks 

 for her summer vacation, which will in- 

 clude a trip to the Falls and a voyage 

 down the St. Lawrence to Montreal. 



Mr. Eogers, wilh Ernest Asmus ' Son, 

 is managing an entertainment to be 

 given at Midland beach earlyf in Septem- 

 ber, in which the wholessJers are all 

 taking a practical interest; a large 

 crowd of them will doubtless attend. 



Mr. and Mrs. Lentz, of David Clarke 's 

 Sons, left on Saturday, for Calicoon 

 Center, in the Catskills. Marshall Clarke 

 and wife, of this firm, are summering 

 in the mountains also. 



Mr. Bonnet, of Bonnet & Blake, the 

 wholesale florists of Brooklyn, has gone 

 for a few weeks' cruise with friends in 

 his electric launch. The Lottie, Mr, 

 Blake has returned from his holiday visit 

 to his old home in Rochester, and at 

 Niagara Falls. This firm is handling a 

 splendid stock of asters from the Roches- 

 ter growers, around which city Mr. Blake 

 says there are acres upQn acres of them, 



C. W. Ward, of the Cottage Gardens 

 Co., is recuperating at the Maine resorts, 

 and will not attend the sessions of the 

 plant breeding association in London, 

 England, as he anticipated. 



The Schloss Bros, have returned from 

 a month's sojourn at Liberty, in the 

 Catskills, Their exhibit at Dayton is 

 an extensive one; Emil Schloss had 

 charge of arranging it, Wertheimer 

 Bros, have some splendid novelties there 

 on exhibition, including their new de- 

 signs in violet ribbons. 



The Johnston Heating Co, has been 

 awarded the contract for installing the 

 hot water hefiting plant in the two 

 hduses, each 55 x 350 feet, of the F. R, 

 Pierson Co., at Scarboro, N, Y. Mr, 

 Pierson finds the tremendous amount of 

 work necessary for the completion of 

 this great enterprise an insurmountable 

 hindrance to his attendance at the con- 

 vention. 



William H. Kuebler, of Brooklyn, with 

 his family, has been summering at New 

 Preston, Conn. 



C, Pesenecker, of Jersey City, one of 

 the old-time florists, has just disposed 

 of his property there. 



Charles Millang finds time, in addi- 

 tion to his wholesale duties, to demon- 

 strate his abUity in booming real estate, 

 and disposed of some lots of his Bay 

 Shore property last week. 



Mr. Keed, of Reed & Keller, is at 

 liuzerne, and will leave for home Au- 

 gust 23 (today), with all arrangements 

 completed for the largest importation of 

 novelties he has ever brought to this 

 country. He reports a most enjoyable 

 summer of European travel with his 

 wife, and is in the best of health, 



George Saltford is visiting the violet 

 growers near his old home at Rhine- 

 beck, N. Y. 



Joseph S. Fenrioh has been quite ill 

 during the last week, but is now con- 

 valescing. 



William Starke is getting his green- 

 house and store in good shape for the 

 fall shipments of plants, which he says 

 will be double those of 1905. 



Michael Ford, of Ford Bros., is back 

 again from a month's vacation as fat 

 and ruddy as a boy, and feeling like a 

 two-year-old. 



The sympathy of the enRre trade is 

 extended to Patrick O'Mara, and his 



