April 5, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1413 



is always a center of admiration to the 

 "madding crowd" that walks "the 

 great white way." 



Phil Kessler is handling all the sweet 

 peas of George Matthews, Great Neck, 

 L. I., stock with fifteen to eighteen-inch 

 stems in purple, lavender, pink and 

 white and in great demand. Mr. Kess- 

 ler has just purchased an acrd of Great 

 Neck land, where real estate grows in 

 value over night. 



M. A. Bowe's transient trade aione 

 is enough to keep a quartet busy, but 

 the millionaire family trade accounts for 

 the autos and footman and other 

 luxuries. It's a great corner, this heart 

 of New York. 



Charles Millang is recovering rapidly 

 now from the severe illness which has 

 laid him on the stielf a fortnight. Imag- 

 ine Charlie keeping still as long as that! 

 Alex. J. Guttman will make his sum- 

 mer home at his greenhouse establish- 

 ment at Summit. His move to Twenty- 

 eighth street has proved a most profit- 

 able venture. Business has grown 100 

 per cent in the last year. 



James McManus will soon have his 

 headquarters established in the big store 

 at 42 W. Twenty-eighth street. There 

 will be none too much room for the 

 phenomenal business he has built up in 

 the orchid world. 



J. K. Allen has been on deck at 6 a. 

 m. every morning for nearly twenty 

 years and yet J. K. looks like a two- 

 year-old and his business grows. 



James Hart, wholesaler for thirty- 

 five years, holds the record and now is 

 located in the biggest store in wholesale- 

 dom, on West Twenty-eighth street, 

 which seems now to be the Mecca of con- 

 centration. 



Ford Bros, have no regrets because of 

 moving to Twenty-eighth street. They 

 sail on an even keel and on a placid 

 ocean of prosperity. 



H. E. Froment is holding the big 

 business established by W. Ghormley and 

 steadily adding to it. His violet trade 

 is enormous. 



Moore, Hentz & Nash have had a 

 vigorous and successful year. Quality is 

 the watchword, courtesy and considera- 

 tion the rule. The Coogan building 

 would be incomplete without them. 



Joseph Fenrich is now permanently lo- 

 cated at 110 West Twenty-eighth street. 

 He is the youngest wholesaler and be- 

 fore long it will be Fenrich & Son, so 

 the house should hold together a century. 

 This is where Totty's Eichmonds come 

 and go. 



Wm. Starke is completing his green- 

 house back of his store at 52 W. Twen- 

 ty-ninth street. Just what he needed 

 most. Already he is crowded with Eas- 

 ter plants. 



John Seligman and Jos. J. Levy make 

 a strong and bustling team and are 

 rapidly building up a clientele. Their 

 headquarters opposite the Coogan build- 

 ing are very convenient and everything 

 indicates ambition and progress. 



The Limpreeht Florist Supply Co. is 

 ready for Easter. No enterprise is too 

 large for Max to tackle successfully. 



The Geller Florist Supply Co. is now 

 fully established at 38 West Twenty- 

 ninth street, close to Gunther's and Salt- 

 ford's, in a most convenient spot. Grass 

 growing designs, ferneries and ribbons 

 are among the specialties. 



The membership of the National Flo- 

 rists' Board of Trade has grown nearly 

 half a hundred since December. 



S. Eodh and Young & Nugent last 

 week were next door to a fire that 



threatened the whole wholesale district. 

 Mr. Eodh's stock of ribbons was unin- 

 jured. 



Young & Nugent 's window, with its 

 brillant and novel lights and its artistic 

 arrangements of flowers, is always a cen- 

 ter of attraction, especially since Mr. 

 Nugent has again put on the harness. 

 His hand has not forgot its cunning. 



A. Moltz has a very convenient store 

 on the first floor of the Coogan building. 



Wm. H. Gunther and his brothers con- 

 stitute a triumvirate that it would be 

 hard to discount. What this trio does 

 not know about legitimate sport and his- 

 trionic ability isn't worth knowing. 

 They are close to Broadway in every re- 

 spect. 



A. L. Young & Co. are growing rapid- 

 ly. Mr. Henshaw's lieutenancy and rose 

 shipments are a great addition to the 

 efficiency of the establishment. 



I am very well pleased with your 

 paper. 



m 



OASTS' 



Saved several times the subscription 

 price on the first order of plants I sent 

 after getting the paper, and not a week 

 passes but I learn something of value 



from its pages. 



C. D. OTIS. 

 Lake Charles, La. 

 March 16, 1906. 



The three big retail stores of Thos. 

 Young, Jr., are all bowers of beauty. 

 Such hydrangeas and ramblers are hard 

 to duplicate. 



John J. Perkins still maintains his 

 prestige at 115 W. Thirtieth street. 

 Thirty-four years is a good record. 



A. J. Fellouris will soon establish his 

 headquarters in his new building at 52 

 W. Twenty-eighth street, a most desir- 

 able and convenient center. The rise 

 and progress of this house has been re- 

 markable. 



Geo. Cotsonas & Co. carry an immense 

 stock of green goods. Mr. Cotsonas is 

 a popular, genial and persistent worker, 

 attending personally to all the details 

 of his business. 



N. LeCakes & Co. have about every- 

 thing the florist needs; cut flowers, 

 plants and green goods. Mr. Foley 

 takes care of the books and still super- 

 intends the cut flower department. Four 

 stalwart Helenes constitute the company. 



Harry Bunyard, with Arthur T. Bod- 

 dington, cut his hand badly last week 

 while handling bulb boxes. 



On the big steamer Amerika came 

 home from his European trip on Satur- 

 day one of the big plantsmen of Amer- 

 ica, Julius Eoehrs, of Carlton Hill, N. J. 



John N. May, of Summit, and his 

 daughter are forgetting the unseasonable 

 weather in balmy Florida. 



The bulb men are here in shoals. The 

 Broadway Central seems to be their 



headquarters in New York. I met M. J. 

 Eosbergen, of K. Eosbergen & Son, and 

 Mr. Endtz, of Endtz, Van Nes & Co., 

 both of Boskoop, Holland, out on Long 

 Island one day last week, and both were 

 in a happy frame of mind. They found 

 every grower sold out for Easter and 

 with large orders ready for next sea- 

 son. Very pleasant, practical, clean fel- 

 lows, these healthy Dutchmen are. 



C. W. Ward is back from his western 

 trip, just in time to receive his large 

 importation of nursery stock. The Cot- 

 tage Gardens Co. is building extensively 

 this spring; three enormous green- 

 houses, averaging 15,000 square feet 

 each, and a big office building. 



Mcintosh had his usual pre-Easter 

 $500 basket last week for his perennial 

 millionaire. This time it was made of 

 Crimson Eamblers, lilies and orchids, 

 with a crown of violets. 



E. Dreyer, with his 60,000 square feet 

 of new glass and his fine establishment 

 beyond Woodside, is in high spirits. 

 Easter orders are earlier and heavier 

 than ever. And so it is over at Schul- 

 theis', in College Point, and at Dupuy's, 

 Hinode 's, Pankok & Schumacher 's and 

 Darlington 's at Whitestone, and so it 

 is, I understand, at Flatbush and in 

 Jersey and wherever handsome plants 

 are grown. 



Dreyer 's azaleas and hydrangeas are 

 especially fine. Of the latter 10,000 ^J"e 

 imported yearly. He has 20,000 Brun- 

 ner and Magna Charta roses in bloom 

 and lots of Baby Eamblers. He devotes 

 one house to Scottii and six to his fa- 

 vorite white carnation. Bertha Eath. 



Schultheis is the Eambler king. His 

 Crimson Eambler and Dorothy Perkins 

 are grand specimens. Dupuy's clematis, 

 blue hydrangeas and crassulas are very 

 attractive. "Sold out two weeks ago," 

 was his greeting. 



Pankok & Schumacher 's bougainvilleas 

 ana Eamblers are especially fine. Mr. 

 Pankok and family leave late in April 

 for a summer in Europe. 



The Easter price of lilies in pots is 

 12 cents everywhere, and every good 

 flower has been sold at that figure. If 

 any cut below it the stock was inferior 

 or the cutting was entirely unnecessary. 

 Prices for everything average about the 

 same as last season. 



The Julius EoehVs^-Go., over at Buth- 

 erford, is well prepared as usual for the 

 Easter season, but the orchids are oflf 

 crop and out of the twenty-five big 

 houses devoted to them will hardly be 

 cut enough for a funeral wreath. 



Over the way, at Bobbink & Atkins', 

 there is a great display of palms, bay 

 trees, nursery stock, blue spruce, ever- 

 greens, herbaceous stock and blooming 

 plants. The past year is the banner one 

 with them. 



Brooklyn. 



Brooklyn has advanced into the front 

 rank during the past year and feels 

 quite independent. Its wholesale and re- 

 tail departments compare boldly with 

 the Manhattan borough of the big city. 



Last week Brooklyn added another 

 wholesaler to its record, George Craw- 

 buck, Jr., having arrived from baby- 

 land. The firm of Hicks & Crawbuck, 

 Inc., is still celebrating the event. Thin 

 house contemplates extensive enterprises 

 for the present year and great prepara- 

 tions have been made for Easter. 



Bonnet & Blake have had a very suc- 

 cessful year, so much so they are reach- 

 ing out for more room to accommodate 

 both shippers and customers. 



