April 26, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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NEW YORK. 



The Market 



The calm after the storm settled down 

 last week upon the New York market. 

 The catastrophe of the rainy Easter was 

 soon forgotten. The million violets left 

 over found the street and the refuse cor- 

 ner. One wholesaler showed me a few 

 on Saturday a week old. The perfume 

 was showing no signs of weakness, 

 wherein it differed from the market. It 

 is wonderful how the quality maintains 

 this season in the violet shipments. They 

 are just as blue and sweet as in the 

 height of the season. Looks as if we 

 might have violets this year as late as 

 June. '^ 



Growers cannot blame their sales 

 agents for the slump before Easter, but 

 the weather man has no excuse, and he 

 turned the close of the great yearly festi- 

 val from beautiful visions to ' ' weeping 

 and wailing and gnashing of teeth." 



Last Saturday a big surplus of vio- 

 lets remained unsold. One house on 

 Twenty-eighth street showed me at 9 

 'clock twenty big boxes unopened. This 

 may be fairly considered a criterion, 

 and roses and carnations, too. All the 

 ice-boxes were full of them. 



Sunday was like last year, warm and 

 sunny. Spring is not as far advanced, 

 but the parks are green, the early shrubs 

 are blooming and the robins are here to 

 stay. Nurserymen in every direction are 

 trying to c«itch up to the late season 

 and seedsmen are busy night and day. 

 Even so, it is impossible to keep pace 

 with the growth of sentiment in favor 

 of suburban life and the enormous in- 



crease in planting everywhere. The coun- 

 try is only now awakening to the possi- 

 bilities in horticultural pleasures, and 

 the nurserymen of today will be the mil- 

 lionaires of the coming generation. The 

 supply even now does not keep pace with 

 the demand. The sales of nursery stock 

 around New York this spring have been 

 enormous. The auctions are busy, prices 

 are good and patrons many. Everything 

 betokens prosperity. 



VarioiM Notes. 



In the retail cut flower business, after 

 the lull following Easter, the trade on 

 Saturday was universally satisfactory. 

 Many good wedding decorations are in 

 prospect. Mr. Humphrey, of Thorley's, 

 tells of several last wedc, one of the 

 largest in his experience. 



Leikens has the Sutherland-Foster wed- 

 ding this week Wednesday, church and 

 house, and in addition the Belmont hotel 

 decoration permanently and a fine stand 

 in this tallest and biggest of New York 's 

 caravansaries. 



Siebrecht's windows are again filled 

 with orchids from their own conserva- 

 tories. Like all the big houses on the 

 avenue, they report a satisfactory Easter, 

 "as large as last year, notwithstanding 

 the rain. * ' 



Young's windows are crowded with 

 the firm 's own hydrangeas, the best in 

 the city, and a feature of their Easter 

 business. 



McConnell's looks spring-like with a 

 wealth of golden bloom in tubs, the 

 forsythia showing perfectly after its 

 Easter forcing. Here, with nursery con- 

 tracts, funeral work and decorations 

 there seems to be a continuous pressure 



from the beginning to the end of the 

 season. 



Bowe is still crowded for room, his 

 store gradually growing too small for his 

 regular trade, not to mention transient 

 or holiday demands. 



Changes are contemplated on both 

 Fifth avenue and Broadway in the near 

 future, which to the majority are but 

 conjectures, but nevertheless inevitable. 



Mr. Grant, formerly with Small & 

 Sons, is now doing some independent 

 decorating for the bon-ton florists, and 

 Arthur Merritt, of the new leucothce 

 wreath fame and a decorator during a 

 generation, is also at times helping out 

 the busy florists of Broadway and Fifth 

 avenue, with his artistic creations and 

 advice. There seems to be a field for 

 just such utilities, and a profitable one 

 for all concerned. 



Another of the Thirtieth street whole- 

 salers will soon float with the tide 

 toward Twenty-eighth street, and already 

 James McManus, the orchid king, has es- 

 tablished headquarters at No. 42, with 

 much better facilities than at the old 

 stand. 



The son of John J, Perkins, recently 

 operated upon for replacement of the 

 lieart in its proper position, has passed 

 through the operatfon successfully and 

 is convalescing. Three inches of the rib 

 was removed. 



Max Limprecht was feeling the effects 

 of the Easter strain in a bad attack of 

 rheumatism last Saturday. 



W, B. Eeed, of Chambersburg, Pa., 

 was a visitor last week. 



Sigmund Geller reports the greatest 

 Easter in his history. He is constantly 

 adding to his branches, and now has 



