May 3, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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GEORGE SALTEORD 



. . . >WHOLESaLE> . . . 

 COMMISSION FLORIST 



46 West 29th Street, 3393rrorsWe. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. 



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KEFEBENCES: 



R. (1. Dun & Co., IMerrantile kgenej 

 Knickerbocker Trast €o. 



John Nash, of Moore, Hentz & Nash, 

 has been nursing one of the original 

 Job's comforters for a week and had a 

 serious time with it. The carbuncle is no 

 longer his favorite stone. 



A. Moltz, of the Coogan building, is 

 sick with the grip. 



Phil Kessler handles the entire stock 

 of superb sweet peas from his Great 

 Neck grower. He filled an order for 

 several thousand lilies last week for one 

 of the bon-ton Fifth avenue stores. 



Ambrose Cleary has resigned at the 

 Siegel-Cooper conservatories and C. W. 

 Eberman has been appointed manager. 



Ford Bros, by actual count disposed 

 of 607,000 violets Friday and Saturday 

 before Easter. The big ice-box must 

 have felt the strain. 



J. K, Allen handles from one to two 

 dozen boxes of southern lilac daily. 



Geo, Cotsonas & Co. are receiving 

 large shipments of lilac and disposed 

 of several hundred bunches last Thurs- 

 day of early arrivals. Notwithstanding 

 the overflow, its popularity seems to 

 absorb profitably all that arrives. 



fiome sixty Holland, Belgian, Danish, 

 French and* German bulb and nursery 

 representatives have begun the exodus 

 TO Europe and one and all report their 

 most successful season. 



George Saltford's new ice-box is com- 

 V'lete and ready for the large shipments 

 yom the south. Already they are arriv- 

 I'g in variety. But the accommodations 

 f'w .iustify shipping in any amount and 

 '•om any source. 



Lecakes & Co. are handling immense 

 iiiantities of smilax. 



" m. Starke's new greenhouse back of 

 'IS store is proving a great convenience. 



The sixth annual exhibition of the 



Horticultural Society will be held next 

 week on May 9 and 10 in the New York 

 Botanic Garden. Last year's schedule 

 of prizes will be repeated. Copies will 

 be sent all applicants writing Leonard 

 Barron, secretary. A much larger exhi- 

 bition than ever is anticipated. 



Specialty work by the private garden- 

 ers is well illustrated at Alfred Mar- 

 shall '?, in Mamaroneek, where Wni. 

 Lynes is gardener. Here the U-bar 

 greenhouses are used. Aristocrat toma- 

 to, forty-eight plants to a bench 5x21 

 and with the use of one and one-half 

 bu.shels of chicken manure, yielded an 

 average of fifty tomatoes to the plant, 

 eight bushels altogether, realizing 20 

 cents a pound. Mr. Lynes was formerly 

 with the Sloan estate, where the old 

 style of greenhouses remain. He says 

 the U-bar construction is far ahead. He 

 has grown cucumbers hero twenty-seven 

 and one-half inches long, weighing four 

 pounds. From 400 rose plants. Brides, 

 Maids, Mrs. J. P. Morgan and Cloth of 

 Gold, December 28 to April 14 he cut 

 30,000 blooms. The plants are still 

 yielding bountifully. 



Lord & Burnham Co., in speaking of 

 the greenhouse gutter, says the florists 

 for years have wanted a gutter with en- 

 larged water area to take care of all 

 drip and condensation, starting the water 

 running quickly and casting the proper 

 shade. W. A. Burnham has worked out 

 the problem in the new V-shaped gutter, 

 cast-iron, with sides partly rounded. 

 Under the gutter at the central point is 

 suspended a U-bax, which takes all drip 

 and condensation. The curb of the gut- 

 ter being of the same radius as the pitch 

 of the roof bar, if the condensation fol- 

 lows the roof bar it follows the gutter 



to its lowest point and so reaches the 

 drip gutter. Posts are placed every 

 eight feet three and three-quarter inches. 

 The pipes used for supports are 2-inch. 

 The water and condensation from the 

 gutter are let down inside alternate 

 posts. This gutter shows at its best in 

 ridge and furrow houses, where conden- 

 sation has always been a serious ques- 



Sympathy for j\Ir. and Mrs. J. V. 

 Pliillips, of Brooklyn, is universal be- 

 cause of the death of their son. 



Wm. H. Donohoe has just returned 

 from a four days' business trip south 

 and has some large contracts for outside 

 plantings this spring. 



A. Warendorff's windows Saturday 

 were crowded with his specialty, $1 

 boxes of mixed flowers, a great attrac- 

 tion evidently and much appreciated, as 

 he sells hundreds of them in an after- 

 noon. When flowers are reasonable in 

 jiric-e and abundant, there is no better 

 advertisement. Florists of other cities, 

 who have not tried tliis, may find it a 

 better money maker than they anticipate. 

 Try it a few Saturdays and see your 

 eyes open. 



Leikens was up all night ^Monday with 

 de<orative work, many wreaths of or- 

 chids, a casket cover (>f wliite sweet peas 

 anil orchids, and palms and lilies, in an 

 elaborate church decoration. On May 

 8 the Belmont Hotel opens. Already 

 IVIr. Leikens has it supplied with many 

 immense bays, palms and ficus. His 

 branch there will V)e soniotliing .similar 

 to that of Small & Sons in the Waldorf- 

 Astoria. 



Eustic work and a forest of cAcr- 

 greens in tubs makes the approach to 

 the Eosary a liarbinger of summer. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



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