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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



May 17, 1900. 



Sheridan were a}>pointe(l a committee 

 on resolutions of condolence. II. E. 

 Froment, John Young and. J. Austin 

 Shaw were appointed to frame resolu- 

 tions on the death of Thos. De Voy, of 

 Poughkeepsie. 



The transportation committee for the 

 Dayton convention is Frank H. 

 Traendly, John B. Nugent and Walter 

 Sheridan. 



Mr. Hallock moved that President 

 Kasting be invited to attend the next 

 meeting, the second Monday in June, 

 with a view to securing the fullest possi- 

 ble information as to the proposed na- 

 tional flower show. 



Horticultural Society. 



The Horticultural Society held its 

 sixth annual meeting and exhibition on 

 Wednesday and Thursday of last week. 

 Handicapped by cold and rain the first 

 day, the attendance was not satisfactory. 

 Dr. Britton addressed the listeners on 

 Wednesday on ' ' Horticulture in the West 

 Indies," an interesting talk on personal 

 experiences. 



The principal exhibitors were F. K. 

 Pierson Co., Siebrecht & Son and Lager 

 & Hurrell. The Pierson Co. was first for 

 collection of flowering shrubs, collection 

 of tulips and collection of narcissi, also 

 receiving a special award for carnations 

 and a bronze medal for collection of 

 greenhouse plants. Siebrechts were first 

 for collection of ferns, for cut roses 

 and received a special prize for new Rex 

 begonias. Lager & Hurrell were first 

 for orchids and had some splendid speci- 

 mens. Frank Weinberg received the 

 premium and a bronze medal for succu- 

 lents, etc. 



The summer exhibition will take place 

 June 13 and 14. Roses, flowering shrubs, 

 native ferns, peonies, irises and bien- 

 nials, with vegetables and strawberries, 

 will constitute the exhibit. George 

 Skene will be in charge of the Botan- 

 ical Garden. 



At Cottage Gardens. 



At Cottage Gardens it is hard to real- 

 ize what has been accomplished during 

 the past year. A new house 46x;^00 is 

 just completed and the tile benches are 

 now being installed. Here Alma Ward 

 will reign supreme. The new style of 

 bench, with its three walls and ventila- 

 tion spaces, instead of the solid beds, 

 seems much more desirable and appar- 

 ently everlasting. This great white car- 

 nation will bloom until July. From one 

 house the average cut now is 250 daily. 

 The wholesale price is $6 per hundred in 

 the New^ York market. Another large 

 house completed in February, 22x140, is 

 filled with young stock of Alma Ward, 

 and the last of the large houses, 46x235, 

 will be finished by June 1 and is to be 

 planted to Robert Craig and Beacon. 

 These are all built by the Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co. About 3,000 carnations are 

 shipped daily. The varieties are Alma 

 Ward, Craig, Octoroon, Mrs. Patten, 

 President, No. 468 and the new white, 

 Xo. 2651. Ten thousand to 15,000 Elsa 

 Struss will be benched and two houses of 

 Craig, 10,000 altogether. Twenty-six 

 greenhouses, large and small, now com- 

 prise the plant devoted to these wonder- 

 ful productions. Over 2,000 seedlings 

 are under cultivation. For nursery pur- 

 poses 110 acres are used. The rise in 

 real estate on Long Island has quad- 

 rupled the value of this property since 

 its purchase by Mr. Ward. In the fifty 

 acres of woodland are over 15,000 plants 

 of the choicest varieties of rhododen- 



drons. Many car loads of maximum 

 kalmias will be planted ; several acres 

 of i)eonies, over 100,000; ten acres of 

 evergreens, 200 varieties; four acres of 

 herbaceous stock; Japan maples in all 

 sizes; maples, pin oaks, elms, lindens, 

 ])lanes antl a general assortment of orna- 

 mentals make up the balance of the 

 ])lanting. Fine stables and houses have 

 been built and the new office, with its 

 dining-room, chef and all modern con- 

 veniences, will be a revelation to those 

 who enjoyed Mr. and Mrs. Ward's hos- 

 pitality a little over a year ago and 

 have not since been there. I predict 

 many a tri]) by members of the New 

 York Florists' Club during the summer 

 season. It's worth the journey. 



Various Note*. 



Thorburn is working night and day in 

 removing to the new store on Barclay 

 street, which reaches clear through to 

 Park place and will be, when complete, 

 one of the best seed stores in America 

 for size and convenience. 



Joe Manda has fully recovered from 

 his long fight with typhoid fever and is 

 now located at his orchid houses, West 



C. H. Grant will open a retail store 

 on June 1 at West End, Asbury Park, 

 N. J. He did a fine church and house 

 wedding decoration last week at Sum- 

 mit, N. J. 



Van Praag has the Bijon-Fernandez 

 wedding at Calvary church this week. 

 Spring blossoms will be used profusely. 



Sigmund Geller left on Tuesday for a 

 business trip to Europe on the Kaiser 

 Wilhelm. 



George Cotsonas & Co. report in store 

 for summer demands a million and a half 

 each of fancy and dagger ferns, an 

 indication of the enormous business done 

 by all the houses in this line of supply 

 with their headquarters in New York. 

 The quantity of galax in cold storage in 

 this city would make a wreath large 

 enough to encircle the world. 



Robert Blume, one of the old-timers,. 

 known to all the florists of New York, 

 died recently of consumption, at the age 

 of 53. 



A. J. Guttman is expected home from 

 Europe Sunday. Mr. Weber reports a 

 constant call for Victory. 



John H. Kemper, of Flatbush, who 

 sold his house and greenhouses to John 



Rose Farming Under Glass. 



(Preparing for planting at the Floral Exchangre, Edjrely, PA.) 



Orange, N. J. He still shows the effects 

 of his long illness. 



Arthur Dacre, of Wilson's, on West 

 Thirtieth street, reports a steady in- 

 crease in the retail department at the 

 new store. Mr. Wilson's store in Brook- 

 lyn is one of the largest and most artistic 

 in the city of churches, a fine conserva- 

 tory in the rear and abundant birch bark 

 decoration of his own handiwork within. 



C. H. Allen, of Queens, left on Friday 

 for a western trip with his daughter-in- 

 law for company. He will visit in Ohio, 

 Michigan and Minnesota. 



Theodore Lang has the sympathy of 

 his friends in the loss of his youngest 

 sister. The funeral took place on Friday, 

 May 11. 



John J. Perkins has taken into part- 

 nership his son, John J., Jr. The new 

 firm will be known as John J. Perkins & 

 Son, and headquarters for the present 

 will continue at 115 W. Thirtieth street. 

 Mr. Perkins has been in the wholesale 

 florist business since 1872. 



Scott, will shortly make a trip to Europe 

 and on his return will build several 

 up-to-date houses on his remaining prop- 

 erty. 



H. H. Barrows, "the old man," as 

 they lovingly call him at Whitman, Mass., 

 was a visitor at the club Monday evening. 

 He says the demand for Whitman! is 

 enormous and from all parts of the 

 country. Propagation averages 8,000 to 

 10,000 a week. The specimen plants at 

 the club were much admired. A fine 

 exhibit will be made at Dayton. 



Meyer, of Fifty-seventh street and 

 Madison avenue, has been doing some 

 fine landscape work on the estate of Mrs. 

 Kerch, at Tuxedo. He has the Kelly 

 wedding at St. Leo's (Father Dully 's) 

 church this week. At Trevor's, on Fifty- 

 second street, he has the summer decora- 

 tions of boxwood, geraniums and ivy, 

 using twenty-eight large window-boxes. 

 He has built up a fine business very 

 rapidly. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



