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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



Sefxembeb 6, 1906. 



Manure, and as a result had all our 

 blooms firmly glued together. So again 

 I say, go slowly with all experiments, 

 giving everything a trial, but only a 

 teial, until you have personally proven it 

 to be good. E. E. Shuphelt. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market 



The market remains under the influ- 

 ence of large receipts, much inferior 

 stock and summer stagnation, and yet 

 there is a spirit of cheerfulness now evi- 

 dent linder it all, that indicates the 

 darly revival of the cut flower business 

 in all its departments. The wholesalers 

 have all completed their improvements; 

 the stores look bright and attractive. 

 Many of them have been enlarged, mod- 

 ernized, and altogether indications 

 point strongly toward a more than usu- 

 ally prosperous season. 



Asters still bother the trade with their 

 abundance and their inferior quality. 

 The fact is, those below the average are 

 entirely unsalable. It is far better for 

 growers to keep such worthless stuff 

 away from the market altogether. There 

 are plenty of gladioli every day, and 

 prices are at the bottom. Hydrangeas are 

 showing the effects of the dry, hot spell. 

 Tritomas are adding to the effectiveness 



demand. Plenty of lilies, especially spe- 

 ciosum. Longiflorum sells at $8 per hun- 

 dred for the best, and are of the finest 

 quality. Carnations are still scarce and 

 short-stemmed, and roses are slow to re- 

 gain their quality, length of stem and 

 usual values, though the supply of all 

 varieties, especially American Beauties, 

 is much beyond expectations. 



The opening of the schools and the- 

 atres, and the return of the summer tour- 

 ists, are already having an encouraging 

 effect in the volume of business, and at 

 some price everything worth purchasing 

 is gone from the wholesale marts before 

 the close of the day. 



September is expected to be the best 

 month of the Newport season. Mrs. Bel- 

 mont had a large decoration Saturday, 

 which "Wadley & Smythe handled, using 

 their New York store assistants in addi- 

 tion to their Newport force. Several so- 

 ciety events there in the near future will 

 bring the season up to its usual average. 

 Leikens has had some large engagements. 



Fair and Mum Show.< . -: r , 



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The seventy-fifth annual fair and mum 

 show at the American Institute is an- 

 nounced for November 7 to 9, and the 

 schedule of prizes is attractive. Over 

 $600 goes to the chrysanthemum exhibit- 

 ors, and a silver cup to the best Mrs. F. 

 F. Thompson, the new variety intro- 



Twi£ Plant Baskets and Willow Hampers. 



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of the window displays in the retail win- 

 dows, many of which have not been up 

 to the New York standard lately. Dahlias 

 grow better daily and the cactus varieties 

 command fair prices. Orchids are scarce 

 and values are advancing. Weddings are 

 few, and valley is abundant and in small 



duced by Charles H. Totty, the Madison 

 expert. The allotments for groups of fol- 

 iage plants, orchids, pansies, roses, car- 

 nations and violets are also attractive. 

 The only menace to a great success is 

 lack of room. 



The committee in charge includes C. 



L. Allen, A.. M. Eggleston, H. A. Sie- 

 brecht, Jas. Wood, A. Henington and 

 A. L. Don. •; '•:;^- 



The Germans' Fete. 



The eighteenth annual horticultural 

 and agricultural exhibition of the Schwa- 

 bischer Sangerbund, of Brooklyn, began 

 on Sunday, September 2. The weather 

 was perfect and the inunense grounds 

 were crowded with thousands of inter- 

 ested visitors. If New York could have 

 a flower show that would draw like this, 

 the problem of self-supporting exhibi- 

 tions would be sol^ved. The secret seems 

 to be the appeal to the national spirit 

 and the loyalty toward and friendship 

 of the Teutonic people for each other. 

 V Before the week's end 100,000 Ger- 

 mans will attend. The show itself is not 

 extensive, but every exhibit is most cred- 

 itable. 



Among the prominent florists on hand 

 at the start were : Anton Schultheis, of 

 College Point; John Donaldson, of Elm- 

 hurst, and 0. V. Zangen, of Hoboken, 

 N.J. 



The florists in charge of the big af- 

 fair are: August F. Schrader, Elmhurst, 

 L. I., superintenednt horticultural de- 

 partment; John Miesem, secretary, Elm- 

 hurst, L. I.; Fred Marquardt, Middle 

 Village, L. I.; Hermann Maenner, Mas- 

 peth, L. I.; Chas. E. Koch, Clarkson st., 

 Brooklyn; John Baumann, Jr., Middle 

 Village, L. I.; Henry Bottjen, Elmhurst, 

 L. 1., superintendent agricultural de- 

 partment. 



Among the premium winners were: 

 John Baumann, Middle Village, carpet 

 bedding, geraniums; John Dreier, Mid- 

 dle Village, cottage garden, carpet bed- 

 ding; Chas. Koch, Flat bush, geraniums, 

 cannas, coleus, begonias, palms; F. Mar- 

 quardt, Middle Village, geraniums, sal- 

 via, coleus, coxcomb, vinca, cyclamen; 

 August Schrader, Elmhurst, salvias, 

 ficus, beds of foliage plants, conifers; 

 Chas. Trauth, Newark, N. J., begonias; 

 Abe Millar, Jamaica, cannas, cut flowers 

 of hardy stock; Julius Eoehrs Co., fiuth- 

 erford, N. J., group of palms; H. Maen- 

 ner, Maspeth, group of palms, Boston 

 fern; John Miesem, Elmhurst, Scottii 

 fern, araucarias; Henry A. Dreer, Phila- 

 delphia, fine display of water lilies. 

 There was the usual fine showing of veg- 

 etables, and F. Marquardt put up the 

 animal column of fruits and vegetables. 



Various Notes. 



E. Vincent, Jr., & Son announce a 

 visit of inspection to their dahlia fields 

 at White Marsh, Md., on Wednesday, 

 September 19, and expect large delega- 

 tions from New York and Philadelphia. 

 The 6 a. m. and 8 a. m. trains on the 

 Pennsylvania will stop at Chase station 

 and Mr. Vincent will meet all passen- 

 gers. An enjoyable visit is anticipated. 

 The Baltimore and Washington boys will 

 be there. 



Monday evening, September 10, is the 

 opening night of the fall season of the 

 New York Florists' Club, in the Grand 

 Opera House building. Many matters 

 of interest will be considered, and a 

 large attendance is hoped for. 



George Saltford has made an exhaust- 

 ive canvass of the violet situation lately, 

 visiting about 100 growers in Ehine- 

 beck, Poughkeepsie and vicinity, and 

 covering over fifty miles a day in his 

 automobile. About a million plants tes- 

 tify to the continued enterprise of these 

 growers. Some twenty-five new houses 

 have been built and the output will be 

 as large as ever, though the average 

 quality does not promise so well as in 



