Sept£mbkb 6, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



991 



1905. There will be no scarcity, how- 

 ever, and the stories of black-rot and 

 gall fly have been exaggerated. Still 

 these pests are much in evidence, and 

 some of the growers have met with se- 

 rious losses. A few years ago these 

 twenty-five new houses would have sup- 

 plied the market demands. Now with 

 the growing call and shipments to other 

 cities, every grower can depend on mar- 

 keting his product profitably, and still 

 there is room. 



The flower carnival at Averne last 

 week was a great success. A. Waren- 

 dorflF, who has been ill at the 

 Mt. Sinai hospital, was fortunately con- 

 valescent and able to enjoy a little of 

 the triumph his advice and management 

 helped accomplish up in Westchester 

 county. 



John D. Rockefeller is erecting a mil- 

 lion-dollar mansion, and has contracted 

 for two Italian gardens connected with 

 the terraces in front of it. 



The new firm of Gunther Bros, is now 

 established, and the big store at the old 

 stand has been greatly improved and en- 

 larged in anticipation of the natural in- 

 crease of business during the coming 

 season. 



Bussin & Hanfling, at 114 West Twen- 

 ty-eighth street, who make a specialty of 

 wheat sheaves and fancy baskets, have 

 leased the entire three stories and base- 

 ment at this address, and will utilize it 

 all for florists' supplies. These men 

 have had fifteen years' experience and 

 are building up an excellent business. 



John Foley, manager for N. Lecakes 

 & Co., is enjoying a two weeks' vaca- 

 tion with his family at Belmar, N. J. 



Michael Ford is back from his outing 

 more vigorous than for years, according 

 to his own estimate of the benefit of 

 Atlantic City air. This will encourage 

 the conventionists who go to Philadel- 

 phia next August, as doubtless every 

 one of them will visit this great seaside 

 resort while there, and so escape the heat 

 so liberally dispensed at Dayton. 



F. A. Armitage, of Hitchings & Co., 

 is enjoying the ocean breezes at Block 

 Harbor, Me., after a busy season. 



Chas. Millang is filling his greenhouse 

 with a fine stock of plants of all kinds. 

 Hia European importation of retinispora 

 will soon be here. 



Alex J. Guttman returned Friday from 

 his two weeks' western trip, much im- 

 proved in health. He reports fine daily 

 receipts of Victory carnations, and a big 

 demand for plants. 



Frank H. Traendly has, among other 

 memories of Dayton, a lively tussle with 

 the worst case of hay fever on record. 

 J. K. Allen brought a good supply of 

 the same thing home with him, but has 

 mastered it. These young men think the 

 heat of the west a worse ordeal than our 

 eastern humidity. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



The arrival of dahlias in quantity is 

 the feature of the market marking the 

 advent of autumn, and the probable re- 

 sumption of floral activity. Every va- 

 riety of fancy dahlia that made an im- 

 pression last season — C. W. Bruton, 

 Perle d'Or, Twentieth Century and many 

 others — can be had in quantity at tempt- 

 ing prices. Beauties are selling well at a 

 shade higher prices. Mediums and short 

 grades are, of course, most plentiful. 

 Asters are fine, the better grades, and 

 very cheap in the poorer. There are 



Plant Baskets, Fiber Vase Holders and Bark Sleighs. 



more asters sold than anything else. 

 Valley, though excellent, has not been in 

 demand. A novelty in the market is the 

 arrival of Easter lilies at W. E. McKis- 

 sick's. They are very desirable, hav- 

 ing one or two flowers only to a stem. 

 The present volume of business exceeds 

 that of last season. 



Qub Meeting. 



A large and enthusiastic meeting of 

 the Florists' Club was held on Tuesday 

 evening. G. C. Watson read an excel- 

 lent paper on the Dayton convention 

 from a seedsman's standpoint. A num- 

 ber of other addresses were made by 

 those who had attended. John Westcott 

 presented the club with a handsome pic- 

 ture of H. B. Beatty, one of the club's 

 oldest members. Mr. Westcott 's address 

 was the most eloquent that even he has 

 ever given. 



Nominations for oflScers were made 

 for the ensuing year as foll(Jws: Presi- 

 dent, Samuel S. Pennock; vice-president, 

 Fred Hohman; secretary, Edwin Lons- 

 dale; treasurer, J. William Colflesh. 



The bowling trophies were on exhibi- 

 tion. 



Recent Importations. 



The latest arrivals in the great ware- 

 houses of "the florists' supply house of 

 America" are the French bridal baskets 

 of delicately woven straw. They are of 

 new design, with long handles, graceful, 

 flexible, and in colors exquisitely soft, 

 Alice blue, pale pink, white, cream, yel- 

 low and lavender. 



Pot covers of delicately woven winter 

 straw in nests of six are beautiful for 

 small to medium size plants, and for fa- 

 vors, for which the smaller sizes are well 



adapted. A violet mat to be used flat 

 is looped with ribbon harmonizing in 

 color with the flowers it is intended to 

 hold. Phil is indebted to Mr. Ber- 

 kowitz for a glimpse of this choice 

 stockTyust unpacked. 



Meritorious Novelties. 



The Review is indebted to both mem- 

 bers of the firm of M. Rice & Co. for 

 the opportunity afforded the Philadel- 

 phia representative of examining the 

 novelties now on exhibition in their well- 

 appointed show-room, and of listening to 

 a discussion of the wants they are de- 

 signed to fill. Few of these novelties 

 are accidental, most of them being ex- 

 pressly created to meet some demand of 

 the leading retailers, whose customers re- 

 quire that their floral arrangements shall 

 display cultivation and taste quite as 

 much as their books or their pictures. 



The pervading idea in these novelties 

 is best described in Mr. Rice's own 

 words : ' ' They are intende<l to enhance 

 the beauty of the flowers and plants dis- 

 played. " Natural bark and twig, deep 

 green and copper or white are preferred. 

 Bright colors are discarded. 



One of the prettiest conceptions among 

 these novelties is the revival of the old- 

 fashioned bouquet holder. This revival 

 is due to a demand that was strongly 

 felt last season for the old-fashioned 

 round bouquet such as grandmother car- 

 ried when she was a girl. To meet this 

 demand all the paper bouquet holders 

 were brought into use. Now the enter- 

 prise of Mr. Rice has given us a dainty 

 creation in lace, ribbon and chiflfon, 

 white and pale pink or delicate blue, one 

 style suited for round, the other for flat 



