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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Skftkmbbb 13, 1906. 



of its great new theatre, the Orpheum, 

 last week, it sent for Donohoe, of "West 

 Twenty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, 

 to make its giant unique decoration, ft 

 horseshoe of nearly 4,000 American Beau- 

 ties, 12x15 feet in size, the larger con- 

 struction being supplemented by nine 

 smaller ones, artistically arranged — the 

 whole a send-off from nine of the lead- 

 ing theatres in the country. Every rose 

 was selected. The Boston papers gave 

 Mr. Donohoe great praise for his fin- 

 ished work. 



The great establishment of Bobbink 

 & Atkins, over at Eutherford, seems to 

 resemble the mushroom in rapid growth. 

 One can scarcely realize the advance a 

 month will bring about there. The ele- 

 gant new oflSces are furnished, and were 

 greatly needed. Mr. Bobbink is back 

 from Europe, and consignments of palms 

 and nursery stock are soon expected. 

 The importations exceed all past records 

 of this progressive house. Over 100 

 men are constantly employed. The 

 nursery is now one of the most com- 

 plete and interesting in this country. 

 It will take you some time to see its 

 100 acres. If you haven't been there 

 lately, go over. I promise you a revela- 

 tion. 



In a week or two the voice of the auc- 

 tioneer Tyill again be heard in the land 

 — possibly three voices, if plans material- 

 ize. Judging by the successful spring 

 season, and the fact that so many sub- 

 urbanites have the auction habit, three 

 marts will be none too many. "With 

 palms twenty per cent higher, and many 

 new retail stores, it looks as if the buy- 

 ers would come back to the bargain 

 counters for some of their stock, as was 

 the custpm a few years ago. They will 

 find a lot of new faces in the crowd, and 

 few familiar ones. 



The newest and finest of the season's 

 stores opened on Thursday, September 6, 

 in the "Wall street district. "Von Praag 

 of Upper Broadway, near Twenty-ninth 

 street, has one of the neatest, showiest 

 and most convenient places in the city, 

 close to the Stock Exchange and the big 

 ofSce buildings. It's a fine piece of 

 enterprise, and a success from the start. 

 The show window is one of the largest 

 in the city. Everybody is getting rich 

 in "Wall street, and this is a handy place 

 to invest some of the profits. 



Alfred T. Bunyard, brother of the 

 popular Harry, whom everybody knows, 

 and Miss Hayes, of Pittsburg, were mar- 

 ried in August at the Collegiate church. 

 New York, and have just returned from 

 a three weeks' honeymoon at Lake 

 George. 



Frank "Williams and family have re- 

 turned from their summer home on their 

 farm in Westchester county, after an en- 

 joyable season. 



Bickards Bros., the seedsmen, have 

 made a flying start that is far ahead of 

 expectations. Their store on West Nine- 

 teenth street already is a busy place. 

 All their old friends are giving prac- 

 tical encouragement. 



Walter Mott, for many years with 

 Henry A. Dreer, and during the last 

 nve years in the seed and bulb business 

 in Jamestown, N. Y., will return to hia 

 first love October 1 and become the ac- 

 tive representative of H. H. Berger & 

 Co., making his home in New York 

 city. 



Jos. H. Fenrich has been handling the 

 splendid aster shipments of Robert 

 Brown, of Rhinebeck, N. Y. Last week 

 Mr. Fenrich spent several days with his 

 violet growers up the Hudson. 



J. K. Allen enjoyed his annual visit 

 last week also among his shippers at 

 Rhinebeck and Poughkeepsie. 



Werthetoner Bros, report a great run 

 of fall ribbon business, and they cer- 

 tainly are rushed, for they are working 

 evenings to ship orders promptly. 



Carrillo & Baldwin, Secaucus, say that 

 the business done in orchid plants during 

 their first year is away beyond their ex- 

 pectations. 



The last boat from Antwerp brought 

 4,771 100-foot boxes of Belgian window 

 glass. With a lower duty glass cer- 

 tainly would be cheaper. 



William N. Reed, of Reed & Keller, 

 is at home from a summer visit to 

 many European countries, with many 

 trophies in the way of novelties for his 

 supply trade, and added faith in the fu- 

 ture of his own country. While he ac- 

 cords the other side the palm in palms 

 and landscape work, he thinks we are 

 far in advance of any place he visited 

 in the development of the cut flower 

 business, and in the elegance and artis- 

 tic skill displayed in our retail estab- 

 lishments. 



Gustave Limprecht, manager of the 



Enclosed is my dollar (or another 

 year of 



It is money well spent I am going 



on my fourth year in this town and 



am buildins: again. I now have 7,000 



feet of glass for retail trade. 



SIMON BROUWER. 

 Athens, O. 



Sept. 9, 1906. 



Limprecht Co., and Miss Arcila were 

 married September 1, and spent their 

 honeymoon at Atlantic Highlands. The 

 firm has made extensive improvements 

 since the death of Max Limprecht and 

 will continue the business at the old 

 stand. Mrs. Limprecht, Jr., will attend 

 to the office work. 



Chas. Schimmell has returned from his 

 summer outing at Atlantic Highlands. 

 He has been the faithful lieutenant of 

 Julius Lang for eighteen years. 



Clarence H. Saltford, who has been the 

 assistant of his father, George Saltford, 

 for some years, was married on Wednes- 

 day to Miss Bertha M. Larson, of Keas- 

 bey, N. J. After a quiet wedding at 

 the One Hundred and Fourth-street 

 Methodist church, they left for Niagara 

 Falls, returning via the Thousand Isl- 

 aads and Montreal. 



Joseph Levy, of John' Seligman & Co., 

 abd Miss Woolric'h, were married Sun- 

 day; 



Theodore Martin, with Traendly & 

 Schenck, is back from a two weeks' va- 

 cation at Lenox and Saratoga. 



L. J. Kreshover and wife are back 

 from a trip in Europe. Mr. Kreshover 's 



brother-in-law, who succeeded to his 

 supply business, is meeting with encour- 

 aging success at his new store on West 

 Twenty-sixth street. il 



Lester Lovett, son of John T. Lovett, 

 of Little Silver, N. J., was in town on 

 Monday with some fine herbaceous stock 

 for exhibition at the New York club 

 meeting. 



Charles Millang has leased thirty -two ^ 

 lots near his residence at Bayside, to b» 

 devoted next year, to the growing of 

 herbaceous stock, asters, etc. 



John Young is receiving some big ship- 

 ments of Beauties b£ fine quality from 

 his big 701-foot house, at Bedford. " 



Alex. J. Guttman was dispensing fra- 

 grant Havanas qflj,Monday, the anniver- 

 sary of the establishment of his present 

 store. 



Brooklyn. 



Brooklyn wholesalers are all busy, 

 optimistic as to the future, and with 

 their large receipts and many buyers 

 entirely independent. 



Hicks & Crawbuck are preparing for 

 a complete florists* supply stock, equal 

 to any in the east. Their large new 

 headquarters on Court street make it 

 possible to carry about everything a 

 florist needs. Their cut flower depart- 

 ment's complete in every detail. 



Bonnet & Blake now are quite at home 

 in their new Livingston stireet store, 

 and are doing a constantly increasing 

 business. The aster stock they receive 

 daily from Rochester cannot be excelled. 

 Some splendid Maids and Brides are al- 

 ready here from their Jersey shippers. 



William H. Kuebler chose an appro- 

 priate motto when he announced on re-_ 

 moval to his fine store on Willoughby 

 street, "Watch us grow." With his 

 brothers as lieutenants, the trio make up 

 a winning combination that seems to 

 be growing every day. 



Brooklyn has now in all respects 

 wholesale cut flower facilities that are 

 in keeping with its size and needs. Its 

 green goods requirements, too, are not 

 forgotten. Henry Crawbuck has built 

 up a splendid trade. His stock of galax 

 is unlimited. He has the Brooklyn 

 agency for Caldwell's wild smilax, 

 which alone in this decorative city of 

 churches is enough to keep one constantly 

 busy. Mr. Crawbuck is still making his 

 home on his nursery farm at Chatham, 

 N. J. J. Austin Shaw. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



Cut flower business among the retail- 

 ers has not been all that could have 

 been desired; in fact, several of the best 

 shops report last week the worst of the 

 summer as far as sales were cont^med. 

 However, almost every shop reports or- 

 ders booked for later on in the season, 

 which encourages them to expect a good 

 fs>ll trade. Almost every one reports 

 trade during July and August to have 

 been better than the corresponding 

 months of any other year. 



The wholesalers seem to be satisfied as 

 far as the season is concerned, except 

 that they complain of too much work 

 for the amount of business done. Glad- 

 ioli and asters have been coming in 

 heavily. While most of the good stock 

 is njoving out, there are large quantities 

 of stock which must be handled, on 

 which little is realized. Now that all 

 hands have finished their vacations, even 

 this bad feature will be lightened some. 



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