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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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TRAENDLY & SCHENCK 



. 44 West 28th Street, - - NEW YORK 



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A Full Line of Everything 



To see a first-class Flower Show and the largest congregation of buyers visit us any morning between 8 and 9 o'clock. 



Mention The ReTlew when yoo write. 



are already booked for New Haven when 

 the great day arrives. 



Mums will probably see their lowest 

 prices this week and the fancy and large 

 varieties will doubtless hold at about 

 present quotations until the end. Every 

 window is a mass of color. 



Boses have remained in statu quo, the 

 prices low and the cleaning up process 

 universal at figures it would be unwise 

 to quote. The growers must be satis- 

 fied with the general average, and be 

 patient, knowing a few weeks will re- 

 store everything to the profitable winter 

 basis of an exceptionally promising sea- 

 son. American Beauties improve in size 

 and quality daily. 



Carnations are more and more perfect 

 as the season advances and the fancy 

 kinds begin to assert themselves and 

 hold prices well. The Kose-pink En- 

 chantress is highly commended by ex- 

 pert growers. 



Violets have improved wonderfully in 

 quality and color. The best have been 

 selling at 75 cents per hundred and there 

 are not enough of them. Ordinary 

 stock at 35 cents to 50 cents was abun- 

 dant and hard to move. 



Gardenias seem to grow in numbers 

 and popularity. Orchids were down to 

 the lowebt prices of the year at times 

 last week, and especially large surplus 

 of labiata being thrown on the market 

 by a prominent grower, something un- 

 usual in orchid demonstration. But noth- 

 ing can cheapen the aristocrat of flori- 

 culture long and there win be no sur- 

 plus when the fashionable season com- 

 mences. 



In the meantime we have distracting 

 things on hand that must be put away, 



including an election that means much 

 to florists, ' for if it turns out wrong 

 and puolic enterprise, prosperity and 

 free investment are curtailed, this busi- 

 ness is always first to feel the change, 

 and we do not need another experience 

 similar to that which iollowed the elec- 

 tion of 1892. Many a florist remembers 

 those days and the memory is bitter. 

 In these days of almost universal pros- 

 perity there is an old rule that touches 

 many a successful florist's heart, and it 

 is "Let well enough alone." 



Variotst Notes. 



In another week the flower shows will 

 be in full blast. If all reports are 

 correct they will outdo in beauty those 

 of other years. The one in New York, 

 because of cramped quarters, must of 

 necessity be small, but some year we 

 shall try again to take the palm from 

 Chicago. 



The October weddings are an abundant 

 crop. All the leading retailers in both 

 cities are busy with them and decora- 

 tions are more elaborate than usual. 

 Masur, of Brooklyn, tells me he has ten 

 of them booked for before the middle 

 of November. Mrs. Masur lately made 

 it possible soon to change the name of 

 this firm to Masur & Son. 



R. C. "Wilson has added Shannan's big 

 store and greenhouses on Greene avenue 

 to his possessions and opens his branch 

 there on November 1, with Mrs. Bruch- 

 ard manager of the cut flower depart- 

 ment. 



A Third avenue florist, who handles 

 diamonds as a side line, lost $3,000 worth 

 while riding on a car on Twenty-eighth 

 street, his pockets being picked. Florists 



should wear their diamonds or leave them 

 in care of their wives when on Twenty- 

 eighth street hereafter. I saw a $1,000 

 stud on a violet grower's bosom a few 

 days ago, but he got his on Twenty- 

 eighth street. 



A wedding at the church of the 

 Heavenly Rest on November 3 is a $1,200 

 affair, entrusted to Myer, of Madison 

 avenue. The groom is a nephew of the 

 late Marshall Field, of Chicago. 



James McManus has been handling of 

 late especially fine stock of gardenias 

 and Cattleya Dowiana. 



Julius Lang, who for twelve years has 

 conducted a wholesale cut flower busi- 

 ness on West Thirtieth street, has de- 

 cided to retire November 1. This store 

 was the last stand of the wholesale cut 

 flower contingent on the street. The 

 Limprecht Florists' Supply Co. still re- 

 mains at the old stand, and Dacre, the 

 retailer, occupies the store formerly used 

 by James McManus and has refurnished 

 and decorated it handsomely. The trend 

 of the wholesale business is toward cen- 

 tralization and from Twenty-sixth to 

 Twenty-ninth may safely now be called 

 the wholesale cut flower district of New 

 York. 



H. H. Berger & Co. say their foreign 

 correspondents announce that owing to 

 drought there has been a poor growth 

 of Lilium longiflorum giganteum and 

 that the large sizes will be scarce this 

 year. 



A. T. Boddington is receiving large 

 shipments of Lilium longiflorum multi- 

 florum, the early flowering type. All 

 their Holland bulbs are in. 



A. D. Goldenburg, of Haiti, manager 

 of R. M. Ward & Co.'s export depart- 



