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NOVESIBEH 15, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



J 723 



was destroyed and the driver slightly in- 

 jured. The accident occurred in front of 

 Myer's store on Madison avenue. 



Down at Elliott & Sons the auctions 

 go merrily on, hardy roses and ever- 

 gieens now having the call. The sales 

 will continue until Christmas. 



Joe Leikens, fat and saucy after his 

 summer at Newport, and with his peren- 

 nial smile, is moving his place of resi- 

 dence this week into his own three-story 

 and basement on East Forty-ninth street. 

 He has just installed some grand palms 

 in his Belmont hotel branch. 



WarendorflF, of the Ansonia, has 

 charge of the big Goldsmith-Ewing wed- 

 ding at Sherry's. The canopy used is a 

 bower of Killarney. The decorations are 

 elaborate. Last Tuesday at Delmonico's 

 they decorated for over 500 guests. Mrs. 

 Warendorff , ' ' the mother of florists, ' ' 

 has just celebrated, her seventieth birth- 

 day. She is in good health, and will 

 spend the winter with her daughter in. 

 California. 



A. Warendorff on Saturday sent out 

 some beautiful funeral designs, a. $100 

 standing heart of roses and white mums 

 being especially artistic. 



David Clarke's Sons' big store is 

 crowded with handsome plants from their 

 own greenhouses, and weddings are 

 booked far ahead into the holidays. All 

 days look alike in this busy center of 

 upper Broadway, where the big apart- 

 ment palaces are thick. 



Donohoe has added to his conveniences 

 at 2 West Twenty-ninth street, made 

 necessary by the amount of boxwood and 

 window decorative material he carries 

 for this rapidly increasing trade. Lieu- 

 tenant Geraghty is kept hustling design- 

 ing new decorative work for weddings. 



A. M. Henshaw, at 52 West Twenty- 

 eighth street, has added space for his 

 increasing business. 



A. L. ifoung & Co. have at last com- 

 pleted their improvements and the en- 

 largement of their space gives them a 

 handy store. 



Another retail store has been opened 

 on Fifth avenue near Forty-second 

 street, a gentleman from classic Greece 

 wooing the goddess of chance in this 

 swellest of the swell sections of the city. 



Traendly & Schenck will continue their 

 daily mum shows for four weeks, com- 

 mencing at 8 a. m. Large congregations 

 have been attending and the two pre- 

 siding elders are as busy as if it were 

 campmeeting season all the time. 



J. K. Allen already has booked good 

 orders for Thanksgiving. With his big 

 force of helpers and his shipping trade 

 he manages to dispose of his immense 

 receipts to good advantage every day. 



F. L. Moore's Bridesmaids, Henry 

 Hentz's Beauties and Queen of Edgely 

 from several growers are handled by 

 Mr. Nash, of Moore, Hentz & Nash, in 

 the Coogan building, but he says these 

 are only a drop in the bucket of their 

 daily sales. 



William H. Kuebler's prosperity in 

 Brooklyn is gratifying to himself and 

 his friends. With his two brothers, a 

 livelier trio would be hard to locate. 



Henry Crawbuck complains that ship- 

 ments of wild smilax do not keep pace 

 with the demand. He handles everything 

 in green goods. 



M. C. Bonnet, of Bonnet & Blake, is 

 slowly recovering from his long illness 

 and hopes to be soon on deck again, 

 where the growing business of the firm 

 makes his presence needed. 



The Geller Florist Supply Co. has 

 added much space lately to its store and 



has three floors occupied. Many attract- 

 ive novelties are among their importa- 

 tions. 



Perkins & Schumann need more room 

 •and contemplate adding a storage gallery 

 to their conveniences. 



L. Wertheimber Co., the Japanese im- 

 porters, have a store filled with vases, 

 novelties and Japanese art well worth a 

 careful inspection. 



This is the season of the year when 

 the membership of the National Flo- 

 rists' Board of Trade grows most rapid- 

 ly. The general commercial agencies are 

 of little help in handling florists' ac- 

 counts. 



Siebrecht & Son are in their new store 

 on East Thirty-eighth street, near the 

 corner of Fifth avenue, and have fitted 

 it up handsomely. 



C. W. Eberman has purchased the fix- 

 tures in the store lately occupied by Ju- 

 lius Lang, at 53 West Thirtieth street 

 and rented the premises for a wholesale 

 plant business, opening at once. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



CINQNNATL 



Tlie Market 



Last week brought a glut of mums. 

 They came by the thousands and of all 

 sizes. As a consequence the price 

 dropped many notches. I am glad to 

 state that there was a good clean-up on 

 Saturday, and Sunday found most of the 

 wholesale houses pretty well sold out. 

 Several large funerals for early Monday 

 morning made a heavy demand, and 

 everything, especially of white, sold out. 

 Small mums were in heavy demand and 

 averaged good prices, in fact the smaller 

 ones sold best throughout the week; it 

 was the larger ones that had to take a 

 back seat. 



Carnations are rapidly assuming their 

 proper place in the market, owing to the 

 increased numbers to be had. Last week 

 brought out a good cut and they sold 

 out in fine shape and at good prices. It 

 now looks as if there will be a good sup- 

 ply right along. 



Boses sold poorly. The market did 

 not seem to have any go in it and even 

 good quality did not bring buyers for 

 them. Brides were in heavy supply, but 

 Beauties were scarce. 



With the present cold snap we can 

 look forward to a shortening of nearly 

 all varieties of flowers. 



VaiiotM Notes. 



A quorum was not present at the 

 meeting of the Florists' Society, which 

 was to have been held Saturday evening. 

 A little social gathering was held. The 

 talk centered about the hunting season, 

 which will open next Thursday. Most of 

 the boys are figuring on getting out the 

 first day so as to be sure of getting 

 something. 



Among visitors this week wore Dr. 

 Howald, of the Atlanta Floral Co., At- 

 lanta, Ga. B. Eschner also was paying 

 the trade a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Hensly, 

 of Knightstown, Ind., spent a few days 

 here and visited many of the various 

 plants. 



E. G. Gillett was away from his office 

 most of last week. His mother, now 

 nearly 80 years old, who has been with 

 him in this city for several months, is 

 very ill and it is not expected that she 

 can survive many days. 



John Fries had a mum before the 

 Chrysanthemum Society committee Sat- 

 urday. It was a white, the result of a 



cross between Ivory and K G. Gillett. 

 Nathan Smith & Son, of Adrian, Mich., 

 displayed two. 



Several of the local craft were in 

 Chicago to attend the flower show and 

 report it to have been a glowing suc- 

 cess. C. J. Ohmer. 



COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



The Market. 



There is always about three weeks 

 every year when the chrysanthemum ab- 

 solutely predominates the flower market, 

 and we are now in the midst of that 

 season. Even American Beauty roses 

 have for the moment been neglected. It 

 is really wonderful the way the prices 

 of chrysanthemums have been main- 

 tained, both at wholesale and retail. 



All the trade are expecting ^nd al- 

 ready making jjreparations for a great 

 Thanksgiving business. 



Variotti Note*. 



Our chrysanthemum show was held No- 

 vember 13 in our new rooms in the 

 Brent building. 



The Livingston Seed Co. is holding 

 its chrysanthemum show this week. This 

 exhibtion has become a yearly function 

 with them, and while it entails a great 

 deal of work and expense, nevertheless 

 the results obtained are satisfactory. 

 Success for this season is assured, as 

 they have a splendid lot of mums, in all 

 the best sorts, at their greenhouses. 



Gustavo Ackerman is adding a new- 

 house to his already substantial range. 

 Mr. Ackerman makes a specialty of 

 chrysanthemums and lettuce. 



The great chrysanthemum show at Chi- 

 cago attracted much attention here, all 

 the craft following the detailed reports 

 closely. William Graff and A. M. Hills 

 represented Columbus. 



The Fifth Avenue Floral Co. tells us 

 that it has several wedding decorations 

 coming along, especially a large one at 

 the Lincoln apartments, to be wholly of 

 chrysanthemums. 



John Peter Menger, who died here last 

 week at the age of 86, was in his 

 younger years head gardener to the Em- 

 peror of Germany. 



A serious fire occurred November 9 at 

 the plant of the Columbus Pottery Co. 

 The loss was $50,000. 



A special winter course has been in- 

 augurated at the Ohio State University 

 in the agricultural department for the 

 first time in the history of the institu- 

 tion. The course will begin January 7 

 and last ten weeks. 



John H. Williams has been making 

 almost a specialty of Eobert Halliday 

 chrysanthemums. He retails the blooms 

 at his stand on the Central market at 

 the rate of one, two, three and four for 

 25 cents. Zero. 



Paducah, Ky. — Mrs. Luella B. Gil- 

 more, wife of Carl Gilmore, was seriously 

 injured in a runaway accident Novem- 

 ber 1. 



Camden, Me. — Geo. W. Glaentzel has 

 developed a first-class plant and a good 

 business since he started here last spring. 

 Ho grows cut flowers, making a special- 

 ty of bulbous stock. 



Hinsdale, Mass. — Large shipments 

 of ferns, evergreens and baled spruce 

 are being sent daily from here to New 

 York and western cities, and the cutting 

 of Christmas trees has begun. 



