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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Decembeb 20, 1906. 



NEV YORK. 



Christmas Prospects* 



The prospects for a grand Christmas 

 trade are bright. Everybody is expecting 

 it and planning accordingly. Even Dame 

 Nature has taken a hand, and by mak- 

 ing shipments of roses less than the mar- 

 ket readily absorbs has made it impos- 

 sible for any great rise before the holi- 

 days and is giving promise of an abun- 

 dance for Christmas at reasonable fig- 

 ures. I think the pickling menace grows 

 less and less every year. No reputable 

 grower indulges in it. He can't without 

 being found out. It is becoming com- 

 mendable nowadays to send the complete 

 output of the greenhouses daily. The 

 man who fails to do so soon gets a bad 

 name. Before long no wholesaler will 

 handle stock over twenty-four hours old. 

 We look for no great advance, therefore, 

 in the quoted prices of the present week. 

 Beauties may go to $1 each, Maids and 

 Brides to $25 per hundred for the best. 

 The quality generally gives no cause for 

 fault-finding. It is superb. 



There were never finer carnations 

 shipped than those now coming to New 

 York. All the fancy stock and the nov- 

 elties sell out clean and at good figures. 

 There will be quite a few mums for the 

 holidays. Gardenias are rising and in 

 constant demand. Orchids, too, grow 

 constantly in favor. The demand for all 

 the varieties listed by McManus is be- 

 yond the possible supply. The call from 

 other cities has developed into a steady 

 demand that will take considerable hus- 

 tling to satisfy. The outlook for the 

 orchid grower is bright. We have many 

 of them in this vicinity. 



There will be plenty of valley, nar- 

 cissi and hyacinths for Christmas. Lil- 

 ies are not abundant; $15 per hundred 

 will doubtless be the asking price for 

 the holidays. Violets will sell at $1. 

 Few were worth that during the last 

 ten days. It is possible the specials may 

 touch $1.50 next Saturday. 



The retailers are all counting on a 

 big plant sale and are already making 

 up their baskets of assorted foliage and 

 blooming stock in great abundance. Aza- 

 leas, orange trees, dracaenas, fancy va- 

 rieties of ferns and heather seem to be 

 the favorite combinations. 



Various Notes. 



Weiss & Pf annebecker, at One Hun- 

 dred and Fifteenth street and Second 

 avenue, have sold their store to Ditzen- 

 berger, of Eighty-eighth street and Lex- 

 ington avenue. The location is a good 

 one. TTie old firm intend making a trip 

 to Germany and Switzerland, the birth- 

 place of its members. 



J. B. Nugent decorated the New York 

 Athletic Club, of which he is a member, 

 and the Union League Club elaborately 

 last week. 



Han ft Bros, are already making prep- 

 arations for the Arion ball early in the 

 year, and the Mallons, of Brooklyn, the 

 Emerald ball in February, as usual. 



Myer had a brilliant Christmas bell 

 window last week that attracted much 

 attention. 



Bloomingdale Bros. ' retail department 

 is kept up -to date and its windows 

 adorned with novelties with Mr. Wade in 

 charge, while Mr. Burnham has the big 

 conservatories crowded with everything 

 in plant and flower that can draw and 

 satisfy tie big clientele he controls. 



Warendorff, at Madison and Fifty- 

 ninth streets, had some unique funeral 



work last week in easel and pall con- 

 struction. Quite out of the ordinary. 

 The Eussian artist here is original and 

 has just returned from a year's experi- 

 ence in California. 



Henry Hession, at Madison avenue 

 and Seventy-sixth street, and Lena Hart, 

 at Seventy-eighth street, have beautifully 

 decorated stores. W. C. Mansfield, on 

 Lexington avenue, and J. B. Nugent, Sr., 

 also are demonstrating their ambition and 

 faith in the Christmas trade by extensive 

 stock and attractive windows. 



J. H. Small & Son's big store is re- 

 splendent with electrical effects, bego- 

 nias, baskets of varied combinations and 

 grand specimen Whitmani and Elegantis- 

 sima. 



D. J. Mackintosh has baskets in end- 

 less quantity and variety. Mr. Mackin- 



IfSIVERY now and then a well 

 i&Sl pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing a new 

 advertiser to 



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Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated, -b 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florists' use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS* PUBLISHING CO. 

 520-40 Caxton Bldg. Chicago 



tosh, Sr., has just returned from a long 

 visit in Ireland and Scotland. 



At Thorley's new Broadway store 

 magnificent vases of Beauties and bou- 

 gainvillea were the decoration. 



Thomas Young, Jr., has three big re- 

 tail centers filled with the choicest or 

 everything that makes Christmas worth 

 while floriculturally. He had charge of 

 the big Humphrey church and house 

 wedding Saturday, one of the events of 

 the season, also the Bacon wedding on 

 Thursday, another elaborate affair. 



M. Bowe, in the heart of the city, has 

 added some noted artists to his force for 

 the holidays and his beautiful store is all 

 too small for the big transient trade 

 that comes to his mill, while his family 

 engagements keep him busy at dinners 

 aHd weddings most of the time. He is 

 ' ' Heady for a record Christmas, ' ' he 

 says, and that is about what everyOody 

 expects this year. 



A. L. Young & Co. have a fine stock 

 of geraniums and poinsettias in pots for 

 Christmas. 



T. L. Moore, of Moore, Hentz & Nash, 

 is visiting his growers in Khode Island. 



T. Mellstrom, of Sander & Son, sailed 

 for England Saturday to spend Christ- 

 mas with his family. 



The auctions are over. Last Thursday 

 Mr. Elliott decided to give his melliflu- 

 ous voice a rest. He has had a success- 

 ful season. 



W. C. Krick is overwhelmed with or- 

 ders for letters this year, and his pat- 



ented Christmas tree holder is also in 

 great demand. 



Arthur T. Boddington reports a great 

 demand for gladioli, especially the 

 Shakespeare, May and America varieties. 

 Harry Bunyard is expected back from a 

 very successful trip for the holidays. 



John J. Foley has sold his green- 

 houses at Madison and is giving all his 

 attention to his big retail store on the 

 Bowery and to the construction of his 

 new album of floral photographs. 



F. W. O. Schmitz, of Prince Bay, has 

 disposed of an immense number of ever- 

 greens as well as Azalea Indica. This 

 has been the largest year in his history. 



The Lord & Burnham Co. is still as 

 busy as if the season were at its zenith 

 instead of waning. 



Hitchings & uo. are enjoying a goodly 

 share of the general prosperity and when 

 their immense works at Elizabethport are 

 completed they will have all the con- 

 veniences needed to considerably increase 

 their output. 



Anton Schultheis has a grand display 

 of Christmas plants, but they all will be 

 disseminated by Saturday. New York 

 and Brooklyn take most of them. 



Bobbink & Atkins, of Eutherford, have 

 a great stock of azaleas in bloom for 

 Christmas. 



Andrew Wilson, of Summit, was in the 

 •city last week in the interests of his 

 scale-killing plant oil. The sale of it is 

 already making a larger force and 

 greater conveniences for its manufacture 

 a necessity. 



The orchid men are all busy import- 

 ing, building and shipping. Julius 

 Eoehrs Co., Lager & Hurrell, Carrillo & 

 Baldwin, A. Held and Siebrecht & Son 

 are all doing their share to make pos- 

 sible the supplying of the imus'ual de- 

 mand that has developed from every 

 part of the country. 



F. E. Pierson Co. have sent out some 

 grand specimens of Elegantissima for 

 the Christmas decorations. Winsor is 

 coming to the market from the big 

 houses at Scarboro and is very popular. 



O. v. Zangen, the seedsman of Hobo- 

 ken, reports his biggest year. 



Eeed & Keller report big business for 

 Christmas. 



H. Frank Darrow is back from the 

 west after a very successful trip. 



John Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, 

 has sold all the great stock of Phoenix 

 Eoebelenii he offered the trade earlier in 

 the year, with the exception of the seed- 

 lings. 



Sheridan's Beauties, as usual, will be 

 a feature on Twenty-eighth street for 

 Christmas, and Saltford's violets on 

 Twenty-ninth street, from his own 

 greenhouses, demonstrate he knows "how 

 to grow" them. All the wholesale 

 houses are optimistic as to the holiday 

 trade and making more extensive prepa- 

 ration than usual for it. 



New York Defeats Madison. 



The following account of what the 

 New York seedsmen did to the Madison 

 gardeners is contributed: 



' * We snowed them under. Herrington 

 had a h<jnch on what was coming, so 

 wisely stayed out of the game. The 

 Madisons had hopes the first few frames, 

 but when they saw their big chief, Duck- 

 ham, miss a few they seemed to lose 

 heart and it was like taking candy from 

 babies after that. Three straight and 

 over 100 pins each game. Wasn't it 

 awful! These were the deciding games 

 of the series, New York having won five 



