APRIL 18, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1689 



BEAUTIES 



AND ALL OTHER ROSES 



QUALITY NOT TO BE BEAT. CAN SUPPLY ALL ORDERS 



lET OUR PRICES ON LARGE LOTS- 



GEORGE REINBERG 



35 Randolph Street, 



li. B. Fhon*, Oentral 1987. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Mention The Review when yon write. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Last week was cold, unseasonable, life- 

 less. There was no snap to the demand 

 and the tendency was downward. Even 

 the spring crop of weddings, numerous, 

 and many of them elaborate, could not 

 stir the waters and the big functions and 

 fine decorations only comforted individ- 

 ual and fortunate retailers, while the 

 great majority patiently waited for their 

 share. The shipments of all kinds of 

 flowers grow in volume and great con- 

 cessions are made each day in the clear- 

 ing of the surplus. 



Roses are abundant. Imagine those 

 proud Beauties of a few weeks ago toss- 

 ing their heads derisively at an offer of 

 $50 a hundred now smilingly accepting 

 $15 and often compromising on even a 

 lower plane. Brides and Maids, too, are 

 <lown to almost summer rates and sec- 

 onds have sunk at times below $10 a 

 thousand. Fine Maids have sold for $5 

 a hundred. Some of the specialties are 

 more independent, Richmond and Chat- 

 enay among them. 



Enormous quantities of lilies are com- 

 ing to town, both callas and Harrisii. I 

 5-aw 5,000 of them in one cellar Satur- 

 <lay night and $5 per hundred would 

 liave bought them. Some of the houses 

 <|uoted even a lower figure. Some of the 

 bulb growers may wake up after this 

 reason and give more of their houses to 

 loses and carnations. They have had a 

 esson this year that is most discourag- 

 ing. Hardly the price of the bulbs has 

 been realized by many. Southern ship- 

 ments are enormous and this adds to 

 ihe general demoralization in bulbdom. 

 There is a great abundance of sweet 

 .leas, mignonette, tulips and valley. Vio- 

 lets are still with us, though their days 

 =ire numbered. The best of them are no 

 longer good and at the others even the 

 street merchants turn up their Grecian 

 noses. 



Last but not least, carnations join the 

 procession with lagging feet and even 

 the novelties were down. The finest Law- 

 sons could be had for $2 per hundred, 

 r^ut "it's a long lane that has no 

 turn" and with the return of sunshine 

 find the robins we are looking for lively 



times. The snow and chill of the whole 

 month of April to this date has made 

 pessimists of us all. 



Another Bi£ Orchid Grower. 



The orchid is firm and aggressive. 

 Everything confirms its growing popu- 

 larity. Carrillo & Baldwin, of Cecaucus, 

 have just received 114 cases of C. Trianae 

 and have contracted with Komitsch & 

 Junge, the sweet pea growers of that 

 town, to supply 300 cases of cattleyas to 



Kindly take my advertisement out 



of 



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until further notice^ as I need a chance 

 to come up with inrushin£ orders. 

 Send bill and I will remit with pleas- 

 ure. Thankiog you, I remain. 

 Yours respectfully, 



WM. BECKER. 

 Farmingdale, L. L, N. Y. 

 April 16, 1906. 



be used in three large houses, each 150 

 feet long, covering all the commercial 

 varieties and ensuring blooms all the 

 year around. This firm has now one 

 orchid house 150 feet long from which, 

 in December and January, they cut 

 10,500 flowers. The above is one of the 

 largest orders for orchids ever given in 

 this country. T. Haff has been engaged 

 as grower and he has had much ex- 

 perience already with Siebrecht & Son 

 and the Julius Roehrs Co. Mr. Junge 

 himself is an expert grower. 



This is one of the many straws show- 

 ing the wind's direction as to the 



orchid's future. It would surprise you 

 to know how many orchid growers are 

 busy in and around this city. A call 

 on McManus any evening when the local 

 demand has been suppli^ and the orders 

 from other cities are being boxed for 

 shipment is a daily reminder of the 

 flower. Many of the wholesalers are now 

 handling it and as the supply grows 

 their number will increase. 



ITith the Nurscrymetk. 



This is not a good time to visit the 

 nurserymen; they are too busy. We 

 have some of the best in the land very 

 near us. Down on Long Island, the 

 Cottage Gardens Co.; over the river at 

 Rutherford, Bobbink & Atkins, and at 

 Elizabeth, N. J., only fifteen miles out, 

 Hiram T. Jones and the Elizabeth Nur- 

 sery Co. are overwhelmed with orders. 

 Mr. Jones is already averaging a car a 

 day in shipments and has hardly begun. 

 Over 100 acres are devoted to ornamental 

 stock alone. Two packing houses have 

 been built, with a combined floor space 

 of over 10,000 square feet and a frost- 

 proof cellar, 35x100. 



Close at hand are the nurseries of the 

 Elizabeth Nursery Co., where nearly 200 

 people, in greenhouses, offices and 

 grounds, find employment in the spring. 

 Here the office force is working night 

 and day. Great stacks of orders are 

 coming in daily and nearly 1,000 orders 

 were booked before the winter was over. 

 Mr. Runyon, president of the company, 

 and Mrs, Runyon returned a few weeks 

 ago from their Cuban plantation, where 

 they have over 200 acres devoted to 

 oranges, lemons and grape fruit and 

 Ai^tere they spent the winter in an aver- 

 age temperature of over 70 degrees. An 

 ideal spot, they claim, for New Yorkers 

 to pass the disagreeable months of Feb- 

 ruary and March. 



Fred Smythe, of Wadley & Smythe, 

 now has in addition to his nurseries at 

 Yonkers and Newport, two others in 

 close proximity to New York which he 

 contemplates purchasing. His contracts 

 this season are numerous, the principal 

 one being the planting of the grounds 

 at Canton around the McKinley me- 

 morial, some fifteen acres in extent. 

 Already considerable work has been 

 done there in the planting of large trees. 



