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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 2, 1907. 



CAPE JASMINE. 



The report from south Texas is to the 

 effect that the annual crop of cape jas- 

 mine promises to be earlier than usual. 

 Indeed, a few small shipments already 

 have been sent north and considerable 

 quantities will be moving within the next 

 few days. 



The season in Texas has been a favor- 

 able one for this crop and it is the gen- 

 eral report that quality will be of the 

 best. The warm weather in April gave 

 the plants an early start and the cold, 

 which has checked all outdoor vegetation 

 in. the north, has not injured the jas- 

 mines. It is expected that the supply 

 will hold all through May and that the 

 season will wind up with Memorial day, 

 instead of being only just at the begin- 

 ning, as it has been in some more back- 

 ward seasons, 



C. W. Benson states that the general 

 special rate now applies to jasmine ship- 

 ments from Alvin. This is twenty per 

 cent less than merchandise rate and 

 pound rates apply. The shippers from 

 Alvin all are looking for a large season. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



At last we have seasonable weather; 

 even oiu Dr, Humidity called on Mon- 

 day, The grass, and buds, and leaves 

 have been ready for business two weeks, 

 but were held up by the unseasonable 

 cold. Even last week it was only by 

 fits and starts that any real enthusiasm 

 was created. Now all nature smiles. 

 The magnolias and forsythias are in 

 bloom; the leaves are opening hourly. 

 Before this paper reaches its readers it 

 will be a new world we live in, and we 

 <leserve it. March and April have been 

 depressing. No one can remember a 

 season so disagreeable as the one just 

 buried. There have been no tears at 

 the obsequies. No wonder Fischer and 

 liis freesias have gone to California, 

 The weather there won't "freesia. " 

 Another winter like this and we will all 

 want to emigrate thither. 



Now come the busy days of planting 

 and the crowded shipments of the nur- 

 serymen. The big stores, too, with their 

 thousands of hardy roses and shrubs to 

 dispose of, will have to work day and 

 night in their deliveries. Trepel, and 

 Weir, and Burnham, and the other de- 

 partmentalists, will need more pranc- 

 ing teams to meet the demand. Every- 

 where prosperity abounds. Real estate 

 is rising in value daily. The love for 

 country life, and all it means to horti- 

 culture, is fostered as never before and 

 the old saying that the business in this 

 country is "only in its infancy" is 

 more and more apparent as the seasons 

 recur and the enormous demand for the 

 nurseryman 's productions manifests 

 itself. 



In the wholesale cut flower market, 

 roses are growing more abundant daily. 

 Beauties and all the rest of them ac- 

 cepted the usual May values at the be- 

 ginning of the week, with no special 

 demand. Fifteen cents was top, with 

 12 and 10 cents quite possible before the 

 week is over. Maids and Brides sold 

 well at 5 cents for selected stock, but 

 boxes were closed as low as 2 cents and 

 3 cents where large purchases were 

 made. The general expectation is for 

 the usual average at this season of the 

 year. 



The cold weather has delayed the ex- 



pected shipments of southern lilac. 

 Sweet peas have been arriving in large 

 quantities. Carnations hold well, the 

 splendid novelties never grading better 

 than now, easily commanding 3 cents to 

 4 cents, and worth it. Still a few boxes 

 of so-called violets come down the river, 

 but the retail stores do not want them, 

 nor does the public, nor the merchants 

 du pave, which means the Grecian mer- 

 cantile contingent. 



Orchids hold their price firmly and 

 there are none too many of them. Now 

 that the May weddings are on they will 

 all be needed here. Outside cities would 

 do well to anticipate this and book their 

 orders Mell ahead. Retailers have had 



I enclose my check for $2.60 to pay 

 for the small advertisement in 





and would like to say that this is one 

 of the most satisfactory investments I 

 ever made. 



W. C. SCOVELL. 

 Malta, O. 



April 26, 1907. 



some notable weddings already, and 

 many bookings, they tell me, for May 

 and June. 



Various Notes. 



Donohoe opens his new store at 17 

 East Twenty-eighth street June 1. It 

 will be large, up-to-date and quite in 

 keeping with the bon-ton section of the 

 city. One cannot afford now to open a 

 store anywhere in the metropolis that is 

 not elegant in all its appointments. The 

 other kind soon go out of business, leav- 

 ing unpaid bills and unsavory reputa- 

 tions. There have been some closings 

 lately that are no credit to retail flori- 

 culture in New York, 



May 12 the New York Florists' Club 

 will meet again. Plant exhibits are re- 

 quested. Illustrations of Decoration day 

 novelties will be welcome. Great prepa- 

 rations are being made by the growers 

 in this section for the holiday. The re- 

 tail windows now are full of hydran- 

 geas and spring flowers, 



J, A. Peterson, of Cincinnati, was in 

 the city April 29 and had on exhibition 

 in Traendly & Schenck's windows some 

 fine specimens of Pandanus Veitchii, 

 Begonia Agatha and Hydrangea Otaksa, 

 He finds the New York market always 

 open for his perfect specimens, Mr, 

 Peterson left for the Jamestown exhi- 

 bition on Tuesday and has made a large 

 shipment of his stock there, 



Carl Jurgens, Jr., and wife, of New- 

 port, were in New York April 29 on 

 their way to Jamestown, It is early 

 yet for a visit to the world's fair, but 

 there will be steady travel later on, 



from New York by train and boat, aiui 

 it is intimated a fare of $5 will pi(.. 

 vail. Doubtless hundreds of the florists 

 who attend the meeting of the S, A. F 

 at Philadelphia will make the fair a 

 part of their summer holiday. 



Already the popularity of the wm- 

 dow-boxes is in evidence in the stre, ts 

 of New York, Hardly a house in !i,o 

 first-class residence district is with' nt 

 them, and tne hotels everywhere ;re 

 more profuse than ever in plant, i, id 

 flower, and bay tree decoration. As au 

 illustration of the universality of he 

 custom, the veteran James Hart ii :» 

 eight big hotels on his list, the e. lo 

 of the plants and their renewal belx' 

 contracted for by the season. Every . 

 tailer of importance has his quiver i i 

 of these orders and no hotel worthy >f 

 tlie name is now remiss in this much i- 

 be-commended courtesy to Dame Natu • . 

 Some of the inside decorations of i ,e 

 hotels are most elaborate. Enormnis 

 palms are used and bay trees seem ^o 

 lose none of their popularity, Tl.e 

 great importers of these handsome trci ■;, 

 Bobbink & Atkins, the Julius Eoeliis 

 Co., Schultheis, Siebrecht and many 

 others, are worthy of great commenda- 

 tion in the patient, persistent creatimi 

 of demand which they, by years nf 

 effort, have at last popularized. 



The great dailies of the metropolitan 

 press are catering to the popular desire 

 for information on horticultural sul) 

 jects and, while their purpose is honest 

 and unselfish, they sadly need a John F. 

 Sullivan to censor their articles befoii' 

 sending them out to a hungry and en- 

 quiring world. 



After a strenuous season the whole- 

 salers, some of them, are taking a much 

 needed resting spell in the afternoons, 

 either visiting their growers or looking; 

 after their greenhouses. By the by, tlio 

 baseball season has opened and the 

 ponies are running at Jamaica, 



The plantsmen, who have conserva- 

 tories on Twenty-ninth street, have hail 

 a busy spring. Many of the retailers 

 depend on these excellent sources of 

 supply and do not visit the early plant 

 market at all, 



Walter Mott, of the Bobbink & At 

 kins' staff, was in the city Sunday, after 

 one of his successful eastern trips, ami 

 full of enthusiasm as to th'e outlook. His 

 renewal of old friendships by travel 

 after years of seclusion in Jamestown 

 has added to his health and avoirdupois. 



Thirtieth street has about decided t<> 

 retire from the floricultural field. Sev- 

 eral of the faces in evidence there this 

 winter have vanished. 



L. B, Coddington's rose output is si 

 daily feature at Horace E, Froment's 

 wholesale depot, in addition to the stock 

 of a host of other growers that kee]' 

 the big store in a foment most of the 

 time. 



Reed & Keller are making extensive 

 preparations for Decoration day, theii 

 new inventions as usual being already 

 in demand, 



Igoe Bros., over in Brooklyn, noM 

 occupy their immense new factory, where 

 they have one of the most complete wire 

 establishments in America. They utilize 

 three floors of the great building, 



Henry R. Crawbuck has a monopoly 

 of the green goods business in Brooklyn 

 and deserves it. 



Out on Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, 

 Jacobs & Sons are just completing their 

 splendid three story warehouse for 

 greenhouse material, a convenience that 



