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JCNX 20, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



wholesalers is receiving general attention 

 and the prospect is a universal agree- 

 ment for 3 p. m. daily for July and Aug- 

 ust. 



July 2 comes the New York Florists' 

 Club's annual outing. Already the suc- 

 cess of the annual festival is assured, 

 with a guarantee account of nearly 

 $1,000 in purchased tickets, advertising 

 patronage and prize donations. 



Last week Wednesday the New York 

 Florists' Club's field day did not draw 

 a large attendance. Those who made the 

 trip to beautiful Bronx park were well 

 rewarded. George V. Nash, the superin- 

 tendent, met the delegation and escorted 

 the members through the conservatories 

 and the grounds, after which the exhibits 

 in the Museum building were inspected. 

 Adam Miller, another of the club 's mem- 

 bers, was in charge of the Horticultural 

 Society's exhibition. The display was 

 not extensive and the attendance of the 

 general public light. Among the exhib- 

 itors were the F. K. Pierson Co., of Tar- 

 rytown, N. Y. ; Lager & Hurrell, Sum- 

 mit, N. J.; George Hale, Red Bank, 

 N. J. ; , "William McCoUom, Islip, L. I. ; 

 Julius Heurlin, South Braintree, Mass.; 

 Howard Nichols, Yonkers, N. Y. 



The beauty of general window-box ef- 

 fects is now much in evidence on all the 

 principal avenues of New York, scarcely 

 a hotel or club being without them and 

 hundreds of private houses having elab- 

 orate decorations in this line. Some are 

 kept thoroughly up-to-date by frequent 

 changes throughout the season. 



David Howells, at the Knickerbocker 

 hotel, has produced a fine effect on the 

 hotel's terrace garden and the evergreen 

 decorations by Hiram T. Jones, of Eliza- 

 beth, massive and extensive, furnish an 

 object lesson the other big hostelries are 

 not slow to follow. 



Myer, of Madison avenue, has been 

 doing some fine landscape work at Nor- 

 folk, Conn. 



W. A. Donohoe had the Fiedler wed- 

 ding this week, house and church, at Lit- 

 tle Silver, N. J. Pink peonies and pink 

 and white roses were the predominating 

 flowers. It was one of those ' ' no limit ' ' 

 decorations the retail florist is always 

 glad to land. 



June 13, the veteran, C. L. Allen, of 

 Floral Park, L. I., celebrated his seventy- 

 ninth birthday. He is one of the young 

 old men of liorticulture, understands 

 true, scientific living and is as spry and 

 ambitious as a man of 40 years. There 

 was a happy family celebration of the 

 event. 1 



Mr. Hicks has retired from the firm 

 of Hicks & Crawbuek, Brooklyn, and on 

 July 1, under the title of Hicks & Co., 

 will open a wholesale cut flower estab- 

 lishmeut at 52 West Twenty-eighth 

 street, New York, Mr. Henshaw then re- 

 moving to his new store at 44 West 

 Twenty-eighth s-treet. Mr. Hicks is well 

 known to the trade and a young man of 

 excellent character and reputation. He 

 should win his share in the rapidly de- 

 veloping wholesale business of the me- 

 tropolis. For good, clean, upright deal- 

 ing and faithful attention to duty there 

 is always room in every line of floricul- 

 ture and the old and well established 

 houses go right on adding to the volume 

 of their business ^very year. 



John Haiift, of Hanft Bros., Madison 

 avenue, sailed June 13, with his wife, by 

 the Augusta Victoria for a three months ' 

 trip in Europe. Charles B. Hanft will 

 spend the summer at his hotel at Sea 

 Cliff, L. I., as usual. A good many of 



Odontoglossum Citrosmum. 



his florist friends spend their holidays 

 at this popular resort. 



A. J. Guttman and family have moved 

 to their Chatham home for the summer. 

 A good many of the wholesalers have the 

 suburban bee in their bonnets and shortly 

 will be locating where the roses and the 

 mosquitoes bloom. 



Elliott & Son will close the auction 

 season June 25 with a big sale of flo- 

 rists' stock for growing on. This has 

 been one of the most successful seasons 

 this old house has ever had and the final 

 auction is expected to bring out one of 

 the largest crowds of trade buyers ever 

 gathered in the auction rooms, for many 

 greenhouses are empty, after the big 

 spring season, and stock is needed for a 

 fall crop. 



Joseph Fenrich has added a swift pony 

 and cart to his traveling facilities and 

 his growers may expect frequent fra- 

 ternal visits during the warm season. 



John Scott, of Flatbush, has branched 

 out into every variety of bedding stock, 

 palms, etc., in his big plant in Brook- 

 lyn, where some 60,000 square feet of 

 glass demonstrate the devotion of ten 

 busy years. The venerable parents of 

 Mr. Scott left last week for a visit to 

 their old home in Scotland. Scottii is 

 as popular as ever. Mr. Scott will have 

 many houses full of it for the fall de- 

 liveries. 



Louis Schmutz, Sr., of Flatbush has 

 been laid on the shelf lately with rheum- 

 atism but with the warm weather will 

 soon be on his feet again. An outing of 

 the New York club without "Louie" 



and his family would be like a year with- 

 out a summer. J. Austin Shaw. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM CITROSMUM. 



Unlike the majority of odontoglossums, 

 which, owing to our hot summers, are of 

 difficult culture, Odontoglossum citros- 

 mum is a comparatively easy variety to 

 grow. It is a native of Guatemala, from 

 whence it was first introduced into Eng- 

 land in 1840. The pseudo-bulbs are of 

 a light green color, smooth and shiny. 

 The foliage is oblong and quite stout. 

 The flowers have fine white sepals and 

 petals, the top being light purple in 

 color, and are produced on pendent 

 racemes of eight to twenty-five flowers, 

 in some cases even more being carried. 

 There is a pure white form, one with 

 a deep rosy lip and another in which the 

 sepals and petals are dotted with pur- 

 ple. The flowers are two and one-half to 

 three inches across, full in outline and 

 have a delicate lemon odor. 



While the cool odontoglossums, such as 

 crispum and Pescatorei, succeed best in 

 pots or pans, Odontoglossum citrosmum 

 is best grown in baskets, a cattleya house 

 temperature suiting it. It should at all 

 times be hung well up to the light. Dur- 

 ing winter it should be placed in a sunny 

 position and kept somewhat drier at the 

 roots to ensure a good crop of racemes. 

 The flowering season is May and June, 

 when such other useful orchids as Lselia 

 purpurata, Cattleya Mossise, C. Mendelii 

 and Miltonia vexillaria are in season. 



W. N. Ceaio, 



