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The Weekly Rorists'' Review* 





Jdnb 27, 1907. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



This hot spell could have only one ef- 

 fect on the New York wholesale cut 

 flower market. It looked as if a cyclone 

 had struck it Saturday. Everybody was 

 stocked to the upper deck and good qual- 

 ity was hard to find. Everything was 

 pale and drooping. Even the captains 

 at the helms had that tired feeling. 

 Mildew was abundant. Prices were cut 

 to the lowest rates of the year. 



Carnations seemed to suffer most. Lots 

 of them marched from their boxes to 

 the refuse barrels on arrival without 

 even a stopping-off place. The extreme 

 heat had murdered them in transit. The 

 fancies and novelties were on sale at 

 $10 a thousand. Most of the carnation 

 shipments went to the street merchants 

 at $2.50 a thousand. "What would we 

 do without them?" said one of the big 

 pink nabobs of Twenty-eighth street. ' * I 

 tell you they're a godsend," and so they 

 are. Sometimes I think we don't half 

 appreciate them, and, best of all, they 

 are cash customers. 



Eoses are down to rock bottom. A 

 few of the best Bride and Maid are 

 salable, but at the buyer's price. Thou- 

 sands of roses were not sold at all. The 

 grower has had his innings for two 

 months more this year than ever before 

 and must now take his medicine during 

 July and August. 



Some one declared that they saw a 

 gentleman from sunny Italy or Greece 

 selling cattleyas on classic Fifth avenue 

 last week. It must have been a mirage. 

 I hardly think orchids will fall so low, 

 even in New York, where they are now 

 so abundant and so beautiful. Not this 

 year, at any rate, though the new orchid 

 growers for the New York market are 

 growing fast in numbers and knowledge 

 and there have been enough and to spare 

 of the finest flowers all through the month 

 of June. 



Peonies have come in like a flood to 

 add to the general demoralization. It 

 would be wicked to quote the price at 

 which great wagon-loads of them went 

 to Brooklyn. Every church in the City 

 of Churches must have looked like a 

 floral bower last Sunday. Perhaps cold 

 storage and shipments out of the city 

 may help out, but floods are hard to dam 

 and there seems no bottom to the reser- 

 voir. It will surely hold out until the 

 end of July. 



Valley is down with the bunch, $10 a 

 thousand buying the finest wedding 

 stock. Lilies are selling at $2 a hun- 

 dred and sweet peas at the same a hun- 

 dred bunches. 



The June weddings are not up to ex- 

 pectations. There seems to be a wave 

 of family economy sweeping over the 

 country. The retailers are complaining 

 and they are the pulse of the market. 

 There was little doing last week outside 

 of funeral work and European travel. 

 Society has departed to the country re- 

 sorts. Newport should soon feel the 

 uplift and get busy. The promise of all 

 the big country centers of fashion is said 

 to be encouraging. 



Various Notes. 



Don't forget the outing next Tuesday, 

 July 2. This is the final notice. Be at 

 the dock, Thirty-first street and East 

 river, promptly at 10 o'clock. Every 

 arrangement has been made for a large 

 crowd and a grand entertainment for 

 all who attend. The children have been 



especially provided for. Over $300 has 

 been spent in prizes and there will be 

 enough for everybody, of sport, refresh- 

 ments, dinner and premiums, so no one 

 can go home disappointed. There should 

 be an attendance of 500. 



Reed & Keller have a new American 

 Beauty vase and stand, a useful combi- 

 nation, and Mr. Reed's latest conception. 

 He says his new fall catalogue will be 

 far ahead of anything ever sent out. 



John Nash and family are recuperat- 

 ing week ends at Glen Cove, L. I. It's 

 a pity this good old English custom of 

 recreative holidaying over Saturday and 

 Sunday has not become universally popu- 

 lar in this too strenuous metropolis. 



Summit, N. J., is the summer home of 

 A. J. Guttman. 



Frank Millang and family sail July 15 

 for Europe and will visit Mrs. Millang 's 

 old home in the Emerald isle and Mr. 

 Millang 's ancestral domain in Belgium. 

 They will be away until September. 



Lecakes & Co. have purchased the four- 

 story and basement house at 328 West 

 Twenty-eighth street. Mr. Lecakes has 

 been offered $2,000 on his investment, 

 less than a month since its purchase. 



J. B. Nugent, Jr., has recovered from 

 a serious operation on the nasal bones 

 which laid him up for repairs for ten 

 days. A telegram from his married 

 daughter in Greenwood, S. D., congratu- 

 lating him on becoming a grandfather, 

 seems to have hastened his recovery. 



George Relyea, of Poughkeepsie, one 

 of the veteran florists of that section, 

 was killed instantly on Friday, June 21, 

 at the bridge there. The funeral was on 

 Monday. Mr. Relyea was highly re- 

 spected. His shipments to New York 

 were handled by Joseph Fenrich. 



Exclusive Seventy-second street in New 

 York has yielded to the spread of com- 

 mercialism and is to become a business 

 street. Dards, the florist, was the first 

 to realize its possibilities. He will have 

 a branch store at 114 West Seventy-sec- 

 ond street in time for the fall season. 

 There are many florists in that section 

 of the city, the store of David Clarke's 

 Sons among them. 



Frederick W. Bodley, gardener on the 

 estate of William K. Vanderbilt, at 

 Deepdale, L. I., married six years ago 

 the daughter of a millionaire widow who 

 died last week, leaving a will that be- 

 queathed only $10 to Mrs. Bodley, who 

 is her only child. The million-dollar 

 estate is left to the city of New York 

 for the improvement of the public parks. 

 The will will be contested. 



The Boddington seed store is being 

 added to, remodeled, refloored and 

 shelved under the eagle eye of Harry 

 Bunyard. When completed it will be one 

 of the most convenient emporiums in 

 seeddom. Mr. Boddington 's representa- 

 tive, who has been so long ill in the 

 Boston hospital, will be on duty again 

 early in July. 



Ralph Ward is back from his trip 

 around the world via Siberia and has a 

 fund, of interesting adventures and ex- 

 periences on tap that makes one impa- 

 tient to see the planet. 



Frank Traendly has devoted a good 

 deal of his spare time to the club's out- 

 ing interests and his office is already 

 crowded with the premiums for the oc- 

 casion. The outing committee held its 

 final meeting on Tuesday of this week 

 and the only possible disappointment is 

 unfavorable weather. 



J. K. Allen's big ice-box, just in- 

 stalled, is doing duty for peony storage. 



Gunther Bros.' new store, and that of 

 Russin & Hanfling, will celebrate the 

 Fourth with new plate glass w;indow8 

 and up-to-date conveniences. 



James Hart is kept busy superintend- 

 ing the palm and evergreen decorations 

 of nine Manhattan hotels. These are 

 renewed weekly and cared for daily. The 

 number of big hotels cared for by florists 

 on yearly contracts is increasing. The 

 plan is popular. There will not be a 

 hotel worthy of the name without this 

 system within the year. 



James Weir has brought injunction 

 proceedings to prevent the Bay Ridge 

 local board from closing Kowenhoven 

 lane. His application has revealed that 

 Kowenhoven kne was established by a 

 colonial enactment some 300 years ago. 

 It was ordered closed recently by the 

 local board. It appears that Weir's 

 greenhouses and several other buildings 

 stood not only on but partly in the 

 lane. 



The town is full of seedsmen this 

 week. The convention will continue from 

 Tuesday until Thursday, and in advance 

 the general opinion is that the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of the society will ex- 

 ceed all others in attendance and im- 

 portance. The New York seedsmen will 

 tender the visitors a banquet at the 

 Hotel Astor Wednesday evening. 



There is no convention city that can 

 vie with New York. We are hoping to 

 entertain the S. A. F. again after Phila- 

 delphia and Cincinnati are through with 

 it. The Philadelphia convention is only 

 seven weeks away. We are beginning to 

 talk about it, and our exhibitors are al- 

 ready securing space and selecting hotel 

 conveniences. J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Intensely hot weather, a deluge of 

 flowers, many of them of poor quality, 

 and an indifferent demand, is the situa- 

 tion at present. Last week saw good 

 calls for graduation and other occasions, 

 but even with these, prices slumped to 

 quite low figures on nearly all lines, the 

 buyer rather than the seller fixing the 

 values. Both roses and carnations are 

 selling low, while quantities of both 

 single and double peonies are also ar- 

 riving. These latter flowers will be at 

 their height about the end of the present 

 week, but many growers north of Bos- 

 ton have not yet cut a bloom. 



Quite a few hybrid roses appeared 

 this week, but sell rather poorly. A week 

 earlier they would have been in great 

 demand for school graduations. Swieet 

 peas are still plentiful, but like all oth- 

 er indoor flowers, plainly show the influ- 

 ence of the hot wave. In the way of 

 miscellaneous flowers, pyrethrums, Ger- 

 man and Spanish irises and other out- 

 door flowers are seen. Aquatics are be- 

 ing freely used for window decorations. 



Peony Show. 



The postponed dates, June 22 and 23, 

 proved altogether too early for peonies 

 and while there were several tables of 

 them, a much more extensive showing 

 will be made June 29 and 30. The ma- 

 jority of the classes were not competed 

 for and wiU be held over for a week. 



For collection of singles, William 

 Whitman, M. Sullivan gardener, led 

 with a fine table. George Hollis was 

 second. For vase of blooms on long 

 stems arranged in the society's large 



