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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 25, 1907. 



phia last week, in the great procession, 

 among the New York visitors was the 

 genial face of James McManus, who, if 

 called upop, could have furnished every 

 one of the marchers with an orchid 

 boutonniere. 



Of J. K. Allen's force, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Shriner are back from their holiday and 

 George Allen goes with his family this 

 week to the mountains. "J. K." him- 

 self will enjoy his outing later, rounding 

 it up at the S. A. F. convention. In 

 fact, it is hard to find a man in the 

 wholesale section who is not planning for 

 the Philadelphia reunion. New York 

 will make a grand exhibit of all its spe- 

 cialties. It may be "carrying coals to 

 Newcastle" to invade the great palm- 

 center with exhibits, and the great flo- 

 rists' supply emporium with novelties 

 and displays, and the wonderful ribbon 

 'factories with our wares, but we are 

 coming in friendly competition, and we 

 want the best space in exhibition hall 

 if we can get it. There are only three 

 weeks remaining before the convention. 

 It is time to be up and doing. 



Wm. H. Kuebler and family, of Brook- 

 lyn, will summer, as usual, at Preston, 

 Conn. 



Mr. Blake, of Bonnet & Blake, leaves 

 this week for a month's sojourn at his 

 old home in Rochester, N. Y. Large ship- 

 ments of asters reach this firm daily 

 from the best growers of the Flower 

 City. 



George Crawbuck, of Hicks & Craw- 

 buck, was in Philadelphia " last week and 

 with his family is spending the summer 

 at his seaside home near Babylon, L. I. 



H. Kenney, of Rochester avenue, 

 Brooklyn, will shortly begin the construc- 

 tion of ten apartment houses on his city 

 property and will build a factory on his 

 Flatbush ground, where the manufacture 

 of wire designs will be a specialty. Here, 

 too, he will have cellars for the storage 

 of 10,000 bales of moss. Seldom less 

 than 6,000 bales are in storage here at 

 one time and some idea of the business 

 in this line may be had from the fact 

 that between Christmas and New Year's 

 over 3,500 bales . were distributed from 

 here. Mr. Kenney has a force of twenty- 

 four constantly busy. 



Robert G. Wilson, of Brooklyn, be- 

 lieves in an attractive window every week 

 of the year. A water lily display, with 

 fish and turtles, make up an effective dis- 

 play at present. The greenhouses on 

 Greene avenue, with their cement benches 

 and up-to-date conveniences and supply, 

 make decoration work easy. 



S. Masur has his new store at 238 Ful- 

 ton street, Brooklyn, nicely mirrored and 

 decorated and is more than pleased with 

 the change to roomier quarters. 



Myer, on Madison avenue, is utilizing 

 the dull season for repainting and beau- 

 tifying his big store and is optimistic 

 over the prospects for the coming season. 



Young & Nugent 's windows on West 

 Twenty-eighth street are always artistic, 



Alex. McConnell's big store on Fifth 

 avenue loses none of its attractiveness in 

 hot weather, the big palms from his 

 greenhouses at New Rochelle adding their 

 quota daily to the tropical beauty of the 

 arcade*. With its hi^ ceilings and deco- 

 rations, there is no handsomer flower 

 shop in the country. 



Joseph Leikens has closed his Thirty- 

 third street store for the summer and is 

 having a good season at Newport, where 

 society is now making things hum, with 

 bridge whist and dinner decorations. 



A. Warendorflf, at his Broadway head- 

 quarters, has a handsome water lily dis- 



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play, with fountain effects and all the 

 appropriate accessories. These Broadway 

 windows always have interested specta- 

 tors and teach the visiting florists from 

 all over the country lessons in novelty 

 and artistic groupings that bear fruit 

 an hundred fold. Mr. Warendorff and 

 family are, as usual in summer, enjoying 



Samuel Heoshaw. 



the Averne breezes at their cottage by 

 the "sad sea waves." 



Wm. H. Donohoe's new store proves 

 to have been ' ' a long felt want. ' ' Busi- 

 ness haa doubled in volume since the re- 

 moval to this commodious and beautiful 

 place and 'its closeness to the great fam- 

 ily hotels makes it also a "fine center for 

 the transient trade. 



* David ClaAe's Soft are taking advan- 

 tage of the hot spell to thoroughly re- 



Please discoatioue our adver- 

 tiicment of Begonias as inserted 

 last week in 



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The whole lot was taken and 

 to date it is necessary that we 

 return checks amounting to 

 nearly $200. We were greatly 

 pleased with the adv. 



E. A. BUTLER & SON. 



Niagara Falls. N. Y. 

 July 17, 1907. 



juvenate their big Btore on upper Broad- 

 way. The lieutenants are away at moun- 

 tain resorts and the principals soon will 

 hie to the health-giving hills of the Cats- 

 kills. Meantime the past season goes on 

 record as the best in nearly sixty years 

 of metropolitan floricultural experience. 



Thomas Young, Jr., is fast completing 

 a fine range of glass at Bound Brook, 

 N. J. 



John Young will find Bedford, where 



his 701-foot greenhouse is constantly en- 

 gaged in Beauty manufacture, an ideal 

 summer resort and nightly/ absorbs 

 enough ozone to make a strenuo^us day in 

 New York {>ossible with nearly 100 de- 

 grees in the shade. 



Bussin & Hanfling have added a hand- 

 some display window to their store and 

 will make an extensive exhibit of florists' 

 supplies at the convention. 



W. B. DuRie, of Rahway, N. J., is 

 Jersey's celery king and disposes of a 

 million plants yearly. This in addition 

 to a fine retail business and his duties 

 as principal of a school in Jersey City. 



H. Frank Darrow sailed last week for 

 Europe and will visit the big houses for 

 which he is the American agent while 

 away. 



The transportation committee has made 

 an arrangement for a special train for 

 Philadelphia, Tuesday morning, August 

 20. Full details will be given as settled 

 upon. 



A report of the death of Samuel Hen- 

 shaw appears in the obituary column this 

 week. 



John Scott has sailed for Europe. 



Samuel A. Woodrow is summering at 

 Hastings-on-the-Hudson. 



Clarence Saltford and Mrs. Saltford 

 have returned from an outing at Perth 

 Amboy. 



Charles Miller, of Walter Sheridan's 

 staff, is back from a stay in Sullivan 

 county. 



Charles Schenck and wife will be home 

 next week from their trip to Europe. 



0. V. Zangen, the seedsman of Hobo- 

 ken, has more than doubled his business 

 of last season to date. J. Austin Shaw. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Andre Laurent. 



We note the death, at Limoges, France, 

 at the age of 82 years, of Andre Lau- 

 rent, famous raiser of new varieties of 

 lilac, clematis, and fruits. 



Frances Calvert. 



Miss Frances Calvert, daughter of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Frank Calvert, of Lake Forest, 

 111., died at Kansas City July 20, where 

 she had gone for medical treatment, hav- 

 ing been in ill health for a considerable 

 time, but her demise was wholly unex- 

 pected, so that none of the members of 

 the family were with her at the time. 

 The funeral was held at the Episcopal 

 church at Lake Forest, Tuesday, July 

 23. Miss Calvert was an estimable woman 

 and enjoyed a wide circle of warm 

 friends. Besides her parents, she leaves 

 two sisters, one a resident of Denver, the 

 other of California, and one brother, Ed- 

 ward, who is a member of the firm of F.^ 

 Calvert & Son. 



Samuel Henshaw. 



Samuel Henshaw, one of the veterans 

 of the gardening fraternity, passed away 

 at his home at New Brighton, N. Y,, 

 Monday, July 22, after a long illness with 

 a disorder of the stomach. The funeral 

 is set for this morning, Thursday, July 

 25, interment to be at Fairview cemetery, 

 on Staten Island. 



Samuel Henshaw was born at Manches- 

 ter, England, nearly eighty years ago and 

 learned his gardening under his father, 

 one of the thorough plantsmen of that 

 day. He came to America in 1868 with a 

 ripe experience, taking charge of the 

 Green estate on Staten Island, where he 

 remained for twenty-one years. In 1890 

 he began his work as a landscape gar- 



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