August 22, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



41 



48-50 

 WABASH AVE., 



CHICAGO 



We are Headquarters for 



Any kind of Cut Flowers to be 

 found In the Chicago Market. 



All stock billed at market rates. 



Mention Tbe Review when you write. 



store at 44 West Twenty-eighth street, 

 and may well be, for in size, conveni- 

 ences and possibilities it vies with any in 

 the wholesale district. Mr. Henshaw is 

 a young man of wide experience and am- 

 bition. His first experience in the whole- 

 sale business was with John N. May, 

 Humrait, W. J. His uncle, Samuel Hen- 

 shaw, lately deceased, was known by 

 every prominent horticulturist in the 

 country. A ^ew years ago Mr. 

 Henshaw joined his brothers in the 

 growing of cut flowers, near Summit, N. 

 J. His progress during the past two 

 years in the wholesale cut flower busi- 

 ness has been rapid. He is popular, 

 alert and devoted to his work. His 

 charming wife presides over the office 

 department. There isn't any doubt as 

 to the future growth and prosperity of 

 the establishment. 



H. Frank Darrow sailed for New York 

 on the Deutschland, from Hamburg, Au- 

 giist 15, after visiting the various for- 

 eign firms for which he is the American 

 agent. 



The long continued drought is becom- 

 ing alarming. Great damage has already 

 been done to vegetable and fruit gardens 

 on Long Island, prices are advancing and 

 unless rain comes soon the loss will be 

 incalculable. 



Siebrecht & Son are repainting the 

 White Palace, as the Siebrecht building 

 is named, and preparing for a big season. 

 Henry Siebrecht, Sr., and Mrs. Siebrecht 

 leave for their annual outing in the 

 Maine woods the middle of September. 

 At New Rochelle the firm have now fif- 

 teen houses of orchids and grow over 

 forty distinct varieties, twenty varieties 

 of cattleyas, ten of laelias, ten of den- 

 drobiums and all the other popular 

 kinds. 



John A. Foley and N. Lecakes have 

 been visiting their growers up the Hud- 

 son. Mr. Foley and family have been 

 rusticating at Ellenville, N. Y. 



Hitchings & Co. are building at 

 Whitestone, L. I., two large modern 

 houses for Louis Dupuy. 



The Cut Flower Exchange on Tuesday 

 of this week sent oyt a surplus, over 

 $8,000, to its stockholders. 



Mr. Bonnet and family, of Brooklyn, 

 have been summering at Ulster Park, N. 

 Y. Mr. Blake, of the same firm, and 

 family are still in Rochester, N. Y. 



Charles Trepel and wife, of Brook- 

 lyn, are resting in the Catskills. 



Geo. Cotsonas & Co. are receiving fine 

 stock of fancy ferns and have a large 

 force gathering supplies in the country. 



Friends of W. H. Siebrecht and wife, 

 of Astoria, are receiving tokens by mail 

 that indicate a happy summer in Eu- 

 rope, with side trips to the Alps and the 

 lakes of Switzerland. 



Anton Schultheis and family are also 

 reveling in the delights of European 

 travel. J. Austin Shaw. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Ritins: Eastern Market. 



. While business is quiet, on a summer 

 level, as they say, still there are indica- 

 tions of an improvement. The quality 

 of flowers seems better, due partly to 

 the increase in well-grown greenhouse 

 stock and partly to the cooler nights. 

 Locally grown American Beauty roses 

 are more plentiful and in fair de- 

 mand. Kaiserins are excellent. Some 

 fairly good Brides and Maids are 

 seen. Richmond has reinforced Liberty. 

 Killarney and Chatenay, while scarce, 

 can be had in nice shape. There is a 

 vast preponderance of poor asters in the 

 market, those of really fine quality being 

 few and far between. It is said that the 

 better grade of asters will be more plen- 

 tiful in a week or ten days. There are 

 not many carnations about, white be- 

 ing more plentiful than the colored sorts. 

 Valley is unusually good for summer. 

 Gladioli continue in oversupply, the 

 lighter colors and white varieties finding 

 a ready market when of good quality, 

 while the reds and dull colors are not in 

 demand. Much of the stock is of ex- 

 cellent quality. A few straggling dah- 

 lias have made their appearance. Greens 

 are fairly plentiful. 



More About Pots. 



Considerable interest was awakened in 

 this city by the pictures published in 

 this paper last week showing the im- 

 proved methods in the manufacture of 

 flower pots. To secure, if possible, fur- 

 ther ideas on the subject, the representa- 

 tive of this paper visited Norristown a 

 few days ago, where Edward, Charles 

 and William Keller have established and 

 are carrying on a thriving business in 



the manufacture of flower pots, under 

 the name of the Keller Pottery Co. This 

 company operates a machine that makes 

 the largest pressed pot in the world. 



Through the courtesy of Charles Kel- 

 ler some facts that may not be generally 

 known were gleaned. It appears that the 

 manufacture of flower pots is a much 

 more complicated process than the aver- 

 age florist would suppose. In the first 

 place, a wood model must be prepared of 

 the desired size. From this wood model aa 

 iron facsimile is produced in the rough 

 at the foundry. This iron form is neatly 

 finished before being put into service. 

 The next step is to secure a plaster cast 

 from this iron form. While these proc- 

 esses may seem simple, the difficulty lies 

 in making due allowance for shrinkage, 

 as the pots when finished must be of 

 standard size. When the plaster cast 

 is secured, operations can begin in ear- 

 nest. A number of these casts are used 

 at once in producing pots of any de- 

 sired size. 



The formation of a machine-made pot 

 requires four different parts: the core, 

 forming the hollow of the pot; the cup, 

 forming the outside; the cap, rounding 

 off the top, and the piece fitting over the 

 bottom. 



The company has two large, double- 

 deck kilns in operation, and has just add- 

 ed a new annex 30x72 feet, with all the 

 arrangements complete for a new kiln 

 to be fifteen feet in diameter. It is in- 

 teresting to note that the company has 

 been producing pots as small as 1-inch, 

 though there is but little demand for this 

 size. All the sizes, up to 10-inch, are 

 machine made, while those over 10-inch 

 are made on a jigger. Mr. Keller re- 

 marked that the sizes over 14-inch are 

 but little in demand, cedar tubs having 

 replaced them. This he believes to be 

 desirable, as the large pots are too costly 

 to make and to transport, and too easily 

 broken. 



The impression produced by a trip 

 through the factory and warehouses of 

 this company is that the business is on a 

 thoroughly substantial footing, and that 

 the members of the company, who at- 

 tend to every detail themselves, deserve 

 to succeed. 



Variotis Notes. 



The city is entirely given over to 

 convention visitors this week. Interest 



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