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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Septbmbeb 19, 1907. 



solid colors, alternating with some of 

 less contrast, will harmoniously tie the 

 entire display together and this will help 

 greatly to achieve the desired plan. It 

 is in the designer's power to present a 

 very brilliant or a very quiet picture, 

 accordins to the scheme that is reauired. 



Quiet and restful effects are worked 

 out by using tints of various blues, white 

 and gray, variegated, glaucus and bronze 

 foliage with a little touch of red. An- 

 thericum vittatum var., Punica Granat- 

 ium pumila, Abelia rupestris, helio^irope. 

 Plumbago Capensis coerulea and alba, 

 Phygelius Capensis, santolina and Abutil- 

 on Savitzii lend themselves well for this 

 purpose. 



Much more could be said on the sub- 

 ject, but, in my oi5inion, one runs no 

 risk of failure by adhering to the points 

 laid out in my modest essay. 



NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS. 



The Eeview is indebted to Fred Ehret, 

 of Philadelphia, for the accompanying 

 illustration of a night-blooming cereus 

 and the following description, which was 

 given to Mr. Ehret by a private gar- 

 dener : 



' ' The owner of this plant is Kensel 

 Wills, Avho has been giving nightly re- 

 ceptions at his home, 1603 Popular street, 

 to his numerous acquaintances to see the 

 plant in flower. The last time Mr. Wills 's 

 plant bloomed was three years ago, when 

 it showed three flowers. This year it 

 showed nine flowers, and the night fol- 

 lowing two more blooms were in evidence, 

 and during the following week several 

 more flowers were produced. Mr. Wills 

 is very proud of his plant, which he has 

 had for twenty-five years. The fame of 

 the plant has spread over a large section 

 of the northern part of Philadelphia." 



NEVYOEK. 



The Market 



In the east we are experiencing 

 the vagaries of a peculiar season. 

 August was September — cool, clear, de- 

 lightful weather. September has gone 

 back to the dog days, and business has 

 consequently gone to the dogs. The 

 "good old summer time," with its hu- 

 midity, is with us again. It is needless 

 to dwell on the consequences. Dullness 

 prevails, stock is soft, and there is too 

 much of it. The best sells readily, and 

 at good prices, but the supply of bon 

 ton flowers is like the number of ban 

 ton people. The street venders are com- 

 ing back to the city. This week closes 

 the summer resorts, and the city will 

 soon be overflowing again with displays 

 by the sidewalk merchants, and the 

 usual fall trade will begin, as it always 

 does, with the advent of the cooler 

 weather. Another week will see a de- 

 cided change for the better. 



Everybody must be growing asters 

 this year, farmers, market gardeners, 

 amateurs, even private individuals in the 

 suburbs, whose highest ambitions were 

 tomatoes and onions. They all have the 

 aster fever, from the looks of the whole- 

 salers' windows, cellars and ice-boxes. 

 It is impossible to find an outlet for the 

 daily receipts. 



Gladioli seem to have grown better in 

 quality, and the demand is great. There 

 is no surplus of fine stock, such as Mr. 

 Hendrickson, of Childs' Floral Park 

 farms, exhibited at the last meeting of 

 the Florists' Club. 



Vaitout Notes. 



John Young has commenced to cut 

 Beauties from his 700-foot house at Bed- 

 ford Station. He says he wishes he had 

 two more" houses just as large. "The 

 wish is father to the thought, ' ' they say. 



A goodly number of the wholesalers 



are nursing attacks of hay fever, but 



there are no hayseeds among them. The 



new president of the S. A. F. is one of 



. the victims. 



Lyman Craw, of the Lord & Burnham 

 Co., is enjoying his late vacation at the 

 New England seashore resorts, as is his 

 yearly custom, with his family. 



Eetail windows in New York are pro- 

 fusely decorated with the new nephrol- 

 epises and with hydrangeas and dah- 

 lias. In Small's a beautiful window of 



Night-blooming Cereus. 



water lilies is most effective. Thorley 

 uses Ficus pandurata, orchids. Gladiolus 

 America and selected hydrangeas. War- 

 endorff used many varieties of dahlias 

 all the week, and by arrangement and 

 profuseness illustrated how useful and 

 artistic a display could be made with a 

 comparatively common flower. Constant 

 change of color and variety made each 

 day worth notice. Tritomas are also 

 largely used. Nugent 's Whitmani, with 

 artistic grouping of selected valley, or- 

 chids and roses, keeps his window an ob- 

 ject lesson to practical Twenty-eighth 

 street, which has its effect in neater 

 wholesale window displays all along the 

 lino. 



Wertheimer Bros, are placing another 

 new ribbon on the market this week, 

 which they term a rich design of inter- 

 woven leaves and foliage, suitable for 

 Beauties and Enchantress especially. 



The Johnston Heating 'Co. will move 

 its New York office, October 1, to Twen- 



ty-ninth street, comer of Lexington ave- 

 nue. This firm has a contract for the 

 erection of a conservatory at Far Rock- 

 away, amounting to over $1,4(J0, and 

 seems well satisfied with the business of 

 the year. 



Hitchings & Co. are now casting their 

 boilers at the new fouhdry at Elizabeth, 

 N. J. The plant will be completed and 

 the firm fully established in the new lo- 

 cation by the first part of November. 



The Pierson U-Bar Co. is receiving 

 many orders from Canada this fall, the 

 fact that there is no gutter or eaves in 

 the construction appealing to the florists 

 of the northland, because thereby the 

 snow storms lose their menace and im- 

 portance. 



Lord & Burnham are building an ex- 

 tensive addition to the plant of the Bo- 

 tanical Gardens at Washington. They 

 also have a $20,000 contract for a build- 

 ing at the Agricultural College at Stoors, 

 Conn., and one of similar proportions at 

 the Soldiers' Home at Washington. 

 These and other large plants at Cornell, 

 Amherst and other colleges demonstrate 

 the universality of interest in floricul- 

 ture taken everywhere by our educa- 

 tional institutions. 



Guttman & Weber report their plants 

 of Imperial and Pink Imperial in fine 

 shape and prophesy a big demand for 

 the flowers. Victory promises to be as 

 popular as ever this winter. 



A. M. Henshaw visited some of his 

 Jersey growers last week. He is quite 

 sure his large store will be none too deep 

 for the flood of stock he has arranged 

 for. 



N. Lecakes & Co. are already receiv- 

 ing an average of 1,000 strings of smi- 

 lax weekly. Four thousand a week is 

 the winter record. Good leucothoe and 

 galax are arriving from the south, while 

 more ferns are already in storage than 

 were used all last season. 



F. O. Pierce Co. moved on Monday of 

 this week to the new store, at 12 West 

 Broadway and 227 Greenwich street. 



The Kervan Co. now occupies both 

 floors of the new store on West Twenty- 

 eighth street. Regular supplies of wild 

 smilax are arriving daily, and fresh pal- 

 metto canes are now in abundance. This 

 firm has facilities for a large winter's 

 trade. Mr. Kervan, Sr., has just re- 

 turned from the Grand Army reunion, 

 at Saratoga, N. Y. 



Russin & Hanfling report a large 

 shipping trade. Their baskets and 

 sheaves are of their own manufacture. 



General complaint is made of the 

 slowness of collections in every line of 

 the trade, but if advance orders with the 

 bulb men and wholesale supply houses 

 are a safe indication of prosperity, this 

 will be the best season ever known in 

 New York. 



Gunther Bros, are handling Herbert & 

 Sons' dahlias. The weather has dom- 

 inated quality and first arrivals have not 

 been up to expectations, but improve- 

 ment is noted daily and grand stock is 

 promised. 



During the alterations and repainting 

 and general refurnishing of the wholesale 

 stores many of the firms have used the 

 awnings and rear yards to their advan- 

 tage. John Gunther says it reminds him 

 of the story of the barber who announced 

 by sign at the front of the store, "Dur- 

 ing alterations, customers will be shaved 

 in the back." 



Frank Millang and family are home 

 from a two months' trip in Europe. Mr. 

 Millang has fifteen pounds more of good 



