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Septomber 19,^1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



German weight than when he went away. 



Tuberoses are here again, but J. K. 

 Allen says that for years it has not paid 

 to grow them. There is no demand for 

 them. 



Among the Rhinebeck violet growers, J. 

 Vonder Linden has 35,000 plants there 

 and 40,000 at Staatsburg. The output is 

 all handled by B. S. Slinn, Jr. Septem- 

 ber 10 Mr. Slinn received se/en boxes. 



George Cotsonas & Co. have already 

 two and a half million fancy ferns in 

 storage. Sixteen men are out gathering 

 fern stock for the winter season. Large 

 quantities of new green galax are ar- 

 riving. 



The Geller Florist Supply Co. has in- 

 creased its working force in the store, put 

 a traveler on the road and added a new 

 wagon to its conveniences. Mr. Geller 

 says the importations selected by himself 

 in Europe this summer are beginning to 

 arrive. 



David D. Howell entertained Mr. and 

 Mrs. Ernest Ludwig, of Allegheny, Pa., 

 last week and showed them the sights. 

 Mr. Howell is an ex-resident of Pitts- 

 burg and announces that he will shortly 

 open a retail store in New York. 



In Brooklyn on Thursday last, J. V. 

 Phillips had the decorations for the Held- 

 Greene and Seaver-Fiske weddings. These 

 were both home weddings and the deco- 

 rative work was elaborate. W. A. Phil- 

 lips, his son, and Miss Grace Erskine 

 were married recently. 



S. Masur, of Brooklyn, has an aster 

 farm near Rahway, N. J., that has kept 

 his store filled with fine stock for weeks. 

 His n^w establishment is far in advance 

 of the old and his business has doubled 

 since his removal to 238 Fulton street. 



William Hanft, formerly with Fleisch- 

 man, has taken a position in the store 

 of Thomas Young, Jr., on West Twenty- 

 eighth street. 



John P. Scherer, of Union Hill, has 

 large contracts for wreathing. He will 

 make his headquarters hereafter at his 

 New York store, 468 Sixth avenue, 



William Starke has a stock of several 

 hundred fine Whitmani ferns in his con- 

 servatory at 52 West Twenty-ninth street, 

 that are selling fast. There is a seem- 

 ingly universal demand for the Boston 

 fern and its many children, this fall, in 

 excess of any former season. 



Next week, commencing Tuesday, Sep- 

 tember 24, the seventy-sixth annual ex- 

 hibition of the American Institute takes 

 place at the Bakeley Lyceum building, 

 19 West Forty-fourth street. Dahlias 

 are featured. There will also be fruits, 

 vegetables, orchids, herbaceous flowers, 

 palms, ferns and floral novelties. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



COL UMBUS, O HIO. 



State of Business* 



Stock is coming in much better, and 

 improving right along. Some good roses 

 are seen, and also some carnations from 

 new stock which are good flowers but 

 short in stem. Some fine gladioli are 

 still coming in. Asters are rather scarce 

 at present and are running poor; few 

 good ones to be seen. The weather has 

 been extremely hot for this season of 

 the year. 



Various Notes. 



Sherman Stephens reports a busy time 

 for a week or so, on funeral work. He 

 has rebuilt one of his rose houses and 

 built one large house in place of two 

 smaller ones. 



There was a good turn-out at our club 



William C Young. 



meeting Tuesday evening, September 10, 

 and everyone was glad to have our vice- 

 president, R. A. Currie, with us again 

 after six weeks' illness. After the meet- 

 ing all went to the bowling alleys. The 

 three high rollers were McKellar, Reich- 

 ert and Bauman. 



The parks here are looking fine at this 

 time. 



The Munk Floral Co. is busy complet- 

 ing its range and has a nice lot of carna- 

 tions and mums coming on. 



Gus Ackerman is cutting some fine 

 roses and carnations, which find ready 

 sale. 



The Fifth Avenue Floral Co. has just 

 completed its 75-foot stack and is busy 

 with piping. The roses and carnations 

 are looking fine and some stock is being 

 cut from the new place. 



A. J. Baldwin, of Newark, O., was a 

 visitor this week. J. M. 



▼M. C. YOUNG. 



William C. Young, who was installed 

 president of the St. Louis Florists' Club 

 at its meeting September 12, was born in 

 Toronto, Canada, June 1, 1857. When 

 he was eight years of age his parents re- 

 moved to St. Louis, locating in what 

 was then far out in the suburbs. After 

 three years of country schooling he en- 

 tered the employ of a firm known as C. 

 Young & Sons. He has continued with 

 this establishment ever since. He was 

 admitted to partnership in 1887. The 

 firm is now C. Young & Sons Co. and 

 they do a large business, including all 

 departments of the trade. They have a 

 large retail cut flower business, an ex- 

 cellent plant trade and do a large vol- 

 ume in the seed department. 



KANSAS QTY. 



The Market* 



The market has not changed much in 

 the last two weeks. Good roses are still 

 scarce, home-grown ones being poor. Some 

 fine stock is shipped in from Chic&go. 

 Carnations are making their appearance 

 once more, but are rather short in stem. 

 Gladioli are plentiful, but extra good 

 ones are scarce. Dahlias are now com- 

 ing in, but in small quantities. Asters 

 are plentiful and selling at $1 to $1.50 

 per hundred. This market is well sup- 

 plied with greens. 



Various Notes. 



The demand for funeral work is good. 

 Florists are quite busy arranging and 

 preparing for the interstate fair and ex- 

 position, which will open September 23 

 in this city. The outlook is good and 

 everybody is looking forward to that 

 week. There are quite a number of pre- 

 miums offered and everyone who enters 

 fully expects to win. The grounds are 

 located just south of the residence part 

 of the city, on the Elm Ridge race track. 



Nelson Jarrett is quite busy installing 

 a new hot water boiler in the two large 

 liouses just completed. He has an ofBce 

 and salesroom attached to these houses 

 and soon will be in shape to do business. 

 Mr. Jarrett sells the bulk of his output at 

 the City market, as his place is quite far 

 in the outskirts of the city; but the city 

 is fast coming his way. 



Miss Lillie Humfeld, bookkeeper for 

 the W. H. Humfeld Floral Co., has gone 

 on an extended trip east for her vacation. 

 She will visit Indianapolis, Cincinnati, 

 Washington, Philadelphia, New York, 

 Boston and other points. She expects to 

 be gone about five weeks. W. H^j / 



