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NOVBMBER 21, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



19 



before the end of the week. Thanks- 

 giving will. Btir things up, and, while 

 .prices will remain reasonable, the volume 

 of business promises to be large. 



Various Notes. 



CrecKtors of Hicks & Crawbuck, 

 Brooklyn, filed a petition in bankruptcy 

 against tnem last week, and E. T. O 'Con- 

 nor, Jr., was appointed receiver. He is 

 continuing the business, and it is hoped 

 that early resumption of the firm can be 

 arranged, for it is stated that assets, 

 including book accounts, more than equal 

 the liabilities. Frank S. Hicks with- 

 <lrew from the firm last June and, al- 

 though his name is retained, is now of 

 Prank S. Hicks & Co., New York. 



deary's Horticultural Co. has just re- 

 ceived sixty-two cases of azaleas, rhodo- 

 dendrons and other nursery stock. They 

 are having good sales, with large attend- 

 ance. 



The Plant Growers' Association will 

 Jocate its headquarters in Twenty-eighth 

 street if a suitable building can be se- 

 cured. This society includes all the ex- 

 pert growers in and near New York. 



Joseph Fenrich is receiving a grade 

 of Bride from Kobert Schultz, of Madi- 

 son, that is bard to beat, and Totty's 

 novelties in mums are seen here daily. 



A. J. Guttman calls attention to grand 

 stock of Dr. Enguehard, Eaton, Maud 

 Dean and Golden and White Chadwick, 

 from Jacob Hauk, of Bloomfield, N. J. 



John Young reports the Cottage Gar- 

 <len8 now cutting a large crop of fancy 

 carnations. 



Henry Hessian's cut, as seen at Ford 

 Bros.', shows that if quality were the 

 test this would be the height of the 

 season. 



John King Duer, who has been quite 

 ill, is now recovering. J. J. Coan, man- 

 ager of this establishment, says since 

 society returned to town business has 

 been satisfactory. The general effect 

 produced in this handsome store makes 

 it quite distinct and unique among New 

 York flower shops. 



William H. Kuebler, of Brooklyn, 

 says his business is again beyond the ca- 

 pacity of his store, and more room is 

 a necessity, aa last year. He says he 

 will have chrysanthemums for Christmas. 



J. K. Allen must be a Princeton sym- 

 pathizer, judging by the number of 

 yellow mums he shipped to the football 

 enthusiasts at New Haven on Saturday. 



Walter Sheridan is on deck again, 

 fully recovered and optimistic as to the 

 future of the cut flower market, with the 

 rise and fall of which he has been con- 

 versant for just a quarter of a century. 



Tons of flowers were used at the 

 funeral of Charles T. Barney, late presi- 

 <lent of the Knickerbocker Trust Co. 

 N^early every prominent florist had a 

 share of the work. 



Lucien M. Underwood, botanist and 

 professor at Columbia College, commit- 

 ted suicide November 17. 



Karl Kammann and Miss Elizabeth 

 Wade were married November 10 at 

 the Church of the Ascension. Miss Wade 

 is a sister of Thomas J. Wade, man- 

 ager of Bloomingdale 's cut flower de- 

 partment. Mr. Kammann is with Joseph 

 Leikens, and a two weeks' vacation and 

 $100 from his employer was one of the 

 wedding gifts. 



Perkins & Nelson are receiving fine 

 stock of cypripediums from the same 

 grower who has shipped orchids to the 

 veteran since 1882. 



C. C. Trepel, of Brooklyn, opens a 

 branch store next week on Lexington 



Chrysanthemum Mary Mason. 



street, opposite Losier's, which he will 

 call the Blossom. It has a 50-foot show 

 window. Mr. Trepel handles the entire 

 mum stock of Mr. Meesum, of Elm- 

 hurst, over 40,000 blooms to date this 

 year. He sells as high as 5,000 fern- 

 dishes, filled, weekly, and his Saturday 

 sales have reached as high as 8,000 

 each of roses and carnations and 10,000 

 chrysanthemums. 



G. Myer has thoroughly refitted his 

 handsome store at Madison avenue and 

 Fifty-eighth street, and with his big ex- 

 panse of glass makes some effective 

 window decorations. Many unique fea- 

 tures attest his versatility. He has 

 built a reputation for house and church 

 decorations, and numbers many of the 

 society leaders among his patrons. He 

 has branched out also into landscaping, 

 and the grounds of Brokaw at Great 

 Neck and of Dr. Dennis at Norfolk, 

 Conn., demonstrate his skill. Mr. Myer 

 was in the employ of Alex McConnell 

 for twenty years before venturing on the 

 business sea on his own account. 



Hanft Bros., Madison avenue and 

 Fifty-eighth street, will move to the cor- 

 ner of Sixty-second street and Madison 

 avenue March 1. Their new store will 

 have a frontage of lOO feet on Madison 

 avenue, and plate glass windows will 

 make possible one of the largest deco- 

 rative displays in the city. The locality 

 is on© of the best in New York, and 

 close to the fine stores of Warendorff, 



John King Duer, Myer, Stumpp and 

 Bloomingdale. For the first time in a 

 generation, Mr. Hanft informed me, 

 there will be no Arion ball this season. 

 They have decorated for this great year- 

 ly feature for a quarter of a century. 



At Bloomingdale 's, Manager Burnham 

 has in the great roof conservatories two 

 century plants that have drawn great 

 crowds of interested flower lovers for 

 weeks and will continue to do so until 

 nearly Christmas. The plants were at 

 one time owned by Louis Menand, of 

 Albany, and were purchased from him 

 by W. A. Manda, from whom Mr. Bum- 

 ham secured them. The greenhouses 

 here are stocked with the best of ferns, 

 palms and plants of every kind. Espe- 

 cially good are the branched ficus of 

 Fritz Dressel and the Scottii and Whit- 

 mani ferns. Mr. Burnham declares that 

 no decrease in trade has been noted this 

 fall. He maintains prices that average 

 as high as those , of the leading retail 

 stores. J. Austin Shaw. 



Lake Geneva, Wis. — The Lake Geneva 

 Gardeners' Association closed its third 

 annual exhibition November 16. The 

 quality and number of exhibits were the 

 best in the three years. The principal ex- 

 hibitors were J. J. Mitchell, N. W. Har- 

 ris, E. T. Crane, Mrs. Kellogg Fair- 

 banks, C. L. Hutchinson, George Stur- 

 gis, Mrs. B. N. Isham and M. A. Ryer- 

 son, although there were many others. 



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