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The Weekly Florists^ Reviewi 



Decbmbeb 10, 1907. 



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TOR CHRISTMAS WJ 



We have as good Roses, Carnations, Violets, Valley, Harrlsii, Romans, Paper 



Whites, Poinsetlias, Asparagus, Sprengeri, Common Ferns. BojKwood^Leucof hoe, 



Smilax, Galax, etc*, as can be produced. • '^^" 'V^ • . 



Our stock is carefully Eelected, and all shipments are made promptly. " .■,'''^''''''\''':''^.':''''^''-''' 



Send us your order and be convinced. All stock at Market rates. No charge for P. & D. on 



orders over $4.00. ; : . •\ ^v >• ' ; :^' '. • " '; 



Our stor* will b* opan all day Sunday, Daovmbar at* 



ZECH & MANN 



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WHOLESALE GROWERS AND SHIPPERS OF CUT FLOWERS 



Chicago 



51 Wabash Ave. Jentllilll, 



Mention The Review wlien you write. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



Saturday of last week developed tlie 

 worst storm of the year. Much damage 

 was done. Commencing with a Canadian 

 snow storm, it rapidly developed into 

 'sleet and later on a constant downpour 

 of rain that made the streets impassable, 

 gave the retail flower business too great 

 a burden to carry and added to the half 

 million who are already suffering from 

 the prevailing epidemic. About fifty per 

 cent of the florists, as usual, cannot make 

 the grip behave. So far there have been 

 no fatalities. The disease is of a mild 

 form and none have been on the shelf 

 over a week. 



The new week opens clear and cooler, 

 with a fair outlook for seasonable 

 weather. In the meantime the plants- 

 men are shipping their stock day and 

 night to out-of-town customers and the 

 New York retailers already are making 

 their stores ready for Christmas. Every- 

 thing indicates a more cheerful ex- 

 pectation for the holidays, and while the 

 ordering of large and expensive plants 

 is much curtailed, the volume of busi- 

 ness, especially in the small and medium- 

 sized plants, will be greater than ever 

 before. Some of the growers say they 

 are already sold out. The new plant 

 market on Twenty-seventh street has 

 naturally given an impetus to this de- 

 partment. 



The prophecy of last week, as to prob- 

 able Christmas prices, seems to meet 

 with general endorsement. Beauties may 

 do a little better than 50 cents; some 

 say 75 cents. At present 30 cents is 

 top and there are plenty of them. There 

 will be a gradual increase from now 

 until, the holidays, especially if the 

 weather grows colder and the confidence 

 of business men increases. Bride and 

 Maid are selling from 2 cents to 10 

 cents and carnations 2 cents to 5 cents. 



The stock of chrysanthemums lessens 

 daily. There are a few arriving this 

 week and the remnants that hold over 

 for Christmas will meet with a ready 

 sale. 



Violets hold at the quoted prices. Sel- 

 dom do they touch 75 cents and 50 cents 

 has been the almost universal figure. 



One of the experts predicts $1 for the 

 holidays. Orchids and lilies are scarce 

 and adVaneing. 



The call for holly, wild smilax and 

 wreathing is abnormally insistent. Great 

 forces of extra help continue the manu- 

 facture of roping night and day. The 

 green goods men have made their store 

 fronts attractive. Christmas trees are 

 here by the million. John Weir, in 

 Brooklyn, handles over 1,000 trees year- 

 ly, and every Brooklyn florist does his 

 share. 



Varioos Notes, 



The new officers of the New York 

 Florists' Club give general satisfaction. 

 They are 'all practical men, high in the 

 esteem of the members and competent 

 to lead the club to still greater achieve- 

 ments. With a membership of 250, it 

 is the general desire to have an annual 

 dinner that Avill gather the majority of 

 this host in a harmonious reunion that 

 will materialize a better attendance than 

 has been the average for many years. 

 This can easily be accomplished by pop- 

 ular prices and a judicious selection of 

 a banquet hall. 



The Greek American Ketail Florists' 

 Association will have its first annual 

 ball January 31, 1908, at the Palm Gar- 

 den on Fifty-eighth street, the proceeds 

 to be devoted to the establishment of a 

 Greek school in New York. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York held its regular monthly meeting 

 December 11 at the American Institute 

 rooms on West Forty-fourth street. The 

 lecture by Miss Ella Shinn Carter, of 

 Philadelphia, on a " Summer School Gar- 

 den, ' ' was very interesting and was illus- 

 trated by handsome stereopticon views, 

 but the audience may be considered a 

 fair demonstration of New York's in- 

 terest in horticultural development, there 

 being thirteen in attendance. It is to 

 be hoped the number may not seriously 

 antagonize the superstitious. I noted F. 

 R. Pierson and Patrick O'Mara among 

 those present, so after all the little lady 

 is to be congratulated. I think the New 

 York Florists' Club would give her a 

 larger reception. 



The usual Christmas turkey raflle un- 

 der the management of Thos. .Jackson 

 will occur in the rooms of the Cut Flower 



Exchange, in the Coogan buildiiig, De*. 

 cember 24. . . . V 



W. E. Marshall & Co.,' at 146 West' 

 Twenty-third street, report a splendid 

 year. A. Watkins, for some .'years with 

 Win. Elliott & Sons and W. W. EaWs<?n 

 & Co., is how associated with this house. 



Jeff. Doremus,, of Madison, was in the 

 city December 16. He is shipping some 

 fine -Beauties to A. J. Guttman, whose 

 name was omitted from the list of trus- 

 tees elected by the New York Florists' 

 Club in our last issue. 



John A. Payne, of Jersey City, has 

 had a busy 'year and repoi^s the outlook 

 for 1908 optimistic; 



Igoe,Bros., manufacturers'of the ex- 

 tension carnation support, report an ex- 

 ceptional year, their large new factory 

 now meeting every requirement. 



Andrew Wilson, of Madison, was in 



the city December 14. The seedsmen are 



all cataloguing his plant oil a'nd the 



florists' supply houses are also dispens- 



•ing it. 



Frank L. Moore, of Chatham, reports 

 that a great many are trying his Sunpy- 

 woods hose. 



The Julius Roehrs Oo. was never bet- 

 ter prepared for Christmas. The ma- 

 jority of its customers prefer the visit 

 to the great plant of 100 greenhouses 

 to the selection from samples at the 

 plant market, and the days have been 

 busy ones for a month past, until al- 

 ready the majority of the blooming 

 plants are spoken for. 



Anton Schultheis, of College Point, 

 has some especially handsome ericas, 

 poinsettias, ardisias, oranges, cyclamens 

 and azaleas this Christmas. 



Schloss Bros, say business is too good. 

 Day and night work is too strenuous. 



Wertheimer Bros, report a year far in 

 advance of any in their career. 



B. Eosens, at 48 West Twenty-ninth 

 street, is having^ a wonderful Christmas 

 trade in all supply lines, especially 

 Christmas bells. 



The Kervan Co. is handling great 

 quantities of wild smilax, holly and other 

 southern evergreens. 



H. Kenney's facilities, in Brooklyn, 

 for the storage of moss of every kind 

 speak well for an immense shipping 

 trade. 



O. V. Zangen's seed business at Ho- 



