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TheWcekly Florists' Review. 



Afbil 30, 1908. 



vote themselves to the work in the 

 greenhouses at "Williamsville. 



C. F. Christensen, of Eggertsville, has 

 a fine spring stock for market trade. 



E. A, S. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market 



The market had the usual relapse after 

 Easter. Prices were cut in half on 

 everything, except lilies, which could get 

 no lower. Perhaps this and the follow- 

 ing weeks, with their weddings, may 

 bring them back where they belong, 

 aided by the lessening supply. The 

 afterinath of Easter is not discouraging. 

 Betailers acknowledge a wonderful ag- 

 gregate of sales and the reasonable prices 

 of plants and cut flowers must have 

 made the margin of profit satisfactory. 

 'The present week opened with almost' 

 a summer temperature; in fact, on Satur- 

 day and Sunday the thermometer touched 

 80 degrees. The hot and sunny weather 

 means increased supplies of everything 

 in the wholesale market and it will 

 need a host of spring brides to hold the 

 prices, even at their present low range 

 of values. 



Violets are practically on the retired 

 list. A limited number arrive daily, 

 but there is no demand for the common 

 stock, except from the street merchants, 

 and for the few specials 50 cents is not , 

 exceeded. The single violets are still 

 popular and abundant. 



Great quantities of lilac and arbutus 

 are coming from the south. The streets 

 are ablaze with color. Every variety of 

 flowers now is handled by the merchants 

 du pave, except orchids and gardenias. 

 These will always be immune. 



Varioui Notck 



The early plant market is well patron- 

 ized and good stock is absorbed by the 

 peddlers at fair prices. By seven in the 

 morning, dozens of wagons may be seen 

 in upper New York, Brooklyn and in the 

 suburbs of the city, loaded with every 

 variety of flowering plant. Then, at 

 seven on Saturdays and nine every other 

 morning the auction sales by the Fruit 

 Auction Co. draw crowds and start an- 

 other lot of distributions. Tuesdays and 

 Fridays at twelve, at Cleary's and El- 

 liott's, other sources of supply are open- 

 ed and the suburbanites in hundreds may 

 be seen. So popular has become the auc- 

 tion method of dispensing, the plants- 

 men around New York may have no 

 fear of surplus hereafter, with all these 

 avenues open and a sure market every 

 day for everything of value they can 

 grow. 



Very large importations arrived last 

 week at Cleary's Horticulture Co. The 

 big room was crowded to the doors with 

 cases of evergreens, hardy roses, shrubs, 

 bay trees, etc. The attendance at the 

 auctions always overflows and large sales 

 are made every day of the week to the 

 suburban growers. 



Elliott & Sons have moved to their big 

 new store, at 42 Vesey street, and their 

 first auction there took place April 28. 

 This store, with basement and two floors 

 above the main one, is the largest and 

 best ccB^r the firm has ever occupied 

 and will doubtless remain their head- 

 quarteis for a generation. Mr. Elliott 

 says, ' * Sales are already nearly fifty 

 per cent ahead of last year at this 

 date and the auctions will run well into 

 June. ' ' 



A visit at Carrillo & Baldwin's orchid 



We have an enormous 

 crop of 



ROSES 



now on. Quality is fine and 

 we soiicit your orders 



1,580,000 feet of Modern Glass 



BEAUTIES PTDo>. 



ttonjg sterna $4.00 



30-inch stems 8.00 



24-inch stems S.60 



80-inch stems S.OO 



16-inch stems 1.60 



18-inch stems 1.00 



Short stems $0.60 to .76 



Par 100 



Richmond $4.00 to $ 8.00 



Liberty 4.00 to 8.00 



Bride 4.00 to 8.00 



Ivory 4.00 to 8.00 



Maid. . . ; 4.00 to 8.00 



Chatenay ^ 4.00 to 8.00 



Mrs. Marshall neld 6.00 to 16.00 ._ 



KiUarney 4.00 to 10.00 



Uncle John 4.00 to 8.00 



Perle 4.00 to 8.00 



Sunrise 4.00 to 8.00 



ROSES, our selection 8.00 



CARNATIONS 1.60 to 8.00 



Easter Lilies 8.00 to 10.00 



Paper Whites, Romans, Daffodils . . 8.00 



Violets 1.00 



TnUps 8.00 to 4.00 



Callas 8.00 to 10.00 



Valley, fancy 8.00 to 4.00 



Extra Fancy Asp. Plomosus, bnnch .76 to 1.00> 



PETER REINBERG 



51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



Mention The R^rlfw when yoo write. 



establishment at Secaucus last week re- 

 vealed the fact that their business is 

 doubling itself yearly and that large 

 shipments are arriving every two weeks 

 from South America, the finest stock, 

 Mr. Baldwin says, he has ever imported. 

 Mr. Carrillo is now in Venezuela after 

 a long collecting tour with many native 

 helpers, in Brazil, Columbia and Mexico. 

 Two hundred and^flfty cases of cattleyas 

 arrived at Secaucus April 25. Before 

 this came many cases of dendrobiums and 

 next week another large shipment will 

 arrive. One order filled by this firm, 

 for cattleyas, amounted to $10,000. Next 

 month will come the Iselias. The firm's 

 cut orchids are handled by James Mc- 

 Manus. 



Komitsch & Junge, of Secaucus, have 

 two large ranges of glass exclusively 



devoted to sweet peas, chrysanthemums, 

 Adiantum Croweanum and orchids. The 

 cut of sweet peas is enormous. The en- 

 tire output of this firm is handled by 

 Traendly & Schenck, The houses devoted 

 to orchids shelter nearly $20,000 worth 

 of the finest varieties, all in the pink 

 of condition. These are now offered 

 for sale, the firm having decided to 

 discontinue that section of its business. 



Hippolite Jacqueminot, of Jersey City 

 Heights, an old-time gardener, started 

 from the store of Bickards Bros, last 

 week to fill an engagement with Wadley 

 & Smythe, and died suddenly of heart 

 disease the same evening. The Bickards 

 Bros, speak highly of his character and 

 ability. 



Phillips, of Brooklyn, had the Myers- 

 Adams wedding last week, a $1,000 deco- 



