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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May 7, 1908. 



prices are not satisfactory to the experts 

 who grow them. There are plenty of 

 lilies and prices are low. All bulbous 

 stock is a drug and the lesson of the 

 year will not be forgotten. Next year 

 there will be a scarcity, for purchases 

 from the foreign bulb growers have not 

 averaged twenty-five per cent of the 

 commitments of other seasons. 



Carnations never were better than 

 now, and prices never lower. Great 

 quantities of the finest were cleared to 

 enterprising Brooklynites as low as $5 

 a thousand and sales of 10,000 at a clip 

 were made to Trepel, Hanig and Abrams, 

 while a van was none too large for the 

 purchases of Johnnie Weir. 



Various Notes. 



John Donaldson is the newly elected 

 director of the Cut Flower Exchange 

 and president of the association. Messrs. 

 Siebrecht, Leach and Bakman were re- 

 elected directors and Phil Einsman, of 

 Astoria, treasurer. From December to 

 March it was decided to open the mar- 

 ket at 7 a, m. and the balance of the 

 year at 6 a, m. 



E. Schumann has sold his store at 

 305 Bleeker street to Messrs. Kennedy 

 & Simons, who are practical florists. 



M. A. Bowe had some large orders 

 from the national base ball organizations 

 and some prominent sportsmen for the 

 funeral of Mr, Chadwick, the father of 

 the national game, who died of pneu- 

 monia last week at the age of 85. A 

 broken column at $100 and an immense 

 ball of carnations and roses were among 

 the offerings sent. Mr. Bowe has a 

 motto in his store that may well be 

 copied by many of his competitors. It 

 reads: "Quit talking hard times! Get 

 busy. ' ' There is no better cure for the 

 blues than work. 



Suburban Life has moved its editorial 

 oflSces to Harrisburg, Pa., and P. T. 

 Barnes, the horticultural editor, will go 

 this week, so the new bowling club loses 

 one of its most enthusiastic members. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York next Wednesday, May 13, will hold 

 its exhibition at the New York Botan- 

 ical Gardens Museum building, Bronx 

 park. A large attendance is assured. 

 At 4 p. m, a lecture will be given on 

 "The Foundation of Successful Violet 

 Culture," A meeting of the new orchid 

 section of the society will be held the 

 same day and some notable exhibits of 

 orchids made, for which gold, silver and 

 bronze medals will be distributed. 



In .June the American Rose Society 

 will hold its summer exhibition in the 

 same building in connection with the 

 meeting and display of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, at which time W. C. 

 Barry, of Rochester, will deliver an ad- 

 dress on garden roses, and Leonard Bar- 

 ron will give a stereopticon talk on rose 

 gardens. 



Sunday, May 10, is to be known as 

 Mothers' day and will be of especial in- 

 terest to florists because every person 

 who desires to honor his mother is ex- 

 pected to wear a white carnation on that 

 day. The idea originated with the Fed- 

 eration of Women's Clubs and promises 

 to become a national institution. 



Emil Stefifens, for many years in the 

 florists' supply business on East Twenty- 

 first street, has sold his place to Weigel 

 & Ujfalussy and the new firm has taken 

 the store at 138 West Twenty-eighth 

 street. 



Two distinguished Philadelphians vis- 



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ited us recently, the apostle Paul (Berko- 

 witz) and the prophet Samuel (Pen- 

 nock). Both are optimistic as to the 

 revival of the florists' business after the 

 election. 



The May meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held at the Grand 

 Opera House rooms, at Eighth avenue 

 and Twenty-third street, Monday even- 

 ing, May 11. Exhibits may be sent in 

 care of John Young, the secretary, at 

 51 West Twenty-eighth street. On Thurs- 

 day, May 27, the ladies will be enter- 

 tained at the club parlors with a fine 

 musical program, dancing and a collation 



that the head caterer, Will Rickards, 

 intends to make worthy of the club's 

 well won reputation. Visiting and out- 

 of-town florists are cordially invited. 



One of the metropolitan dailies fea- 

 tured the Grecian population May 2 and 

 especially gave the- nation credit for its 

 showing in the florists' business in New 

 York city. There are now 150,000 Greeks 

 in this country and sometimes at the 

 early cut flower market you would think 

 the most of them were here. Most of 

 the Greeks work in hotels, confectionery 

 and flowers, and in each of these enter- 

 prises are proving ability to compete with 



