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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Max 14, 1908. 



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Impof taiit Notice 



I beg to announce to the trade the dissolution of the Reliable Ribbon Co* 

 As former proprietor of the above company, I thank my many customers for 

 their past patronage and am happy to announce that I have associated myself 

 with Wertheimer Bros., of 550 Broadway, New York, as N. Y. City 

 representative, and will now be able to cater to your every want with their 

 enormous stocks and facilities at your service. 



Trusting to a continuance of your patronage, I remain. 



Yours very truly, 

 RELIABLE RIBBON CO., 



Samuel Einfracht, Prop. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market. 



It was raw enough at times last week 

 to chill one 's marrow, but forty-eight 

 hours changed the whole face of nature 

 and the week opened with perfect sum- 

 mer temperature. It ought to be a good 

 week for both wholesale and retail de- 

 partments of the cut flower industry. 

 Let us hope the depression of the last 

 four weeks has been lifted with the 

 clouds. In other lines there is a return 

 to normal and hopeful conditions and it 

 will be a mighty strange thing if the 

 florists' business does not share in the 

 good times coming. 



The growers of plants and bedding 

 stock are in clover. The demand is 

 greater than the supply. A visit to the 

 early plant market demonstrates this. 

 If this is not enough, then visit the 

 several auction rooms and be confirmed. 

 And best of all, good prices are the rule. 

 There have been large importations for 

 the auction markets also of retinospora, 

 boxwood, hardy roses and shrubs, and 

 the buyers are nearly all owners of subur- 

 ban homes. A wonderful impetus has 

 been given to the nursery business be- 

 cause of the new bridges and the great 

 tunnels that have brought a population 

 of many millions within thirty minutes 

 of the center of the city. The seedsmen, 

 too, have had a great season, both in 

 mail and counter trade. 



In the cut flower market Beauties are 

 steady at the low level; $10 per hundred 

 was the asking price most of last week 

 for the best of them. There were enough 

 and some to spare. Maid, Bride, Chate- 

 nay and Eichmond found 5 cents top, 

 M'ith few takers at that figure. Most of 

 these were sold in the boxes and the 

 buyer had his way. Orchids are scarce 

 and steady. From now on the weddings 

 will use them all. Cape jasmine is com- 

 ing in large quantities from the south 

 and prices are falling. Saturday's trade 

 was good in carnations and the market 

 took them all at slightly better rates. It 

 is hardly expected the improvement will 

 hold. Valley has not improved, nor lilies. 

 The rest of the procession is marking 

 time and there is no change worth re- 



porting. An ocean of sweet peas sweeps 

 in with the daily tide. Lilac, native and 

 southern, comes in wagon-loads, excellent 

 in quality and salable. The street men 

 handle the most of it. Tulips are out 

 of the running. 



May 10, Mothers' day, was observed 

 quite generally and the sales of white 

 carnations, the flower designated by the 

 Federation of Women's Clubs as appro- 

 priate, cleaned out the retail stores com- 

 pletely. .* 



Club Meetins;* 



The May meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held Monday evening. May 11. 

 President Weathered was in the chair. 



I have much pleasure in forward- 

 ing another year's subscription to 



I consider it the best Florists' paper 

 in the country, and would rather 

 lose a night's sleep than miss one 

 issue. 



FRANK ALLAN. 



Paterson, N. J,, May 4, 1908. 



The attendance was excellent and en- 

 thusiastic and much interest was mani- 

 fest in the coming festivals of the club, 

 the ladies' entertainment, the outing 

 July 1, and the excursion in special cars 

 to the great convention at Niagara Falls 

 in August. Harry May read the resolu- 

 tions of sympathy for the family of 

 Miss Dean, daughter of James Dean, of 



Freeport, a former president of the club, 

 and a young lady much beloved as a 

 teacher in Brooklyn and greatly esteemed 

 by all who knew her. 



The transportation committee reported 

 progress. The outing committee re- 

 ported a most encouraging response by 

 the club's members in the way of prizes 

 and advertisements for its program, 

 nearly every donation of 1907 already 

 having been repeated. All arrangements 

 are now completed, guaranteeing the 

 usual success. 



Will Bickards, chairman of the house 

 committee, suggested early information 

 as to the number likely to attend the 

 ladies' evening, and liberal donations of 

 flowers for decorative and distributive 

 purposes. Mr. Bickards has already 

 completed a fine musical program. 



F. W. Lentz, Anton Schultheis, Jr., 

 W. J. Bagley, C. W. Lynne, Thomas 

 Kerr and E. H. Smith were elected mem- 

 bers and A. S. Hogg, John HerUky, 

 August Millang, B. Chadwick and Alex. 

 H. Donaldson were proposed. 



The resignation of Samuel Wittpen 

 was accepted and that of George M. 

 Geraghty, now a resident of Toronto, 

 was received. 



Henry Beaulieu, of Woodhaven, ex- 

 hibited the giant white daisy and Mme. 

 Ferret pausies, for which he received 

 the club's vote of thanks. 



The house committee supplied the 

 usual refreshments. 



Various Notes. 



B. J. Irwin, of H. H. Berger & Co., is 

 on jury duty. He reports a great sea- 

 son's sales, far in advance of the firm's 

 record. 



Ladies' night at the Florists' Club is 

 "Wednesday, May 27. It is necessary to 

 notify Will Bickards, at 37 East Nine- 

 teenth street, how many ladies will be 

 present, to avoid any disappointment. 

 Let him know by mail at once if you 

 will be there and how many of the fair 

 sex will be with you. It will be a gala 

 night. 



Harry Crawbuck, in Brooklyn, is hand- 

 ling large quantities of dogwood, apple 

 blossoms and lilac from his own grounds 

 at Chatham. 



Kervan is handling large quantities 



