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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May 28, 1908. 



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spent a little time with bis brother, 

 James. 



There have been several traveling men 

 on the ground in the laat few days, but 

 nearly everybody is too busy to give 

 them much time and they have to take a 

 back seat for the present. J. M. 



NEVYOEK. 



The Market. 



This should be the last week of de- 

 pression for a while, for now comes 

 Decoration day and then the largest crop 

 of June weddings ever harvested in this 

 vicinity. Society has its share of them, 

 with elaborate decorations, which will 

 furnish velvet for the leading retail flo- 

 rists, and June is the month of wed- 

 dings for all up-to-date families and 

 brides, and so no retailer will miss his 

 share. Decoration. • Say promises more 

 general observance than ever before. Sun- 

 day was Memorial Sunday in Brooklyn 

 and many thousands marched to the 

 cemeteries to decorate the nation's sol- 

 diers', sailors' and marines' graves of 

 all the wars. Many battalions of the 

 Grand Army took part, and with them 

 the cadets and church cadet organiza- 

 tions. An enormous crowd witnessed 

 the ceremony. 



The cut flower market will be com- 

 pletely depleted the last of the week, 

 in anticipation of the observance, and 

 doubtless prices will advance considerably 

 before Saturday. There is no encourag- 

 ing change yet to report from last week's 

 low level and there is still enough of 

 everything, and to spare. Roses of all 

 kinds are abundant. Carnations continue 

 their record-breaking supply, and there 

 is no shortage in any variety of flower 

 the public demand requires. Peonies are 

 now down to $2 \o $3 per hundred and 

 great quantities have been coming from 

 the south daily. The summer tempera- 

 ture has doubtless come to stay. Sunday 

 recorded 80 degrees and over in the 

 shade. 



Various Notes. 



Next month comes the rose show in 

 Bronx park and if Secretary Hammond 

 will use his influence and act upon Dr. 

 Britten's suggestion, so that the crowds 

 who visit the parks on Saturday and 

 Sunday can see the exhibition, there will 

 be such a flower show as this city has 

 never known. No other days in the 

 week will develop more than the average 

 interest and an opportunity for educa- 

 tional effect will be lost of far-reaching 



Please discontinue my advertise- 

 ments of Anthericums, Geraniums 

 and Hydrangea cuttings in 



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as I am about sold out.. Your paper 

 certainly sells the stuff. 



G. E.FINK. 

 Roselle, N. J., May 22, 1908. 



importance, if the society ignore this 

 practical suggestion. 



The New 'York Florists' Club holds 

 its monthly meeting Monday, June 8. 

 Events are crowding upon the club that 

 will keep it busy until September. 

 Wednesday of this week is ladies' night, 

 with the promise of a record crowd; 

 every Friday evening, bowling ; rose night 

 at the next meeting, with interesting ex- 



hibits; the outing July 1, for the success 

 of which arrangements are already com- 

 plete, and then the convention in August, 

 with its special train and record-break- 

 ing New York delegation. Surely a busy 

 summer for the club. Chairman Eick- 

 ards, the man of mystery, has an undi- 

 vulged program and menu that will add 

 to his popularity at the ladies' night, 

 Wednesday, May 27. 



John Young and the other members of 

 the bereaved family have the universal 

 sympathy of all in the loss of his mother 

 last week. Many beautiful floral tokens 

 evidenced the love and veneration in 

 which Mrs. Young was held by all who 

 kne^ her. 



June 13 Charles L. Allen, of Queens, 

 known and esteemed by every florist in 

 the land, will celebrate his eightieth 

 birthday. A member of the 100-year 

 Club and an exponent of right living 

 all his life, he bids fair to reach the 

 century with health and faculties un- 

 impaired, and sincere congratulations 

 from every part of the United States 

 and Canada will greet him as he records 

 another mile-stone in his happy journey. 



John F. Marsden, of Far Rockaway, 

 had a narrow escape last Friday in an 

 auto accident, when in his own machine 

 he collided with that of one of the bank- 

 ing firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Both 

 cars were wrecked and both men thrown 

 twenty feet and rendered unconscious, 

 but neither .was seriously injured. 



The importers are still busy. Nearly 

 every one is bringing in hundreds of 

 laurel trees in tubs by every steamer. 

 There are no signs of depression in the 

 seed and niirsery departments of the 

 trade. 



After his first and enjoyable trip to 

 Europe, H. Suzuki is again in New lork 

 and will shortly return to Japan. He is 

 a gentleman of most thorough horticul- 

 tural training and knowledge and a gen- 

 eral favorite with all who have made 

 his acquaintance. 



F. W. Holt is devoting his entire time 

 to his ruooer hose and belting inter- 



