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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



August 27, 1008. 



Ne'w Beauties 



We are cutting a lar^e lot of solid and fine colored buds. Prices very low. , ^ 



C^f «vi«n^i^t* OrkCAC Kaiserin, Carnot, Killar- 

 OUimilCl IvM^C^ ney, Perles, Richmonds 



All grown in solid benches, with roots down deep in cool soiL These ^ants are from three to six years old. They produce by 

 lar the best flowers in summer. 



ASPARAGUS, SMILAX, SPRENCERI, ADIANTUM AND CHOICE AURATUM LILIES 



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 "?> . Our ooollnc rooms wad sblpplnc faculties sure unexcelled. Give us a trial order. 



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in an encouraging batch of convention 

 orders on which to commence work, 



William J. Balcer is receiving some 

 physostegia, quite a rarity in this mar- 

 ket. They make a fine show on long 

 stems. 



Julius Wolff, Jr., had a handsome out- 

 of-town wedding decoration August 24. 

 Choice plants, cut asters, gladioli, aspar- 

 agus, etc., were largely used. A pretty 

 nice thing to have at any time, more 

 especially now. 



• Edward J. Fancourt, secretary of the 

 S. 8. Pennock-Meehan Co., returned to 

 this city August 25. 



H. M. Weiss & Sons, Hatboro, Pa., 

 have commenced shipping new crop car- 

 nations to the Leo Niessen Co. Their 

 Lieut. Peary are fine for the season. 



The Primrose Flower Shop is the name 

 of the new store to be opened on North 

 Broad street, near the opera house. 



William J. Young, Jr., has returned 

 from his vacation, spent near Doyles- 

 town, with a windup at Atlantic City. It 

 ought to be added that Mr. Young left 

 his greenhouses in tiptop condition be- 

 fore leaving for his vacation. 



Fred Ehret has arranged for an en- 

 trance on Broad street for his Fairmount 

 avenue flower shop. 



J. Guille, of the Hubert Bulb Co., 

 Portsmouth, Va., is expected to address 

 the Florists' Club September 1 on "Bulb 

 Growing in Virginia." Phil. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market 



The New Yorkers who attended the 

 convention came from the perfect weather 

 of Niagara into rain, heat and humidity 

 Saturday. Monday, however, was cool 

 and stock came to the cut flower market 

 in endless profusion. Quality is improv- 

 ing every day. Society is away — all of 

 it, even the great middle class. The 

 steady flower buyers of the winter time 

 are in the hills and far away. The chil- 

 dren are not yet back for school, and as 

 Charley, of Thorney's, says, just back 

 from his restful summer, "There's nuthin' 

 doin'.» 



Most of the Beauties coming in are 

 small and poor. The few really good 

 ones that arrive are quickly snapped up 



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at good prices. There are few carna- 

 tions, but it will not be over a month 

 until all the novelties are again in evi- 

 dence. Of the asters, the new varieties 

 and the best of the old are as beautiful 

 as chrysanthemums and find a fair de- 

 mand, but many a barrel of the poor 

 stuff finds no outlet but the dump. What 

 a lesson the growers are getting this year 

 of the utter uselessness of growing com- 

 mon stuff! The same rule holds good as 

 to every variety of cut flowers. It is 

 now, and ever will be, the survival of 

 the fittest. Even in this dullest of dull 

 times, the good stock sells. This market 

 has little room for mediocrity. 



There is a tremendous lot of lily of 

 the valley in the ice-boxes. Some of it 

 from the east does not revive after ar- 

 rival. The lily supply from outdoors is 

 fine, especially rubrum and longiflorum. 

 Coreopsis, rudbeckia, tritoma and hy- 

 drangea are abundant and help to make 

 the retail windows attractive. Never 

 were the gladioli so perfect as now. 

 Grand stock arrives daily, with America 

 still the most beautiful and the heaviest 

 in demand. 



Variotu Notes. 



The S. A. F. president is back and at 

 his desk again. We are proud of him. 

 He did himself honor and everybody 

 speaks highly of his goad, practical com- 

 mon sense and his splendid executive abil- 

 ity. The young man eloquent, E. V. Hal- 

 lock, was in conference with him and the 

 secretary and other bright lights of 



Twenty-eighth street Monday. All who 

 attended Treasurer Beatty's banquet at 

 the Statler hotel, Buffalo, after the 

 bowling ended, say it was a feast of 

 soul, etc., long to be remembered. 



C. C. Pollworth and wife, of Milwau- 

 kee, came via the Hudson river trip Fri- 

 day, James McManus and family accom- 

 panying them. 



D. Falconer, of Chatham, the rose 

 grower, was in town Monday. He has 

 been sending his fine stock to J. K. 

 Allen for thirteen years. 



A. L. Young has been away on a fish- 

 ing trip with Theo. Hengstenberg and 

 August Siegel, and ten-pound specimens 

 and a quarter ton catch are among the 

 claims of the Nimrods. W. H. Miller, of 

 the same house, has even larger tales 

 from the Highlands. 



This week seems to be devoted to 

 house-cleaning in the wholesale section. 

 Everybody is painting, renovating, en- 

 larging and preparing for the coming 

 season. It will be a slick lot of mer- 

 cantile centers that will open their win- 

 dows to the buyers September 1. 



Mr. and Mrs. George Stumpp spent a 

 quiet Sunday in Toronto on their way 

 by boat to Quebec and Boston. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy 

 was filed August 16 against Wm. H. 

 Donohoe, 17 East Twenty-ninth street. 

 The petitioning creditors were Anna C. 

 Donohoe, $550; May Cronin, .$2,50; and 



