\2 The Weekly Florists^ Re vicw# 



September 8, 1908. 



assets took place at 10:30 Monday. Quite 

 a number of, interested wholesalers and 

 ictailers attended. The purchaser was 

 a Mr. Ridge, on a nominal bid, and 

 the business will be continued, it is 

 said, under Mr. Donohoe's supervision. 

 He says: "All creditors will get every 

 dollar coming to them," which is en- 

 couraging. One wholesaler's claihi is 

 said to amount to $1,900. 



H. Gessner, formerly with Scallen, has 

 opened a store on Broadway, in the Im- 

 I^erial hotel, corner of Thirty-second 

 street, a fine location. 



W. S. Lee, formerly buyer for Sher- 

 ry, of Fifth avenue, has opened a re- 

 tail flower shop in the Hippodrome build- 

 ing on Sixth avenue. 



Edward McKay Whiting, president of 

 the Florists' Board of Trade, was re- 

 cently married to Miss Louise Boyd, 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dick- 

 inson. Mr, Dickinson is the vice-presi- 

 dent of the Albert Dickinson Co., of 

 Chicago. 



George Baker, bookkeeper for Ford 

 Bros., has returned from a two weeks' 

 holiday at Stockholm, m. Y. 



Patrick McGovern, superintendent of 

 Greenwood cemetery, brought back with 

 him two genuine blackthorn sticks from 

 his Irish birthplace, which he secured 

 for Messrs. Traendly and Schenck. 

 President Traendly is still enjoying a 

 rest with his family at Margaretsville, 

 N. Y., in the Catskills. 



Will Ford, of Ford Bros., has been 

 for six weeks with his family on the 

 Brandywine in Pennsylvania, and is now 

 back, thoroughly braced for the busy 

 season. 



John Young is now receiving some fine 

 Beauties from his Bedford greenhouse, 

 and Mrs. Ward, Alma Ward and En- 

 chantress carnations from the Cottage 

 Gardens, Queens. 



Horace E. Froment returned Monday 

 from his three weeks' outing in the 

 Adirondacks. 



Jonathan Nash, of Moore, Hentz & 

 Nash, ,has found rest and health for 

 three weeks at Glen Cove, L. I. 



Some idea of the state of the flower 

 business in Brooklyn may be imagined, 

 when an advertisement in the leading 

 Sunday paper announces a sale of roses 

 at a department store by one of the 

 minent florists there, at only 50 cents 

 hundred. This is education with a 

 vengeance. 



At the next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club, Monday, September 14, 

 Benjamin Hammond, secretary of the 

 National Rose Society, will address the 

 members, his subject being ' ' Experiences 

 in the School Garden Movement." With 

 convention echoes and the reunion of 

 the club after its summer vacation, 

 coupled with Chairman Rickards' delica- 

 cies, this 4)romises to be an interest- 

 ing session — and a large attendance is 

 suggested. 



The Averne Floral Carnival closed 

 Saturday, August 29, with a parade of 

 over fifty floats and many beautifully 

 decorated autos, Warcndorfl" carrying 

 off the honors. 



Out at Oyster Bay, where the Presi 

 dent summers, Dennis Holohan has a 

 pretty retail store which he calls the 

 Bosery. His nursery, which he purchased 

 some five years ago, has risen in value 

 so that one building lot is now worth 

 the cost of the entire five acres at that 

 time. Holohan 's specialty is pot-grown 

 strawberries. 



At the fimoral of the Rov. Donald 



Sage Mackay, Sunday, Alex. McCon- 

 neil had many handsome floral designs. 

 The best included a casket cross of white 

 roses and several wreaths of orchids. 



Warren F. Feller, one of the orchid 

 growers of Rhinebeck, who ships to J. K. 

 Allen, was in the city Saturday. 



Wra. Elliott & Sons contemplate hold- 

 ing their first auction sale September 22. 

 They say the outlook is encouraging up 

 to the present time, as they have booked 

 some heavy consignments for this fall's 

 sales. 



Ed. Horan last week made his annual 

 visit to his shippers up the Hudson. 

 The New York and New Jersey Plant 



C. H. Roney. 



Growers' Association will celebrate with 

 a clam bake at Whitestone, L. I., Sep- 

 tember 15, which Chairman A. L. Miller 

 declares will be modern and surprising. 



This week the Monmouth County Fair, 

 at Long Branch, N. J., is on, with its 

 big agricultural exhibits, and many New 

 York florists will attend. 



John De Buck, the orchid collector of 

 College Point, who has been back from 

 Colombia for several weeks, will return 

 to South America in December. 



Anton Schultbeis has been appointed 

 judge at the floral exhibit of the 

 Schwalbischer Saengerbund, at Glendale, 

 L. L, September 6 to 13. 



The contract for the five new houses, 

 to be built by Anton Sehultheis, at Col- 

 lege Point, has been awarded to Hitch- 

 ings & Co. These will add 10,000 square 

 feet to his capacity. The same firm 

 built most of the greenhouses in the 

 range, over twenty years ago. The old 

 pipe, after twenty-three years' use, Mr. 

 Sehultheis says, is still good for many 

 more. Renovating and rebuilding has 

 been in progress here the whole summer. 

 A new storage hall, 30x75, is being 

 erected. About everything the florist 

 needs is grown here. E. C. Horan han 

 dies the valley, gardenia and orchid out- 

 put. Some grand stock of orange trees 

 are especially worthy of notice. A cata- 

 logue will be issued September 20. Mr. 

 Sehultheis' family is still at Rockaway, 

 and his boys are motor-boating up the 

 Hudson. 



n. Golsner's Sons, College Point, have 



a plant of 25,000 square feet and twen- 

 ty-one city lots devoted to smilax, as- 

 paragus, chrysanthemums and Enchan- 

 tress and Boston Market carnations. In 

 their season they have fine moss roses 

 and Brunners. All their stock reaches 

 the Cut Flower Exchange daily. One 

 of the sons enjoyed the convention so 

 much, he says, he will never miss an 

 other. 



A. L. Don, of Weeber & Do», seems 

 hopeful as to the coming seasoa. The 

 aggregate of business for the year has 

 been fully up to other years, and they 

 have been at it for a quarter of a cen- 

 tury. 



The ribbpn men who exhibited at the 

 Falls were all pleased with the volume 

 of business. 



M. A. Bowe has been holidaying in 

 Jersey. His handsome store on Broad- 

 way has been made spick and span for 

 the busy days ahead, and several experts 

 have been added to his force. 



George M. Geraghty, of Dunlop's, 

 Toronto, has been enjoying his vacation 

 in New York. He has only good things 

 to say of the Queen City of the Do- 

 minion. 



Samuel Eintracht, with Wertheimer 

 Bros., the ribbon men, is away on his 

 fall trip, and says the chiffon novelties 

 sell on sight. 



The bowling club will meet at Thum's 

 alleys Wednesday evening, September 30, 

 when arrangements will be completed for 

 the coming season. There will be no 

 more five-pin failures in the future. 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



MR. RONEY RESIGNS. 



Starts Business for Himself. 



C. II. Roney, who for ten years has 

 been superintendent of the big plant of 

 the Lakeview Rose Gardens at James- 

 town, N. Y., has resigned for the pur 

 pose of going into business for himself 

 at Kane, Pa. He will at once open a 

 retail store at 109 West Fraley street 

 and will later build a range of glass. 



Mr. Roney has been in the trade since 

 he was a boy. He is a native of Eng- 

 land, having been born in the village of 

 Bigrigg, near Whitehaven, April 2, 1865. 

 At the age of 14 years he began his 

 career as a florist, being an apprentice 

 for three years on the estate of David 

 Ainsworth, M. P., under the tutelage of 

 William Fox, gardener. After going to 

 the estate of Lord Lonsdale, Lowther 

 Castle, Whitehaven, and remaining for 

 some time, he went to James Dickson & 

 Sons, Newton Nurseries, Chester, Eng- 

 land, and worked through all the depart- 

 ments of their business, both inside and 

 outside the greenhouses. 



Coming to the United States in 1885. 

 Mr. Roney 's first position was with Al- 

 burger Bros., of Philadelphia. He was 

 also with Robert Craig & Son for some 

 time. From Philadelphia he went to 

 Wilkesbarre, Pa., and was manager of 

 the Wilkesbarre Floral Co. He stayed 

 with this firm until real estate became 

 too valuable for greenhouse purposes in 

 that part of town, and the place was 

 torn down. After four years spent with 

 Benjamin Dorrance, of Dorrance, Pa., he 

 accepted the ofiice of head gardener to 

 James Boyd, of Harrisburg, Pa., and 

 for five years had charge of one of the 

 finest and best equipped private green- 

 houses in southeastern Pennsylvania. 

 While in this position, Mr. Roney did 

 considerable work in landscaping, laying 



