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The Weekly Florists Review* 



Seiptembbb 10, 1908. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



The cut flower market is still flooded, 

 but improvement in quality is marked, 

 and with the cooler weather retail New 

 York will soon begin to feel the rising 

 of the business tide. I anticipate a 

 good winter. 



Beauty, Bride, Maid and Killarney are 

 improving every day, and some of the 

 specials are quite up to the best fall 

 average. The short stems and small buds 

 bring but little, often as low as 25 cents 

 per hundred. The growers recognize the 

 necessity of this, however, and look upon 

 any returns from the inferior grades of 

 the first crop as so much saved. As one 

 of them at Chatham told me last week, 

 "They cost us nothing for coal these 

 days and what we get out of them, over 

 cost of sending to market, is velvet," 



Carnations begin to look natural, En- 

 chantress especially, and longer stems 

 and larger heads are evident. A few 

 novelties are also arriving. 



There has been no frost, and the out- 

 door supply is beyond all computation. 

 Hydrangea is especially perfect and abun- 

 dant, and of grand asters and gladioli 

 there seems to be no end; $1.50 is top 

 for gladioli and $3 for asters. From 

 these prices down to 25 cents per hun- 

 dred is a mighty fall, biit they make it. 



There will be some violets soon, but 

 it would be better to wait; premature 

 shipments give the season a bad start. 



Notes From Jersey. 



Emil Savoy, of Secaucus, is an expert 

 fern grower and stands by the old Bos- 

 ton as his most profitable variety. He 

 has installed a new Johnston boiler. 



Mr, Baldwin, of Secaucus, is making 

 a business trip in New England. Mr. 

 Carrillo is holding the fort in his ab- 

 sence, and preparing for his annual trip 

 to Columbia for a six months' collect- 

 ing tour. The cut orchids from this 

 house are sold by James McManus. 



One of the prettiest sights at Secaucus 

 on the trolley route to Rutherford, N. J., 

 is O. V. Zangen's two acres of Salvia 

 Zurich and Fireball compacta, a veri- 

 table lake of fire. Some of the plants 

 are three to four feet in diameter. 



The Julius Boehrs Co. is busy, with 

 greenhouses and nursery. Worthy of spe- 

 cial notice is a grand stock of the silver 

 spruce. The display of immense bay 

 trees in avenues in the decorative ap- 

 proach to this establishment is striking; 

 among them are some of the largest 

 specimens ever imported. The houses are 

 crowded with palms, ferns, etc. Forty 

 houses are devoted to orchids. In a few 

 weeks there will be an abundance of 

 bloom. The whole plant gives evidence 

 of faith in the future. 



L. C. Bobbink, of Bobbink & Atkins, 

 is still in Europe. F. L. Atkins says 

 this has been their busiest and best sea- 

 son, 



William G. Badgley, of Chatham, is a 

 busy man, with his two big ranges, his 

 own and the Rand greenhouses, his rub- 

 ber hose, his fertilizer company, and 

 his plant oil industry, and he seems to 

 be making a success of all of them. 

 Bride, Maid and Killarney occupy 40,000 

 square feet, and he can grow them and 

 win prizes. Robert Phlubert is his fore- 

 man and A. J. Guttman is at the sell- 

 ing end in New York. 



The Review has often advocated the 

 beautifying of the country florist 's home. 

 If you ever go to Chatham, call at David 



Falconer's and see his cozy nook, as he 

 calls it, with its vine-clad porches, its well 

 arranged flower beds, its four acres and 

 30,000 square feet of glass devoted to 

 Bride and Maid, which J. K, Allen has 

 been selling these many years. All the 

 houses are modern. Gradually, cement 

 benches are being installed. One house, 

 34x175, was erected last year at a cost 

 of $8,000. The whole thing is an in- 

 spiration. Every florist, on a smaller 

 or larger scale, can develop just such 

 a place. 



Right near is the veteran, Frank L. 

 Moore. At the base of the hill on which 

 Mr. Moore's big house is built stretches 

 out a wonderful vista of twenty miles 

 of hill and dale. This is the home of 

 Bridesmaid, you remember; the original 

 plant was discovered here sixteen years 

 ago. The parent plant is still here and 

 yielding its share of flowers. Twenty- 

 five thousand square feet are devoted to 

 Richmond, Liberty, Maid and Bride, and 

 orchids, a new departure that promises 

 well. Harry Stollery is in charge and 



From *' Way Down East." 



' My classified advertisement in 



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VftPJf 



mr£¥ 



did good work for me and may now 



be discontinuedt for the stock is 



cleaned up. 



R. D. KIMBALL. 



Waban, Mass.» Sept. 2, 1908." 



Why don't you dispose of your surplus? 



has been for many years. His brothers 

 are in business in Chicago; one of them 

 has been in England this summer, and 

 starts this week for home. Mr. Moore 

 has 500 Bonnaffon chrysanthemums which 

 he intends to use as prize-winners at 

 the Madison show, he says. The rest he 

 expects to sell at Moore, Hentz & Nash's 

 commission headquarters at 50 cents 

 apiece. He did it before, and Mr. Stol- 

 lery says they are better than ever this 

 year. 



The Chatham Rose Co. has eight houses 

 devoted to Richmond, Maid and Bride in 

 equal quantities. William Fitzpatrick, 

 formerly with A. J. Guttman, of Sum- 

 mit, is in charge. 



Ernest Lawyer, formerly with L. M. 

 Noe, has the two places formerly owned 

 by George Nicholas and Behre, and is 

 a neighbor of Mr. Badgley 's. Mr. Noe 

 is on the shelf at present with an injured 

 knee cap. 



Various Notes. 



Frank H. Traendly welcomed a son 

 into his family September 9 and is busy 

 receiving congratulations. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Plant Growers' Association was held on 

 the evening of September 1 at the St. 

 Denis hotel. New York. 



The Yokohama Nursery Co., in refer- 

 ring to the calla lily stock it is importing, 

 says that the bulbs are entirely free 

 from disease. The last year before ship- 

 ment they are grown in loam. Because 

 of the long shipment, a decrease in size 

 is noticeable, but the bulbs are sounder 

 thereby. 



The New York and New Jersey Asso- 

 ciation of Plant Growers gives its clam 

 bake Tuesday, September 15, at Duer's, 

 Whitestone pavilion. Secretary Siebrecht 

 says the committee has arranged for 

 prize bowling for ladies and gentlemen, 

 prize shooting, dancing and many other 

 sports and will make this the most pleas- 

 ant day ever passed by this or any other 

 association connected with the trade. 

 That is going some. The price of tick- 

 ets is $3.50. The affair is of a family 

 character and the attendance is by in- 

 vitation. The special train will leave 

 the Long Island depot at Long Island 

 City at 10:33 a. m. This organization 

 is a strong one and now includes nearly 

 every plapt grower of prominence in 

 this section. 



Do not forget Monday, September 14 

 — next Monday — the first meeting of the 

 New York Florists' Club for the sea- 

 son, and an important night, with its con- 

 vention reminiscences, its plans for future 

 growth, and its lecture by Benjamin 

 Hammond, of Fishkill, on "School Gar- 

 dens." If you are a member of the 

 club, you should be there, and if you 

 are not a member, you ought to be. 



The Greater New York Florists' Asso- 

 ciation has opened its new store at 162 

 Livingston street, Brooklyn, with George 

 W. ilrawbuck as manager. The associa- 

 tion occupies the whole building, with 

 offices on the second floor. Mr. Craw- 

 buck says the venture has been a suc- 

 cess from the start and the business is 

 growing every day. The location is an 

 excellent one and Brooklyn now rejoices 

 in three wholesale centers. 



Millang Bros, have disposed of the mir- 

 rors and other retail luxuries left in their 

 store by the former tenant, and now have 

 an orthodox, practical wholesale store, 

 as convenient and roomy as any in the 

 block. 



The blinds are down and the doors 

 locked at 39 West Twenty-eighth street, 

 where Frank S. Hicks held forth. 



The auction season opens at Elliott's, 

 42 Vesey street, Tuesday, September 22, 

 with a lot of decorative plants from local 

 growers and two carloads of palms from 

 the Biltmore Nursery Co. 



Warren Feller, of Rhinebeck, J. K. 

 Allen's grower, is a violet shipper and 

 does not grow orchids as stated last 

 week. 



Nathan M. Neff, formerly in business 

 at Philadelphia, and later with W. H. 

 Donohoe up to the bankruptcy episode, 

 is now with M. A. Bowe. 



Henry Fitzroy, formerly gardener for 

 Bo^s Tweed, the Tammany chieftain, died 

 at Stamford, Conn., September 4, at 

 the age of 81 years. 



The violet market loses one of its vet- 

 erans in George T. Schuneman, of Bald- 

 win, L. I. Mr. Schuneman is developing 

 a nursery business, making privet his 

 specialty, and cosmos and peonies, in- 

 stead of carnations and violets. 



Following in the footsteps of Thomas 

 Young, Jr., and of Fleischman in closing 

 the store at Fifth avenue and Forty- 

 third street, Thorley has closed his 

 branch at Eighty-sixth street and Colum- 

 bus avenue. 



September 22 to 24, at the Berkeley 

 lyceum, 19 West Forty-fonrth street, the 



