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The Weekly Florists^ Reviewt 



NOVBMBEB 26, 1908. 



is a member of nearly every order known, 



Arthur Ellison reports that his firm 

 will start this week to erect the new 

 phow bouse, just^west of the store. They 

 have been busy of late with social work 

 of all kinds. 



The free chrysanthemum show at the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden ran through 

 the second week with an increased at- 

 tendance, the weather being -just tg their 

 liking for a tent show, warm and spring- 

 like. 



John "Wunderle, formerly with Michel, 

 Eggeling and Dunford, left the latter 

 place last week and is now in business 

 for himself in the landscape gardening 

 work. 



J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, 111., 

 and A. S. Halstead, of Belleville, 111., 

 were visitors last week. Both say they 

 were much impressed with the big na- 

 tional flower show during their week's 

 stay. 



George Angermueller, chairman of the 

 Florists' Club dommittee for the coming 

 smoker, will call a meeting of the com- 

 mittee this week to perfect arrangements, 

 date and place for holding the sftoker. 

 This big. event, should bring out a large 

 attendance. J. J. B. 



NEW YOHK. 



The Market 



The sensation of the last week was 

 the modest violet, modest no longer. Ee- 

 markable was its bid for popularity and 

 its assertion of its right to recognition. 

 The football game at New Haven caused 

 the carrying of many thousands of the 

 flowers to that city by Rhinebeck grow- 

 ers themselves, a decidedly new depar- 

 ture; the visits of wholesalers to the 

 upstate growers with definite cash offers 

 for their entire shipments; the combina- 

 tion of violet growers at Ehinebeck al- 

 ready consummated, and the scarcity of 

 the flowers because of the abnormally 

 warm season, all combined to create a 

 condition unique, such as the violet mar- 

 ket has never before been called upon to 

 meet and consider. Many of the lead- 

 ing wholesalers, whose supply has been 

 a surety for years, found themselves 

 completely ignored and neglected. But 

 Saturday night saw the beginning of the 

 end. Prices f«ll to $1 after dark, with 

 $1.5(r for the specials in bunches of 100, 

 and above these figures they are not 

 likely to go even for Thanksgiving. Up 

 at New Haven those who had the stcck 

 reaped a harvest. There was not a violet 

 on the street Saturday. This week's 

 developments are awaited with keen and 

 universal interest. 



The chrysanthemum supply is still 

 ample, and will last oyer Thanksgiving. 

 Prices are better, as well as quality. The 

 men with the late mums will not have 

 to worry about their winter coal. There 

 are plenty of roses and carnations. 

 Prices are slightly better. They will 

 not be excessive for Thanksgiving; 12 

 cents probably for fancy Maids and 

 Brides, 15 cents for Killarney and the 

 other popular novelties, and a little more 

 for Jardine, Ehea Eeid and My Mary- 

 land. Carnations may touch 4 cents, with 

 a little more for the novelties, and the 

 balance of the offerings, lilies, valley, 

 hyacinths, narcissi, sweet peas, etc., will 

 enjoy the natural advance of the holiday. 

 There is a lot to be thankful for this 

 year, compared with conditions a year 

 ago, and perhaps the prosperous will 

 manifest a little of their exuberance in 

 floral appreciation. Beauties hold firm 

 at 35 cents, and 50 cents for Thursday 



will probably be the apex.. A healthful 

 and optimistic condition prevails, |ind 

 we look for the merriest Christmas New 

 York has known in many years. * •' 



r Variooi Noto., ^ 



December 1 Harry Bunyard will cele- 

 brate the twentieth anniversary of his 

 coming to America. In those two deeaides 

 he has seen something of this counpry. 

 If there. is any spot where horticultijral 

 goods may be sold and which has not 

 b^eli visited by this indefatigable trav- 

 eler, it has been a mistake which ^ill 

 be rectified promptly upon notice. The 

 accompanying illustration is from a pho- 

 tograph taken during Mr. Bunyard 's re- 

 cent visit at his old home in Engla,nd. 

 Most of the readers will recognize Mr. 

 Bunyard. The other figures are bis fath- 



The Bunyard Family Group. 



er, bis mother, Mrs. Bunyard, and hi* 

 brother, Arthur, who is connected with 

 the Market Growers' Gazette, London. 



December 14 the next meeting of the 

 New York Florists' Club will be held. 

 Officers will be elected. This will be a 

 special night and should draw the great- 

 est crowd of the year. Prepare for it 

 and its surprises. 



The club's smoker drew a large con- 

 gregation, considerably more than 100, 

 but not as many gardeners as the flower 

 show should . have attracted to the city. 

 Chairman Eickarde and his lieutenants 

 provided an entertainment varied in its 

 character, and which included Hibernian, 

 colored stories and colored minstrelsy, 

 legerdemain by Andrew Wilson, Scotch 

 bagpipe music and the pocket edition 

 of Harry Lander, rounded out with tenor 

 solos that stirred the house, by George 

 Clarke, one of the Clarke brothers, of 

 Portland, Ore. It was a hilarious night 

 and will likely be repeated early in the 

 coming year. The club is growing rap- 

 idly and the young blood is coming to the 

 front. 



The prospective New York Retailers' 

 Association, which we announced two 

 weeks ago, has materialized and gives 

 good promise of stability and value. Sev- 

 eral times in the past the idea has died 

 aborning, but this time it is apparently 

 here to stay. Charles A; Dards is presi- 

 dent, Marshall Clarke, vice-president, and 



A. Warendorff, secretary. The object* 

 of the association look to mutual pro- 

 tection against the deadbeat, to stop the 

 unlicensed selling of flowers in the 

 streets, to create a collection agency, and 

 to confine the retailing of flowers to 

 those entitled to that privilege. On such 

 a basis the association has only to create 

 and maintain harmony in its member- 

 ship to guarantee a permanent success. 



E. C. Horan paid Jamestown a visit 

 last week and will hereafter handle the 

 output of the Lake View Eose Gardens. 



Millang Bros, are displaying some 

 grand celosia plants in their window. 



Moore,- Hentz & Nash are receiving 

 daily grand flowers of Killarney, Ehea 

 Eeia, Jardine and My Maryland from 

 S. J. Eeuter & Son, of Westerly, E. I. 



The optimist, Paul Berkovdtz, of Phila- 

 delphia, was in the city November 21. 

 He declares every part of the country 

 west of Buffalo reveling in prosperity 

 and says the east is now waking up and 

 preparing for the best business of the 

 generation. 



George Stumpp, of the Stumpp & Wal- 

 ter Co., was absent from his desk Thurs- 

 day, November 19. Inquiries developed 

 the fact that Wednesday evening he had 

 been initiated into the mysteries of the 

 Elks, at Hackensack, N. J. 



Paul Fischer, of Woodridge, N. J., sub- 

 mitted his new white unnamed chrysan- 

 themum to the committee November 21, 

 and will shortly place it on exhibition at 

 Boston and Philadelphia. It drew much 

 admiring comment in the window of 

 Walter Sheridan, later. It is a pure 

 white, incurved, of good size and a fine 

 shipper. 



Five years more is the decision of 

 the New York Cut Flower Co. and the 

 Cut Flower Exchange as to their quar- 

 ters in the Coogan building. This does 

 away with the rumor of concentration on 

 the new building on West Twenty-eighth 

 street, beyond Sixth avenue, for horticul- 

 tural uses. 



Louis Michell is now established as a 

 retailer in the old store of Bonnet * 

 Blake, on Livingston street, Brooklyn. 

 He has been with Mallon's Sons nearly 

 twenty years. He has fitted the place up 

 handsomely and should succeed. 



Little Nemo has contributed a bride to 

 floriculture, W. T. Lee, son of the florist 

 in the Hippodrome buUding, having just 

 married Miss Isabel Strang, of the the- 

 ater company. 



Bowling. 



The games November 16 resulted as 

 follows : 



McArdle 125 137 142 120 15* 



Falkner 69 89 87 128 90 



Shaw 136 113 133 141 12» 



Scott 127 151 201 164 121 



Manda 160 132 168 137 146 



Marshall 166 208 144 167 144 



Astoria has claimed some of New 

 York's best bowlers. It seems a difficult 

 thing to create enthusiasm or maintain 

 a quorum in the big city. Most of 

 the old reliables of other years have 

 retired from, athletics. The younger ele- 

 ment is unstable, intermittent, forget- 

 ful. The timber is good and abundant, 

 but hard to cut down. Monday is the 

 best night for the majority, the alleys 

 are the best in the city, but the •attend- 

 ance is discouraging to those who have 

 faithfully endeavored to build up a club 

 that would b6 a credit tQ New York. 



At Astoria the membership is limited 

 to twelve and the club is already full. 

 The ladies' night»and banquet last week 

 were a great success. Mrs. Miesara and 

 Mrs. Donaldson carried off the honors. 

 The club will surely be heard from at 



