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The Weekly FIcdsts' Review. 



Decsmbbb 24, 1908. 



demand grows constantly. Many of the 

 plants are in 10-inch and 12-inch pans. 

 A big business in these was done for 

 Christmas. Many thousands of* the small- 

 er sizes are grown for the wholesale 

 trade. Great improvements are contem- 

 plated here during the coming year. 



Up at Scarboro, where are the four 

 enormous carniation houses, 56x350 feet, 

 each covering nearly half an acre of 

 ground, preparations have already been 

 made for the construction of two more 

 of equal dimensions, one of which will 

 be commenced immediately, the ground 

 being already graded and cement benches 

 prepared. In the carnation houses there 

 was a big cut of fine stock for Christ- 

 mas. One of the big houses is devoted 

 entirely to the Killarney rose, half of 

 it in White Killarney. Strange as it 

 may seem, the blooms of this white sport 

 are twice the size of the pink Killarney. 

 Mr. Pierson says the Killarney now is the 

 best pink rose on the market, and he be- 

 lieves it will supersede all other pink 

 roses. Twelve large houses here are 

 devoted entirely to American Beauties, 

 in fine crop for Christmas, making Joe 

 Millang especially merry. 



The big carnation houses contain each 

 from 18,000 to 20,000 plants, Winsor, 

 of course, predominating. Half of one 

 house is given up to the new varieties, 

 which number thirty, including Governor 

 Hughes and a fancy averaging four 

 inches, and, in Mr. Pierson 's opinion, 

 head and shoulders above the rest in 

 stem and color. This one will be named 

 The Pierson and will be on the market 

 in 1910. He also thinks well of his 

 dark and light Winsors, which, like Win- 

 sor itself, are remarkably prolific. Other 

 varieties grown here are White Perfec- 

 tion, White Enchantress, Beacon, Victory, 

 Winona, Afterglow, President Seelye, 

 Melody and Variegated Lawson. The 

 daily cut now averages 3,000, nearly 100,- 

 000 monthly. Prices have averaged sat- 

 isfactorily of late. The whole plant is 

 a model. No one can afford to visit 

 New York and not give a day to Scar- 

 boro. 



Various Notes. 



William Wallace Burnham, who has 

 been identified with New York floricul- 

 ture for twenty-one years and during the 

 last thirteen years manager of the plant 

 and cut flower departments of Blooming- 

 dale Bros., has just received an appoint- 

 ment as general superintendent of the 

 store of Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn, 

 one of the largest department stores in 

 the world. Mr. Burnham is receiving 

 the congratulations of his many friends 

 with his usual modesty. 



The wholesale plantsmen on West Thir- 

 tieth street report a tremendous busi- 

 ness for Christmas, and have sold out 

 several times since December 1. The 

 biggest Christmas ever, is Sam Wood- 

 row's estimate. 



Already a meeting of the executive 

 boards of both Wholesalers' and Retail- 

 ers' associations has been held, and 

 harmonious plans formulated, looking to 

 mutual benefit. 



It is reported that Joseph Fleischman 

 will open another retail store at the 

 corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-second 

 street. This is the hotbed of the uptown, 

 retail section. Next door is the beautiful 

 store of Thomas Young, Jr. Across the 

 way is the firm of Wadley & Smythe, and 

 a block or two away, on the avenue, are 

 the handsome stores of Charles Thorley 

 and Alex. McConnell. 



An edict by the insurance companies, 



making collection of money because of 

 fires caused by Christmas trees impos- 

 sible, does not seem to have decreased 

 the sale of these forest beauties, and, 

 in fact, so great has been the demand 

 that Saturday the price for those re- 

 maining unsold was advanced to double 

 the first quotations. Years ago $50 per 

 hundred bundles was the figure. This 

 year $75 was the asking price, and De- 

 cember 21 $150 was obtained. Gottlieb 

 Myer, of Madison avenue, had his trees 

 purchased and marked for him when cut, 

 and Hanft Bros, took the precaution to 

 select their stock as it was unloaded. 

 Both these firms have big branch stores 

 for their overflow. 



M. A. Bowe has opened a branch on 

 West Thirty-fourth street, close to his 

 headquarters, where Arthur Merritt is in 

 charge. The stock of blooming plants 

 was enormous. 



Harry Gessner had many effective bas- 

 ket combinations in the Imperial, and 

 a window of orchids and roses that 

 displayed his artistic skill to advantage. 



John King Duer reports many debu- 

 tante decorations of late, and an old- 

 fashioned reception, where the bouquets, 











The Lord & Burnham MedaL 



made up in the style of our grand- 

 mothers, made a pronounced hit with 

 the society folks. George C. Simms, 

 formerly with Charles Thorley, is the 

 artist here. 



At Hart's and Hession's, on Madison 

 avenue, and Christatos & Koster's, near 

 Sixty-third street, the same elaborate 

 plant decorations as noted elsewhere pre- 

 vail. 



Joseph Leikens is back from Newport 

 after a satisfactory season. His new 

 store, at 718 Fifth avenue, is a beauty, 

 and is near Stumpp's and Thorley 's 

 Plaza Hotel place, where the millionaires 

 congregate. 



The favorite plants this year seem 

 to be the orchids, oranges, azaleas, poin- 

 settias and Lorraine begonias. Azaleas 

 are as well developed as at Easter. 

 Heather, too, is popular, and the bril- 

 liantly colored dracsenas and crotons are 

 used with the new ferns in basket work. 

 Ardisias and cyclamens, too, are abun- 

 dant. 



The Cut Flower Exchange has changed 

 its hour of opening again, to 6 a. m. 

 Hard to change the habits of generations. 



The New York Florists' Club will meet 



for its initial performance of 1909, 

 January 10, at the Grand Opera House 

 building. 



The Cleary Horticultural Co., on Vesey 

 street, did a large retail business in 

 Christmas holly, evergreens and mistletoe. 

 The store will be maintained as a down- 

 town retail center this winter, with Am- 

 brose Cleary as superintendent. It is 

 possible a cut flower department may 

 be added to the business. 



J. Austin Shaw, 



S. Osgood Pell & Co,, real estate 

 brokers, have leased for James J, Coogan 

 the second loft in Nos, 55, 57 and 59 

 West TWenty-sixth street to the New 

 York Cut Flower Association; the third 

 loft to the New York Flower Market Co,, 

 and the first floor store to Moltz & 

 Kessler, wholesale florists. 



Adolph E. Asmus, of West Hoboken, 

 has filed suit for divorce against his 

 wife. There has been one hearing al- 

 ready, at which Mrs, Asmus applied for 

 alimony pending the outcome of her hus- 

 band 's suit for divorce. Vice Chancellor 

 Garrison ordered that the husband pay 

 her $35 a week. She asserts that his in- 

 come from the business is $4,000 a 

 month, and that he has a large interest 

 in an estate worth $400,000. The fam- 

 ily is prominent socially, as well as in 

 the trade, and the Jersey newspapers 

 make much capital of their troubles. 



MEDALS BETTER THAN CASH. 



Nine times out of ten a flower show 

 exhibitor would rather have a medal 

 than the cash and those who offer' 

 premiums for advertising purposes have 

 found that medals or cups, which can be 

 properly inscribed, serve a real advertis- 

 ing purpose, while a contribution of cash 

 is little more than of financial assistajice 

 to the management. The trophies give 

 at the same time at least equal help 

 financially, for a cup will do for a prize 

 in a class where the cash that bought it 

 might be inadequate. 



In 1907 the Lord & Burnham Co. of- 

 fered a gold medal, shown in the ac- 

 companying illustration, to the Lenox 

 Horticultural Society. It has an in- 

 trinsic value of about $30 and was so 

 well liked that it was offered to a num- 

 ber of societies this year, and was award- 

 ed as follows: 



By the Tarrytown Horticultural Society to 

 Wm. Inglis, gardener to J, J, Biker, Portclie:^- 

 ter, N. Y., for tbirty-six roses In three varie- 

 ties; to Thomas A. See, gardener to Mrs. M. E. 

 Sand. Ardsley, N. Y., for four varieties of 

 mumi), three of each. 



By the Lenox Horticultural Society to Thomas 

 Proctor, superintendent for K. W. Patterson, for 

 twenty-four mums. 



By the National Flower Show to H. Skjold- 

 ager, gardener to E. G. Ulhlein, Chicago, for 

 best collection of orchids grown by a private 

 gardener. 



SYRACUSE, N. Y. 



The will of the late Louis E, Mar- 

 quisee was admitted to probate December 

 5, but the value of the estate could not 

 be given, as Mr. Marquisee was a bene- 

 ficiary under the wills of his three half 

 brothers, whose estates are not yet set- 

 tled. 



Owing to continued ill health, Mrs. 

 Marquisee feels compelled to give up the 

 idea of continuing the business, and has 

 disposed of the ground on which the 

 greenhouses stand. They will remain till 

 July 1, which will give ample time to dis- 

 seminate the new carnation. Marchioness, 

 and dispose of the bedding stock. 



H. Y. 



