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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AuocBT 26, 1009. 



LEADING RETAIL FLORISTS 



The retail florists wliose cards appear on the four pages carrying this head, are prepared to fill orders from other florists for local ddivefy on the 



basis. If you wish to be represented under this heading, now is the time to place your order. 



Alexander McConnell 



571 Fifth Avenue, Windsor Arcade 



NEW YORK CITY 



Telegraph orders forwarded to any part of the United States, Canada, and all principal cities of Europe. Orders transferred or intrusted by 

 the trade to our selection for delivery on steamships or elsewhere receive special attention. 



Telephone Calls; 340 and 841 88th Street 



Cable Address: ALEXCONNKLL, 



^eatern Union Code 



dNONNATL 



The Market 



Business last week did not amount to 

 much. There was a fair amount of stock 

 coming in, but the demand was weak and 

 there was not much doing. This was 

 fortunate, as nobody had much time to 

 attend to business. The local florists 

 had all they could do working on the 

 various committees and seeing that vis- 

 itors were being taken care of. 



The Convention. 



The twenty-fifth meeting of the S. A. 

 F. is now a matter of history, and since 

 it is over, there is hope in the breast of 

 e\eTj Cincinnati florist that all that 

 throng of visitors, who were with us 

 during last week, were pleased with the 

 reception they met with in this city and 

 that from this time onward they will 

 always have a good word and a kindly 

 feeling in their hearts for the local 

 craft. 



Weather conditions were ideal for the 

 convention and we believe our prediction 

 that Cincinnati is a first-class summer re- 

 sort has been verified. The attendance 

 also was all that could be desired. The 

 trade exhibit was fully up to expecta- 

 tions and was a fine showing of what the 

 flower business is today. It was a sight 

 worth seeing, and no one could view the 

 various andT" extensive exhibits without 

 learning something that would pay him 

 many times for the cost of his trip. 



The varjpus local committees had 

 everything" well in hand and all of the 

 numerous entertainments moved off 

 smoothly as they had been planned. The 

 sporting events were well contested in 

 every instance and the visitors surely 

 deserved their prizes. 



Vaiioua Nolo. 



Many of the local florists are now 

 planning for their summer vacations, 

 which had been put off till after the con- 

 vention. E. G. Gillett and family have 

 left for a stay at Traverse City, Mich. 



William Murphy, who is suffering from 

 his annual attack of hay fever, is pre- 

 paring to leave for northern Michigan. 



George Murphy has received the ap- 

 pointment as superintendent of the Jabez 

 Elliott Flower Market and will assume 

 his duties at once. C. J. Ohmek. 



St. Catherines, Ont. — The thirty- 

 first biennial meeting of the American 

 Pomological Society will be held here 

 September 14 to 16. E. D. Smith, of 

 Winona, Ont., is chairman of the execu- 

 tive committee, which is sending invita- 

 tions to members of the florists' trade. 

 This committee is acting in behalf of the 

 Ontario Fruit Growers ' Association, the 

 St. Catherines Horticultural Society and 

 the Niagara District Fruit Growers' 

 Association. 



Wm. I. Rock Flower Co. 



Kansas City, Mo. 



1116 Walnut Street 



Bell Telephone 213 Grand 



Will carefully execute orders for Kansas City and 

 any town in Missouri or Kansas. 



A. F. PETERSEN 



Gardener for the Hamburg-American Line 

 HAMBURG 13, GERMANY 



Recommends himself for the delivery of all 

 kinds of Plants, flowers. Bulbs and Shrubs. 



NEW YORK. 



Established 1857. 



TheMai^et 



The cut flower market remains in ex- 

 actly the same condition as a week ago, 

 with the wholesale prices unchanged and 

 midsummer dullness everywhere in evi- 

 dence. * ' There will be another month of 

 it," said one of the oracles of Twenty- 

 eighth street, who has prophesied cor- 

 rectly for a quarter century. What can 

 you expect with no retail demand, few 

 good roses, no good carnations and floods 

 of asters and gladioli? 



Now come the dahlias. Everybody 

 must be growing Hydrangea paniculata 

 grandiflora, and Golden Glow mums al- 

 ready add their cheerful faces to the 

 retail windows. Orchids are few and far 

 between, but they are coming along fast 

 and will be ready for society when it 

 arrives from the seashore and the moun- 

 tains. 



Vaiiout Notes* 



Everybody is back safe and sound from 

 the convention, and with only praise and 

 happy memories in behalf of the big- 

 hearted, generous men and women of 

 Cincinnati. The majority returned on 

 the Pennsylvania special, some have gone 

 west to Denver and Seattle, and a few 

 are coming via the Falls and Montretd. 

 Next year Rochester may count upon a 

 host from New York, and the Flower 

 City will undoubtedly have the greatest 

 attendahce ever known by any S. A. F. 

 convention. 



The first fall meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Qub will be held Sep- 

 tember 13. Those of its members who 

 were unable to attend the convention will 

 there hear from the new president of the 

 S. A. F. and several of its ex-presidents 

 all about the great meeting at Cincin- 

 nati. Exhiuits may be sent to Secretary 

 Young, as usual. 



FLOtUST^ 



1657-1659 Bockingbam Place 



L. D. Phone 

 668 Lake View 



CHICAGO 



Send UB 70tir retail orders. We 

 have the best facilities in the city. 



W. A. Hammond 



RICHMOND, VA. 



Prompt shipment to all points in 



Virginia, North Carolina and other stabs 



200,000 feet of glass > Cut Fkmers 



IN HEART OF NEW YORK CITT 



1 2271 Mdi tt 1S04 Broadway, H. T. 

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DETROIT 



MICHIGAN 



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ErerythlnK erown here fresb every day 



Messrs. Bowe, Klausner and Waren- 

 dorff, the committee appointed by the 

 Retail Association of New York, have 

 about completed arrangements for a big 

 smoker, to be given at one of the popular 

 restaurants here early in September. It 



