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Fbbeuaby 3, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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sbipnients of violets last week. Among 

 the heavy shippers are Hugo Gross, W. J. 

 pilcher, A. G. Ahner, "William "Winter and 

 |.'. W. Ude, Jr. ' 



The Florists ' Club meets Thursday af t- 

 tinoon, February 10. This promises to 

 lie an interesting meeting. "William Smith 

 1 IS his paper on "The Troubles of a 

 W iiolesaler " ready. A large attendance 

 ; , looked for. 



Visitor: Paul Berkowitz, of H. Bay- 

 , isdorfer & Co., Philadelphia. J. J. B. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market. 



The weather is springlike, and an in- 



ease in shipments is of course inevi- 



ble. Beauties have been in constant de- 



and. The best of them touched 75 



nts at times; 60 cents would be nearer 



1 oht as an average value of the specials, 



I it all roses sold well throughout last 



1 eek, and the 4-foot Killarney and Bich- 



iiond brought figures occasionally that 



;i a surprise to the uninitiated. 



McKinley day and the sweet girl grad- 

 uates took good care of the carnations. 

 Anything worth while commanded 4 

 < I'nts to 5 cents January 28 and 29. It 

 was carnation week here, as well as at 

 J'ittsburg. Orchids are abundant and 

 1) rices reasonable. Cypripediums, how- 

 «'ver, do not command the recognition 

 they deserve. Prices fell last week so 

 that they were selling at 10 cents retail 

 in the City of Churches, low enough to 

 make any grower of them irreligious. 

 Valley is down; lilies are up, and violets 

 are stationary at 50 cents and down, and 

 will continue so, one of the authorities 

 says, until Easter. Lent will soon show 

 its shadow and repentance begin; sack- 

 cloth for violets and ashes for roses; but 

 the broker and the prima donnas still are 

 here, and marrying and giving in mar- 

 riage goes on. Of bulbous stock there is 

 no end. Spring flowers in pots already 

 harbinger the spring, even though in the 

 line of weather the worst is yet to come. 



The Orchid Section. 



The meeting of the orchid section of 

 the Horticultural Society of New York 

 Wednesday evening, January 26, at the 

 Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 was encouragingly attended and in en- 

 thusiasm and exhibits a gratifying suc- 

 cess. Large and beautiful exhibits were 

 made by Clement Moore, Joseph A. 

 Manda, Lager & Hurrell and the Julius 

 Roehrs Co., and future meetings, of 

 which this was a preliminary only, doubt- 

 less will be well attended. Mr. Moore 

 was in the chair and Ed Eoehrs acted as 

 secretary. Dr. Kitchen, of Orange, and 

 George Y. Nash participated in the dis- 

 cussions. Mr. Nash will give a lecture 

 on the history of the cattleya at the next 

 meeting, with lantern slides, and the fol- 

 lowing month Mr. Lager will lecture on 

 "Personal Experiences in the Gathering 

 of Orchids." The meetings are open at 

 < :30, exhibits will be made, and the lec- 

 tin es will begin at 8 o'clock. 



Various Notes. 



John P. Mallon, senior member of 

 J' mes Mallon 's Sons, Brooklyn, was 

 «1 eted last week president of the Tenth 

 a^ embly district of Brooklyn. What 

 ^1 Mallon does not know about demo- 

 ci tic politics is not worth knowing. 



Wednesday, February 2, the banquet 

 ^ the New York and New Jersey Plant 

 ^ wers' Association took place at the 

 ^ fel Astor. 



The annual dinner of the Florists' 

 Club has been decided upon for the even- 

 ing of March 17, and the place is the 

 banquet hall in the new Fifth Avenue 

 building at the corner of Twenty-third 

 street and Broadway. Chairman Sheri- 

 dan anticipates a large attendance. This 

 is the week of the American Bose So- 

 ciety's convention, and many florists 

 from all parts of the country Will be in 

 New York at that time. The banquet 

 room will seat 600. 



The Elberon Horticultural Society will 

 enjoy its annual dinner next week, and 

 the usual yearly celebration at Orange, 

 N. J., comes Friday, February 11. 



The next meeting gf the Florists' Club 

 will be held Monday evening, February 

 14. In addition to a reception to the 

 ladies, W. H. Taplin will lecture on 

 ' ' The Carnation. ' ' A good lunch will 

 be served and an enjoyable evening is 

 assured. 



McKinley day was better observed this 

 year than usual. The wholesale florists 

 disposed of enormous quantities of car- 

 nations, good stock bringing an average 

 of 4 cents easily; 5 cents was top even 

 for the novelties. The usual notices 

 were in many of the windows. The gen- 

 eral public seemed slow to respond to 

 this reasonable sentiment in honor of 

 President McKinley 's memory, but each 

 year shows an encouraging increase in 

 the observance of the day. 



M. C. Ebel, of the Aphine Mfg. Co., 

 was in Philadelphia January 26 arrang- 

 ing for a public test of his insecticide on 

 February 12 at the new store of the 

 Henry F. Michell Co. These public tests 

 have proved more than satisfactory to 

 the manufacturers, and will be continued. 

 After Philadelphia will come Chicago. 



Frank Millang, Jr., who is associated 

 with his father in the wholesale cut 

 flower business in the Coogan building, 

 celebrated his twenty-second birthday 

 Saturday, January 29. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 directors of the Cut Flower Exchange 

 will be held Saturday, February 5. 



0. V. Zangen, of Hoboken, N. J., has 

 sold his interest in the wholesale cut 

 flower business at 52 "West Twenty- . 

 eighth street to Balph Gretsch, who has 

 been associated with Mr. Zangen for the 

 last fourteen months and will continue 

 the business at the same address. Mr. 

 Zangen says the seed trade was never so 

 absorbing as now, and he finds it neces- 

 sary to give it all his attention. 



The Greater New York Florists' Asso- 

 ciation announces its annual meeting 

 February 7 and the distribution of a 

 dividend of ten per cent. 



The Greek-American Florists' Associa- 

 tion of New York has invited the mem- 

 bers of the Eetail Florists' Protective 

 Association to attend a beefsteak dinner 

 Thursday, February 3, at Healey's jun- 

 gle room, Sixty-sixth street and Colum- 

 bus avenue. George D. Nicholas is chair- 

 man of the committee. 



President James Wood, of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New York, will lec- 

 ture at the Museum of Natural History 

 on "The Ideas of Horticulture," 

 W^ednesday, February 9, at 4 p. m. 



Purity continues the popular brand of 

 freesia, and brings the highest price in 

 the New York market. Notwithstanding 

 Budolph Fischer's departure for Cali- 

 fornia, Great Neck, L. I., where it orig- 

 inated, is still its headquarters in the 

 east, and William Mathews sends large 

 shipments of it daily to Kessler Bros. 



John T. Withers, of Jersey City, has 

 started on his tour around the world. 



It is reported that the Growers' Cut 

 Flower Co., J. J. Coan, manager, is look- 

 ing for larger quarters. 



Ford Bros, are congratulating them- 

 selves on securing the big store at 46 

 West Twenty-eighth street. There were 

 many applicants. They intend fitting it 

 up thoroughly, and have a three years' 

 lease as an incentive. 



The seedsmen all over the city are be- 

 ginning to reap the first fruits of the 

 enormous catalogue distribution now- 

 completed. The demand has begun 

 earlier than usual. 



W. E. Marshall is back from a western 

 trip that included Pittsburg and Cleve- 

 land. 



Al Eickards has been touring Long 

 Island. 



George A. Burnett has been absorbing 

 all the banquets and his share of the 

 orders. 



Harry Bunyard is back from the car- 

 nation convention and enthusiastic over 

 its success and the business prospects. 



Schloss Bros, say they are having a 

 great demand for their latest novelty, 

 the silk and lace bouquet holders. Emil 

 Schloss has just returned from their dis- 

 tribution in Boston, Washington and 

 Baltimore. 



Wertheimer Bros, are moving this week 

 to their new corner store on Broadway, 

 nearly opposite their present location at 

 550 Broadway. The new headquarters 

 give this enterprising house double the 

 floor space they had before. The whole 

 second floor over the bank is utilized, and 

 all the conveniences are modern and up- 

 to-date. 



lion & Co. say last year doubled their 

 business. 



Bobert Wilson says he found his cor- 

 sage bouquet holders quite as popular in 

 Pittsburg as in Detroit. 



David McKenzie, at John Scott's, 

 Flatbush, says his lilies are bringing top 

 prices in the New York market, and that 

 he will have six houses of them for 

 Easter, now only seven weeks away. 



Alexander McConnell had the Mar- 

 jorie Gould reception, the finest floral 

 decoration seen in New York this year. 

 In orchids alone over 3,000 cattleyas 

 were used. 



M. A. Bowe has the contract for one 

 of the largest weddings of the season 

 next week. 



The Smart Set Floral Co. maintains 

 daily unique window decorations, involv- 

 ing fountains, airships, Japanese gold- 

 fish and art vases. 



Another flower shop in the Wall street 

 district is to be opened this week, oppo- 

 site Peter Henderson & Co. and in the 

 Hudson Terminal building. 



Messrs. Brant, of Chatham, and Pier- 

 son, of Scarboro, the expert rose growers, 

 were in the city January 29, apparently 

 well pleased with the condition of the 

 market and the outlook. Moore, Hentz 

 & Nash handle the Brant & Noe output. 



B. Bosens has decided to sublet the 

 store on West Twenty-eighth street and 

 retain his headquarters on Twenty-ninth 

 street another year. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



PouGHKEEPSiE, N. Y. — Chas. Schaum- 

 burg, of the Haggerty Floral Co., was 

 confined to his home for a week by ill- 



ness. 



Walpole, Mass. — A. B. Dorr has 

 bought the Williams farm, with green- 

 houses, located at Pine street. South Wal- 

 pole, and will build more greenhouses, 

 to be used for cucumber growing. 



