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The Horists' Review 



iJBpTUMBJJlB 17. Itl4. 



available. The opportunities, there- 

 fore, are excellent along this line." 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The coldest week for fifty years in 

 early September is over. The mercury 

 was down to far below 50 degrees here, 

 and at no great distance from New York 

 there were frosts, And in the mountains 

 snow. This week opened with a rising 

 temperature, and the usual fall weather 

 for six or seven weeks may now be de- 

 pended on. The cold snap was a god- 

 send to the cut flower market, lessening 

 the receipts and losses considerably, and 

 so steadying prices, even though no in- 

 crease in value was evident. 



The shipments of asters and gladioli 

 have materially decreased, but there 

 still arrive more than the market can 

 profitably digest. Prices remain low, at 

 about the same level as last week's 

 quotations. Another week and there 

 will be but the few stragglers remaining. 

 Following closely on the retreat of these 

 come the dahlias and chrysanthemums. 

 Some good Golden Glow may already be 

 seen in the display windows of the 

 wholesalers. There will be other vari- 

 eties of mums before the week is over, 

 and more than enough dahlias for the 

 market's needs. 



Tritomas now are abundant and of 

 splendid size and quality. The same 

 may be said of Clematis panieulata and 

 hydrangeas. Valley maintains its im- 

 proved values and longiflorum lilies have 

 at last begun their climb to more re- 

 spectable quotations. In orchids, cat- 

 tleyas hold well at last week 's level, but 

 oncidiums are hard to move. , 



Few good carnations are received and 

 these seldom bring over $1 per hundred. 

 The improvement of the shipments, both 

 in quantity and quality, should be evi- 

 dent before the week ends. 



Tremendous shipments of roses have 

 continued through the week, great quan- 

 tities of them too small and short- 

 stemmed for use. There should be 

 speedy improvement. Low rates still 

 prevail for American Beauties. For the 

 selected roses of all varieties the de- 

 mand is growing daily. 



Club Meeting. 



An attendance of about 100 reopened 

 the season at the initial meeting of the 

 Florists' Club Monday evening, Sep- 

 tember 14, President Duckham in the 

 chair. 



Chairman Traendly reported, for the 

 transportation committee, an expendi- 

 ture of $98.81 for the entertainment of 

 the club and its guests on the boat 

 from New York to Boston on the occa- 

 sion of the S. A. F. convention. ^lany 

 of those present said it was one of the 

 pleasantest evenings in their experience. 

 W. F. Sheridan, M. C. Ford, Traendly & 

 Schenck and the Growers' Cut Flower 

 Co. were thanked for contributions of 

 flowers. 



H. Wessel, M. Daly and G. Clark were 

 elected to membership, and Jos. J. Lane 

 was nominated. 



John Young spoke in behalf of the 

 flower show next March and announced 

 a guarantee fund of $5,000 and $4,000 

 worth of space contracted for. 



Reference was made to the new plan 

 of affiliation with the S. A. F. where- 

 by any florists' club with 100 or more 

 members of the society in its ranks is 

 entitled to representation on the board 



of directors of the S. A. F. The club 

 having 156 of its members also mem- 

 bers of the S. A. F., the secretary was 

 instructed to notify the S, A. F. the 

 club desires to be represented on the 

 board of directors. 

 "C. H. Totty thanked the club for its 

 loyalty to him.. Addresses also were 

 made by J. G. Esler, W. E. Marshall, H. 

 A. Bunyard, John Donaldson, F. H. 

 Traendly, J. H. Pepper and P. O'Mara. 



John Donaldson, captain of the vic- 

 torious bowling team, got a rousing re- 

 ception as he unfolded his tactful plan 

 of battle and conquest. Notwithstand- 

 ing having made this year the highest 

 5-man score ever made in the S. A. F. 

 contest, he said the triumph of the club 

 at Minneapolis, where they won every 

 first prize, was the crowning record of 

 its career. 



A vote of thanks was tendered the 

 Boston club for its splendid entertain- 

 ment. 



Julius Roehrs, back from the war 

 zone, gave an interesting address. ' ' No 

 place''Tike the U. S., " was his conclu- 

 sion. He thinks there will be great 

 shortages for some time. 



The exhibits of the evening were a 

 vase of Firebird cannas, from Bobbink 

 & Atkins, of Eutherford, aird a vase of 

 Buddleia variabiMs tnagnifica from Wm. 

 Tricker, of Arlington, N. J., each of 

 which received a vote of thanks. Mr. 

 Bunyard thought the canna worthy of 

 a preliminary certificate. 



Max Schling made a ringing speech 

 in behalf of general improvement in all 

 branches of the trade by legitimate and 

 persistent publicity. 



Various Notes. 



Wni. Plumb, superintendent of flori- 

 culture at the San Francisco exposition, 

 is in the city, after a thorough canvass 

 of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey 

 and New England. He says he has been 

 greatly encouraged by prospective and 

 secured exhibitors. Among others he 

 refers to Wm. Tricker 's aquatic exhibit, 

 to occupy many thousand feet of space, 

 outside and inside, contracted for by 

 A. T. Boddington, and the certainty of 

 the erection of a large greenhouse by 

 one of our leading firms. He thinks 

 "the war will help the fair," and an- 

 ticipates leaving for San Francisco in 

 November. 



Alfred Scheider, partner of Max 

 Schling, and Mrs. Scheider are back 

 from a month's holiday at New Eng- 

 land resorts. Business, they say, is al- 

 ready booming. 



T. J. McDonougrh, formerly in business 

 in Cleveland, is now in New York, where 

 he expects to remain permanently. 



The big show windows of the Stumpp 

 & Walter Co. are centers of display, 

 livery novelty and staple for the subur- 

 }>anite is attractively featured. All the 

 leading seed houses make their window 

 decorations novel and attractive. 



The plant and bulk auctions began 

 Tuesday, September 15. It will be De- 

 cember before they close. Every Tues- 

 day and Friday is the program, with 

 special sales for Christmas. The Mac- 

 Nifl" Horticultural Co. has a million 

 bnlbs to dispose of. 



Frank Cuthbertson, of C. C. Morse & 

 Co., is in the city, having returned 

 from Europe September 12. 



H. A. Bunyard will continue to oc- 

 cupy his Patchogue home until No- 

 vember. He reports a large demand 

 for sweet pea seed. 



Maurice Fuld drew a $7,000 house 



last week at Gloucester, in behaP of 

 the Red Cross Society. His lecture wag 

 ' ' Gardening. ' ' September 17 he lect ires 

 on "Bulbs" at Lawrence, L. I. 



M. C. Ebel, of Madison, N. J., hgg 

 purchased the Gardeners' Chronich . 



It is said the new store at the cor- 

 ner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-ei 'hth 

 street will be the headquarters of ( utt- 

 man '& Raynor. 



Chas. Millang and family retui ued 

 September 14 from their summer at 

 Stamford, Conn. 



B. S. Slinn, Jr., says violets will ap- 

 pear in the market next week. 



Wm. A. Hanft has applied for a pat- 

 ent on a system of construction of a 

 circular wreath, in the making of which 

 anything can be used adapted to florists' 

 use and at much less expense than regu- 

 lar immortelle wreaths are now made. 



The MacNiff Horticultural Co. has 

 on exhibition a cantaloupe weighing 

 twenty-eight pounds, a variety of its 

 own introduction, known as NacNiff's 

 Mammoth. J. Austin Shaw. 



The contract S. Jacobs & Sons have 

 received from the Department of Parks 

 is for greenhouses to be built in Prop 

 pect park, Brooklyn. It is to bo a 

 range of semi-iron greenhouses 20x133 

 and 25x133, furnished with patented 

 combination steel and iron gutter and 

 ventilated with the Jacobs ventilating 

 apparatus. The benches will be iron 

 pipe-frame, and the houses will bf 

 heated by hot water. There will he. 

 also, a full iron-frame, bent-eave groon 

 house fifty feet wide. 



CONSERVATORIES NOT READY. 



According to Supt. Nussbaumer, St. 

 Paul's $58,825 greenhouses at Como will 

 not be finished September 30, according 

 to contract. The contract bound the 

 King Construction Co., of Tonawauda. 

 N. Y., to have the houses finished by 

 August 31 and the palm and show 

 houses finished by September 30, "it 

 the foundation work were sulBcicntly 

 finished" by June. The growing houses' 

 are not finished and the palm and show 

 houses cannot be finished by September 

 30, it is said. According to Fred. Nnss 

 baumer, superintendent of parks, the 

 foundations were finished in time to 

 have the rest of the houses completed 

 as specified. But the construction ciiin 

 pany may smile, for when the contract 

 was made by the old park board no iien 

 alty for failure to complete the Imild 

 ings on time was included. 



NITRATE OF SODA. 



Can you give us a little information 

 in regard to using nitrate of sodn or 

 geraniums? We have a couple oi 

 benches of Poitevine we ran over from 

 last year. They are well rooted in th< 

 beds, but do not seem to show any ic 

 clination to produce new wood. ^^'' 

 would like to try feeding nitrate of .'^ 'J'' 

 but as we have never used any wr do 

 not know just how to prepare it. 



W. T. B. ' 



Use one pound of nitrate of soda di 

 luted in a 50-gallon barrel of w; ter 

 Be careful not to apply any strontjei 

 If the plants need it, give them a sec 

 ond dose three weeks later, but do not 

 apply any more, as nitrate of soda ]>^^' 

 duces a soft growth. Fine bone scrati he<i 

 into the soil also is good. I consider 

 it preferable to the soda, as it does not 

 produce soft growth. 0. V. 



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