OCTOBHB 15, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



Schroyer was one of the judges at the 

 York fair this week, a position he has 

 fiilp,! with ability for many years. 

 ° H. K. R. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The whole week has passed without 

 rain and with a summer temperature. 

 The supply of roses is practically un- 

 limiti i, and in over twenty varieties. 

 There are plenty of American Beauties 

 and I rices are lower than a week ago. 

 The 'a me may be said of all the teas, 

 and -ho new varieties show nopspecial 

 strength or wide demand. Chrysan- 

 thenr.ims are already here in all sizes 

 and lolors and, from this time on until 

 Thaii!<sgiving, will dominate the whole- 

 sale market. Some of the finest ar- 

 rivals commanded as high as $4 per 

 dozeu The prospect is for a tremen- 

 dous lotal of mums this season. 



Some beautiful dahlias arrived this 

 week; nothing finer in their line has 

 reachi^d the New York market. The 

 season is about over and to local grow- 

 ers it has been unprofitable because of 

 the long drought. 



Carnations fell from their lofty 

 perch, the finest barely holding at $3 

 per hundred and splendid stock selling 

 at $20 per thousand. Valley has not 

 changed. Longiflorum lilies are back 

 again to $8 per hundred and under. 

 Cosmos is poor this season. Violets 

 still are of mediocre size and quality. 

 As to orchids, there has been no ad- 

 vance from the low figures of recent 

 weeks. 



Still there remains a vein of opti- 

 mism in all branches of the cut fiower 

 trade and many of the retailers predict 

 a splendid season. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the New 

 Vork Florists' Club was held in the 

 Grand Opera House building, October 

 12. President Wm. H. Duckham opened 

 the meeting promptly at 8 o'clock. 



W. E. Marshall, chairman of the out- 

 ing committee, made a final report on 

 the affair held at Glen Island July 1. 

 It was noted with much satisfaction 

 that the receipts and expenditures bal- 

 anced, and the committee was dis- 

 charged with the thanks of the club. 



•Toseph G. Lane, 11 West Thirty- 

 j^eoond street, was elected to member- 

 ship. The following were nominated 

 tor election at the next meeting: James 

 f^raser, Morristown, N. J.; P. W. Popp, 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y.; Samuel Batcheller, 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



Announcement was made, with regret, 

 f the death of Miss Lillian Shaw, 

 daughter of J. Austin Shaw, Brooklyn, 

 ^nil a committee consisting of W. F. 

 «nt'ridan, Emil Schloss and J. R. Lewis 

 Was appointed to prepare suitable reso- 

 lutions. 



After recess Alex. Guttman, for the 

 e>u< rtainment committee, moved that 

 in*' November meeting be turned into 

 vot>5°°"*^ ladies' night, and it was so 



•'• A. Manda, chairman of the com- 

 mit fee on awards, then reported as fol- 

 lows: 



^Vm. A. Finger, of Hicksville, N. Y., 

 snows a vase of Dahlias Kalif, Duchess 

 "I ••runswick and Golden Gate. 



';. Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co., of White 



P '?'"» Md., has a large vase of Dahlias 



'' -ha, Golden West, Souv. de G. Doa- 



zon. Golden Gate, Hon. E. L. Borden, 

 Beloit. This exhibit is given a vote of 

 thanks. 



C. H. Totty, Madison, N. J., exhibits 

 a collection of early flowering French 

 chrysanthemums, including Pomponette, 

 Marie Dufour, Eden, Red Riding Hood, 

 Debutante, Bronze Goacher, Normandie, 

 A. Barham and Chas. Jolly, pink. A 

 fine new white Japanese exhibition va- 

 riety, Antigore, is awarded a certificate 

 of merit. Mr. Totty also shows a vase 

 of White Shawyer, a sport of Mrs. Geo. 

 Shawyer rose, of the same habit of 

 growth as the parent, conforming in all 

 respects thereto. This is given a pre- 

 liminary certificate. 



J. L. Childs, Flowerfield, L. I., shows 

 a vase of the new Celosia Wool Flower, 

 which is given a vote of thanks. 



W. A. Manda, South Orang6, N. J., 

 displays a fine collectioh "of dahlias, 

 large blooms on long stems, including 



|3VERY now and then a well- 

 ■9 pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing a 

 new advertiser to 



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Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. 'We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florist's use 

 not at present advertised. 



n-ORBTS* PUBLISHING CO. 

 530-60 Caxton Bldg. Chicago 



the following varieties: Perfection, Fire 

 Flame, Minnie, Veronica Manda, Josef 

 Manda, Sr., all of which are given a 

 preliminary certificate; Albert Manda, 

 which the committee desires to see 

 again, and Resplendens, Tango, Bo- 

 hemia, Garnet, Mrs. Gertrude Manda, 

 Mrs. A. I. Du Pont, Excelsa, Frank 

 Manda and Jos. Ehrlich. 



Pres. Duckham then announced that 

 R. Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, Md., 

 would deliver an illustrated lecture on 

 "Scotland." L. W. C. Tuthill, chair- 

 man of the essay committee, escorted 

 Mr. Vincent to the platform, where he 

 was warmly greeted. Mr. Vincent asked 

 that allowance be made for the fact 

 that an Englishman was being called on 

 to give a Scotch lecture, but he did not 

 pretend to give the Scotch pronuncia- 

 tion. In his preliminary remarks he 

 dwelt on the Wm. R. Smith memorial, 

 and asked that generous support be 

 given that fund, with which it was pro- 

 posed to establish, not a stone monu- 

 ment, but something on the lines of 

 Kew Gardens, where young men as well 

 as old can receive a thorough gar- 

 dener's education. Mr. Vincent related 

 some anecdotes in connection with the 

 late Wm. R. Smith and then passed to 

 his lecture proper. Some time ago, jour- 

 neying through Scotland, he visited 

 places historically and horticulturally 

 of interest, and secured a number of 

 fine slides, with which he illustrated his 



talk. The lecture was interspersed 

 with bits of verse from Burns, little 

 historical stories and legends and other 

 entertaining features. The club certi- 

 fied its appreciation by extending a ris- 

 ing vote of thanks to Mr. Vincent for 

 Lis lecture. 



In Brooklyn. 



Brooklyn wholesale trade seems to 

 be in a healthful condition, and none 

 of the cut flower merchants make com- 

 plaint. Wm. H. Kuebler has just com- 

 pleted many useful improvements, in- 

 cluding a new icebox, new oflSce and an 

 enlarged store. The supply department 

 reports a successful year. 



Bonnet & Blake are in shipshape for 

 the season. Carnations from A. De- 

 meusy and roses from A. N. Pierson 

 already are arriving in considerable 

 quantity. Asters still come from the 



The Brooklyn Wholesale Cut Flower 

 Market, with Joseph Levy at the helm, 

 is building up a good trade. Mrs. 

 Levy is the firm 's bookkeeper and floral 

 artist. 



George Crawbuck, manager for the 

 Greater New York Florists' Associa- 

 tion, says he thinks the coming winter 

 will be the best since the century 

 began. 



Harry Crawbuck is still the green 

 goods man, and the only one, of the 

 City of Churches. 



A. Hanig is again on the staff of 

 C. C. Trepel as purchasing agent. 



Various Notes. 



The auction sales of bulbs, plants, 

 nursery stock, boxwood, etc., continue 

 every Tuesday and Friday. 



Maurice Fuld lectured on "Roses" 

 last week at Huntington, L. I. 



The Retail Florists' Association of 

 New York has come tC(, life and last 

 week, at its meeting of reorganization, 

 the new oflBcers were elected. Such 

 men as Schling, Bowe and Stumpp give 

 it prestige and practical importance. 



John Kervan recently returned from 

 a visit to Florida, where the head of 

 the firm spends his winters. 



Wm. Kessler's window has its many 

 novelties ingeniously arranged afresh 

 every day. 



M. A. Bowe has been busy with 

 funeral work. Boston's pennant win- 

 ning detracted from his usual baseball 

 work of the last three years. 



Max Schling reports the usual busy 

 days with October weddings. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Thomas Young, who now occupies the 

 store at 500 Fifth avenue, has taken 

 a lease of the store at 541 Fifth ave- 

 nue, southeast corner of Forty-fifth 

 street, in the Hotel Lorraine. The 

 lease is for a term of years, at a rental 

 of close to $8,000 a year. 



East Oreenwich, B. L — James Hay, 

 for twenty-five years a gardener for 

 the Goddards on Potowomut Neck, is 

 just completing a greenhouse, 32x100 

 feet, on his property on Eldredge ave- 

 nue. 



Des Moines, la. — The contract for 

 the new greenhouse in Union park has 

 been awarded by the city council to 

 the Lord & Burnham Co. The original 

 bid of $5,875 was reduced to $5,662 by 

 minor changes in the manner of con- 

 struction before the contract was ac- 

 cepted. 



