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NUVBMBBB 5, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market in Mew York 

 j8 completely dominated by the chry- 

 santhemum. All the popular varieties 

 anl many novelties are arriving in 

 unlimited quantity daily. The frost 

 touched us lightly one day last week 

 an ' eliminated the dahlias, leaving no 

 ri\ il to the mums. In quality they 

 cei tainly have never been surpassed. A 

 gr( at many mums in pots are offered 

 in the wholesale market. 



There has been no advance in the 

 qu )tation8 for roses, even American 

 Beauties failing to rise, but quality is 

 no V approaching perfection in all the 

 tW' nty-five varieties. Hadley is a win- 

 ner, and this and Ophelia seem to be 

 thr "top-notchers" at this date. While 

 th'' mum flood continues, little advance 

 in rose prices can be hoped for. The 

 short-stemmed and imperfect stock goes 

 out of the street in vanloads, at the 

 buyers' prices. 



The carnation supply is large, and 

 with the cooler weather the quality 

 is improving, but values ara low. Or- 

 chids remain at the abnormally low 

 prices of the last month. Never has 

 the market been so congested with 

 them. The supply of longiflorums is 

 decreasing. Prices will surely be bet- 

 ter soon. The multiplicity of white 

 mums doubtless caused the setback in 

 October. Valley holds its own, and 

 violets should certainly show some ad- 

 vance from the present quotations. The 

 outlook grows brighter as the cold in- 

 creases. 



At Spring Valley. 



The writer visited the big establish- 

 ment of A. S. Burns, Jr., at Spring 

 Valley, N. Y., last week, accompanied 

 by J. F. Sullivan, of Detroit. Mr. 

 Burns is known here as the lily king 

 aud he deserves the title. He began 

 fifteen years ago, growing violets and 

 carnations. From a few thousand 

 square feet, the range has grown to 

 200,000, four-fifths of which is devoted 

 to the growing of lilies. Shipments of 

 these are made every day in the year — 

 Formosas, rubrums, giganteums and 

 longiflorums. 



A modern cold-storage plant has just 

 been completed. There are seven boil- 

 ers of the Johnston Heating Co., four 

 of the Lord & Burnham Co. and four of 

 Hitchings & Co. installed. 



Mr. Burns' shipments of lilies, car- 

 nations and roses to New York are 

 handled by P. J. Smith. Shipments of 

 lilies are made to wholesale houses in 

 many other cities, even as far west as 

 Kansas City. The new houses com- 

 pleted this year and last are all 35x200, 

 five under the same roof. 



Hadley is the only rose grown and 

 it is grown to perfection. Another 

 house will be devoted to this rose next 

 Season. The carnations grown are En- 

 cliantress. White Enchantress, Electra, 

 Gorgeous, Matchless, Yellowstone, Yel- 

 lo'v Prince, Champion, Philadelphia 

 arl several good seedlings. 



William Babcock is foreman. The 

 •■pil estate in Mr. Burns' property at 

 Si ring Valley is over thirty acres. 



Various Notes. 



^hillip J. Cox, who for the last four 

 yt^rs has been happily employed as 

 8a es representative for the Pierson 

 U Bar Co., has severed his connection 

 ^ th that concern and accepted a po- 



sition as manager of the New York 

 office of Hitchings & Co. F. W. Armi- 

 tage, general sales manager for the 

 company, being relieved by Mr. Cox 

 of the direct care of this office, will 

 now divide his time between the 

 various branch offices, in general sales 

 and promotion work. 



Next Monday evening, November 9, 

 will be ladies' night at the New York 

 Florists' Club. 



The New York Bowling Club opened 

 its fall and winter season last Thurs- 

 day evening, October 29, and will bowl 

 every Thursday evening. The dues are 

 $3 monthly, and the membership is lim- 

 ited to ten. No one bowled up to form 

 at the first session. The idea seems to 

 be to have a membership that can aver- 

 age above 200. The bowlers last week 

 were John Donaldson, John Miesem, 

 C. W. Scott, Jos. Fenrich, Harry Eiedel, 

 A. Henshaw, R. J. Irwin, A. Kakuda, 

 W. Jacobson and A. J. Guttman. 



Bert. Chadwick, formerly with 

 Vaughan's Seed Store and later with 

 the Corporation of C. F. Meyer, is now 

 the traveling representative of R. J. 

 Irwin. 



As an evidence of good spending in 

 the wealthy section. Max Schling states 

 that in one week he used 1,100 Ameri- 

 can Beauties, 9,000 dahlias, 900 orchids, 

 600 strings of smilax and nearly 70,000 

 violets, the largest week's business he 

 has ever had in October. 



May 1, 1915, there will be opened 

 here an enterprise that will probably 

 be called the Covent Garden of New 

 York. An enormous building, covering 

 nearly 40,000 square feet of exhibition 

 space, is to be used, and there will be 

 an immense greenhouse on the roof. 



Wallace Pierson and Roman Irwin 

 are here with hunting trophies and 

 bronzed faces, following a month's 



hunting in the wilds of New Bruns- 

 wick. Mr. Pierson goes from here to 

 the mum conventipn and show at In- 

 dianapolis. 



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

 was one of many visitors at the show 

 of the Horticultural Society of New 

 York. 



The Skinner Irrigation . Co., of Troy, 

 O., has installed a model system at 

 A. T. Boddington's. 



Importers of kentia seeds are rejoic- 

 ing at last in the assurance that their 

 orders are soon to be filled, and that 

 most of the stock is on its way. 



Every Tuesday and Friday the auc- . 

 tion sales of the MacNiflf Horticultural ' 

 Co. continue until Christmas. Hea- 

 cock's palms were quickly bought by 

 the retailers of New York and Brook- 

 lyn. 



C. C. Trepel is still opening stores on 

 upper Broadway. He says he believes 

 Butler, with his 250 branches in the 

 grocery trade, gives the right cue for 

 the enterprising retail florist, and he 

 is apt to act upon the suggestion him- 

 self. Mr. Trepel had a party of seven 

 in his automobile last week, visiting 

 the Madison flower show. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



A. J. Verhelle, who has been con- 

 ducting an agency for the new insecti- 

 cide. Flora, at 2774 Bainbridge avenue, 

 has returned to Santa Barbara, Cal., 

 where he will conduct the Kentia 

 Nurseries together with his brother, 

 to whom he leased the establishment 

 some time ago. 



The Joseph Fleischman Co. has been 

 incorporated for $1,000 to do a general 

 flower and fruit business. The incor- 

 porators are David Haar, S. Michael 

 Cohen and Dora E. Horwitz. 



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Newburyport, Mass. — J. J. Comley 

 has purchased the True farm at Rocky 

 Hill. He plans to build greenhouses on 

 the place and grow stock for his retail 

 trade. 



Hartford, Conn. — The Bon Ton Flower 

 Shop has leased the big store at the 

 corner of Main street and Brainard 

 place. It is said the firm is considering 

 the erection of a greenhouse on property 

 on Brainard place. 



Brockton, Mass. — W. W. Hathaway 

 reports business as recently having been 

 excellent; mostly funeral work, although 

 the arrival of mums started trade in 

 cut flowers. The weather has been 

 against the florists. The frosts have 

 done little harm on the high land and 

 people have not felt the usual autumnal 

 desire for the greenhouse products. 



Northampton, Mass. — The Holyoke 

 and Northampton Florists' and Garden- 

 ers' Club will hold its second annual 

 show in the Northampton City hall No- 

 vember 10 and 11. Arrangements were 

 made for receiving entries through But- 

 ler & Ullman, Northampton; James 

 Whiting, Amherst, and Gallivan Bros, 

 and G. H. Sinclair, Holyoke. 



Behoboth, Mass. — Mrs. Albert E. 

 Brownell has sold her establishment 

 and business, which she operated under 

 the name of the Seekonk Gardens, to 

 George C. Tennant. 



Worcester, Mass.— Harry I. Randall 

 has found business so good since he 

 started the store at 3 Pleasant street 

 that he has been compelled to move into 

 larger quarters and has signed a lease 

 for the store at 13 Pleasant street. 



Waltham, Mass. — A flower shop called 

 The Rosery has been opened in the 

 Mercantile building, on Main street, 

 next to Asbury Temple. One of the 

 managers is Charles O'Brien, for sev- 

 eral years with .Tames T. Silnian. 



Lenox, Mass.— At the annual flower 

 show held in the town hall, Scott Bros., 

 of Elmsford, N. Y., displayed three 

 carnations, Champion, Matchless and 

 Enchantress Supreme, and two new 

 chrysanthemums, W. J. Surrey and John 

 Stratton. A. N. Pierson, Inc., of Crom- 

 well, Conn., showed two roses, Hadley 

 and Francis Scott Key, and the Julius 

 Roehrs Co., of Rutherford, N. J., ex- 

 hibited specimen orchids. None of these 

 was entered for competition. 



