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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jdnb 22. 1911. 



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about o^ei»^h,«r^uality of nearly every- 

 thing that came in last week was poor. 

 The best sold for 50 cents a dozen. 

 Valley has advanced a little, for the 

 weddings have been numerous. There 

 are many booked for the final days of 

 the month. Even the weddings do not 

 influence the price of orchids. The 

 specialists in these, among the whole- 

 salers, say the market is overstocked, 

 and prices unimproved. Few gardenias 

 are arriving. Top price for lilies has 

 been $3 per hundred and many thou- 

 sands have sold for less, some even 

 under $10 per thousand. Gladioli are 

 abundant and will soon be here in great 

 volume. 



Various Notes. 



Large crowds attended the big palm 

 sales this week of the Elliott and Mad- 

 Niff auction companies. This closes the 

 most successful auction season ever 

 known here. 



Jacobs & Sons, Brooklyn, report a 

 hundred per cent increase in their 

 year's business, to date. The firm con- 

 templates an early addition to the fac- 

 tory. 



Mr. Beauplan, manager of the Forster 

 Mansfield Co., is summering on his 

 steam yacht, the Chantecler. 



The Yonkers Nursery Co. has com- 

 pleted the planting and landscape work 

 on the Eockefeller estate. The Archi- 

 tectural League, of this city, declares 

 "the landscape effects the finest and 

 most complete example of landscape 

 architecture in the world." Eobert 

 Bennison, the manager bf the nursery, 

 finds his new auto a necessity in the 

 oversight of the numerous contracts 

 this season. Fred Smythe, the pro- 

 prietor, will shortly make his annual 

 trip to Europe. 



John V. Phillips and family, of Brook- 

 lyn, are enjoying their summer recrea- 

 tion at their bungalow at Bay Shore. 



S. Masur, of Brooklyn, has rented the 

 entire building at his present location 

 on lower Fulton street, and will make 

 extensive alterations. This increase of 

 room was badly needed. Mr. Masur 

 has had a busy season, with many gar- 

 dening contracts on Long Island and in 

 Jersey. 



Frank McKee is building another 

 greenhouse at Fulton street and Classen 

 avenue, Brooklyn, to be devoted to the 

 growing of the best chrysanthemums. 

 His store and greenhouse facilities are 

 now among the best in the city. 



R. G. Wilson, of Greene avenue, and 

 Hugo H. Jahn, of Nostrand avenue, in 

 Upper Brooklyn, report the biggest wed- 

 ding season of their long experience. 



F. Milliot had a fine bank of deco- 

 rative plants and baskets at the exhi- 

 bition of the Yonkers Horticultural So- 

 ciety last week. The society will hold 

 its summer outing at Eye Beach early 

 in July. The exhibit of the Yonkers 

 Nursery Co., at this summer show, was 

 the principal decorative feature. The 

 judges were Wm, Eoberts, of Ossining; 

 Ewen McKenzie, of New Eochelle, and 

 John Brunger, of Irvington. The orchid 

 exhibit was made by the Julius Eoehrs 

 Co.. of Eutherford. 



The members of the firm of Siebrecht 

 & Siebrecht are spending their week 

 ends at Chappaqua, N. Y. 



The sweet pea convention will take 

 place at Philadelphia next week, June 

 29 and 30. Secretary Bunyard has made 

 elaborate arrangements, and will pilot 

 a goodly number of New Yorkers. 



June 28 the annual outing of the New 

 York Florists' Club will take place at ' 



Wetzel's, as usual. These yearly re- 

 unions draw an attendance of 400 to 

 500. The start this year is at 9:30 a. m., 

 to give time for a two hours' sail up 

 the Sound before the noon meal. At 6 

 p. m., after the athletic events, the ban- 

 quet will be served, in time for the re- 

 turn trip at 8 p. m. Hundreds of dol- 

 lars have been subscribed for prizes, 

 which will be almost exclusively used 

 for the ladies and children. Th» outing 

 this year is planned to be largely a 

 family reunion. Secure your tickets in 

 advance from Chairman Fenrieh. 



The week after the outing of the 

 Greek Amerioan fraternity takes place, 

 and early in July the plant growers of 

 New York and New Jersey will cele- 

 brate in a long auto ride over the fine 

 roads of New York and a banquet at a 

 famous inn up the Hudson. 



July 1 and 2 the Horticultural Society 

 of New York will hold an exhibition of 

 roses, irises, sweet peas, herbaceous 

 plants, etc., with liberal prizes. Geo. V. 

 Nash, the secretary, says the society 

 will "educate this blas6 community to' 

 appreciate the beautiful, or die in the 

 attempt," and he thinks the good effects 

 of his persistency are already here. 



Part of the new store of J. J. Fel- 

 louris, on West Twenty-eighth street, 

 has beert contracted for by a wholesale 

 cut flower firm and will be occupied 

 early in the fall. 



B. J. Slinn, Jr., and family are sum- 

 mering at Garden City. 



Mr. Sperry has joined the ranks of 

 the carbuncleites. 



Eobert Schultz, of Madison, states 

 that any reports as to the sale or leas- 

 ing of his property are erroneous. 



Jos. H, Fenrieh and family are at 

 their summer home in Asbury Park. Mr. 

 Fenrieh 's partner is touring Europe 

 with his wife. 



Geo. M. Stumpp will have W. H. 

 Siebrecht, Sr., as his companion in an 

 auto trip through Germany and other 

 European countries. 



Walter Mott, of Newburgh, has joined 

 the traveling force of Wm. Elliott & 

 Sons, and will make his initial trip 

 through New England, commencing 

 July 5. 



Alex. McConnell finds the move to 

 his new and beautiful corner store com- 

 pleted without a jar to the volume of 

 his business. 



C. A. Dards has been kept busy with 

 wedding work at both of his establish- 

 ments. 



David Clarke's Sons have been flooded 

 with weddings, often three or four of 

 them in a day. 



Small & Sons maintain the even tenor 

 of their way, and soon will have finer 

 accommodations at the Waldorf-Astoria 

 branch. 



Young & Nugent find their new store 

 on Madison avenue a wise departure. 



Myer, at Fifty-eighth street and Mad- 

 ison avenue, has doubled his room and 

 business. 



The Bunyard Co. is doing well both 

 here and at Newport. 



Theo. Lang leaves this week for his 

 up-state summer home, with his fam- 

 ily. Mr. Lang will grow asters there 

 this summer for the New York market. 



Frank Millang and family are already 

 on their farm up the Hudson. 



Sunday, June 19, was designated lo- 

 cally as "Fathers' day," but poor pater 

 received scant recognition, so far as 

 floral decorations are concerned, al- 

 though this event may have had its in- 

 fluence on the markets' clean-up on 

 Saturday. It looks as if father would 



have to wait for his funeral for any 

 extraordinary floral demonstration. 



M. A. Bowe has found his temporary 

 headquarters, opposite the Waldorf, an 

 excellent location. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club will roll at Thumm's 

 alleys, Broadway and Thirty-first street, 

 every Friday evening until August 11. 

 The contest for team membership at 

 Baltimore has had the effect of increas- 

 ing the club's average nearly fifty per 

 cent. John Donaldson rolled the re- 

 markable score of 264 last Friday eve- 

 ning. The scores were: 



Player. Ist 2d • 3d 4th 



Donaldson 163 264 166 161 



Nugent Ill 114 122 105 



Kakuda 176 145 154 146 



Shaw 183 135 157 159 



Scott 144 162 147 175 



Rlckards 133 134 158 122 



Chadwlck 170 169 184 203 



Manda 151 164 139 164 



J, Austin Shaw. 



OBITUAEY. 



W. D. Bastow. 



W. D. Bastow, a pioneer florist of 

 Peoria, 111., died of pneumonia June 13, 

 in the Proctor Home, in which he had 

 resided for several years. He was 84 

 years of age. He was born in England 

 and came to America at the age of 20, 

 having learned the florists' art in his 

 native country. He located in New 

 York, then in Illinois, and fifty years 

 ago was the leading florist of Peoria. 

 Several years of his later life were 

 spent in Kansas, but his home was 

 always in Peoria. He is survived by a 

 sister, Mrs. Anna E. Peterbridge, of 

 Peoria. 



Peter Ott. 



Peter Ott, head florist for the Balti- 

 more ,& Ohio railroad at Mansfield, 0., 

 died it his home in that city on Sunday 

 night, June 11. He was said to be the 

 oldest florist in the city and had held 

 his position with the railroad company 

 for twenty-seven years. 



William Taat. 



William Taat, traveler for the Hol- 

 land firm of M. Van Wjaveren & Sons, 

 Hillegom, died June 13 in the Boston 

 City Hospital, as the result of an acci- 

 dent which occurred some time ago. 

 Mr. Taat was widely known in the 

 trade in this country, having made 

 many trips here in the interest of his 

 firm, calling on the seed houses and 

 on leading buyers of bulbs in the flo- 

 rists' and other lines. While visiting 

 the trade in Boston, Mr. Taat met with 

 an accident in the subway, falling be- 

 tween the first and second cars in a 

 train. His foot was so badly injured 

 that amputation was necessary, and 

 later a second operation was required, 

 from which he did not have the 

 strength to rally. 



Edward B. Voorhees. 



Dr. Edward B. Voorhees, director of 

 the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station and professor of agricul- 

 ture at Eutgers College, died at New 

 Brunswick, N. J., June 6 of paralysis. 

 He was widely known as a scientific 

 authority on fertilizers. 



Moscow, Idaho. — J. L. Bourn, the 

 North Main street florist, has pur- 

 chased a residence lot on the hill and 

 let a contract for the construction of 

 a modern dwelling. 



