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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 31, 1911. 



MES. TEEEY'S PEOSPEEITY. 



"When Mrs. Carrie M. Terry started 

 in the florists' business at Phoebus, Va., 

 a few years ago, it was as in the cases 

 of so many others who grew plants for 

 their own amusement and found a com- 

 mercial demand for them. Mrs. Terry 

 began four years ago, renting half a 

 store and buying practically all the 

 stock she used. The business grew until 

 now she has three greenhouses attached 

 to her own store building and has re- 

 cently put up the small display house 

 in which the accompanying kodak por- 

 trait was made. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



The long drought is broken. The 

 first day of this week furnished a 24- 

 hour, rain that has saved the late 

 vegetable crops of Long Island and 

 Jersey. Monday's temperature was 

 hugging 90 degrees and the humidity 

 was oppressive. Its effect was mani- 

 fest in the cut flower market and busi- 

 ness was slow, though a hardening ten- 

 dency is noticeable and the general 

 verdict is that the worst is over. "With 

 the advent of September, and the ar- 

 rival of a better grade of roses and 

 carnations, the improvement is expect- 

 ed to be continuous. 



Every one predicts a splendid fall 

 and winter trade. Betailers are busy 

 with decorative and improved features 

 in their handsome stores and glad of 

 the summer lull in business that gives 

 them this opportunity. The summer 

 has been a trying one, and apart from 

 funeral work there has been little to 

 do. The scene is changing. The sum- 

 mer resorts are rapidly giving back 

 their devotees, society is returning and 

 schools are opening. Soon there will 

 be a hundred theaters in full blast, 

 and every opening means a flood of 

 flowers for the stars and lesser lights. 

 Already this outlet for the surplus com- 

 missions of Wall street is making its 

 influence felt. 



Now come the chrysanthemums. 

 There were a lot of Golden Glow in the 

 market August 26. They sold quickly, 

 and the best brought a fair price, 

 considering the tremendous shipments 

 of asters and gladioli. The market is 



overwhelmed with just one thing 



after another. Some of the stock is 

 hard to give away. Purple . asters are 

 80 numerous they create a gloomy feel- 

 ing. 



Every good American Beauty rose 

 that arrives finds ready sale. There 

 are not enough of them, nor of the 

 best grade of Brides, Maids and Kil- 

 larneys. For the best good prices are, 

 of course, obtainable, but for the short- 

 stemmed roses it would be a crime to 

 quote the figures that prevail. The 

 waste in the last few weeks has been 

 ^ abnormal 



New carnations have arrived, small 

 and short-stemmed as yet, and meeting 

 little demand. Gladioli have felt the 

 serious eflfects of the long dry season. 

 Only stock of the best quality hag 

 sold at over 50 cents per hundred. 

 There is still an abundance offered, 

 mostly of the lower grades. These 

 and asters have dominated things all 

 through the month of August. There 

 is no change in the price of lilies and 

 valley. There are few orchids arriv- 

 ing and prices are firm. 



There is no let-up t^^ the stream of 



tritomas and hydrangeas, and golden- 

 rod has begun to add its charm and 

 brilliancy to the window decorative 

 effect in many retail establishments. 

 Various Notes. 



Everyone is home from the conven- 

 tion, and most of our visitors have de- 

 parted. Some one greatly resembling 

 Harry Papworth, of New Orleans, was 

 still disporting himself at Coney as 

 late as August 27. There is a fascina- 

 tion aboi't this village that ought to 

 bring the S. A. F. here in 1913. 



Monday evening, September 11, the 

 New York Florists' Club will open the 

 fall season. The president has some- 

 thing special on tap. Those who de- 

 sire will have opportunity for bowling 

 at Thumm's alleys in the afternoon. 

 The New York club is now open for 

 challenges from any of the local flo- 

 rists' clubs and it has been suggested 



Mrt. Gurie M. Terry. 



for the winter that matches be ar- 

 ranged to include "Washington, Balti- 

 more and Philadelphia. 



Arthur T. Boddington reports among 

 the distinguished visitors in town last 

 week, the following: W. R. Thornhill, 

 gardener to August Hemenway, Esq., 

 Readville, Mass.; J. G. Dugaid, gar- 

 dener to H. S. Hunnewell, Esq., "Welles- 

 ley, Mass. 



The sympathy of her many friends 

 in the trade is tendered Mrs. E. "W. 

 MacNiff in her bt'reavement, her father 

 having died August 21. 



Mr. Hanfling, of Russin & Hanfling, 

 has returned from a nine weeks' 

 European trip, having visited six 

 countries. He met Mr. Henshaw in 

 London. The firm's imports will be 

 larger than usual. 



Mr. Burnham, of the Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co., has lately undergone an opera- 

 tion for appendicitis. Montague 

 Wright, of this house, has arranged for 

 an addition to the greenhouse plant at 



Johns Hopkins University, duplicating 

 the present range. 



C. Drakos, 2631 Broadway, has taken 

 Louis Anargeros into partnership. 



George W. Crawbuck, of the Greater 

 New York Florists' Association, Brook- 

 lyn, has been appointed treasurer of 

 the Portland Stone Co., of that city. 



H. Riedel, of Badgley, Riedel & 

 Meyer, has returned from his visit to 

 Montreal and is spending this week at 

 Buffalo and the Falls. 



Angelo Dentale, of Young & Nu- 

 gent 's, was seriously ill last week. 



W. H. Gunther, of Gunther Bros., 

 has been under the weather for a 

 week. 



Ope of the interesting aftftrraaths 

 of the convention was Bobby Schultz, 

 of Madison, carrying home a bushel 

 basket of crabs, which he caught him- 

 self at Tolchester. 



Charles Abrams, superintendent of 

 the floral department of Abraham & 

 Strauss, Brooklyn, announces an ad- 

 dition of 100 feet of space to his sec- 

 tion and a fast growing development 

 of the business there. 



W. H. Kuebler and wife arrived at 

 home August 28 after visiting Wash- 

 ington. 



Mr. Bonnet, of Bonnet & Blake, 

 Brooklyn, had not got back from the 

 Monumental City August 26, visiting 

 Mount Vernon and Philadelphia while 

 away. Mr. Blake has already booked 

 himself for Chicago in 1912. 



L. P. Lord, of Minneapolis, is a 

 visitor. He is president of Lord's 

 Frost-Proof Plant Box Co. 



The seedsmen are all busy. The 

 bulb trade is booming. 



Mr. Don, Jr., is rejoicing in the ad- 

 vent of a Don the third. 



Walter Mott is visiting the Jersey 

 customers of Elliott & Sons this week. 



Rickards Bros, report a grand fall 

 outlook, and many advance orders. 



The autumn auction sales will com- 

 mence at Elliotts' and MacNiff 'a about 

 September 12. 



Nine lectures on plant life are an- 

 nounced for Saturdays at 4 p. m,, com- 

 mencing September 2, at the Museum 

 building of the New York Botanic 

 Garden, Bronx Park. The speakers 

 will be the leading botanists of the 

 country. 



Thomas Wade, lately with the 

 Bonnie Brae Nurseries, New Rochelle, 

 and formerly with Wadley & Smythe 

 and Bloomingdale Bros., has gone into 

 the nursery business on his own ac- 

 count. He will make a specialty of 

 landscape gardening. 



Philip Kessler saved the New York 

 bowlers from complete eclipse and has 

 had his silver cup filled more than once 

 since his return home. 



John Egenbrod is now with Badgley, 

 Riedel & Meyer. 



The importations of the supply men 

 are arriving. Evidently a busy sea 

 son is anticipated by Reed & Keller, 

 A. Herrmann, the Greek-American Sup 

 ply House, Russin & Hanfling and the 

 Geller Co. The shipments for all these 

 houses are larger than ever. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Hartford, Conn. — The veteran John 

 Coombs was sitting in the shade plan- 

 ning the entire rebuilding of the old 

 part of the plant, when the writer 

 called on him. When the work is com- 

 pleted it will be a model range. His 

 stock looks remarkably well, especially 

 considering the dry season. 





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