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cow or horse manure is the best, but, 

 failing this, fine bone and a commer- 

 cial fertilizer rich in potash can be 

 used advantageously. While peonies 

 will (row well in either heavy or light 

 loams, tkey do surprisingly well in 

 sandy, light soil if well fed. When 

 planted out in nursery rows, where they 

 are to be kept for several years, the 

 rows should be three and one-half to 

 four feet apart and the plants be placed 

 three feet apart in the rows. This will 

 be none too much space to allow them, 

 but it is sufficient to permit frequent 

 cultivation early in the season. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Another week of enormous receiptsi 

 of asters and gladioli finished the dull- 

 est August the New York wholesale cut 

 flower market has evpr known. The 

 weather, the small local demand, and 

 the large daily shipments, combined to^ 

 make profit to any branch of the cut 

 flower trade " impossible. There is no 

 sign yet of decreased shipments. The 

 closing of the summer resorts this week 

 and the opening of the schools Septem- 

 ber 9 may help some, and the street 

 merchants seem to have been given a 

 new lease of life, and were quite nu- 

 merous August 31. 



The shipments of new roses continue 

 to increase; 50,000 a day is not an 

 uncommon arrival in the wholesale sec- 

 tion, at one distributing point. Calcu- 

 late the quantity with fifty-seven mer- 

 chants in the commission field! Most 

 of the roses are small, short-stemmed 

 and have to be sold at any figure the 

 buyer offers. Even Beauties are abun- 

 dant and seldom reach top quotations. 

 For years the market has been almost 

 bare of yellow roses, but no such com- 

 plaint is now heard. 



The few carnations now arriving are 

 not worthy of * ' honorable mention. ' ' 

 Another week will relieve . the orchid 

 situation. The demand for several 

 weeks has been far above the supply. 

 Lilies and valley have not changed. 

 Golden Glow and Monrovia mums ate 

 adding to the congestion which the 

 flood of asters and gladioli maintains. 

 The quality and variety of these, espe- 

 cially the late asters, could not be im- 

 proved, but even this does not have any 

 apparent influence on prices. A tre- 

 mendous daily waste goes on. Now the 

 dahlias are in evidence and in another 

 week they will be at high tide. Hy- 

 drangeas and goldenrod enliven the re- 

 tail windows. Tritoma, tuberoses, wa- 

 ter lilies, sweet peas and all the usual 

 outdoor flowers are as numerous as e^fer 

 at this season. 



Various Notes. 



The first of the fall shows was held 

 August 31 and September 1 by the 

 Horticultural Society of New York, at 

 Bronx park, and the fine exhibit was 

 continued over Labor day for the pleas- 

 ure of the holiday crowd. The only 

 trade exhibitors were John Lewis 

 Childs, Arthur Cowee and W. E. Mar- 

 shall & Co., the latter not for competi- 

 tion. I. S. Hendrickson, who staged 

 the Childs exhibit, took first for largest 

 and best collection of named varieties 

 and for largest and best collection of 

 cut blooms. Mr. Cowee was first for 

 best twelve varieties, three spikes of 

 each, and for best white, the latter with 

 Peace. Other exhibitors included the 



gardeners for T. A. Havemeyer and H. 

 Darlington. 



Monday evening, September 9, the 

 first meeting of the New York Florists* 

 Club for the fall season will take place 

 at the club's rooms in the Grand Opera 

 House building, Twenty-third street and 

 Eighth avenue. The exhibition of gla- 

 dioli will be a large one, Chairman Hen- 

 drickson in chance. The bowlers will 

 gather at ThumiK'g alleys in the after- 

 noon. 



The Rickards brothers, of the century, 

 old house of Bridgeman, have discon- 

 tinued their seed business. 



The old house of Brower & Sons, for 

 years a leading retail establishment on 

 Broadway, where the Flatiron building 

 now stands, have retired from the field. 



Wm. P. Ford's new store at 107 West 

 Twenty-eighth street is complete and 

 he chose Labor day for his official open- 

 ing. 



The Growers' Cut Flower Co. finds 

 Violet King the best selling aster, and 

 a new white, large, resembling Polly 

 Rose, is also widely called for. J. J. 

 Coan, the manager, has decided to re- 

 main in his country home up the Hud- 

 son throughout the year, coming to 

 town daily. 



Siebrecht & Siebrecht's new store at 

 109 West Twenty-eighth street is thor- 

 oughly up-to-date. The big basement 

 is most convenient and the latest cool- 

 ing methods will make it virtually an 

 immense ice-box. 



Wm. Kessler and family will return 

 from their summer home at Fair Haven 

 September 10. 



Geo. C. Siebrecht is on a two weeks' 

 cruise in his motor boat, up the Hudson 

 to Lake Champlain. Charles and Ed- 

 ward Loar, of Mt. Vernon, accompany 

 him. 



The Pennock-Meehan Co. says : its 

 shipments of roses now average over 

 40,000 daily. 



The Kervan Co. says the piping 'for 

 the 4-story addition will be complerted 

 this week and the formal opening will 

 take place September 15. 



H. E. Froment has returned from the 

 Adirondacks. 



Geo. Bradley, of Wm. Kessler 's force, 

 has returned after a brief rest at his 

 home up the Hudson. 



R. A. Johnstone, bookkeeper for the 

 Kervan Co., has completed his holiday 

 at Hartford, Conn. 



Weber and Weston, of Long Island, 

 with their wives, have been motoring 

 through the AUeghenies. 



Miss Hulberg, bookkeeper for Traend- 

 ly & Schenek, is back from her vacation 

 in Connecticut. 



Sidney Hoffman, of Boston, was a re- 

 cent visitor. 



Frank Traendly has been suffering 

 with hay fever ever since his return 

 from Chicago. 



Robert Monroe, bookkeeper for Wal- 

 ter Sheridan, has returned from his 

 vacation in the mountains. 



Thomas Martin, foreman for Traend- 

 ly & Schenek, has returned from the 

 Rhode Island resorts where he spent 

 his holiday. 



Joseph Fenrich and family are in 

 the Adirondacks. John Weir was a re- 

 cent visitor at his summer home at 

 Bradley Beach, N. J. 



Russin & Hanfling's importations ar- 

 rived August 31 and made a formidable 

 display on Twenty-eighth street. 



Gunther Bros, report that the Atco 

 dahlias are now arriving in large quan- 

 tities. 



J. K. Allen attended the Staten Ig. 

 land fair, meeting several of his plant 

 growers there. Several of the seeds- 

 men had exhibits, also the gladiolus 

 growers on Long Island. 



James Coyle and wife are back from 

 the seashore. 



W. E. Marshall & Co. are removing 

 to 166 West Twenty-third street, where 

 they will have greatly increased fa- 

 cilities. 



Of the Henshaw & Fenrich force Miss 

 Herdiman vacationed at Mt. Kisco, 

 Charles Long at Mamaroneck, Lorenzo 

 Dewy at Springfield, Paul Rigo at Ke- 

 nosha Lake, Miss Callihan at South 

 Cairo and Al. Rigo at Alexandria Bay. 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Business remains quiet. The whole- 

 salers note a slackening up in orders 

 from shore resorts, where the season will 

 soon end. Retailers report a slightly 

 better demand and expect trade to pick 

 up from this time on. Asters are still 

 the leading flower. The late varieties 

 are now abundant and of splendid qual- 

 ity, the flowers being large and clean 

 and stems long. Prices vary from 25 

 cents to $1.50 per hundred, only gilt- 

 edged stock securing the top figures. 

 Vick's Branching, Semple's and Giant 

 Comet are the leaders. In gladioli, 

 America, Augusta and Mrs. King are 

 in best demand, but Sulphur King has 

 some admirers. Sweet peas are poor 

 and evidently nearly over outdoors. 

 Tritomas, dahlias, cosmos and gypsophila 

 are all in good supply. Cosmos sells 

 fairly well. 



Among roses, Mme. Chas. Russell is 

 asserting its supremacy at the better 

 class stores. Beauty, Kaiserin, Mrs. 

 Ward, Taft and Hillingdon sell quite 

 well. There are far too many small 

 flowers of the Killarneys and Richmond. 

 Carnations are few and of poor quality. 

 Violets are due in a few days, some 

 growers having flowers nearly open. 

 A few Golden Glow mums are arriving, 

 and a good supply of giganteum and 

 auratum lilies. These latter, and spe- 

 ciosums, are now in flower outdoors. 

 Valley is in good supply, with a light 

 demand. Cattleyas continue scarce and 

 gardenias are practically out of the mar- 

 ket. There is a good supply of both 

 asparagus and adiantum, but the de- 

 mand is light. 



Flower Market Auctions. 



The annual auction sale of stalls at 

 the Boston Cooperative Market was held ' 

 August 31 and attracted a large at- 

 tendance of buyers, including a number 

 of new growers. William W. Tailby 

 again proved an efficient auctioneer.. 

 First choice fell to Norris F. Comley, 

 at a premium of $92. Other growers 

 gave nearly as much for their stalls and 

 prices held up well throughout the sale, 

 the proceeds being decidedly the best 

 the market has ever had. Over 100 stalls- 

 were disposed of, and there are many 

 inquiries for the few remaining ones. 



Wm. C. Stickel made an ideal auc- 

 tioneer at the Boston Flower Exchange, 

 where the attendance of buyers was 

 large and bidding animated. John J. 

 Fee secured first choice, at a premium 

 of $195, amid applause. Among others 

 securing the higher-priced stalls were: 

 A^. -A. Pembroke, $165 and $175; W. R. 



