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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 10, 1012. 



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NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Chrysanthemums now dominate the 

 cut flower market and the shipments 

 grow in quantity every day. From those 

 at 50 cents a hundred up to the special 

 blooms at 50' cents each, the ascent is 

 gradual. Grand stock can be had at 

 from $2 to $3 per dozen, the finest of 

 the old and popular kinds. Unaka, 

 Monrovia and Polly Bose seem to be 

 the present favorites. From now on 

 for a month at least the mum will be 

 queen. While the flood continues the 

 rest of the market is barely steady at 

 current quotations. Dahlias are about 

 over, but have so far escaped the early 

 frosts. Some fine flowers are still seen 

 daily. 



It is too early to quote violets. None 

 should be sent to this market until No- 

 vember. The leading growers realize 

 this, and are throwing the early and 

 inferior crop away. Valley has been 

 strong, selected stock at times touching 

 $4 per hundred. The lily supply is 

 light and prices hold well. 



Carnations improve in length of stem 

 and perfection of bloom and color every 

 day. By the close of the week there 

 will be an overflow. The same condi- 

 tions apply to roses, which have devel- 

 oped rapidly during the last week and 

 are arriving in constantly increasing 

 volume. Sunburst, Killarney Queen 

 and Lady Hillingdon are popular. In 

 fact, all the new varieties are evidently 

 becoming appreciated by the discrim- 

 inating public. American Beauties are 

 growing rapidly in size of bud and stem. 



and the price is steady at ruling quota- 

 tions. There is no scarcity of orchids, 

 and oncidiums, vandas, odontoglossums 

 and phalsenopsis, with all the cattleya 

 varieties, are here in tremendous vol- 

 ume. 



Various Notes. 



The New York Florists' Club meets 

 Monday, October 14, and if the present 

 weather continues there will be a grand 

 display of flowers for dahlia night. 

 Chairman Hendrickson is making spe- 

 cial effort to have the exhibit a repre- 

 sentative one. Flowers may be sent in 

 care of Traendly & Schenck, 131 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, and they wiH be 

 properly staged. Members of the club 

 will bowl in the afternoon at the alleys 

 in the Coogan building. 



November 1 to 5 the fall exhibition 

 of the Horticultural Society of New 

 York will be held at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, Seventy-sev- 

 enth street and Central Park, west. 

 Prizes to the total of nearly $700 are 

 offered for the chrysanthemum display 

 alone and the same liberality is shown 

 in the other classes, including roses, car- 

 nations, foliage and decorative plants, 

 and orchids. 



The Elliott Auction Co., on Vesey 

 street, disposed of the entire stock of 

 the Bonnie Brae Nurseries at New 

 Bochelle last week. Prices obtained 

 were satisfactory, as there was a large 

 attendance of local nurserymen. Octo- 

 ber 9 the Elliott company sold the stock 

 of the Eisele nursery at West End, 

 N. J. 



A visit at Bedford Hills found the 

 plant of the Bedford Hills Flower Co. 



in splendid condition, many improve- 

 ments having been made since Moore, 

 Hentz & Nash assumed ownership. 

 John Pritchard, formerly with Budlong, 

 is manager. There are 85,000 square 

 feet of glass in the houses, one house 

 54x718, one 54x650 and one 20x650. A 

 total of .45,000 roses are planted, in- 

 cluding:£6,000 American Beauties, these 

 filling the largest house. The other va- 

 rieties are Double White Killarney, 

 Lady Hillingdon, Cardinal, Mrs. Taft 

 and Killarney. The cut of Beauties 

 already averages from 3,000 to 5,000 

 daily. A 125-foot chimney is now be- 

 ing built. There are two 125 horse- 

 power boilers and another of equal 

 power will be installed. The artesian 

 well is down 285 feet, and still going. 



At Chappaqua W. H. Siebrecht has 

 built a greenhouse 45x175, to be devoted 

 to acacias. Between the growing plants, 

 in many sizes, he has a grand lot of 

 mums in all the popular varieties, thus 

 killing two birds with one stone. It 

 is a stony hill on which his mansion 

 stands, overlooking many miles of hills 

 and dales, but his three years of im- 

 provements have made his property one 

 of the show places of the state. Mr. 

 Siebrecht still manages the old plant at 

 Astoria and finds time every Thursday 

 to enjoy his favorite pastime with the 

 Astoria bowling club, which opened the 

 fall season October 3. 



The Yonkers Nursery Co., under the 

 management of Bobert Bennison, has 

 now sixty acres under thorough cultiva- 

 tion, with large greenhouses filled with 

 specimen kentias and other palms. 



The entertainment committee for the 



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