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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AUGDBT 18, 1910. 



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The Market. 



Convention week opens with a hot 

 wave, as usual. Last week was cool 

 and showers have been frequent, so that 

 the long strain and anxiety of the grow- 

 ers and the gardeners is lessened and 

 the damage will be smaller than ex- 

 pected. Wherever we go, the mercury 

 rises for the S. A. F. convention. 



"The worst week of the summer," 

 was the declaration of wholesalers and 

 retailers for the week just passed away 

 — absolute lassitude, with few ship- 

 ments and as few purchasers. It was 

 one of the weak weeks which it is 

 well to cover with the pall of forget- 

 fulness. 



Apart from asters and gladioli, noth- 

 ing worth mentioning is arriving, unless 

 we except also tritomas and orchids, 

 and the latter we now have always with 

 us. The coming season promises to be 

 the greatest orchid demonstration the 

 country has ever seen. The number of 

 large growers of this flower has in- 

 creased rapidly during the last two 

 years. Among the establishments at 

 Eutherford, Summit, Secaucus, Bound 

 Brook, Mamaroneck, Madison and New 

 Eochelle, there is one place which now 

 sends to the New York market more 

 flowers than were sent by all the grow- 

 ers less than five years ago. Fortun- 

 ately, the shipping demand grows yearly 

 and public taste has been educated to 

 their appreciation. 



Eoses have not advanced in value 

 during the last week. A few of the 

 new crop are seen, but they are small 

 and short-stemmed. Nothing but Beau- 

 ties have sold above 3 cents and a gen- 

 eral average would, some claim, go far 

 below $1 per hundred. The carnations 

 arriving remind one of the varieties 

 of twenty years ago; none bring $10 

 per thousand; 50 cents per hundred is 

 the usual offering. Lilies are down to 

 3 cents and under. Many were sold at 

 $25 per thousand. Valley is improving 

 in quality. Few asters are of high 



grade. The great bulk of the shipments 

 are mediocre and hard to dispose of. 



The Arrival at Sochester. 



At 10 a. m. Monday, August 15, the 

 New Yorkers' special convention train 

 on the Lehigh VaUey began its delightful 

 journey. The rainstorm of Sunday night 

 made the temperature agreeable and laid 

 the dust so effectually that not a moment 

 of discomfort was experienced during the 

 entire trip, which ended at 9 p. m., with 

 a cordial welcome by the Eochester com- 

 mittees and the New Yorkers who had 

 already arrived by auto and the exhib- 

 itors who had come by earlier trains. 

 The number of 112 was counted on the 

 special; a dozen came by auto and the 

 host of exhibitors and their assistants 

 from the big city and its suburbs made 

 up the 200 which New York promised as 

 its share of the appreciation due the 

 Eochester boys for their wonderful pro- 

 vision of entertainment. 



Treasurer W. C. Eickards, ably assisted 

 by F. H. Traendly, H. A. Bunyard, E. G. 

 Wilson, Eobert Young, Eobert Berry and 

 Joseph Manda, dispensed sandwiches, 

 fruit and liquid refreshments in great 

 abundance and the dinner at the Summit 

 house on the top of the mountains was a 

 treat long to be remembered. After an 

 hour and a half of banqueting and view- 

 ing the scenery, President Miller sug- 

 gested that the thanks of the club and 

 its guests be tendered the transportation 

 committee, F. H. Traendly, John Youn^- 

 and H. A. Bunyard, for the treat so gen- 

 erously provided, which was carried with 

 much enthusiasm. 



There was much hilarity on tap, and 

 harmless exuberancy, but the young folk? 

 were steadied by the presence of a host 

 of ladies and the guiding hand of the ol<T 

 brigade, which included the veteran?, 

 James Dean, F. E. Bolles, W. B. Du Kie, 

 J. G. Esler, J. B. Phillips, Louis Schmutz 

 and W. F. Sheridan. 



The conventions heretofore have failed 

 to gather from New York so handsome n- 

 crowd of the gentle sex. Mrs. J. V. Phil- 

 lips did some great missionary work on 

 the way and added a dozen names to the 

 Ladies' S. A. F. 



