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NOTBaiBBB 80. 1911. 



XJic Weekly Florists' Review. 



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29 



80 do Alma Ward, Mrs. Ward and 

 Wodenethe. Gardenias when perfect 

 bring $4 to $5 per dozen. Some short- 

 stemmed and inferior stock is forced 

 to the street for an outlet. Sweet peas 

 arp improving in <]|ualit7 and price and 

 are disposed of quickly. Valley is sell- 

 ing at from 3 cents down, and there 

 is none too much of the top grade. 

 Lilies are abundant and 5 to 6 cents is 

 the maximum price. Callas are becom- 

 ing plentiful and are quoted at $1 to 

 $1.25 per dozen. Lilac is in the mar- 

 ket, also plenty of mignonette, antir- 

 rhinum, cosmos and Roman hyacinths. 

 The new roses, Taft, Bulgarie and 

 Lady Hillingdon, are about all sold 

 before they reach the market and from 

 10 to 15 cents is realized for them. 

 Of the older varieties 5 and 6 cents 

 would purchase the best of them last 

 week and there was enough for all, 

 the street taking the surplus which 

 the department stores could not dis- 

 pose of, the lower grades selling at 

 times under $10 per thousand. Ameri- 

 . can Beauties are now of grand quality 

 and $4 to $5 is the price for them. 

 They will probably touch 50 cents this 

 week. 



Various Notes. 



The meeting of the Florists' Club 

 will be held Monday evening, Decem- 

 ber 11. This will be the most import- 

 ant session of the year, because of the 

 election of officers for 1912. There 

 will be exhibits of novelties and 

 Chairman Bickards promises a turkey 

 collation. 



R. Vincent, Jr., White Marsh, Md., 

 is in the city, after a very successful 

 and enjoyable lecture trip through the 

 west. 



James McNance, with Central park 

 during the last twenty-five years, died 

 suddenly of heart failure November 

 26. 



P. B. Rigby, manager of the New 

 York branch of the Pennock-Meehan 

 Co., reports a pleasant visit at the 

 greenhouses of C. H. Totty, at Madi- 

 son, November 21. He was accom- 

 panied by Messrs S. S. and Casper 

 Pennock, Scott, Meehan, Mills, Harris 

 Mortensen, Gracey and Fancourt, all 

 of Philadelphia. 



W. C. Smith, the galax merchant, of 

 Marion, was in the city last week, call- 

 ing on his New York agents. 



The auction season closes next week. 

 Good audiences have attended the late 



Cyclamens at J. A. Peterson's, Cincinnati, During Show Week. 



sessions and an immense quantity of 

 hardy stock, bulbs and evergreens has 

 been disposed of. The season around 

 New York has been exceptionally fa- 

 vorable for late planting. 



Three weeks are left before the 

 Chrismas festivities. Holly is already 

 here, and was used freely for Thanks- 

 giving. The green goods supply men 

 are already busy with wreathing and 

 the Christmas trees will be here before 

 the end of the week. 



J. H. Troy, of New Rochelle, has 

 recovered from the accident of five 

 weeks ago. 



It would take one of H. E. Froment 's 

 force more than half his time to count 

 the Killamey roses that come from the 

 big greenhouse plant of L. B. Codding- 

 ton, Murray Hill, N. J. 



P. J. Smith says his count of the 

 wholesale florists in New York and 

 Brooklyn equals the record of Heinz, 

 the pickle man, there being exactly 

 fifty-seven so-called wholesalers in the 

 business here. This includes the late 

 additions and the speculators. 



Congratulations were many Novem- 

 ber 21 to Mr. and Mrs. Riedel on the 

 occasion of the fourteenth anniversary 

 of their wedding. 



J. J. Coan, of the Growers' Gut 

 Flower Co., says his best mum sellers 

 this year have been Bonnaffon, Maud 

 Dean, Eaton and Chadwick. The ship- 

 ments have been enormous. - 



E. W. Fengar, of Irvington, N. J., 



Phoenix Roebelenil and Dracaenas at J. A. Peterson's. 



has been sending grand Chadwicks and 

 Pockett's Surprise to the i>Jew York 

 market, realizing for some specimens 

 of the latter variety $9 a dozen whole- 

 sale. 



Fine gardenias and cattleyas are 

 coming from the plant of the W. S. 

 Young Co., of Bound'Brook, N. J. 



Large quantities of chrysanthemum 

 plants were disposed of last week by 

 M. C. Ford, Ivory especially proving 

 popular. Hession's carnations are 

 quite up to their record of past years 

 in quantity and quality. 



One of Gunther Bros.' specialties 

 now is the caladium, the leaves of 

 which find a ready sale. 



Mrs. Will Kessler is installed as of- 

 fice manager for Kessler Bros. 



The veteran J. J. Allen says that 

 in his quarter century experience he 

 has never seen finer roses than this 

 month, the old Maid and Bride not ex- 

 cepted. 



Geo. Saltford says he received ad- 

 vance orders for his entire output of 

 violets at Rhinebeck for Thanksgiving. 



J. V. Phillips, of Brooklyn, has 

 added an auto delivery to his con- 

 veniences and is having a good season. 



At R. G. Wilson's on Greene avenue, 

 Brooklyn, the large windows are ablaze 

 with color. The electric effects are 

 most attractive. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



AT PETEBSON'S. 



During the recent flower show at 

 Cincinnati most of the trade visitors 

 found their way to the establishment 

 of J. A. Peterson, widely known in the 

 trade as the home of Begonia Glory 

 of Cincinnati and other specialties. 

 Mr. Peterson long ago established his 

 reputation as a first-class plantsman 

 and there always is something of in- 

 terest to see at this place. One of the 

 visitors carried a camera, so that 

 Review readers are afforded, through 

 the illustrations on this page, a 

 glimpse of the houses as they appeared 

 early in November. 



MINNEAPOLIS. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Desmond cele- 

 brated their tenth wedding anniversary 

 at their home on Portland avenue, 

 November 20, when about sixty-five 

 guests were entertained, most of them 

 in the trade, for Mr. Desmond is man- 

 ager of the flower department of the 



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