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FCBBUABT 1, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



17 



*'The National Gardeners' Society," 

 by M. C. Ebel; "The New York Plo- 

 •«st8' Club," by Walter Sheridan; 

 **The Horticultural Press," by J. A. 

 Shaw; "The Local Press," by J. E. 

 <31arey. Other speakers were J. Mc- 

 laitosh, of Tuxedo; B. Wyckoff, of 

 Elberon; William Turner, of Red Bank, 

 and I. S. Hendrickson, of Floral Park, 

 pther visitors were E. W. Neubrand, 

 ^^ Tarry town; William Scott, of Elms- 

 Wbrd; W. G. Badgley, of Summit; John 

 Lager, of Summit; Robert Schultz and 

 William Tricker, of Madison, and 

 Messrs. Rickards, Sperling and Bun- 

 yard, of New York. J. A. 8. 



BLAOEISTONE'S NEW STORE. 



The illustration on this page shows 

 the new Blackistone store in Washing- 

 ton, decorated for the Christmas season. 

 The decorations were arranged about 

 N December 15 and left up until after 

 New Year's. Mr. Blackistone believes 

 that the best way to encourage others 

 to decorate and to get the Christmas 

 spirit is to show a little enterprise 

 one's self. Contrary to the usual cus- 

 tom, this store did not sell any Christ- 

 mas trees. This was left to the market 

 men and smaller stores. Only high 

 class business was catered to. The 

 sales were about twenty per cent ahead 

 of last year. H. C. H. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



There has been little change in mar- 

 ket conditions or values during the last 

 week. This week opened with a storm 

 of snow and sleet, limited shipments 

 and light demand. Prices remain firm, 

 but with the promised warm wave and 

 flunshine the older wholesalers predict 

 a February slump and say that accu- 

 mulation has already begun. 



The American Beauty, which was 

 never overabundant, last week reached 

 holiday prices. Other roses, especially 

 the novelties, were firm at current quo- 

 tations. Of Killarney there is never a 

 shortage and tremendous shipments are 

 anticipated soon. 



Carnation shipments are heavy, the 

 <juality of everything perfect, but 

 values seem to have reached their limit 

 for the season, and only the prize-win- 

 ning novelties command fancy figures. 

 The usual winter deluge of violets has 

 begun. Prices have held barely steady, 

 but with the temperature again per- 

 mitting the street merchants to offer 

 them to the public, no great drop is 

 anticipated. Gardenias are abundant 

 and the best are selling below the 

 values of other years, few now going 

 above $3 per dozen. The cheap grades 

 go to the street and the department 

 stores. Valley remains stationary, the 

 best holding at $3 per hundred. The 

 orchid shipments are large and in great 

 variety. All the prominent wholesale 

 bouses are now handling orchids, dem- 

 onstrating the widening of the demand, 

 as there is never a serious surplus for 

 long. Lilies are plentiful, and a few 

 selected ones command $10 per hun- 

 dred, the general quotation for the best 

 seldom going above $1 per dozen. The 

 supply of jonquils increases daily and 

 it will not be long before the ship- 

 ments from the sunny south begin. 

 There is no scarcity of sweet peas, 

 lilacs, narcissi, hyacinths, daisies, 

 mignonette and freesia. Of the last 





New Store of Z. D. Blackistone, Washington, D. C. 



named, the finest Purity ever seen here 

 is now arriving. 



McKinley day was well advertised 

 and a somewhat better carnation clean- 

 up thau usual was made, but the crea- 

 tion and maintenance of sentiment in 

 New York is a problem that still awaits 

 satisfactory solution. 



The Saturday Show. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York held a successful exhibition of 

 orchids and carnations at the Museum 

 of Natural History. The members of 

 the orchid section of the society held 

 their regular session, followed by an 

 interesting stereopticon lecture by C. A. 

 Darling, on "Grapes and Grape Cul- 

 ture." The blizzard and extremely cold 

 weather interfered with the attendance. 



The awards included a silver medal 

 to Scott Bros., for William Eccles as 

 the best vase in the show. The other 

 carnation awards went to J. T. Burns, 

 gardener for Miss C. A. Bliss; James 

 Aitchison, gardener for Mrs. M. I. 

 Borg; Thomas Aitchison, gardener for 

 Henry Siegel; R. Bottomley, gardener 

 for W. H. Fischer, and Alex. Macken- 

 zie, gardener for Percy Chubb. 



The principal orchid exhibits were 

 from C. G. Roebling, Trenton, N. J., 

 James W. Goodier, gardener; Mrs, F. B. 

 Van Vorst, Andrew Anderson, gardener; 

 F. V. Burton, William Cordes, gar- 

 dener, and Clement Moore, J. P. Moss- 

 man, gardener. Lager & Hurrell re- 

 ceive(i>a bronze medal for Lselia anceps 

 Lageriana. 



Special prizes were awarded to the 

 William Z\egler Estate, A. Bieschke, 

 gardener, for a vase of freesia hybrids 

 and one of Marguerite Mrs. Fred 

 Sander; to Percy Chubb, for bunch of 

 violets; to Mrs. F. A. Constable, James 

 Stuart, gardener, for a vase of Euphor- 

 bia jacquiniseflora, and to Mrs. Myron L 

 Borg, for vase of stocks. C. G. Roeb- 

 ling received a certificate for Cattleya 

 TriauBB Helen Roebling. 



Various Notes. 



The New York Florists' Club will 

 meet at the usual place Monday eve- 

 ning, February 12. This will be carna- 

 tionni^ht^aird doubtless all the new 



varieties will be on exhibition. Grow- 

 ers may ship their stock in care of 

 Traendly & Schenck, 131 West Twenty- 

 eighth street, and it will be properly 

 cared for and staged by the exhibition 

 committee, of which L S. Hendrickson 

 is chairman. R. Vincent, Jr., president 

 of the S. A. F., will be present and 

 will give a stereopticon lecture on his 

 travels in the southern states. J. H. 

 Pepper will illustrate the Detroit con- 

 vention and J, A. Shaw will talk about 

 Bermuda, with lantern slide accompani- 

 ments. The dinner committee has de- 

 cided to have the celebration of the 

 silver jubilee Saturday evening, March 

 23, at the Park Avenue hotel, on East 

 Thirty-third street. Tickets are $5. 



The Plant Growers' Association cele- 

 brates this week Thursday, at Mou- 

 quin's, and Secretary W. H. Siebrecht, 

 Jr., says that notwithstanding the ex- 

 clusive character of the occasion he 

 expects an attendance of 100. 



W. E. Marshall is making a western 

 trip and was last heard from at Omaha, 

 Neb. 



The Beechwood Heights Nurseries 

 has opened a salesroom at 113 West 

 Twenty-eighth street for the disposal of 

 its gardenias and orchids. The sales- 

 room is in charge of William J. 

 Sheehan. 



The Burnett brothers are frequently 

 represented at the gardeners' banquets 

 by their musical children, both boys 

 being artists on the piano and violin. 



President Farenwald. Secretary Ham- 

 mond and Messrs. Pierson, Simpson and 

 Traendly met January 24 at the office 

 of Traendly & Schenck to arrange the 

 American Rose Society's schedule on 

 plants for the National Flower Show 

 of 1913. 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 

 celebrated its sixth anniversary Thurs- 

 day evening, January 25, with an at- 

 tendance of nearly one hundred, half 

 a car of New Yorkers among them. A 

 visit to Oyster Bay in the afternoon 

 by Messrs. Ebel and Shaw found both 

 Teddy and John Ingram at home, the 

 latter just recovering from quinsy. Mr. 

 Ingram is the only florist in Oyster 

 Bay. He is an. orchid expert, making 



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