SEPTEMBEa 29, l^'VO. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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ties besides Golden Glow are seen. In 

 another week the inflow will begin, and 

 then for many weeks the chrysanthe- 

 mum will dominate the market. 



The supply men begin to feel the im- 

 provement in the general trade. The 

 October weddings call for large quan- 

 tities of autumn leaves and wild smilax. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club will hold its 

 monthly meeting Monday evening, Oc- 

 tober 10. J. Horace McFarland, of Har- 

 risburg, will give his interesting stere- 

 opticon lecture on "The Florist and 

 the Town," and ladies are invited to 

 attend. Just what Chairman Nugent 

 may have to say in their behalf has 

 not been revealed, but a large delega- 

 tion is confidently expected. It is sug- 

 gested that there be no smoking. There 

 will be exhibits for the Hitchings cup, 

 for which Harry Turner scored 85 

 points last month. 



The dahlia show ended Thursday 

 evening, September 22. The attendance 

 was large and the display most at- 

 tractive. A. J. Manda, of Brooklyn, 

 was the exhibitor of the splendid bank 

 of eighty varieties of crotons, palms, 

 marantas, pineapples and caladiums, 

 not for competition, but which the soci- 

 ety awarded a special prize of $50. 

 John C. Galvin, gardener for Irving 

 Grinnell, of New Hamburg, N. Y., 

 showed a fine vase of his new bright 

 scarlet seedling, still unnamed. 



M. A. Bowe's new store at 60 West 

 Thirty-third street is handsomely fitted 

 up and is only one door from Broadway 

 and less than a block away from his 

 headquarters during the last dozen 

 years. 



Arthur M. Harris is now bookkeeper 

 for Badgley, Eiedel & Meyer, Mr. Hop- 

 kins having been engaged by William 

 P. Ford. 



N. J. Hills & Co., the latest addition 

 to the wholesale florists, has opened a 

 neat and convenient store at 58 West 

 Twenty-eighth street. 



The auctions feel the need of frost, 

 for the opening sales have been them- 

 selves frosty in the matter of attend- 

 ance, enthusiasm and prices. Better 

 times are coming to this branch of the 

 horticultural industry, as the chilly 

 days develop. 



The windows of the seedsmen are a 

 study now in prize vegetables and va- 

 riety of bulbs. Many are also adding 

 plant departments. All are busy. Fall 

 shipments are enormous, and the many 

 salesmen on the road all report a great 

 • volume of orders for spring delivery. 

 The drought delayed shipments of 

 dahlias much longer than expected, but 

 Gunther Bros, report large consign- 

 ments now arriving. 



Thursday evening, October 6, the 

 Astoria Bowling Club will have its prize 

 night, an annual affair that draws a 

 big house and creates a great amount 

 of amusement and excitement. 



David McKenzie is back from his 

 honeymoon in Scotland and the con- 

 tinent, thirty pounds heavier, with 

 many valuable importations, having 

 profitably combined business and pleas- 

 ure while away. 



The Julius Eoehrs Co. has done its 

 share this fall in popularizing the celo- 

 sia. Controlling the sale of the Castle 

 Gould varieties, they have made every 

 retail window unique and attractive. 

 They have several large houses entirely 

 devoted to this novelty. 



J. K. Allen's store has been entirely 



redecorated and painted. It has never 

 looked more attractive. 



M. C. Ford has been adding improve- 

 ments until now there seems nothing 

 more to be done. To be successful now 

 in wholesaledom one has to be up-to- 

 date. 



Bowling. 



The New York Florists' Club's Bowl- 

 ing Association opened its season Sep- 

 tember 23, making the following scores: 



Pla.ver. Ist 2d 3d 4th Av. 



Manda 134 191 174 154 163 



Wilson 163 135 157 127 145 



Scott 160 153 143 130 144 



SUaw 142 155 157 100 130 



Smith 112 151 137 123 131 



Berry 139 118 122 122 125 



Holt 03 140 130 122 121 



Moltz 86 129 101 02 102 



For the meeting October 10 J. A. 

 Manda offers $5 in gold to the member 

 making the highest score. All members 

 of the New York Florists' Club are 

 invited to participate. No one else is 

 eligible for prizes. At the meeting this 

 week on Friday evening, September 30, 

 there will be three prizes given, as fol- 

 lows: A knife by O. V. Zangen, a box 

 of cigars by the Crescent Cafe, and a 

 knife by the Stumpp & Walter Co. C. 

 W. Scott was elected vice-president and 

 he offers $5 in gold for the high average 

 of the members up to January 1, 1911. 

 The new alleys are at 115 West Twenty- 

 third street, near Sixth avenue. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Wertheimer Bros, have outgrown 

 their present quarters, which they have 

 occupied only since February 1, and 

 have added an annex at 90 Prince 

 street. 



The fall exhibition of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of -New York will be 

 held at the American Museum of Natu- 

 ral History November 9 to 13. Those 

 who have visited the exhibitions in 

 the past know of the unsurpassed facili- 

 ties offered by this museum for the 

 artistic display of plants and flowers. 

 Schedules of classes and premiums are 

 ready for distribution, and a copy will 

 be sent on application to the secretary, 

 George V. Nash, New York Botanical 

 Garden, Bronx Park, New York city. 

 The secretary will also be, glad to an- 

 swer any inquiries in regard to the 

 exhibition. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The market last week had its ups and 

 downs, and business did not have as 

 much life in it as it should have at 

 this time of the year. But they say the 

 good times are coming and, with cold 

 weather, business should at once become 

 steady. Next week the local festivities 

 will start, and this should help our busi- 

 ness, as the west end florists say they 

 have a number of good sized weddings 

 to furnish during the next few weeks. 



The wholesale houses were receiving 

 good consignments all the week of a 

 fairly good quality of roses, which met 

 with a fair demand. There was also 

 plenty of other stock, including carna- 

 tions and dahlias. Carnations are sell- 

 ing better than roses, as not so many 

 are coming in. They clean up almost 

 daily, if they are good. Gladioli, tube- 

 roses and dahlias are still arriving in 

 big lots. Mums and violets are expected 

 soon. Smilax, asparagus and other 

 greens sell well. 



Fall Flower Show. 



The committee in charge of the fall 

 flower show for the St. Louis Horticul- 

 tural Society met last week at the home 

 of C. C. Sanders, in the country, to per- 

 fect plans for the show, which will take 

 place in the big Coliseum building, 

 November 8 to 12. A pomological dis- 

 play will also be given during the show. 

 The show this year promises to be the 

 best and largest yet given by the so- 

 ciety. 



Besides the Shaw prizes, valued at 

 $50, which include the Henry Shaw 

 gold medal for a new plant, there are 

 three other prizes of $500 each, for cut 

 roses, carnations and chrysanthemums. 

 The four grand prizes, valued at $2,000, • 

 should make a grand display and bring 

 out keen competition. It is to be regret- 

 ted that the Chicago dates are the 

 same, as this may keep away some of 

 our Chicago friends who always pay us 

 a visit during show week. It is to be 

 hoped that President-elect George As- 

 mus, of the S. A. F., who, we note, is 

 manager of the Chicago show, will be 

 able to spend a day with us, as he has 

 many friends here in the trade who 

 wish to congratulate him in person. 



Various Notes. . 



Henry Emunds, of Belleville, HI., was 

 in this city last week, buying supplies. 

 He says chrysanthemum plants are in 

 fine shape for a good crop this season. 

 The H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co. 

 says its new descriptive catalogue will 

 be out October 1. This firm has 200,000 

 California privet, which are about as 

 fine as any in the market. 



Albert Woerner, of Woerner Bros., 

 was married last week. He is a great 

 boy and was heartily congratulated by 

 his many friends in the trade. 



The Metropolitan Floral Co. has in- 

 stalled electric lights in its big new ice- 

 box. Alex. P. Geranios, the head of the 

 firm, says he is much pleased with the 

 business done since the opening. 



C. E. De Wever, of Clayton, has had a 

 big cut of fine white and pink Cochet 

 roses this summer, as well as a great 

 cut of fine gladiolus spikes, which were 

 handled by Berning. 



George B. Windier, on Delore avenue, 

 will, as usual, have a fine collection of 

 pot chrysanthemum plants this season. 

 Mr. Windier is there when it comes to 

 well-grown plants. 



The fall festivities next week will 

 open with the yearly Veiled Prophet's 

 ball, in the Coliseum. This always calls 

 for a lot of first-class stock in cut 

 flowers and a great deal of decorating 

 for big downtown stores. Other events 

 during the week also call for work from 

 the florists, and they are all looking 

 forward to a big week. 



William Winter, F. W. Ude, Jr., and 

 Hugo Gross, three of the largest grow- 

 ers in Kirkwood, expect to have great 

 cuts of carnations and violets this sea- 

 son; also sweet peas and bulbous stock 

 in season. 



Among those who handled large 

 decorations for fall openings downtown 

 last week were C. Young & Sons Co., 

 Ostertag Bros., C. C. Sanders, C. Beyer, 

 F. Bruenig, Schray & Sons and Chas. 

 Juengel. A few more are on for this 

 week. 



A trip through the west end found the 

 florists with their show houses in fine 

 shape for the opening of the season. 



