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ThcWcekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBEB 20, 1910. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club meeting October 

 11 was at T, M. A. hall, where the club 

 will hereafter meet the second Tuesday 

 of every month, instead of Thursday. 

 The nomination of officers was the prin- 

 cipal business. The election takes place 

 at the next regular meeting, Novem- 

 ber 8. 



The Columbine Floral Co. is now 

 located in its new store at Fifteenth 

 and Stout streets. Mr. Poss, having 

 bought the fixtures at the old stand, 

 will continue it at that number, 1553 

 Curtis street. 



The Florists' Bowling League was 

 reorganized last week and will roll at 

 the Brunswick alleys. E. S. K. 



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EW YORK. 



The Market. 



The prolonged drought and continued 

 Indian summer are an obstacle to im- 

 provement in the cut flower market. 

 There has been no change of importance 

 in the quotations of a week ago, in 

 roses or carnations. If any, the ten- 

 dency is toward recession, and after 

 the elite demand is satisfied, what flow- 

 ers are left go in large quantities at the 

 buyer's offer. There have been con- 

 stantly increasing shipments, but the 

 supply of select stock has not kept step 

 with the enlarged offerings and most of 

 the rose stock especially drags heavily 

 and will while the chrysanthemum 

 dominates the market. Few carnations 

 are worth 3 cents. Quality advances 

 like the length of stem, slowly. In an- 

 other week they will do better, as to 

 quality, though it looks as though 3 

 cents might be the top until the mum 

 flood ceases. 



Orchids, valley and lilies remain sta- 

 tionary in values and quite abundant. 

 Asters and dahlias have passed on. 

 Violets sell slowly and 40 cents seems to 

 buy the best of them. The street pays 

 20 cents for the leftovers. 



Eetail windows are most beautiful 

 with varicolored mums and autumn 

 foliage, while groupings of the many 

 varieties of nephrolepis add novelty to 

 the arrangement. There are a dozen 

 varieties now to choose from. Already 

 the price of the general shipments of 

 mums is falling rapidly. The end of 

 the week will see the inflow from a 

 thousand sources. Everybody who grows 

 anything around New York has the 

 chrysanthemum on his list. The result 

 can be better imagined than described. 

 Cosmos is fine, but not in demand. Tube- 

 roses are as unpopular as ever. 



Various Notes. 



The John Wier's Sons place, Brook- 

 lyn, was sold at auction October 19 by 

 W. J. Elliott & Sons. 



Next week, October 26 and 27, a fine 

 exhibition will be seen at Bed Bank, 

 N. J., given by the Monmouth County 

 Horticultural Society, and October 28 

 and 29 the Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society's show will take place at Glen 

 Cove, L. I. The following weeks are 

 filled' with exhibitions in this vicinity, 

 of which due notice will be given. One 

 of the most important will be the $3,000 

 prize exhibition of the Morris County 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Society and 

 that of the Chrvsanthemum Society of 

 America. November 2 to 4 are the 

 dates for this big show. Arthur Her- 

 rington is manager, and visitors should 

 buv their tickets for Convent Station, 



N. J., which is nearest to the club 

 grounds and house secured for the occa- 

 sion. Messrs. Duckham, Totty, Schultz 

 and Reagan are all busy in its behalf. 



The Badgley, Reidel & Meyer Co. has 

 added a new safe to its conveniences 

 and redecorated the store and office. 

 Shipments of valley and lilies from Sie- 

 brecht, and nine varieties of roses were 

 a part of their exhibit October 17. 



John F. Sharkey has a neat store on 

 Sixth avenue and Forty-sixth street, 

 and W. H. Londo is an able lieutenant, 

 with years of experience with Van 

 Praag and other Broadway florists. The 

 move is into the hotbed of the retail 

 section of Sixth avenue, with Burns, 

 Lee, Louis aird others a block or two 

 away. 



A. J. Rickards, Jr., arrived last week, 

 via the stork route, and the successors 

 of Bridgeman are now in line for an- 

 other century of the name that has been 

 associated with the seed business since 

 its inception. October 10 was the date 

 of the arrival of the new partner! 



The seedsmen begin to feel the strain 

 of the long drought. There has been no 

 frost nor any cool weather to date. The 

 balance of the fall business will have 

 to be crowded into a brief season and 

 day and night work will be everywhere 

 in evidence. 



Jos. Cannon, of Philadelphia, is man- 

 aging the cut flower department in the 

 store of Gimbel Bros.^ for J. Wolff, Jr., 

 and Mr. Wolff is quite encouraged by 

 his success to date. 



John King Duer has retired from the 

 retail florists' business. His store has 

 been closed for several weeks. 



Grunewald, the retail florist on Colum- 

 bus avenue, is back from Germany. 



The auction sales of plants continue 

 every Tuesday and Friday. The crowds 

 are increasing and prices are better. 

 Retailers have awakened to the oppor- 

 tunity for bargains. One of the largest 

 buyers this season has been J. B. 

 Nugent, Jr. 



The fern supply now being distributed 

 by our expert growers at the retail 

 stores has never been excelled so^feTtTrly 

 in the season. There are a half dozen 

 popular varieties, and Boston itself has 

 lost none of its prestige and sells as 

 readily as when it occupied the center 

 of the stage. 



The greenhouse constructors are find- 

 ing no fault with the warm fall,/and all 

 seem to have an abundance of contracts, 

 with much building booked that '^will- 

 keep the wheels revolving untiP'a^iiow^ 

 flies. 



Hession, of Flatbush, has 100,000 car- 

 nation plants of the best varieties under 

 glass, the output being handled by M. 

 C. Ford. 



The Kervan Co. expects to have its 

 new four-story building finished and to 

 be in it by November 1. It will be the 

 most unique store of its kind in 

 America. 



Bowling. 



Friday, October 14, the scores made 

 by the bowlers make the outcome of a 

 match with the Astorias, as now con- 

 templated, rather one-sided. The spe- 

 cial prize was won by P. J. Smith. The 

 scores: 



Player. 1st 2(1 3d 



I'enrich 145 135 146 



Smith 98 141 141 



Berry 152 132 143 



Nugent 91 73 



Flesser 119 S't 140 



Marshall 86 124 97 



McArdle 116 103 131 



Scott 121 139 102 



Manda 122 l.'iS 155 



These are the scores of the Astorias 



for October 13: 



rlayer. 1st 2d 3d 4th 



Doerhoefer 165 142 169 124 



Donaldsou 193 205 167 180 



IClntJiuann 154 135 150 174 



KesBler 213 139 128 178 



Jacobson 119 133 125 178 



Kdmonson 125 127 114 105 



Ix)renz 169 183 131 



Mlesem 156 191 144 182 



W. H. Slebrecht 180 162 150 133 



H. Slebrecht 164 140 117 



Bleckwenn 110 157 148 124 



W. H. Slebrecht, Jr 129 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Charles Lenker is running for state 

 senator on the socialist ticket. 



Wertheimer Bros, report numerous or- 

 ders for their Sprinkleproof ribbons, 

 which they have just introduced. Con- 

 siderable comment has been created by 

 the introduction of these waterproof 

 ribbons, and it is predicted by several 

 metropolitan florists that these goods 

 will soon be in general use in first-class 

 establishments, as there is no question 

 as to t^e practical merits of a moisture- 

 proof ribbon. 



The many friends of John V. Phillips, 

 of Brooklyn, will be pleased to hear 

 that his health is so much improved 

 that he now is able to return to business 

 after an absence of two months. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



Last week business was good, and the 

 demand for most lines took up the sup- 

 ply. This week, however, indications 

 on Monday pointed to a glut. This is 

 due to the fact that chrysanthemums 

 are in full blast. A large amount of 

 stock is still sold, but the prices have 

 already shaded considerably. Almost 

 every local grower has large cuts of 

 Estelle mums. They form the bulk of 

 those in the wholesale houses, but Mon- 

 rovia, October Frost and some fine 

 Touset and Virginia Poehlmann are also 

 offered. 



The weather in this vicinity has been 

 the mildest that we have had for sev- 

 eral years at this season. As a result, 

 local dahlias and cosmos are better, and 

 are lasting longer than for many years. 

 Both are offered in large quantities and 

 help to increase the amount of stock 

 on hand, and so far there are no signs 

 of a frost that would shut them off. 



The market is long on roses of all 

 kinds, especially American Beauties. 

 They cleaned up fairly well until the 

 last few days, when a large part of the 

 request shifted to chrysanthemums. 

 Carnations are steadily improving in 

 quality, and are also plentiful. Longi- 

 florum, lily of the valley and orchids 

 have been finding a ready sale. Snap- 

 dragons are now offered. 



The supply of decorative greens of 

 all kinds is ample. 



Various Notes. 



C. E. Critchell is receiving some ex- 

 cellent orchids from L. A. Fennell, of 

 Cynthiana, Ky. 



Wm. Murphy reports that he is find- 

 ing an active demand for longiflorum 

 and chrysanthemums. 



Albert McCullough 's lawn at his 

 home at Pleasant Ridge is attractive 

 with a bed of celosia bloom. His 

 patch of named new varieties in 

 dahlias also attracts attention. 



P. .1. Olinger went to his greenhouses 

 at New Castle, Ind., Thursday, October 

 13. In his salesroom in this city he has 

 had constructed a large zinc pan for his 



