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The Weekly Florists' Revie#: 



MabCH 10, 1910. 



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suburban exodus together make the open- 

 ing promising. Hardy roses and ever- 

 greens will start the ball rolling. 



S. Jacobs & Sons say the greenhouse 

 building season has opened encouragingly. 

 Their orders are far in advance of last 

 year, and some come from as far away as 

 Texas. 



The Yonkers Horticultural Society 

 will have its first annual dinner Thurs- 

 day evening, March 10, at the Park Hill 

 Inn, Yonkers. 



Myer, of Madison avenue and Fifty- 

 eighth street, has taken a 10-year lease 

 of his store and will add much space to 

 it after Easter, bringing the windows 

 six feet further out and adding the next 

 store to the one he occupies. Mr. Peter- 

 son, formerly with the Fleischman Floral 

 Co. and Mr. Warendorff, has been added 

 to his force. He will have his usual branch 

 store for Easter. Last week he had the 

 yellow decoration for the fiftieth anni- 

 versary of George A. Hearn, the veteran 

 millionaire dry goods merchant of New 

 York city. 



George J. Allen, son of J. K. Allen, 

 has opened a retail store at One Hundred 

 and Sixty-third street and Forest avenue, 

 in the Bronx, where he has fine window 

 display space and a good neighborhood 

 to grow in. He has been with his father 

 for five years, and is a young man of fine 

 ability and reputation. 



Christatos & Koster, 717 Madison ave- 

 nue, have a handsome store and conserva- 

 tory, the fitting up now completed by the 

 Foerster-Mansfield Co. The firm has a 

 summer branch at Long Branch, N. J. 



Wonderful new designs in baskets and 

 boxes for plant combinations are already 

 in the flower stores. Those with raised 



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 Hancer and Handle, Perfect Adjustable Plant Stands, 

 and tbe Original Genuine InunorteUe Lietters, Bto. (every 

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designs in flowers and gold coloring pre- 

 dominate. This Easter will be as much 

 of a plant Easter as ever, from present 

 indications. The splendid, sunny, growing 

 weather of the last two weeks has solved 

 the plant problem. There will be no 

 shortage in perfect development. 



S. S. Butterfield, of Oklahoma, is in the 

 city. 



The stork arrived March 5 at the 

 home of August Millang. 



James McManus says he has arranged 

 for any possible orchid demand at Easter 

 this year. 



Henry Crawbuck, of Brooklyn, will re- 

 turn to his summer home at Summit, 

 April 1. 



J. W. Merritt, Brooklyn, will visit his 

 customers in New England and Pennsyl- 

 vania before Easter. 



E. W. Wiles has added a storehouse on 

 Jay street to his facilities, and has stored 

 an enormous quantity of ferns, sprays 

 and galax. 



Ford Bros, are htindling a good quan- 

 tity of white violets daily and find they 

 sell readily at $1 per hundred. 



Traendly & Scbenek have had a large 

 display of tulips in pans, of excellent 

 qujility and many varieties. 



Mengham & Westwood, at Eighty-fifth 

 street and Broadway, say business has 



doubled since they moved from Colum- 

 bus avenue. 



Bowling. 



Astoria continues to roll up scores that 



mean prizes in August at Bochester. Phi) 



Kessler's gold dollar for high score went 



to John Donaldson, who rolled 200. The 



scores of the three best games were: 



Player. lat 2d M 



Donaldson 146 1D9 200 



Mlesem 146 1S6 186 



Kessler 139 181 191 



Siebrecht 132 143' 152 



Jacobson 150 156 174 



Donaldson, Jr 116 189 14T 



rx)renz 110 168 165 



Henrlck 148 180 18» 



Siebrecht, H 183 160 19T 



Doerhoefer 128 183 17» 



Einsman 147 149 174 



Siebrecht, Jr 126 127 14» 



There will be bowling every Tuesday, 



and everybody is welcome. 



J. Austin Shavf. 



The following letter with regard to the 

 need of a plant market appeared in the 

 New York Sun March 4: 



"In an article in The Sun of Febru- 

 ary 27 headed 'School Gardens Wanted '^ 

 a correspondent is quoted as saying: 'I 

 think it would be a good idea to have a 

 plant market somewhere in New York.' 

 It is to be hoped that this will not fall on 



