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Maech 31, 1910. 



outsiders. Of green goods there was an 

 abundance. Valley was lower than usual; 

 3 cents would buy the best of it. Garde- 

 nias held at winter rates and were per- 

 fect in quality. Callas, especially the 

 fine stock, were firm at $2 per dozen. 



The sweet pea shipments were liberal 

 and some of the stock never excelled in 

 the New York market. Some grand ship- 

 ments also were offered by the Brooklyn 

 wholesalers, where prices for almost 

 everything were on a par with Twenty- 

 eighth street. Daffodils, tulips, narcissi 

 and hyacinths were all abundant and at 

 no advance on regular rates. The market 

 is flooded with southern shipments of 

 daffodils, and even Bermuda was heard 

 from. Cut lilies were selling at 10 cents 

 a flower at retail in the department 

 stores. 



Wednesday, March 31. — With the tem- 

 perature at 80 degrees, long Beauties are 

 down to $20 per hundred. Other roses, 

 straight slips, are going at $1 per hun- 

 dred; carnations the same. Lilies are 

 sold as low as $15 or even $10 per 

 thousand. The market is without bottom 

 anywhere. 



Various Notes. 



The remarkable total of $25,000 in 

 plants and cut flowers was given, on good 

 authority, as the total purchases of Mr. 

 Trepel, of Brooklyn, for his stores in 

 that city and New York. His conserva- 

 tory in Bloomingdale 's was filled to over- 

 flowing, and an enormous room at Lo- 

 sier's, Brooklyn, was banked to the ceil- 

 ing. Over 100 extra employees were 

 engaged for the week, largely from the 

 universities and high schools, and they 

 proved the best- of investments. For 

 volume of business this young and enter- 

 prising man probably leads the entire 

 country. He told me his sales for the 

 week would aggregate over $50,000. 



The retail stores of the two cities 

 were never so elaborately decorated as 

 this year. The stock of plants was se- 

 lected with care, and nothing imperfect 

 was accepted. Unique and original com- 

 binations and arrangements were every- 

 where. To specialize would make neces- 

 sary the mention of names of everyone 

 worth while in the retail business. To 

 succeed in New York one must be an 

 artist and individualize to become a per- 

 manent success. The larger stores were 

 gorgeously clothed and made so attractive 

 that resistance by the flower lover was 

 useless. 



The plant growers are happy. Every- 

 thing worth while was sold at their own 

 reasonable prices. All else went to the 

 auctions, and even the imperfect stuff 

 brought good prices there. One of the 

 auction houses sold daily during Easter 

 week. Crowds attended. From now on 

 all the auctions will continue Tuesdays 

 and Fridays. At Elliott's the big room 

 was full to overflowing. Mr. Elliott was 

 not quite satisfied with the bidding, but 

 the suburbanites are waking up and from 

 now until June there will be great quan- 

 tities of nursery stock disposed of. 



In Rutherford and Elizabeth and on 

 Long Island the nurserymen have all 

 begun their shipments. Never was there 

 so wide and early a demand. AH the 

 big seed houses are handling nursery 

 stock and report an unusual demand. 

 These also, without exception, found a 

 tremendous call at Easter for flowermg 

 plants. At A. T. Boddington 's, over 

 600,000 cannas have been sold already. 

 The firm's shipments of palm seeds have 

 arrived. The plant cellars are filled with 

 hardy roses, shrubs, etc. A trip through 

 the establishment is a revelation. 



The artistic cover of the H. H. Ber- 



ger & Co. catalogue is -the handiwork of 

 Miss Berger. Mrs. Berger has been seri- 

 ously ill, but her many friends will be 

 glad to know of her recovery. 



The poultry department of the Stumpp 

 & Walter Co. is an interesting place, and 

 a noisy one. The big windows are always 

 deftly decorated with attractive novel- 

 ties. 



Many weddings are announced for this 

 week. That should help some. Over 

 i50 licenses were granted March 26. 

 Some of the big stores have heavy book- 

 ings. Society is returning from Palm 

 Beach and other southern fashionable re- 

 sorts. The early weeks of April promise 

 many elaborate decorations. 



The Florists' Club will have its next 

 meeting Monday, April 11. Full par- 

 ticulars will be given concerning the out- 

 ing July 1 by Chairman H. A. Bunyard. 

 Judging by the splendid company and 

 the prevailing harmony at the club din- 

 ner, the attendance will break all records. 



April 2 occurs the regular monthly 

 meeting of the Cut Flower Exchange in 

 the Coogan building. 



The removal of several of the Twenty- 

 eighth street wholesalers to the big build- 

 ing on Fourth avenue has been aban- 

 doned. Unless the exodus could have 

 been general, the move would have been 

 unwise. Concentration seems to be more 

 likely. Large buildings are still avail- 

 able on both Twenty-eighth and Twenty- 

 seventh streets, not far from Sixth ave- 

 nue, so that an early securing of some 

 desirable center seems now assured. 

 Twenty-eighth street is somewhat torn 

 asunder now in the completion of its 

 subway entrances. What will it be when 

 the skyscrapers begin to rise? 



Julian H. Walter, of Stumpp & Walter 

 Co., has returned from his European trip. 



James McHutchison, of McHutchison 

 & Co., sailed for Europe March 29. 



Mrs. August Millang was back at her 

 desk in time for the Easter rush, 



B. S. Slinn, Jr., says he handled over 

 a million violets Easter week. 



Joseph Kushner, of Brooklyn, who has 

 been ill with pneumonia, is recovering. 



Paul Marconi is now in the retail busi- 

 ness, with headquarters at 50 West 

 Twenty-eighth street. 



Kessler Bros., whose specialty is 

 plants, emptied their store several times 

 during Easter week and were entirely 

 sold out. 



Nicholas Lecakes, who has been a suf- 

 ferer with the grippe, is again on deck. 



Charles Millang has been on the sick 

 list since Saturday, the result of over- 

 work during the Easter rush. None of 

 the wholesalers closed their stores Satur- 

 day night. 



John Young, of Bedford Station, was 

 a visitor in the wholesale section March 

 26 and enjoyed it much more than when 

 he was himself a wholesaler. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



A new corporation, organized in this 

 city for the purpose of dealing in fiow- 

 crs, seeds, etc., bears the original name 

 of "Buds." The capital stock is 

 $5,000. The incorporators are: Carl R. 

 Gloeckner, of Jersey City, N. J.; Wm. F. 

 O'Connor and Wm. H. Siebrecht, Jr., 

 both of this city. 



LEGISLATION FOR FLORISTS. 



Readers of the Review have already 

 been informed about a bill, recently in- 

 troduced in the state legislature at .Al- 

 bany, N. Y., which is of vast importance 

 to the florists of New York state and of 

 only a little less interest to florists 



throughout the country, since the results 

 of the bill's passage would be national 

 in more ways than one. The object of 

 the bill, as stated in the Review of 

 March 24, is to secure an appropriation 

 of $50,000 for the erection of a range 

 of greenhouses at the New York State 

 College of Agriculture at Cornell Uni- 

 versity. These greenhouses and their 

 equipment would be used, as the bill 

 states, for "experimental and teaching 

 work in floriculture." Moreover, if flo- 

 rists are sufliciently wide-awake and active 

 in the promotion of the measure, the 

 final outcome will be the establishment 

 of a first-class school of floriculture, 

 such as the whole country needs. 



The bill, which was introduced by As- 

 semblyman Wilkie, of Buffalo, has been 

 read once and referred to the commit- 

 tee on ways and means. A copy of the 

 bill, sent to the Review by W. F. Kas- 

 ting, has just been received. Mr. 

 Kasting also expresses his own zeal in 

 the matter by enclosing with the bill a 

 personal, pointed appeal to the florists 

 of his state, as follows: 



"In order to get this bill out to the 

 committee and not let it get asleep, I 

 would urge every florist in New York 

 state to write to the assemblyman or 

 senator in his district, whoever he may 

 be, and urge him to get this bill out of 

 the committee. The state is doing con- 

 siderable in the agricultural department, 

 and I believe that we, as florists, should 

 see that our interests are taken care of. 

 It certainly will be a help to the floricul- 

 tural part of our business. Do not wait, 

 but do it at once." 



The following is the text of the bill: 



AN ACT 



To build and equip a range of glass bousea 

 and service building for teaching florlcaltnre 

 at the New York State College of Agri- 

 culture at Cornell University, and making 

 an appropriation therefor. 



The people of the State of New York, rep- 

 resented ib Senate and Assembly, do enact as 

 follows : 



Section 1. The sum of fifty thousand dol- 

 lars ($50,000), or 80 much thereof as may be 

 necessary, Is hereby appropriated for the pur- 

 pose of building and equipping, at Cornell 

 University, a range of glass houses and serr- 

 Ice building, suitable for experimental and 

 teaching work In floriculture. Such buildings 

 shall be a part of the New York State College 

 of Agriculture at Cornell University, and ihall 

 be located on such portion of the land of the 

 university as may be designated by the trns- 

 tees of such university. Plans and speclflca- 

 tlons for such glass houses, service bnlldlng 

 and equipment shall be approved by the de- 

 partment of horticulture of such college of agri- 

 culture. Such buildings shall be built and 

 equipped by such university and such appro- 

 priation shall be paid by the state treararer 

 on the warrant of the comptroller on the order 

 of the treasurer of Cornell University, but no 

 part of such appropriation shall be available, 

 except for advertising and for plans, untU inch 

 university has entered Into a contract with a 

 responsible party for the completion of luch 

 work within the amount appropriated. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect Im- 

 mediatel.v. 



SOOETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Mid-Lent Meeting of Executive Board. 



[ The following is tlie official report of the 

 mld-lenten session, which was unofficially re- 

 ported in the Review of March 17.] 



The regular mid-Lent meeting of the 

 executive board was held at the Seneca 

 hotel, Rochester, N. Y., March 12, 14 

 and 15. The entire executive board, con- 

 sisting of President Pierson and Messrs. 

 Asmus, Young, Vesey, Dailledouze, Budd, 

 Craig, Valentine, Vick, Kasting and 

 Dorner, was present during the entire 

 session. The usual routine of business 

 was transacted. 



The report of the treasurer, the finan- 

 cial report of the secretary for 1909 and 

 also the supplementary reports for Janu* 

 ary and February, 1910, were received. 



