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The Wccldy Florists' Review. 



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April 14, 1010. 



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marked. Mr. Kessler, in speaking to the 

 meeting, gave tlie credit for its discovery 

 and grpwth to Emil Savoy, of Secaucua, 

 from whom the entire stock was pur- 

 chased by his firm. An award Of merit 

 was given E. Fardell, gardener for Mrs. 

 H. P. Booth, of Great Neck, L. I., who 

 exhibited vases of stocks. Empress Eliza- 

 beth and Queen Alexandra, for which he 

 received a vote of thanks. He also ex- 

 hibited a vase of, ranunculus, which re- 

 ceived similar- appreciation. Mr. Fardell 

 gave a valuable address on their propaga- 

 tion, answering many queries. 



Various Notes. 



Miss Susan Scott Lustgarten, of Elm- 

 hurst, daughter of Charles Lustgarten, 

 was burned to death Friday night, April 

 8, at an entertainment at the Adelphi 

 College, Brooklyn. The young lady was 

 only 19 years old. She possessed great 

 musical talent and artistic skill and was 

 the only child of the bereaved parents, 

 who have universal sympathy in their 

 great aflliction. The funeral, on Sunday, 

 was largely attended and the floral re- 

 membrances were of great beauty. 



The sympathy of their many friends 

 is also extended to George M. Stumpp 

 and to Mr. Winnefeld, of Lehnig & Win- 

 nefeld, of Hackensack, N. J., in the loss 

 of their wives. Both were greatly re- 

 spected and beloved by a wide circle of 

 relatives and friends. 



Secretary Siebrecht of the New York 

 and New Jersey Plant Growers' Associa- 

 tion^ is enthusiastic as to the market 

 proposition made by the city, favoring 

 concentration at the New York side of 

 the new bridge at First avenue and 

 Fifty-ninth street. The association, at 

 a special meeting last week, endorsed the 

 plan unanimously. The managers of the 

 early market, Mr. Siebrecht says, will 

 undoubtedly accept, and so, at no dis- 

 tant date, the dream of John Birnie and 

 many other enthusiastic plantsmen in 

 favor of an American Covent Garden will 

 be fulfilled. The location is an ideal one 

 and the room and accommodation and 

 general facilities cannot be excelled. 



Rumors of many moves on West Twen- 

 ty-eighth street continue. Some enterpris- 

 ing firms are securing leases on property, 

 with a view to subletting or selling leases 

 at a profit. Some have obtained favor- 

 able terms for remaining between Sixth 

 avenue and Broadway. Those who are 



obliged to go to make room for sky- 

 scrapers are hustling for new quarters, 

 borne of the present second-story men 

 will be on the ground floor. 



Mr. Lutz, formerly in the growing busi- 

 ness near Far Bockaway, has established 

 a retail business at 546 Hudson street, 

 under the title of the Hudson Florist. 



Early in June the champion Astoria 

 bowler, John Miesem, and his wife, will 

 leave for a pleasure trip to Europe, but 

 with the understanding that he will re- 

 turn and lead his club to victory August 

 17 at Rochester. 



Tuesday, April 12, was ladies' night at 

 Astoria. Bowling continues there as 

 enthusiastically as at the first of the sea- 

 son, and there are several high rollers 

 in the membership. The prize last week 

 was given by Mr. Bleckwin. At the 

 ladies' tournament on Tuesday every- 

 one received a handsome prize. 



Thursday and Friday, April 14 and 

 15, John H. Taylor, the veteran rose 

 grower of Bayside, will sell his entire 

 stock of household furniture, prior to a 

 European trip. 



Chandler Taylor, the entomologist, rep- 

 resenting the Kentucky Tobacco Product 

 Co., of Louisville, Ky., was in the city 

 several days last week. 



John Mangam, for ten years in the 

 service of Frank Millang, the wholesale 

 florist, has undertaken the retail business 

 on his own account at 413 Gates avenue, 

 Brooklyn, an excellent locality and not 

 far from the greenhouses of Robert G. 

 Wilson. 



W. A. Blaedel & Son is now the title 

 of the firm at 402 West Twenty-third 

 street, Mr. Blaedel, Jr., ha^jng advanced 

 to partnership honors April 1. 



Carl Jurgens, Jr., of Newport, has ac- 

 quired space with Joseph A. Millang, of 

 the New York Cut Flower Co., in the 

 Coogan building, and Will handle bulbous 

 stock, valley and Beauties, in all of 

 which he has a national reputation. 



Alexander Smith, of Woodside, lately 

 welcomed a visit of the stork — another 

 sign of early spring. 



The new seed firm stared under the 

 name of Buds, at 76 Barclay street, has 

 as its manager Carl R. Gloeckner, for 

 many years in the employ of J. M. Thor- 

 burn & Co. 



J. K. Allen made an official trip into 

 Massachusetts last week with a carload 

 of civic boomers, in behalf of many im- 



Preparing; to Lay The Concrete For a Reinforced Bencfi* 



provements contemplated in and around 

 Kearney, N. J., where he resides and 

 stands ' ' ace high ' ' in municipal progress. 



The auctions are crowded. The sub- 

 urban women have heard of the bar- 

 gains. Prices have not been so satis- 

 factory in years. Many varieties of 

 hardy roses are snapped up at $20 per 

 hundred. The men look like landed pro- 

 prietors and most of the faces are un- 

 familiar. The rooms are too small for 

 the growing patronage. The streets also 

 have merchants at every corner downtown, 

 offering trees, plants and bulbs for sale. 

 The seedsmen are handling great quanti- 

 ties of fruit trees. Prices are away up, 

 but only where they belong. 



Emil Tschupp, of the firm of John 

 Tschupp & Co., West Hoboken, N. J., 

 died Friday, April 8, and was buried 

 Tuesday, April 12. Ford Bros, handle 

 the firm's shipments. 



After a three months' siege of rheuma- 

 tism, Mr. Watkins, of W. E. MarshaU & 

 Co., is again at his desk. The firm is 

 having a busy season. 



E, A. Slattery, an old New York boy, 

 now with W. J. Palmer & Son, of Buf- 

 falo, is visiting friends here. 



One of the fortunate ones on Twenty- 

 eighth street is J. J. Fellouris, whose 

 lease of No. 52 holds good, while so 

 many find it necessary to change their 

 quarters. The best piece of luck, how- 

 ever, was the sale of the lease by one of 

 the wholesale firms for an even $10,000, 

 and with the luck was coupled business 

 shrewdness, expert management and 

 nerve. 



A. L. Miller, of Jamaica ^enue, 

 Brooklyn, sold 60,000 of his own strain 

 of pansies and says he could have sold 

 150,000 if he had grown them. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



S. B. Wertheimer returned last week 

 from his annual trip to the European 

 fountains of inspiration for ribbon men. 



ONE-PIECE CONCRETE BENCH. 



Samuel Lum has one of the good sized 

 places at Chatham, N. J., a town scarcely 

 less famous for rose growing than is 

 Madison itself. The accompanying il- 

 lustration is reproduced from a photo- 

 graph taken in Mr. Lum's establish- 

 ment, where the entire range is being 

 equipped with the so-called concrete-steel 

 benches, constructed under the Wilson- 

 Hoyt system. The illustration shows 

 the bench builders in the act of oiling 

 the steel forms preparatory to pouring 

 the concrete. 



In this style of construction a steel 

 form is used as a mold and the bench is 

 reinforced with wires running through 

 the concrete. The raised parts of the 

 mold, shown in the illustration, give 

 drainage. Quite a number of the places 

 in Madison and Chatham have been try- 

 ing out these benches and as a result are 

 installing more of them this season. The 

 day is undoubtedly coming when wood 

 benches will be completely displaced by 

 permanent construction. 



Concord Junction, -Mass. — Leonard 

 Cousins, Jr., has his pansies in fine shape. 

 Owing to the mild spring weather so 

 early in the season, pansies are as far ad- 

 vanced as they would be in May in ordi- 

 nary years. They are covered with blos- 

 soms and his fine, large field of 250,000 

 is a sight worth going far to see. Ship- 

 ments are being made daily to florists all 

 over the country. 



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