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APRIL 28, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



31 



BUILD.N6 COMING DOWN 



TRAENDLY 

 ft SCHENCK 



GOING UP 



TO 



131 and 133 

 West 28th Street 



Where our increased facilities will enable us to handle any quantities of good stock to excellent advantage. 798.79o^Btadi'8^n square 



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GARDENIAS 



Grandiflora 

 Cape Jasmines 



300,000 



Ready for ■hipment 

 by May 18th. 



We ^arantee our stock to ar- 

 rive in good conditio a, or money 

 cheerfully refunded. 

 With our increased acreage of young, tfarifty, 

 and vigoroui buihes, we now have, perhaps, the 

 largest field in Texas, and we can assure you that 

 your orders, whether large or small, will have 

 prompt attention. 



Write or wire us your wants and we will do 

 the rest. 



PRICES Per 100 Per 1000 



Class X, 12 to 18-ln. stems. .$1.50 $13.00 

 Class A, 8 tol2-in. stems.. 1.00 8.50 



Money in advance or C. O. D. 

 We set general special rates. 



Stevens & Heller 



ALVIN, :: TEXAS 



(Successors to W. A. Dennis). 

 Reference: Alvin Citizens' Bank. 



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continued auction crowds. The subur- 

 banites have just begun to plant. Nur- 

 sery stock of any kind is in wide demand. 

 The clarion voices of the auctioneers will 

 be heard all through the month of May. 

 Alexander McConnell 's decorations for 

 the Gould-Drexel wedding, both at the 

 church and house, were elaborate and 

 beautiful, and many of his brother flo- 

 rists congratulated him on the success 

 achieved. Great banks of palms, immense 

 grf ips of daisies, white lilac, callas and 



pink roses without number turned the big 

 church into a veritable bower. At the 

 house Beauties predominated. Ihe whole 

 effect everywhere was charming and the 

 city papers devoted columns to its descrip- 

 tion. 



Saturday, April 23, the church at the 

 corner of Seventy-third street and Madi- 

 son avenue displayed one of the most 

 charming decorations I have ever seen. 

 M. A. Bowe, of Broadway, had charge 

 of both church and house, and the ar- 



tistic hand of Arthur Merritt was evident 

 in the graceful and beautiful effects ac- 

 complished. It was a spring wedding in 

 more than name, and the whole wall and 

 chancel and galleries were a mass of 

 spring flowers, white and pink, carefully 

 blended to the minutest details. Huge 

 palms, blooming plants and great trees 

 of apple blossoms, flowering plums and 

 cherries completed the picture. It was 

 a triumph of floral decorative art. 



The biggest affair in the future is the 

 fancy dress ball of the Goulds, May 2, 

 at Georgian Court, Lakewood. It will 

 be a wonderful affair and Alexander Mc- 

 Connell will have another opportunity to 

 beat his own record. The finest palms he 

 used at the Gould wedding were the New 

 Zealand Cyathea medullaris. Mr. McCon- 

 nell 's conservatories at New Eochelle are 

 filled with fine kentias. 



Importations last week were numerous. 

 H. Frank Darrow had many cases of 

 trees. William Elliott & Sons had four- 

 teen boxes of plants and trees for the 

 auction; Julius Roehrs, over 200 large 

 laurel trees; Wadley & Smythe, 150 of 

 the same; McHutchison & Co., plants 

 and trees, and so on through the list of 

 importers; nearly 3,000 cases altogether 

 in a single week. 



Mothers' day. May 8, is receiving de- 

 served consideration in the big New York 

 dailies. 



Albert Holmes, with A. W. Smith, of 

 Pittsburg, has been visiting friends in 

 New York, a guest of Mr. Eeidel, of A. 

 J. Guttman's. Mr. Smith also arrived 

 Monday, April 25, and will visit all the 

 large growers in the east. 



J. K. Allen has been quite ill during 

 the last week, his worst experience, a 

 fight with several of Job's comforters. 

 Like the old prophet, his stock of pa- 

 tience seems inexhaustible. George E. 

 Bradshaw is now one of his force of 

 salesmen. 



The committee appointed by the Cut 

 Flower Exchange to confer with the other 

 committees witii reference to the market 

 at Fifty-ninth street and First avenue, 

 under the new bridge, consists of Presi- 

 dent John Donaldson, ex-officio, and P. 

 Einsman, J. A. Leach, V. S. Dorval, A. 

 S. Burns and C Beckman. 



Ralph M. Ward & Co. have mailed 

 3,500 copies of their new catalogue. This 



