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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Max 13, 1009. 



CHARLES MILUNG 



••••Wholesale Florist 



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444 6th Avenue, The Crystal Palace 



55 West 26th Street, The Coogan Building 



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NEW YORK 



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On the GROUND FLOOR, and in the HEART of the WHOLESALE DISTRICT. 

 Open from 6 a. m. every- day in the year for the convenience of my customers. 

 Great Plant Market every morning corner of Sixth Avenue and 27th Street. 

 GRAND STOCK of GERANIUMS and BEDDING PLANTS of Every Variety. 

 ALL THE NEW FERNS from the F. R. PIERSON CO. 



Everything For The Florist 



Cut Flowers of Every Kind 



Remember the Addresses 

 444 6th Avenue, and the Ground Floor of The Coogan BIdg. 



CHARLES MILLANG 



GEO. L BRADSHAW, Manager, Plant Department 

 PAUL MECONI, Manager, Cut flower Department 



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The weather last week was warm, sup- 

 ply increased and prices fell. Beauties 

 are down to 10 cents for the best. The 

 best Brides and Maids were selling at 4 

 cents Monday, May 10, and unbroken in 

 boxes, the best as low as 2 cents in thou- 

 sand lots. Great days these for those 

 Brooklyn department stores, where values 

 are butchered and public love of flowers 

 fostered in the city of rubber plants and 

 churches. 



Immense quantities of lilac began to 

 arrive last week. The southern supply 

 was cut out by frosts. Now the local 

 stock is arriving. Big bunches were sell- 

 ing Saturday at 50 cents. A few peonies 

 are here and go quickly at good prices. 

 These, too, before the end of the week 

 will be abundant. 



Carnations have joined the procession, 

 and prices are nearly cut in two. Last 

 week they held well at good figures, espe- 

 cially the white ones. A few violets 

 straggled in Saturday to say good-bye, 

 and someone paid 50 cents to 60 cents a 

 hundred for them. There is plenty of 

 valley and lilies, and sweet peas are too 

 abundant. Gladioli also have arrived, 

 and are snapped up quickly at good 

 prices. The coming weddings will use 

 many of the outdoor blooms. Between 

 the May and June weddings and the Me- 

 morial day celebration, it would seem the 

 call should not be discouraging to 

 handlers of cut flowers, until well into 

 the heart of the month of roses. 



Mothers' day was not sufficiently ad- 

 vertised in the east. A few of the metro- 

 politan dailies featured it, but their 



warning as to probable prices did more 

 harm than good, they quoting 25 cents 

 as the regular price of a carnation bou- 

 tonniere. The sentiment is growing en- 

 couragingly, however, and another year 

 will find the observance of the day more 

 general. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club's meeting. May 10, 

 was well attended. The plant display 

 was large and varied and of great ex- 

 cellence in quality. The lengthy and 

 valuable paper prepared for the club by 

 the venerable Charles Allen, of Queens, 

 was read by S. S. Butterfield and was 

 greatly appreciated. 



H. A. Bunyard, chairman of the out- 

 ing committee, reported satisfactory 

 progress, and announced that the store 

 of Arthur T. Boddington will be closed 

 July 1 as a compliment to the club, and 

 all his employees will attend the outing, 

 a worthy example for employers of every 

 variety. 



Resolutions on the death of W. C. 

 Krick were read by Secretary Young. 

 Messrs. Birnie, Marshall and Weston 

 were appointed a committee to draw up 

 resolutions on the death of John Scott, 

 and Messrs. Donaldson, Manda and 

 Schultz on the death of Herman Dreyer. 

 The death of J. H. Starin, an honorary 

 member, was announced, and a committee 

 on resolutions — Messrs. O'Mara, Sheridan 

 and Young — appointed by President Tur- 

 ner. 



Messrs. Sinns and Meikeljohn were 

 elected to membership. The thanks of 

 the club were voted John Birnie for the 

 excellent exhibit of plants staged through 

 his influence. Messrs. Manda, Marshall 



and Berry talked earnestly in behalf of 

 the bowling club. 



An interesting talk by John Birnie as 

 to the needs and possibilities and re- 

 munerative investment of a great cen- 

 tral plant market created much favorable 

 discussion. J. B. Nugent said he is in 

 touch with a capitalist who will put 

 up a building 50x100 in the neighbor- 

 hood of Twenty-eighth street, asking only 

 a guarantee that all its space would be 

 taken by the trade, and agreeing to build 

 a greenhouse the full size of the building 

 on the roof of the structure. Mr. Totty 

 moved for a committee to at once pro- 

 ceed with a thorough investigation of the 

 proposition, and President Turner ap- 

 pointed Messrs. Birnie, Nugent, Totty, 

 Miller and Schultz. Mr. Birnie extended 

 a warm invitation to the club to visit the 

 early plant market, where $3,000 worth 

 are sold daily in three hours. Messrs. 

 Totty and Sheridan acted as judges of 

 the plant exhibits and reported as fol- 

 lows: 



Six ramblers, new, by H. C. Stelnhofl, of 

 Hoboken, a vote of thanks and the request that 

 it be exhibited again. 



Geraniums, heliotrope and verbenas, by John 

 Birnie. a cultural certificate. 



Hydrangeas, dwarf fuchsias, geraniums and 

 pansies. by Charles Hunt, of Staten Island, a 

 cultural certificate. 



African marigolds, by George Fich, of West 

 Hoboken, vote of thanks. 



Three plants of a new white rose, by Hart- 

 man & Wagenfohr, of Woodslde, vote of thanks. 



Phlox subulata, by John Lappe, vote of 

 thanks. 



Coleus, by Fred Englen, Hoboken, vote of 

 thanks. 



Geraniums and fuchsias, by John Tschnp & 

 Co., West Hoboken, cultural certificate. 



Candytuft and heliotrope, by Robert Leach, 

 vote of thanks. 



Daisies, by Charles Schmieg, of Elmbnrst, 

 vote of thanks. 



Several ramblers, assorted, by the John 

 Rieckert estate, a vote of thanks. 



