MAI 13, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



27 



Announcement 



Manhattan Flower Market 



Wholesale Florists 



Telephone 1016 Madison Square 46 W. 28th St., NEW YORK 



We wish to announce that we started in business Saturday, May 8, at above address 

 as wholesale florists. We desire shipments of large quantity of all kinds of choice 

 flowers to supply our trade. We have a very large store and well equipped for han- 

 dling goods to advantage and aocommodating our cuatomere, and location and facilities 

 are unsurpassed. Would be pleased to have you call and see us and would respectfully 

 request a share of your patronage. We will conscientiously endeavor to please all 

 with whom we have dealings and to do business in a businesslike manner. Reliability 

 and responsibility first-class, and best of bank and business references. We need all 

 kinds of flowers— Roses, Carnations, Sweet Peas, Narcissi, Gardenias, Orctiids, 

 Beauties, summer stuff, etc. Prices, highest obtainable. CASH SETTLEMENTS. TRY US. 



Yours respectfully, MANHATTAN FLOWER MARKET 



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Announcement 



JOHN^COTT 



Rutland Road, Flatbush, N. Y. 



The business of the late John Scott will continue, under able management. The 

 reputation of the house for the finest plants and cut flowers will be maintained. The 

 patronage and confidence of the public is solicited. This opportunity is taken to 

 gratefully acknowledge the kindness and sympathy of all for his family, and to 

 guarantee that the same care and enterprise characterizing the record and reputation 

 of Mr. Scott, in the past, will be continued. 



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Coleus, by A. C. Schroeter & Son, of Bayonne, 

 "•J., a vote of thanks. 



Mignonette, geraniums and Rex begonias, by 

 Herman Mende, Secaucus, N. J., cultural cer- 

 tiflcate. 



Variotti Notes. 



The Manhattan Flower Market, at 46 

 West Twenty-eighth street, between Ford 

 Bros, and Traendly & Schenck, opened 

 ™ay 8. It is a large store and hand- 

 somely fitted up. 



Ambrose Cleary disposed of over $1,000 

 worth of bay trees in a single day last 

 week. All the auctions continue to draw 

 ■urge crowds, and prices are satisfactory. 



Samuel Burnett is back again at his 



'lesk. 



The nurserymen report a most remark- 

 ■ible season, and the demand shows no 

 sign of diminution. Bobbink & Atkins' 

 '■epresentative has just returned from a 

 record western trip, and reports pros- 

 Parity abundant everywhere west of Buf- 

 falo. 



Charles Millang is refurnishing and 

 'lecorating his new store on the ground 



floor of the Coogan building, and will 

 make this his cut flower headquarters, 

 with Paul Meconi as superintendent. His 

 big store at the corner of Twenty-seventh 

 street and Sixth avenue will continue as 

 plant headquarters. Miss Scallen, for- 

 merly with John W. Scallen on Broad- 

 way, is now bookkeeper for Mr. Millang. 



A. Warendorff has the decorations of 

 the Metropolitan opera house for the 

 Conrad funeral services May 13. In ad- 

 dition to the opera house decoration, he 

 has many set pieces from the leading Eu- 

 ropean singers now in the city, and some 

 orders by cable from the continent. In 

 the auto parade his decoration of the 

 Lozier car won the prize of $500. 



John Wendell, of Central avenue, 

 Williamsburg, met with a bad accident 

 May 10, in which he sustained scalp 

 wounds, lost his left ear and has con- 

 cussion of the brain. The horse ran 

 away with a load of pansies and other 

 plants. 



W. C. Duncan, of Sparkhill, N, Y., is 

 reported missing from home for a week. 



He came to the morning market at Twen- 

 ty-sixth street, as usual, and no tidings 

 of his whereabouts or fate have reached 

 his anxious family. 



Frank Millang is back again at his 

 headquarters in the Coogan building, re- 

 covered from his dangerous illness. 



Mary Sullivan, wife of John Sullivan, 

 formerly gardener for William B. Astor, 

 died at Eokeby, near Poughkeepsie, last 

 week, at an advanced age. 



Count Colloredo-Mansfleld and Nora 

 Iselin were married May 10, a society 

 affair that gave opportunity for J. G. 

 Leikens to show his artistic skill. Apple 

 blossoms in abundance were the striking 

 feature of the beautiful display. 



B. S. Slinn, Jr., has moved his head- 

 quarters to the second floor of the Coogan 

 building. 



Fred Burki, of Bakerstown, Pa., is 

 building another iron-frame house, 54x 

 358 feet, the Lord & Burnham firm hav- 

 ing charge. Paul Pierson has bought the 

 BrierclifF range of greenhouses, and the 

 same firm has the contract for two new 



