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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Seftbmbeb 7, 1911. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The week opens with perfect weather 

 — cool, sunny, inspiring. The cut 

 flower market has been marking time, 

 and while the advance can hardly be 

 said to have begun, stability and hope 

 are in evidence and the future is bright 

 with promise. The eight days of rain 

 did incalculable good. ' Schools are 

 opening this week, always a happy 

 harbinger of activity. The return 

 from Europe has set in early. 



American Beauties did not sell well 

 last week. The top price was only for 

 the few. Accumulations of the long 

 stems fell to half their normal value 

 the last of the week. The retail de- 

 mand continues light and there are no 

 especial causes for demand in weddings 

 or funerals. The theaters, however, 

 begin to assert their needs. 



There are few good roses of any 

 kind, but in another week the supply 

 will be normal and the new stock nears 

 perfection. The short-stemmed stock 

 goes at unheard-of figures, and some 

 of it does not go at all. 



Carnations are rapidly improving, 

 both in size and stem, and the price 

 follows quality. Lilies have not gpne 

 above $3 per hundred, but the advance 

 to $4 this week is hoped for. Valley 

 stays at $2 per hundred for the best. 

 For orchids, 75 cents remains the top 

 figure. Gaskelliana is about over, and 

 labiata is arriving. Of the lower 

 grades and varieties there are some 

 ten in the market, but demand for 

 these is transitory. Another week 

 ■ will see the departure of the gladioli 

 as a market menace, but of asters 

 there is apparently no end. Every 

 wholesaler was loaded with them Satur- 

 day, and their benches looked like the 

 usual fall flower show at the American 

 Institute as to quality. The cooler 

 weather and improving business out- 

 look should make the prospect better 

 before the present week has ended. 



Various Notes. 



Next Monday evening, September 11, 

 the opening meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club takes place at the head- 

 quarters in the Grand Opera House 

 building, at west Twenty-third street 

 and Eighth avenue. This will be con- 

 vention night and those who were un- 

 able to attend the Baltimore reunion 

 will hear all about it. Unique exhibits 

 are promised and the house committee 

 is preparing a proper welcome for all 

 who come. Visiting florists in the city 

 are cordially invited and also to the 

 bowling at Thumm 's alleys in the after- 

 noon. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. H, Maynard, of De- 

 troit, and Mr. and Mrs. Meinhardt, of 

 St. Louis, were enjoying the beauties of 

 the great white way all of last week 

 and are still in the city. Miss Mein- 

 hardt, ex-president of the Ladies S. A. 

 F., was a recent arrival from Europe, 

 and her relatives remained over from 

 the convention to welcome her. 



Arthur T. Boddington reports John 

 B. Orth, of McKeesport, Fa., and E. W. 

 Clark, of New London, Conn., as recent 

 visitors. "William Hunt, of Bodding- 

 ton 's, has just completed a successful 

 western trip and leaves next week for 

 his annual vacation in the Adirondacks. 



G. Van Der Horst, representing C. 

 Keur & Sons, of Hillegom, Holland, is 

 in the city and has established an office 

 at 25 West Broadway. 



Geo. Stumpp has an interesting story 

 to tell of his European trip with his 

 family. 



John A. Foley was rejoicing, Septem- 

 ber 1, on the third visit of the stork 

 to his home, this time with a daughter. 



The lecture on plant life, Saturday, 

 September 2, at the Bronx park mus- 

 eum, was well attended. The hour is 4 

 p. m. The lectures are of national 

 reputation, and the course will extend 

 every Saturday afternoon until Novem- 

 ber. 



The fall fairs have begun in earnest. 

 Last week the Dongan Hills show on 

 Staten Island brought out enormous 

 crowds. Several of New York's 

 prominent seedsmen were represented. 

 Saturday, Sunday and Labor day the 

 Sangerbund Association, which in- 

 cludes many of the Long Island florists, 

 began its annual exhibition at Ridge- 

 wood Park, L. I. Marquardt's column 

 of fruits and vegetables was, as usual, 

 the main attraction. The carpet bed- 



Frank Fillmore IV. 



ding and plant exhibits of the Flatbush 

 and' Long Island florists, as in other 

 years, maintained their reputations. 

 The prizes were many and valuable. 

 The entertainment continues over Sun- 

 day, September 10. 



The MacNifiF Horticultural Co. will 

 open the auction season September 19, 

 with a big offering of bulbs, plants, 

 palms etc., with R. MacNiff on the 

 rostrum. 



Gus Massas, at Seventy-seventh 

 street and Broadway, has opened a 

 branch store at Manhattan street and 

 Broadway. 



H. E. Froment has returned from 

 his rest at Saratoga and Lake George, 

 and Jonathan Nash, of Moore,* Hentz & 

 Nash, is home from a long holiday at 

 Nahant, Mass. 



Joseph J. Levy is back from his 

 summer with his family in the Cats- 

 kills. 



G. A. R. Kervan i|.^back from the 

 Grand Army reunion at Rochester. 



The sympathy of the trade is ex- 

 tended Arthur Hunt in the loss of his 

 daughter. 



John Michelsen, of the E. C. Amling 

 Co., Chicago, is in town on his way to 

 visit violet growers up the Hudson. 

 This is the third successive year Mr. 

 Michelsen has been in the New York 

 market on Labor day. 



Reed & Keller's new floral album is 

 now ready. 



E. S. Miller, of Wading River, was 

 in the city last week, rejoicing in the 

 first prize honors won by his new 

 gladiolus. Fascinator, a charming addi- 

 tion to the pink varieties. 



John Lewis Childs displayed at the 

 last horticultural exhibition at Bronx 

 park nearly 100 varieties of gladioli. 

 The display of water lilies by Wm. 

 Tricker, of Arlington, N. J., was one 

 of the most interesting features of the 

 exhibition. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons will open the _ 

 auction season September 12, Tues- 

 day, with a sale of bulbs, foliage 

 plants, etc. 



A show of dahlias, asters, etc., is to 

 be given by the Horticultural Society 

 of New York at Bronx park September 

 IG and 17. 



At the opening of the Hippiodrome, 

 September 2, the president of the New 

 York Florists' Club sent his wife, the 

 prima donna of the play, a magnificent 

 horseshoe of Beauties. Many of his 

 friends in the New York club were on 

 hand to speed the sweet singer in her 

 engagement for the winter season. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



THE YOUNQEST FLORIST. 



The Review here presents a picture 

 of the youngest working florist, Frank 

 Fillmore the Fourth, of St. Louis, Mo., 

 in his working attire. He was three 

 years old August 13. He was caught 

 in the act by The Review's corre- 

 spondent on a recent visit to the green- 

 houses of the boy's grandfather. Is 

 some precise reader prepared to prove 

 that Frank is not really the youngest 

 in the trade f Well, he is at least 

 among the youngest, and it is certain 

 that no one can beat his record by 

 more than a year or two. 



There are four generations of Franks 

 in the Fillmore family. The great- 

 grandfather is 86 years old, a well 

 known florist, still hale and hearty. 

 The grandfather's age is 62 and, like 

 his father, he is likely to live till he 

 reaches the hundreds. Then cohies the 

 boy's father, aged 30; he, like his 

 father and grandfather, is hard to beat 

 in a day's work about the green- 

 houses. And the youngest Frank — does 

 not the portrait give pretty good prom- 

 ise that he will follow in the footsteps 

 of the three Franks before him? 



Forest City, la.— The Hill City Green- 

 houses, owned by Willard Secor, have 

 opened a retail store on Payne avenue, 

 in St. Paul. The greenhouses have been 

 practically rebuilt and much enlarged 

 during the last two years. 



Tuxedo, N. Y. — George Stewart re- 

 ports excellent business, with bright 

 prospects for a good fall. Stock is in 

 fine shape. F. Bentley is doing ex- 

 tensive landscape work, with plenty of 

 work ahead for some time. Tom Mur- 

 ray, superintendent on the Pierre Loril- 

 lard- estate, is planning extensive im- 

 provements during the fall. 



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