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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



December 15, 1910. 



Mfg. Co. Mr. Beauplaine, the manager, 

 is a genius at such work. 



George Saltford says he will sell over 

 200,000 violets Christmas week. There 

 are over forty wholesalers in New York 

 and every one sells violets. Figure up 

 how many will be used in the big city. 



George Cotsonas says the princess 

 pine shortage is a serious one. Other 

 greens are abundant. The supply de- 

 partment of the firm is doing a big 

 business, as expected. It is the only 

 Greek florists' supply house in America 

 and the Greeks are fraternal. 



M. C. Ford says he does not recall 

 a time in his long experience when 

 stock was of better quality, especially 

 carnations and Beauties. 



The big store of the Kervan Co. is 

 now complete. Mr. Kervan, Sr., and 

 his three sons make a competent quar- 

 tette, and they have built a fine home 

 for the business. 



John J. Perkins has opened his 

 wholesale place on West Twenty-eighth 

 street and looks good for another thirty 

 years. 



At the annual meeting of the New 

 York and New Jersey Association of 



iest mail in the history of their busi- 

 ness and state that an extremely large 

 local telephone trade also is being done. 



Mr. Westwood has bought out his 

 partner in the firm of Mengham & 

 Westwood, on upper Broadway. 



As the Christmas rush draws near 

 Walter Sheridan and Traendly & 

 Schenck come to full appreciation of 

 the value of the increased space in their 

 new quarters. 



W. G. Badgley, of Madison, who is a 

 member of the commission firm of 

 Badgley, Eiedel & Meyer, now comes to 

 town nearly every day, to lend a hand 

 to his partners. 



John Foley, manager for Lecakes & 

 Co., is seriously ill, just when his duties 

 are most pressing. 



J. W. Merritt, the Brooklyn supply 

 man, says his out-of-town trade has 

 quadrupled during 1910. 



E. W. Wiles, Brooklyn green goods 

 man, has a large force of extra help 

 making roping. 



J. J. Coan, manager of the Growers' 

 Cut Flower Co., says business has dou- 

 bled in 1910. 



John Young. 

 (Re elected Secretary of the New York Florists' Club for the Steenth Term.) 



Plant Growers December 6, the election 

 of officers resulted as follows: Presi- 

 dent, A. L. Miller, of Brooklyn; vice- 

 president, Herman Schoelzel, of New 

 Durham, N. J.; treasurer, Herman C. 

 Steinhoff, of Hoboken; secretary, Will- 

 iam H. Siebrecht, Jr., of New York; 

 directors, C. W. Scott, of the Hinode 

 Florist Co. and the Yokohama Nursery 

 Co., John H, Fiesser, of North Bergen, 

 N. J., David McKenzie, executor of 

 estate of John Scott, of Brooklyn. 

 Wertheimer Bros, report the heav- 



Frank H. Traendly is the new presi- 

 dent of the New York Wholesale Flo- 

 rists' Protective Association. 



William Duckhara, of Madison, has 

 returned from a hunting expedition in 

 the north woods. 



P. J. Smith says the lily is no longer 

 the special flower of Easter; he will 

 market nearly as many in December as 

 in April this year. 



The Aphine Mfg. Co., of Madison, has 

 added Fungine to its repertoire. 



Bowling. 

 The match between New York and 

 Astoria December 9 was won by the 

 Long Islanders by only fifteen pins, as 

 follows: 



New York 1st 2d 3d Astoria Ist 2d 3d 



("hfldwiok 202 1.18 187 Mlesem 144 192 190 



Luaawlck Mi W» l»< Lofgnz 94 148 127 



Fenrich 144 131 171 Donaldson 



Smith .. 167 118 139 Jr. ...138 179 147 



Berry . . 110 154 147 Elnsm-n il6 155 142 



c <.^ i^o loa iKQ Slebr'ht 12o 144 191 



Scott .. 142 126 153 Kessler .100 148 130 



Marshall 164 112 111 Donaldson 



Manda . 148 115 141 Sr. . .166 _1C4 _137 



Totals 1^77 894 1,049 Totals 043 1,130 1,064 

 There were refreshments in abun- 

 dance, and apart from the team bowlers 

 the following scores were made: 



Player— Ist 2d 



Kakuda 144 122 



McArdle 135 144 



Nugent 91 9J 



Shaw 168 131 



.Tacobson 129 145 



Klelnman 150 116 



Before the club meeting Monday af- 

 ternoon, December 12, the bowlers made 

 the following scores: 



Plaver. 1st 2d 3d 



Elnsnian 145 159 206 



Donaldson 173 187 190 



Miesem 189 152 222 



Marshall 137 176 132 



Rickards 138 119 135 



Shaw 1«J8 147 168 



Manda 164 159 201 



Schultz 90 



I'epper Ji^ 



Scott 120 



Berry 156 



HIegel 105 



J. Austin Shaw. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



The fact that we are in the midst of 

 the most beautiful winter weather one 

 could imagine, with the ground covered 

 with snow most of the time since 

 Thanksgiving and the thermometer reg- 

 istering as low as 8 degrees above zero 

 one night last week, will satisfy you 

 that the growers are burning up about 

 as much money as the few carnations 

 they are cutting will bring in. One 

 grower says he has only had the steam 

 out of his pipes once in the last month. 



As Christmas approaches and the 

 short carnation cut stares the grower 

 in the face, it does not look quite as 

 cheerful as he would wish. Business, 

 however, continued good last week, 

 with just about enough demand to use 

 up everything that comes in, and that 

 includes about everything that is grown 

 anywhere. Saturday night every whole- 

 sale house had cleaned up at good prices. 



The retailers have been quite busy all 

 the week. An exceptional amount of 

 funeral work, along with the great num- 

 ber of large social functions, gave them 

 almost more than they could do, and 

 Saturday called for every flower in the 

 city. 



Christmas trees are coming in, as well 

 as some extremely poor holly, which it 

 is claimed is as good as will be gotten 

 this year. The unexpected heavy snows 

 and sleet in the boxwood districts h^'e 

 delayed the shipments of this green, for 

 which there is now constant demand. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club met in the Dutch 

 room. Fort Pitt hotel, December 6, with 

 P. S. Randolph in the chair. After the 

 usual business had been disposed of, the 

 exhibits were taken up. 



S. S. Pennock Meehan Co. sent 

 Melody and Double Killarney, two of 

 the best things seen in a long time. The 

 Double Killarney is a good Killarney — 



