16 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Decbmbeb 22, 1910. 



<:an state definitely the average of 

 values. The tendency is to reasonable 

 figures and no unnatural increase. The 

 abundance of handsome plants makes 

 this impossible. 



The seedsmen's windows everywhere 

 are gay with holly, wreaths, and Christ- 

 mas bells. Few bother with Christmas 

 trees, the grocer and the butcher hav- 

 ing absorbed this trade. The green 

 goods men are working night and day 

 with extra forces to meet the demand 

 for wreathing. Pine is scarce and 

 laurel is forced to take its place. Holly 

 wreaths of good size sell rapidly to the 

 retail florists, and the making of them 

 is largely left now to the supply houses. 



All the retail windows are attrac- 

 tively decorated. The Christmas spirit 

 is dominant. Bed, of course, is the 

 prevailing color. Eibbons are utilized 

 more than ever before. After the 

 quietest season in years, surely grower, 

 wholesaler and retailer all deserve, and 

 let us hope will have, the merriest and 

 most remunerative holiday business 

 they have ever experienced. 



Various Notes. 



Alex. McConnell has tubbed many 

 handsome blue spruces and retinosporas 

 from his New Rochelle nurseries and 

 produced a fine winter effect at his big 

 store entrance and conservatory. This 

 is his final Christmas in this location. 



David Clarke's Sons have drawn 

 heavily upon their greenhouses in the 

 Bronx for their fern and plant display 

 and make an elaborate window exhibit, 

 appropriate for the festive season. 



The A. T. Bunyard Co., on Madison 



Co., of Newburgh, was in the city last 

 week, after a successful New England 

 trip, on his way to spend the Christmas 

 holidays with his family. 



B. Bosens has been laid up with grip 

 for several days, just when the unusual 

 rush most demanded his presence. He 

 reports a larger Christmas business than 

 last season. 



Wm. J. Elliott looks forward hope- 

 fully to a better auction year than the 

 last one. He says it was the poorest 

 in his many years' experience. 



Carl Gloeckner, of the Buds Se^ed 

 Store, has an attractive Japanese win- 

 dow. His importation of the dwarf 

 plants was an extensive and varied one, 

 and popular for Christmas gifts. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. has 

 the handsome store and office now 

 complete, with special cases for their 

 ribbon display. 



The new cut flower house of Sie- 

 brecht & Siebrecht fitted snugjy into 

 the wholesale niche, as if it had always 

 existed. The young men are delighted 

 with the encouragement given them 

 and are handling a lot of good stock 

 from Astoria and New Bochelle. 



J. J. Coan, of the Growers' Co., says 

 he will have a lot of fine mimis for 

 Christmas and even later, Jeanne 

 Nonin and Chadwick among them. 



The English mistletoe imported by 

 Moore, Hentz & Nash was of excep- 

 tional quality this year and sold "like 

 hot cakes." 



W. P. Ford has demonstrated that 

 well-flowered geraniums of the brighter 

 colors are an excellent Christmas spe- 



J. William Colflesh. 



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avenue, with its handsome store and 

 new auto, is doing a fine Christmas 

 business. 



C. W. Scott and wife, of the Yoko- 

 hama Nursery Co., sailed December 21 

 on a delayed honeymoon trip to Ber- 

 muda, and will combine business and 

 pleasure for a week where the lilies 

 bloom. 



Walter Mott. of the Yuess Gardens 



cialty. His sale for these has been 

 large. 



The entire trade sympathizes with 

 Edward Horan and his family in the 

 sudden death of Mrs. Horan, after only 

 % few days' illness. 



J. D. Antoupolous leases a space 

 under Brooklyn bridge stairway, City 

 Hall park, and has handled so many 

 flowers, etc., there that he has been 



spreading out. The city officials de- 

 molished a part of what they called 

 his "encroachments," December 17, 

 and attracted a big crowd and much 

 newspaper conoiment. 



Bowling. 



At the bowling meet December 16 



Chadwick won the Bickards prize. The 



scores were as follows: 



Player— Ist 2d 3d 4th 



Chadwick 202 194 212 174 



Irwin 190 158 189 175 



Manda 195 184 158 187 



Shaw 169 127 124 122 



Berry 116 137 142 121 



Kakuda 141 171 128 108 



Nugent 103 83 88 116 



The standing to date in the contest 



for the Scott prize, to be awarded 



January 1, is: 



Player — Games Ave. 



Chadwick 12 182 



Manda 81 156 



Klelnman 3 154 



Fenrich 14 148 



Smith 27 135 



Scott 31 133 



Berry 80 128 



Shaw 33 128 



Marshall 17 121 



Kakuda 12 120 



McArdle 21 113 



Nugent 80 84 



Friday night, December 30, there 



will be a turkey contest, open to all 



members of the New York Florists' 



Club. J. Austin Shaw. 



Knight & Struck, who are sales 

 agents for H. D. Darlington, say they 

 could not fill all the orders offered them 

 for heaths. Over seventy-five large 

 orders went out December 16, cleaning 

 up all the stock that could be spared. 

 Mr. Darlington intends to largely in- 

 crease his output for next Christmas. 



OBITUARY. 



'J. William Colflesh. 



In the passing away, December 15, 

 of J. William Colflesh the craft in 

 Philadelphia lost another of its veteran 

 members and a man than whom there 

 were none more highly esteemed in the 

 community. He was not a man of self- 

 assertiveness, but his personal acquaint- 

 ance included practically every man in 

 the trade in Philadelphia and the clear- 

 ness of his judgment and purity of his 

 character had endeared him to every- 

 one who knew him either in business, 

 in community affairs, or socially. Mr. 

 Colflesh was one of the charter mem- 

 bers of the Florists' Club of Phila- 

 delphia and was for some years its 

 treasurer. He also was for many years 

 a member of the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society and chairman of its 

 plant committee. He was an ardent 

 worker in all the affairs of horticulture 

 and ever willing to do his share to 

 advance the general interest. His ill- 

 ness had been of considerable duration 

 and he last week underwent a surgical 

 operation in the Presbyterian hospital, 

 from which he failed to rally. 



A meeting of the Florists' Club was 

 held December 16, the day following 

 his death, at which resolutions of re- 

 spect were drafted by Robert Craig, 

 John Westcott and F. Hahman for 

 adoption by the club and to be trans- 

 mitted to the family. 



In his private business Mr. Colflesh 

 had achieved an enviable reputation 

 as a grower. His range of glass at 

 Fifty-third street and Woodland ave- 

 nue, where his son, J. W. Colflesh, was 

 associated with him in the management, 

 has for years been one of the center* 



