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The Weekly Florists Review. 



February 2, 1911. 



year on carnations and consists of the 

 same number of carnation plants grown 

 in little sections in the benches. These 

 sections or controls are fed with com- 

 mercial fertilizers, as compared with the 

 same number of plants fed with the 

 usual manure which the average grower 

 would use, duch as cattle manure, sheep 

 manure, etc. The idea is to determine 

 the best method of growing carnations 

 in a commercial manner, whether by the 

 use of the regular commercial fertilizer 

 or by the use of the ordinary manures, 

 to see which will produce the best re- 

 sults, Mr. Dorner having kept a record 

 of the number of flowers cut from each 

 little section. The growing of carna- 

 tions in the most profitable manner is 

 a vital point, of interest to each florist. 

 Also, the point to decide whether the 

 grafted rose plants or own-root rose 

 plants are the best, as both grafted and 

 own-root roses are being grown in an 

 experimental way to compare with each 

 other. Both of these are interesting 

 points to every grower and the trip 

 should be made to investigate and hear 

 the results of the experiments. 



The Illinois State Florists' Society 

 has joined with other commercial bodies 

 in this state and secured an order from 

 the Board of Railway and Warehouse 

 Commissioners to reduce the express 

 rates in this state twenty per cent. The 

 express companies got an injunction 

 against the board, claiming that it has 

 no jurisdiction in this matter, but this 

 will soon be decided. Other matters 

 which the society has carried out will 

 be reported on by the various commit- 

 tees. 



There will be an exhibition of va- 

 rious new varieties in roses and carna- 

 tions which are being offered to the 

 public this season. The E. G. Hill Co. 

 has promised to show the new pink rose, 

 Eose Queen, and also the new yellow 

 rose, Mrs. Aaron Ward. This latter 

 rose has been quite freely distributed 

 in the east and has proven an excep- 

 tionally pretty rose. It seems to be a 

 free bloomer and the public has taken 

 to it in good shape. The Hill Co. will 

 also show some of its new varieties of 

 carnations. The Chicago Carnation Co. 

 has promised to exhibit all of its new 

 varieties, and a number of other grow- 

 ers have promised to bring in their new 

 things. It will make the cut flowers a 

 very interesting exhibition. 



The banquet promises to be a very 

 pleasant affair. Phil Foley has prom- 

 ised to be there with a brand-new stock 

 of stories and this meeting will be a 

 good opportunity for all of the mem- 

 bers to become acquainted with each 

 other, making new friends. All are in- 

 vited to come, whether they are mem- 

 bers or not. It only costs $1 per year 

 to become a member, or $10 to become 

 a life member. The work which the 

 association is doing is well worth the 

 small expense of the dues. It has been 

 carried on without pay by the oflBcers, 

 most of the work having been per- 

 formed by the secretary, J. F. Ammann. 

 C. L. Washburn, Pres. 



SHASTA DAISIES. 



Do you disbud Shasta daisies when 

 putting the flowers on the market? 

 S. & S. 



I have never seen any necessity for 

 disbudding Shasta daisies. The stems 

 invariably throw up a solitary flower 

 and, even when side buds are left, they 

 do not adversely affect the flower in 

 any way. C. W. 



NEW YOBS. 



The Market. 



The week opens with continued mild 

 weather, but with cut flower values 

 fairly steady, although there is no 

 shortage of anything. Few Beauties 

 touch 60 cents, only the best selected 

 stock commanding that figure. A good 

 deal of mediocre stock of this variety 

 arrives. The supply of all other roses 

 is increasing daily and prices are sag- 

 ging. My Maryland is lower, in both 

 price and quality. As usual, Killarney 

 dominates and controls the rose market. 

 Its popularity, if anything, is on the 

 increase. • 



The carnation shipments are now 

 abundant. Little common stock reaches 

 the New York market, for anything but 

 the best in quality and variety is al- 

 most unsalable here. McKinley day 

 seems to have received less attention 

 this year than last. There continues to 

 be a bountiful supply of orchids in all 

 the seasonable varieties and there has 

 not yet been any advance in prices; 

 50 cents will buy the finest blooms. 

 Cjrpripediums have declined. For the 

 best gardenias $5 to $6 a dozen is read- 

 ily obtained. There seems to be an un- 

 limited supply, somewhere, of the low 

 grade stock, and these depend upon the 

 street merchants for their sale. 



Violets are abundant and 40 cents 

 seems to be the top quotation. The 

 street men offer them at 25 cents a 

 bunch and clean up the surplus as low 

 as $2 per thousand. The supply of the 

 best grade of valley seems limited, but 

 the market is full of the inferior grades. 

 Sweet peas are improving. Purity 

 freesia is grand and commands 25 to 35 

 cents a bunch, while the commoner va- 

 rieties go as low as $10 for 100 bunches. 

 All the spring flowers are increasing in 

 volume, and ]prices are steady at last 

 week's quotations. 



Smilax is too plentiful and has sold 

 down to $4 per hundred strings. The 

 best could be bought for $1 a dozen 

 January 30. Lilies are down to $10 per 

 hundred. Green goods are steady and 

 abundant. A good deal of wild smilax 

 is used, and there have been some elab- 

 orate dinner and ball decorations that 

 have kept the supply houses hustling. 

 The outlook is encouraging and from 

 now until Lent society will make every 

 day count in floral demonstration. The 

 Gould wedding, February 7, will be the 

 most elaborate of this year, or any year 

 since Alexander McConnell began to 

 marry off the Four Hundred some thirty 

 or forty years ago. 



Various Notes. 



Monday, February 13, the next meet- 

 ing of the New York Florists' Club 

 will be held in the Grand Opera House 

 building on Twenty-third street. Rich- 

 ard Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, Md., 

 will lecture on his experiences in 

 Europe and his trip through the Holland 

 bulb fields, using the stereopticon. 

 Chairman Berry and his committee will 

 demonstrate their ability as caterers 

 and there will be some interesting ex- 

 hibits. In the afternoon the club will 

 bowl, and all members are invited. 



The Yonkers Horticultural Society 

 will have its second annual dinner at 

 the Park Hill Inn, Yonkers, Tuesday 

 evening, February 7. 



Young & Nugent will open their new 

 store at 789 Madison avenue, corner of 

 Sixty-seventh street, March 1. The 



neighborhood is excellent, the store is 

 100 feet deep, and there will be a con- 

 servatory and all the modern attrac- 

 tions. Mr. Nugent 's brother will be 

 manager. The store on West Twenty- 

 eighth street will continue as Mr. Nu- 

 gent 's headquarters. 



The fifth annual banquet of the (}len 

 Cove Horticultural Society, Wednesday 

 evening, January 25, was a great suc- 

 cess, and the dining hall was crowded, 

 a large number of visit6rs from New 

 York and sister clubs attending. Presi- 

 dent Trepess was in the chair and pre- 

 sented ex-President James Duthie with 

 the gold links won in competition. Mr. 

 Trepess was the recipient of a gold 

 piece from Mr. Duthie for meritorious 

 exhibits. J. A. Shaw was toastmaster. 

 Will Rickards and Andrew Wilson sang, 

 Jas. Tough made melody with the bag- 

 pipes and W. E. Kinnear recited. 

 Messrs. Ebel, Totty, Duckham, Sehultz, 

 Sperling, W. Rickards, Jr., Maynard, 

 Bunyard, MacNiff, Burnett, Butterfield 

 and Wilson were the New York depu- 

 tation. V 



Geo. M. Emmons, one of the growers 

 for Louis Noe, has an orange tree with 

 168 oranges, ripe and delicious, on ex- 

 hibition at his greenhouses at Newton, 

 N. J. 



Frank S. Good, lately of Buffalo, is 

 now with John S. Nicholas, on Forty- 

 second street. 



Philip Breitmeyer, of Detroit, was in 

 the city January 27 on his way to Cuba. 



Miss Grace Le Gendre is now book- 

 keeper for Traendly & Schenck, Mrs. 

 Savin having retired after a faithful 

 service of many years. 



The Aphine Mfg. Co., of Madison, has 

 offered a prize for each man of the 

 winning team in the coming bowling 

 match between New York and Ruther- 

 ford. 



Harry Cathcart, of the Yuess Gardens 

 Co., of Newburgh, was a recent visitor. 

 The company's new houses are nearing 

 completion. 



Quite a number of the wholesalers are 

 serving their country as jurists, much to 

 their dissatisfaction. 



Andrew Wilson, of Chatham, N. J., 

 is on the road for the Wilson Plant Oil 

 and Fertilizer Co. The New York oflBce 

 of the firm is 150 Nassau street. 



February 8 there will be a flower ex- 

 hibition in conjunction with the month- 

 ly meeting of the Horticultural Society 

 of New York. A number of prizes will 

 be offered at each exhibition, the second 

 Wednesday of each month. 



The seed houses are all busy. If this 

 mild weather continues, their customers 

 will soon be planting. 



The poultry exhibit of the Stumpp & 

 Walter Co. makes one of their big win- 

 dows on Barclay street a constant cen- 

 ter of attraction for the pedestrians in 

 lower New York. 



Al. Rickards, of Rickards Bros., is 

 away on his annual spring, visit to the 

 firm's patrons and reports the outlook 

 promising. All the seedsmen's repre- 

 sentatives on the road have a similar 

 story to tell. 



Kessler Bros, have had many large 

 decorative orders lately and say the 

 new fern, Dreyerii, is going fast. 



Joseph Manda's entire household, ex- 

 cept himself, was almost asphyxiated by 

 escaping gas last week. An alarm clock 

 saved the children and maid in the nick 

 of time. Joe, with his usual luck, was 

 occupying the bridal chamber and the 

 gas never touched him. 



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