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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



March 23. 1911. 



weeks in New York, where he replaced 

 Percy B. Kigby, who was in the south 

 for a fortnight. 



Edward Kiley is out of the hospital. 



Phil. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Spring has arrived and the express strike 

 is not yet over as the week opens. Flowers 

 have arrived hours behind time and when 

 they do arrive the wholesalers cannot get 

 them, even when they send their own 

 wagons. So the unsatisfactory condi- 

 tions existing in the New York market 

 can better be imagined than described. 

 Some boxes have been found after days 

 of searching. Yet there is enough of 

 everything to supply all legitimate de- 

 mands, with a surplus that only the street 

 can handle. These sidewalk merchants 

 are the salvation of the overcrowded mar- 

 ket. 



The best roses, except American Beau- 

 ties, are down to 5 cents in large lots, 

 and $6 per hundred is considered high. 

 Straight slips sometimes are passed out 

 at half that quotation. The quality of 

 the rose stock is superb. The Beauty sup- 

 ply is increasing and prices are on the 

 down grade. As to carnations, 2 cents 

 will buy the best of them. St. Patrick's 

 day brought a fair demand for everything 

 white. The orchid supply is sufficient for 

 all demands, but has not yet descended 

 to the street for patronage, though its 

 sister flower, the gardenia, is obliged to 

 seek that outlet. Lilies of all kinds are 

 lower, including valley. Only the best of 

 the sweet pea varieties sell, and of tulips, 

 narcissi and daffodils there is no end. 

 The southern shipments are fast increas- 

 ing. Much of the violet stock is inferior. 

 Even the street and the big department 

 stores cannot take all that come in, even 

 at their own figures. 



The Banquet. 



The banquet of the ilorists' Club, 

 March 18, came up to general expecta- 

 tion. An attendance of 250, beautifully 

 decorated tables, a splendid menu, good 

 orchestral music, a vaudeville entertain- 

 ment and addresses by J. S. Brunton and 

 J. Brown, of the English visitors, and 

 by F. K. Pierson and P. O'Mara, of the 

 club, and Chester I. Campbell, of Boston, 

 with dancing afterward, made up a pro- 

 gram of unusual interest. 



Chairman Weathered presented ex- 

 President Miller with the club's memento 

 of his services during 1910, a handsome 

 diamond pin. 



President J. B. Nugent, Jr., ably pre- 

 sided as toastmaster. Will Macdonald, 

 of the Yonkers Horticultural Society, 

 sang splendidly, and the greatest of good 

 fellowship prevailed. 



Tables of eight permitted friends to 

 be seated congenially, and the whole af- 

 fair was voted the most brilliant gath- 

 ering of ladies and gentlemen in the 

 club's history. Regrets came from 

 Messrs. Asmus, Valentine, Kasting, Hill, 

 Craig and many other notables. Messrs. 

 Farquhar, Edgar, Stewart and Camp- 

 bell and Mr. and Mrs. P. Welch were the 

 galaxy from the Hub. 



Various Notes. 



The new plant market opens April 1 at 

 Fifty-ninth street and First avenue, under 

 the new bridge. 



The British Horticulturists arrived on 

 the Lusitania March 18 and were met at 

 the pier by E. Vincent, Jr., of White 



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