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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mat 11. 1011. 



decorations will b& made up of plants 

 from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



J. Farney, representing M. Rice & 

 Co., Philadelphia, and A. Viaud, repre- 

 senting Philip L. Carbone, Boston, are 

 here this week, calling on the trade. 

 Both say they had a good trade since 

 leaving home. 



Albert Gums, one of Geo. H. Anger- 

 mueller's right-hand men, was back at 

 his post last week, after ten days of 

 sickness. 



The Paris Floral Co., ,at Broadway 

 and Olive street, which is run by Fred 

 Foster, held an opening of its new store 

 last week and gave away cut carna- 

 tions. The store has a large show win- 

 dow, with an entrance on each side, 

 and the interior is prettily arranged. 



Arthur Meyer, bookkeeper for C. A. 

 Kuehn, was the victim of a painful 

 accident May 3. On leaving the store 

 he boarded a car for home and a sudden 

 start threw him off and broke his right 

 arm. It will be several weeks before he 

 will be able to be in harness again. 



David Geddes, who for a long time 

 has been with F. C. Weber, has ac- 

 cepted a position with Mrs. M. M. 

 Ayers. Mr. Geddes was also at one 

 time with C. A. Samuelson, Chicago. 

 Joseph Witek, who for the last two 

 years was Mrs. Ayers' head man, has 

 accepted a position with Fred C. Weber. 



Henry Lorenzo, who, with his wife, 

 has run the Park Floral Co., at Missis- 

 sippi and Park avenues, died May 6. 

 He had been ill for some time. The 

 funeral took place May 8 and many 

 members of the trade extended their 

 sympathy to the widow and children. 



The Koenig Floral Co., Fred H, Mein- 

 hardt and other florists near the big 

 cemeteries have their hands full now, 

 planting out and taking care of large 

 lots in these cemeteries. 



Ernest Strehle, superintendent of 

 public parks, has a large force of men 

 at work planting the big flower beds in 

 the different parks. Mr. Strehle was 

 appointed to fill out the term of the 

 late George Ostertag. 



Fred H. Weber has been exceedingly 

 busy of late and has had little time to 

 attend to his duties as state vice-presi- 

 dent of the S. A. F., the office assigned 

 to him by President Asmus, but he is 

 acknowledged to be a bustler and will 

 make up for lost time when the spring 

 rush is over. 



The trustees of the Florists' Club 

 held a meeting at Smith's, May 6, and 

 made arrangements for a fit celebration 

 of the club's twenty-fifth anniversary, 

 which occurs June 28. 



The frosts of last week did little if 

 any harm to the fruit crop in Missouri, 

 according to Professors J. C. Whitten 

 and W. L. Howard, of the horticultural 

 department of the State University of 

 Missouri. Burners were placed in readi- 

 ness in nearly all the fruit orchards and 

 would have been used had the tempera- 

 ture fallen below 30 degrees. Smudge 

 pots were used in all orchards around 

 Springfield, St. Joseph and Jefferson 

 City. 



Henry Enders, who has been a stu- 

 dent at the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 for the last four years, has been award- 

 ed a scholarship at Kew Gardens, Eng- 

 land, being selected from a long waiting 

 list of American applicants for a schol- 

 arship at Kew. He will sail May 17 on 

 the Campania for England, to take up 

 his new work. He is the third Shaw's 

 Garden student to win a scholarship. 

 We wish the young man much good luck 

 and a safe return home. J. J. B. 



NEW YOBK. 



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The Market. 



"The good old summer time" seems 

 to have arrived at last. The wholesale 

 cut flower market is convalescing. The 

 last days of last week developed an 

 encouraging improvement; the over- 

 whelming shipments shortened up con- 

 siderably and prices steadied. Immense 

 quantities of lilac from the south are 

 here, depressing the value of the home 

 product badly. Dogwood, fruit tree 

 blossoms and even branches of mag- 

 nolias combine to make the retail win- 

 dows everywhere attractive. These, 

 too, are utilized largely in wedding and 

 dinner decorations, and of the latter 

 especially there seems to be no end. 

 June holds out much encouragement for 

 the decorators and the bookings for 

 that month are already numerous. 



As to roses, there has been no ad- 

 vance in price worthy of mention and 

 overshipment will drop them again to 

 the depressing level of the last two 

 weeks, a condition seldom realized ex- 

 cept in the hottest month of the year. 

 Carnations are doing better, and Moth- 

 ers' day, May 14, should aid in the 

 uplift. Orchids are worth 50 cents now, 

 when perfect. Gardenias from the 

 south are flooding the market and the 

 quality is poor. The best blooms from 

 the local growers do not sell at over $1 

 a dozen. There seems to be no end to 

 the supply of lilies; $1 per hundred for 

 lilies is a condition without precedent. 

 Let us hope it may never happen again. 

 There is plenty of valley at half the 

 prices of ten days ago. Of sweet peas, 

 tulips and narcissi there is enough smd 

 to spare. 



Club Meeting. 



The meeting of the Florists' Club 

 May 8 was well attended and President 

 Nugent opened promptly at 8 o'clock, 

 which enabled him to carry out the long 

 program and close at a reasonable hour. 



C. H. Totty reported success in the 

 effort to secure an appropriation of 

 $20,000 for the greenhouses at the New 

 Brunswick Experiment Station. The 

 outing committee reported a change in 

 arrangements for June 28, making 

 tickets for lady and gentleman $6, 

 single tickets for gentlemen $4, and for 

 ladies $2.50. The essay committee re- 

 ported the promise of stereopticon lec- 

 tures in the autumn by J. Otto Thilow, 

 of Philadelphia, and J. K. M. L. Farqu- 

 har, of Boston, also the promise of 

 papers at the June meeting by Messrs. 

 Esler, Rickards, Stewart, Schultz and 

 Young. J. Fisher, M. Du Eie and Joseph 

 Bobinson were elected to membership. 

 A committee was appointed to draw up 

 resolutions on the death of a sister of 

 W. E. Marshall. The secretary read a 

 letter from P. Welch, Boston, in answer 

 to one sent by the club in appreciation 

 of the courtesies at the National Flower 

 Show. 



Arthur T. Boddington read a thor- 

 oughly practical paper on his recent trip 

 to Bermuda and on the Harrisii situa- 

 tion. A. Kakuda, of the Yokohama 

 Nursery Co., spoke on the lily question 

 from the Japanese standpoint. James 

 McHutchison was introduced to talk on 

 "South American Floriculture," but 

 said it is a misnomer, as there isn 't any 

 floriculture there. Still, he made the 

 account of his recent travels there ex- 

 tremely interesting to his audience. W. 

 B. Du Rie, schoolteacher-florist, spoke 

 in characteristic vein of the work the 



school teachers are doing in behalf of 

 floriculture. M. C. Ebel talked on the 

 practical features of the use of insecti- 

 cides. Each speaker was given a vote 

 of thanks. 



Eobert Schultz, of Madison, staged a 

 vase of splendid Bicbmond roses and 

 was awarded a cultural certificate. 



Al. Bickards, chairman' of the house 

 committee, provided liberally for the 

 inner man. 



Various Notes. 



A committee has been appointed bj' 

 the Greek Florists' Society to arrange 

 for its annual outing sometime in July. 



The new store of the Growers' Cut 

 Flower Co. had in its big window last 

 week some grand Gladiolus Brenchley- 

 ensis and some fine specimens of the 

 giant Calla Devoniensis. * 



Fengar's splendid Spanish iris is in 

 the market again. 



J. K. Allen, as is his custom, is on 

 deck with the first peonies of the 

 season. 



M, A. Bowe calls his new store at 12 

 West Thirty-third street, opposite the 

 Waldorf, "The Shop Beautiful." This 

 will be his headquarters until the fall, 

 when he will return to Broadway. 



The florists' supply men on Twenty- 

 eighth and Twenty-ninth streefr.i,* ''e 

 all had a satisfactory season. ">;:>, 'SRn 

 of them will leave for Europe in June 

 on their annual quest for novelties. 



J. J. Fellouris has completed the 

 changes in his new store, 100 feet deep. 

 He has sublet the entire upper floor to 

 a Greek social club and will sublet part 

 of the ground floor space to a wholesale 

 florist. 



The demand for the new fern, Drey- 

 erii, Mr. Kessler says, is exceedingly 

 satisfactory. 



Gunther Bros, have a new carnation, 

 unnamed, that will be shortly on exhibi- 

 tion and which possesses great merit 

 and size, and is of a brilliant pink color. 

 The few that arrive daily are taken by 

 one of the Fifth avenue florists. 



M. C. Ebel, of the Aphine Co., Madi- 

 son, N. J., will give a demonstration of 

 his insecticides at Baltimore the last 

 week of May, at the Baltimore Florists ' 

 Exchange. 



James McManus, now at West 

 Twenty-eighth street, is well pleased 

 with his new location. 



An executive meeting of the com- 

 mittee of the National Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety was held at the Astor House 

 May 5. 



Alex. McConnell furnished the bou- 

 quets for the Gould wedding. 



Lawrence W, Kervan is back from a 

 two weeks' rest in* Florida. 



Many report the new market at 

 Fifty-ninth Street a success, but the 

 opening of the market before 5 a. m. 

 is widely condemned. 



A. R, Kennedy, of Kennedy & Hunter, 

 announces the arrival of the stork last 

 week, with an embryo seedsman, the 

 bird's first visit. 



Bowling. 



The elimination contest is on, to 

 decide the membership of the team to 

 represent New York at Baltimore. The 

 scores May 5 were: 



Player. 1st 2d 3d 



Chadwlck 141 172 



Al. Rickards 147 119 



Nugent 88 100 109 



Kakuda 155 145 167 



Shaw 102 107 104 



W. Rickards 116 144 134 



Holt 146 135 129 



Scott 135 138 125 



Manda 188 177 168 



Irwln 148 144 138 



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