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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw23amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
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Tgoi. The american Fl'oris t. "195 regions of Porto Rico has been added to the list under cultivation at the New York Botanic Garden. The Torrey Botanical Club has presented its valuable herbarium to the garden. Prof. Brittoii has gone to the Windward Islands on a collecting tour. The range of conservatories which Hitchings & Company have contracted to erect for W. D. Sloan at Elm Court, Lenox, Mass., will be one of the most complete in the country. Construction will begin about September 15. The German American Horticultural Society will hold its annual exhibition at Birkenhauer & Baumann'sHall,Newark, N. T-, September 8 to 10. A liberal prize list is oftered and a very fine display is looked for. The New York Florists' Club will hold its regular meeting on Monday evening, September 9. Madison Square exhibi- tion topics will be uppermost. The flower business is in a trance. Chicago. SUMMER SE.VSON PROVED SATISFACTORY TO ALL WHOLESALERS — THE BIGGEST AUGUST ON RECOB U.—SUPPLIES OF STOCK • INCREASING.—PRICES WEAKEN.—STREET SALESMEN AGAIN ABLE TO OPERATE.— SOME PROFITABLE ASTERS.— VARIOUS NOTES OF VARYING INTEREST IN THE . MARKET. If the autumn season, which is now upon us, proves to be proportionately as good as was the summer, the operators in this market will have some vacation money by the time the year rolls around again. It is the general verdict that never has August given so good results. The wholesalers have had the best of the summer business, for withrareexceptions the retailers do not report such a pros- perous season as has been the rule in the wholesale market. Some of the retailers, however, have done very well, for funeral work has been much in demand right .along. This week stock has become more plentiful and for the first time in a couple of months the street fakirs have been able to operate with something besides garden flowers. The first grades of Beauties, roses and carnations have not been in sufficient supply to meet require- ments, but the lower grade stock has increased materially and on Tuesday, carnations, which have been at a premium for weeks, were back to the old stand- point of 5 cents and 10 cents a bunch. There have been a great many soft tea roses which have been moved at low rates and prices all along the line have been weaker. With this condition prevailing, asters have fallen from their high estate and- have ceased to cut the figure they did a couple of weeks ago. There are still thousands of them and the good ones are moving fairly well, but the lower grades hang fire badly. One finds pots of gladioli in every establishment and there are quite a good many dahlias and -some of them are of very good quality. The retailers are clearing the decks for action, as the schools reopened this week and this always calls the summer turists home. The Harms Park Floral Company' was very successful with its asters this year. They had a tract of one and one-quarter acres devoted to them, a total of approxi- mately 30,000 plants. Their best variety is Carlson's Improved, which was intro- duced by D. S. Heflfron, father of Walter Heffron, of McKellar & Winterson's. .They did not water the field this year ' and the plants were grown naturally, ■«yithout disbudding. The first crop
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HYDRANGEAS ON THE LAWN AT SUNSET", LAVEROCK. PA. was very good, but later flowers were smaller and somewhat browned on the tnds of the petals as the result of recent rains. They say that next year, they are going into asters more extensively. E. C. Amling is the selling agent. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Galveston disaster and the Woman's Protective Association has arranged for memorial services. Mrs. Chas. Eickholt. the florist, was on the committee and called on Chicago wholesalersforflowers. Those who responded were W. A. John- ston, of Hinsdale, F. F. Benthey & Co., Poehlmann Bros. Co., McKellar & Win- terson and Bassett & Washburn. The weather is so hot that only the freshest stock could be sent. The U. S. Express Company carried the shipment free. The George Wittbold Company reports that August was the biggest month in the historj' of the house so far as ship- ping trade goes. The best previous record was made in October, 1900. Their stock is all in prime condition and they have their houses full to their greatest capacity. S. M. Wile, who was formerly foreman for W. J. Dana, at Wellesley, Mass., and recently with George Reinberg as beauty grower, has gone to Los Angeles, Cal., where he has taken an interest in and becomes manager of the California Rose Company. Lorenz Becker is adding several new houses to his range on North Roby street, where he has eleven houses 25x155 already planted with the leading varie- ties ol carnations. His stock is in good shape. Peter Reinberg has bought stock for the planting of a field of two or three acres of pjeonias at New Castle. The plants came from Peterson & Son and Klehms'. James HoUowav, gardener on the Pratt estate. Glen Side, L. I., one of the finest private places in the country, was a visitor here last week. Miss Lottie Wilson, formerly book- keeper for A. G. Prince, is now assisting Mrs. Horton at Bassett & Washburn's. E. H. Hunt received a shipment of Dutch bulbs September 3, the first to reach the custom house here. Webster Randall and Mrs. Randall are at home from a visit with Mr. Randall's parents in Pennsylvania. Kennicott Brothers Company reports the call for wire work as exceeding all previous records. Gus. Wittbold and Mrs. Wittbold returned Tuesday from a visit with relatives at Cleveland. Frank Garland has potted up 6,000 Japanese longiflorums, the 7-9 inch size. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Deamud have returned from their vacation trip. Mrs. D. W. Brant is at home from a month's visit at Kalamazoo. Oakwoods Cemetery is building a range of new greenhouses Visitors: Albert Dickens, Manhattan, Kans.; J. R. Fotheringham, Tarrytown, N. Y.; Wm. Foith, Elgin, III ; Jas. J. Curran, Kalamazoo, Mich. Boston. SUMMER BUSINESS NO LONGER A LIVE IS-UE.—FALL CAMPAIGN NOW OCCUPY- ING ALL MINDS —NEW BEG'^NIA SHORT OF THE DEMAND.—OLD GUARD ON AN OUTING. — VARIOUS ITEMS OF LOCAL IMPORT. September is here and reminds us that summer business is no longer a living issue. Whether it has been, or is at thie present moment, satisfactory or other- wise matters little now, for preparations for the fall and winter campaign are in order and give all plenty to think about and plan for. Growers find abundant work in housing carnations and in other seasonable operations and those who grow for the cut flower market will soon begin regular shipments. There is little in evidence yet as to the quantitv of stock of various kinds which will be available for outside orders, except iij the case of Begonia Gloire de Lorraine.

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