Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw28amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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igo4. The American Florist. 47 A serious fire was narrowly averted last Saturday in the Atlas block, in which there are about a dozen florists' stores. The fire partially destroyed several cases of moss in the warehouse of the E. F. Winterson Company. Peter Reinberg has been confined to his bed by sickness. He was able to be out the last days of the week. Daniel Branch is in Minneapolis, Minn , where he was called on account of his mother's illness. John Zeck, who was formerly with ). A. Budlong, has taken a position with E. C. Amling. Visitors this week were W. Bertermann, of Indianapolis, Ind.; R. Will, of Minne- apolis, Minn.; Robert King, of the King Construction Company, Toronto; J. W. Lyon, of Belvidere, 111.; J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, 111.; A. Jablonsky, of Wells- ton, Mo.; E. G. Hill, of Richmond Ind. New York. The cut flower market continues about as last reported. Carnations and roses are holding up more steadily than for several weeks, American Beauty leading, but there is not the usual winter anima- tion and the satisfactory marketing of some things is due more to lightness of supply than to seasonable demand. Violets retain their low prices as hereto- fore. A season of temperate weather would help the violet crop greatly in its sale and, no doubt, when that comes the growers will have a more comfortable experience. All bulbous stock, including fine Golden Spur narcissi, isoverplentiful, selling being devoid of any hopeful feat- ures. Lily of the valley shares in the depression although of excellent quality, as a rule. Lilacs have never been so good nor so plentiful here at this season as at present. The dinner of the New York Florists' Club will be held Saturday, February 20, at 7:30 p. m., at the St. Denis hotel. A corps of entertainers has been engaged and every effort is being made by the efficient committee to insure an enjoyable evening. Victor S. Dorval, of Woodside, has pur- chased tour acres of ground at Manhas- set, L. I., for the building of a new plant. Several more growers are talking of doing the same thing. Taxes are getting too high to make it pay in greater New York. A son of Gustav Frumiere, of Jersey City, died January 28 from the effects of excessive cigarette smoking. The boy was thirteen years of age. Mrs. Julius Hanft died Monday, Feb- ruary 1. Philadelphia. A new device for collecting the black soot from bituminous coal smoke has been installed at Robert Craig & Sons and it ■ appears to work like a charm. A fan run by water power draws the smoke from the stack near the bottom and forces it through several thin sheets or sprays of water which spread completely across the special smoke flue. It is then forced against a series of clay tiles set on end, to which much of the smoke sticks and which is again washed off by the falling water to the bottom of the flue and empties into a submerged tank. Here the soot rises to the top from which it is gathered, as it has a good commer- cial value. After the cleansing process the smoke passed back into the main stack and averages at least seventy-five per cent purer. The drait is about the
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STANDING SHIELD AT FUNERAL OF GEN. J. B. GORDON. same, there being no noticeable difference. Should this prove as successful as the inventors claim, and as the trial appears to prove it will, it should meet with great favor everywhere. Another spell of extreme cold weather has made further inroads on the coal pile. Some of the growers say that they have already burned as much as last sea- son and what is required from now until the spring season will bring up this item of expense to a record breaking point. Business is slow; there seems no life to it and still there is a scarcity of flowers in some lines. Beauty roses are noticeably scarce. Liberty fill in nicely and are taken in preference to the shorter Beauty. Bulbous stock is now to be seen in quantity, all the lines being full. Double Von Sions came in a week ago and are now to be had by the thousand. Car- nations are at their best and some extra fine stock is seen, the stars being Prosperity, Lord, etc. Craig's Vesper, the new fringed white, is very fine and S. S. Pennock claims it to be one of the best sellers. There was a very interesting meeting of the Florists' club last Tuesday even- ing. The chief attraction was the paper read by Secretary W. J. Stewart on "We and Our Field." This was handled in a masterly manner, being full of good thoughts and suggestions. It was well received and he was given a vote of thanks by the club. A. Fahrenwald is to tell us how to grow Liberty roses at the March meeting and as his stock is now the best in the country he should have a large audience. M. B. Myers, of the Colonial Flower shop, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. K. Boston. The January exhibition at Horticul- tural Hall on Saturday was the best on record. Over five hundred bottles of orchid blooms were shown by the F. L. Ames estate, W. N. Craig gardener; J, E. Rothwell, E.Johanssengardener.and Mrs. J. L. Gardner, Wm. Thatcher gardener, to whom were awarded the Appleton sil- ver gilt medal, silver medal and bronze medal respectively. There were c-chid plants by Lager & Hurrell and Colonel

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