The Weekly Florists' Review. 



39 



The Experiment Station Building at New Brunswick, N. J. 



Cotter has been cutting well, especially 

 on Carnots. J. S. Manteb. 



The Market. 

 Tliaiiksfriving ilny trade was considered 

 _ . .1 In lintli wholesaler and retailer. 

 I li ^ii|i|>l\ of stock was good, especially 



AmeiKan Beauties were fairly good, 

 and fust quality, which was rather 

 Maice, sold readily at $3 per doz. 

 '^li.ii t( I tt( rnmcd stock brought $1 and $2 

 I I di / iiid the market sold short early 

 111 I'll d 1 1-. The smaller varieties of 

 I. ^ul.l iioin $3 to $5 per 100. Brides 

 n I Mill- wore the most plentiful and 

 I Ml I more of these varieties are 

 M III than ever before. The quality 

 1-1 I in I lilts of them are sold as low 

 1^ ^1 pel LOO and some go to the waste 

 pile Red roses were short in supply. 

 I <(iod Woottons sold well and Meteors of 

 lli( hi^t quality ruled at $6. 



C ai nations were in good demand. Red 

 and pink were most called for and $3 

 wa', the asking price for fancy varieties. 

 Good Scotts and Flora Hills w*e $2 and 

 the common grades $1.50, which was the 

 low pi ice. Pickled stock was sold for 

 wliat it was worth. 



1 he mum season is about over. A few 

 1 uiri ones are coming and range in price 

 1 101 11 'iO cents to $2 per doz. 



The supply of violets was better than 

 expected and brought $1 per 100 at first, 

 1)UL (he piice dropped later in the day 

 fo r>0 cents and some remained unsold 

 iv(n at that price. 



Romans are plenty at $3 per 100. 

 Many of them come in spoiled, caused 

 by being badly packed, and as a rule are 

 a total loss to the grower. 



The wholesale firms all had a good 

 '-hipping trade and report good business 

 in thi^ line and in some cases there was 

 quite an increase, compared with former 

 Neai', with prices fully as good as last 

 ■-eaMin The retailers claim that the 

 piKos weie as good as in foiiner years 

 and all aie satisfied. 



House plants are moving better and 

 the demand from now on until after the 

 holidays should be good for this class of 

 trade. 



mum grower cleared up his crop and 

 that better prices will now be realized 

 on the remaining blooms. Probably grow- 

 ers of other varieties of flowers, can 

 hold the greater part of the increase 

 in price now for the winter. 



Various Items. 



There has been the sharpest competi- 

 tion on roses for a couple of years. Be- 

 fore that time the E. M. Wood establish- 

 ment had but little competition, prac- 

 tically, for the heaviest part of the city 

 trade. This fall, for some reason, the 

 roses from that establishment have not 

 been up to their former standard, while 

 twO' or three other growers have raised 

 their standard, notably R. Montgomery 

 and W. S. Wilson. The latter has been 

 at the head of the class the larg- 

 er part of the time since buying 

 the John Montgomery place. At the 

 beginning of Thanksgiving week, how- 

 ever, R. Montgomery steps to the 

 head with a bo.xful of the best goods 

 of the kind that ever struck the city at 

 this time of year. It reminds one of 

 the old-fashioned spelling class where a 

 boy leaves ofT at the head of the class 



every night, going to the foot to work 

 his way up again. No man can stay at 

 the head of any floral class for any great 

 length of time. 



Red roses are better vPinp'^pnted by lo- 

 cal growers now tlmii ivi r lnLne. Sev- 

 eral are bringiiiLi -mliIIii \;iiieties of 

 them in and J. M. \l. l-.n l.nir. of No. 

 Easton, is in Park street nuirketing some 

 very good American Beauties. He reached 

 $7 with a dozen of 3-foot ones on Wed- 

 nesday. 



Dana has been pulling very steadily 

 on some tine yellow ones but his pink 

 and white, though coming better now, 

 have been slow on account of an attack 

 of mildew. It will be his turn at the head 

 a little later. Anderson & Williams 

 have their usual good crop and have 

 just left ofT at the head of the Kaiserin 

 class for the summer. J. W. Howard 

 stands far at the head on that variety, 

 which is almost out of style now. It 

 is never very popular when Brides are 

 coming good. Elliott has been reaping 

 glory and shekels more from his Liber- 

 ties than from his more usual grades. 

 Naturally my facilities for keeping track 

 of those who never enter the basement of 

 Brimstone corner are limited, but I know 



Notes. 



Joe Rolker, of New York, is in town 

 calling on the trade. 



A meeting of the show committee was 

 held last Friday at Weber's. As all the 

 collections were not in another meeting 

 will be held before the regular club meet- 

 ing so as to bring in a full report and 

 pay off the prizes. 



Charles Connon, who has been ill for 

 some time past, is much improved and 

 e.xpects to be out again by the end of 

 the week. 



George Kellogg, of Pleasant Hill, Mo., 

 is sending in some fine mushrooms to 

 this market which find ready sale. 



All club members, who had tickets to 

 sell for the late show, are requested to 

 make returns at the next meeting of the 

 club, which will b* held Thursday after- 

 noon, December 13, at 3 o'clock. 



The bowling club seems to have taken 

 a new lease of life and the meetings are 

 well attended every Monday nio'ht 

 Messrs. Miller, Ellis and Mohr are the 

 new members. Now if some of the old 

 ones would come it would seem like olden 

 times. 



J. M. Hudson has opened a retail store 

 at 1212 Olive street. 



