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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions. 

 Probably business is fully as good as 

 usual at this lime of year or even bet- 

 ter. A large amount of goods is being 

 moved, prices ranging from very low to 

 very fair. If anything is overplentiful 

 it niust be lilies, double violets and roses. 

 Other materials in fair supply, except 

 good carnations, smilax and Sprengeri, 

 and these are not so scarce as they have 

 been. An exception must be made of 

 red roses, since they are much more 

 plentiful and surely the demand seems 

 smaller. Some large stores that have 

 carried a stock of Beauties all winter do 

 not now dare to purchase them on spec- 

 ulation, but perhaps carry a small stock 

 of Brunners instead. 



Various Items. 



George Sutherland demands the right 

 to label his 34 Hawley street establish- 

 ment the most complete wholesale place 

 in New England. He keeps everything 

 compactly on one floor and has expand- 

 ed laterally some four or live hundred 

 square feet in two rooms; one for a 

 wire worker and one for the manufac- 

 ture of the Koral letter. This letter is 

 working up a fine reputation, and he is 

 now working the same idea into dififerent 

 designs. His new addition of territory 

 also gives him a fine rear entrance to his 

 store and a spacious private office. 



Phil Feinstein has always been classi- 

 fied as a street faker, although he has 

 had headquarters in an old street car 

 on Portland street for the past few 

 years, where he has actually carried on 

 as regular a trade as many others in 

 more pretentious structures. He had 

 his little wooden block fitted with elec- 

 tric lights, cash register, etc., and 

 backed it up against a good large ice 

 chest. He has been a heavy buyer of 

 good material in the city, besides con- 

 tracting for the whole output of two or 

 three quite large growers. But he has 

 now come out of this chrysalis state and 

 spread his wings in one of the largest 

 rooni^ drvntrj to the business in the city. 

 11, -111. !r I- |.:iit of it, however, and his 

 |i. 1 ,,ii.ilit \ 1, amply large enough to 

 fill U.,' iv-t. 



A Royal Visit to King Street. 

 "Half a league, half a league" — yes, a 

 league and a half onward via Dorchester 

 avenue we found the rose houses man- 

 aged by Lawrence Cotter. Tliey carry 

 some 40,000 feet of glass, are somewhat 

 of an antiquated pattern, but were built 

 in a most thorough manner, and have 

 been kept in good repair. The rose 

 bu.shes are first-year plants on their own 

 roots, not very heavy, but looking well 

 and coming in good for spring trade, if 

 there is any. One house is devoted to the 

 L/ibcrty rose, which showed a big lot of 

 fine buds on long stems at the time of 

 my visit, on Mar. 24. Another house 

 shelters the finest lot of potted crimson 

 Eamblers I ever saw, with a few speci- 

 mens of the pink variety, which looks all 

 right, but is not recommended by Mr. 

 Cotter. But he is enthusiastic over a 

 now rlimliincr red rose bush, of which he 

 li:i^ (|\iil<- ;i -upply. It makes a large 

 ]>l:uii. Mil. I lliTdwsa profusion of Brun- 

 iifi-likc blr.-Hnms. Fine thing. 



But we were out for lilies, and found 

 nearly half the houses full of them, to 

 be followed by summer roses. 



Probablv this is our largest collection 

 of lilies next to that of F.. X. Peirce & 



Sons. And they are good ones. But do 

 not take my word for this. Go and 

 see them or visit representatives at the 

 New England Cut Flower Co. on Ordway 

 place. 



L. H. Foster's place, across the street, 

 was also inspected. He will pardon me 

 while I say it is really not an awfully 

 interesting place to visit, even with the 

 courteous treatment of himself and fore- 

 man. But it is a monument to his thrift 

 and energy in that he manages to sell 

 his plants when they get large enough 

 to be really worth looking at. Billions 

 of small palms and trillions of small 

 ferns; the ground is full of them out 

 there! And he has a raft of bedding 

 material coming, too. J. S. Manter. 



AN EMPLOYES' ASSOCIATION. 



The editor of the Review suggests 

 that I take up the question of an asso- 

 ciation and call upon employes in re- 

 gard to forming an organization. Every 

 interested employe will, I am sure, ap- 

 preciate the editor's generosity in offer- 

 ing to devote a page or so of the Review 

 to the interests of employes. 



If it was at all possible I would be 

 willing to do what I could. I would 

 first issue a call to all employes around 

 Chicago who are interested, inviting them 

 to send in their names to the Review (if 

 it would not be asking too much of the 

 Review), said names to be handed over 

 to me. I would then invite them to meet 

 me at a given date and we could then 

 go ahead with the organizing. 



But the fact of it is I have been called 

 away from the city and all I can hope 

 to do in the case is to extend the call 

 for names and ask the next most inter- 

 ested one to act in the matter. 



VV. K. 



[If those interested will send in their 

 names we will endeavor to arrange for a 

 meeting for preliminary organization. 

 —Ed.] 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Our Easter trade promises to bo very 

 good this year; the supply of stock will 

 be good, the only scarcity may be in 

 Harrisii. Crimson Ramblers are in good 

 supply and no doubt will sell well. 



Prices: Beauties, $1 to $3; Brides, 

 Maids, and Carnots, 20 to 75 cents; 

 Perles, 25 to 50 cents; Cecil Brunners, 

 12* cents; Kaiserins, Golden Gates, 

 Meteors, 25 to 75 cents. Carnations, 

 Hobart, .?1 ; ficker, 25 to 50 cents; 

 Schorl ill mil r.iadts, 25 cents: mixed 

 fanrv, J.-. 1.. ..(I rnits; Scotts, 20 to 25 

 cenl-; I'liilm-, l-i to 20 cents; Hill, 25 

 to 35 cents; Lawson, 50 cents; Marquis, 

 30 to 50 cents. Harrisii, $1.50 to $3.50; 

 tulips, 35 cents; valley, 35 to 50 cents; 

 Japan iris. 50 rpiit=: i-illas, $1 to $1.50 

 per 100. \ii.l.t-, I'lin. ..^s, 75 cents to 

 $1; Marie I...111-. , -1 ).. 1 .l.iz. Smilax, 5 

 cents; aspaiai'ii-. Hi iviits per string. 

 Crimson Raniblcis in ]Hits, 3 feet, 50 

 cents; 4 feet, 75 cents each. 



Trade Notes. 

 Domoto Bros., Fruitvale, lost $4,000 

 worth of plants in the wreck of the Rio 

 Janeiro. They were imported from 

 Chota, Japan, and consisted mostly of 

 wistarias, bamboos, aspidistras and ca- 

 mellias for Easter, This firm will have 

 a fine lot of longillorums, 7,000 in num- 

 l.>er; also 4,000 Spanish irises, yellow and 



purple. Four houses 20x200, for roses 

 and carnations, will be built this spring, 



A, Fronmuller, Elmhurst, Alameda Co,, 

 will put up one house 25x150, for roses. 



J. Gilmore, Elmhurst, 'Alameda Co., 

 will erect one house 10x300, for roses. 

 Mr. Gilmore will try his hand on a batch 

 of Liberty, having secured a nice lot of 

 two-year old plants. He thinks he can 

 master this beautiful rose, but bad actor. 



H. Yoshiike, Willow street, Oakland, 

 has about 10,000 seedling carnations; 

 quite a number are in pots, while box af- 

 ter box can be seen filled with seedlings 

 as thick as grass. Three boxes of seeds 

 from Lawson seed pods were sown this 

 week. Lookout for something good. 



E. W. McLellan, Burlingame, will have 

 about 400 dozen lilies for Easter. 



Fick & Faber will move to San Mateo. 

 J. N. 



THE PAN-AMERICAN. 



Floriculture. 



The landscape features and adornment 

 of the grounds are of great importance at 

 the Pan-American Exposition. In the 

 Grand Court, in the Court oi Fountains, 

 in the Court of Lilies, the Court of Cy- 

 presses, in front of the Pergolas — in fact, 

 everywhere that flowering plants and or- 

 namental foliage plants can be planted, 

 they will be lavishly used. The colors 

 employed in the flower gardening will 

 harmonize with the coloring of the sur- 

 rounding buildings. There are over GOO 

 large vases which will be filled with 

 flowering plants and drooping vines, and 

 many of them with specimen palms. 

 Large quantities of palms have been 

 brought from California, as well as ole- 

 anders, oranges and ornamental grasses. 

 All these will be planted in the open 

 ground as soon as the weather will 

 permit. 



Five hundred standard sweet bays have 

 been imported from Europe. These have 

 magnificent sjTiimetrical heads and are 

 six and seven feet high, and will be large- 

 ly used to adorn the exterior of the larg- 

 est buildings. A most effective feature 

 will be the use of 500 tall, tapering cy- 

 press obtained from the south. They are 

 thirty or forty feet high, now in boxes, 

 and will be planted in the Court of Lil- 

 ies and Court of Cypress. They are in 

 most perfect order and will lend an 

 oriental aspect to this part of the 

 LTiiiiiiil- wlii. h it would be impossible to 

 ,1.1:1111 with any other material. The 

 i.l, .1 ,.!' u.-iiiLT these cypresses was most 

 happ.\, and their condition now reflects 

 great credit on the ability of the land- 

 scape gardener. 



The display of aquatic plants is very 

 large. On the south margins of the Jiiast 

 and West Mirror Lakes are planted in 

 groups of ten to fifteen in one variety 

 upward of 1,500 of the finest known spe- 

 cies and varieties of the hardy nj-mph- 

 a;as and nelumbiums. The Court of 

 Fountains in front of the Horticulture 

 Building, to the west of the Esplanade 

 and in front of the Government Building 

 on the east, will contain many of the 

 finest nympha;as as well as other less 

 known aquatic plants. The two grand 

 basins, each 125 feet across and sit- 

 uated a few feet to the south of the 

 Machinery Building and Liberal Arts 

 Building, respectively, have been lieatcu 

 for the special welfare of the Giant Lily 

 of the Amazon, the Victoria Regia, and 

 the exotic nymphoeas. 'Ilie location of 



