The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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j)lace. We would rather sec it ii few 

 blocks farther down town, so it would 

 be handier for the public, but there 

 seems to be no suitable place right in 

 the down town district. The rooms in 

 the Denison House, where it was held 

 several years ago, are far too small to 

 hold us now with our multiplied mem- 

 bership and extensive exhibitions. 



There was a tabic full of choice cut 

 blooms and plaiils hn.uulil in liy various 

 members. Smau A ILnrjIi -'nwr,! sev- 

 eral varieties, ilhillillri'^ ih.li \xo|i,lale. 

 J. Hartje shuur.l >rxrial -.,, ,lliii-s that 

 looked like trotters. Bortcrmaiiii Bros, 

 brought some nice tulips. E. G. Ilill 

 brought over some roses that attracted 

 much attention. A vase full of a red 

 seedling of his own raising looked to 

 be a fine thing, and a large bright pink 

 bloom which he said was the first bloom 

 from a seedling plant was simply grand. 

 If it forces well it will be a good one 

 indeed. E. A. Nelson showed a good 

 specimen plant of Spirea multiflora su- 

 perba, also a few blooms of his pet car- 

 nation. 



Those present from out of the city 

 were E. G. Hill, Fred Lemon, J. A. 

 Evans, from Richmond; J. S. Stuart, 

 J. A. E. Haugh, from Anderson; F. 

 Dorner, Jr., from Lafayette; J. W. Ber- 

 nard, from Marion. We missed our 

 friend Kaiserin Augusta Victoria Coles, 

 from Kokomo, as he is usually on hand 

 when something of importance is going 



Easter Trade. 



Easter trade as far as can be judged 

 at this date was as good as last year, 

 but if the weather had been good the 

 latter part of the week it would have 

 surpassed last year at least 25 per cent. 

 The past couple of weeks have been very- 

 dark, and Saturday and Friday preced- 

 ing Easter were damp and chilly, thus 

 preventing many people from venturing 

 out who would have bought flowers. The 

 supply of cut roses and carnations was 

 just about equal to the demand, and in 

 most cases the quality was good, consid- 

 ering the weather we have been having 

 for several weeks. Plants in some lines 

 were abundant, while in others the dark 

 weather kept them from blooming out in 

 time. Lilies and azaleas were abundant, 

 also all kinds of bulbous stock, while 

 liydrangeas and Crimson Ramblers in 

 most cases failed to develop in time. 



A. Wiegand had the best line of 

 plants they have ever had of all kinds, 

 and they report sales heavy and prices 

 good. Bertermann Bros, had their store 

 fixed up fine and the conservatory in the 

 rear was a blaze of color. J. Rieman 

 also had his store filled with choice 

 stock. All the growers are satisfied 

 with the business done, but could have 

 sold much more if they had been able 

 to cut more. 



E. A. Nelson intends building four 

 new houses this spring for his new car- 

 nation. John Hartje has started prep- 

 arations for moving part of his houses, 

 60 as to have them all in one range. 



E. TTv.iH. f.uviiian for Stuart & 

 Haugli. ,ii \ii.l.r-..ii. was a visitor last 

 week, al-.' Ml-. M.ithes and W. Beyers, 

 from Franklin. A. B. 



PITTSBURG. 



Easter Trade. 



Easter trade was good considering the 

 miserable weather we had the last four 

 days of the week; if the weather had 



recort 



been better it would have been 

 breaker. 



Stock was pretty well cleaned up 

 cxii'|it liulliMn, llowers, which were loo 



pbniihil. I lilies sold well, a good 



many ].".,i ,,nrs are left over. Carna- 

 tiuii-, \nilii- and good roses were most 

 in demand. Trices about same as last 

 Easter. More plants are sold here every 

 Easter. Some very pretty things in 

 plants were seen at Breitenstein & 

 Flemm's store a few days before Easter. 



Carnations were rather scarce a week 

 before and up to a few days before Eas- 

 ter, retail men and wholesalers cursing 

 the growers for holding back stock for 

 Easter to get better prices. Now, when 

 these same retail, also the wholesale, men 

 aek the grower two or three weeks ahead 

 "How many of this or that can you give 

 us for Easter, we need so and so many," 

 what is the grower going to do to ac- 

 commodate them unless his houses would 

 all come in with a heavy crop just for 

 the right time? I believe every sensible 

 grower would be satisfied to send his 

 flowers in every day in place of holding 

 them if he would get a better price for 

 the whole week instead of only for two 

 or three days. 



About 40,000 people visited the Easter 

 show at Schenley Park Easter Sunday. 

 Baer. 



NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting. 



The meeting of the Florists' Club, held 

 on Monday night last, was fairly well 

 attended considering it was so soon after 

 Easter and all were tired out. Of 

 course Arthur Herrington's fine paper on 

 "The Land of the Olive" was an attrac- 

 tion and was well worth listening to* 

 Mr. Herrington showed many views illus- 

 trating his graphic account of the land 

 of Sunny Smiles. With Walter Sheridan 

 in the chair every club meeting transacts 

 a vast amount of business. The com- 

 mittee on the club's summer outing 

 promised a report at next meeting. The 

 preliminary schedule for the October 

 show was distributed among those pres- 

 ent. 



The Ways and Means and Exhibition 

 committees will meet at the club rooms 

 April 23. A full meeting is specially 

 requested, as business of gi-eat impor- 

 tance nuist be acted on. 



Jlcssrs. Lager & Hurrell exhibited one 

 of their beautiful new cattleyas. The 

 committee awarded it honorable men- 

 tion. Mr. Herrington exhibited some 

 blooms of the very showy Gebera Jame- 

 Eonii, which were awarded a certificate 

 of merit. 



Easter. 



Easter was expected to be a record- 

 breaker and immense preparations were 

 made for it, and a record-breaker it was 

 to be sure, but a heart-breaking one. 

 "The worst Easter I ever had," is the 

 answer from all except the grower of 

 plants. The grower of cut flowers and 

 the whnIr=.Tl,.r nfods (li.' nlinost svm- 

 patliy in I l,r ,1,.,,-ilv an.l l.Ia.kncss" of 

 thr.r «,v,.k,.,l lin,... n„.v must re- 



moiriliia- til, It it \va- tln> weal Iter, and 

 only the most urgent noecssity could 

 justify anyone going out to buy plant or 

 flower in the deluge of rain that poured 

 continuously on the accustomed pur- 

 chasing days. The retailers plunged 

 heavily in plants and left the cut flower 

 market to shift for itself until the last; 



ivin then no llowers were bought, only 

 those needed to fill orders. It was a 

 case of pushing jjlant sales to save them- 

 selves. High prices were asked up to 

 Saturday morning, at which time the 

 market went to pieces. Prices — well, 

 what can be written of them? To be 

 sure the cream of the market, that is a 

 lew thousand roses picked from the im- 

 mense quantity sent in, brought a fairly 

 good price, but the average slock could 

 be got at any price olfered. It was a sad 

 Easter. 



New York never saw so many plants 

 Ijefore. The quality was only fairly 

 good, but the trimming and arranging 

 exceeded in beautv and good taste. 



J. I. D. 



THE FATE OF THE FLOWERS. 



beautiful red. 



Tlie other a fragrant fragile flower. 

 Coth raised by hands with gentlest care 



■Neath the hothouse crystal shade — 

 Tlien rudely plucked from parent stem 



To please some winsome little maid. 

 "How sad our lot." quoth the vigorous rose 



Though sweet while bloom and beauty last- 

 A few short hours of grand repose 



Tomorrow, like all things of the past, 

 No sacred bosom is deemed so fair 



But we without one jealous theme 

 Can't fondly chide and nestle there. 



And breathe love's vesper cherished dr-^am. 

 On banquet, feast and wedding day— 



That binds the faithful, loving heart. 

 We cheer them in their happy way 



Our presence lends a peaceful start. 

 But when we droop our withered heads 



Or show our sorrow In decay- 

 Soon forgotten — off we're cast 



Our life is spent, we've lived our Siy. 



WILL A. CUNNIXcJMAM, 



IN THE LAND OF THE OLIVE. 



(Read by Arthur Herriuglou before the New- 

 York Florists' Club. April 8. I'.Ril.] 



It was a rapid transportation from the 

 rigors of winter at its >vorst to the joy 

 and exhilaration of spring in its most 

 genial aspect — from leaden skies, still air 

 -ind a frost-bound earth to glorious sun- 

 shine and its responsive life in tree and 

 flower and song of birds. At S p. m. 

 two travelers in winter garb shiveringly 

 awaited the departure of the south- 

 bound "Rapide" from the Gare de Lyon, 

 in Paris. At 10 a. m. next day the same 

 two travelers sought the shaded side of 

 the streets of Marseilles while walking 

 out to the garden of M. Fournier, a place 

 charmingly situated in the suburbs of the 

 city, with commanding views of the busy 

 seaport and the blue Mediterranean be- 

 yond. Here we got our first glimpses of 

 that wealth and variety of vegetation 

 that makes the Riviera a partidise to 

 plant lovers, the garden spot of Europe. 

 Here phcenix and cocos, bamboos, mag- 

 nolias and camellias, grouped and massed, 

 show the garden possibilities, of which 

 more will be said anon, in the "sunny 

 south." But even Nature in her kindliest 

 mood as seen here fails to satisfy M. 

 Fournier, whose first hue i- for (inhids, 

 so the house- ': ' ^ i.:. 



itcd. But \vl; 



tion must be 



lings in vari'ii 



and not a few, once again 



abundant sunshine, about 



L result of 

 to flower, 

 though less than three years old. 



Leaving Marseilles liv an afternoon 

 train 



Hyeres 

 was reached shortly after dark, and 

 the road to the hotel was through an 

 avenue of phcenix of great size and 

 beauty. The plant, flower, fruit and 



