The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Minnesota vine. It is one of the best 

 of all siunnier climbers. It will make a 

 dense veil, even surpassing tlie cobaja, 

 and nnicli i)rettier. I hope you !iav<' some. 

 It is a diflicult plant to winter, but grows 

 at a tremendous rate toward spring. Cut- 

 tings put in now root so quickly that 

 there is jilenty of time for them to make 

 as lar-;!' planis as is desirable. 



We';M,> j-kr.l v\,;y year for 100 or so 

 of riiiTiii- i"i l.iiu.- iropical beds. Ours 

 have jii-i li" li -liiilid into 4-inch pots. 

 Wi' haM' .1 imiiiliii of tuberoses started 

 and they will be shortly shifted into 4- 

 inch pots, and they also go into a hot- 

 bed, where they "make much quicker 

 growth than in a greenhouse. Wc don't 

 grow them for flowering, but our cus- 

 tomers want them for their gardens. 



Verbenas are still grown, but nut to 

 such an extent as they were years ago. 

 We have been raising from s^ed for a 

 number of years. Seed sown the List of 

 January have made nice plants. We 



is a great demand for novelties of su- 

 perior merit and that is one of the best 

 indicators of a good business season. 

 Geraniums seem to be regaining lost 

 ground and even promise to overthrow 

 the eanna somewhat in popularity as a 

 bedding plant; this is perhaps because 

 there has been too many trashy cannas 

 put on the market of late years and 

 the people get tired of the lanky leaved 

 flowerless plants. 



The plant market at Canal and West 

 Sts. opened with a bang and the old 

 familiar peddlers' wagons can be seen 

 traversing the streets with their loads 

 of pansies and soft wooded flowering 

 plants. By the way, pansies are in 

 greater demand than ever ; window boxes 

 and vases filled with them are appear- 

 ing everywhere. 



The Market. 



The only melancholy note to be heard 



Easter Plant Arrangements. No. 4. 



have stopped them once and now tliey are 

 in a hot-bed, but the danger of this meth- 

 oc is that they root through into the soil 

 and you must be careful in a v>'eek or 

 twc to lift them up an inch or so, Liiough 

 to break off the root. If you do not, tliey 

 will make such roots in the plunging ma- 

 terial that they will make all growth 

 and no flower. Now, what I have writ- 

 ten above is nearly all for summer bed- 

 ding plants, and that, I think, is enough 

 for one week. William Scott. 



NEW YORK. 



The Spring Season. 



The season in the vicinity of New 

 York is nearly two weeks behind. Vege- 

 tation seems moving very slowly; not 

 that it has been an over severe or long 

 winter but cold wet rains seem to have 

 retarded everything. However, the 

 seedsmen, nurserymen and general 

 plantsmen, are extremely busy and the 

 prospects seem very bright for an ex- 

 traordinarily prosperous spring. There 



just now comes from the ice boxes of 

 the wholesale florists here; an undesira- 

 ble state of affairs exists. When roses, 

 good ones, too, can be bought at from 

 $1.00 to $2.00 per 100 up at this time 

 of the year it is useless to use up type 

 in further description; whatever is done 

 let it be in sympathy. 



The Easter plant trade in New York 

 was enormous. Lilies on the average 

 were poor; the most was made by those 

 who made up their stock. The retailers 

 had considerable stock left on hand ; 

 much of it, however, came in handy for 

 complimentary and other sorts of jobs. 



Various Items. 



At the meeting of the horticultural 

 section of the American Institute last 

 Wednesday there were but very few flow- 

 ers on exhibition. Much good work was 

 accomplished by those in attendance. H. 

 W. Gibbons read a most instructive pa- 

 per on greenhouse building. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York met the same afternoon and ar- 

 ranged for an exhibition of cut flowers 



and plants to be held in conjunction 

 with the New York Botanical Society at 

 lli<- museum in Bronx I'ark, May 8 and 

 !(. (Jood prizes are offered and all the 

 l.H'^U societies are to be invited. It is 

 t\I)e<-tcd that this will be a great field 

 day, it being the first exhibition to be 

 licid at the Botanical Gardens. Particu- 

 lars can be had from L. Barron, 13(i ]>ib- 

 erty St. 



Dutch nursery stock occupies the prin- 

 cipal portion of the auction tables these 

 days and very good prices ara the rule. 

 There will be numerous changes among 

 (lie retailers this year. James H. C-.r- 

 roU, with Thorley ever since he came on 

 Broadway, is now manager for Fleisch- 

 Miann, and Jim arranged some oJ t'lo 

 heat things seen this Easter. Alex. 

 Warcndorff gives up his store at Thir- 

 tieth street and Broadway May 1, the 

 Inisiness to be consolidated with that of 

 his brother, Joseph Fleischmann. at the 

 Hoffman House. Brower Bros, move 

 across the street. We hear_ Dards and 

 Siebrecht & Son intend movii.g to mure 

 prominent locations on Fifth avenue 



There promises 'o be a revolution in 

 tlie mode of selling cut flowers in this 

 cHy. The large growers will, it is said, 

 !-hortly organize and open a niarke^ to 

 retail their own stock. -r t t-> 



J. I. D. 



WASHINGTON. 



For 



Easter Trade. 



vhole week before Easter the 

 sun was nidden behind the clouds, and 

 Saturday morning it began to rain. Of 

 course prices came down with the rain, 

 but about noon the sun shone beauti- 

 fully and brought the buyers out in 

 throngs. Prices for all stock were much 

 more "reasonable than in former years, 

 but the supply was much greater and 

 hence better receipts. In spite of the 

 weather, the business in general was at 

 least '25 per cent greater than last year. 



Azaleas in smaller sizes sold well. 

 Quite a few Ramblers could be found 

 on the shelf. The demand for Eamblers 

 for an Easter plant is growing le*s. 

 Lilies sold on sight; still there were 

 plenty to go around, but none left. Pans 

 nf tulips and hyacinths, such as 50 cent 

 to $1 sizes, sold well. Spireas sold fair- 

 ly well, but some of the boys had entirely 

 too many. Rhododendrons, genistas and 

 dcutzias held a back seat, although some 

 very fine plants were to be seen. Hy- 

 drangeas sold well, but the greater de- 

 mand was for $1 to $1.50 sizes. Vio- 

 lets in 6-inch pans sold readily for 50 

 to 75 cents. Hyacinths in pans were 

 cleaned up early in the day. The 

 supply was far short for this popular 

 Easter plant. Daffodils came in by the 

 tens of thousands from the south, in 

 competition with ours, which was a 

 blow, and sold for $5 to $6 per 1.000. 

 Consequently they were sold and ours 

 held over for the dump, as well as vio- 

 lets, which were entirely too plentiful, 

 bringing $2 to $3 per 1,000, but home- 

 grown violets were away short and $5 to 

 $7 per 1,000. In the way of general cut 

 flowers there was no scarcity. 



Gude Bros, supplied the market with 

 fancy Beauties and cleaned out at $6 to 

 $9 per dozen. There was a general 

 scarcity of short Beauties. Teas of all 

 kinds were picked up very readily at 

 121 to 15 cents. 



the American Rose Company held the 

 town on lilies. Their supply was some- 

 thing enormous and sold at $2 per doz. 

 Their delivery wagons were going all 



