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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



DECEMBER 22, 1898. 



age The MacDonaUl Company, which 

 will do a general plant, and cut-flower 

 business at Fifty - eighth street and 

 Madison avenue. 



The Neal Floral Company has opened 

 a store at 3 East Forty-second street. 



Wm. Wadley, formerly of the firm of 

 Seibrecht & Wadley, has recently 

 opened a store at 55 West Forty-second 

 street. 



Most of the leading florists were 

 busy arranging floral designs for the 

 funeral of the late Ex-Senator C. S. 

 Brice, which took place here Saturday, 

 December 17. IVERA. 



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Copyright 1S08. 



BOSTON. 



Review of the Market. 



With the short time from now to the 

 holidays and the advent of good solid 

 winter weather, the market lor flowers 

 shows a much better feeling and all 

 kinds of stock has been fairly well 

 cleaned up every day. Violets are still 

 a leader and have been firm at $1.50 

 per 100 all this week for both double 

 and single, with some sales made at a 

 higher figure. 



Roses have decreased somewhat in 

 quantity and sales are readily made, 

 good stock being in excellent demand. 

 Brides and Maids run anywhere from 

 $6 to ?16 per 100, but the latter price 

 is for very choice stock. High grade 

 Meteors will bring $2 per dozen. Beau- 

 ties in good demand, still at last week's 

 quotations. 



Carnations, owing to the finish of the 

 chrysanthemum crop, are now the 

 leading staple, and have averaged from 

 $2 to $3 per hundred, with fancy grades 

 running as high as $6. 



Chrysanthemums are nearly done; a 

 few Maud Deans are shown, price 

 about ?2. 



The cut of Harrisii is increasing, but 

 with price about the same — $1G per 

 100. Valley, $4; Romans, $3, and Pa- 

 per Whites, $3 per 100. 



News Items. 



Owing to neglect of a clerk to re- 

 move flowers and plants away from the 

 windows. J. M. Cohen, Chapman 



Place, lost some valuable stock during 

 the very cold night of the 13th. 



Welch Bros, are receiving some vio- 

 lets of the Marie Louise variety which 

 are very fine, fully equal to the best 

 Farquhars. They are also getting the 

 best Beauties that are now coming to 

 Boston. 



The trade for Christmas greens is 

 fully up to former years, and all the 

 wholesalers are kept busy filling or- 

 ders. 



C. S. Goddard, of Woodford, Me., has 

 been a visitor this week. P. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The weather for the past few days 

 has not been so cold and as a conse- 

 quence all kinds of roses were plen- 

 tiful and demand slow. From the pres- 

 ent outlook roses will not be so scarce 

 for Christmas as expected, unless 

 present indications fail, and a good 

 Christmas trade, is very promising, 

 though business for the past week was 

 dull and prices low. Sales for holi- 

 day greens are more satisfactory and 

 the demand is in keeping with previ- 

 ous years. A great many fine plants 

 were shown and the cyclamen seems 

 to be the most salable and popular. 

 They are in the market in fine condi- 

 tion. 



In the cut flower line Christmas 

 prices take effect on Tuesday, De- 

 cember 20. and from the advance 

 lists are going to be high. American 

 Beauties will be scarce, that is, fine 

 long stem stock, and will bring |12 to 

 $15 per dozen; short stem, $3 to $6 

 per dozen. Good Meteors will be 

 scarce, as a great many of them come 

 in bull heads and black in color. The 

 best will bring $12 and $15; Woottons, 

 $8 and $10; Brides and Maids, same 

 as Meteors; Perles, from $5 to $8. 



Carnations will be in good crop; 

 Scott, Daybreak and whites, $3 and 

 $4; Jubilee and other fancy varieties, 

 $5. 



Romans and Paper Whites are in 

 good supply and will be for the holi- 

 day trade; $3 and $4 is the price quot- 

 ed. Some fine stevia is grown this 

 year by Julius Koenig, Jr., and it 

 comes just in the right time for 

 Christmas; price, $1.00 per 100. 



The supply of violets will be good. 

 The prospects are that Californias 

 will go up to $3 per 100; doubles $2, 

 and small singles 50 cents. Valley 

 good and demand fair; price, $5 and 

 |8. On smilax and asparagus the 

 price will hardly go up much unless 

 the demand is heavy. 



Notes. 



A St. Louis fakir has opened a store 

 on Olive street and is selling stock 

 same as he would on a street corner. 

 He has a sign out every day quoting 

 roses at 15 and 25 cents per dozen. He 

 buys everything in sight at $10 per 

 1,000 and for the past week has been 



pickling stock for Christmas in order 

 to keep up his price of 25 cents per 

 dozen. A fool and his money must 

 soon part; wait and see how true- 

 this is. I 



The Bowling Club rolled five games 

 on Monday night and some good scores 

 were made. D. Finlason was high in 

 average and Beneke highest single 

 score, although at one time Fillmore 

 was running him a close race with 

 199. Following are the scores: 



12 3 4 6 Tot Av. 



D. Finlason 131 147 151 160 177 775 15S 



J. J. Beneke 206 108 154 129 127 724 145 



C. A. Kuehn 144 139 119 161 144 707 141 



Emll Sohray 131 134 164 135 133 697 139 



J. W. Kunz 132 141 273 13fr 



F. J. Fillmore. ...128 109 199 82 126 646 ISO- 



C. C. Sanders 128 104 113 345 115 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The Christmas rush is on and the- 

 dealers are hustling. Orders in at 

 time of writing indicate that the vol- 

 ume of trade will far exceed that of 

 any previous Christmas, as there is 

 not only more than the usual strong 

 demand but an unusually good supply 

 of everything except extra grade- 

 roses. The bright, sunny weather con- 

 tinued till Sunday night, but with 

 Monday shifted to rain and gloom. 

 The weather made it difficult to hoi* 

 stock and more came in early in the 

 week than was anticipated. But by 

 M^ednesday shipping trade took hold 

 and kept things moving lively. It 

 seems likely now that there may be 

 a serious scarcity of roses at the close^ 

 especially if the dark, gloomy weath- 

 er continues. 



On Tuesday the dealers in florists"^ 

 supplies were on the jump. E. H. 

 Hunt and Vaughan, McKellar & Win- 

 terson had all the orders they could 

 possibly take care of and their ship- 

 ping departments were hives of in- 

 dustry. The price of bouquet green- 

 has kept climbing and we hear of 

 sales at $10 a hundred pounds. Holly- 

 is in better supply than •:reen, but 

 prices for good stock are he'.d up' stiff 

 to printed quotations. 



Club Meetir f. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club- 

 last Friday evening little but routine 

 business was transacted. Probably it 

 was too near Christmas for the mem- 

 bers to turn out strong, and the dis- 

 cussion by the retailers was deferred. 

 Arrangements were made for a 

 "smoker" at an early date. A report 

 from Mr. Wienhoeber, who had beea 

 deputed to present the matter of a 

 spring show to the officials of the 

 Horticultural Society, reported that 

 there was no probability of having^ 

 such a show the coming spring. 



Various Items. 



Some blooms of the new rose. Clara 

 Barton, were sent to Bassett & Wash- 

 burn last Saturday by E. G. Hill & Co. 

 It is very much like Bridesmaid, but 



