APRIL, 27, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



549 



what better, but still unable to leave 

 the house. 



Bowling. 



At the Bowling Club the members 

 rolled five games and the scores made 

 ■were an improvement over last Mon- 

 day night. This ends the April series 

 of nineteen games. Our visitors were 

 D. McRorie, New York: E. W. Guy, 

 and Dr. Halstedt of Belleville. The 

 scores are as follows: 



1 2 3 I 5 T'l Av. 



J. J. Beneke 143 175 169 lof, ].i4 Snu 160 



C. A. Kuehn 160 170 143 US 160 7.51 150 



John Kunz 1.37 153 122 129 162 703 141 



John Young- 131 136 144 411 137 



C. C. Sanders 99 141 164 401 135 



D. McRorie 117 155 15S 132 161 723 144 



E. W. Guy 123 125 248 124 



Dr. Halstedt SO 116 196 9S 



The scores of the April series of 19 

 games, including the averages and 

 high scores, are as follows: 



No. G. Total. Av. H. S. 



C. A. Kuohn 19 2.7S0 146 184 



J. J. Beneke 19 2.752 145 176 



C. C. Sanders 16 2.203 138 172 



Carl Beyer 4 534 133 159 



E. Schray 5 652 131 163 



J. W. Kunz 19 2.771 130 162 



John Young 12 1.54S 129 149 



F. J. Fillmore 9 1,006 112 137 



J. J. B. 



BOSTON. 



Review of the Market. 



The week just passed has been a 

 genuine forerunner of the cut flower 

 business in midsummer, and the fakirs 

 have been right in their element, and 

 the cry of "One dozen nice roses for a 

 quarter" is heard on every corner. 



Carnations, being somewhat off crop, 

 have done a little better than the 

 roses, but much lower prices prevail. 

 On the whole, it has been in the line 

 of good judgment to accept the first 

 reasonable offer. 



Roses are out of it, the call being 

 light, and with an extraordinary sup- 

 ply, owing to elegant weather. Com- 

 mon varieties, such as Brides and 

 Maids, are quotable from $2 to |S per 

 100, sales at the latter figure being 

 very few. Jacks have the call, selling 

 from $1 to $3 per dozen; Beauties feel 

 the effect of the Jacks and are quiet, 

 prices asked running from 25 cents to 

 $3 per dozen. Carnations of average 

 quality range from $1 to $1.50 per 100; 

 good quality Daybreaks bring $2, 

 fancies from $2 to $5; demand very 

 limited. 



Violets are laid on the shelf, $2 per 

 1,000 being an asking price. The May 

 flowers are now coming in very freely 

 and have affected very much all green- 

 house stock. Longiflorum and calla 

 lilies go slow at 50 to 75 cents per 

 dozen. Bulb stock still plenty at from 

 $2 to $3 per 100. 



The News. 



At an animated meeting of the Mass. 

 Horticultural Society it was voted to 

 sell the present building, same being 

 inadequate for the growing demand of 



the society, and to purchase land and 

 erect a new building, on Huntingdon 

 avenue, in the Back Bay district. 



The usual spring sales of plants were 

 inaugurated this week by N. F. Mc- 

 Carthy & Co., who held two sales of 

 hardy roses and other shrubs, which 

 were from well known Holland 

 nurserymen. Prices averaged about 

 the same as in former years, roses 

 bringing from S to 12 cents, azaleas 25 

 to 50 cents each. Bays pi to $S each, 

 evergreens in variety from 40 cents to 

 $4 each. 



At the usual Saturday exhibition Mr. 

 Edward Butler showed an elegantly 

 grown plant of Dendrobium densi- 

 florum and was awarded a silver 

 medal. Geo. Houis exhibited a large 

 variety of geranium bloom and James 

 Comley a fine collection of tender Rho- 

 dodendrons. P. 



BUFFALO. 



At last but only lately spring is 

 here. In some shady nooK where snow 

 lay deep all winter you will see a tulip 

 in flower, and ten feet away, where 

 frost went down five feet or more, 

 their leaves are only just above the 

 ground. Business outside of the white 

 flower trade has been rather quiet, 

 with an abundance of choice flowers to 

 choose from. Violets still come from 

 the banks of the Hudson almost as 

 fine as in February. Carnations are 

 at their best and so are roses, with 

 plenty of valley and mignonette and 

 tulips and everything else. 



Mr. A. L. Thrall has closed his hand- 

 some store at 58S Main street and re- 

 moved his costly furniture to James- 

 town, where it is presumed his ener- 

 gies will be utilized in running the 

 grand lot of glass in course of erec- 

 tion by Mr. Broadhead. 



I had a run through our principal re- 

 tail market this morning. A year or 

 two ago the writer was very active in 

 advocacy of a market in his locality. 

 To look back at that period convinces 

 us we must have had an acute attack 

 of water (or vegetable) on the brain. 

 These public markets are an abomina- 

 tion, a relic of barbarism. There is 

 nothing excepting perhaps hay that 

 needs any public place to display the 

 product that cannot be better done in 

 a store or shop. There is always 

 favoritism shown in the leasing of the 

 stalls; the rent paid is so nominal that 

 in any commodity they can undersell 

 the storekeeper. Some great cities 

 have no public markets, some have 

 the nuisance in the shape that we 

 have it. and some, like Erie. Pa., have 

 the main streets and sidewalks block- 

 ed up with hucksters' wagons, show- 

 ing no progress from the days of 

 Pharaoh the 17th or Belshazzar the 

 9th, in the days of ancient Memphis 

 and Nineveh, when fish, frogs and 

 captives' ears were offered to early 

 epicureans. 



If all the flower stands were in a row 

 it would be less objectionable and 



much to the advantage of the vendors. 

 As it is, our florist market people are 

 scattered all over the two or three 

 acres and between them is everything 

 that is good to eat, and some (judging 

 from the smell) very bad to eat. The 

 consequence is that instead of the in- 

 nocent flowers imparting their natural 

 sweetness, you find the heliotrope with 

 the flavor of the catfish, a rose gera- 

 nium smells like limburger cheese, and 

 a carnation like sour kraut. But that 

 makes little difference for the patrons 

 and merchants of a public market are 

 so permeated with the amalgamated 

 and conglomerate odors they are 

 oblivious to all but garlic. Neverthe- 

 less, with all these disadvantages the 

 business done in flowers and plants on 

 the markets is very considerable, espe- 

 cially in plants, and now you can pur- 

 chase at several of the stands shrubs, 

 herbaceous plants, herbs and vege- 

 table roots. 



It would be better for the whole 

 community, landlord, tenant and ail 

 the citizens at large, if a whirlwind 

 were to scatter these markets to the 

 four corners of the city and let the site 

 be turned into a loafers' lounge. There 

 will always be loafers, and as they 

 can't draw anything at the bank, they 

 must have a place to draw their 

 breath. 



Excuse the association of ideas (en- 

 tirely unintentional), but we have had 

 several drummers of late to keep us 

 awake, chief among them Joseph 

 Rolker, Mr. Van Zanten, Mr. Ouwer- 

 kerk and Mr. Haerens, of Haerens 

 Bros., Ghent. Mr. H. does not look as 

 if he had a million-dollar banker at 

 his back, but he talks his specialties 

 most understandingly. W. S. 



■WASHINGTON. 



Business since Easter has been good, 

 stock of all kinds is coming in plen- 

 tifully, and quality fine, but the bot- 

 tom has completely dropped out o£ 

 prices. Roses, the finest of all kinds, 

 selling for 6 cents, while several of 

 the up-town stores are advertising 

 them at 50 cents per dozen. Sweet 

 Peas are coming in and are fine, bring- 

 ing 50 cents to $1 per 100; Gladiolus, 

 $1 per dozen; carnations, $1.50 to $2 

 per 100; lilac plentiful at 10 cents per 

 bunch. 



Visitors. 



B. Eschner. of M. Rice & Co., and 

 H. Bayersdorfer, of Philadelphia; F. 

 ^V. O. Schmitz. Jersey City, N. J., and 

 C. H. Joosten, New York. 



F. H. KRAMER. 



AN EXTRA PRIZE. 



The Quaker City Machine Works, 

 Richmond, Ind., offers a $25.00 set ot 

 Evans Challenge Ventilating Appar- 

 atus as a second prize in the Inter- 

 national competition in cut chrysan- 

 themums at the Chicago exhibition 

 next November. 



