MAY IS, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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dozen. Meteors from 2 to 6 cents. Car- 

 nations are very sticky, the bottom 

 being completely knocked out o( the 

 market; sales are made daily at from 

 50 cents to $2 per 100; a few strictly 

 fancy will do a little better. Bulb stock 

 from outside about $2 per 100; valley, 

 $2 and $3 per 100; lilies, $1 per dozen; 

 sweet peas, $1 per 100. 



Among the Plantsmen. 



This week has shown a decided im- 

 provement in the plant trade and most 

 all growers seem satisfied with the 

 outlook. At the market the usual 

 number of teams are lined up in the 

 space set aside for them, and the show 

 of highly colored flowering and foliage 

 plants is quite attractive, and the pros- 

 pect is there will be a cleaning out of 

 all salable stuff. At McCarthy's an 

 elegant lot of geraniums from Clapp's 

 and Saunders' have been bringing from 

 $8 to $16 per 100, while Clark's and 

 Mann's pansies are in great demand at 

 3 and 4 cents. Other stock is bringing 

 seasonable prices and does not require 

 much, urging to sell them. 



The News. 



A new firm, Robison & Day, have 

 opened a stand for the sale of the va- 

 rious kinds of hardy stuff which are 

 indispensable to the retail trade. Their 

 address is 36 Court street. 



The seedsmen report an exceedingly 

 good business, but rather backward 

 owing to the late spring. 



The show of tulips and hyacinths in 

 the public gardens has been exceed- 

 ingly fine and has attracted visitors 

 fro;u all the surrounding towns. 



E. Dailledouze, of New York, and 

 Robt. Craig, of Philadelphia, have 

 been visitors this week- P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



There is little change from last week 

 in market conditions, which are very 

 fair for the season of the year. On 

 Tuesday the market was materially 

 hurt by the rain and heat and a fear 

 that the Wednesday supply would be 

 large. There has been no appreciable 

 change in prices except in the case of 

 longiflorum lilies, good lilies being 

 now held at $7 to fS a hundred and 

 selling freely at those rates. 



Out door flowers cut but little figure 

 in the market this year. There is prac- 

 tically no outdoor valley, the flower 

 buds seeming to have been universally 

 winter killed, and in some places the 

 plants are gone too. 



The shipping trade holds up very 

 well. Bassett & Washburn report an 

 unusually good shipping business and 

 say that good Beauties are in extra 

 good demand. 



The outlook for Decoration Day 

 trade seems excellent. The shortage 

 in outdoor flowers will undoubtedly 

 cause a demand for all the stock that 

 can be placed on the market. 



'Various Items. 



"Bedding Plants" will be the subject 

 for discussion at the meeting of the 

 Florists' Club tomorrow (Friday) eve- 

 ning. 



Mr. G. H. Pieser, bookkeeper at Ken- 

 nicott Bros. Co., left on Wednesday 

 with his mother for West Baden, Ind. 

 He will return about the 27th. 



A. L. Vaughan is receiving congratu- 

 lations over the advent of a brunette 

 young lady weighing 10 lbs. She ar- 

 rived last Friday and all are doing 

 nicely. 



F. Stielow is rebuilding the re- 

 mainder of his houses at Niles Center. 

 Some of the houses have had the glass 

 off several weeks but the roses have 

 shown no mildew, while the color of 

 the Maids has been so deepened that 

 they look like another rose. The 

 Brides also have colored, altogether 

 too much so. 



Mr. G. Swenson, of Elmhurst, has a 

 few square feet of outdoor valley in 

 fine bloom. Last fall he piled up a 

 stack of sashes over part of a bed for 

 lack of a better place and the space so 

 protected has a fine crop of flowers 

 though the rest of his valley has noth- 

 ing but leaves, the flower buds having 

 all been winter killed. 



Klehm Bros, say the damage at their 

 place will not be so gi-eat as was at 

 first feared. They believe that the 

 paeonies will all start again from the 

 lower roots. The lily of the valley 

 being grown for forcing was uninjured. 

 It had been protected by a heavy 

 mulch of manure put on in the fall 

 after the first hard frost. They be- 

 lieve the damage was due largely to the 

 winter rains and the subsequent freez- 

 ing and thawing in February. 



Mr. J. A, Pettigrew, formerly super- 

 intendent of Lincoln Park, and now 

 superintendent of parks, Boston, 

 Mass., was a welcome visitor this week. 



Mr. George StoUery welcomed a baby- 

 son to his home a few weeks ago. 



Bowling. 



The series of handicap prize games 

 was started at Mussey's alleys last Fri- 

 day evening. Following are the scores 

 and averages for the evening: 



-A" 1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. Tot. Av. 



F. Stollerv 150 202 164 ... 516 172 



Geo. Asmus 175 134 129 133 571 142 



G. L. Grant 152 135 156 127 570 142 



G. Stollery 120 167 132 ... 419 139 



Jno. Zeck lU 137 164 143 545 136 



Jno. Degnan US 118 114 165 51f 12? 



W. Kreitling 104 114 167 ... 3S5 128 



A. Henderson 147 147 UO 105 509 127 



Chas. Hunt 152 120 137 88 497 124 



ST. LOUIS. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular monthly meeting of che 

 Florists' Club was held Thursday, May 

 1.1, and was called to order by Presi- 

 dent Sanders. Owing to the busy sea- 

 son the meeting was poorly attended 

 and it was 4:30 p. m. before the meet- 

 ing was called to order. 



The chairman of the exhibition 



committee reported that everything 

 was progressing favorably; that the 

 special prizes to date amounted to 

 $1,500 and the indications are that this 

 year's show will surpass the last one 

 in every way. The committee on 

 World's Fair reported progress. On 

 motion of chairman Kunz the club sub- 

 scribed for 50 shares of stock, one for 

 each member. 



The treasurer of the Thomas Carroll 

 fund reported that he had on hand 

 $71.75, which was turned over to Mr. 

 Carroll, who was present at the meet- 

 ing. Mr. Carroll wishes to thank all 

 the florists, through The Review, who 

 were so kind to him in his hour of 

 need. The meeting then adjourned 

 until June 8, at 3 p. m. 



The Market. 



The past week has been a very dull 

 one with most of the florists. 



Second grade stock Is plentiful, while 

 choice stock of all kinds is scarce. 

 Choice roses sell as high as $5 and $6; 

 seconds in Maids, Brides, Meteors and 

 Perles can be bought for $1 and $1.50 

 per 100, and plenty of them; in 1,000 

 lots even cheaper. Carnations are 

 still a great glut, selling at 50 cents 

 and $1 per 100; fancies bring $1.50 and 

 $2. Sweet Peas are better and more of 

 them, the price is still 75 cents per 

 100; valley scarce and in demand; 

 Harrisii and callas, 4 and 6 cents each 

 and plenty of them; other bulb stuff 

 is out of the market; smilax, $18 and 

 very good. 



Plant sales are still reported good 

 and all the stands are crowded with all 

 kinds of blooming stock. 



Various Notes. 



Visitors in town last week were Jos. 

 Heinl, Jacksonville. 111.; S. S. Brenne- 

 maji, Webb City. Mo., and Edgar Os- 

 born, Danville, 111. 



Louis Roth, florist and landscape 

 gardener, of 21 S. 6th street, has moved 

 to 1903 No. 10th street. Mr. Roth will 

 build a few houses this summer, in the 

 western part of the city. 



The flower beds and lawns in the 

 parks present a most attractive ap- 

 pearance and too much praise cannot 

 be said of "Billy" Pape, under whose 

 care the beautifying of the public 

 parks is going on. 



Riessen Floral Co. have been very 

 busy of late, having the Mermod-Jac- 

 card Co.'s opening and a large banquet 

 at the Southern Hotel. Mrs, Burchel, 

 who has been sick for a few days, has 

 fully recovered. Mr. Andrew Meyer, 

 who is still in the hospital, is some- 

 what better. 



Frank Fillmore had a visit from 

 burglars, one night last week, losing 

 household articles valued at $50. Frank 

 woke up too late to catch the intruders. 

 Ellison and Tesson had a narrow es- 

 cape from being robbed one morning 

 last week. Arthur Ellison returning, 

 unexpectedly, to the store about 1 a. 

 m.. found that burglars had drilled 

 three holes in the safe, which con- 



