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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



MAY 31. 1900. 



The department stores are making 

 a big display of bedding stocl<. They 

 are offering geraniums, heliotropes 

 and fuchsias out of 4-inch pots at $1.25 

 per dozen. We noticed also a fine lot 

 of Tea roses out of 3-lnch pots at $1.00 

 per dozen. 



We had for our visitors the past 

 week Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth, Allen- 

 town, Pa. ' R 



NEW YORK, 



Trade Conditions. 



The eve of Decoration Day finds us 

 with a cold spell and flowers not over 

 plentiful. Roses and general stock 

 from the greenhouses have shortened 

 up considerably and many of the out- 

 door flowers have been held in abey- 

 ance by chilly weather. The condition 

 of trade is satisfactory, that is to say 

 It's as good as any other year, per- 

 haps a shade better for the above day. 

 Prices have advanced just as far as 

 they dare, which is not saying much. 

 Down at the 34th street market Tues- 

 day morning there was a tremendous 

 rush, several hundred buyers were 

 there at 6 a. m. and in twenty minutes 

 after every flower was gone. This 

 might sound prosperous, it certainly 

 looked that way, but it is necessary to 

 have fresh stock early in your store 

 these days, and time is money to most 

 retailers. 



Very few roses come to this 34th 

 street market but almost everything 

 else is there a plenty. Harrisii brought 

 10 cts; paeonies (officinalis). 75 cts to 

 $1.00 per doz.; carnations, $2.00; corn- 

 flowers, 8 cts. a bunch; stocks, 25 cts.; 

 peas, 8 to 10 cts per bunch; and so on. 

 Flowering shrubs such as deutzia, 

 syringa, snowballs, etc., went rapidly 

 at good prices, and the general indi- 

 cation is for a first class cut flower 

 trade the next few days. 



The same condition seems to prevail 

 at the plant market. Anything good, 

 especially geraniums, sold well not- 

 withstanding the fact that a large per- 

 centage of the trade done here is 

 through peddlers. Just at present 

 strawberries are coming in by the 

 train load, the peddlers buy them for 

 2 or 3 cents a quart and many of them 

 desert the plant market in favor of 

 the fruit. However, a very large trade 

 has been done, especially with plants 

 intended for cemeteries. We visited 

 these places and from what we saw 

 we were inclined to arrive at the con- 

 clusion that plantsmen, that is those 

 having good stock, would have no 

 cause for complaint. 



Our daily papers have been flooded 

 with descriptions of the CJark-Morris 

 wedding which took place on Tuesday 

 and we hope any in the trade will not 

 have got hysterical over it. You know 

 when some men get a job and give out 

 figures you must divide them by 90. 

 If you read of a decoration costing 

 $5,000 you can feel sure that a few 

 hundued doiiars were begrudgingly 

 spent on flowers and the market never 

 ripples. Still this newspaper talk does 



good — a vast amount of good. Thor- 

 ley had the work at the church and 

 adopted some of the suggestions given 

 in the Review. Thorley, like all the 

 rest of good fellows, knows which is 

 the best paper. A vast quantity of 

 lilies and flowering shrubs were used 

 in the decoration and the impressions 

 were summery. 



The Convention. 



Committees are working hard to get 

 the convention machinery in perfect 

 condition. It looks as if the trade 

 show will be an imposing one and why 

 ■shouldn't it? New York is no village. 

 The sporting crowd are evidently pre- 

 paring to outshine all others. It's a 

 pity brother Kift didn't think of New 

 York when appointing his committee, 

 but they're all good fellows. There 

 promises to be some feeling over the 

 matter of selecting teams in the differ- 

 ent cities. Those who have faithfully 

 stood by the bowling clubs long before 

 convention talk became so loud have 

 a right to a voice in the make up of 

 teams. There is usually partiality 

 shown to a few prominent men at the 

 last moment; that's not American and 

 should not be tolerated; if a man 

 thinks himself too good to join a 

 bowling club he ought to be consid- 

 ered too good to be on a team, speci- 

 ally for convention purposes. There's 

 too much money and pride at stake 

 this year for any doubtful transaction. 



Various Items. 



The New York Gardeners' Society 

 may hold their annual strawberry 

 show in connection with the national 

 rose show at the Eden Musee, June 

 13. In any case their quarterly meet- 

 ing will be held some day during the 

 show. It is hoped they will assist in 

 having the private gardens well repre- 

 sented at this exhibition. 



The New York Society of Horticul- 

 ture will hold a general meeting at 

 19-21West 44th St.. 4 p. m., Wednesday. 

 June 13th. The constitution and elec- 

 tion of permanent officers will be the 

 principal topics. J. W. Withers is all 

 importance just now; a daughter ar- 

 rived on Saturday last and all's well. 



Bobbink & Atkins have just received 

 an immense stock of kentias; they are 

 in all sizes and we never saw a finer 

 or cleaner lot of plants. This firm re- 

 ports a splendid trade in palms and 

 bay trees. 



Bowling. 



Bowling last Monday night resulted 

 as follows: 



12 3 



Roehrs 144 167 152 



Traendly 152 154 156 



Schultheis . ..-. 99 137 139 



Hafner '.'. 135 145 J79 



OMara 145 138 155 



Schenck 154 149 179 



glhott 94 151 



Donlan 130 133 142 



J. I. D. 



WILKESBARRE, PA.— Ira G. Mar- 

 vin has opened a new establishment 

 near Oaklawn and Hanover ceme- 

 teries. 



PITTSBURG. 



'Various Items. 



Cut flower trade is very good for 

 Decoration Day. Stock is not so plen- 

 tiful as two weeks ago, when much 

 went into the ash barrel. Lilies are 

 rather scarce now and bring 10 to 12 

 cents. 



F. Burki is sending in some good 

 Spanish iris. He is right on top with 

 quality in carnations. 



Plant trade has been booming the 

 last week and there seems to be no 

 more first class stock on hand. There 

 never has been such a demand for 

 good plants as this spring and if the 

 growers had asked more they could 

 easily have gotten it. Good geraniums 

 in bloom and French cannas are not 

 to be found now, but lots of greenish 

 looking stuff is on the market yet. 

 Geraniums in 4-inch sold at $S per lOO, 

 Double and single petunias sold well, 

 when in bloom, and for more money 

 than geraniums in same size pots. 



Randolph & McClements are filling 

 a great many porch- and window 

 boxes covered with birchbark. 



The bedding out, at the parks, is 

 now finished and looks fine despite 

 the very dry spring we are having. No 

 rain of any account since the 18th of 

 April. 



Carnation men are watering their 

 plants in the fields. The severe frosts 

 in May seem to have hurt only Flora 

 Hill, the rest of them stand it all right 

 even those planted only a couple of 

 days before. 



Paeonies are not going to be plenti- 

 ful as the frost and dry weather crip- 

 pled the buds. Lilacs were also very 

 scarce this spring. 



John Bader is building a $12,000 

 residence. Who says there is no 

 money in the florist business? 



BAER. 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



It is a pleasure to call on the craft 

 here, for you invariably hear the 

 same remark — that "trade is all 

 right." Flowers of all kinds are of 

 good quality and enough to supply the 

 demand, except Beauties. Roses alone 

 are beginning to feel the effects of hot 

 weather. Quite a few small decora- 

 tions during the present month have 

 prevented an oversupply of stock. In 

 this respect we are fortunate, because 

 it has a tendency to keep prices firmer 

 and to preserve the equilibrium. 



The past winter has been a prosper- 

 ous one for the florists here — in fact, 

 for the merchants in general, and to 

 note the enormous amount of building 

 going on one is easily convinced that 

 we are in a rapidly growing city. In 

 all branches of trade there is plenty 

 of employment, and while we are hav- 

 ing a few strikes, yet labor troubles 

 have not assumed the alarming pro- 

 portions as in some of the laTger 

 cities. 



Six weeks ago our enterprising Kan- 

 sas City Times offered through its col- 



