OCTOBER 18, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



587 



which were quite plentiful and good. 

 Bridesmaids are still a glut. Brides, 

 Perles. Woottons and Golden Gates 

 .sold well at last week's prices. 



Carnations are a little scarce and 

 are sold out clean every day. All va- 

 rieties sell well and prices have ad- 

 vanced some; choice stock bringing 

 $2, but the bulk go at $1 per lOO. 

 Valley, violets and tuberose stalks are 

 selling well and are not ovcrplentiful. 



Notes. 



Ed Buechel came to the club meet- 

 ing in company with Mr. Washburn. 

 This is Eddie's first appearance at the 

 meetings for about two years. 



Mrs. Wm. Ellison, of Ellison <fe 

 Tesson, is spending a week in Chicago 

 buying stock for the coming season. 



John W. Kunz left Saturday night 

 for Chicago to enter the employment 

 of C. A. Samuelson. John, who is 

 everybody's friend, has the good will 

 of all the craft, who wish him luck in 

 his new undertaking. It's another 

 case of St. Louis' loss and Chicago's 

 gain. Good luck to you, John; we 

 will miss you. J. J. B. 



BALTIMORE. 



Trade and Personal Items. 



Without great actual precipitation 

 we have had here for more than two 

 weeks an unusual amount of cloudy 

 weather for the season, with a re- 

 sultant growth of marked softness in 

 all house plants, notwithstanding 

 every precaution in giving air. The 

 conditions have been favorable to the 

 development of mildew and many .jf 

 the roses coming in show the marks 

 of its disfiguring fingers. 



Good flowers are not largely in evi- 

 dence. Indeed, for one or two days 

 last week the market was practically 

 bare of indoor roses and carnations 

 as well. We heard the exchange peo- 

 ple on Tuesday decline orders for the 

 following day, not knowing of any 

 source from which they could expect 

 certain shipments. But outdoor roses 

 reached the acme of good quality, and 

 no more magnificent Cochets (white 

 and pink), Kaiserins, and La France 

 probably were ever seen in this cen- 

 ter in so great profusion. Of the first 

 named Messrs. Bauer, Moss and 

 Kider had great quantities, and all 

 went off well. 



Mums promise to be late here, as 

 elsewhere, though some are in, nota- 

 bly Lady Fitzwygram and Glory of 

 Pacific. The Impression seems to pre- 

 vail that not so many as usual have 

 been planted this year, but doubtless 

 there will be enough for all require- 

 ments. 



Trade begins to stir, though elec- 

 tion excitement probably prevents, in 

 some degree, its normal development. 



Your well-known contributor, Wil- 

 liam Scott, of Buffalo, showed his 

 handsome lineaments in this city last 



Monday, but his coming was wholly 

 a surprise, and the catching up with 

 him was a good deal of a pussy- 

 wants-a-corner game, for he was hith- 

 er and thither and hardly in one place 

 before he was off for another. This 

 correspondent was honored by a call, 

 but was away from home and nearly 

 two days elapsed before he overtook 

 the Industrious but elusive visitor, 

 whose pathway, however, was oO 

 strewn with unmistakable evidences 

 of his passage in the shape of Pan- 

 American maps, dodgers, medals and 

 buttons, that for a day or two it 

 seemed that some new and popular 

 rival of McKinley and Bryan had at 

 this late day entered the presiden- 

 tial campaign. W. S. visited a num- 

 ber of our growers, and promises to 

 return in February. 



Last week there were dahlia shows 

 by the Gardeners' Club and The Grif- 

 fith-Turner Co., the display at the 

 former being largely from Richard 

 Vincent & Sons. Henry A. Dreer, of 

 Philadelphia, sent a fine assortment 

 of water lilies, and John Cook showed 

 good specimens of his roses, Baltimore 

 and Mrs. Kobert Garrett, the former 

 noticeably fine in flower, foliage and 

 stem. In this region the dahlia seems 

 to have regained some of its former 

 'popular favor, and great quantities are 

 produced. Alexander McCormick is 

 cutting from 5,(i00 plants this year of 

 a white "Camellia flowered," which 

 sells readily for funeral purposes. The 

 showy "cactus" flowered sorts seem 

 to please the public by their gorgeous- 

 uess and striking forms. 



Hugo Walther is putting in one of 

 the new style of Furman steam boil- 

 ers, the first introduced here. Isaac 

 H. Moss is undetermined what style 

 of boiler to use in his new structures, 

 which are now all planted with car- 

 nations and sm'ilax, hesitating over 

 the comparative advantages of steam 

 and hot water. Andrew Andersen's 

 new rose houses are handsome and 

 neat in construction and modern in 

 plan, and from the appearance of the 

 American Beauties cannot fail to be a 

 profitable venture from the start. He 

 has just put in an old style Furman 

 hot water boiler. Mr. Wm. Madsea, 

 his former partner and next door 

 neighbor, has Beauties and Maids in 

 splendid condition and is cutting a 

 fair crop. These two growers are on 

 the top-round of the Beauty growers' 

 ladder of distinction and success. 



Erdman Brothers, who are among 

 the very first of our carnation grow- 

 ers, have everything planted and in 

 the best of shape. They stick mainly 

 to the old favorites, and make all 

 grow to the best form. 



Our daily papers here continue to 

 prod the Park Board for its closed- 

 door sittings. The Mayor, who ap- 

 pointed them, declared that none of 

 the city's commissions dealing .with 

 matters of public concern should hold 

 secret sessions, but this one practi- 

 cally continues to do so, the objec- 



tions of Mayor and press notwith- 

 standing. Further fault is found with 

 ihe relegation to the chairman, Mr. 

 Thos. R. Clendennin, of the disposi- 

 tion of questions which come before 

 the board. Various matters submitted 

 c.t the meeting last week were not 

 passed upon, but referred to him with 

 power to act. Mr. Clendennin is a 

 shrewd lawyer, a good deal of a horse- 

 man, but so far as known without the 

 tastes and experience which would 

 seem peculiarly to qualify him to as- 

 sume direction of the details which 

 pertain to the management of the 

 parks and public squares. Hence these 

 tears. 



Today (Oct. 15) we have summer 

 temperature again, the mercury going 

 up to 75 degrees. RIX. 



BOSTON. 



The JVIarkeU 



'Twas a dreary, dreary week, but 

 we got a glimpse of a better land on 

 the very last day of it. Naturally 

 there was a feeling of expectation 

 all the week that the wet weather 

 would offset the effects of the previous 

 hot spell and produce a scarcity. 

 But this condition was very slow In 

 getting around and it is not fully 

 developed yet, although outdoor 

 goods are practically knocked out and 

 the supply of good carnations has de- 

 creased. I see no decided falling off 

 in any part of the rose crop. They 

 were coming so fast it takes some lit- 

 tle time to overcome the momentum. 

 Single violets have become more 

 plentiful, but double ones are yet 

 very scarce. 



Prices have ntJt changed materially. 

 Best American Beauty roses are now 

 a strong two foot long, and sell at 

 $3 per dozen. Shorter ones will bring 

 about one cent each for each inch m 

 length of stem if that stem has a 

 first-class blossom on it. If it bears 

 an inferior bud or an open flower 

 the chances are that it will not read- 

 ily sell at any price. Buyers exam- 

 ine the bloom very critically nowa- 

 days, too. Other red roses are now- 

 selling all the way from one to six 

 cents, the largest ones being over a 

 foot long. The Liberty cuts no great 

 figure yet. There are quite a few 

 good yellow roses, but no steady de- 

 mand for them, at from one to six 

 cents, while good pink and white 

 are plentiful and ranging up to eight 

 cents. Pinks of very best sizes have 

 been worth two cents for a few 

 days, and are whispering more. Price 

 on violets varies from morning to 

 morning all the way from 25 to 75 

 cents per lOO. Asters are very few 

 and sell at from 50 cents to $1 per 

 100. Candy tuft holds out the best . 

 of the outdoor crops and largely fills 

 the list for small white, selling very 

 reasonable. Bunches vary in size, so 

 that prices cannot be quoted. Green 

 material is running smoothly, but 

 there seems to be too much smilax. 



