OCTOBER 25, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



619 



Pan-American Exposition! G. 



Showing Building Progress. 



FROM PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AUGUST I%t 1900. 



plentiful as they ever get and prices 

 on that color have gracefully slid down 

 as low as they ever do. Other colors 

 are not so numerous. The presence of 

 the family, of course, crowds upon other 

 kinds of blossoms, cutting down the 

 price of carnations a little and affecting 

 the rose market still more. Buyers can 

 surely expect to get good usage so long 

 as this almost summer weather con- 

 tinues. But of course no one knows when 

 a cold wave will slam against us like a 

 barn door in a gale, nor exactly what ef- 

 fect it will have. But what we need 

 seems to be more customers. 



City retail trade is decidedly quiet, 

 but of course much is being done. All 

 of last spring's stores are open and two 

 new ones are on the list, Jas. H. Delay 

 having opened one on upper Washing- 

 ton street and N. Fishelson graduating 

 from a stand on the street to a nice little 

 store near by at 18 Huirtington avenue. 



Various Items. 



J. ButterfieJd wonders if it also means 

 "If thine enemy taivftu away thy fern, 

 give him thy palm also." And will the 

 palm of the hand do just as well? 



If E. M. Wood can only manage to 

 get a vote of the S. A. F. counted upon 

 his present nomination to congress, what 

 a comfortable majority would roll up. 

 The same thing may also happen with- 

 out the aid of his many floral friends, 

 however. 



If you have a potted La France rose 

 bush for sale better let Wax Bros, know 

 it. 



The auction sales at McCarthy's are 

 progressing unusually well this fall for 

 both buyer and consigner. I was told 

 there that the shipping trade in cut 

 flowers was not what it ought to be, 

 which I suspiected, but muist concede 

 that their Liberty roses from Pearson's 

 are all they ought to be. They have 

 them with a fine twenty-four inch stem 

 and a blossom like the finest Jacque arid 

 not much behind it in fragrance. His 

 general stock in trade is also particu- 

 larly good and he has a particularly fine 

 team of men to handle it. 



Wm. E. Cahill fills the position of 

 traveling salesman for Thos. J. Grey. 



In continuation of the "foolish, floral, 

 farcical fancies" it might be added that 

 "some wish to Roland are shaped like a 

 Boll Orr Ring," that though "devoid 

 of Rivers, Ponds and Brooks" we have 

 plenty of Good Waters, and that the 

 ■'Derringer" is often met by A. Spear. 

 No one is afflicted with Bunyans, but one 

 poor fellow is all Boyles. 



The Co-operative Market. 



In connection with the remarkably 

 successful sale of stands at the co-opera- 

 tive market, the efl'ect that this place 

 has had upon the wholesale flower traf- 

 fic of Boston and vicinity is worthy of 

 more than passing note. From a perfect 

 chaos it has evolved a perfect system, 

 with four distinct branches. First, in 

 point of lesser value of goods handled, 

 are the growers who contract with some 

 retail dealer, usually of Boston, to take 

 the whole production throughcrut the 



season, the price being sometimes agreed 

 upon beforehand and sometimes being 

 guided by circumstances and frequently 

 adjusted. Second, probably, comes those 

 who go from store to store each morning 

 or upon specified mornings, placing the 

 goods to the best advantage for the day, 

 and, whenever possible, booking future 

 orders. Third, those that arrange with 

 the different wholesalers to handle the 

 crop, and, lastly, those who make a 

 headquarters of the co-operative mar- 

 ket. And it is by bringing so many of 

 the growers and buyers together nearly 

 every morning, day after day, that 

 another great improvement has been 

 made. By this simple method of getting 

 acquainted a general feeling of jealousy 

 and distrust, very noticeable only a few 

 years ago, has largely disappeared. This 

 existed between grower and grower, be- 

 tween grower and dealer, and between 

 dealer and dealer, and has been equally 

 reduced in each case. "Trade is a great 

 leveler." 



It would look as if the growers had 

 all been benefited by this plan without 

 exception, but that both the Boston 

 wholesaler and retailer may have been 

 slightly damaged because all salesmen 

 are not obliged to make the round of the 

 stores as formerly, while the suburban 

 retailer within early morning reach has 

 been vastly the most accommodated, be- 

 cause taken away from the ownership, 

 almost, of three wholesalers and given 

 the free run of the co-operative floor. 

 The wholesalers have, of course, kept 

 themselves whole by developing a ship- 



