November 22, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



767 



Vase of American Beauty Roses Shown at the Chicago Exhibition by the 

 South Park Floral Co., New Castle, Ind. 



Our weather here has been fairly typical 

 autumnal, the mercury one or two 

 mornings only going so low as freezing. 



Last week there were two mum shows, 

 one by the Gardeners' Club the other by 

 Posner Bros., one of our leading depart- 

 ment stores. The first, which was a free 

 show, was largely visited and the flowers 

 on exhibition were exceptionally good, 

 consisting mainly of the standard sorts. 

 G. D. Lotze, of Anne Arundel County, 

 had some conspicuously fine examples. 

 The display at Posner's was large, 

 showy and very effectively arranged and 

 attracting much attention, served, 

 doubtless, its main object of advertising 

 the wares of the firm. We understand 

 one grower sold them for it some 1,200 

 large flowers, and the local trade was 

 given something of a fillip by the de- 

 mand created. The event deserves in 

 this regard commendation, as well as for 

 the taste shown. 



Messrs. Samuel Feast & Sons are oc- 

 cupying their new store, corner of 

 Charles and Pleasant streets, a modern 

 show room, tastefully equipped and 

 decorated, with ample windows and com- 

 modious basement with northern light, 

 and altogether the most convenient and 

 handsome florists' establishment In our 

 city and quite redeeming it, so far as this 

 old but enterprising firm is concerned. 



from the reproach a year or two ago of 

 your contributor, William Scott, as to 

 the character of its retail florists' places 

 of business. The Messrs. Feast will con- 

 tinue, as we are advised, for some 

 months to use their old stand lower 

 down Charles street until building im- 

 provements compel them to leave. 



Another candidate for public favor is 

 Mrs. Hasseidel, who has opened a neat 

 store on North Eutaw, near Monument 

 street, a locality which ought to be a 

 favorable one for this kind of a venture, 

 there being few near competitors. 



A recent call on Mr. John Cook at his 

 handsome place on Edmonston avenue 

 disclosed his new seedling rose Balti- 

 more in full and splendid crop, with ev- 

 ery indication of possessing qualities to 

 make its advent a notable event to rose 

 growers and lovers. Some samples sent 

 to Thorley, New York, and S. S. Pennock, 

 Philadelphia, received great admiration. 

 A house is planted with a new carna- 

 tion, a seedling from Scott, of somewhat 

 darker tint, fine stem and remarkable 

 fragrance. Mr. Cook's fondness for hy- 

 bridizing and crossing varieties of plants 

 is extending, and his operations with 

 roses, carnations, chrysanthemums and 

 other plants give promise not only of 

 interesting but profitable results. 



The war of words over the conduct of 



the business of the Park Board goes on, 

 and the daily papers freely condemn the 

 disposition of matters of public Interest 

 behind closed doors. It could hardly be 

 expected that when the questions of ap- 

 pointments and removals of ofiicials and 

 employes, involving often inquiries as to 

 their characters, antecedents and habits, 

 necessarily come up, that this should be 

 done in public, but on subjects of general 

 and public interest the people ought to 

 know what is being done or proposed to 

 be done. The board is erecting in several 

 of the parks houses for the propagation 

 of bedding stuft', which hereafter will not 

 be bought from the trade, and is reduc- 

 ing expenses by the dismissal of section 

 superintendents and putting the various 

 public squares under the charge of the 

 superintendents of the larger parks. 



For the first time here, so far as your 

 correspondent recalls, an advertisement 

 is appearing in the daily papers of a 

 "reliable florist who wishes to contract 

 with a grower for a supply of roses and 

 carnations for the season." This shows, 

 at least, that the local field is not so 

 easilj' covered as formerly, when every 

 retailer knew practically every grower 

 and the quantity, quality and disposition 

 of his output. Rix. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions. 



One day's good run of traffic is all we 

 need to bring everything down to its 

 bearings. Consequent upon the cooler 

 weather all crops have shortened except 

 perhaps the chrysanthemum crop and the 

 bulb goods product. 



Violets have shortened the most, being 

 quite scarce and roses next, but there 

 has been enough to supply practically all 

 demands at a fair figure. Paper white is 

 getting more plentiful, and Roman hya- 

 cinths are appearing. Fine white flow- 

 ers for filling funeral designs are in good 

 supply, being chiefly candytuft and ste- 

 via. The carnation market has not 

 changed very much, but prices have ad- 

 vanced a little. Higher prices on every- 

 thing are in the wind. Chrysanthemums 

 have not yet advanced in price nor fallen 

 off in quantity. Easter lilies are coming 

 in quite freely. 



Various Items. 



W. W. Tailby exhibited a dozen white 

 Bonnaffon chrysanthemums in the Park 

 street market, claiming them as the first 

 of the kind under the tapering spire. 

 They were surely good ones. 



Bromfield street Lary has a cunning 

 little pair of new specs. They are sup- 

 posed to be of the "diminishing" kind, 

 that will make blossoms look small while 

 buying them, so he can conscientiously 

 offer a low price, too, the figures look 

 smaller when he signs the growers' sales 

 slip. And they do give him a most "dis- 

 tangy" appearance. 



Richard Kidder, of Waltham, is going 

 through the motions of bankruptcy. 

 About a 50 per cent settlement is ex- 

 pected. 



