The Weekly Florists' Review, 



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A Spring View of the Garden of Hardy Plants at Lincoln Park, Chicago. Photographed May 24, 1 90 J. 



an official badge, on which is displayed 

 the name and number of each employe 

 and the firm has distributed thousands 

 of price lists in which they call espe- 

 cial attention to said swindle. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. Valentine, manager of the I'ark 

 Floral Company, has returned from his 

 eastern trip, going from here via Gal- 

 veston to New York, to Buffalo, then 

 through the lakes to Duluth and then 

 home. He looks as if he thoroughly en- 

 joyed his trip. 



Mr. Phil Scott (who, by the way, is 

 considered the best bowler in Denver) 

 is to be married to Miss Simkins on 

 June 4, and later in the season when 

 business is not quite so brisk he and his 

 wife intend to take in the exposition at 

 Buffalo. 



On May 24 the Denver Floral f'lub 

 had one of their monthly socials, ot 

 which there was a good attend^inic, 

 though it rained all the evening. The 

 time was most pleasantly spent with 

 cards and music and the latter was of 

 such a fine character that the card play- 

 ers forgot their games. Our vice pres- 

 ident John Satterthwaite, is just at 

 home with the violin. TuonxF. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Weather. 

 The weather is considered a trite sub- 

 ject, but it is for all a very important 

 one to the trade to which this journal 

 is dedicated, and information and com- 

 parison from diverse sections of a com- 

 mon country with mutual interests at 

 stake are not without interest and occa- 

 sionally considerable profit. Here, for 

 about two weeks preceding the date of 

 this writing (June 3d) we have had an 

 abnormally dull and rainy experience. 

 The downfall has not been extreme, but 

 the persistence of the drizzle and the 

 continued clouds have made an uncom- 

 fortable May, and flowers, neither out- 



side nor indoors, have been abundant. 

 During the month rain fell on nineteen 

 days, and the total precipitation was 

 3.67 inches. 



The supply of flowers has not been 

 excessive ; indeed, neither roses nor car- 

 nations have been equal to the demand, 

 except of poor stuff', which nobody wants 

 and nobody will have if they can help 

 themselves. Roses from outdoors are be- 

 ginning to come in now, but they are 

 very late, and the same may be said of 

 pseonies. 



Decoration Day. 



There is some divergence of opinion 

 as to whether Decoration Day is not 

 growing in importance here from a com- 

 mercial standpoint. Some dealers report 

 a much larger trade than usual, but this 

 is attributable perhaps to the paucity of 

 blooms of hardy shrubs which usually 

 make up the bulk of floral decorations on 

 the day. There seems, however, a grow- 

 ing tendency to enlarge the observance 

 of the custom of decorating the graves 

 not only of those who have served in 

 army and navy, but of friends and rela- 

 tives. The Spanish war seems to have 

 revived the usage, which has not been 

 so general for the past few years, and 

 the fact that the day is a legal holiday 

 will give renewed emphasis to this pa- 

 triotic use of flowers, such as is seen in 

 more northern localities. The Confeder- 

 ate Memorial Day is June 6th, but the 

 effect of this on trade is scarcely per- 

 ceptible. 



Various Items. 



Alexander Scott, manager of the Flor- 

 ists' Exchange, has been confined to his 

 house for nearly two weeks by an attack 

 of erysipelas, but he is again at his post. 



Theodore Eckhardt, who has been su- 

 perintending the gardens and improve- 

 ments of the grounds at the Springfield 

 Insane Asylum, has resigned from that 

 post and will go to Yokohama, Japan, 

 where he will assume the position of 

 general manager for the extensive house 

 of L. Boehmer & Co., largelv known as 



exporters of bulbs and Japan plants, 

 seeds, etc. The work inaugurated by 

 Mr. E. already began to show his skill 

 and taste in that line. 



Amongst recent visitors to this city 

 were Wm. G. Bertermann, of Indian- 

 apolis, president of the American Car- 

 nation Society, and Mr. Buettner, of 

 Chicago. 



Benjamin Durfee, of the American 

 Rose Co., of Washington, was seen here 

 a few days ago. He reports trade as 

 bustling there, the official observance of 

 Decoration Day making things lively at 

 the capital. He is as enthusiastic as 

 ever over the merits of the Golden Gate 

 rose, and especially of its white form. 



George A. Black has had plans pre- 

 pared for a modern establishment at 

 Lutherville, where he will grow cut flow- 

 ers on the property acquired by him. The 

 old establishment will be dismantled and 

 the material used in part in some of the 

 smaller of the new houses, and the land 

 leased or sold. E. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Decoration Day business in our city 

 never amounts to much and what little 

 was done this year was fully up to the 

 expectations. The florists, though, who 

 are located close to the cemeteries had 

 all they could do and were kept hustling 

 all day long. At the wholesale houses 

 all hands were busy during the morning, 

 and shipping orders the day before 

 amounted to more than the local trade. 

 The sale of dried stuff' did not amount to 

 much and fresh flowers had the call by 

 long odds. Most of the stock called for 

 was cheap outdoor stuff. 



The supply of fancy stock in roses and 

 carnations was limited. The supply of 

 roses was hardly sufficient and much of 

 the good stock was badly mildewed ow- 

 ing to the cool days and nights we have 

 had the past week. Prices on really good 

 stock ran from $4 to $6 per 100; seconds, 



