June 20, 1901. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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J. A. Evans, Richmond, Ind., were recent 

 visitors. 



The Marquise Litta rose is certainly 

 a good Iceeper. A dozen blooms given us 

 by Mr. Washburn, of Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, last Tuesday were still in fair 

 condition on Saturday though merely in 

 a vase on a table in a dwelling and no 

 ice at any time. 



Greek met Greek on Randolph street 

 last Tuesday. During the meeting one 

 put his foot through the side of the 

 other's glass case and in return got a 

 flower jar broken over his head. Tlie 

 melee drew a large crowd which looked 

 sympathetically at the broken case and 

 proceeded to buy out the stock of flow- 

 ers, probably under the impression that 

 the youthful Greek was the sole support 

 of a'large family of widows and orphans, 

 etc., whereas his "roll" was probably 

 bigger than that of the whole crowd com- 

 bined. 



The parents of E. F. Winterson left 

 for the Pacific coast last week and were 

 due to arrive last Tuesday. They go to 

 the bedside of his unfortunate brother 

 John, who was so seriously injured as 

 reported last week. 



Bowling. 



In ttN . ■ ■ ■,' ! 1. ~ ..f league games, played 



last Tii 'tie Growers ga\e short 



Retail.! - ; .1 , : 111 one game. The Whole- 



salers iiM-!:. 1 111. .-. . .Kmen three games deeper 



very small. J. S. Wilson potted one of those 

 dollar prizes with a score of 204. The scores 



GROWERS. 



N. A. Schmitz 130 124 168 



Jno. Paulus 153 147 183 



F. Matti 164 120 114 



G. StoUerv 189 183 179 



F. StoUery ISl 163 147 



787 737 791 

 RETAILERS. 



Geo. Asmus 153 127 127 



E. Hauswirth 120 119 118 



P J. Hauswirth 146 193 168 



O. Kreitling 148 126 94 



C. Balluft 156 192 133 



723 757 640 

 WHOLESALERS. 



E. F. Winterson 158 148 146 



G.L.Grant 163 152 140 



W. S. Heftron 119 125 142 



Chas. Hughes 110 126 116 



Jno. Sterrett : 124 128 142 



674 679 686 

 SEEDSMEN. 



Jno. Degnan 138 154 133 



J.S.Wilson 112 126 204 



W Kreitling 108 104 110 



L. Winterson 89 130 110 



M. Foerster 106 114 121 



533 628 673 

 The teams now stand as follows: 



Won. Lost. 



Wholesalers 15 6 



Retailers 9 12 



Seedsmen 3 18 



Below we give the averages to date of those 

 who have played in more than three series of 

 games, omitting fractions where less than one- 

 half and counting more than one-half as one: 

 Games. Total. High. Av. 

 Jos. Foerster 18 3,035 212 169 



F. Stollery 21 3,453 202 164 



G. Stollery 21 3.444 109 164 



Geo. Asmus 18 2.950 201 164 



C. Balluff 21 3.352 214 160 



E. F. Winterson 18 2.S18 202 156 



John Degnan 21 3.264 197 156 



F. Matti 21 3. ITS ]«.' 131 



P. J Hauswirth 1S 2.7i»1 lie, 1T,0 



G. L. Grant 20 2.927 liX 146 



N. A. Schmitz IS 2.,-.9 isi 142 



John Paulus 21 2.;i47 JV. 140 



E. Enders 'i 1 ix'i l'..; 1.32 



C. Hughes l:: 1 n-.l l'." 128 



W. S. Heffron L'.i :, IT 'I 126 



W. Kreitling r. 17-. lil 118 



O. Kreitling 1> -,IJ.. It 118 



C. W. Scott 17 1. ■•'.". l^^ 115 



W. Nagle 13 1.363 168 105 



At a meeting after the games it was decided 

 that the John A. Evans prize, a fine bowling 

 ball, should go to the player making the high- 

 est average in the games, and he must have 

 played not less than 24 games of the 36. 



The five shirts offered by E. F. Winterson 

 are to go to the five highest men in the final 

 roll-off by the twelve highest In the present 

 league series. 



The winning team in the present scries is to 

 receive $7.00 and the next highest ?5.00 in cash 



George Asmus offers a box of good cigars 

 to the man making the largest percentage of 

 spares in not less than ten games during the 



Of the prizes offered by G. L. Grant a dollar 

 for each score of 200 or more, six have been 

 won and paid, and the offer stands good for the 



NEW YORK. 



Xothing of great importance to place 

 on record from this city this week. The 

 season continues to be very backward and 

 the general impression is that we will 

 have an unusually cold summer. Such 

 may be most welcome to those condemned 

 to stay in the city, but the summer re- 

 sorts will suffer from much ftiactivity. 

 There is the usual exodus to Europe, 

 every steamer leaving New York is 

 packed with humanity among which is a 

 fair sprinkling of florists, but an early 

 return is anticipated in order to attend 

 the Buffalo Exposition. 



The most prominent of the June wed- 

 dings, that is those at which any con- 

 siderable quantity of flowers were re- 

 quired, seem to be about over and in con- 

 sequence the cut flower business is ex- 

 tremely dull. It is true there are not 

 a great quantity of greenhouse gi'own 

 roses coming in, but there are immense 

 quantities of outdoor stock ; you can buy 

 roses all the way from $5 per 1,000 up, 

 and as for carnations there is a wave 

 of them coming in; they can be bought 

 at from $2.50 to $5 per 1,000. Paeonies, 

 that is the common sorts, could be had 

 for $1 per 100. A corVespondingly low 

 price for all outdoor stock, and the great- 

 er part of present day work is made from 

 material grown outdoors. Sweet peas 

 have not been overplentiful and valley 

 keeps up fairly well ; it is .selling at $.3. 

 There are some very nice Victorias, La 

 France, Carnots and Meteors coming in, 

 especially to Thomas Young, Jr. They 

 will be well worth having later on when 

 all is burnt up outside. 



Vaxiotis Items. 



We do not bear of any very material 

 changes in the stock to be grown for next 

 season. From all accounts the same 

 few sorts of roses will at least constitute 

 the great glut. The wise and wealthy, 

 however, are preparing to grow more 

 American Beauties, It seems that after 

 all that is the best paying and most pop- 

 ular rose on the market in this section. 

 New houses are being put up for them 

 and the prospects are there will be a 

 much larger increase ne.xt year. Oh, if 

 glass were only cheaper some parts of the 

 country would be covered with it and 

 then wouldn't the fakirs have a bully 

 time. 



The long expected affair- between Paddy 

 Smith, of John Eaynors, and one of the 

 O'Donnollans, of Connaught, has come to 

 a climax and may it always be serene, 

 ilarriage seems to be more or less epi- 

 demic among the wholsalers of late, at 

 least four of the boys went off in one 

 street quite recently; that is one indica- 

 tion that business must he good. There's 

 no telling what will occur after the club's 

 summer outing, which event is about the 

 most important in the near future. It 

 comes at a time, too, when almost all 

 can get away and employers will never 



have a better chance to treat their em- 

 ployes. 



There are but few changes in the retail 

 section. The new center of high-class 

 florist trade is from Forty-first to Fifty- 

 eighth street on Fifth avenue. There 

 promises to be some great work in that 

 locality next winter. There are seven 

 large stores there and all are swell. 



Jimmie Carroll, Fleisehmann's man- 

 ager, has gone to Atlantic Highlands, N. 

 J., for the summer; he has designs 

 against the fish in the Shrewsbury river 

 and intends going in for the golf cham- 

 pionship, 



Ed Jansen has returned from his trip 

 to Europe and has brought with him 

 whatever basket novelties were worth 

 considering, 



Sam Butterfield has gone to size up the 

 Pan-American show, and possibly will 

 make a trip to his former home in James- 

 town. 



Bowling. 



Bowling is on the quietus in New York, 

 but there will be a good team at Buffalo, 

 a team it will be hard to beat. Out at 

 Flatbush on Tuesday night there was 

 lots of fun and quite a crowd. The alleys 

 there are very poor. The team wishes 

 it understood that there will be a change 

 on Brother Scott's alleys. The .series 

 rolled were: 



E. Dallledouze.144 183 Raynor 161 103 139 



H.Dailledouze.I,38 13l> Woemer .. ..115 1$U 124 



P. Dainedouze.121 105 C. Zeller . . . . 75 109 91 



D. Mellis 97 103 Schmutz ....211 130 111 



A. Zeller 149 167 145 Bun.vard ....143 115 88 



Stewart 109 83 103 Donlan 113 124 



Wocker 145 133 125 



J. I. D. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market has now ad- 

 vanced into the summer condition. Fes- 

 tivities are nearly over for the season and 

 stock generally is of rather poor qual- 

 ity. There is still some demand for first- 

 class flowers, which will probably keep 

 up throughout the summer, but this de- 

 mand is light and uncertain and prices 

 rule low. Many of the growers are 

 emptying and cleaning their houses so 

 that there is not any quantity of choice 

 roses. 



The best Beauties and Liberties bring 

 from .$1.50 to $2 a dozen; Kaiserins, $6 

 for 100; good Carnots, Maids and La 

 France, $3 to $5 per 100, with \ery few 

 .selling at the higher figure. Carnations 

 are tremendously overdone, prices range 

 from 40 cents to $1.50 per 100; $1 buying 

 very fine flowers. Sweet peas are also 

 in over-supply. It is probable by the 

 time these notes appear that they will be 

 as hard to sell as carnations, 35 cents to 

 50 cents per 100 are the prevailing figures. 

 Peonies will be over this week. The grow- 

 ers say they have been poor stock this 

 season. 



Coreopsis has made its appearance, 

 and is in light demand. It will soon be 

 followed by the rest of the summer con- 

 tingent. D, B. M. Felton, of Sixty-ninth 

 and Haverford streets, grows this class 

 of stock. His list includes Phlox Drum- 

 mondii, larkspur, sweet Williams, pyre- 

 thrums, marguerites, asters, hardy phlox, 

 etc. 



Plants. 



The season for planting out of beds is 

 practically over and-the growers of this 

 class of stock are now getting their stock 



