OCTODER 17. 1001. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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feroR Bros. 



51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO,' ILL. 



Wholesale Growers of 



CIT 

 ..FLOWERS. 



CARNATION 

 ....PLANTS.... 



Only a Few More Left. Order Quick. 



America $5.00 per 100, $40.00 per 1000 



Crane 6.00 " 50.00 



Triumph 5.00 " 40.00 " 



Sport V.OO •■ 60.00 



Marquis 7.00 " 60.00 



We are better than ever prepared to take the best of care of your orders. Our stock is in 

 fine condition and we can supply high grade flowers that will give the best of satisfaction. 



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BALTIMORE- 



Trade and Other Notes. 

 The past week (we are writing en Oct. 

 14th) trade has shown decided improve- 

 ment. The fall weddings are at hand, 

 with consequent good demand for 

 flowers. Roses are beginning to be more 

 plentiful and early mums are coming in. 

 Dahlias are abundant and there is no 

 end of cosmos for those who can use 

 these materials. Carnations continue 

 scarce ; indeed, very scarce. Violets have 

 appeared in the market, but are dimin- 

 utive in size and lacking in color. 



We have had slight frosts, but except 

 in the lowlands none to kill the tender- 

 est vegetation, and semi-tropical plants 

 and beds are flourishing as in mid- 

 For a few nights in the week 



J , the last the mercury dropped 



toward the frost mark, but latterly it 

 has been so high up as to make things 

 uncomfortably warm, while heavy fogs 

 and southerly winds constituted condi- 

 tions exceedingly unfavorable for roses. 

 Yesterday there was a warm rain. 



The chrysanthemum show of the Gar- 

 deners' Club will be held, as heretofore 

 noted, on the 12th to 15th of November, 

 and Robert L. Graham has been made 

 chairman of the committee of arrange- 

 ments, which guarantees energetic work 

 and plenty of it to make an effective 

 and handsome display. 



We are in the midst here of a great 

 hullaballoo over the condition of our 

 parks, which have in the past been a 

 source of much pride to our people. 

 Their physical condition is said to have 

 deteriorated very much, and the finances 



are in a decided tangle, the indebtedness 

 of the board for the current fiscal year 

 aggregating something like $50,000 — a 

 large proportion of which is for new 

 greenhouses, boilers and materials in 

 several of the parks, and for supplies for 

 them, the beds and the public squares. 

 Among the unpaid bills reported are 

 those of several of the florists— I. H. 

 Moss, garden supplies, about $900 ; E. A. 

 Seidewitz, ditto, $50; Fred G. Burger, 

 for Dutch bulbs, $2,000, etc. 



The trouble seems due to lack of busi- 

 nesslike management and want of a sys- 

 tem of checks on expenditures. Above 

 and beyond this is the need of responsi- 

 ble and intelligent control. There is no 

 skilled head, no general superintendent 

 and no chief engineer, and the official 

 in charge of each park seems to have 

 gone along on his own hook, talking 

 orders either from the committees of the 

 board, amongst which the several parks 

 are distributed, or from its president, 

 who is a lawyer, with no knowledge of 

 arboriculture, gardening or landscape 

 architecture. This oSicer, Mr. Thomas R. 

 Clendenin, an attorney at law of large 

 practice in damage and contested 

 will cases, is a close friend of the mayor, 

 and by the press is held responsible for 

 the existing unfortunate condition of 

 affairs. An investigation has been or- 

 dered by the city council, and the park 

 board has engaged two lawyers for the 

 defense, one of them, Mr. Bernard Car- 

 ter, being at the very head of the bar in 

 this state. 



In the windows of John Cook, on N. 

 Charles street, have been seen the past 

 week or two some fine bunches of the 

 new Sunshine rose, and there are indi- 

 cations of its finding a quick entrance 



into public favor; his Baltimore, too, is 

 showing up handsomely. 



Among the visitors to the trade here 

 last week were Messrs. J. H. Troy, of 

 The Rosary, New York, and Samuel S. 

 Pennock, commission man, of Philadel- 

 phia. E- 



FORT WAYNE, IND. 



Owing to a fire in the building oc- 

 cupied by Miss Flick as a flower store, 

 damage was caused by smoke and water 

 to her stock to the amount of several 

 hundred dollars. 



Mr. Kaade has added a new house to 

 his plant, to grow mixed plants in. 



Vesey's have been very busy shipping 

 carnation plants all over the country, as 

 their trade has been much greater than 

 they anticipated. 



Markey Bros, are established in their 

 greenhouse after rebuilding their plant 

 on West Jefferson street. 



Mr. Ford, representing A. Herrmann, 

 of New York, is calling on the trade this 

 week. 



The marriage of Mr. Louis Auger, Jr., 

 to Miss Hattie La Mahr occurred on 

 October 3. Mr. Auger will be remem- 

 bered by his father having been in the 

 trade for a number of years before his 

 death. 



There seems to be a great shortage in 

 carnations, especially white, among all 

 the florists. 



Vesey's are cutting thousands of roses, 

 fine clean stock, as they have no mildew. 



Mr. Bond has some very fine Califor- 

 nia violets that he is beginning to cut 

 from. M. S. V. 



