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1 'he Weekly Florists' Review* 



MARCH 1. 1900. 



month with them. Quite a number 

 of weddings will take place this week 

 owing to the approach of Lent and 

 after this week business will be quiet 

 for a while. Flowers will be more 

 ))lentiful again and the high prices 

 will drop. 



The wholesale men report an ex- 

 cellent shipping trade in roses and 

 carnations. Prices on stock at this 

 writing are as follows: Meteors, ex- 

 tra fine, $8 and $10; .seconds, $5. 

 Brides and Maids, extra, $8 and $10 

 Woottons and Perles, $4 and $5, 

 American Beauties are from $3 to $(, 

 per dozen. All the above are still 

 scarce and the demand great. George 

 Kuhl, of Pekin, is sending in roses 

 as good as any. Carnations are in 

 great demand and not half enough 

 come into this market to supply the 

 demand; any color, common or fancy, 

 are sold at good prices, the average 

 of which is $2 and $2.50, while some 

 extra fancy bring $4. Valley, hya- 

 cinths and daffs are the same as 

 quoted last week. Harrisii and callas 

 are in great demand at $12.50 and $15. 

 Great quantities of California violets 

 are coming in just now and sold last 

 week at $2.50 per 1,000, 40 cents per 

 100. Small singles are low in price 

 and southern stock is unsalable. Smi- 

 lax is slow at $12.50. 



Notes. 



Visitors in town the past week 

 were George A. Kuhl, Pekin, 111., and 

 Charles A. Stevens, foreman for Mr. 

 Kuhl, also of Pekin. 



Your correspondent has received a 

 letter from our old friend Thomas 

 Carroll, formerly of this city, now at 

 San Francisco, Cal., who writes that 

 the climate is doing him lots of good, 

 but that he does not expect to recover 

 his eyesight. He is living a quiet life 

 with his sister and will not return to 

 St. Louis until next year. Ho wishes 

 to be remembered to all h* friends 

 through The Review, which he has 

 read to him every week in Frisco. 



C. Young & Sons Co. have been very 

 busy the past week. They furnished 

 the decorations for one of the largest 

 weddings of the season on Friday, 

 using an enormous amount of flowers 

 of all kinds. 



From present indications quite a 

 number of new greenhouses will be 

 built the coming summer by several 

 of our large growers and also by the 

 smaller ones, and especially at Kirk- 

 wood, as nearly all of them there will 

 add to their present ones. 



Some of the boys of the bowling 

 club are wondering what has become 

 of our old friend and former mem- 

 ber of the club, Duncan Finlayson. 

 We have heard that he got married. 

 Some of the boys would like to hear 

 from him, and as Mr. Finlayson al- 

 ways reads The Review, we expect to 

 hear soon how Mr. and Mrs. Finlay- 

 son and family are getting along. 

 Come, Duncan, don't be bashful. You 

 know you were our best, and had you 

 been at Detroit with us we would 

 still be the champions. 



Bowling. 



The Florists' Bowling Club rolled 

 its usual five games on Monday night. 

 The attendance was slim. Mr. \Vm. 

 Adles of the .luniors was a visitor 

 and rolled with us. The scores and 

 averages were as follows: 

 ^ ^ „ , 1. 2. 3. 4. r.. Tot. Av. 



J. J. Reneke...i:!7 2ii!i 150 ]:» liB SOU 161 

 C. A, Kuehn..I24 IIW 176 165 148 773 1,56 

 J. W. Kunz,..]:59 172 152 134 164 761 152 

 l'\ C. Weber.. SS 161 142 177 137 705 141 

 <'. v.. Sanders. KiS 164 125 157 100 CS4 137 

 Win. Adles .... i)0 117 110 93 137 547 110 



.1. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



Some coming events cast their 

 shadows before. Lent always does to 

 the flower business. There was a sud- 

 den stop to the fast whirl of trade and 

 many there are who will still dig for 

 reasons. 



Albers & Co. have opened a retail 

 florist store at 4«th St. and 5th Ave. 



Moore, Hentz & Nash, 119 West 23d 

 St., are receiving exhibition Brides- 

 maids. They find their way into the 

 Broadway stores, be trade good or bad. 

 So do Thomas Young's Brunners and 

 cattleyas. 



The New York Gardeners' Society's 

 carnation show and quarterly meeting 

 will be held on March 27th, the first 

 day of the American Rose Society's 

 show. Mr. C. W. Ward has offered the 

 Gardeners' Society a silver cup, value 

 $25, for the best collection of carna- 

 tions. There must be 12 blooms of a 

 kind, and not less than 5 varieties, 

 3 of which must consist of the follow- 

 ing varieties sent out by Mr. Dorner: 

 Scott, Albertini, Richmond, White 

 Cloud. Gold Nugget, Crane, or of the 

 sorts disseminated by Mr. Ward, viz.: 

 Mrs. Jas. Dean, New York, John 

 Young, Glacier, Maceo and Gomez. All 

 the new carnations will be at this 

 show, and those wishing further in- 

 formation will get it by applying to 

 J. I. Donlan, 43 West 28th St., New 

 York city. 



The results at the bowling alleys last 

 night were: 



A. Marshall m ion 151 



' - 'o'."F 1™ 136 131 



\\ . Siebrecht 150 147 142 



<\ Moody ISO no 130 



;•• Jraondly 150 l,'j7 1.34 



L. Hafner 126 15S 110 



I . Schenck 141 log 



h. Hiitterfleld ]I9 j29 123 



•I. Wither.s )]2 % 



■' M'lnfla J52 lie 



;, 'Jf>"an 103 J43 



I Roehrs 525 



J. I. D. 

 PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Most of the retail stores report 

 business as being very quiet, which 

 they attribute to the rough weather of 

 the past week. 



Beauties. $1 to $G per dozen: Brides, 

 Maids. Kaiscrins. Meteors and Golden 

 Gate. .$3 to $10; fancy. $12; Morgans 

 $5 to $10; Gontiers. $3 to $4; Perles. $3 

 to $•;. Carnations, ordinary, $1.50; 

 fancy, $2 to $4; valley, $3 to" $4; hya- 



cinths, $2 to $4; mignonette, $3 to $4; 

 narcissus, $2 to $4; sweet peas, $1.50 

 to $2.50; dalfs, $3 to $4; tulips, $3 to 

 $4; callas, $10; violets, single 25 to 50 

 cents, double 25 cents to $1; smilax. 

 $15; adiantum, $1; asparagus, $50. 



Various Notes. 



A vase of the new carnation Marquis 

 in the window of H. A. Dreer attracted 

 considerable attention. 



J. J. Habermelil's Sons did the deco- 

 rating for the Philopatron ball. It 

 was one of the largest of the season. 



Hugh Graham executed the decorat- 

 ing for the Hebrew charity ball. It 

 was a grand affair. 



A meeting of the Farmers' Institute 

 for Philadelphia county was held on 

 February 24 under the auspices of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 and the Florists' Club of Philadelphia 

 at Horticultural Hall. There were two 

 sessions, afternoon and evening. 



The address of welcome was deliv- 

 ered by W. Atlee Burpee. 



Mr. Meehan, Jr., in the absence of 

 his father, read _a^ paper on landscape 

 gardening, which was very instruc- 

 tive. 



Prof. MacFarlaine, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, gave an illustration 

 of the Botanic Gardens of England in 

 the shape of lantern slides showing 

 different water lily ponds, fern and 

 palm houses. 



W. H. Taplin read a paper on "Ferns 

 Specially Adapted to House Culture." 



The Bowling Club has arranged for 

 a theater benefit on March 16 at the 

 Walnut Street theater. Tickets can 

 be had for same at the club i-oom. 



Mr. Bancroft, Jr., of Cedar Falls, 

 la., was one of our visitors the past 

 week. R. 



BOSTON. 



The first half of the week beginning 

 February 19 consisted of three very 

 busy days for our growers and sales- 

 men. Goods of all kinds were in 

 plenty, but the good demand made use 

 of them all. Since the middle of the 

 week there has been a falling off in 

 both supply and demand. This is 

 caused probably almost wholly by 

 heavy rains all day on the 22nd and at 

 times ever since to the end of the 

 week. High grade roses and all grades 

 of violets got too plentiful for Satur- 

 day, the latter getting upon the street 

 in the evening in astonishing quanti- 

 ties. 



Although prices on bulb goods have 

 run rather low most of the time this 

 winter, there has been no general 

 slump on (he market, and no goods of 

 the kind have gone to waste, and 

 growers in that line confess to the 

 best season for five years. Perhaps 

 they are hardly out of the woods yet, 

 but their expressions indicate they 

 think the danger point passed. 



I hear a number making the remark 

 that the new firm of Long & Marshall, 

 Hotel Thorndike. florists and confec- 

 tioners, seem to be carrying on a good 

 enough business. Well, they know 

 how, and have a good chance to do it. 



