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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



MARCH 1, 1900. 



plants coining to America of roses 

 Souvenir d'un Ami, Hermosa, Mme. 

 Bosanquet, La Reiiie, and Mme. Laf- 

 fay. 



Outside of liis business, too, Mr. 

 Pentland lias led in many activities 

 and been much honored by his fellow- 

 men. One term he represented this 

 city in the legislature of Maryland. 

 For many years he has been a promi- 

 nent manager of the Maryland Insti- 

 tute, the local School of Art and De- 

 sign. Only a year ago he was 

 president of the Gardeners' Club, pre- 

 siding with skill and vigor. He Is one 

 of the oldest Masons in the state, es- 

 teemed by the whole craft, and with 

 many testimonials of their affection 

 and respect in shape of services of sil- 

 ver, diplomas, jewels, etc. That this 

 old gardener's life and health may 

 long be continued is hoped sincerely 

 by innumerable friends. 



The contracts to furnish plants for 

 the coming season for our parks and 

 public squares have been given out. Of 

 the 190,000 required, E. A. Seidewitz 

 gets 92,000 and the balance is divided 

 among six other growers. The follow- 

 ing are the figures of the awards by 

 the thousand: Alternanthera, $20; ac- 

 alypha, ?41; ageratum, $20; caladium, 

 ?4U; canna, $48; celosia, $35; centau- 

 rea, $20; geraniums, $50; coleus, $20; 

 iresine, $23; oxalis, $23; echeveria, 

 $35; petunas, $20; pyrethum, $18; rici- 

 nus, $38; rudbecka, $20; torenia. 

 $20; tagetes, $20; salvia, $25; vin- 

 ca, $20; zinnia, $20. This includes 

 delivery and planting. The aggre- 

 gate makes, it is said, from $2,000 

 to $3,000 less than was paid for an 

 equal number last year. Hereafter the 

 city will raise its own plants for this 

 purpose. Many would be willing to 

 wage they will then cost more than the 

 prices at which they have been thus 

 bought in open market. 



The demand for cut flowers for the 

 week ending this day (February 26) 

 has been unusually brisk, and prices 

 obtained better than are customary at 

 any time except Christmas and Easter. 

 (Jood roses have been scarce in all va- 

 rieties and carnations have not been 

 abundant enough to go around. 



Mr. Julius Tischinger, one of the 

 older florists here, was recently the 

 victim of a paralytic stroke. Hopes are 

 entertained for his recovery. RIX. 



SAN FRANQSCO. 



The Market. 



The weather this week is finer than 

 the business done, with good stock 

 scarce and hard to get. Quite a lot of 

 daffodils can be seen at the stores and 

 :ire fair as to quality. 



Prices: American Beauties, $3.50 to 

 $5.00; Brides, Bridesmaids and Mete- 

 ors, 75 cents to $1; Siebrechts, 50 cents; 

 Brunners, 12i/4 cents per doz.. Carna- 

 tions, Hobart, $1 to $1.25; Crocker, 50 

 to 75 cents; Schwerin and Flora Hill, 

 50 cents; mixed fancies, 35 cents; 

 Bradt and Gold Nugget, 35 to 50 cents; 



Portia and Scott, 20 to 25 cents per 

 doz. Harrisii, $2.50 to $3.50; lily of the 

 valley, 25 to 50 cents per doz.; daffo- 

 dils, $1.50; freesias, 75 cents to $1; pa- 

 per whites, 50 cents; callas, $1 per 100; 

 violets, Princess of Wales, 50 to 75 

 cents; Californias, 40 to 50 cents; 

 Swanley Whites, 50 cents per doz. 

 bunches. 



Notes. 



Jager & Jacquement, on Sutter 

 street, have dissolved partnership. Mr. 

 Jager will run the business in his own 

 name, while Mr. .lacquement will start 

 in with his brother on Fourth street. 



Simons, at Fruitvale, is cutting some 

 very fine Brides and Meteors that are 

 bought up quickly. 



Mr. Carl Breyer is supplying San 

 Francisco with its finest lily of the 

 valley. 



Mr. J. Franks, North Temescal. will 

 leave his nursery in good hands while 

 he tries his luck in Cape Nome. 



B. W. McLellan has discarded his 

 crutches and now walks around with 

 the aid of a cane. Sometimes he for- 

 gets the cane and walks without it. 



Mr. Wm. Falconer, supeiintendent of 

 Schenley Park and conservatories, 

 Pittsburg, Pa., is here on a visit to the 

 parks of the Pacific coast. Superintend- 

 ent John McLaren escorted the noted 

 visitor through Golden Gate Park. Mr. 

 Falconer pronounced the work of 

 clothing the wastes of sands with bor- 

 ders as marvelous and the beauty of 

 the park unsurpassed. 



The writer paid a visit to Mr. S. 

 Jones, of Fruitvale, on February 22nd, 

 and after the greenhouses were in- 

 spected and the fine condition of the 

 stock noted, we made a forced march 

 over to Gunthersdrift and took a 

 couple of laagers. After this capture 

 Mr. Jones declared he felt like his 

 countrymen in South Africa— much 

 better. 



Mr. A. Galloway, at Fruitvale, will 

 build one more greenhouse this spring 

 for carnations. Mr. Galloway as a car- 

 nation grower has made a success of 

 his business, and being a young man 

 shows a good example to our young 

 men in the business. J. N. 



PITTSBURG. 



The delegates to Buffalo returned 

 Saturday, the 17th. They expressed 

 themselves well pleased with what 

 they saw and the way the Buffalo boys 

 entertained them. 



Trade with the retailers has been 

 good, funerals and decorations using 

 up large quantities of flowers, and the 

 commission houses are not overloaded 

 with flowers, either. 



J. B. Ferguson reports business fair 

 and the Cut Flower Company ■are 

 cleaned out daily except on bulb stuff, 

 which is coming in quite heavy now. 

 The latter firm is handling an enor- 

 mous lot of stock; step in any time of 

 day and you will find them busy un- 

 packing and packing up orders. 



The growers are looking ahead now 

 to Easter; each one anxious to have 



his crop just right. Harrisii will not 

 be so plentiful this Easter, owing part- 

 ly to diseased bulbs and that there 

 were not so many bought last fall as 

 usual. 



F. Burki is sending in the finest 

 mignonette he ever had. His Hector 

 is the best scarlet carnation coming 

 in, in quantity, so far, although his 

 Crane and America are doing well. 

 He says Hector gives him twice as 

 many Hower.s to a plant. White Cloud 

 is his best in white and he has two 

 houses of it. Mr. Burki is probably 

 the only one about here who grows 

 the old Edna Craig. It is doing so 

 well with him that he will continue to 

 grow it. but is going to grow Mr. 

 Weber's Genevieve Lord alongside of 

 it to see the difference. Mr. Burki's 

 new asparagus house has been cut out 

 and a new crop coming in for spring. 



B. L. Elliott, formerly of Elliott & 

 Ulam, is growing mostly carnations in 

 his new houses at Cheswick. He will 

 try some of the new varieties this 

 year. His stock looks well, with pros- 

 pects for a good crop for Easter. 



W. F. Lauch, Carrick, Pa., is making 

 a grand showing with his large house 

 (40x200) of carnations. Red Jacket is 

 doing fine with him. 



John Bader, Mt. Troy, whom we all 

 know as a good fellow, is sending in 

 some very nice azaleas and rhododen- 

 drons. As usual he will be ready with 

 a large lot of plants and bulbous flow- 

 ers for Easter. 



Theo. F. Beckert, Neville Island, is 

 growing lettuce this year. He has 

 only one house of carnations, but is 

 stocking up for cut flowers for next 

 year. Last summer Mr. Beckert put 

 in two large tubular boilers and per- 

 fected his heating apparatus through- 

 out so that he would not be caught 

 with another freeze-out like last win- 

 ter. 



John L. Wyland. Allison Park. Pa., 

 who attended a carnation meeting this 

 year for the flrst time, has a large 

 house of carnations, which are doing 

 well. He will try the Lawson and 

 other new ones this year. 



C. Blind is off crop with his carna- 

 tions and roses, since the heavy cut 

 for the holidays, but expects to be in 

 for Easter if not before. 



G. & J. W. Ludwig are receiving 

 some fine carnations from John Mur- 

 chie, Sharon, Pa. They also receive 

 each day a fine lot of orchids. 



Our crack bulb-forcer, Chas. Koenig, 

 Bennett. Pa., has for the past two 

 months been sending in some very fine 

 tulips. 



George Oesterle has resigned his 

 position with Randolph & MeClem- 

 ents. 



Visitors in town the past week were 

 S. S. Skidel.sky, Philadelphia, and Mr. 

 McHutchison. BAER. 



MENTOR, O. — Carl Hagonburger 

 will build five new greenhouses this 

 spring, which will give him a total of 

 twelve and 25,000 square feet of glass. 



