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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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the toastmaster, Henry Hitchcock, 

 hung a large portrait of Henry Shiw, 

 decorated with smilax. 



Leland O. Howard, secretary cf the 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, responded to the fiist 

 toast, "To the Memory of Henry 

 Shaw." Professor L. H. Bailey, who 

 occupies the chair of horticulture in 

 Cornell University, responded to the 

 toast, "The Science and the Practice." 

 Professor A. F. Nightingale, supsrin- 

 tendent of the Chicago public schools, 

 made an addre.ss on "The Present Out- 

 look for Biological Science in the 

 Schools." 



A great many guests from out of 

 town occupied the other tables around 

 the room. It was by far the best and 

 largest banquet given by the trustees 

 of the Missouri Botiinical Garden. 



The Florists' Club meeting has been 

 postponed from April 12 to April 19 

 because the 12th falls on Easter 

 week and all hands will be too busy 

 to attend. It was so decided by the 

 president and members of the club. 

 The meeting on the 19th should' be a 

 large one as the week after Ea;ter is 

 usually a quiet one. "Eastsr Trade" 

 will be the subject for discussion. All 

 retailers as jvell as growers will take 

 part in it. Anyone wishing to go to 

 Chicago with the members nf the bowl- 

 ing club can make it known at this 

 meeting. 



Bowling. 



The bowling club rolled its usual 

 games Monday night. The attendance 

 wa.<5 slim and only a few good sco.'-es 

 were made and are not so good as we 

 would like to see them. The boys must 

 have had their minds on Easter trade 

 and this might have had something to 

 do with the following scores: 



12 3 4 5 6 tot. av. 

 C. A. Kuehn....l51 142 162 176 139 179 9« 15S 

 J. J. Beneke....i:« 131 181 155 161 146 912 152 



J. W. Kunz 144 149 132 425 132 



F. C. Weber.... 149 140 147 129 .. ..565 141 

 John Young ....142 US 134 117 .. .. 511 12S 



Sunday, April 22, is the date set to 

 play the Chicago boys, and about ten 

 have made up their minds to go. with 

 others yet to hear from, and the 

 chances are that about fifteen will be 

 in the party. J. .1. B. 



BOSTON. 



Market Conditions. 



Almost a phenomenal amount of fu- 

 neral work and a very fair run of other 

 floral traffic marks the week jus; 

 closed in the famed old puritanicil 

 city. The steady increase in plant 

 trade, plainly to be seen for two or 

 three years past, is also noticeable this 

 spring. Good judges of the situation' 

 predict even a heavier proportional de- 

 livery of plants for Easter this year 

 and darkly hint at an imaginary glut 

 in cut blossoms of some kinds unless 

 salesmen keep the cut well disposed of 

 during the next two weeks. 



Carnations have just begun to get a 



little more sodal. but it certainly looks 

 as it the "modest and retiring" violet 

 would live up to its adjectives upo.i 

 the ISth in^l. Growers are now repott- 

 ing a falling off in cut and express 

 w-onder at what the ciuse may be. Th? 

 condition of things in the near future 

 of course depends much upon the be- 

 havior of the weather and cf the pre- 

 vailing epidemic. 



Lilies are now selling well at $2 and 

 being lu-omised in large lots later at 

 $1.50. E. N. Peirce & Sons claim to 

 hold the majority of the supply and 

 are pretjared to handle 10,0(10 per day 

 when the time anives. And even at 

 nearly that rate about half a week's 

 time must be consumed in moving 

 their crop. The advance in price of 

 bulbs and the less number of blooms 

 per stalk is to be largely offset by a 

 little sharper count of green buds. 



Red roses have been here in over- 

 whelming numbers for the past week 

 and are expected to be very familiar 

 till after Easter at least. Best Beau- 

 ties 'executed a retrograde movement" 

 back to $5 ner doz.; the worst dozen 

 snuggles cozily into a fifty-cent p:e?e. 

 and they will accommodat? you any- 

 where between those figures. Brunners 

 in astonishing quantities invite gener- 

 osity at from $1 to $4 per dozen; Jack^ 

 are not quite so ambitious, about $2 

 being their higher limit, and the 

 staunch but fragrantless Meteor softly 

 sings on a scale running from half a 

 dollar to a whole one and a half. Hold- 

 ers of best pink and white ones dis- 

 like to refuse $2. and almost anything 

 off a rose bush will bring 50 cents. 



Large boxes of mignonette have been 

 standing around sulkily refusing to 

 move at the small price offered. Some 

 ■was sold as low as 15 cents per doz. 

 Forty cents buys best double violets: 

 single ones, singularly bringing 75 

 cents if good enough. Shori smilax 

 touches $2: very fine reaches up tj 5;5. 

 Pinks have been very proud at from 

 $2 to $5. But "pride goeth before a 

 fall." and I predict a fall in their case 

 immediately. 



Notes. 



Lester Mann has been very sick 

 with pneumonia, but is rallying. 



Galvin never allows his business to 

 get into type, but it leaks out that he 

 has just "done" an immense golden 

 wedding in Fitchburg. A whole car- 

 load of material w'ent from here and 

 everything available in that city was 

 alfo used. Two thousand of John Fee's 

 matchless daffodils helped to bring out 

 the proper color, and all other bulb 

 men furnished a quota. 



.lohn Chapman has prevailed upon 

 his broken ankle to bring him into the 

 city a few limes, but has to favor it 

 too much to attempt any work yet. 



Worst fears were reilized concern- 

 ing the fire at Mr. Richwagen's houses 

 at Woburn. It is a hard blow to Ih? 

 worthy old gentleman, alone in the 

 business since the removal cf his son 

 to Needham, and the profession gen- 

 erally are expressing sympathy not 



only by word but by action, as proven 

 on subscription paper at the Park 

 street market desk. All feeling practi- 

 cally sympathetic aie rejuested to 

 bring or send name and a figure to pu 

 after it. "^'ou will note it is a har<l 

 time of year for greenhouses and con- 

 tents to go up in smoke. B. T. 



CHICAGO. 



The MarkeU 



There is a fair supply of everything 

 in the market, the only noticeabU- 

 shortage being in white carnations. 

 The quality of all stock averages good 

 and the demand is excellent, the oniy 

 things that are inclined to drag a little 

 being poor grade roses and violets 

 Odds and ends are being cleaned up 

 well for the season. Bulbous stociv 

 is moving satisfactorily, there no 

 doubt being some extra demand due to 

 the shortage in white carnations. 



It is thought that bulbous flowers 

 will go better than usual at Easter 

 for the same reason, for all agree that 

 there will not be nearly enough carna- 

 tions to meet the demand for this hol- 

 iday. It is generally predicted that 

 early orders will be the only ones to 

 get carnations to any extent. 



As to general supply of stock for 

 Easter we are inclined to think there 

 will be a generous amount of stock uf 

 most all kinds aside from carnations, 

 and probably enough to nearly meet 

 all demands at the quotations. There 

 will surely be no surplus in any line, 

 unless a goodly number of growcvs 

 should make the mistake of holJin.g 

 back stock until too late for the ship- 

 ping orders, in w-hich case there miglii 

 be at the last moment more than iL ■ 

 city trade will take. 



As to quotations the price lists of 

 several dealers and growers appear in 

 our advertising columns. 



Taken all in all the outlook for a 

 splendid Easter trade is excellent. Thp 

 whole season has been a most satis- 

 factory one, there having been no real 

 general gluts at any time. 



Various Items. 



C. J. Reardou. for the past year in 

 charge of the greenhouses of S. "W. 

 Allerton ai Lake Geneva, 'Wis., has re- 

 signed his position and is again in 

 Chicago. 



Weiland & Risch opened their 

 wholesale store at 59 Wabash avenue 

 last Monday and are now doing busi- 

 ness at this location. They have a 

 very neat and conveniently arranged 

 place. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. have put in an 

 unusually heavy stock of hardy ferns, 

 mahonia leaves and other greens for 

 the Easter trade. The firm announces 

 that hereafter they will pay all theu' 

 shippers each Monday and will carry 

 no monthly accounts with any of their 

 growers. 



Bassett & Washburn's roses will be 

 in full crop for Easter, but their ear- 

 nation cut will be light in comparison. 



