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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



601 



Pillow and Crown. 



rush of trade, many obtaining tempo- 

 rary addition of room as usual. J. W. 

 Newman, down on tlie business end of 

 Brattle street, annexes the other half 

 of his store permanently, his increase 

 of trade at his new stand demand- 

 ing it. 



Notes, 



Last week's item did not set E. N. 

 Peirce & Sons' lily crop high enough. 

 They set 28,000 bulbs. 



George W. Marshall, at Woodlawn, 

 Everett, Mass., narrowly escaped a se- 

 rious fire in his large store. A lamp 

 in one of the huge incubators in the 

 basement wag in some way tipped over, 

 and before the flames were extin- 

 guished several valuable plants in the 

 store above were destroyed. 



PILLOW AND CROWN. 



The accompanying engraving is from 

 a photograph of a pillow and crown 

 arranged by the Shanahan Florist Co., 

 San Francisco, Cal., tor the Phelan 

 funeral. 



The flowers in the pillow are white 

 orchids and roses, with asparagus and 

 srailax, and the crown was made of 

 Flora Hill carnations and adiantum 

 ferns. 



PHILADELPHL\. 



'Various Items. 



At this writing it looks very much 

 as though the dull season of Lent had 

 rvin its race in this city, as the store- 

 keepers inform us that business has 

 been rushing all week, there being a 

 big demand for all kinds of cut flowers. 

 The biggest run was on carnations, the 



demand exceeding the supply. Upon 

 asking some of the representative 

 storekeepers in this city as to what 

 kind of an Easter they expected, the 

 reply was without any deliberation: 

 "All we ask for is good weather and 

 we will do the rest." From present in- 

 dications they expect to exceed all pre- 

 vious years. A great many of the 

 growers have all their stock sold, to be 

 delivered Easter week. 



Prices: Beauties, $1 to $6 dozen; 

 Brides, Maids. Kaiserins and Golden 

 Gates, f.5 to $12: Morgans and Meteors, 

 $.5 to $10; Liberty, $10 to $2.5; Gontiers, 

 $3 to $4; Perles, $4 to $S: cattleyas. 

 $.50; dendrobiura. $10 to $25; carna- 

 tions, ordinary $2, fancy $3 to $5; hya- 

 cinths, $3 to $4; valley. $3 to $4; mig- 

 nonette. $3 to $4; tulips, $4; sweet 

 peas, $1,50 to $2,50; daffodils, single $1 

 to $3, double $4; violets, single 30 to 

 50 cents, doubles 50 cents to $1; callas, 

 $10 to $15; Harrisii, $10 to $12; aspara- 

 gus, 50 cents; adiantum, $1.50 per 100: 

 smilax, 20 to 30 cents. 



We had for our visitors the past 

 week G. R. Clark & Co., Scranton, Pa.; 

 Lloyd Blick, Norfolk, Va.; B, F, Barr. 

 Lancaster. Pa., and Charles Fremd. 

 Rye, N. Y. 



Club Notes. 



The Florist Club meeting on Tues- 

 day, April 3, was not largely attended. 

 Benj, Dorrance read a paper on "What 

 the American Rose Society Is Doing 

 for the Queen of Flowers," A discus- 

 sion followed, which was mostly a 

 repetition of that of two months ago, 

 viz,, as to why no more than four va- 

 rieties of roses were grown. No satis- 

 factory explanation was reached. The 

 growers said it was the store man's 



fault, and the store man said it was 

 the fault of the grower. 



The Floral Exchange had a vase of 

 blooms of their new rose Queen of 

 Edgely on exhibition. The committee 

 on exhibits reported it a valuable addi- 

 tion to the list of forcing roses. R. 



CHICAGO. 



Club Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 last Friday evening there was a dis- 

 cussion on Easter plants, and the gen- 

 eral opinion of the retailers was that 

 there was a splendid opening for grow- 

 ers who would devote more time and 

 attention to the producing of high- 

 grade Easter plants. 



The majority thought that, aside 

 from white carnations, the supply of 

 cut flowers for Easter would be ample. 

 All expected a splendid Easter busi- 

 ness. 



One new member was elected and 

 considerable routine business transact- 

 ed. 



The Market. 



At present there is sufficient to meet 

 demands in all lines, except white car- 

 nations. And there is' a tendency 

 toward an excess in bulbous stock. 

 Large quantities of out-door grown 

 daffodils and joniiuils are being re- 

 ceived from southern Illinois. 



For Easter the indications are there 

 will be a good fair supply, probably 

 enough to about meet demand. A very 

 large number of advance orders have 

 been placed and these will undoubtedly 

 all be well taken care of. Only late 

 comers may possibly be cut short on 

 some items, and that is most likely to 

 be white carnations. 



Several dealers note signs of stock 

 being held back and it looks as though 

 the same old mistake was going to be 

 made by some growers, with the re- 

 sult that flowers that could have been 

 disposed of to good advantage if sent 

 in when ready may have to be jobbed 

 out to the fakirs when they do arrive. 



In roses there promises to be a very 

 satisfactory supply, though probably 

 not enough Beauties. In carnations 

 several dealers predict a shortage, 

 especially in white. An exception is 

 Walter Heffron, manager for E. C, 

 Amling. He looks for a satisfactory 

 supply in all colors and says they will 

 have about 00.000 carnations for Easter 

 trade. 



As to lilies, it is practically all guess 

 work. Mr, E, E. Pieser, of Kennicott 

 Bros. Co., takes about as hopeful a 

 view as anyone, believing that supply 

 and demand will about equal each 

 other. They have already booked an 

 unusually large number of advance or- 

 ders, but expect to take care of all or- 

 ders, w'ith the possible exception of 

 some white carnations. 



Of bulbous stuff there Is danger of a 

 surplus. Indications are that there ■n-ill 

 be tulips "to burn" and immense quan- 

 tities of daffodils and hyacinths. Cal- 



