Decembeh 12, 1901. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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Bowling. 



In the afternoon the bowlers accomp- 

 lished the following: 



Burns 180 208 ITl C.Allen US 151 



Hufner 175 201 162 Traendly 130 114 



Theilmann.193 213 202 'Lang 183 lti6 



O'Mara U'J 168 U2 M.Hart UI2 



Butterfleld.... 159 HS 



Business. 



Business is good and everything points 

 to a record breaking Christmas, not only 

 that particular day or week but for the 

 entire winter. It will be a plant Christ- 

 mas. All the available stock has been 

 bought up. J. I. D. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



Trade Notes. 



At last we are having some real win- 

 ter weather and no doubt it will benefit 

 business in general besides bringing the 

 prices up to where they belong at this 

 season. A steady snowfall for about 

 eighteen hours is just what was needed 

 to put a little life into the business. 

 During Thanksgiving week the weather 

 was rather unseasonable, which no doubt 

 had some effect on business and some of 

 the store men complained that it was 

 not what it should have been with prices 

 ruling a trifle lower. There were too 

 many mums and prices on them were 

 quite low, which may be said throughout 

 the mum season. Fine blooms were 

 shipped into this city at $1.00 per dozen 

 which would easily have fetched $1..50 to 

 §2.00. 



A visit around to the growers shows 

 them to be in very good shape to do a 

 good business this season and in very 

 few cases was the work much behind 

 hand. 



A. Wiegand & Sons have a fine lot of 

 Lorraine.s and poinsettias and so have 

 Bertermann Bros. The latter also have a 

 fine lot of Primula obconica and For- 

 besii. 



H. \V. Rieman has a fine lot of cycla- 

 men in good shape but when we go to 

 his place we expect to see mum seedlings, 

 and he usually has some good ones to 

 show if it is their season. This year he 

 seems to have had better luck than ever 

 and no doubt you will hear from them 

 later. 



E. A. Nelson is busy getting ready to 

 propagate his new carnation, of which he 

 has three houses full for propagating 

 and one for blooming. Although they 

 were planted late he says he will have 

 them in good shape by February. They 

 are booking lots of orders for rooted cut- 

 tings. 



The Indianapolis Flower and Plant 

 Co. now has a fine range of glass and 

 more is to be added as the weather may 

 permit. Beauty is grown in nice shape 

 on this place as are also the standard 

 teas and carnations. A bunch of Liberty 

 is giving them a good deal of anxiety 

 as it positively refuses to make a sat- 

 isfactory growth. 



John Hartje has some of the finest 

 white seedling carnations that we have 

 ever had the pleasure to see. He has not 

 only one but at least half a dozen which 

 are very fine. Here we also saw a batch 

 of chrysanthemum Golden Beauty which 

 will keep for Christmas. 



Baur & Smith have a fine lot of carna- 

 tions and will cut hea\y for the holidays. 

 Their cyclamen are the best in the city 

 and are just coming into bloom. They 

 are already filling their propagating 



bench with carnation cuttings in which 

 they do a large business. 



A. Pahud has made extensive improve- 

 ments the past summer. Besides build- 

 ing a $6,000.00 residence he has torn 

 dow'n and rebuilt several greenhouses 

 and added a couple more. 



We were sorry to have to miss the 

 Young & Smith Co., as they are sending 

 in some fine roses and violets. 



Geo. W. Huber has stepped out of the 

 florist business after being engaged in it 

 for two years. 



The gi'cenhouses and stock owned and 

 operated by the late John Eathsam are 

 to be sold at public auction. 



Robt. McKeand, for several years city 

 florist and superintendent of Garfield 

 Park, has been relieved and is now with 

 Huntington & Page. Bert Stanley is 

 temporarily in charge at the park. Mr. 

 McKeand made a fine record while he 

 lield the position and it is too bad that 

 he wa,s taken away. It is feared that 

 some political ward heeler will be put in 

 his place and that the park system will 

 suffer by it. 



At the meeting of Dec. 3 Mrs. Vesey, 

 of Ft. Wayne, and 0. Rieman and C. 

 Glaubke, of this city, were accepted as 

 members of the State Florists' Associa- 

 tion. The coming carnation convention 

 was the main topic for discussion during 

 the evening. The committees are getting 

 down to work and the arrangements are 

 progressing nicely and a good time is 

 assured. 



On exhibition were some seedling 

 mums by H. W. Rieman, some seedling 

 carnations by Baur & Smith, John 

 Hartje, and two vases from F. Dorner & 

 Sons Co. Some of the blooms shown 

 were extra fine and caused those present 

 to open their eyes. 



After the meeting H. W. Rieman "set 

 them up'' to a supper in honor of his 

 twin daughters, born a couple of months 

 ago. Visitors from out of the city were 

 E. G. Hill. J. A. E. Haugh and F. Dor- 

 ner. .Jr. A. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



It has been dark and gloomy for the 

 past week, with numerous cold rains or 

 crosses between rain and snow, decided- 

 ly unsatisfactory to the grower of cut 

 flowers. But while the cut has probably 

 been reduced somewhat, the demand, es- 

 pecially local, has fallen off sufficiently 

 so there is no difficulty in getting all 

 the roses one wants at quoted rates 

 aside from medium-length American 

 Beauties. Medium-length Beauties, by 

 the way, seem to be continually in best 

 demand, there being apparently less in- 

 clination to pay the e.xtra price for the 

 extra long stemmed blooms than in past 

 seasons. The best Beauties are still $4 

 to $5 a dozen and then through the vari- 

 ous grades down to 50 and 75 cents. 

 Brides and Maids are selling at $3 to $6, 

 with a few extra fancy reaching $7 and 

 $8 and the poorest being cleaned up as 

 low as $1.50 and $2. Golden Gates and 

 Meteors the same. Liberty ranges from 

 75 cents up to $2 a dozen. 



In carnations a decided scarcity has 

 developed, especially in good whites, and 

 prices have stiffened. Any kind of a 

 carnation will bring $1.50 and anything 

 at all acceptable will sell at $2, while 

 really good ones fetch $3 and $4. with 

 fancy at $5 and .$0 and a few Prosperity 

 reaching up to $7 and even $S. The bulk 



of the cut, however, goes at $2 to $4. 



Chrysanthemums are about out of the 

 market, the only really good ones we 

 noted this week being several vases of 

 Bonnaftous .and Chadwicks at Kenni- 

 cotts that came from George Bayer, of 

 Toledo, and we are told two or three 

 more shipments will finish his crop. He 

 seems to keep Bonnaffon coming very 

 late. 



Valley is selling very well, the best 

 bringing $5. Violets are in fair supply 

 and sell at $1.50 to $2. Roman hya- 

 cinths are $3 to $4. 



There is a good deal of guessing as to 

 what the supply for Christmas will be. 

 It will have to be largely guess work 

 with all, as the weather will be an im- 

 portant factor. But from what we hear 

 here and there we are inclined to think 

 that unless the present darkness and 

 gloom should continue unbroken for the 

 next ten days, which seems very un- 

 likely, there will be a fair supply of tea 

 roses and of all other flowers except 

 Beauties and carnations. The latter 

 promise to be especially short in supply, 

 unless it be that the growers have a lot 

 stored away. It has been suggested that 

 the present scarcity of whites is due to 

 growers holding them on the plants, 

 the whites showing less injury in color 

 than others when so held. Of cour.se 

 only the growers can answer as to this. 

 Of course a certain amount of holding 

 back is always done for a holiday, and 

 within certain limits it is all right, and 

 in fact essential if we are to have an ex- 

 tra supply for the great date. But were 

 we in the growing business we would take 

 mighty good care that not a single 

 bloom was held a day too long when 

 prices are up to their present range. 

 The price could hardly go much higher, 

 even for Christmas, and if there should 

 happen to be a great many held back 

 and dumped on the market at the last 

 moment there would be a break in prices 

 that would be disastrous. It is well 

 to remember that long held stock cannot 

 be shipped and that the local buyers are 

 quick to scent the possibility of a sur- 

 plus at the last and take advantage of it 

 when there is no other outlet. 



In any event it will be money in the 

 growers' pockets to keep in the closest 

 possible touch with his commission man 

 and let the latter know just what to ex- 

 pect in the way of supply. We have too 

 often seen the dealers distracted one day 

 because they couldn't till orders and then 

 after the best of the demand was over 

 have big shipments come in that they 

 could not then place to advantage. To 

 have stock that you can't sell today but 

 which would have been grabbed up quick 

 at top figures the day before is suffi- 

 cient to warrant profanity, especially 

 when the grower kicks about his returns 

 afterward. 



The man in closest touch with the 

 market naturally knows best the times 

 he can handle the stock to best advan- 

 tage. To know the ins and outs of the 

 market is the dealer's constant study 

 and in a measure his stock in trade. It 

 is to his interest in every way to get the 

 most for the stock. If you can't have 

 confidence in your dealer's judgment 

 change to one in whom you can have 

 confidence, but he can't be expected to 

 do his best unless he knows what he 

 can depend upon in the way of supply, 

 and whether he can have it when the 

 market will take it to the best advan- 

 tage. 



We notice that the growers who have 



