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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Januart 23, 1902. 



Still tlie seedsmen and the florists man- 

 age to dispose of their well-groomed 

 stock at 75 cents and the developed 

 product commands $1 each at wholesale. 



Bowlin);. 



The prize bowling contest last Monday 

 evening attracted a large crowd of en- 

 thusiasts and twenty stalwarts partici- 

 pated. Xever since the cyclone at the 

 convention has more human thunder 

 rolled out of the alleys. The third game 

 was used to decide the winners' and as 

 a result a remarkable lot of bottled 

 goods, cigars, etc., were distributed. Fol- 

 lowing are the scores: 



Prize No. 



Lang 150 1S5 185 1 



Traendly H3 139 125 12 



Elliott 101 106 106 17 



Sheridan 103 109 111 15 



Shaw 81 120 133 9 



Langjaiir 69 135 S7 19 



Young 104 145 134 8 



Burns 135 180 124 13 



O'Mara 1S2 154 161 5 



Smith 129 119 127 11 



Schmutz 94 116 111 3 



Gunther 131 127 111 14 



Raynor 128 154 166 4 



Zeller 150 182 111 16 



Theilmann 175 162 178 2 



Siebrecht 119 H.'i 129 10 



Taylor 121 112 90 18 



Westwood 133 144 135 7 



Bruder 109 153 86 20 



Butterfield 125 135 144 6 



AtrSTIX. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditioas for Jan. )3-}8. 



Business was not what it should have 

 been. Flowers in general were not par- 

 ticularly plentiful, and as one wholesaler 

 expressed it, a few good fair orders 

 would sweep every ice-chest in the city. 

 But those ice-chests were not swept and 

 could be found well supplied at nearly 

 any time during the week. 



(3ood ciiriiations got low for a day or 

 two diu'inn tlic first part of the week. 

 Roses gradually got more and more 

 plentiful and I think there was a drop 

 in prices upon the best grade for Sat- 

 urday. They are now running to larger 

 sizes and small grades may become 

 scarce. 



Various Items. 



Far reaching plans are under way to 

 preserve the entirety of the working force 

 at Peirce's. Allen plans for his two-year- 

 old son to take his place "when he is 

 old and gray," and he installed a book- 

 keeper and typewriter a week ago. She 

 is now. therefore, about a week old, 

 but will be ready to click the machine 

 just about the time their growing busi- 

 ness demands such services. 



There was always an incongruity (Mr. 

 Cartwright has a new $16 dictionary) 

 in Boston methods of grading roses. 

 Most growers call their best grade "No. 

 1," irrespective of condition of the crop, 

 so that there is not only always very 

 likely to be a big diflfercnce in No. 1 

 roses from diflterent growers, but a big 

 difference in the same man's goods at 

 different times of the j'ear. I do 

 not know that any serious diffi- 

 culty ever arose because of this 

 little eccentricity or not. Too, 

 the situation is increased by the fact 

 that some growers call their best grade 

 "extra" when they may not be better 

 than some other man's Xo. 1. or even 

 No. 2! And small retail dealers call 

 the best grade they carry in stock Xo. 1, 

 no matter what the grower styles them. 

 But what I am trying to get at is the 

 fact that these terms are not used so much 

 as formerly. Probably the chief reason 

 is that as competition deepens, more 



grades of roses are sorted out, some- 

 times seven difl'crent sizes being carried 

 ))y the wholesale salesman on Brides and 

 Maids, and, of course, he can not admit 

 the authorship of a No. 6 or No. 7 rose. 

 But his customers demand roses at a 

 certain price, which he will not vary, 

 making this condition of afl'airs neces- 

 sary, and how can it be improved? 



Jerome Butterfield. 



. Mr. Butterfield, well known as the 

 salesman of James Tulis' carnation crop, 

 died at his home in South Sudbury early 

 Monday morning, January 21. He had 

 been a' sufl'erer from a bad rupture for 

 years, which assumed such a condition 

 upon Saturday, the 10th, that a surgical 

 operation was deemed imperative, from 

 the effects of which he could not recover. 

 He was a man that will be sadly missed 

 from the circles in which he moved, as 

 he combined rare intelligence, good na- 

 ture and strictest integrity. Much sin- 

 cere sorrow is expressed by his many 

 Boston friends, J. s! Manter. 



BALTIMORE. 



Trade and Personal Items. 



The llower trade is so iiitiniately con- 

 nected with and dependent upon the 

 state of the weather that it may be 

 worth the space to put on record that 

 here for the past ten days (we are 

 writing January 20) we have had ideal 

 wiuler weather, clear, crisp and bright 

 days, without clouds or even a haze in 

 the atmosphere, and cold, but not too 

 cold, nights, the thermometer going as 

 low as 15 degrees, but seldom lower. ■ 



There has been since Christmas an un- 

 usual dearth of nearly all kinds of 

 flowers. Several of our largest growers 

 have said to your correspondent that 

 they have never had everj'thing olf crop 

 so simultaneously as this season. 



Trade continues very good. With num- 

 erous balls, weddings, receptions, and 

 the usual funeral reciuisitions, it has 

 been difficult to meet all demands. 

 Hoses are still very short of >upply. 

 Carnations are somewhat more ])!enliful 

 and are improving in <iuality. but all 

 that come in are taken up promptly and 

 at prices that are unusually good for the 

 time of year. Violets are not in much 

 demand, they seeming to be, at least, tem- 

 porarily, out of favor; nor are they 

 either abundant or of fine quality. Cal- 

 las are short, and with other white 

 flowers much in request, (ireens are 

 not in excess of calls, except perhaps 

 smilax. Asparagus Sprengeri grows in 

 popular estimation. 



The Florists' Exchange (the commis- 

 sion house for growers and retailers) 

 held its annual stockholders' meeting 

 last week. The year's operations were 

 substantially about the same as last 

 vear, and the institution is on a safe 

 iiud solid basis, affording acrnmmoda- 

 tions and facilities to both buyers and 

 sellers. Its bar to further usefulness 

 is its uncertainty of regular supplies of 

 cut flowers, and applications from out-of- 

 town buyers, from territory which ought 

 to he tributary to this city, are fre- 

 quently turned down. Jlr. Alex Scott 

 continues the manager, and no one more 

 capable and painstaking could be found. 

 There was no change in the ofticcrs or 

 directors, save that Fredk. C. Bauer was 

 chosen in place of Charles E. Feast, as 

 one of the board. •Isaac H. Moss, a 

 practical and successftil business man. 

 continues as president. 



The chrysanthemum show held last 

 November, and which was at first 

 thought to have been unsucessful, finan- 

 cially, panned out so as to give a profit 

 of over $100, much to the jubilation of 

 the hard-working committee who were 

 in charge. 



There seems to be a disposition among 

 some of the trade to make business 

 changes, several places, whether stores 

 or greenhouses, does not appear, having 

 been offered by "blind" advertisements 

 in the daily papers. One store has 

 changed hands three times within a feu- 

 months. 



Joseph Hogarth, employed for a nuni 

 ber of years at Patterson Park, has 

 been selected to take charge of the pub- 

 lic grounds and squares of the city of 

 Savannah. Ga. R- 



ST. LOUIS. 



Tbe Market. 



The cut flower business the past week 

 was a little better, with stock not quite 

 so plentiful. Although the transient 

 trade was not so good, the West End 

 florists sa^y " there wa.s a decided im- 

 provement in the demand for decorative 

 work. The wholesale men claim that 

 there was a scarcity in all kinds of 

 roses last week, with carnations fairly 

 plentiful and of good quality. Shipping 

 trade lias improved considerablj' and 

 demand in this line is now active. The 

 weather is all one could wish, bright and 

 warm. The fakirs were not quite so 

 active last week, owing to the scarcity 

 of stock. 



Stock in some lines is rather scarce 

 at present and particularly in roses of 

 the first quality. Good Ueauties average 

 ,$4 to $t) ]x;r dozen and from that down 

 to $1 jKu- dozen; liriiUs. ilaids, Meteors, 

 Gatc»s and Perles hive been selling from 

 ,$3 to$(j per 100. Owing to a few large 

 funerals last week there was an in- 

 creased demand for light-colored roses. 

 Meteor, however, holds its own and 

 good, first-class stock is always in de- 

 mand at top price. It seems that many 

 of our growers are off crop at present. 



Carnations are not in over-supply 

 though (]uite plentiful; the demand is 

 extra good, all kinds and colors selling 

 well. Common varieties bring from 

 $1.50 to $2 jier 100, while fancy, such as 

 Lawson, Dorothy, Norway and others, 

 bring $.S and $4" per 100. Violets were 

 in good demand last week and hardly 

 enough are coming in to supply demands. 

 Oalifornias at 60 and 75 cents per 100 

 and doubles from 50 cents to $1 were the 

 selling prices. 



Buib stutr. as a rule, is moving very 

 slowly and has been overloading the 

 market all week. Romans and paper 

 whites are in abundance and sell all 

 the way from $2 to $3 per 100. The de- 

 mand for valley is not altogether satis- 

 factory at $3 and .$4; callas go at 15 

 cents each; a few Harrisiis came in and 

 brought 18 cents. Von Sion and Dutch 

 hyacinths have not made their appear- 

 ance as yet. There was quite a demand 

 for wild smilax last week and all other 

 greens sold well. 



Notes. 



Ml. IJalph il. Ward, representing 

 Hagemaiin &. ileycr. of New York, was a 

 visitor. Mr. Ward is meeting with good 

 success on his first trip west. 



Mrs. Emma Fillmore, wife of Francis 

 Fillmore and mother of Frank J. Fill- 



