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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Febiuauv 13, 1902. 



2,000 seeds, or at least the most of 

 them, woukl eventually have come up. 



In February, 1000, I sowed about 

 8,000 seeds and at the time I expected 

 them to come up only a few seedlings 

 showed up, and then more came up at 

 different times during the year, and not 

 until the following February, 1901, did 

 the bulk of the seeds come up, having 

 been in the soil about a year. Tem- 

 perature in the house winter and sum- 

 mer from CO to 00 degrees. And in 

 February, 1901, I again sowed a lot of 

 seeds immediately after picking them 

 from the vines, and have been taking 

 plants out of these seed boxes ever 

 since till now, February 8, 1902, we 

 took out the last, and threw out the 

 seed boxes, having sowed the seeds about 

 a year ago. 



In justice to myself and others who 

 have sold Asjjaragus plumosus seed, 

 and many have been accused of selling 

 poor seed.. I make the above statement. 

 My advice is, if your seed does not come 

 up good in due time, let your lK)xes 

 stand, keeping tlieni watered, and it 

 will pay you. 



Tillin. O. Lewis Ullrich. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions for Feb. 3-8. 



Things could have been more exciting. 

 The trallic is limited and is carried on 

 with a limited supply of limited va- 

 rieties. Koses, pinks, violets, lilies, 

 bulb goods, valley, mignonette, small 

 white Mowers and green material are 

 the onl}' toiiics worth expanding; there 

 are other blossoms that come in, but 

 too irregular to be worth considering. 

 Among these are orchids, sweet peas, 

 marguerites, candytuft, stevia, stocks, 

 ageratums, azaleas and Narcissus poet- 

 icus. 



Koses. — Good red roses are very scarce 

 and |)rices are ranging higher. I handle 

 a few tine ones and my conscience is ab- 

 normal enough to raj) you .$1 a i)iece for 

 three-foiiters, .50 cents each for two-foot- 

 ers, an $1 a dozen for good heads willi 

 almost no stem at all. Two dollars per 

 dozen is the best price 1 have known to 

 be received for .Meteors or LiJK'rties late- 

 ly, both kinds being rather small, the 

 latter especially so. Good grades of or- 

 dinary roses are fairly plentiful and 

 sell well at from $1 to .$;i per dozen. 

 Smaller ones are very scarce and hard to 

 obtain at any price. Buyers, however, 

 will use something else before paying 

 heavy prices for roses to use for funeral 

 puriiiises. Perles, Jlorgans, Helen Gould. 

 Sunset, lion Silene and Golden Gate are 

 barely represented. 



Pinks. — There are a few tremendously 

 good pinks coming in and are selling at 

 5 and ti cents. Then there is a fairly 

 good supply at 2 to 4 cents, and others 

 at less figures. None of these grades are 

 jiarticularly overplentiful and practical- 

 ly all sell out. 



Violets. — These arc lluctuating a bit — 

 one day very plentiful, another almost 

 scarce. Quality ranges from veiy poor 

 to very good. Have seen prices run 

 from aO cents to $1 per 100. 



Lilies. — Good; plenty: *l..iO. 



lUilh Goods. — Good enough ; plenty 

 enough, and cheap enough generally. 

 White tulips selling well because of 

 scarcitv in small roses. 



Valley. — Good and cheap. 



Mignonette. — Good quality scarce. 



Fairly plenty in cheap grades, from 2.") 

 to 50 cents per dozen. 



Small white llowers scarce, except 

 bulbs and pips. Green material cheap 

 and good. 



Pip Goods. 



Therebv hangs a talc: As I hear it, 

 it goes like this: For years Carl Jur- 

 gens of Khode Island has almost wholly 

 supplied this market, by way of tw'o of 

 our worthy wliolesalers, his chief com- 

 petitor being A. N. Pierson, of Connec- 

 ticut, through another jiopular Hawley 

 street house. When the Wood Rose Com- 

 pany established their cold storage plant 

 they also installed in connection there- 

 with tirst-dass facilities for raising val- 

 ley that would' overtop the surrounding 

 hills. This might have been a joke sim- 

 ply on certain denizens of certain New 

 England states not legislated for under 

 the gilded dome at the head of Park 

 street, except for the fact that E. N. 

 Peirce & Sons took a notion to take a 

 hack at the business, and everybody 

 knows how they do business. John Mc- 

 Farlane also put on a kettle full to boil. 

 The result is that Aalley blooms and 

 valley talk is cheap and the more of it 

 you can use the cheaper it comes. 



Notes. 



Have y<m :i<lvised yo\ir neighbor to 

 get tho.se brown-tail moth nests oil' his 

 trees'; Have you ever gathered them 

 from your own? If the crop now upon 

 ])ear trees is not garnered it is safe to 

 guess no other one will be produced. 



J. H. Pond, of Foxlwro, has been quiet- 

 ly working up a stock of his new white 

 carnation, Lillian P(in<l, extra fine 

 blooms of which are being shipped to 

 this market. He intended to put the 

 plants upon the market this winter, 

 but has sold the whole stock to S. J. 

 Keuter, of \\"esterly, R. 1., who will not 

 utter them for another year. Renter 

 isn't buying up anything like that un- 

 less it is all right. J. S. JI.vxteu. 



NEW YORK. 



The i)ast week has been a busy one with 

 many of the ret:iilers, the receptions, balls 

 and dinners being more numerous and 

 important than any week of the year 

 to date. Prices with the wholesalers 

 have averaged about the same as last 

 week's quotations. With the beg^inning 

 of Ivcnt, Wednesday, the midwinter dull- 

 ness is anticipated. The coming of 

 Prince Henry will call, however, for 

 elalMirate floral demonstrations and the 

 Metropolitan Opera House on February 

 25 will be a ■"bower of beauty." The great- 

 est opera programme ever presented in 

 this country will be given. The cost of 

 the decorations alone will be over .$10,- 

 000. If this sycophantic oblation to 

 royalty will only add to the coffers of 

 the legitimate florists of the city and 

 help to increase the general demand for 

 flowers we will try to bear it. 



The beefsteak dinner Saturday even- 

 ing was a "hummer.'' Julius Lang and 

 his corps of assistants "made good," and 

 also made good steak, and plenty of it. 

 Evervboil.V was satisfied. All the nota- 

 bles were there, from all parts of the 

 bi^ city, several from out of town so- 

 cieties, and one. Fred Breitmeyer. all 

 the way from Detroit, as usual the hap- 

 jiiest of the crowd. 



The celery ami old musty ale were of 

 a rare vintage, and the dessert of chops 



was as toothsome as a Chicago Iamb 

 could make it. 



Interspersed with all this sacrifice to 

 the goddess of gastric juice were contri- 

 butions by some of the best male vaude- 

 ville talent in the city, and music and 

 son,sr and magic rounded out a most en- 

 joyable night. 



The services closed before the piohib- 

 itive hour of 12, and the i»econd beef- 

 .steak dinner of the club was voted Ix-t- 

 ter than its pre<lecessor and more than 

 was exjjected. I wonder every Florist 

 Club in this country does not add this 

 festival to its winter programme. 



RoJH'rt Grev. of North Easton. Mass.: 

 J. H. Rebstock, of Buffalo, and Fred 

 Breitmeyer, of Detroit, were among the 

 out of town visitors to the metropolis 

 during the past week. 



ilr. Albert Wadley hopes to return to 

 his home in New Rochelle within a week. 

 His r(H-overy has been slow and jiainful. 

 It will be a long time before he can 

 hope to resume his active business re- 

 sponsibilities. 



Mr. Charles See, bookkeeper for Sie- 

 brecht & Son. has been a month con- 

 valescing, and instead of a "shaking up" 

 as he supposed, has been nursing two 

 broken ribs and an injured spine. He 

 expects to resume his duties this week. 



Jlr. Joosten, nephew of C. H. Joosten, 

 the importer, mourns the loss of his first 

 baby. 



John Richmond. the Bensonliurst 

 florist, was badly shocked and wounded 

 by a "liold-up man" last Saturday near 

 his home, in the suburbs of Brooklyn. 



A. H. Langjahr. the wholesale florist, 

 has again received the honor of ap])oint- 

 ment as state vice-presiilent of the S. A. 

 F. 0. H. 



The American Rose Society has of- 

 fered some fine special prizes for the 

 New Vork rose show, March 10. 11 and 

 12, and a great <lisphiy is anticipatetl- 

 The rose convention will be held in the 

 Berkeley Lyceum Theater, and Dr. Hal- 

 sted. Samuel Parsons. Dr. Van Meet, 

 Cornelius ^'an Hrunt. .lames Wood and 

 Dr. Uuey will address the societies. The 

 S. A. F. O. H. offers two medals to be 

 awarded to the best two new roses of 

 American origin. II. A. Siobrecht pre- 

 sents the Siebrecht challenge cup. valued 

 at .$150, for the best display of H. P. 

 roses in bloom grown in such pots, 25 

 varieties; .$25 bv Mrs. Thomas Newbold, 

 for best 50 blooms of Libeit.v; $25 bv 

 American Rose Company for 25 best 

 blooms of (iolden Gate: the ex. com. 

 prize of .$100 silver cup, best 50 square 

 feet displa.v of ro.ses in pots: $100 in 

 cash by Mrs. Stoeckel in three prizes; 

 and the president's prize of .$25 for best 

 three vases Bride. Maid and any other 

 variety, not American Beauty. 



Sanniel Glascow. one of the employes 

 of Mr. .John Haves, (lr;inge, gardener 

 for O. D. ;\Iunn. Esq.. was accidentall.v 

 suffocated last week by the escnpe of 

 gas in his lM>droom. 



Tuesda.v night, Febnuuy 11, the 

 fourth annual reception of Hitchings & 

 Co.'s Employes' Relief Association w'as 

 held in Elki' Hall. Jersey City, and it 

 was as usual a great success. The at- 

 tendance was very large. 



Austin. 



A FLORAL PANEL. 



The accompanying engraving is from 

 a photograph of a panel arranged by Mr. 

 Thos. H. Stevenson. San Francisco, last 

 September. It was used at services held 

 in memor3' of the late President ilcKin- 



