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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Febrlarv 27. 1902. 



Theo. Roosevelt carnations and one of 

 his led seedlings. 



Herbert Spavins, of Mt. Kisco, showed 

 two seedling red carnations. 



Henry Clinkaberry, Trenton, X. J., 

 displayed a fine lot of cypripediums. 



W. C. Russell, of Millbrook, X. Y., 

 made a grand exhibit of roses and car- 

 nations and well deserved the prizes 

 won. 



The \-iolet prizes w-ere won by G. T. 

 Scheimemann, of Baldwins, X. Y. ; C. G. 

 Velle, of Marlborough. X. Y.; G. H. 

 Hale, Seabright, X. J., and William 

 Scott, of Tarrytown, X. Y. 



The apple, pear and vegetable exhib- 

 its were interesting and creditable. 



The president of the society was 

 George T. Powell, of Briarcliff Manor, 

 N. Y., and the lectures, essays and dis- 

 cussions of the meeting continued to 

 crowd the rooms until the close of the 

 convention. The speakers were always 

 interesting and many of them are able 

 men and thorough horticulturists, for 

 Prof. Card, of the Rhode Island experi- 

 ment station; Prof. G. H. Powell, pom- 

 ologist of Washington : Prof. Johnson, 

 of the American Agriculturist; Prof. 

 Beach, of Geneva : Dr. Roberts, of the 

 Cornell Agricultural college, and Prof. 

 Slingerland, of the same institution, and 

 Dr. Jordan, of the Geneva experiment 

 station, were among the notable speak- 

 ers, and in every case held the close 

 attention of the members and gave most 

 interesting and valuable addresses. 



Austin. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Philadelphia was visited by a storm 

 of unusual severity last week. Great 

 destruction was caused by the rain freez- 

 ing on trees and wires during the day, 

 which was followed by a gale at night, 

 causing the heavily laden branches to 

 break under the strain, and bringing 

 thousands of wires to the ground. The 

 scene on Sunday morning when the sun 

 rose upon the fairyland of ice and snow 

 was wonderfully beautiful, but also 

 heart-breaking to lovers of trees, the 

 destruction of which is beyond descrip- 

 tion. The photographers were out in full 

 force Sunday trying to catch the fleet- 

 ing scenes. 



The effect on business was very ser- 

 ious. Telegraphic news was cut off; 

 •many messages arrived too late for the 

 orders to be filled. The telephone ser- 

 vice was also paralyzed. The trolleys 

 and trains were much delayed, but few 

 shoppers ventured out. Considering 

 all these drawbacks, business has been 

 fair though slow. Prices have fallen 

 a little this week, notably on violets, 

 colored carnations, sweet peas and val- 

 ley. Fancy Beauties are scarcer than 

 at almost any time this season. This 

 is rather curious, as several of the 

 largest growers aimed for a continuous 

 supply rather than a Christmas crop. 

 The price is $7.50 to $8 per doz. Other 

 roses bring about the same as a week 

 ago, but are not .so firm. White carna- 

 tions are more in demand than the col- 

 ored sorts; .$2 to $3 per 100 buys good 

 flowers; $1 to $1.50, common ones. 

 Sweet peas bring $1 per 100; valley, $3; 

 La Reine tulips and Xaccissus Von Sion 

 are in over supply. 



Darby Road. 



J. William Colflesh, Fifty-third and 

 . Woodlawn avenue, has a great variety 



of Easter and spring plants, which 

 make his place interesting at this sea- 

 son. His lilies are stocky and vigorous, 

 apparently free from disease. Most of 

 them are in G-ineh pots. A few 12-inch 

 pans are seen with 6 plants to the pan; 

 no stakes are needed. Spirsas are 

 making good growth; also hydrangeas. 

 Many bulbs are forced both in boxes 

 and in pots. The varieties noticed were 

 Xarcissus Von Sion: tulips. La Reine, 

 Belle Alliance, Tournesol, Murillo, 

 Keizerskroom, Y'ellow Prince and Proser- 

 pine. 



Spring plants are in all stages from 

 the large geraniums, heliotropes and 

 mignonette, intended for early use, to 

 the small seedlings in boxes that will 

 be just right in JIay. Cinerarias are in 

 full bloom, with more to follow. There 

 are two houses each of carnations and 

 Asparagus plumosus. ond three or four 

 of palms and other foliage plants. In 

 roses. Beauty, Bride. Maid and Kaiser- 

 in are grown. 



A feature of the place is a single 

 span to the south house, 105x19 feet, 

 filled with Jacqueminots planted out 

 in the ground some time in the eighties 

 and kept steadily at work ever since. 

 This house should make a fine show- 

 ing at Easter. 



Various Notes. 



Henry A. Drecr Company state that 

 Azalea Madame Van der Cruyssen will 

 be scarce this Easter. A. Vervaeneana 

 is more plentiful than in the past and 

 should make a good substitute where 

 pink and white can be used. 



B. Eschner, of the firm of M. Rice & 

 Co., was called home last week by the 

 death of Mr. Rice's mother. His 

 friends will deplore the cause of his 

 absence. 



"Xanie the three best geraniums for 

 out door bedding" was a question in the 

 box at the last meeting of the Ger- 

 mantown Horticultural Society. The 

 answer from John Holt is: red, S. A. 

 Xutt : white. La Favorite ; pink, Jean 

 Viaud. 



The Florists' Bowling club defeated 

 their nearest rivals in the tournament, 

 the Century Wheelmen, last week in 

 three straight games. The score 

 (2,824) establishes a new five men rec- 

 ord for this city, or an average of 

 188i pins per man per game. The 

 florist team that accomplished this 

 splendid feat consisted of Moss, Dun- 

 ham, Moore, Starr and Johnson. 



Phil. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions for Feb. 17 22. 



There was a general unsteadiness in 

 all lines, weather included, also the 

 money supply. The latter fact and the 

 prevailing season of Lent is probably all 

 the excuse that may be offered for dull- 

 ness in flower trade. 



Roses.- — Xew York supply of red roses 

 is plentiful enough, but local growers 

 are running very short, but small 

 Liberties are beginning to come more 

 plentifully. Pink and white roses are 

 running to extra large sizes, so that 

 prices have dropped on that grade, but 

 not on smaller sizes, yet few of them 

 now sell for more than $1.50 a dozen. 

 Other colors not much in evidence. 



Pinks. — This crop has not been in 

 such good condition for a long time. I 

 do not think the large regular buyers 



have yet asked for a reduction in price 

 but they get a better blossom for the 

 same money. Irregular buyers are de- 

 manding smaller prices and the street 

 men begin to expect an inning. Three 

 cents takes a good one, indeed, but few 

 bringing more, and some have been 

 sold for less than one cent. 



Violets. — Seem to be coming good 

 for the time of year. Thirty-five to sev- 

 enty-five. 



Bulb Goods. — Valley and lilies plen- 

 tiful enough and selling at low figures. 

 Green material, including mignonette, is 

 out in full force; but not much for small 

 white flowers can be found outside of 

 the smaller bulbous blossoms. 



Stickfuls. 



Much surprise was caused by the 

 announcement in a morning paper that 

 .James Delay, the veteran florist of 

 Biiylston street, had filed a petition in 

 the courts of insolvency, stating liabili- 

 ties of over $1,800 and assets of $700. 

 Further dc\ielopments are anxiously 

 awaited. J. S. Manteb. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The supply has further increased and 

 there is practically a glut of colored 

 carnations and violets. Good roses are 

 going fairly well, with white in the lead. 

 With the fakirs off the streets there is 

 really no outlet for lower grade colored 

 stock and the presence of this grade in 

 the market undoubtedly affects prices of 

 the medium grades. The retailers nat- 

 urally feel very independent under ex- 

 isting conditions and make very low 

 bids when buying. 



As to ruling prices, roses range from 

 $5 to $8 for really good stock, with sales 

 of lower grades at $3 and .$4 and even 

 down to $2. In Beauties the best long 

 stemmed still bring $4 and $5, with 

 medium lengths at $2 and $3, but the 

 shorts and imperfect flowers sell at very 

 low rates. In carnations the range for 

 good flowers is from $1 to $2.50, with 

 fancy at $3, and we hear of clean-up 

 sales, mostly poor colored flowers, at as 

 low as $3 to $6 per 1,000. 



There is a great abundance of bulbous 

 flowers and these help to aggravate the 

 situation. At the same time the volume 

 of business is very fair for the season, 

 though prices are certainly averaging 

 very low just now. 



Various Items. 



Quite a number of the eastern men 

 present at the Indianapolis convention 

 visited Chicago before returning home 

 and there were many little excursions 

 to the various growers around the city. 

 On Saturday quite a number visited the 

 plant of the Chicago Carnation Co. at 

 Joliet. There were several excursions 

 to Hinsdale to visit the houses of Bas- 

 sett & Washburn, while at Suramerdale 

 Mr. Peter Reinberg entertained numer- 

 ous visitors. Among these visitors were 

 C. W. Ward, Queens, X. Y.; Ernst As- 

 mus. West Hoboken. X. J.; P. M. Pier- 

 son, Scarborough, X. ,Y. ; Wm. Scott. 

 Buffalo, N. Y.; W. F. Kasting, wife and 

 baby; J. H. Dunlop and W. Muston. 

 Toronto, Ont. ; W. Gammage, London, 

 Out; Edw. Dale, Brampton, Ont.; W. 

 A. Kennedy and X. Zweifel, Milwaukee. 



John Degnan, for eighteen years with 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, and for the last 

 few years one of the buyers for the 



