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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



March 



1902. 



places must also be suffering the short- 

 age. 



Easter prices will ]io doubt take ef- 

 fect to-morrow (Tuesday) with the fol- 

 lowing prices: 



Beauties, extra select, from $4 to $6; 

 shorts, from 75 cents to $2 per doz. ; 

 Brides, Maids, Meteors and Gate?, from 

 $5 to $10; Perles, $4 to $5; seconds, $3 

 to $4 per 100. Carnations, fancy, $4 

 .and ,$5; others from $2 to .$3 per 100. 

 Violets from 25 to 75 cents per 100. 

 Ilan'isiis from $12.50 to $1S'; Callas, $10 

 to $15; tulips, $3 to $5; Komans, $2 and 

 $3; Dutch, $3 to $5; lily of the valley, 

 $3 to $5. On green stock iiricos will re- 

 main the same as usiinl. 



Bowling. 



The Florist Bowling Club is now with- 

 out a home — the Court House alleys are 

 a thing of the [last. New alleys will 

 soon be built by the St. Louis Tenpin 

 League, and in the meantime the club 

 will bowl at the (irand alleys, and 

 after the Kastcr rush will liowl regularly 

 again. 



The league team made the following 



averages during the league season: 



No. P of P. of H. 



Names. Games. Tot. Av St'k«. So's. G'mc 



A. V. Klllson Ul! ]H77 173 :CiC 4i»i 21)4 



Carl Ile.vpr 45 74St IW .*HHI 424 1:10 



C. A. Kuohii «(i KISOS It>4 MKi 4l«) 24,S 



J. J. HiMickc 04 10401 1G2 :ioo :i,s9 2:ii 



.Tohn Sturtz 57 0197 lUI 2U3 401 21.'i 



K. I'. 'IVssiMi 7 1195 142 244 :iOO 165 



Will Ailola 19 2fl:>l 141 279 .'ilHl 1,'*2 



John Kunz 6 !*S7 141 244 310 184 



J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



Easter Stock. 



A temperature of over 60 degrees, a 

 summer sun and skies that rival the vio- 

 lets such arc the conditions that usher in 

 the linal week of Lent and give promise 

 of the greatest plant Easter the metropo- 

 lis has ever known. Already the growers 

 arc taking advantage of the propitious 

 weather and delivery wagons are on every 

 street. Not a plant worth selling appar- 

 ently remains unengaged. A visit to 

 some of the large greenhouse establish- 

 ments on Saturday confirms this. Over 

 at Eritz Dressel's, in West Iloboken, the 

 whole force was busy wrapping up for 

 tlelivcry stock already purchased, and 

 ''everything sold" was the watchword 

 there. Mr. Dressel's first try at the lily 

 venture was a ten-strike; every plant 

 perfect and every flower sold. 



Good potted lilies everywhere have 

 commanded 12 cents a flower this 

 year. 1 haven't heard of one con- 

 tract for less, and the selects have 

 brought in some cases 15 cents. The 

 azaleas, hydrangeas, genistas, acacias and 

 Crimson Ramblers make up 90 per cent 

 of the stock, and the wisdom of the selec- 

 tion is evident from the fact that not a 

 perfect plant of these varieties remains 

 unsold. 



Over at Mr. Steinhoff's the activity of 

 preparation was at high tide. A score of 

 packers wore hustling, several subjects of 

 the Mikado among them. Here, Crimson 

 Kambler is king; 10,000 plants ranging 

 from $1 to $25 attest the ability of this 

 house with this popular specialty. 

 Wreath and cross effects have been pro- 

 duced for the day, and the wealth of 

 bloom is worth going miles to see. Her- 

 nmu Scholzel, at I'nion Hill, had a splen- 

 did exhibit, but this time nothing will 

 bo left out of 5,000 azaleas. 15,000 lilies, 

 1,000 hydrangeas and 2,000 small genis- 



tas. Over at Julius Roehrs' the usual 

 grand accumulation of superb stock 

 breaks the record of tliis house. It would 

 take too much space to describe it. 



Close at hand the vigorous and ambi- 

 tious young establishment of Bobbink & 

 Atkins is making a successful bid for an 

 abundant patronage, and in a few years 

 has taken its place among the leaders in 

 every department of horticulture. On 

 "the other side of the bridge," Schul- 

 theis and Will Siebrecht and Zeller and 

 Millar and Dyer and Le Marc and other 

 growers of Elatbush and Astoria and the 

 ' ' suburbs, ' ' all heavily stocked, report 

 every plant of value taken. 



It will be a great Easter if the weather 

 behaves itself. Hard to realize, unless 

 you are on the ground, what the outlet 

 can possibly be for this enormous aggre- 

 gation of stock. I wish you could join 

 the promenade on Fifth avenue Easter 

 and see, too, how the wholesale cut flower 

 men have added their quota to the gen- 

 eral result. No more low prices nor sur- 

 jilus of violets and roses! — the general 

 average has asserted itself. From de- 

 pression and accumulation have come 

 demand and good fair offerings that will 

 deplete the ice boxes. 



The Stores. 



Talking about Fifth avenue, a stroll 

 from 34tli to 59th streets Saturday found 

 most of the great stores in an embryo 

 condition. Broadway was far ahead in 

 the way of attractive florist windows, 

 but Friday will usher in such a complete- 

 ness of beautiful effects on this great 

 stylish thoroughfare as has not been seen 

 in a generation. 



.). H. Troy, at the "Rosary," 388 

 Fifth avenue, had a pretty outdoor Jap- 

 anese effect in maples and evergreens, 

 lilacs, wistarias and tree paeonias in pots, 

 with hyacinths, lilies and rhododendrons, 

 tilled the window. Mr. Troy is very 

 proud of his latest invention, "an Eng- 

 lish gardening basket," a handy and 

 practical affair which he has patented 

 and will use for cut flower effects at 

 Easter. 



At Siebrecht 's, 409 Fifth avenue, the 

 large display windows were nicely ar- 

 rayed, violets in fancy baskets predom- 

 inating. Birch bark baskets, orchids, 

 acacias, rhododendrons and Ramblers 

 completed the present supply, while at 

 the firm's branch store in the Arcade, 

 further up the avenue, the conservatory 

 was filled with granil specimen ferns ami 

 palms, and the store windows were brill- 

 iant with azaleas and acacias. 



Wadley & Smythe, at 491, had about 

 the only gardenias in the city, in novel 

 vases flanked by cyjiripediums and As- 

 paragus Sprengeri, with an abundance of 

 the fancy carnations, and a handsome, 

 dainty, new style of pot cover made of 

 chiffon with ribbon found nowhere else 

 in the city. Mr. Wadley is convalescing 

 rapidly at his home in New Rochelle, but 

 is hardly strong enough to take up his 

 usual duty in the Easter rush. Great 

 preparations are being made by this 

 house for the Newport season. 



At 538 Dards has some pretty and 

 novel designs in white immortelles and 

 the usual flowering plants and lilies. 

 Across from Dards ' is Thorley 's. at 543, 

 where the immense windows with their 

 purple velvet pillars and enormous vases 

 and huge baskets of lilies are charming, 

 while at 546 is Alex. McConnell, with his 

 deep front and lavish window display. 

 Hodgson's, at 719, was depleted of every- 

 thing extraneous in preparation for 



' ' great expectations, ' ' and at 761, 

 Stumpp 's, palms and azaleas were a 

 "makeshift" for the present. 



Notes. 



The illness of Thomas Young, Sr., con- 

 tinues verj' severe and a fatal termina- 

 tion is feared. Mr. Nash and Mr. 

 Schenek are better, and Rudolph Asmus 

 is again "on the Rialto. " 



The sale of nursery stock at the auc- 

 tion rooms is on and buyers are becoming 

 numerous. Roses easily command 10 

 cents and other stock, with few excep- 

 tions, secures bidders at a greater than 

 the usual wholesale rates. 



Many out-of-town florists have visited 

 New York during the past ten days ; 

 John Degnan, of the McKellar & Winter- 

 son Co., Chicago; H. H. Battles, of Phil- 

 adelphia, and Brcitenstein, Ulam and 

 McClements, of Pittsburg, among them. 



A. Herrmann, the importer and dealer 

 in florists' supplies, is having his place 

 completely fitted with electric lights. 



According to a report in the daily press 

 the Bermuda bulb growers did not ship 

 any flowers to this city this year for the 

 reason that they didn't have any to ship. 



Austin. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market underwent a 

 chaikge last Saturday. Prices did not 

 advance, but stock was well cleared up, 

 a tremendous business being done that 

 day. The bull movement continued this 

 week and up to time of writing these 

 notes a great cut flower Easter seems 

 assured. Advance orders for Easter 

 lilies, long Beauties, carnations and val- 

 ley are heavy, with probability of a good 

 supply. 



Pierson, of Cromwell, is shipping 

 quantities of Easter lilies to this market; 

 $15 a hundred is the price for fine 

 Easter lilies. 



Easter Plants. 



The plant market is tremendously ac- 

 tive. The great bulk of flowering plant 

 stock in the hands of the wholesale 

 growers is engaged at this writing. Sev- 

 eral ear loads have been shipped to New 

 i'ork alone. Lilies, rhododendrons ancj 

 hydrangeas are practically sold out. 

 Should the week end with the wonder- 

 fully fine weather which has marked its 

 commencement, we will have the best 

 Easter on record. 



Spring Exhibition. 



The spring show of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society was held on March 

 18, 19 and 20 in Horticultural Hall. The 

 extremely cold weather cut down the ex- 

 hibits and the attendance. The show 

 was very interesting and drew a fair at- 

 tendance', which should make the secre- 

 tary and the exhibitors feel that their 

 efforts have been made to good purpose. 



The features of the main hall were 

 a specimen of Pandanus Sanderii, set 

 round by some choice stove and foliage 

 plants; a group of Cineraria stellata, 

 wonderfully fine; another of new geran- 

 iums, the plants exceptionally well grown 

 and flowered; and two large groups, one 

 of foliage and one of flowering plants, 

 both very fine. In the foyer were the 

 bulbs for the seedsmen's prizes, and a 

 finer collection of hyacinths, tulips and 

 daffodils has never been seen here. This 



