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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1902. 



made of green moss in which were nu- 

 merous Easter eggs and small cotton 

 chicks. I 



Cut lilies were quite plentiful in some 

 of the stores on Jlonday an'd it was evi- 

 dent that demand had not been up to 

 .'mtieipations. Some of the store men 

 say that the people didn 't even ask for 

 lilies, had evidently made up their minds 

 for som'pfhing else, and this is attributed 

 to the large amount of talk in the daily 

 press about the scarcity of lilies, the high 

 prices the florist would have to ask, etc. 

 It certainly must have had some effect. 



The Markft at Date. 



There is an excellent supply of all 

 kinds of stock in the market now and the 

 buyer c^n easily get what he wants. De- 

 mand is fair, but could be better. There 

 is a fine lot of long Beauties coming in. 

 It is a , long time since we have seen as 

 many fine long Beauties on hand as on 

 Tuesdaj*. On the whole the market is in 

 very good condition for the week after 

 an important holiday. Since Easter the 

 weather has been cold and rather gloomy, 

 which may soon check the cut some if 

 it continues. 



Various Items- 

 Several of tlie retailers said that a 

 larger proportion of their customers than 

 usual were out of the city Easter week. 



Doulile tulips seemed to find buyers 

 quicker than single ones. 



Some shipments to the south were badly 

 delayed by washouts on the railroads, and 

 flowers that arrived Saturday night were 

 of no use for Saturday sales. 



The local retailers have bought little 

 since Easter, indicating left over stocks 

 from the holiday. 



E. Asmus & Co. have issued an an- 

 nouncement of the opening of their retail 

 establishment at 1860-1870 Evanston 

 avenue, near Wihson avenue. 



Hauswirtii went into pliints as largely 

 as he could with his facilities, and used 

 blooming geraniums ratlier freely. The 

 people took to them, too. 



Friedman was strong in large azaleas, 

 acacias, lilacs, Eamblers and .lapanese , 

 cherries. The latter went well, he says. 



Wienhoeber did a large business, prob- 

 ably ahead of last year, but had made 

 much greater preparation in the way of 

 plants, and could have filled more orders 

 for them. A pretty plant arrangement 

 had the call. 



The Florists' Club entertainment and 

 ball will be held next Tuesday evening 

 in the Masonic Temple Drill Hall. The 

 entertainment will begin at 8 o'clock. 

 Some first-class talent has been secured 

 and it promises to be very enjoyable. The 

 ball will follow the entertainment. The 

 next regular meeting of the club, the 

 date for which falls on the evening fol- 

 lowing the entertainment, will be omitted. 



The Easter display at Lincoln Park 

 was very fine this year. Especially not- 

 able was a grand lot of cinerarias, which 

 we were told was from Dreer's strain of 

 seed. 



Bo'wling. 



The team entered in the Spring League 

 played their second series on March 25th. win- 

 ning one of the games, against the Grands. 



Florists — 



1st. 2d. 3d. 



J. Foerstei- 152 195 190 



P. J. Hauswirth 157 184 166 



C. BalluU 154 161 178 



E. Wlnterson 118 165 175 



G. Asmus 187 156 156 



Totals 768 861 865 



Grands 994 896 839 



BOSTON. 



Easier Week. 



Bret Harte says: "For ways that are 

 dark and tricks that are vain, the heathen 

 Chinee is peculiar." The average Bay 

 State flower grower is in the same cate- 

 gory. 1 have had a finger in the floral 

 pie of Boston for a quarter of a hundred 

 Christmas, Easter and memorial holidays, 

 and these growers have followed the 

 "dark way" of hoarding up their stock 

 too hard for each and every one of them. 

 1 think, in endeavoring to perform the 

 ■'vain trick" of executing a double price 

 upon the holiday. Mind you, they are 

 not to be blamecl for doing it if it could 

 be done, because the iriegular buyers 

 are not slow in mention of low prices at 

 other times. But this Easter was in 

 line with all other holidays. Growers 

 refused to sell at fair prices during the 

 first part of the week, and there was a 

 bit of a lull on Friday and very near 

 a "slump" on Saturday. However, had 

 wo- had fair weather upon Saturday an- 

 other song might have been piped. A 

 good tracle was carried on everywhere 

 and better weather would have made 

 tiaflic unprecedented. Goods were not 

 held back enough to affect their quality 

 so much as formerly, after all, and as 

 all kinds of plants were in most excel- 

 lent shape the quality of goods remain- 

 ing unsold is quite good. 



There were good lilies enough to go 

 around and a few to spare in spite oi 

 all the scare talk, and an item in con- 

 nection therewith is to the effect that 

 Jjewis of Marlboro loaded 1,100 blossoms 

 of them upon a freight-car for Boston 

 and by some mistake a terrific current of 

 steam heat was put upon the car, the 

 whole business perished, and more diplo- 

 macy with express companies is in the 

 air. 



Mr. F. W. Clark, the "hospital man," 

 tells interesting facts concerning Easter 

 Sunday taken from his pocket weather 

 record for the past fifteen years. This 

 gives eleven fair Easters and four rainy 

 ones; but his report fails to designate 

 how many of the fair ones were spoiled 

 lor floral iisc by rainy days just preced- 

 ing as in the present case. 



J. S. Manter. 



NEW YORK. 



Easter. 



The weather! Fickle jade! She 

 came to town early in the week all smiles 

 and hope; she "looked on the bright side 

 of tilings" until Friday, and when the 

 display in every store was perfect and all 

 was in readiness for the expected crowds 

 of buyers, she couldn't stand the pres- 

 sure any longer, and wept. How it rained 

 Friday! Plants on the outside suffered, 

 customers materialized slowly, things 

 looked gloomy. But "the unexpected al- 

 ways happens." Saturday was all smiles 

 the birds sang and the air was like a 

 breath of springtime. There wasn't 

 much left to sell anywhere by the time 

 Easter dawned, and such an Easter! 

 Never brighter skies or balmier air. 

 Never such crowds on the great avenue. 

 Nearly everyone wore flowers and most 

 of the flowers were violets ; hardly a rose, 

 now and then an orchid, here and there 

 a spray of lily of the valley, but nearly 

 always violets. 



Everything needed was abundant. 

 Wholesale cut flower men, realizing the 



voice of public demand, became thep- 

 selves plantsmeu, and many of them kept 

 samples in their windows and sold them 

 for ' the growers. Sunday's windows 

 everywhere attested the general clean- 

 ing out of stock. Some of the leading 

 establishments had not enough left over 

 to look "respectable." If anything re- 

 mained it was an over-grown genista or 

 azalea or bougainvillea, and there were 

 few of them. Everybody ought to be 

 happy. The growers have nothing left, 

 the wholesalers are rejoicing with empty 

 ice boxes, the retailers have nothing to 

 sell. 



Prices asked were generally most fair 

 and reasonable. The only "kickers" 

 must be those who patronized the de- 

 partment stores and bought the withered, 

 drooping, worthless apologies for plants 

 to be found in the majority of these 

 "hotbeds of imposition" and these de- 

 served just what they got and what 

 everyone deserves who wanders into ille- 

 gitimate fields. Lilies were none too 

 plentiful ; the best were well worth 15 

 cents and the absence of the Bermuda 

 competition enabled them to advance 

 in price and value as Easter approached; 

 they have not been as popular for many 

 years. A good many flowering plants 

 were disposed of at auction at the sales 

 of the past week at Elliott's and Cleary's. 

 The supply of nursery stock offered by 

 this system grows yearly. It is remarka- 

 ble how well prices are maintained for 

 good stock at these sales. 



The window displays on Broadway 

 and Fifth avenue this Easter were great, 

 and in fact, on all the avenues of N. Y. 

 itself and at the leading stores in Brook- 

 l>Ti, the care in arrangement and beauty 

 of effect has never been excelled. 

 Stumpp's at the park entrance near 59th 

 street and Fifth avenue, was very strik- 

 ing. The novelties were a pair of tri- 

 colored azaleas of immense size selected 

 by Mr. Stumpp last summer near Nice, 

 France, and purchased at a high price 

 from a family where they were an 

 "heirloom," having been grafted by the 

 grandfather of their owner. You 

 wouldn't believe it if I were to tell you 

 iiow many hundred dollars Mr. Stumpp 

 received for them. They were beauties. 

 Between them was the largest bougain- 

 villea I ever saw. The immense store 

 and basement were crowded with as fine 

 a collection of perfect plants a,s could 

 possibly be got together. 



Thorley's novelty was liis sedan chairs 

 in all sizes and the effect, when filled with 

 flowers according to their capacity, was 

 charming- indeed. As usual, hig 

 "branches" and his "overflow" stores 

 were crowded and then depleted. Crim- 

 son Ramblers were here and everywheri 

 in evidence. This certainly was the most 

 popular plant of the season; short-lived, 

 rapidly fading, hard to keep fresh and 

 beautiful, its brilliancy appealed to the 

 uninitiated and it sold without recom- 

 mendation. 



Dards had nothing left Sunday; his 

 stock was superb. A load of Crimson 

 Eamblers worth from .$5 to $25 each left 

 outside for display Saturday morning 

 was gone in an hour. The new store of 

 this firm will be occupied by Mr. Dards 

 May 1. It -will be "one of the finest." 

 Siebrecht reports a tremendous Easter as 

 usual. All the standard Easter plants 

 were abundant; a novelty, tree snowballs 

 sold rapidly. The Rosary had a wonder- 

 ful display; specimens of azaleas un- 

 rivaled in size and perfection. Begonia 



