April 3, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



67J 



View in George Craig's, Philadelphia, at Easter. 



Gloire de Lorraine, gardenias in pots, 

 double flowering cherry and a tine supply 

 of the new azalea, "Haerensiana," 

 crowded the store to the doors and the 

 sidewalk also, where Japanese maples 

 abounded. 



To refer to every store would savor of 

 repetition. MeConnell's branch was a 

 gorgeous sight. Never had he such an 

 Easter; his pockets were bulging with 

 orders and "green goods" and his face 

 indicated a return to the good health he 

 deserves. Warendorfif's birdnests, Easter 

 egg baskets and greenhouse boxes were 

 decided novelties. Wadley & Smythe sold 

 out completely Sunday. Baskets of moss 

 roses were one of their prettiest window 

 effects, while great mounds of lilies and 

 Crimson Eamblers within made their 

 handsome store exceedingly attractive. 

 Mr. Robert Macmillan, one of our most 

 popular gardeners east, is now in charge 

 of their landscape department. At 

 Small's banks of lilies reached to the 

 ceiling and completely filled one of the 

 immense windows. All through them 

 were electric lights. The other window 

 and the side walls were a mass of color. 

 Curtains of asparagus and electricity 

 completed the picture. 



Notes. 



The Florists' Club's monthly meeting 

 next Monday promises much of interest. 

 Trade exhibit decisions will be made; 

 S. A. F. matters will be considered, and 

 progress concerning the fall exhibition 

 will be reported. The trip to Asheville 

 begins to "simmer" in the minds of 

 many. The best route 'is an important 

 factor; the desire for a chartered boat, 

 which the Clyde line would be glad to 

 supply, has been expressed by many. 



The bowlers are showing remarkable 

 skill of late. Flatbush, too, is winning 

 laurels outside of the trade. 



The usual opportunity to growers of 

 placing their stock around Union Square 



the Saturday before Easter, for sale to 

 the public, was taken advantage of this 

 year by a host of Jerseymen, who before 

 noon had sold out at good prices. 



Austin. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Easter Trade. 



Easter trade was fully up to the ex- 

 pectations of nearly all tiorists. All of 

 the past week the weather was favor- 

 able to the buyers of plants. Most of 

 the orders for cut tlowers came in Satur- 

 day, which, of course, was a busy day, 

 many being compelled to remain at their 

 stores from early Saturday morning until 

 late Sunday evening, and of course the 

 usual batch of funeral work came in just 

 at the busy time. 



The floral displays in some of the flor- 

 ists' windows in the West End were of 

 the highest order. Waldbart on Grand 

 avenue had a magnificent display of all 

 kinds of blooming plants, which sold at 

 top prices, with demand great. Mrs. Ay- 

 ers, Ellison & Tesson and Mary Oster- 

 tag, on the same street, also made grand 

 displays and had on sale plants and cut 

 flowers of the highest order. Fred Weber, 

 Miss Newman, Theo. Miller and Kalisch 

 had a tine trade in cut flowers and plants. 

 Their display of Easter stock was fine. 

 C. C. Sanders also had a good sale on 

 cut stuff and plants. C. Young & Sons 

 Co. had their large store profusely deco- 

 rated with fine flowering plants of all 

 kinds. Trade was good all of the past 

 week with them. Riessen Floral Co. on 

 Broadway had a fine display in both of 

 their stores. Harrisiis, palms, hydrangeas, 

 callas, ferns and bulb stock in pans and 

 a fine assortment of cut flowers made a 

 most attractive decoration. The South 

 End florists report a great plant sale. 

 Schray, Beyer, Fillmore, Kruse and Brue- 

 nig are more than pleased with their 



Easter trade. Cut flowers also had a 

 good sale with them. All of the above 

 are well cleaned out of Easter stock. 

 Eggeling Floral Co. on South Grand 

 avenue made a fine display of Easter 

 plants of all kinds and cut flower trade 

 was fully up to their expectations. 



The stock that came at the wholesale 

 houses was fairly good and quite plenti- 

 ful. Good firsts in roses were scarce, but 

 a great many seconds came in which 

 should have been cut three days before, 

 and would have brought a better price 

 then. But then this is always the case 

 on days like this. They hold them back 

 for better prices which they never get, 

 but they don't seem to learn. Carna- 

 tions were not plentiful and all sold well 

 ana at good prices. Quite a lot of fancy 

 stuff brought as much as at Christmas, 

 and none sold lower than $3 per 100. I 

 think a great mistake is made by some 

 of our commission men in selling carna- 

 tions in thousand lots on a day like East- 

 er, when one man gets all at $1.50 per 

 100 in order to undersell his neighbor. 

 When others come who are willing to 

 pay 3 cents for the same stuff it is all 

 sold. This is not a fair deal to his ship- 

 pers, and the sooner the growers find this 

 out the better it will be for them finan- 

 cially. 



Violets were not so plentiful as was 

 expected and not half enough came, in 

 to supply the demand. Harrisiis were 

 scarce, both cut blooms and plants; quite 

 a lot of callas were in, which sold well. 

 Other bulb stuff was very plentiful; val- 

 ley was fine and sold well ; also Romans, 

 Dutch hyacinths and daffodils, but in 

 tulips the colored stuff went to the dump 

 pile and only the lighter shades sold well. 

 More of this stock came in than the de- 

 mand warranted and quite a lot was left 

 over after the rush at the commission 

 houses. 



All the above stock was sold at the 



