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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



APRIL :0. 1902. 



them blooinin' niggers always was care- 

 less Tvlien they started messin' around 

 with explosives." 



"What become o' Johnson?" asked 

 Tommy. 



Jaggs shook his head and paused to 

 load his pipe; then, whistling for Patches, 

 stepped out of the potting shed with the 

 air of one oppressed by sad memories. 



NEW YORK. 



The week following Easter is always 

 retrospective, with memories of weeks of 

 anxiety, days and nights of unceasing la- 

 bor, fears of losses through over-buying 

 or unpropitioiis weather and the final 

 thirty-six hours without rest or sleep. It 

 is no wonder so many feel the tension, 

 almost to the verge of nervous prostra- 

 tion, and when it's all over declare they 

 wish there never would come another Eas- 

 ter. But then comes the awakening to 

 new ambitions and the delightful exper- 

 ience of counting up the profits, a rest- 

 ful and soul-inspiring occasion that dis- 

 sipates the clouds and makes life worth 

 living after all. Such is the Easter of 

 1902, for every establishment, wholesale 

 and retail, it seems to me, in this great 

 city. 



This week's business has been corre- 

 spondingly dull ; the- weather unseasona- 

 ble, several days cold and rainy ; stock of 

 all kinds abundant and prices low. In 

 a word, one-half the rates of the last 

 few weeks prevail; the quoting of figures 

 seems unnecessary. Violets, the best, are 

 about the only flower maintaining the old 

 values; roses and carnations arc abund- 

 ant; lilies are down to $6 per 100; or- 

 chids are growing scarce; gardenias are 

 down to 10 cents; bulbous stock, sweet 

 peas and mignonette, too numerous to 

 mention. The day of the sidewalk mer- 

 chant has dawned and the persistency of 

 the foreign element is a nuisance so great 

 that one cannot but commend the restric- 

 tive system adopted in your own city 

 and wish for its counterpart here. 



The Liberty rose is asserting its right 

 to be called a good shipper, Mr. Alex. 

 McConnell sending some of this variety 

 to England. Sending roses to his native 

 land is becoming a habit with this gen- 

 tleman. He has sent many a box of 

 Beauties over the herring pond. 



Eobert Simpson, of Clifton, N. Y., de- 

 livered his lecture on roses last Saturday 

 before the Lenox Horticultural Society. 



On Wednesday of this week the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New York holds its 

 regular meeting at the American Insti- 

 tute rooms when Prof. Fernow, of Cor- 

 nell, will discourse on the "Difficulties at- 

 tending the introduction of forestry meth- 

 ods in the United States." Competitive 

 flower shows in the N. Y. Botanical Gar- 

 den will be held at the meetings in May 

 and June. 



Carl Jurgens, of Newport, and S. Gold- 

 ring, of Albany, were recent visitors. 



The announcement of the club meeting 

 of the N. Y. F. C. was premature in 

 our last. It will occur next Monday. 

 The afternoon will be devoted to bowling. 

 The scores made of late by the New York 

 experts seem monotonously near 200, but 

 they are correct. It looks as though New- 

 York would carry off about all the prizes 

 if present evidences of skill are a cri- 

 terion. 



The suit of Kudolph Asmus against the 

 Peerless Bubber Co. for damage result- 

 ing from soot settling on his glass from 

 the chimneys of the company, was on trial 



last week in the Hudson county court, 

 Jersey City. Many prominent members 

 of the trade were called to give evidence 

 as to the damage sustained. The defense 

 attempted to show no responsibility on 

 the part of the defendant company. 



Austin. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cold, rainy weather following Eas- 

 ter (fortunate indeed that it did not pro- 

 cede that great church festival) has kept 

 the supply of cut flowers down, so that 

 it has but slightly exceeded the demand. 

 Business was excellent throughout Easter 

 week and this week opened well both 

 locally and outside the city. 



'ihe chief event, florally speaking, was 

 the annual convening of city councils on 

 Monday, when an immense quantity of 

 bouquets, baskets and blooming plants 

 were gathered together within City Hall, 

 turning the coailcil chamber into a vast 

 flower garden. This occasion proved a 

 boom to the Beauty market, which with- 

 out such strong support would certainly 

 have broken badly. 



The special grade of this rose is com- 

 ing in so freely that the price has fallen 

 as low as $3 a dozen on some days. Of 

 course long Beauties at $3 are a sacrifice, 

 and $5 is nearer the average price. Tea 

 roses are good and hold up pretty well ; 

 .$S to $12 is asked, piuk being more plen- 

 tiful than white. Carnations bring $1.50 

 to $3 per 100 with Prosperity a lead- 

 ing fancy at $5 to $8. Violets are get- 

 ting scarcer and bring more money than 

 they often did in winter. Good singles 

 have gone as high as 50 cents a hundred, 

 and doubles 75 cents and $1. Sweet peas 

 are good and plentiful at 60 to 75 cents 

 per 100. Valley is in brisk demand, 

 lilies are not. Daffodils have fallen on 

 the street from 6 cents to 5 cents a 

 dozen! Smilax is the scarcest article on 

 the list. 



Notes. 



Edward Eeid is receiving from 5,000 

 to 8,000 fine sweet peas daily. 



Eugene Bernheimer is offering fine well 

 colored Jacqs with good foliage. 



H. E. Ford told the Florists' Club that 

 steel pipe is today better than iron pipe, 

 the latter having greatly deteriorated. 



The Conard & Jones Co. have an in- 

 teresting novelty in the climbing rose 

 Clothilde Soupert, which they believe will 

 make a worthy mate for their improved 

 Kambler. 



A friend of the Germantowu Horticul- 

 tural Society has offered a special prize 

 for the best 12 American Beauty roses, 

 stems not over 3 feet long, to be shown 

 next Monday evening, April 14, at Asso- 

 ciation Hall. A cordial invitation is ex- 

 tended to you all to be present. 



H. Weber & Son, Oakland, Md., are 

 shipping some fine Prosperity to Samuel 

 S. Pennock. 



Frankford. 



It is a relief in these daj's of special- 

 ists with their a«res of palms, of roses, 

 or of carnations, to turn to a good old 

 fashioned place where pretty much every- 

 tliing is grown, especially when they are 

 well grown. Such places are only possi- 

 ble in favored spots nowadays — oases in 

 the desert, so to speak, in the heart of 

 a growing town or at the gates of a 

 cemetery. 



Such a place is that of Julius Koehler 



& Son, Bridge street, Frankford, where 

 plants and cut flowers are grown, firstly 

 for the wholesale city trade, secondly 

 for the local retail trade, and thirdly for 

 a cerae.tery opposite. With three arrows 

 in their quiver thev are bound to hit the 

 mark. Eoses do well, the teas on benches 

 appeared freer than in solid beds. Car- 

 nations were thought less profitable, 

 though producing good flowers. Sweet 

 peas and mignonette are each given part 

 of a house; they look well. Heliotrope 

 in large pots is fine. A great many lilies 

 and hydrangeas were grown for Easter, 

 also some spira;a. Azaleas were thought 

 to take up too much rom. Only a few 

 of a dwarf variety being flowered. A good 

 many bulbs are forced, but they are not 

 considered as profitable as formerly. The 

 rest of the place contains a great vari- 

 ety of miscellaneous plants suitable for 

 giving a variety in cut flowers or in 

 planting beds or baskets. 



The Review's photographs of some of 

 the Philadelphia shops at Easter last 

 week were much appreciated. Phil. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



There is a large supply of all kinds of 

 stock except violets, and the demand is 

 light for everything except these and 

 wliite carnations. The supply of roses 

 is, in fact, somewhat unwieldy and on 

 Teas $() is practically the top figure, such 

 a few extras reaching $7 that they are 

 hardly worth meutioning. Good stock 

 sells at $4 to $o and the lower grades 

 are jobbed otr at most any old price. A 

 I <dean up sale of 10,000 roses last Sat- 

 1 urday was made at the rate of $6 a 

 thousand. The best Beauties are held at 

 $3 a dozen, and from that down to 25 

 cents for poor shorts. That there are 

 weak spots in the Beauty market is evi- 

 denced by the fact that very good Beau- 

 ties arc being retailed by some of the 

 Greeks at $3. 



In carnations, good commons sell at 

 $1 to $1.25; selects, at $1..50 to $2; fancy 

 at $2.50 to $3, and a very few specials 

 reach $4. Poor Tidals and Scotts and 

 similar stock are classed as weeds and 

 don't count. Carnations, though, seem 

 to be suffering less than roses. Each 

 spring as carnations get down to the 

 point where they can be retailed at 25 

 cents a dozen or less, the public takes 

 hold. 



There are piles of callas in the market 

 and they find few purchasers. At the 

 same time there are not many Harrisii 

 or longiflorum to be seen, though there 

 is a sutfieiency for the demand. There 

 are none too many good violets and first- 

 class ones bring $1. It looks as though 

 a good many violet houses had been 

 cleaned out after the Easter crop was 

 gathered. Bulbous flowers must have 

 been well cut out for Easter, for there 

 are not many in the market now, which is 

 fortunate. 



Shipping demand keeps up very well 

 under the circumstances and conditions 

 are very satisfactory for the season. Not 

 once this season have we had any of 

 the fearful gluts that were characteris- 

 tic of former years, and present condi- 

 tions are the nearest approach to them. 

 Local demand, however, is light, and 

 even the large call for stock incident to 

 the seating of the new city council last 

 Monday night made no great impression 

 on the market, though it was certainly a 

 great help. 



