April 10. 1902, 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



707 



Various Items. 



The entertainnierit tiiid ball of tbo 

 Florists' Club last Tuesday evcuiug was 

 a most enjoyable affair. The entertain- 

 ment program included several numbers 

 by the Armour's Mandolin Corps, char- 

 acter impersonations bj- Harry Brown, 

 recitation by Hugh Wood, club swinging 

 by Miss Enders, violin solos by Miss 

 Lauf, song, daace and dialogue by 

 Hoerschler Brothers and singing and 

 dancing by the very young Miss Lund, 

 .-it the conclusion of the entertainment 

 the prizes won in the bowling tournament 

 were presented to the winners by Mr. 

 Sanders. The floor was then cleared and 

 the grand march was lad by the ever 

 youthful Mr. Sanders and one of his 

 granddaughters. The music was excel- 

 lent, the floor in fine condition, and the 

 whirl of the light fantastic was kept up 

 till a late hour. 



Mr. L. Collins has leased the green- 

 liouses now conducted by Edwin Eagle at 

 Seventieth street and Adams avenue, near 

 Jackson Park, and will take possession 

 May ]. The houses will be thoroughly 

 overhauled and put in good shape for 

 growing stock for a retail business. 



Mr. C. L. Washburn left Monday for 

 North Carolina, where Mrs. Washburn 

 has been staying for some time past. 

 He will remain two weeks. 



Mrs. Horton is back at her desk at 

 Bassett & Washburn's, after a two weeks 

 illness. 



Mr. J. A. Budlong and his bicycle got 

 sandwiched in between a wagon and an 

 automobile last Monday-. The bicycle 

 had the breath knocked out of it, but 

 J. A. B. came np smiling. 



Bowlio^. 



Last Friday the Florists were up 

 against the strong Madison team and lost 

 three games in spite of some good scores. 

 Following are the scores: 



Jos. Foerster 170 ] 60 18.5 



P. J. Hauswirtb ]5» 158 102 



K. Stollery 188 186 187 



E. Wlnterson 135 199 1(H 



CiH.. Asmus 139 117 . . . 



C. Balluir 178 



701 820 036 



M-iOlsons 915 961 957 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions for March 30- April 5. 



The melancholy facts of the case are 

 that the rainy Saturday preceding Easter 

 Sunday interfered with trade of that 

 period more than I had time to ascer- 

 tain before writing in season for last 

 week's issue, and stock thus carried over 

 bothered this week 's product ; but surely 

 the retailers did a heavier business thia 

 past week than is usual for a week fol- 

 lowing a holiday and no one has any right 

 to complain under all the circumstances. 



Producers of red roses got hit the hard- 

 est, for two reasons. First, on account 

 of better keeping qualities of their goods 

 those left over from last week (and there 

 were many) were more in the way this 

 week and, again, there is an awful heavy 

 crop of all kinds of them now coming in. 

 American Beauties, Brunners, Liberties, 

 Meteors, Helen Gould and Jacks seem to 

 be striving to see which will arrive in 

 greatest numbers. With New York's as- 

 sistance the Beauty leads in numbers so 

 far and a large number of them are of a 

 large size. Jacqueminots are becoming 

 quite plentiful and are very good, indeed, 

 especially some of those from Elliott's 



houses, which beat anything I ever saw 

 -a their line. 



Good white pinks are not very plenti- 

 ful, but colored ones have gradually be- 

 come quite so. Violets are good prop- 

 erty, best ones Imngiug 75 cents per 100 

 and will probably go higher soon. Brides 

 and Maids are of course plentiful and 

 lilies never more so. 



All kinds of bulb material shortening 

 up and prices lengthening accordingly. 



Events. 



It is rumored that one or more mes- 

 sengers from one of the wholesale houses, 

 no one seems to know which, knocked over 

 a woman in their haste to reach a cer- 

 tain train in the North Station with a 

 large box of flowers on Easter Saturday, 

 and inflicted such injuries that .she has 

 since died. The only 'result so far is that 

 no one is now allowed to go through 

 the waiting room or to the train with 

 such boxes, but must come with them in 

 season to enter them properly at the ex- 

 press office, which will make quite a dif- 

 ference in shipping facilities. 



J. J. McCormack is bound to be always 

 at the front. He always leads-and some- 

 times where few will care to follow. Too 

 long ago to cause worriment now he came 

 into the Park street market one night 

 to use the 'phone, casually spoke of not 

 feeling very well, then went home and 

 had one of the most cunning little cases 

 of smallpox on record. It was such a 

 ladylike little case that he is neither 

 pitied nor pitted. 



W. H. Elliott, in concurrence with the 

 old adage that "Nothing succeeds like 

 success, ' ' has engaged the services of the 

 talented manager of the Exeter Rose 

 Conservatories, Mr. Robert Miller, to 

 grow American Beauty roses in his mam- 

 moth new New Hampshire plant. No one 

 else ever approached his success with that 

 variety in New England and it looks like 

 a good move on both sides. The transfer 

 of services takes place immediately. An- 

 other case of being faithful in a few 

 things and made master over many. 



Boston daily papers make much capi- 

 tal over the last meeting of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, when a vote was taken 

 upon the much-mooted question of a new 

 constitution for the organization which 

 should give more power to fewer mem- 

 bers. Each step in progress was fought 

 tooth and nail, and the two-thirds major- 

 ity necessary to install the new document 

 could not be found. J. S. Manter. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Trade since Easter has been very good 

 and everybody seems busy with some 

 kind of work. Quite a number of wed- 

 dings the past week kept the florists who 

 were fortunate enough to have the large 

 ones, very busy and lots of stock of all 

 kinds was used up. At one of these 

 weddings the flowers used were entirely 

 tulips and they made a pretty effect. A 

 few large weddings are on tap for this 

 an.i next week; these with the M. D. 

 graduation exercises will keep some of us 

 busy again for this week. 



Stock the past week was one day 

 plentiful and the next scarce, still in the 

 second grades stock is quite plentiful; 

 good firsts in roses are scarce. The 

 wholesalers report that shipping trade is 

 still good and quite a number of orders 

 have been received for stock of all kinds 

 since Easter. A few changes in quota- 

 tions were noted the past week and the 

 best Meteors,Brides, Maids and Gates are 

 sold from $5 to $6; seconds from $2 to 



.$4. Beauties are improving somewhat in 

 quality; firsts are still scarce at $3 and 

 $4 per doz. ; ,$2 for seconds and 60 cents 

 for tue short ones. 



Carnations have also come down in 

 price ; the best can now be had for $3 ; 

 the bulk go at $2 and some as low as 

 $1.50. The demand is still large for all 

 colors though white has the greatest call, 

 and of course, is always scarce when 

 needed the most. The quality of stock 

 that comes in is good, especially the 

 fancy. 



There is still a big lot of bulbous stuff 

 coming in; Dutch hyacinths, valley, Rom- 

 ans, daffodils and tulips are not much 

 looked for just now and the price is still 

 low. Harrisiis are more plentiful and 

 have a good call at present at $12.50, 

 but callas seem slow. Narcissus poeti- 

 iCus will no doubt be in this week from 

 the soutli. Sweet peas are a little slow 

 yet but will be more plentiful next week. 

 Violets are becoming scarce and will 

 soon be a thing of the past. All kinds 

 of green are selling well. 



At Union market all the plant stands 

 are doing a rushing business. Sanders, 

 Sehray and Young & Sons make a fine 

 display of all kinds of blooming plants 

 and report that trade is very satisfac- 

 tory. 



The nurserymen all report a fine busi- 

 ness in fruit, shade and ornamental trees; 

 also hardy shrubs of all kinds. 



The seedsmen report that their trade 

 in grass seed has been large; better than 

 last year, and from now on they will be 

 busy with flower and vegetable seed 

 trade. 



Everett Guy and H. S. Halstcdt of 

 Belleville were in town last week. Both 

 report a big Easter trade with them and 

 say the others were all satisfied with 

 their trade. 



Wm. Bouche, the landscape gardener, 

 has the contract for laying out the 

 grounds of the new country residence of 

 Mrs. Grace Van Studdiford, the famous 

 opera singer, which is situated a little . 

 west of the World's Fair grounds. The 

 cost of la.ving out this place will be 

 several hundred dollars. 



Should certain things come to a head 

 next week St. Louis will have the biggest 

 flower show ever held in the west, and th» 

 entire Exposition building, including thr 

 large coliseum, which is considered th' 

 largest building of its kind in the wcsv.. 

 ^\•ill be used and the prizes will be thf 

 largest ever offered, and no grower of any 

 importance will be able to resist the temp 

 tation of showing what he's got in St. 

 Louis. Those who are back of this say 

 St. Louis cannot afford to be outdone by 

 a small place like Kansas City. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers ^vere to have had a meet- 

 ing on Monday nigjit at the Grand Alleys, 

 but through some misunderstanding only 

 a few showed up. A meeting will be 

 called for next Monday night at the 

 Planters' Hotel Alleys at 8 o'clock shai-p, 

 and all those who have the welfare of 

 the club at heart will please attend so 

 the summer series of games can be start- 

 ed and make these our home alleys. A 

 list of prizes will be made up at this 

 meeting. This will be the only notice 

 bowlers will receive of tliis meeting. 



J. J. B. 



Cedak Rapids, Ia. — I. N. Kramer & 

 Son report Easter trade as good up to 9 

 o 'clock Easter morning, at which time 

 it was cut short by the sudden change in 

 weather. 



