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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Mat S, 1902. 



hold up their heads for eighteen and 

 twenty days. 



I forgot to say the temperature in 

 parlor averaged 4(5 degrees; no fire ex- 

 cept in hall, and partly dark room. Now 

 I think this a good record for bcth. 



W. T. HAIitlLTON. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cut-tlower market is quiet, with 

 considerable surplus stock on the street. 

 Sweet peas are moving well at from 50 

 cents to $1 per 100, the white and laven- 

 der bringing the latter price. Kaiserins 

 are becoming more plentiful ; they are 

 hardly so popular as Brides so long as 

 that variety is at its best, owing to 

 their bruising so easily. Beauties have 

 fallen a little more in price, the very best 

 bringing $2.50 to $3 per doz. Extra 

 long stems are more plentiful than 

 shorts, necessitating the use of the shears 

 at times. When the prices won't go up 

 the stems must come down. This rose 

 is remarkably good value now. Brides 

 and Maids bring $4 to $6. Carnations 

 are very hard to sell; a great many are 

 on the street; good stock brings $2; a 

 few Prosperity, $5. Lilacs are every- 

 where; 5 cents a bunch is the retail price 

 on the street, so the commission men 

 won't handle them. 



Notes. 



It is said that H. H. Battles is build- 

 ing a new greenhouse on his farm at 

 Newtown Square. 



Faxon G. James, of Eoxborough, has 

 earned a reputation for his California 

 violets the past season. They have been 

 going to Eugene Bernheimer and S. S. 

 Pennock. 



The Florists' Club meeting was held 

 on Tuesday evening in Horticultural 

 Hall. 



Frank Miles Day, the newly elected 

 member of the Germantown Hojtieul- 

 tural Society, has achieved a high repu- 

 tation as an architect, and his design has 

 lately been selected from those of many 

 competitors for the new Jlunicipal Hos- 

 pital in the District of Columbia, which 

 is to be the finest hospital in the coun- 

 try. His interest in floriculture is shown 

 by an Italian garden which he has con- 

 structed on his own place in German- 

 town, and which is much admired. 



"Waterficld & Eamsey have succeeded 

 John F. Duncan as owners of the Butler 

 place at AVyndmoor, ad.ioining Edwin 

 Lonsdale's. This place sent some very 

 good Maids to Edward Reid's during 

 the past season, equal to the best it was 

 said. 



It is with deep regret I chronicle the 

 sad accident to David Clift'e, of German- 

 town. He wore a pair of shoes with 

 nails through the inside and from this 

 came soreness in the foot that caused 

 gangrene, necessitating the removal of 

 one leg. His condition after the opera- 

 tion was so serious that grave apprehen- 

 sions are felt as to the result. Mr. Cliffe 

 is a well known retail florist, having 

 greenhouses and a store at Main and 

 Johnson streets, in a built up part of 

 Germantown. 



Wyndmoor, 



Myers & Samtman, jocosely styled the 

 amateur rose growers,' are building a very 

 fine American Beauty house. This house 



is being built opposite their present 

 range of houses at a slightly different 

 angle, it being 15 degrees east of south, 

 while the present range is 30 degrees 

 east of south. The new house will be 

 134 feet long by 86 feet wide and is 

 built in three sections, making virtually 

 three houses 134x28, open between. The 

 houses are 12 feet 9 inches high at the~ 

 ridge, even span, the roof bars being 

 at an angle of 35 degrees. The walls 

 are 8 feet high, supported by exception- 

 ally heavy cedar posts measuring fully 

 7 inches in diameter at the top. A row 

 of 2-inch iron posts supports the ridge; 

 two rows of 1-inch iron pipe support 

 the lower angle irons on each side, the 

 upper angle irons being braced by a 

 triangular arrangement reaching to and 

 braced by the ridge support. 'The vent- 

 ilators are 8 feet long by 3 feet wide. 

 The gutters are Lord & Burnham's new 

 improved style, very securely fastened 

 and firmly supported by iron posts set in 

 cement. There is a drip conductor on 

 the inside for the grooved bars and an 

 outlet every 30 feet so that a fall of 

 four inches in the whole length is 

 deemed ample. The first section is al- 

 ready nearly glazed, the glass (16x24) 

 being put in the 24-inch way. This is 

 the second time this has been done near 

 Philadelphia, the Floral Exchange place 

 at Edgely being the pioneers in this 

 line. 



The front and back walls have each 4 

 feet of glass surface, the glass in this 

 case being reversed and set the nar- 

 row way to strengthen the plates. The 

 ventilators will be worked by the Evans 

 Challenge machines. The lumber 

 throughout is of the very best, cypress 

 being used everywhere, even to the 

 benches. • The firm does not believe in 

 hemlock tables — they wear out too 

 quickly. The arrangement of space in- 

 side is excellent, economizing every inch 

 of room. There will be twelve tables, 

 each 5 feet wide, with walk around 

 the outside. This brings a bench next 

 each glitter support between sections and 

 a walk on the other side. Six thousand 

 Beauties will be planted in this new 

 range, or as many in the three sections 

 as in four of the present houses, a con- 

 siderable gain when cost and maintain- 

 ance are counted. A 100-horse power 

 return tubular boiler will be added to 

 reinforce the present heating force to 

 supply the steam needed. A very fine 

 lot of young Beauties are coming on in 

 small pots (about 30,000) ; about two- 

 thirds for own use, the other third for 

 selling. 



One cannot but be impressed by the 

 business methods shown by the firm. 

 The best of materials, every detail care- 

 fully considered, courage and ability 

 shown in growing a specialty, and the 

 care taken in marketing the product. 

 All important factors in achieving suc- 

 cess, Phil. 



BUFFALO. 



Nothing of a startling nature has oc- 

 curred within a few weeks. The prover- 

 bial April showers have extended into 

 May and vegetation is quite a few days 

 ahead of the average season. Either 

 business has been very good or the sup- 

 ply of flowers has been quite limited, for 

 there has been no surplus of flowers 

 either by the home producer or the sup- 

 jilv that is received dail.v by our whole- 

 saler, ilr, Kasting, and if everybody who 

 works for a day's wages rloesn't strike 



for higher pay we are likely to have 

 a prosperous spring. 



Carnations have never kept up their 

 price better than this year. Good roses 

 are not over plentiful and return prices 

 to the grower that must be profitable 

 for this time of year. Bulbous stuff 

 (that means flowers) that came in a 

 week or two before the outside grown 

 has been quite profitable. 



There is to be another store or two 

 in town. W. J. Palmer & Son will soon 

 have a branch store and it is the choice 

 of all locations, on the corner of Gen- 

 esee and Main, for many years the site 

 of the old Diehl drug store. You well 

 remember, brothers and sisters, the Pan- 

 Am, doctor-mayor of last year. A 

 handsome building will go up and part 

 of it will be occupied by W. J. P. & Son. 

 I admire "Billy's" pluck, energy and 

 industry. You have to trot pretty fast 

 to keep within speaking distance of him. 



The other establishment is a consum- 

 mated fact. The rather modest entrance 

 to our beautiful Forest Lawn Cemetery 

 on Main street was recently removed a 

 block south, and an attempt to make a 

 grand entrance was made. The location 

 and the surrounding grounds are very 

 fine, but the architecture of the building, 

 or gate, costing some $40,000, is horri- 

 ble. For an entrance to a convent or 

 quarantine hospital it would be good. 

 However, thei'e is no accounting for 

 what a dozen wealthy gentlemen will do. 

 One has made his fortune as a dry goods 

 merchant, another with feeling your 

 pulse or looking at your tongue, another 

 handled grain, another had a wealthy 

 grandmother, but they are all leading 

 citizens and of course they know, I 

 don't suppose there is a leading ceme- 

 tery in this great country that is so ab- 

 solutely run by one man power as this 

 Forest Lawn, and the man is George 

 Troup, and if they had left the depart- 

 ment of architecture to him as they 

 leave everything else, the whole thinking 

 and observing part of our city would 

 feel better. It looks now as if the 

 money ran out and it was waiting for 

 next year's appropriation, like a govern- 

 ment breakwater. 



Near this entrance on Main street Mr. 

 George Troup has opened for his sons 

 a nice office for the sale of plants and 

 flowers and ineidentallv every other busi- 

 ness that should drift his way. Mrs. 

 David Newlands, mjiiiy years established, 

 is about as near the entrance on Dela- 

 van avenue, but there is room for all 

 in this fast developing country. 



A very sad accident occurred on the 

 Saturday before Easter which I had 

 not thought (or had not time) previously 

 to report. Mrs. Kloko, a widow florist 

 of the West Side, hired a man (with 

 his wagon), and he was a good gardener 

 at that, to deliver her orders. All went 

 right up to 5 p, m„ when he went off 

 with another load. No word was heard 

 from him till early the next morning, 

 when it was found that the man, horse 

 iind wagon, had been pulled out of the 

 Erie canal at 10 p, m, the night before, 

 everything drowned except the wagon, 

 and no accounting for the sad accident, 



W, S. 



Washington, D, C, — The Department 

 of Agriculture has imported from China 

 a species of lady bug that has a particu- 

 lar fondness for the San Jose scale, and 

 now has quite a family of them. They 

 will be disseminated in seale-infeste<i 

 districts soon. 



