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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mat 15. 1902 



of Brother Beneke's at Asheville, or is 

 ready to bowl any one on New York al- 

 leys who is a member of any reputable 

 florists' bowling club in the country. 



The three best games rolled Monday 

 afternoon follow: 



Capt. Lang ICO 166 ISO 



Burns 157 ISl ISl 



Siebreobt 141 142 17.1 



ButterUeld 136 14S 151 



AUSTIN. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market continues quiet. 

 The cool weather improved the quanty 

 and cut down the quantity of stock com- 

 ing from greenhouses and decidedly in- 

 terfered with outdoor flowers. Prices are 

 unchanged, except for an occasional weak- 

 ness somewhere on the list. A good deal 

 of stuff is consumed at pretty fair prices, 

 and there seems good reason to believe 

 that we shall have at least three weeks of 

 brisk business before the season closes. 

 Beauties are fine and plentiful; carna- 

 tions are plentiful; sweet peas from in- 

 side are gradually falling off; lilacs are 

 nearly over. 



Plants. 



The bedding out trade received a check 

 when the mercury unexpectedly dropped 

 close to the freezing point on the very 

 morning (May 10) which the authorities 

 have agreed to be absolutely safe from 

 frost hereabout. Most of the plants set 

 out are at purchaser's risk, the wary 

 florists having filled very few of the beds 

 and boxes intrusted to their care. 



Bulbs. 



A small army of salesmen from Hol- 

 land has left our shores, homeward bound. 

 They report business satisfactory, about 

 the same as last year in the east, with an 

 increase in the west. The (juantity of 

 bulbs consumed in this country is stead- 

 ily growing, but the production, especial- 

 ly in the south, diverts part of this in- 

 crease of business from foreign to do- 

 mestic channels. This is especially true 

 of single daffodils, which are being ex- 

 tensively grown near Petersburg, Va. 

 The American buyers are taking more 

 high grade hyacinths, although the fancy 

 grades still go to Germany. The price 

 of nearly all scarlet tulips has been ad- 

 vanced, owing to the English demand for 

 this color for bedding. Chicago is order- 

 ing more Murillo tulips than in the past. 

 La Beine seems to hold its popularity 

 everywhere. The local wholesalers have 

 noticed a great falling off in the demand 

 for bulbous stock, both for in and out of 

 town orders, indicating partly a falling 

 off in popular taste for these flowers, but 

 chiefly that every one with greenhouse fa- 

 cilities is growing them. 



Notes. 



Randolph & McClements, of Pittsburg, 

 who received twenty-five hundred long- 

 stemmed American Beauty roses in one 

 order from this city last week, have writ- 

 ten the shipper, Samuel S. Pennock, a 

 handsome letter on the quality of the 

 stock sent. 



The local demand last week was quick- 

 ened by the offerings sent to the members 

 of the Savoy Dramatic Company, an ama- 

 teur organization, which gave two per- 

 formances at the Broad Street Theater. 

 Beauties and lilacs were the principal 

 flowers used. 



H. H. Battles made effective brides- 

 maids' bouquets with pink blooms of Hy- 



drangea Otaksa for a fashionable wed- 

 ding. 



Edward Eeid has been away for a few 

 days on a business trip. 



Hermann Schoenfeld has been very 

 busy with funeral orders. 



Mrs. Plender seems to grow all her own 

 roses. 



Caspar and George L. Pennock are cut- 

 ting some fine Golden Gates. 



Prof. Stewardson Brown delivered an 

 address on the effect of environment on 

 plants before the Gerraantown Horticul- 

 tural Society on Monday evening. E. C. 

 Jellett and George Redles collected and 

 described varieties of wild flowers. 



Thursday (the day this issue is mailed) 

 is Bowlers' Day at Essington. In the 

 afternoon a great baseball game, florists 

 versus all comers, to give the vanquished 

 clubs a chance, and in the evening a shad 

 dinner, with the presentation of the 

 league's bowling trophy to Captain Moss 

 and his victorious team. Phil. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Conditions are probably a shade bet- 

 ter than last week, except as regards 

 lilac and other outdoor flowers. The 

 dealers are literally buried in lilac and 

 seem unable to move enough to make any 

 impression on the immense receipts. It 

 is doubtful if the express charges are 

 realized on much of it. 



The cooler weather has somewhat re- 

 duced the cut of roses and the quality 

 probably averages a shade better, but 

 the great bulk of the stock is poor, much 

 of it showing the effect of thrips, as 

 well as being soft. Prices are practi- 

 cally the same as last week. In the 

 lower grade stuff the counting is done 

 very liberally, and the hundreds are of 

 generous size to a good customer. 



Carnations are about as plentiful as 

 last week and about as cheap. At the 

 same time prices are undoubtedly better 

 than they were at this time last year. 



In the outdoor stuff pa!onies are in 

 best demand and some very good flowers 

 are seen, which sell at 50 to 75 cents a 

 dozen. 



Some very good longiflorum lilies are 

 now coming in. They are large and have 

 excellent substance. 



Various Items. 



At the regular meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Club, held Wednesday evening, 

 "Garden Plants and Planting" was the 

 subject for discussion, and cash gratui- 

 ties were offered for meritorious exhib- 

 its. 



A committee from the Wholesalers' 

 Association has conferred with Superin- 

 tendent Cooley of the public schools re- 

 garding the order forbidding the use of 

 (lowers at commencement exercises. It 

 would seem that the best way to accom- 

 plish anything is for the retail florists 

 to get customers who use flowers to send 

 protests to the Board of Education 

 against the rule noted. If every retailer 

 would induce one or more of his cus- 

 tomers to send a letter of protest to the 

 board it would have a decided effect. 

 Now is the time to act. 



A. C. Brown, the florist of Springfield, 

 III., who is a fine golf player, will play 

 in the open tournament for all amateur 

 golf players in the United States that 

 opened at Wlieaton this Wednesday. 



John Bertermann, of Indianapolis, 

 passed through the city Tuesday on his 



nay to California, to bring home his 

 brother, W. G. Bertermann, who has been 

 confined to his bed for the past three 

 weeks. 



Bassett & Washburn are cutting some 

 fine blooms of Lilium longiflorum gigan- 

 teum, which they find to be the finest 

 summer lily, though it cannot be forced 

 as early as Easter. The blooms are large, 

 have much substance, are carried more 

 erect than those of the type and the 

 stem is suffused with brown. This sort 

 has been entirely free from disease. 



Mr. F. D. Kennison, superintendent of 

 the greenhouses of the Iowa Seed Co., 

 Des Moines, la., was a visitor Monday. 

 He was on his way east and will be away 

 from home about three weeks. 



At Lincoln Park the tulips are past 

 their best, and some of the hyacinth beds 

 have been replanted with stocks. In the 

 hardy garden colonies of poet's narcis- 

 sus and jonquils adjoining the shrubs 

 have been very effective. The native 

 phlox is in bloom, the trilliums are show- 

 ing white under the shrubs and the 

 greens and browns of the rapidly grow- 

 ing herbaceous plants make a beautiful 

 study in color tones. The lilac buds are 

 beginning to show color, but owing to 

 the cool weather the leaves on the trees 

 are not yet fully developed, though a 

 few warm days would complete their 

 unfolding. 



Peter Beinberg is receiving some fine 

 SAveet peas from the New Castle estab- 

 lishment. 



Weber Bros, are sending some excel- 

 lent Bridesmaids to J. A. Budlong. 



Recent visitors: J. A. Evans, Rich- 

 mond, Ind. ; Aug. Dresel, Crovra Point, 

 Ind. 



BOSTON. 



TheMarket- 



If flowers grew on trees like apples, 

 and all the growers climbed up and shook 

 each limb, they could hardly be more 

 plentiful here than most seasonable kinds 

 were last week. Violets are not shower- 

 ing so voluminously, but I hear of no un- 

 supplicd demands for them. Bulb goods 

 can hardly be classed as seasonable. 

 Enormous sales especially of roses and 

 carnations are being made at all kinds of 

 prices, from fairly good to ridiculously 

 small, and I presume it is to be feared 

 "the end is not yet!" 



Best Beauties still bring $4.00 per doz- 

 en. Liberties limit at $1.50, very few 

 piuk and white ones bringing over $1.00. 

 Carrots are coming very good and quite 

 a few K.Tiserins are around looking up a 

 later ruErket for the main crop of them. 

 No mr.ttei how good they may be, they 

 will not readily sell so long as the Bride 

 holds fairly good. Have not seen a de- 

 cent Jacque for a week or so. Was not 

 their season a short one this year? 

 &c. 



With the change of Summer street 

 from a leading wholesale street to a sup- 

 posed-to-be leading retail street a couple 

 of years ago, on account of the opening 

 of the Terminal Station, there was quite 

 a movement among the florists for stores 

 in that section. High rents froze out 

 most aspirants, and while there is no tes- 

 timony against the prosperity of the few 

 florists who did start either stores or 

 street stands, it develops that those who 

 started larger stores in other lines of 

 work have not done the business expect- 

 ed. Probably lucky no one tried floristry 

 on a very heavy scale. 



