Mat 22. VMl 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



911 



Jlemorial Day. The price is about lo 

 <cnts. Eugene Berulieimer is handling 

 it in quantity. He is also receiving short 

 stemmed white carnations, not often seen 

 in the wholesale market now. They have 

 been wanted for funeral work. 



Germantown. 



The death of David (Jliffe has removed 

 from our midst a prominent tigure in 

 the horticultural world. Mr. Clitfe was 

 born in England about GO years ago. 

 He came to this country aljout ISiO, 

 starting a florist business at Danville. 

 Ke came to this city in the early eighties 

 iind had liveil here sinee, making a num- 

 ber of visits to England uuring that 

 lime. He was at first foreman for Mil- 

 ler & Hayes, Mt. Airy, and a year or 



bad, ' ' she said, ' ' we have sent iladame 

 no tlowers. She has sung delight- 

 fully to help our charity without recom- 

 pense, and we certainly ought to show 

 our appreciation. ' ' The other lady ross 

 instantly — ' ' We have fifteen minutes 

 left," she answered, "I will see what 

 can be done. ' ' She went to her flower 

 shop two squares away, the clerks were 

 all busy waiting on customers. ' ' Can I 

 have a bunch of flowers at the Garrick 

 Theater in five minutes, or must I go to 

 another shop?" In an instant everyone 

 was tiying about seizing this and that, 

 and in less than four minutes Madame 



was bowing over a great bouquet 



of flowers, while the audience clapped 

 enthusiastically. 



Thursday, the 1.5tli, was a great day 



Pilogyne Suavis as a Veranda Vine, Residence of S. A. Powers, Angola, Ind. 



so later started business for himself at 

 JIain and Johnson streets, where he 

 totducted a general busin&ss. He had 

 a store and about ten greenhouses. His 

 •chrysanthemums and bedding plants were 

 features. Mr. Cliffe was twice married. 

 Tlir«e sons and a wiilow survive him. 



Notes. 



Leo Xiessen has been receiving some 

 fine pajonias; he expects to make a spe- 

 cialty of these flowers for Memorial Day. 



Philadelphia leads the country in her 

 florists' supply industry. The two great 

 local houses are splendidly equipped for 

 a record-breaking Jlemorial Day busi- 

 ness. 



John Burton jjas his new Meteor house 

 ready for glazing. It adjoins the six 

 liouses on his new place, being much like 

 them in style and construction, a differ- 

 ence is that the 16x24 inch glass is put 

 in the wide way. Sweet peas grown be- 

 tween the houses are looking well. 



Edward Reid has returned from a short 

 business trip much gratified by the glad 

 liand and cheery welcome received every- 

 where. He has heav}' advance orders for 

 •carnations for Memorial Day. 



It is stated with good authority that 

 Fred Ehret, the well-known up town 

 wholesaler, has been interviewing agents 

 •of the steamship companies with the ob- 

 ject of a holiday trip abroad. Another 

 well-known person in the wholesale world, 

 whose name is withheld for the present, 

 will sail for Hamburg about the middle 

 of June. 



The Garrick Theater was crowded, the 

 piece was nearly done, when one lady 

 leaned over to her neighbor — "It is too 



at Essington. There was a great base 

 ball game, the result of which will not 

 interest our readers, and a great planked 

 shad dinner, enjoyed by fifty guests. 

 The trophy was presented to our bowling 

 team, and evervone enjoyed himself. 



Phil. 



PILOGYNE SUAVIS. 



AVe notice in your issue of May 8 an 

 article in regard to annual vines and re- 

 ferring to Pilogyne suavis. We have 

 grown this vine for twenty years ant! 

 regard it the prettiest, cleanest vine for 

 verandas in cultivation. Our experience 

 with the vine requires us to start cut- 

 tings of it in the fall and shift to 4-inch 

 pots by this time of year. We set these 

 vines about five feet apart around ve- 

 randa, after preparing a rich, deep bed 

 in which to set plants. We run strings 

 of common twine up and down six inches 

 apart, and then the same crossways six 

 inches apart, and these vines will, in a 

 short time, when well grown, completely 

 cover a reratlda. 



The leaves are the prettiest green im- 

 aginable, delicate, always healthy and 

 never become injured or of a dirty color 

 like some vines. They can be trained any 

 place, and where trained over arches or 

 approaches to veranda they will hang in 

 festoons beautifully. The flowers are 

 very small and ripen into red berries or 

 seed pods late in the season. They will 

 grow l!o feet high. During the hot weath- 

 er they need a large amount of water to 

 produce the best results. We never have 

 had so good success with plants of this 

 vino propagated after the firet of Janu- 



ary as with cuttings made the last of Oc- 

 tober or early in Xovember before frost. 

 Powers & Johnson, Florists. 

 Angola, Ind. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market- 

 Last Sunday was the hottest day so 

 far this year and Monday and Tuesday 

 were nearly as hot. It has been a ' ' hot 

 time" for this time of the year and no 

 mistake. One of the results was that 

 the receipts of flowers on» Monday and 

 Tuesday were enormous and with the 

 increase in the supply came a decided 

 lessening in the demand, as has been the 

 contrary habit of the market since there 

 was any. And, of course, the quality 

 showed the effects of the unseasonable 

 roasting the plants had been subjected 

 to. On Tuesday there was a great ac- 

 cumulation of all kinds of stock in all 

 the wholesale establishments and sales 

 were exasperatingh' slow. 



As to prices, select shipping grade 

 roses are held at $4 to .$.5 while on the 

 poorer grades the rate fades down to the 

 vanishing point. On good carnations 

 $1..50 is the top, with probably a few 

 fancies reaching $2, and then down to 

 10 cents a bunch of 25 or less. 

 Beauties have been in oversupply, too, 

 and we hear of sales of long stemmed 

 flowers being made at ridiculously low 

 rates. Of course, the great bulk of all 

 the stock is soft and off cualitj- — owing 

 to the heat, and a bargain is not al- 

 ways a bargain when you reach your 

 store with the goods. Some shipped-iu 

 Beauties that reached one wholesaler 

 Tuesday morning were wide open in the 

 box. 



If present conditions continue there 

 will be an abundant supply for Decora- 

 tion Day; but the quality will be far 

 from what it should be. If a cold wave 

 should happen along the chances are, 

 that a serious scarcity would result. The 

 weather man tells us we may expect cool- 

 er weather, but that there is no cold 

 wave in sight. If we should be favored 

 with really seasonable weather from now 

 on, the chances are good for a satisfac- 

 tory supply of fairly good quality. It's 

 up to the weather. 



Anyway, there will be a satisfactory 

 supply of paeonies as there is a good lot 

 of them in cold storage that will be just 

 right and these will not be affected by 

 the weather. 



Various Items. 



N. Wietor has returned from a fishing 

 exjjedition to Fox Lake. He caught pick- 

 erel and bass the first liay, bass and pick- 

 erel the second day, and pickerel and 

 bass the third day, and so on. 



John Degnan, of the McKellar & Win- 

 tersou Co., left JEonday on a business 

 trip to New York. 



L. P. Kelly has opened a store at 521 

 West Taylor street. 



John Mangel is making a fine display 

 at his new store. The decorative possi- 

 bilities of the location are most fully 

 taken advantage of. 



P. J. Hauswirth had a large decoration 

 Tuesday and was a large buyer in the 

 market at a time when large buyers 

 were very welcome. 



A joint comnuttee representing the 

 Wholesalers' and Retailers' Associations 

 will appear before the Board of Educa- 

 tion this Thursday afternoon and en- 

 deavor to secui-e a reversal of the rule 

 forbidding the use of flowers at the com- 



