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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



June 5, 1902. 



personally not an advocate for the 

 beauty side of it, it would be foolish to 

 let your prejudice interfere with good 

 business, so the writer has helped consid- 

 erably to disfigure — as some consider — 

 this lovely avenue. Now comes along 

 the progressive and energetic Commis- 

 sioner of Public Works and notifies 

 nearly all of them that the hedges are 

 not on their property, but a foot or 

 more on the public street. Its to be 

 hoped he will give these worthy people 

 till at least October when the removing 

 can be done with safety and with little 

 set back to the hedges, as they are all 

 of recent planting. 



I was up at the North Park green- 

 houses a few days ago. Capt. Braik, 

 Asst. Supt. of Parks, has an immense 

 stock of grand bedding plants. Never 

 saw better. And this assures us that our 

 parks and squares in appropriate jilaees 

 will be gay for the summer months. 

 The visit was specially made to inspect 

 a fine batch of herbaceous calceolarias, 

 well grown, broad, short plants, and 

 clean of all aphis. What a gorgeous, 

 gay, plant this is, and to those who do 

 not know it, it appeals as a wonder, but 

 it is really not a plant for the tlorist, 

 for however clean you may grow them, 

 and it takes a lot of growing, it will be- 

 come infested with aphis while you are 

 delivering and three days afterwards 

 Mrs. Grumble comes and says : ' ' Look 

 here, that lady slipper I bought here 

 three days ago is all covered with lice. 

 I wish you would send for it. ' ' But 

 with all that for the private conserva- 

 tory or Schenley Park, it is simply a 

 flood of beautiful colors. 



After an absence of eight months I 

 once again visited Prof. John F. Gow- 

 ell, director of South Park and the Bo- 

 tanic Gardens. What a magnificent 

 range of glass those <>onser\'atories are! 

 They appeared to me a little more im- 

 posing than ever, and when the fifty mil- 

 lion steel plant is completed and its 

 211,000 operatives are at work, and the 

 butcher and baker and doctor and under- 

 taker arrive also, it will be a city itself, 

 and South Park will not seem so remote 

 as it did five years ago. The way 

 palms and dracaenas and crotons and 

 all the rest have grown was very strik- 

 ing to me. In the very near future the 

 Professor will have specimen palms to 

 burn or barter. The big range is filled 

 and looking fine and I am glad to say 

 the people of Buffalo are awakening to 

 the fact that they have an educational 

 and interesting place in South Park. 



I would like to inform the florists of 

 Buffalo that the races at Fort Erie be- 

 gin next Monday and they must get 

 their orders out at least by 1 p. m. for 

 the next 2.5 days. ' ' Jake Hatch ' ' is fa- 

 vorite for the Canadian Derby. 



W. S. 



NEW YORK. 



The month of roses opens with real 

 summer temperature and the anticipated 

 dullness in the market. June weddings 

 are not materializing as rapidly as they 

 should. Remunerative decorations are 

 few and far between. The gardens are 

 planted. There isn 't much left but the 

 "races," and the bowling, and the con- 

 sideration of the trip to Asheville. The 

 sidewalk merchants are in their glory. 

 They buy their goods for a song and keep 

 the street corners radiant with color. 

 The green goods men seem to have 

 enough to do. The demand for wild 



srailax and leucothoe sprays has been 

 continuous. 



At the cut flower market the hour of 

 opening has been changed from 5 to 6 

 a. m., a sensible move. A business that 

 lasts from 5 a. m. until midnight is hard 

 enough anj'way. 



The American Eose Society will hold 

 its .June show on the 11th of the month 

 at the Botanical Garden, in connection 

 with the show of the New York Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



At Eiverton last week I saw Mr. Eisele 

 in the midst of an immense stretch of 

 pajonie blooms reaching about as far 

 away as the eye could grasp, and I no- 

 ticed the daily cutting was enormous, 

 overflowing the Philadelphia market and 

 finding its way to this city, where the 

 great shipments have been rapidly ab- 

 sorbed. 



.Julius Roehrs celebrated his silver 

 wedding last week, and bids fair to 

 last for the golden one. He has fully 

 recovered from his encounter with the 

 trolley car and is busy superintending 

 extensive additions and improvements to 

 his great plant at Carlton Hill. 



Some of the foreign "celebrities" are 

 leaving our shores this month. Dimmock 

 goes to London on the 14th ; Suzuki de- 

 parts on the lOrh for the Flowery King- 

 dom. John Degnan has shaken the dust 

 of New York from his feet, while Wil- 

 son, of Western Springs, is drinking 

 from some eastern springs around New 

 York and Boston. 



Runyon, of the Elizabeth Nursery Co., 

 ran away with a Holland nurseryman 

 last week, or his horse did, and would 

 Iirobably be running yet if a tree had 

 not intervened. The Hollander had an 

 eye and cheek cut and was otherwise 

 maltreated but the horse and driver 

 came out of the war unscathed. The 

 buggy was unrecognizable. 



Last Tuesday Wadley & Smythe deco- 

 rated the French steamship beautifully, 

 banking the three decks with palms and 

 bays and giving it a chfft-ming garden 

 effect that was much appreciated by the 

 distinguished visitors. The only flow- 

 ers used were American Beauties. At 

 the Newport luncheon, in the Casirili 

 rooms and grounds, in their honor, the 

 four tables were decorated with cut 

 flowers, hydrangeas. Liberty roses, lilacs, 

 white roses, the French colors, and the 

 walls and ceilings were covered with 

 the American and French flags. It was 

 a government affair and no expense was 

 spared in making it effective. 



The most charming feature of our 

 park at present is its wealth of wistaria 

 bloom. Nowhere in America can such 

 profusion of flower and such old and 

 spreading ^nnes be found. 



Decoration Day was ' ' an oasis in the 

 desert" this year, with grand weather, 

 smiling skies, and an enormous demand 

 for blooming plants and flowers. It was 

 estimated that over $100,000 worth of 

 these were used in New Y'ork alone. 



The nurserymen's convention at Mil- 

 waukee promises to be a banner assem- 

 bly. Next week Tuesday is the opening 

 day. From New York the D. L. and W. 

 seems to be the popular way of travel. 



Next Monday the regular monthly 

 meeting of the New York Florists' Club 

 will be held in the rooms of President 

 Sheridan on W. 28th street. A large 

 attendance is requested. Final arrange- 

 ments for the July outing will be com- 

 pleted, and exhibits of new plants and 

 flowers are expected. 



The bowlers feel the lassitude of hu- 



midity and few can be lured to the week- 

 ly practice. Perhaps it is because the 

 team is "on edge" and already "ready 

 for the fray. ' ' Capt. Lang would not 

 be so discourteous as to bowl a man who 

 is in the nervous condition of the young 

 and marriageable St. Louis captain, but 

 will tackle him at Asheville, when his 

 nerves are steady and he has the inspira- 

 tion of a wife's smiles to encourage him 

 in the hour of trial. Au.stin. 



PHILADELPHIA, 



Decoration Day. 



Memorial Day liusiness proved very 

 satisfactory. An immense quantity of 

 cut flowers, plants and florists' supplies 

 being consumed. Most of the dealers 

 were taxed to keep up with their orders 

 and some did fifty per cent more busi- 

 ness than last year. Prices did noH 

 advance ; there was too much stock for 

 that. Probably this was just as well, 

 quantity being wanted first, quality af- 

 ter. Outdoor flowers were in great de- 

 mand; pseonies moving at a lively rate; 

 also Japanese snow balls. Carnations 

 were good and plentiful ; the fancies 

 bringing $20 and $25 a thousand, a few 

 $3 a hundred ; the bulk of ,the stock 

 went at $10 to $15 a thousand. Roses, 

 valley and sweet peas sold well, the lat- 

 ter being reinforced by the outside va- 

 rieties. They averaged about 50 cents 

 a hundred, unless for something extra 

 fine. 



The cemetery florists experienced their 

 great day of the year. Westcott, Al- 

 burger and the others having more than 

 they could do. Roses in pots, geraniums 

 and anything adorned by a flower solil 

 readily at good prices. A great deal of 

 immortelle work was made up for Grand 

 Army Posts, Blester and Habermehl hav- 

 ing some especially large pieces. 



The supply houses experienced heavy 

 business. Bayersdorfer & Co. shipped 

 great quantifies of cycas leaves, metal 

 wreaths and baskets. Their wreaths 

 of natural magnolia foliage as well as 

 beech and laurel were much sought. Rice 

 & Co. note an increased demand for fan- 

 cy baskets in all styles and were exceed- 

 ingly busy distributing staple goods. 



The cut flower commission houses 

 worked far into the night every day 

 last week, and in some instance-s all 

 night. This week they are rushed with 

 wedding and commencement orders. 



Notes. 



Edwin Londsdale is cutting some 

 choice white paeonies that have brought 

 $2 a dozen ; the market price for fine 

 varieties is from $3 to $5 a hundred. 

 The name of this variety is not positively 

 known. 



John Savage is cutting out door sweet 

 peas in quantity. 



Hugh Walsh, a well known and re- 

 spected florist of Logan, is dead. The 

 business will be continued by his two 

 sons. 



Mrs. David Cliffe will carry on her 

 late husband 's business at Main and 

 Johnson streets, Gerniantown. 



Leo Niessen found Memorial Day 

 business better than last year. He had 

 as much as he could possibly do. 



A. J. Pennock is sending in some su- 

 perb valley to his brother. An idea of 

 the quality may be formed when the 

 price, $5 a hundred, is given. 



S. S. Pennock reports business as 50 

 per cent better than on this holiday last 



