June 12. 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



73 



Floral Store of J. C. Schmidt, Berlin, Germany. 



blooms, $1.50 to $2. Some of the latter, 

 when two or three days old, are retailed 

 on the street at 10 cents per doz. Vallej* 

 is good and very plentiful. Price ranges 

 from $2 to $4 per 100. Greens are mov- 

 ing very slowly, especially smilax, which 

 brings $12.50 "to $15 per 100 strings. 



Notes. 



The great annual tearing out and re- 

 planting of rose houses has begun, many 

 of the growers preferring to make a good 

 start for next season, rather than put 

 more time on stock that is exhausted. 



Adolph Fahrenwald, of Hillside, will 

 j)lant three houses with Liberty this sea- 

 son. The rose cup that he won at the 

 Xew York show may be seen in the 

 trophy case in the club room. 



John Holt, late manager for ilrs. A. 

 M. Baumann, has purchased the plant of 

 Dr. E. L. German at North Wales, con- 

 taining five or six greenhouses devoted 

 to tomatoes. Mr. Holt will put the place 

 in good shape and will grow a miscel- 

 laneous collection of plants, chiefly for 

 the North Wales and Ambler markets. 



Mrs. Plender will sail for Europe June 

 19. 



Charles B. Stahl figured prominently 

 in two events last week — one sad, the 

 other happy. He was sUghtly hurt in a 

 runaway accident on South street bridge; 

 later he was married. 



Fred. Ehret and Rupert Kienle ^-ill 

 sail for Europe June 21. 



Edward Keid has a very comprehensive 

 telegraphic code of his own invention 

 which his customers have used success- 

 fully for several years. This code is 

 copyrighted ; by its aid a dispatch of five 

 or six words will order several good- 

 sized boxes of flowers. 



The June meeting of the Germantown 

 Horticultural Society was addressed by 

 Albert Woltemate on Monday evening. 



Niermann & De Buys, 1619 Xorfh 5th 

 street, have gone into the manufacture 

 and sale of artificial plants. Phil. 



IN BERLIN. 



We present herewith two interesting 

 pictures we have reproduced from Moel- 

 ler's Deutsche Gaertner Zeitung. One 

 gives a view in the flower market hall, 

 where immense quantities of flowers and 



plants are disposed of daily, and the 

 other shows the exterior and display win- 

 dow of one of the leading retail florists 

 of the great German city. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



There is rather more business than 

 usual at this time of year and much 

 more than the usual supply of material 

 for it, so if there is a gain for anyone 

 it would seem to go to the retailer. The 

 demand seems to be for best material 

 obtainable, indicating wedding affairs, 

 and keeping fairly good prices upon Al 

 goods, while poor material generally goes 

 at a very low figure. 



There is a feeling of a coming lull 

 in so heavy a cut which may materialize 

 even before this meets your eye, espe- 

 cially since there is an unseasonable 

 change in the weather. It is not often 

 that floral prices and the thermometer 

 drop at the same time, but it was so in 

 this ease. 



Lilies, the only scarce item at Memorial 

 day, are now even more plentiful than 

 anything else and can be bought any- 

 where from 4 to 8 cents. Roses are de- 

 manding anywhere from % cent up to 

 8 or perhaps 10 cents except in the case 

 of Beauties, where the limit is 25 cents. 

 Pinks being at % cent also, for quite 

 good ones, and barely arrive at 3 

 cents for very fancy. Spirea is the 

 only plentiful fine white, and there is 

 not a large variety just now to be found. 

 Sweet peas are not so plentiful as they 

 were, not so good in quality and lower 

 in price. 



G. W. Ayer. of Wilmington, deserves 

 the credit of bringing in the first asters 

 of the season — two. 



Ru-nors. 



The Waban Rose Co. 's employes have 

 formed a base ball team which hereby 

 challenges any other floral team of New 

 England. Dell Cartwright is pitcher, 

 and Robert Dunn manager. ' ' Those who 

 live in glass houses must not throw 

 stones"; but this, perhaps, need not ap- 

 ply to those who earn a living in glass 

 houses not throwing base balls. 



There is a livelv Kttle vendetta started 



in the Italian branch of our street trade. 

 "Mike Italy" accused "Macaroni" of 

 ' ' pinching ' ' flowers. Macaroni struck 

 Mr. Italy in the back of the neck and 

 "ran away to fight some other day!" 

 And Mike says Mac must fight some 

 other day, too. 



Elliott's salesman, Huston, must have 

 heard it was the proper thing to "dump" 

 a few roses, Su he dumped his whole 

 team into a trench where a gang of 

 Italians were laying water pipes near 

 Galvin's Back Bay store. These same 

 laborers came in very handy to straighten 

 things up, too. " J. S. Manter. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market, 



Good roses are still short of- the de- 

 mand, and the best command $5 to $6 

 with some special selects reaching $7. 

 On the poorest the price reaches down 

 to $1, and they are to be had in great 

 quantities. Beauties are decidedly scarce 

 and the best bring $3 a dozen readily, 

 tlie shorter lengths grading down by the 

 usual scale. 



Carnations are more plentiful than 

 roses but there are none too many good 

 ones, especially in white, though there 

 are oceans of poor ones. The best are 

 quoted at $1 to $2 and from that down 

 to 10 cents a bunch for the "punk" 

 stock. 



Good pseonias are in good demand at 

 75 cents a bunch, but there is a lot of 

 poor stuff in the market that won't move 

 at any price. Some very good flowers 

 are seen, but it is certainly a fact that 

 pajonias have averaged poorer in quality 

 than in other years, which is undoubtedly 

 due to the violent fluctuations in tempera- 

 ture and hea^'y rains we have had this 

 spring. 



Lots of sweet peas are being received 

 and prices are moderate, 25 to 50 cents a 

 hundred being about the range for good 

 stock. 



Shipping demand continues satisfac- 

 tory for the season, and it is evident that 

 in other cities the school graduates are 

 receiving flowers as usual, and that the 

 annual crop of June weddings is being 

 reaped. 



New wood ferns from Michigan are 

 being received in quantity now and they 

 are improving in quality, being better 

 hardened up. 



Various Items. 



The regular meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held Wednesday evening. This 

 was the last one for the winter season, 

 and now come the summer outings. 



Fire destroyed a boiler shed ana broke 

 forty or fifty boxes of glass on the ad- 

 joining greenhouses at the establishment 

 of Peter Reinberg on Sunday. The origin 

 of the fire is unknown. It was a lively 

 one while it lasted. 



Hugh Woell, a shipping clerk at Bas- 

 sett & Washburn's, had his foot crushed 

 in the elevator last Saturday. He was 

 taken to the Alexian Brothers' Hospital, 

 and the results now promise to be less 

 serious than was at fii'st feared. 



Flint Kennieott's daughter graduated 

 from the Auditorium Conservatory of 

 Music last Tuesday night, and it is need- 

 less to say that this graduate received 

 an abundance of flowers. 



Wietor Bros, are cutting a lot of fine 

 Beauties from young plants in their early 

 planted houses. 



