June Ifi. I'jOi' 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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as usual, aud up to tbis date not half so 

 many paeonies, although there have been 

 as nif.ny of each as could comfortably be 

 maiketed. 



Not so many growers as usual have 

 thrown out their plants immediately af- 

 ter Memorial Day, which, of course, 

 helps Uiuch in keeping up the supply of 

 poorer grades of goods. Small white 

 flowers for filling funeral designs are 

 not so scarce. 



Notes. 



An item that particularly interests 

 rose growers Wilson and E. Montgomery 

 is tiie street railway connecting Wellesley 

 Hills and Worcester, making a continu- 

 ous route fiom Boston to Worcester, it 

 brings their places into the pale of civil- 

 ization. 



A deadlock is reported between Peun 

 and the builder who wants to tear down 

 his old store on Chapman place. Penn 

 asks $2,000 for his rights in thfe premises 

 and the builder offers less than half that 

 amoimt, and seems to be inclined to build 

 on a small scale at present rather than 

 submit. And the old buildings taken 

 down upon that fraction of the premises 

 were curiosities in the way of .complex 

 architecture. They were among some of 

 the oldest now standing in the city, and 

 the wonder is that they stood as long as 

 thev did. .J. 8. M.\nter. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market.' 



Business is falling off in the stores 

 although there are still some good or- 

 ders. Commencement flowers appear less 

 popular than in the past. Shipping trade 

 is still fair, on some days excellent. The 

 quality of flowers coming in is poorer, 

 especially in Brides and Maids. A greai 

 many sleepy carnations also appear; on? 

 lot received in the morning elicited an of- 

 fer of 25 cents per 100 from a fakir, 

 which was declined. They went to sleep 

 the same night and did not awaken. De- 

 spite these drawbacks there is still a 

 goodly array of really nice flowers which 

 bring satisfactory prices. 



Beauties and valley are in good supply 

 and sell freely; select, long-stemmed flow- 

 ers of the former bring from $1.50 to 

 $2.50, and a few $3 per dozen. One 

 dealer who receives great quantities of 

 this rose was even obliged to buy to fill 

 his orders this week. Valley brings 

 from $3 to $5 per 100 and is very fine. 

 S. S. Pennock received 6,000 Monday, 

 the bulk of it being quickly moved. 

 He is also handling a few cattleyas, 

 which bring 50 cents each. 



Tea roses range from $3 to $5 per 

 100 for the best; a very few bring high- 

 er prices. Carnations range from $1.50 

 per 100 downward for good ordinary 

 stock; $10 per 1000 will sometimes buy 

 a ver}- fair grade. Sweet peas are very 

 plentiful, except when it rains, and can 

 be had at low prices, say from 25 to 50 

 cents per 100. Double petunias are fair 

 sellers at about 50 cents per 100. Sniilax 

 is plentiful; 1'2V2 cents is about the 

 price. ■ 



Hillside. 



June is the least desirable month of 

 the tw-elve in which to visit the rose 

 growers. First, because at that season 

 there is little to see, and second, because 

 then ypu are fearfully pushed yourself. 

 But when vou are out for information 



yciu nuist make hay while the sun shines, 

 id est, go ^vhen you get the chance. So 

 on a hot afternoon a few days ago a 

 couple of florists journeyed to Hillside, 

 a little station some ten miles out ol 

 tow'n, where amidst the peace and quiet 

 of the country dwells the redoubtable 

 Adolph Fahrenwald. Now why, you ask, 

 did we want to see Mr. Fahrenwald, when 

 his houses were not yet in shape? Well, 

 you see, I was out for information and 

 1 wanted it from the man who a few 

 years ago was a small grower, "even 

 as you and 1," while to-day the leading 

 commission men of two great cities vie 

 with each other for the honor of dis- 

 tributing his product. 



Mr. Fahrenwald was at home and re- 

 ceived us cordially. After a little dis- 

 cussion on the 17-year locust, illustrated, 

 lie showed us his houses and boilers. 

 There are six houses, each 150 feet long, 

 three of which will be devoted to Lib- 

 erty and three to Beauty. So skillfully 

 have they been handled that the quan- 

 tity of high grade stock produced and re- 

 turns yielded stand as records in the 

 former rose if not in the latter. Now 

 for the ideas — Mr. Fahrenwald believes 

 Philadelphia ought to have a cut-flower 

 market, where supply and demand would 

 regulate' prices. He believes that the 

 stock should be sold out clean every 

 morning for as much as it will bring, and 

 handling, so expensive and ruinous to the 

 flowers, be avoided as far as possible. 

 The growers should carefully grade their 

 own stock and then it should be sold 

 right out of the supply boxes in the 

 market or commission house. 



Notes. 



J. L. Dillon, of Bloomsburg, has been 

 sending out some very fine young roses, 

 both on their own roots and grafted. 

 His varieties extend considerably beyond 

 the big four. 



J. Henry Bartram, of Lansdowne, is 

 erecting two new rose houses, 26 feet 

 wide, and a narrow propagating house. 



F. W. Whiteley, of Lansdowne, has 

 had a very satisfactory season. He will 

 discard tea roses and plant his five houses 

 entirely in American Beauties, 5,000 

 plants being used. The output is divided 

 between Leo Niessen and Edward Reid. 



Edward Towell, of Welldon, has haa 

 some fine roses this spring. Several 

 houses are already replanted; a house of 

 Liberty is still in good shape. 



E. G. Palmer, of Doylestown, the well 

 known expert grower of Brides and 

 Maids, will be married this month. 



John Westcott entertained a score of 

 friends at his club house at Barnegat, 

 last Saturday and Sunday. The fishing 

 season had hardly opened yet but the 

 sailing was glorious. 



Edward Eeid received an order for five 

 large boxes of flowers from the south 

 too late to reach its destination in time 

 by ordinary means. He promptly packed 

 the stuff, boarded a train for Baltimore, 

 and delivered the shipment in person on 

 board the boat, thus insuring its prompt 

 delivery within specified time. His cus- 

 tomer was greatly pleased. 



Samuel S. Pennock believes that the 

 interests of both buyers and sellers of 

 cut flowers will be greatly advanced when 

 the system of peddling is abolished. Too 

 many flowers are injured, even ruined, 

 by the grading and regracUng and pack- 

 ing and handling and repacking, which 

 this system entails. The probable effect, 

 Mr. Pennock thinks, would be better 



stock (less bruising) and greater satis- 

 faction, as the market conditions would 

 be more easily judged. Mr. Pennock is 

 not opposed to a co-operative market run 

 by the growers who now peddle their 

 stock, but thinks well of such a plan and 

 says he would make a point of being 

 represented there. He feels that such a 

 market would facilitate business and be- 

 come an aid rather than a rival of the 

 commission houses. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 <;-iety held its June meeting on Tuesday. 

 Sweet peas were a prominent feature. 

 The society 's professor of entomology 

 talked about the 17-year locust. 



A game of baseball. Growers vers\is 

 Pennocks, is on the schedule. 



Phil. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Market conditions have changed, but 

 little from last week. Shipping demand 

 holds up well and the greatest ditficulty 

 is to find sufficient stock of shipping 

 grade. The quality of all stock is still 

 depreciating and the great bulk of it is 

 poor indeed. There are practically no 

 good roses of any kind, and Beauties are 

 especially scarce. In tea roses the best 

 are so poor that they would be classed 

 as about No. 5 in the winter time. These 

 are quoted at $5 and $6 with an oc- 

 casional few good enough to reach $7. 

 The great bulk go at $2 to $3 and from 

 that down. 



Carnations also show the eft'ects of the 

 continued weather changes and really 

 good flowers are almost unobtainable. 

 The best are quoted at $1 to $2 and the 

 poorer qualities are jobbed oft' at any 

 old price, especially in color, whites holcl- 

 ing up best in demand and price. 



PiEonies are a big help now, and the 

 quality averages very good, the later 

 varieties seeming to have kept better in 

 cold storage than the earlier ones. 



There are more good longiflorum lilies 

 in the market than ever before at the 

 season and they are selling well. We 

 noted a few auratum at Kennicott Bros. 

 Co.'s. 



Gladioli are beginning to appear in 

 the market, but few seem to want them 

 and they move slowly. 



Sweet peas are arriving in quantity 

 but do not move as well as they should. 



Another w-eek will finish the school 

 closings and then we may look for sum- 

 mer dullness of a high carat. 



Various Items. 



C. M. Dickinson, manager of E. H. 

 Hunt '.s, is sojourning in the east. 



Walter Kreitling & Co. have the dec- 

 orations for the annual opening of the 

 Washington Park Club prior to the 

 Derby. 



James Underwood, supt. of Franklin 

 Park and a member of the firm of Un- 

 derwood Bros., Cohimbus, O., was a vis- 

 itor this week. 



Louis Klemm, of Hammond, reports 

 serious loss on account of standing 

 water. Many of his frames are still 

 under water. ' 



The Aveather changes continue. When 

 you start out in the morning in a straw 

 hat and a summer suit you may need a 

 fur cap and an overcoat before you re- 

 turn. And rain! Never before within 

 the memory of the writer have we haid so 

 much rain. The ground is saturated to 

 the limit and any further rain would do 



