June 26. 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



J37 



A Block of Bay Trees at the Establishment of Bobbiak & Atkins, Rutlierford, N. J. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market is in pretty 

 fair shape for the end of June. The 

 commission men who have cards in the 

 Review are certainly doing some ship- 

 ping which is felt decidedly now, for 

 the supply of flowers is falling off and 

 when 1,000 nice Beauties are shipped 

 away by one dealer, as happened on Mon- 

 day, their absence is noticed. This 

 would hardly have been the case two 

 weeks ago the supply then being much 

 heavier. It is difficult to say just what 

 causes the demand, a few weddings, a 

 few funerals, and in the case above men- 

 tioned 600 of the Beauties went to a 

 great social event in a town in western 

 Pennsylvania. Kaiserins are improving 

 and are preferred generally to Bride. 



Carnations are still very fine. H. 

 Weber & Sons, Oakland, Md., are send- 

 ing grand blooms of Genevieve Lord 

 Prosperity and Norway to S. S. Pennock. 

 The stems are some thirty inches long 

 and the price $4 and $5 per 100. Out 

 door flowers are not selling particularly 

 well, except possibly double petunias. 

 These are fairly plentiful at about 50 

 cents per 100. Sweet peas are in over- 

 supply and sell very slowly. A com- 

 petent judge estimates that about one- 

 third of those sent in are wasted even 

 at the low prices asked. Cattleyas can 

 be had at 40 and 50 cents each. Val- 

 ley is less plentiful at $2 and $4 per 

 100. Eobert Craig & Son are sending 

 in some nice Lilium longiflorum averag- 

 ing three or four flowers to a stem. 

 These bring $6 to $8 per 100. 



Plants. 



It is generally reported and believed 

 that bedding plants sold out cleanly this 



season. While this is true in some in- 

 stances, I regret to find* many places in 

 which there is still a springlike appear- 

 ance, and no late box or bed need lack 

 adornment for want of gayly colored 

 blooming plants. 



American Beauties. 



It is an interesting fact that several 

 out of town growers consider tnis market 

 as a desirame outlet for their Beauties 

 in summer. So apparent has this be- 

 come that Leo Niessen, who has given 

 considerable attention to the develop- 

 ment of the summer cut flower trade, was 

 questioned regarding the demand for fine 

 Beauties at that season. Mr. Niessen 

 said that while he would not auvise any- 

 one to invest money in the production 

 of this rose during the hot weather he 

 would take the risk himself were he a 

 grower. That shows there is good rea- 

 son to believe summer roses properly 

 managed will pay. 



While on this subject it is pertinent 

 to note that Myers & Co. have recently 

 erected a Beauty house on a private 

 place, John Louber Welsh's, that has 

 four rows continuous ventilating sash, 

 two on top (one on each side of ridge) 

 and two on the sides, front and back. 

 This certainly ought to admit air. 



Notes. 



M. Rice has just returned from Europe. 



A fire occured on Wednesday of last 

 week in the store adjoining H. F. 

 Michell's seed store. Fortunately the 

 damage was not serious at Michell 's. The 

 store was somewhat the worse chiefly 

 from over-watering, but the stock suf- 

 fered but little, being promptly moved 

 by an efficient corps of assistants. 



Two of the storekeepers uptown, 

 Charles H. Fox and John C. Graeey, have 

 decided to close their respective stores 



five nights at 6 p. m. and the sixth. 

 Saturday, at 10 p. m. This is a move in 

 the right direction and every uptown 

 store should do as well or better. 



H. H. Battles is cutting four or five 

 thousand sweet peas daily at his farm. 

 The Century Flower Shop moves a great 

 many of them. 



A Voice From the Wholesalers. 



You m.i.v sa.v whnt .tou think 

 About valley or piD%, 

 Sweet violets, orchids or teas, 

 But 'twill be a cold day 

 When our Beauty gives 'way 

 To even such rivals as these. 



An effort in favor of closing the com- 

 mission houses at 4 p. m. every day has 

 not succeeded for want of support. It 

 is to be hoped that some plan for shorter 

 hours will be carried out during mid- 

 summer. Why cannot each house act 

 separately? 



The Henry A. Dreer Co. have a pretty 

 show of seasonable flowers in their store 

 windows, gaillardia, delphinium, early 

 phlox, etc., all neatly labelled. This 

 firm is well pleased with business. They 

 are busy taking account of stoc^ and 

 "house cleaning" at Eiverton. 



Bcwling. 



It is well known that we are to have 

 a team at Asheville and every effort is 

 being made to make it a great team. 

 The club has settled the financial part 

 of the problem by appropriating the 

 necessary wherewithal to meet expenses. 

 The next step is to decide who shall rep- 

 resent this city. A series of twelve 

 games will be rolled on the point system, 

 three games each on four nights, Jvme 18 

 and 25, July 2 and 9, to decide six places 

 on the team and one substitute, seven 

 in all. The first of these nights brought 

 out sixteen players. John AVestcott and 

 William K. Harris chose sides, the los- 



