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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 26, 1902. 



ers to pay the piper, but that was only 

 a side issue, the standing being the main 

 thing. The total scores for the three 

 games follow: 



Moss 545 Habermehl 450 



Robertson 488 Harris 450 



Starkey 481 Westeott 430 



Kift 478 Watson 410 



Pontes 473 Adelberger 376 



Geo. Craig 465 Gibson 375 



Anderson 460 Dunlap 358 



Connor 459 Falcli 351 



Phil. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Roses and carnations are scarcer than 

 last week, quality poorer and prices 

 stiffer. The weather is mainly chilly 

 and frequently cloudy and most of the 

 old rose plants have been pulled out 

 and houses replanted, which accounts for 

 the short supply and poor quality, and 

 demand has been decidedly strong. There 

 are no really good flowers to be had and 

 very few that would pass as seconds in 

 winter. On roses the price is $6.00 for 

 the best, with a few of the choicest reach- 

 ing a cent or two higher, but the major 

 part of the stock isn't good enough to 

 command more than $3 to $5, even at 

 such a time of scarcity. 



Fairly good white carnations are es- 

 pecially difficult to obtain. A few of 

 the best bring as much as $2, but on 

 the rest $1 to $1.50 is the price, and 

 the price obtained must certainly be 

 satisfactory in view of the qualitv. The 

 buyers probably find it less acceptable. 

 Local retailers say it is useless to at- 

 tempt to do business with so little avail- 

 able good stock in the market. The de- 

 mand will, however, no doubt largely dis- 

 appear after the present week and we 

 can then settle down to the midsummer 

 dullness, interspersed ivith the occasional 

 demand for funeral flowers. 



Candidum lilies are being received in 

 fair quantity, but for some mysterious 

 reason iney do not meet with the de- 

 mand they should under existing condi- 

 tions in the market. Bweet peas are 

 plentiful, but move rnther slowly at 20 

 cents _ to 75 cents per 100. The range 

 in price tells its own story regarding the 

 demand for quality. 



Pasonies are cti'll a factor and move 

 very well at fair prices. Smilax, which 

 was scarce last week, is now quite plen- 

 tiful. There are evidently some grow- 

 ers of smilax that don't watch the mar- 

 ket as carefully as they should. If the 

 receipts of this week had been divided 

 between last week and this one their re- 

 turns would have been much larger. 



Various Items. 



Klehra's Nursery, ArUngtou Heights, 

 forced over 100,000 valley from pips of 

 their own growing during the past sea- 

 son. And the flowers were better than 

 those from imported pips, and it cost 

 them considerably less to grow the pips 

 than to import them. There seems to bo 

 no question that all the pips annually 

 imported could be grown at home and 

 money saved as well as better flowers 

 obtained. 



There is talk among the wholesalers 

 of an arrangement to close at 5 p. m. 

 during July and August. The matter 

 will no doubt have been definitely acted 

 upon before another week has passed. 



The thermometer dropped to 45 de- 

 grees last Sunday night, certainly a re- 

 markably low temperature for June. No 

 wonder mildew is rampant. 



Nick Wietor is off on another fishing 

 trip, this time to "Woodruff, Wis. 



Mr. John H. Vesey, Kansas City, Mo., 

 was a visitor last Saturday. He went 

 from here to Ft. Wayne, Ind., to visit 

 his brother, and will visit other points 

 before returning home. 



A "century plant" is about to bloom 

 at Washington Park. 



Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Hauswirth went to 

 Mt. Clemens, Mich., last Tuesday. Mrs. 

 Hauswirth wiU remain some time and 

 Mr. Hauswirth will stay a few days at 

 least, possibly a week. It is hoped that 

 the baths wiU greatly benefit Mrs. H. 



Geo. Ellison, Ft. Worth, Texas, was a 

 visitor this week. 



Geo. B. Scott and wife attended the 

 wedding of a niece at Ottawa, 111., last 

 week. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



A little scarcity along certain lines of 

 good material, a fair run of wedding 

 trade, more or less funeral work and a 

 heavy traffic for commencement exercises 

 in all kinds of schools have made us a 

 fairly busy week and panned out quite 

 well financially. Jacqueminot roses have 

 had the best call, and other dark red 

 roses about a foot long came next. Lilies 

 seem to drive the hardest of anything in 

 the cut flower line, but bedding plants 

 at the auction sales go still harder. Low 

 prices, indeed, is the order of things 

 there. 



Elliott's Law Suit. 



The Herald prints the following clear 

 and concise report of the result of Mr. 

 Elliott's seven-year lawsuit, which has 

 cost him the proceeds of the sale of at 

 least 5,000 dozens of his roses at $2 

 per dozen: 



The full bench of the supreme court today 

 held, in the case of Jeremiah R. Downing 

 against William H. Elliott, that the plalnUff, 

 an ice dealer in Brighton, was entitled neither 

 to damages nor to an Injunction to restrain the 

 defendant, a grower of plants and flowers, from 

 using soft coal or other fuel that would inter- 

 fere with or injure his (the plaintiff's) busi- 

 ness or proi-erty. 



The ground of the suit was that soot, dust 

 and cinders fell from the chimney in the 

 defendant's greenhouse into Strong pond, from 

 which the plaintiff got his ice for his custom- 

 ers, leaving speclis on the ice, and malting it 

 unfit for family trade, and that the use of 

 soft coal by the defendant was a private nuis- 

 ance to the plantiff, and should be stoped. The 

 plaintiff had to go to New Hampshire for his 

 ice. and claimed $6,300 damages, but a master 

 found he was entitled only to $2,451. The use 

 of soft coal by the defendant was found by 

 the master, however, to be only a contributing, 

 and not the sole, cause of the injury to the 

 plaintiff's ice: and because of this fact, that 

 the defendant. b.v use of such coal, contributed 

 only slightly to the Injury, the plaintiff cannot 

 prevail, even though the use of soft coal by 

 the defendant is not a necessity, but saves him 

 about $500 yearly. 



The court says the defendant's business Is 

 a lawful one; he has a right to use his premises 

 in any manner that will not interfere with the 

 legal rights of others; it cannot be said that 

 the use of soft coal for the purpose of gener- 

 ating steam of itself constitutes a nuisance, 

 and there was nothing to show that his business 

 was not properly carried on, and that the local- 

 ity was improper. While every one has a right 

 to have the air that comes to his premises as 

 pure and uncontaminated as can reasonably be 

 expected, still absolute purity in thickly set- 

 tled communities Is, the court says, out of the 

 question, though one is not justified In adding 

 to the impurity so as to further discomforr 

 others or injure their business. But in every 

 case the Independent wrongdoer is to be held 

 only for the consequences of his own acts or 

 conduct. The court says: 



"There was no finding that any unusual or 

 extraordinary volume of smoke issued at any 

 time from the defendant's chimney, and the 

 fair import of the master's findings is, it seems 

 to us, that while he cannot say that no soot 

 and cinders from the defendant's chlmne.v were 

 deposited on the plaintiff's ice. if any were de- 

 posited, they contributed very slightly. If at all, 



to the Injury to the ice, and the damage done 

 by them was Insignificant as compared with 

 that resulting from other cause. He further 

 finds that, while the use of soft coal is not 

 a necessity In carrying on the defendant's 

 business, it is more economical and saves him 

 between $400 and $500 a year. If, therefore, 

 an injunction should Issue as prayed for, it 

 not only will not afford the plaintiff the relief 

 which he seeks, but will inflict great and un- 

 necessary Injury on the defendant. As the 

 case stands, we do not think that the plaintiff 

 is entitled to an Injunction. 



"Neither do we think that he Is entitled 

 to damages. If the alleged injuries are too 

 slight and uncertain to be ground for an in- 

 junction, we do not see how they can be made 

 the basis for an assessment of damages. The 

 result Is that we think the bill should be dis- 

 missed. So ordered." 



Rumors. 



A sweeping change in location of sev- 

 eral retail stores is talked. J. W. New- 

 man has already removed from Brattle 

 street to a fine location among the quite 

 small numbers on Washington street, and 

 it is said that J. Newman & Sons must 

 move, as well as W. E. Doyle, when re- 

 building in that locality takes place, and 

 that Zinn must move at the near end 

 of his lease. His store is entirely sur- 

 rounded on three sides by the gigantic 

 Haughton & Button establishment and 

 they need his room in their business. 



Dead Beats. 



This class of vegetable was formerly 

 too well cultivated by the floral growers 

 witliin the rim that encircles the ' ' Hub. ' ' 

 Growers would sell to a customer they 

 well knew to be untrustworthy, upon his 

 promise to pay, because it was a toss-up 

 to do this or waste-barrel the goods. 

 About a couple of years ago all hands 

 seemed to think simultaneously that this 

 kind of work was of no use, and as a 

 result the larger part of that undesirable 

 class of custom has been driven out of 

 the business, helped partly by increasing 

 competition. The better organization of 

 hospital work under Mr. F. W. Clark's 

 management had much to do with this, 

 as it precludes the necessity of utterly 

 throwing surplus flowers away, and much 

 more satisfaction is derived from putting 

 the flowers where they do some good 

 than by the utilization of the snide flor- 

 ist. May his shadow never grow larger! 

 An account against him must be earned 

 four times over in collection. 



J. S. Manter. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The cut flower trade is somewhat de- 

 pressed and is settling down to its usual 

 summer dullness. Roses and carnations 

 are getting scarcer and smaller every 

 day. We need a soaking rain and unless 

 this comes soon there will be a scarcity of 

 flowers of all kinds this summer. Some 

 of the West End florists had a few late 

 June weddings which kept them busy, 

 and, excepting these, it was quite dull as 

 there was very little funeral work to 

 speak of. Nearly all the stock that comes 

 in is poor, and really first-class stock is 

 out of the question. 



Prices on stock are about the same, only 

 that a few good carnations bring $2, but 

 the bulk of them still sell at $1 per 100. 

 Roses can be bought from $5 down to $1. 

 Brides and Maids are very small and 

 show the effects of the very hot weather 

 we have had. Sweet peas have slacked 

 up somewhat and come in with very 

 short stems; price 25 cents for a single 

 100. Good valley still has a call at $3 

 and $4. Spikes of gladioli sell from $3 



