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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 28, 1902. 



tember 11th, at 3 o'clock, at the regular 

 meeting hall in Odd Fellows building. 

 The meeting will be very interesting. 

 The installation of officers will take 

 place. The trustees have arranged with 

 Brother Barnes of the Missouri Botani- 

 cal Garden to show the lantern slides of 

 the gardens. President Meinhardt hopes 

 for a large attendance. Ex-Presidents 

 Fillmore, Ammann and Halstedt will in- 

 stall the new officers. J. J. B. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



The convention is over and all the 

 boys who went from here have returned 

 and are busily engaged getting things in 

 shape for fall trade. All report an ele- 

 gant time and say they were well paid 

 for the trip. Despite the fact that it 

 was rather hot, things moved along so 

 nicely that every minute of the time was 

 greatly enjoyed, and all vote the con- 

 vention at Asheville to have been a 

 great success. 



Cincinnati did not get the convention 

 for 1903, and there is some disappoint- 

 ment felt ; but the timely action of Mr. 



hold well. Some Beauties meet a good 

 demand and bring $1.00 to $2.00 per 

 dozen ; shorts, 50 and 75 cents. Brides 

 are very scarce, and good ones are almost 

 impossible to be obtained. Maids are 

 more plentiful and some are very fair in 

 quality. j. 



Carnations are beginning to come in 

 increased numbers, and the quality is 

 much improved. As indoor carnations 

 are now about ready to be cut, each week 

 will see a vast improvement in quality, 

 and the price will advance in proportion. 

 Carnations have been scarce right along, 

 the demand being far ahead of the sup- 

 ply. Whatever place in the floral world 

 you place the carnation, whether first or 

 second, it is still a fact that if you do 

 not have a supply of carnations to sell, 

 your business will be poor, even if you 

 have an ice-box full of roses. The car- 

 nation is a seller itself, and it helps sell 

 other stock. In this respect it has no 

 superior among flowers. Prices quoted 

 are 50 cents to $1.50 per 100. 



Gladoli bring 2 to 3 cents. Dahlias, 

 1 to 2 cents. Asters, 50 cents to $2.00. 

 Very few good asters are now being cut 

 aoout this city. Those that do come in 

 are of a poor grade and sell slowly. 



Exhibit of S. S. Pennock at the Asheville Convention. 



E. G. Gillett in withdrawing Cincinnati 

 from the competition has made hosts of 

 friends for our city, and when Cincinnati 

 again asks for the honor of having the 

 b. A. F. 0. H. to meet in our city, the 

 chances are that the invitation will be 

 warmly accepted, and rightly so. 



Business is about as dull as it ever 

 gets. There is but a very feeble de- 

 mand, and it is just as well that it is 

 so, as the stock that is coming in is 

 scarcely the kind that would sell at any 

 time. Of good stock there is scarcely 

 any, and,' what little there is, is readily 

 sold and at very good prices. The ma- 

 jority of the present supply consists of 

 short-stem roses, any quantity of them; 

 also asters of a poor grade, a few carna- 

 tions, mostly cut from the field, and a 

 lot of mixed stock, such as balsams, can- 

 dytuft, dahlia.s, gladioli, etc. 



There are a few good roses, but the 

 supply is limited; 2 to 4 cents is the 

 price, and short-stemmed ones at $1.00 

 per 100. Some Liberties are beginning 

 to arrive, and they show signs of rapidly 

 growing into good stock. At present 

 they are somewhat single and do not 



Notes. 



Charlie Jones of the Walnut Hills 

 Floral Bazaar and Jones the Florist, 

 Fourth street, has just returned with his 

 family from a visit at Columbus, Ind. 



Freu Gear and wife are having a two 

 weeks' outing at Atlantic City. 



The Montgomery county fair at Car- 

 thage was held during the past week, 

 and Mr. J. T. Conger of Hartwell took 

 everything in sight in the way of premi- 

 ums for plants and flowers. 



Mr. B. Eosens of Brooklyn was a 

 caller. C. J. Ohmer. 



CHICAGO. 



The Carnation Outlook. 



This is a busy time for carnation grow- 

 ers, even more so than is usual at this 

 time of year. Planting in is compara- 

 tively an easy matter if you have an 

 ample stock of your own to select from, 

 but when you are short of stock and find 

 it difficult to procure the most desirable 

 varieties such as you want to plant, then 

 the problem becomes embarrassing. From 



a superficial point of view it would ap- 

 pear that the early prediction of a de- 

 cided shortage of stock made early in the 

 season, and based on the prevalence of 

 excessive rain, was more or less erroneous. 

 As a matter of fact a number of local 

 growers are offering a surplus for sale. 

 But on investigation you will find that 

 very few of the most desirable sorts are 

 to be had and the few thousands offered 

 are being held at prettty steep prices. 

 The stock for sale is largely of the 

 older varieties which might do in a 

 pinch, but except in ease of great scarcity 

 would hardly be considered by the up- 

 to-date grower. Still, aside from choice 

 01 varieties, there appears to be stock 

 enough to plant most of the houses in- 

 tended for carnations. 



It remains to be seen to what extent 

 the much dreaded stemrot will lessen 

 the stand after planting in. In a num- 

 ber of establishments this disease has 

 already made its appearance, and if, as a 

 number of growers are afraid, it will 

 prove worse this season than formerly 

 it will be a far more serious matter than 

 the drowning out of stock in the field. 

 Oil the whole it would appear that the 

 output of carnations the coming year 

 will be fully up to that of the past sea- 

 son, but owing to the scarcity of the 

 choicer varieties the general quality may 

 not show that improvement over the past 

 season that undoubtedly would have pre- 

 vailed under more favorable conditions. 



The Market. 



Roses keep gaining very steadily. In 

 Beauties the cut is increasing daily and 

 ]irices this week have sagged consider- 

 alily. Teas are coming in in largely in- 

 creased quantities and meet with a very 

 indifferent demand. A few choice grades 

 may reach top quotations but the bulk of 

 tlie stock is jobbed off at very low fig- 

 ures. In outdoor stock the glut of asters, 

 gladioli, hydrangeas, etc., continues. In 

 asters this market has never seen th" 

 like in its history. The stock shipped in 

 daily is enormous. In quality the average 

 is of a higher grade than was ever note'' 

 liefore, but even the choicest blooms 

 often go begging. The same might be 

 said of gladioli, hydrangeas, Eudbeckia 

 Golden Glow — quantities of fine stock 

 and few buyers. 



Various Items. 



The latest reports regarding the con- 

 dition of Edgar Sanders are very en- 

 couraging. He is making such continued 

 progress toward recovery that the phy- 

 sician in attendance is now calling only 

 every other day. It is beUeved that only 

 continued rest and quiet are necessary to 

 give him strength to leave his bed. 



Walter Mott, Jamestown, N. Y., was a 

 welcome visitor last week. 



Those who attended the Asheville con- 

 vention have nearly all returned. All re- 

 port a good time. The special train went 

 through in fine shape, but there was some 

 difficulty in getting satisfactory sleeper 

 accommodation coming back; 



Albert Fuchs, Fanny Fuchs and John 

 Hrudka, creditors of Walter Ketzer, have 

 petitioned to have him declared a bank- 

 rupt. The total liabilities, according to 

 the creditors, are about $20,000, while 

 they assert the assets amount to about 

 $5,000. Several years ago Albert Fuchs 

 sold his florist business to Retzer. His 

 claim is $13,500. Henry L. Wilson was 

 appointed receiver with $8,000 bonds. 

 He will continue the business with the 



