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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



OCTOBBR :6. l'J02. 



Brighton are doing their duty, as usual, 

 and no signs of cessation in the de- 

 mind for "cut strings" appear. 



Pierce & Son, of Waltham, had a fine 

 display of mums Saturday in the mar- 

 ket, and are cutting 200 dozen a day 

 already. They have 125,000 square feet 

 of glass, one new house with 10,000 

 square feet entirely devoted to carna- 

 tions, of which they plant annually 50,- 

 000. They have six houses of mums 

 and expect to cut 200,000 flowers. Polly 

 Rose, Glory of the Pacific, Bergmann 

 and Fitzwygram constitute their present 

 cutting, and Monrovia, the new yellow, 

 which commands .$2.50 to $3 a dozen. 

 Mr. Pierce calls this an extra good mum 

 5"ear, with no diseised plants and a won- 

 derful supply. This firm will have 175,- 



000 lilies this season. Their shipments 

 to the New York market are handled by 

 Mr. John Young. 



The Boston Fall Show occurs the week 

 after the New York Madison Square ex- 

 hibition. » 



A. T. Stearns & Co., of Neponset, is 

 the pioneer cypress house of the north, 

 and the largest, handling 15,000,000 

 feet a season. Mr. Stearns, Sr. at 82 is 

 still hale and active in the management 

 of the immense business of this house. 

 which, in its gi'eenhouse department, 

 built in the cast already this year 125 

 houses from 100 to 800 ifeet in length. 



Mr. McCarthy has a clear field in the 

 auction department of the business in 

 Boston, and has hid many very satisfac- 

 tory sales this season. 



Mr. Sutherland's wholesale cut flower 

 and supply trade is booming, and his 

 neat new store is a busy mart all the 

 time. 



A new wholesale house is called the 

 Milk Street Cut Flower Company, and is 

 maniged by Mr. T. E. Waters, whose lo- 

 cation and facilities promise success. 



In the retail stores of Boston, which 



1 had too little time to visit, I found a 

 most healthful and hopeful atmosphere. 

 At Galvin's the rush was constant, and 

 the store handsomer than ever, as un- 

 uusual cire is taken daily to make the 

 window decorations novel and attractive. 

 Nine weddings in four days was the rec- 

 ord last week, and great expectations as 

 to the coming season prevail. 



Houghton & Clark have a fine store 

 on Boylston street, and report a good 

 season with increased facilities. 



Julius Zinn's store on Beacon street 

 is as neat and prosperous as ever. Mc- 

 Mulkin's big establishment has evidently 

 had a .share of the Boston trade and a 

 prosperous year. 



Norton Bros., Newman & Sons, Wil- 

 liam Doyle, Bunker, Carbonne and all 

 the uptown stores demonstrate taste, en- 

 terprise and prosperity in the handsome 

 window decorations, and illustrate their 

 faith in the coming season by abundant 

 preparation for the good times that are 

 to be. 



The coal question here amongst the 

 growers is serious and absorbing, and 

 anxious groups were discussing with a 

 Standard Oil man at the market on Sat- 

 urday the feasibility of a change of fuel 

 and the necessity of immediate action to 

 get their boilers ready for oil heating, 

 which seems to be contemplite<l every- 

 where, and which if acted upon at once, 

 may solve the serious problem of the 

 hour. J. Austin Shaw. 



Erie, Pa. — S. Alfred Banr has com- 

 pleted rebuilding seven houses and his 

 place is now in good sliape for the win- 

 ter season. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Flower Market. 



This report, written too early to de- 

 scribe the first annual meeting, is nc!ces- 

 sarily meager. Secretary Bust reports/ 

 encouraging support from the growers. 

 Among the additions to subscribers are 

 such well known firms as Myers & Samt- 

 man, M. Rice & Co., Geo. Anderson and 

 Chas. D. Ball. Manager Meehan finds 

 many of the small growers not heretofore 

 heard from, favorably disjwsed towards 

 the new project. 



Notes. 



Ptichard C. Lange sold the plants and 

 fixtures at his old place on Ontario street 

 last Tuesdaj-, preparatory to moving to 

 Morristown. 



Chas. E. Meehan, Alfred Burton and 

 Wm. Stevens went over to New York on 

 Monday night, spending Tuesday in that 

 city and Wednesday in Boston. Their 

 object was to see the workings of the 

 plant markets in those two cities. 



The palm growers are having a very 

 active season. Their two trials, and they 

 are trials, are the uncertainty of getting 

 coal and the delayed plant shipments, tlie 

 railroads being less reliable than usual 

 in forwarding freight. 



S. S. Pennock is receiving some fine 

 mignonette. 



Leo Neissen is receiving some fine 

 Beauties and valley. He finds business 

 far ahead of last season. 



Edward Reid has been doing a good 

 shipping business. The quality of his 

 carnations is famous. 



Eugene Bernheiraer has returned from 

 a trip south. He finds the stock of his 

 consignors in excellent condition, and 

 predicts a prosperous season, with plen- 

 ty of chrysanthemums. 



Myers & Samtman are fortunate in re- 

 ceiving two cars of hard coal each week. 



Tlie Germantown Horticultural Socie- 

 ty held its October meeting on Monday 

 evening. Autumn leaves from Meehan & 

 Sons, gladioli from Cowee and dahlias 

 from Peacock were the features of the 

 exhibition. 



Chas. ]\Iecky sent in the first pot 

 chrysanthemums on the 10th. They were 

 pink and white Pacific, very fine, in 7- 

 inch pots. 



S. S. Pennock has been receiving some 

 very fine Ivory from Edwin Lonsdale. 

 They bring G and 8 cents. 



J. J. Hahenuehl's Sons have been very 

 busy decorating department store open- 

 ings. Tliey have used great quantities 

 of dahlias and other outdoor flowers in 

 this work. 



John Turnbull, with M. Rice & Co., has 

 returned from a very successful three 

 weeks' business trip. He reports an ex- 

 cellent demand for ribbon. 



C F. Knorr and Burton are sending 

 in some very fine Brides sind Maids, es- 

 pecially notewortliy, as the dark weather 

 brings in much poor stock from many 

 growers. Tlieir place is interesting as 

 one where Souvenir de Wootton is still 

 grown successfully. Good soil and water 

 in abundance favor these Fox Chase 

 growers, while the best of fertilizeis 

 come from their own fanns. 



Julius Kohler & Son have built three 

 new houses this season intended for az- 

 aleas and hardy roses. Tlieir Clothilde 

 Souperts are very promising. This firm 

 has great quantities of fine stock. Their 

 carnations are very fine, Scott especially 

 so. Victor is also done well. A batch of 



longiflorum lilies kept ill cold storage is 

 just coming in flower. 



Hugh Graham is cutting some fine 

 chrjsanthemums from his place at 

 Logan, which are sold in his store. 



James Verner, Garrettsford has four 

 houses of Brides and Maids that are 

 equal to any near this city. Tliey are 

 grown in benches. He also has Kaiser- 

 ins in nice shape. 



August Gontrara, who was florist and 

 gardener at Sacred Heart Academy, Tor- 

 resdale, is about to start in business for 

 himself on Rowland avenue, Holmesburg, 

 having completed two houses, each about 

 25 feet by 150 feet, one for violets and 

 one for carnations. The houses will be 

 heated by hot water. 



The coke supply at Holmesburg House 

 of Correction is cut short; no more to be 

 sold. It will be reserved for the guards, 

 etc. Bad outlook for many small florists 

 who have for years depended upon it. 



Phil. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions. 



Owing to rather poor weather there 

 has not been a hca\'y cut of first-class 

 material for this time of year. During 

 the past week and until Saturday about 

 everything of all qualities was licked up 

 by the quite steady demand, Saturday be- 

 ing the day of atonement, or Yom Kip- 

 pur, the Hebrew element was largely 

 eliminated, and as there was a much 

 heavier cut than usual there was a heavy 

 surplus to carry over Sunday. 



I do not know that I ever saw the 

 supply of material coming in more ir- 

 regularly than at present, both as re- 

 gards quality and quantity, from day to 

 day. A prospective buyer needs to be 

 in early and keep his weather eye open 

 for the goods he can use. 



Chrysanthemums now come the nearest 

 to being plentiful, carnations next, then 

 roses, violets, small white flowers, mig- 

 onette, lilies and odds and ends in the 

 order named. 



There seems to be quite an October 

 crop of weddings coming on making a 

 much better call for smilax and other 

 ^reen material than has existed since 

 Jime. but there seems to be enough to 

 supply the call. 



Jlany pink and white roses are yet 

 badly mildewed, much enhancing the 

 value of the clean ones. 



Oil. 



Several agencies have opened business 

 in the city oflering burners for use of oil 

 in ranges and furnaces, some even going 

 as far as to pretend to cater to heavy 

 boiler business. Now, I took pains, pre- 

 paratory to installing something of the 

 kind, to write each of two insurance 

 companies interested in my roof and 

 what lies under it and asked them their 

 opinions of such action on my part. I 

 got word that my policies will be vitiated 

 unless I wait until the New England In- 

 surance Exchange takes favorable action 

 in the matter. 



Coal. 



We are still "waiting till the shadows 

 are a little longer grown," but they are 

 getting pretty long now! Tlie difference 

 in the length of the night seems more 

 noticeable than the corresponding de- 

 crease in the day to a man who arises 

 about on the line that divides the two. 

 Daily papers say that about 100,000 

 tons of soft coal are landing here per 

 week, but I know florists who are trying 



