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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



October 30, 1902. 



inexhaustible and never before reached 

 sucli proportions so early in the sea- 

 son. 



The American Institute will hold an 

 exhibition of chrysanthemums, roses, ear- 

 nations and ornamental plants at Berke- 

 ley Lyceum Xov. 12 and 13. 



A few of the faithful ma.terialized on 

 bowling night and eleven games were 

 rolled. Lang scored 2.'J4 in one game and 

 the best put up by the others weie : 

 Hansen, 157: Mansfield. 177; Siebrecht. 

 214; Traendl.y, 129; Shaw, 148. 



J. Austin' Shaw. 



CHICAGO. 



The usual market rcijiii t will be found 

 following the Chicago quotations else- 

 where in this issue. 



In this issue we present a number of 

 viewsi from photographs taken recenlly 

 at the establishment of Wictor Bros., 

 Rogers Park. They are now cutting 

 Meteor and Liberty of fine enough grade 

 to command .$8.0o" per 100. 



The horse show opened this week, and 

 rhil Hauswirth used 500 mums in one 

 (lay at social affairs in connection with 

 it. 



W. H. Drake, Kenosha. Wis.. Mrs. 

 rjontrnm, Battle Creek, Mich., and Chas. 

 Chadwick am! wife. Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., were recent visitors. 



Quite a number of Chicago growers 

 will visit the Kansas City show next 

 week. 



The termination of the coal strike does 

 not seem to have afl'ected prices here yet. 



The bowlers have organized four teams 

 and will begin a series of league games 

 next Tuesday evening. 



The new sculpture hall at the Art 

 Institute, where the coming exhibition 

 will be held, is 208x58 feet and ,34 feet 

 high. There will he room for all and 

 every grower should be represented. The 

 exhibition opens Nov. 11 and copies of 

 the schedule can be had from E. A. 

 Kanst, Ass't. See'y, 5700 Cottage Grove 

 avenue. 



The Ogden Floral Co. will open its 

 new store at 848 West Harrison street, 

 nest Saturday, November 1. D. F. Si- 

 monds and J. R. Butzow" are the pro- 

 ])rietors. 



F. F. Benthey is serving as a juror in 

 the criminal court. 



The plants and other stock of Walter 

 Retzer & Co. will be sold at auction 

 by order of the United States Court next 

 Wednesday, Nov. 5, at the greenhouses, 

 2049 Clarendon ave.' (North Halsted st.), 

 the sale beginning at 10 a. m. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Flower Market. 



The election of R. G. Palmer as treas- 

 urer of the Flower Market completes the 

 list of officers. Mr. Palmer is a well 

 known grower of fine tea roses, with 

 greenhouses at Doylestown. His elec- 

 tion completes a strong board of officers, 

 which stands as follows: President, 

 .loseph Heaeock ; vice president, W. K. 

 Harris; secretary, Edwin Lonsdale; 

 treasurer, R. G. Palmer. Progress is be- 

 ing made at the market headquarters, 

 1224 Cherry street. Water, light, tele- 

 phone and stalls are all in evidence, and 

 while much remains to be done, the plan 

 begins to have an appearance. 



These hasty notes go to press on the 

 eve of the great party. The committee 

 referred to last week has provided music 

 and merry making of various kinds; an- 



other committee has loaned the decora- 

 tions out; a third, led of course by the 

 great and only John Westcott, has taken 

 thought — solid but not effervescent 

 thought — for the solid comforts; while 

 still a fourth committee has showered 

 invitations all over town. So it is to be 

 hoped that all the world of flowers was 

 present on Tliursday night, and that 

 they all have pleasant recollections of 

 their evening spent in the new flower 

 market. 



Notes. 



The first debutante's tea, the opening 

 affair of the season, was held last week. 



M. Rosens, a New York supply man, 

 was in town looking up space in the 

 flow-er market a few days ago. 



The Colonial Flower Shop, C. H. 

 Grigg manager, is now open for business 

 at i;J9 S. Eleventh street. 



Dr. Cotting has given up his Swarth- 

 more place, which was run by John Nes- 

 bitt. 



The PMladelphia Cut Flower Co., 

 Dunn & Walsh, makes a specialty of 

 decorating. They report a good business 

 with orders booked ahead. 



Leo Niessen is handling some fine pink 

 bcuvardia. 



The decorators are making rich effects 

 with oak leaves and other bright colored 

 autumn foliage. 



Robeit Scott & Son are sending in 

 some line flowers of Mrs. Trainor L. 

 Park to S. S. Pennock. 



.Joseph Kift & Son use many Queen of 

 Edgcly roses. This variety is increasing 

 in popularity. 



Pennock Bros, are making gorgeous 

 effects in their windows with chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



The local press contained accounts 

 lately of the havoc wrought by Jack 

 Frost on the Peacock dahlia farm at 

 Atco, N. J. It was said that one hun- 

 dred persons engaged in picking and 

 caring for the dahlias were thrown out 

 of employment. 



William K. Harris is cutting some 

 fine blooms of his straw colored chrys- 

 anthemum. Miss Florence Harris. 



nie Philadelphia Wholesale Flower 

 Market opens for business Saturday, No- 

 vember 1, at about 7:.30 a. m., at 1224 

 Cherry street. Phil. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business is not booming here just at 

 present, owing to the beautiful, sum- 

 mer-like Aveather we are having, the ef- 

 fect of which is severely felt in the cut 

 flower trade. 



The few fall weddings that are taking 

 place are not making much of a stir in 

 the cut flower line, and about the only 

 business the past week was for funer- 

 als. On Friday everybody was busy 

 with work for the funeral of Mrs. Town- 

 send, wife of H. C. Townsend, general 

 passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific. 

 Never before was there a church filled 

 witli so many beautiful floral designs 

 as was the First Congregational on last 

 Fridaj' morning. The quantity of flow- 

 ers used at this funeral would lead one 

 to think that the wholesale houses were 

 all cleaned up, but this did not make 

 even an impression on the market, so 

 great was the glut at the wholesale 

 houses. 



The retailer can get almost anj'thing 

 he wants and plenty of it and at any old 

 price, something he has not been 



able to do for many moons, and just at 

 present, the man with a big job on his 

 hands can congratulate himself. 



Chrysanthemums are in the greatest 

 demand and the flori.sts' windows are 

 filled with all varieties. These are not 

 yet a glut and it is only the poor grades 

 that sell slowly and at low prices. 



There are heavy receipts of roses, and 

 the wholesaler has hardly room in his 

 ice-box to place the unsold stock each 

 day. The stock is of unusually fine 

 quality and no other sells. Anything in 

 the second grade is lumped off in 1,000 

 lots at about your own price, and some 

 of it is even dumped. 



Carnations also are feeling the effects 

 of this warm spell, and often are asleep 

 when they arrive at the commission 

 house. Tlie best keeper just now is 

 Ethel Crocker. Daybreak, Scott, Law- 

 son. Crane and others are piled up in 

 1,000 lots and they are hard to sell. 

 Never before were there so many carna- 

 tions dumped as last week, which of 

 course is not to the liking of growers. 



California violets are very fine and 

 there are ]flenty of them for the demand. 

 Valley and cosmos are in great abund- 

 ance and sell fairly well. Good srailax 

 can be had in large quantities at the 

 usual price. 



Notes. 



Mr. Paul Berkowitz, of H. Bayers- 

 dorfer & Co., Philadelphia, was in town 

 Saturday calling on the trade. 



J. B. Heiss, of Dayton, Ohio, was a 

 visitor the past week. 



Mrs. Francis Morat, of Louisville, Ky., 

 mother-in-law of Jacob Sehulz, was vis- 

 iting friends here last week. 



In the prize contest last week at Sim- 

 mons' Hardware Co.'s retail store for the 

 best table decoration, Ostertag Bros., 

 won first prize, and Charlie Conuon's 

 Golden AVedding table came in for sec- 

 ond. Both tables were very handsome 

 and attracted much attention the two 

 days they were on exhibition. 



Fred W. Pape, general superintendent 

 of the parks, and Miss Jlay Miller were 

 married last Wednesday evening, at the 

 residence of the bride's parents, 702 

 Longborough avenue. After a reception 

 Mr. "and Mrs. Pape departed for a south- 

 ern trip of two weeks, after which they 

 will be at home to their friends at 2850 

 Wyoming street. 



The florists of St. Louis were glad to 

 read in the last issue of the Review 

 that the check swindler, who operated 

 so successfully in this city two week^ 

 ago, was caught in Kansas City, accord- 

 ing to ]Mr. Vesey's notes, and the ladies 

 are waiting for this weeks' issue to see 

 his picture and ascertain if he is the 

 same fellow, as they say they can identi- 

 fy the swindler at once, so we hope Mr. 

 Vesey will not forget the picture. 



Miss Lillian Shaw, daughter of our 

 friend, J. Austin Shaw, of New York, 

 is here this week with The Liberty 

 Belles at the Century theater. A party 

 of florists went down to see the show 

 Monday night and enjoyed the perform- 

 ance very much, and especially the part 

 taken bv Miss Shaw. J. J. B. 



ONONNATL 



Though a very fair business is being 

 done it is not quite what it ought to be. 

 Some of the store men are complaining, 

 but the majority of them report very fair 

 business in spite of bad conditions. 



Chrysanthemums are now in in all 

 their glory, and there is a good supply 



