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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



November 13. 1902. 



The market is improving. Stock is 

 loo plentiful, but enormous quantities 

 are moved at fair prices. Much poor 

 .stock and some of fine quality goes to 

 the street at ridiculous prices. Beauties 

 are scarce and find ready sale. 



Pennock has quantities of choice or- 

 chids. 



Niessen, Eeid and Bernheimer are re- 

 ceiving sweet peas, and chrysanthemums 

 ' go fairly well. 



W. J. Baker is receiving some fine 

 Silver Wedding and Appleton from 

 Geoige Carpenter. 



The Germantown Horticultural Soci- 

 ety held its November meeting on Mon- 

 day evening. 



Manager Meehan says that the choice 

 of the stalls in the Flower Market will 

 be sold at auction on Saturday, Novem- 

 ber 15, at 10 a. m. Phil. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



It has been a heavy week to carry — 

 all around. Chrysanthemums, of course, 

 continue to be "the thing." They have 

 been coming in extra good and extra 

 fast. But the demand for them has well 

 equalled the supply. An enormous quan- 

 tity has been distributed and prices have 

 been good enough so that mum men 

 should keep mum indeed. So far as my 

 observation goes, they are all content 

 with the situation. 



The rose growers have a thorn or two 

 in the side. There is really not a heavy 

 cut just now, but the demand does not 

 equal it in volume; retailers cannot sell 

 them and all are anxiously awaiting 

 the decrease of the chrysanthemum moon, 

 expected to begin after another week. 



Carnations ! Whew ! ! The woods have 

 been full of them, especially the white 

 ones, but they have not yet got their 

 winter qualities on in most cases, so 

 that but comparatively few are first- 

 class, and this kind has sold well. The 

 less said about a large quantity of the 

 poorer grades the sooner they will be 

 forgotten. 



Violets have not been one whit too 

 familiar, but I think all real demands 

 have been cared for, thanks to the di- 

 plomacy of the florist in hypnotically 

 suggesting something else; and there 

 has been considerable "inter-repurchas- 

 ing" going on among the retailers to 

 make the supply go as far as possible. 

 Retailers accommodate each other that 

 way much more than formerlv, an item 

 to credit to the social side of "the Co-op- 

 erative market, in bringing all hands 

 together on one floor under free and easy 

 conditions. 



Odds and ends are not plentiful. Or- 

 chids are not grown in this section to 

 any extent. There is a little bouvardia, 

 a little candy-tuft, narcissus, etc., but we 

 are really now between "grass and 

 glass," with the former badly frost- 

 bitten and the latter undeveloped. 



Boston Newi. 



There have occurred a couple of "an- 

 nual events" from which I could have 

 derived a column or two had not the 

 multitudinous perplexities of the week 

 prevented my attendance in each case. 

 Tlie chrysanthemum show at Horticul- 

 tural Hall occupied about all the week, 

 with varying reports from visitors, from 

 which I infer that the flower display was 



about of the old pattern, and that the 

 display of fruit and vegetables was never 

 equalled by the society. The list of 

 awards, as here appended, contains a 

 gratifying number of names of commer- 

 cial growers: 



Gratuities were awarded to the fol- 

 lowing: Lager & Hurrell, Summit, N. 

 J., display of orchids. L. H. Foster, 

 Dorchester, j\[ass., display of Nephro- 

 le]3is Anna Foster. F. K. Pierson Co., 

 Tarrytown, N. Y., display of Nephro- 

 lepis Piersoni. K. J. Farquhar & Co., 

 Boston, Mass., display of palms, bay 

 trees, etc. E. N. Peirce & Sons, Wal- 

 tham, Mass., for four vases chrysanthe- 

 mums. Patten & Co., Tcvvksbury, Mass., 

 for twelve vases assorted carnations. S. 

 J. Renter Westerly, E. I., two vases car- 

 iialions. H. A. Stevens & Co., Somer- 

 ville, Mass., vase of Gov. Wolcott. E. 

 G. Asmus, West Holxiken, N. J., for vase 

 of Twentieth Century rose, and to The 

 H. Dale Estate, Brampton, Ont., honor- 

 able mention for the new rose, Canadian 

 Queen. 



The annual exhibition of roses and 

 chrysanthemums at the Waban Rose 

 conservatories also was pulled off in its 

 usual form. Those fortunate enough to 

 go report a very pleasant outing, the 

 usual fine display at the magnificent 

 greenhouses and a gorgeous time at the 

 banquet at the famous historical old 

 hostelry, Bailey's Hotel, Wellesley. 

 Among the visitors from other states 

 were W. R. Smith, of the Washington, 

 D. C, Botanical Gardens, and W. F. 

 Gude, of Gude Bros., leading retail flor- 

 ists of that city. As after dinner speak- 

 ers I hear most said of Warren Ewell 

 and Rliymester Butterworth, although 

 many others participated. 



J. S. Manter. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business for the past week was re- 

 ported fairly good by some of the up- 

 town florists, who had several large wed- 

 dings; while the downtown florists, who 

 had to content themselves with tran- 

 sient trade and funeral work, report 

 that business was slow. 



The event of the week was the 

 horse show, which helped the florists a 

 great deal in the sale of some of their 

 surplus flowers. Large mums, American 

 Beauties and violets were the flowers 

 mostly carried by the ladies at the show. 

 Notwithstanding this demand for first- 

 class stock, the cut flower market has 

 been dull, particularly so from the 

 growers' standpoint, for the abundance 

 of chrysanthemums has forced prices on 

 everything else down to the lowest limit. 

 Chrysanthemums have been selling 

 cheaper than ever before. Tlie local sup- 

 ply is still made up of the earlier sorts. 

 Kuehn is receiving from Vesey's about 

 the best that come to this market. 



At this writing the glut in roses and 

 carnations is not so great, and Saturday 

 good roses were actually scarce, also ear- 

 nations. This was something unusual 

 and, of course, prices on roses and carna- 

 tions went up a little. California violets 

 are still coming in in large quantities; 

 in fact, more than the demand calls for. 

 Cosmos are out of the market just now. 

 Plenty of very fine quality of valley is 

 in the market at the usual price, and 

 enough good smilax is on hand to sup- 

 ply the demand. 



Notes. 



The Prince of Siam was showered 

 with American Beauties on his arrival 

 at the Union Station on last Saturday. 



Mr. William Trillow, of Chicago, is 

 in town this week, calling on the trade. ■ 



Elmer D. Smith, of Adrian, Mich., 

 passed through here Saturday on his 

 way home from the Kansas City show. 

 Elmer w'as all praises for the manage- 

 ment of the show and was in a very 

 happy mood, having captured all the 

 good things in mums. 



Frank M. Ellis returned from Kansas 

 City Sunday morning. He says: "It 

 was the biggest thing I ever saw, and 

 a pleasant place to meet friends." 



Henry Aul is using one of Max Her- 

 zog's smoke consumers and self-feeders 

 at his place, which he claims is just the 

 thing and will save much coal the com- 

 ing winter. His new white carnation, 

 St. Louis, is doing nicely, and some fine 

 blooms of it are seen at Kuehn's every 

 day. 



Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Weber cele- 

 brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of 

 their wedding at their home, 432(i Olive 

 street, last Friday evening, entertaining' 

 their friends with a euchre party. Many 

 handsome presents of silver were re- 

 ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Weber. The 

 bouse was beautifully decorated with 

 pink carnations, chrjsanthemums ana 

 palms. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Beneke were 

 the only ones present at the anniversary 

 who had the pleasure of attending the 

 wedding twenty-five years before. 



Invitations are out for the thirteenth 

 annual banquet to gardeners, florists 

 and nurserymen to be held at the Mer- 

 cantile Club on Wednesday, November 

 19, at 7 p. m. 



On Tuesday night a party of fifteen 

 St. Louis florists left for Chicago to 

 attend the flower show given at that 

 place. Those who went are: F. M. 

 Ellis, C. A. Kuehn, Otto Koenig, Fred 

 Ammann. Tlieo. Miller, Fred C. Weber, 

 John Steidle, A. Jablonsky, Fred Mein- 

 hardt, wife and sister ; Carl Beyer. Carew 

 Sanders, J. F. Windt, Jr.. and'j. J. Ben- 

 eke. They will visit all the large plants 

 adjacent to that city, also those in 

 Joliet. 



Miss Belle Miller, of Springfield, 111., 

 is in town this week calling on friends. 



Club Meeting Postponed. 



As most of the members of the Flor- 

 ists' Club are visiting Chicago this week, 

 the club meeting has been postponed un- 

 til next Thursday afternoon, November 

 20. 



Bowling. 



The florist bowlers who are bowling 

 in the league are doing quite well and 

 making good averages. I will give the 

 bowling readers in the next issue the 

 averages of the fifteen games bowled. 

 The Florists' Bowling Club still rolls 

 every Monday night at the Monarch al- 

 leys and some good scores are reported. 

 The regulars are always in attendance. 



J. J. B. 



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