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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



XuVEiiBEi; 20, 1902. 



Mr. E. A. Richards, formerly of 

 Lynn, was in town on Saturday from 

 Greenfield, where he has been located 

 for a couple of years or more. He is 

 working up a good trade there, and feels 

 so well pleased with it that he has pur- 

 chased floral property and contem- 

 plates costly improvements thereon soon. 

 But llowers, decorative plants and a 

 renewal of his subscription for the fast- 

 est growing floral paper were his chief 

 business items. 



Miss Eunice Belcher sends out a tidy 

 announcement concerning the opening 

 of the "Medford Flower Store" at No. 

 9 High street, that city. Her expres- 

 sion, "Flowers for all occasions at 

 prices inducing continued patronage," is 

 original and worthy of imitation. Suc- 

 cess attend upon her. J. S. Manxes. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market is improving 

 despite immense quantities of flowers- 

 brought in by the warm weather. Prices 

 range much the same with no indica- 

 tions of a general advance for Tlianks- 

 giving. Carnations are still too ])lenti- 

 ful, great quantities of the poorest 

 grades and some valley and chrysanthe- 

 mums being sold on the street for a 

 mere song. S. S. Pennock is receiving 

 quantities of fine Dendrobium formosum. 

 The first Roman hyacinths are coming 

 in. W. J. Baker is handling some fine 

 sprays. Chrysanthemums are a little 

 less plentiful than a week ago. 



Wyncote. 



Joseph Heacock has a splendid collec- 

 tion of well grown palms. A visit to 

 his place one day this week impressed 

 me with the marvelous growth a few 

 years had seen in the cultivation of 

 foliage plants at Wyncote. Not very 

 long ago there was not a palm to be 

 seen there; today they are numbered by 

 the hundred thousand in all sizes from 

 the tiny seedling to specimens in 12- 

 inch pots. 



A house, ■>75 feet by 25 feet, filled 

 with very handsome plants, fully six 

 feet high, showed superior culture. One 

 lot of Areca lutescens in 10-inch pots, 

 beautifully shaped, with luxuriant dark 

 green foliage, was particularly attrac- 

 tive; this size is very scarce about 

 Philadelphia now. Three other great 

 houses were filled with 4, 6 and 8-inch 

 arecas and kentias, all in prime condi- 

 tion. Ten or twelve smaller houses, 

 each 100 feet long, were also devoted to 

 these varieties of palms. There are 

 some made-up plants of Kentia Bel- 

 moreana, but most of this variety are 

 grown singly to meet the market re- 

 quirements. 



A couple of houses devoted to Cocos 

 Weddeliana were a pretty sight. Mr. 

 Heacock has a method of growing these 

 tiny specimens that produces a vigor- 

 ous and perfectly symmetrical plant. 

 There was a nice batch of Latania bor- 

 bonica in 4-ineh pots, just showing 

 character leaves. Great quantities of 

 kentia seed, both Belmoreana and 

 Forsteriana, have lately been sown. 

 Areca lutescens in 6-inch"pots were well 

 done. 



There are about a dozen houses of 

 Beauties, all in excellent condition, full 

 of breaks and without a trace of spot. 

 A few Beauties are being tried in 

 ground beds. Two large houses are de- 



voted to carnations. One is filled with 

 Wliite Cloud, the other with Melba, Mrs. 

 Fi-ances Joost and Mrs. Lawson. The 

 propagating house is partly filled with 

 Cypripedium insigne, well covered with 

 buds and blooms. 



The Flower Market. 



Manager Meehan reports business as 

 steadily increasing. Cut flowers are 

 selling well, most of the growers sell- 

 ing out early each morning. A number 

 of fine foliage plants are kept in stock 

 as samples, and many orders have re- 

 sulted therefrom. One lot of a thou- 

 sand plants was sold last week. Appli- 

 cations for space are coming in at an 

 encouraging rate. Richard Umfried, 

 for many years with Fred Ehret, the up- 

 town commission fiorist, began his du- 

 ties as assistant to the manager last 

 Monday. Mr. Umfried has a thorough 

 knowledge of the business, and will be 

 a great acquisition to the new enter- 

 prise. 



A number of distinguished out-of-town 

 visitors dropped in last week. 



Tlie choice of stalls will be auctioned 

 on Saturday morning, November 22, in- 

 stead of last Saturday, as previously 

 stated. 



Bowline. 



The Florist Bowling team, all simon- 

 pure florists now, defeated the Eagle 

 club in three straight games in a bowl- 

 ers' league contest last week. In this 

 match the new system of changing play- 

 ers in the middle of the contest was put 

 in practice. George M. Moss, D. T. Con- 

 ner and Walter Yeates, bowling in all 

 three games, while W. R. Gibson, FYank 

 Potites, and W. K. Harris each bowled 

 in but two matches. Phil. 



Mrs. Lemuel Ball, wife of Lemuel 

 Ball, of Wissinoming, died last Sunday 

 after a very brief illness, the cause of 

 death being some form of kidney dis- 

 ease. Mr. Ball has the deepest sympa- 

 thy of his many friends in his bereave- 

 ment. T. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



The weather here has not been such as 

 tends to a flourishing condition of busi- 

 ness. We have had but one general 

 killing frost, and in situations at all 

 sheltered bedding plants stand outdoors 

 almost unharmed. During the past two 

 weeks on several days the mercury stood 

 at 70 degrees. A number of growers of 

 chrysanthemums amongst the trucksters 

 and small farmers are bringing in very 

 creditable flowers grown outside with- 

 out protection. The bulk of the mums 

 is over and pretty much everybody in 

 the trade is glad of it, though some 

 growers, like the resourceful and worthy 

 William Christy, promise to keep ship- 

 ments up until Christinas. Great quan- 

 tities of all grades have been put on 

 the market and, not^vithstanding the 

 large numbers passing into the hands 

 of the street venders, many must have 

 gone to waste. ^ 



Carnations also, so far this_, season, 

 have been in excess of the demand, and 

 the sidewalk dealers have been ofl'ering 

 good flowers at from G to 10 cents a 

 dozen, to the disgust of the regular 

 market men, and of the stores as well. 



With the passing of the chrysanthe- 

 mums a general stiffening up of all kinds 



of stock may be looked for. Indeed, 

 good roses are already in demand, quite 

 up to, if not beyond, the supply. Vio- 

 lets are coming in veiy slowly and their 

 quality cannot be put down as first- 

 class. Many shipped from the south 

 are fair enough to the sight, but they 

 lose all fr.igi-ance in their journey. 

 Wonien of fashion are again displaying 

 large bunclies on the corsage. 



Unprecedented dullness has character- 

 ized the trade for the past two weeks. 

 The chrysanthemum deliveries have 

 been largely in excess of demand. To- 

 day (November 17) there is a palpable 

 improvement, and flowers are in consid- 

 erable more request, roses being short of 

 requirements. 



Chrysanthemum Show. 



Chrysanthemum shows have had their 

 turn here. At two of our large parks 

 for several days there were throngs of 

 visitors to see the displays, and last 

 week the Gardeners' Club held its an- 

 nual show at the accustomed place, 

 I^hmann's Hall. There were some fine 

 flowers staged, but neither quantity nor 

 general display was equal to the exhibi- 

 tions of former years. The Eatons, Ap- 

 pletons and Chamberlains were fine ex- 

 amples, without any remarkable pre- 

 ponderance of quality amongst the vari- 

 ous deposits in the several classes. Some 

 interest and some feeling seemed aroused 

 in the award of a special prize of a 

 piece of silver from a mercantile house 

 for the best vase of fifty pinks, the rib- 

 bon going to Thos. H. Patterson for his 

 Maud Dean, over a seedling, Mrs. Casey, 

 of Paul W. Binder, which gave promise 

 last year of possessing desirable quali- 

 ties. One of the daily papers is author- 

 ity for the statement that the judge* 

 gave half an hour to the decision of 

 the contest. 



The judges were: Messrs. Gude (W. 

 F. ), Bauer and Blackistone, all of Wash- 

 ington. The show had no eff'ect in stim- 

 ulating trade, as it has sometimes had 

 before, and the attendance of visitors was 

 disappointing. Doubtless the park dis- 

 plays accounted in part for this, though 

 many think it is due to the want of 

 anything like novel features, or varying 

 disposition of material from year to 

 year. 



Notes. 



Amongst the trade there has been a, 

 general brushing up for the season's 

 trade, and stores and wagons have been 

 repainted and decorated. William J. 

 Halliday, of 316 North Charles street, 

 has remodeled his premises, covering the 

 walls with plate mirrors, not only add- 

 ing to the apparent space, but making 

 an attractive and tasteful change. The 

 wood work is all white and the effect 

 is neat and pleasing. 



A new candidate for public favor is 

 Ernest Prigge. who has opened a new 

 store on Liberty street, near Lexington, 

 in the very center of the retail shopping 

 section. He comes lately from the Lake 

 View Greenhouses at Jamestown, N. Y., 

 though he was engaged at one time aa 

 a florist in this vicinity. 



J. A. Ritter, of North Charles street 

 and North avenue, whose attention here- 

 tofore has been divided between a flour- 

 ishing florist store and a tonsorial es- 

 tablishment, informs us that he has sold 

 the latter and will hereafter devote his 

 entire time to the sale of plants and 

 flowers. , B. 



