December 3, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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etpeeially those of Charlie Kuehn. Be- 

 low -uill be fouud the scores of the four 

 games rolled. 



Player. 1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. T'l. 



C. A. Kuehn 232 218 169 170 789 



Oscnr Bencke 176 174 187 177 714 



J. J. Bcneke 186 181 148 179 694 



Theo. Miller 128 170 160 158 616 



F. J. Meillhardt 118 128 134 173 553 



P. M. Ellis 166 151 113 112 542 



Freddie Weber 99 97 131 101 428 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Trade is very quiet this week, and 

 great is the disappointment thereat, for 

 everyone in the market had been hop- 

 ing that business would continue at its 

 accustomed gait after Thanksgiving. 

 Beauties, ordinarily one of the most 

 staple of products, are the weakest item 

 in the list this week, particularly the 

 extra lengths. All the big growers 

 seemed to get good cuts on just before 

 Thanksgiving and, with light demand, 

 the long-stemmed stock has been mov- 

 ing at rates, where a quantity could 

 be used, probably lower t- an this mar- 

 ket has ever before seen at this season 

 of the year. Medium grades have held 

 up fairly well. There is very little call 

 for Maids and none too much for 

 Brides; little good stocK of either va- 

 riety is available. Chatenay, Liberty, 

 Sunrise, Carnot and Meteor do a little 

 better and are shown in much better 

 quality. Carnations hold stiff, supplies 

 being not in excess of demand and qual- 

 ities good. Last week colored carna- 

 tions were in the lead, some whites be- 

 ing left on Thanksgiving day, but this 

 week the greatest call has evidently 

 been for funeral flowers. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are about at the end of their sea- 

 son. There are still quantities about 

 but the quality is generally lacking. 

 Violets were in sad overabundance at 

 the end of last week, but receipts have 

 fallen off and Tuesday saw the market 

 strong, even with little demand. A few 

 poinsettias are seen. 



It develops that the wholesale busi- 

 ness for Thanksgiving was not so much 

 below last year after all. The total of 

 sales was fair. Beauties did not bring 

 what they should and violets went to 

 the bad Wednesday afternoon aua 

 Thursday morning. Also the better 

 grade of mums did not come up to last 

 year's prices. These discrepancies ac- 

 count for whatever shrinkage there was 

 in sales. 



Christinas Near. 



Christmas is only three weeks away 

 and there is already considerable specu- 

 lation as to the supply and demand. 

 Some growers fear that the Beauty crop 

 will be off. Other roses are expected to 

 be in good supply. Carnations seem 

 likely to be scarce; in fact, there could 

 hardly be too many. Better size up the 

 situation and book your order early. 



One thing the growers need caution- 

 ing about is the matter of holding back 

 stock. Pickle if you must (but pickling 

 is going out of fashion) but get your 

 stuff onto the market by December 23. 

 It is a pietty safe assertion that up to 

 that day there will not be as much stock 

 of shipping grade as could be used. The 

 next day the out-of-town demand will be 

 over and the local buyers will be in pos- 

 s'ession of the market. This is a matter 

 which has been spoken of so often that it 

 would seem that nothing more need be 



said, but nevertheless, at Thanksgiving 

 one big grower hoarded his cut Monday 

 and Tuesday, when business was good, 

 and brought in a great stock to meet a 

 slack demand on Wednesday. 



Various Notes. 



Frederick Weber, of Weber Bros., 

 who operate the Grossman place, has 

 bought a piece of ground about 200x325 

 adjoining H. Bauske's place in Bow- 

 manville and has ordered glass and ma- 

 terial for a range of seven large houses, 

 which he will push to completion as 

 early as possible in the spring, as it is 

 his intention to plant Beauties. 



The Florists' Club's third annual ball 

 was held last evening at the drill hall 

 in the Masonic Temple. John P. Eisch 

 was the manager. 



E. E. Pieser says that with Beauties 

 so plentiful, the late mums will be a 

 forced sale. 



Glass is at a low level just now and 

 there are those in the trade who look 

 for a rise, as the new wage schedule is 

 the highest on record and the big glass 

 manufacturers are all pretty close to- 

 gether. 



George W. Walther has a very neat 

 store on Sixty-third street, in the best 

 part of Englewood, and does a nice 

 trade. An invitation to a chrysanthe- 

 mum show, recently mailed to everyone 

 for a mile around, helped to keep l;is 

 place busy. 



L. Baumann & Co., capital $^0,000, 

 has been incorporated to manufacture 

 florists' and milliners' supplies, by F. 

 H. Gelderman, Ludolph Baumann and 

 G. A. Malmcrop. 



O. W. Frese, of George Reinberg's, 

 says he looks for a big Beauty crop for 

 Christmas. 



John Muno is handling very good 

 Meteor. 



L. Coatsworth, of Benthey & Co., who 

 was at New Castle last week, says all 

 the stock down there is looking fine. 



Poehlmann Bros, are still cutting 

 chrysanthemums in quantity. 



E. F. Winterson is suffering from 

 poisoning in the face. 



N. Welter, at 4321 Western avenue, is 

 preparing to erect three houses 20x200. 



Bassett & Washburn are cutting a 

 heavy crop of fine Liberty, a good part 

 of them very long-stemmed. 



C. H. Fisk is now devoting his entire 

 attention to his west side retail store. 



Sinner Bros, are well pleased with 

 the sales on folding Christmas bells; 

 they say the leading retailers are tak- 

 ing to the device. 



John Zeck, of J. A. Budlong's, has 

 been suffering with a severe sore throat. 



Will Kyle, of Kennicott's, received a 

 telegram on Tuesday notifying him of 

 the severe injury of a brother-in-law in 

 a railroad wreck in Nevada. 



Webster City, Ia.— James Follett has 

 added 1,500 feet of glass for carnations. 

 He reports trade good this season. 



Manchester, .Vt. — W. H. Graham has 

 enlarged his greenhouse and is doing a 

 good trade. 



Wareensburgh, N. Y.— S. E. Prosser 

 has dismantled his greenhouse on Main 

 street and transferred his stock to his 

 new establishment on Horican avenue. 



Mitchell, S. D. — E. C. Newbury & Son 

 have recently completed the remodeling 

 of their range and have the place in Jine 

 shape. The business was established nine 

 years ago and trade is good this fall. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The volume of business in cut flowers 

 has been very large since last week's re- 

 port. An excellent Thanksgiving, closely 

 followed by an unusually heavy Satur- 

 day, consumed practically everything in 

 the market. This week the first german 

 in Baltimore on Monday night, for which 

 many Bridesmaids, violets, Beauties and 

 lilies of the valley were shipped from this 

 city, was followed here by a week of 

 teas, dinners, etc., which has kept the 

 local retailers busy. The demand for 

 Beauties has been very heavy. Chrysan- 

 themums are on the wane, but some real- 

 ly fine flowers of Chadwick, Maud Dean, 

 Eaton and a few other sorts can be had. 

 They sell readily at high prices. Carna- 

 tions are not plentiful, but the quality is 

 very fine, Lawson being particularly well 

 done. Poinsettias and white lilac have 

 made their appearance, the former at 

 Dunn & Co. 's the latter at Edward 

 Reid's . There is a little bouvardia to 

 be had. George Carpenter has just be- 

 gun sending in some choice pink and 

 red sprays to W. J. Baker. A few Ro- 

 mans have made their appearance but 

 they will not be plentiful until another 

 week. Greens of all kinds are very fine and 

 can be had in quantity. Shipping trade 

 is very heavy. 



Some Ideas in Plants. 



I remember with painful distinctness 

 a certain morning spent some years ago 

 among the storekeepers of our great city. 

 I say spent, because it was an absolutely 

 profitless morning at a very busy time. X 

 had a house nearly filled with fine lilies 

 and wanted to market them. Of course 

 they went in due season, but not on that 

 sad morning. Every storekeeper said 

 that before ordering anything for Easter 

 he must see what Harris and Craig had 

 to offer; some said Craig and Harris, 

 but they all mentioned these two and all 

 declined to consider my stock until they 

 had seen both these growers. This made 

 me feel that Messrs. Harris and Craig 

 or Craig and Harris pretty much owned 

 the town, floriculturally speaking. I 

 have since somewhat changed this opin- 

 ion, now believing that, while they are 

 very highly appreciated, especially at 

 Easter, still the world is a big place and 

 there is room for good stuff at nearly all 

 seasons. Be that as it may, this morn- 

 ing's lesson to a newspaper man means 

 that the Review readers want to know 

 what is going on at these growers' 

 places from time to time. So lately the 

 Review man, accompanied by a friend 

 to cheer him on the way, trotted out to 

 West Philadelphia to see what was doing 

 at William K. Harris'. The proprietor 

 was absent, but his place was ably filled 

 by Mark B. Mills, who made time to 

 show the visitors about and talked in a 

 way that was an inspiration in itself. 



The chrysanthemums were pretty well 

 cut out; Thanksgiving finished them prac- 

 tically. There were just enough left to 

 give an idea of what they had been. 

 Our Dear Friend was there and beside it 

 a single plant, with three beautiful 

 orange flowers, a sport from it that 

 should be heard from in a couple of 

 years. 



There was a house and more of yellow 

 English primroses, in full bud and 

 bloom, in all sizes from 4 to 10 inch, 

 the smaller pots, the larger pans. Many 



