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The Weekly Florists* Review, 



Januakv 14. 1!104. 



quite a business iu orchids, an item not 

 largely handled in this market. 



Fleischman used 1,000 Uncle John 

 roses in a recent decoration. 



Flint Kennicott is again laid up with 

 the rheumatism. 



F. Stillo, at Niles Center, lost a child 

 last week, 6 years of age, and has the 

 sympathy of everyone in the market. 



P. J. Hauswirth was at Jacksonville, 

 111., on Tuesday in charge of the tlowers 

 at a funeral in the family of one of his 

 customers. 



The bowlers had a good session last 

 Thursday evening. There was a fine turn 

 out, the Stolley brothers, Asmus, ilrs. 

 Hauswirth and Miss Kreitling, making 

 particularly fine scores. In the future 

 practice will be had on Tuesday even- 

 ing. John Lambros states that the otlier 

 club will bowl each Thursday' beginning- 

 tonight. 



rieischman is reported to have lost 

 a lot of Christmas stock frozen in a 

 broken down automobile. 



E. F. Winterson says that whenever 

 business in cut tiowers slacks up a little 

 he can always find something doing in 

 the suppl.y department. 



F. G. Hunt is no longer with W. X. 

 Rudd at Mt. Greenwood. 



The A. L. Randall Co. is handling a 

 nice lot of white lilac and some of 

 Buettner's fancy mignonette. 



Frank Garland is getting in Paper 

 Whites by the thousands, in fact a little 

 faster than he wishes he was. He is 

 still cutting a few mums. 



C. W. McKellar is now getting in " a 

 little of everything ' ' and finds a fair 

 trade on miscellaneous flowers on a floor 

 lieretofore given up to roses and carna- 

 tions. 



The annual meeting for election of of- 

 ficers of the Horticultural Society of 

 Chicago was called for the Great North- 

 ern hotel Tuesday afternoon, but a 

 cjuorum was not obtained. 



Sam Graff is here from Columbus, 

 where Gratf Bros, are doing a nice 

 wholesale and retail trade, and "Billy" 

 Graff is now in charge. One of the 

 brothers does the buying in this market, 

 the other the selling at Columbus. 



Bassett & Washburn report a very good 

 run of shipping trade the first part of 

 this week. 



Fred Klingel, bookkeeper for Peter 

 Reinberg, is again quite ill. A surgical 

 operation was performed on him Mon- 

 day. 



Lloyd Vaughan has started on another 

 trip for E. H. Hunt. 



E. H. Stewart, of Milwaukee, was a 

 recent visitor. 



CINCINNATI. 



Club Meeting. 



Saturday was the regular meeting of 

 the Florists' Society and though scarcely 

 more than a quorum was present, einsid^ 

 erable business was transacted. Owing 

 to the absence of the secretary, Geo. Mur- 

 phy, Henry Schwarz was appointed to fill 

 the post. E. E. Brann, of the Pittsburg 

 Plate Glass Co., was admitted to mem- 

 bership. The schedule for our rose show, 

 to be held in our club rooms the second 

 Saturday of February, was adopted and 

 ordered printed and sent out to prospec- 

 tive exhibitors. 



A. F. J. Baur, of Baiir & Smith, In- 

 dianapolis, was present at the meeting 

 and exhibited a vase of their new carna- 



tion, Indianapolis. This is certainly a 

 beauty, with fine stem, color, size and 

 calyx, in fact everything that goes to 

 make a fine flower. It appears to be a 

 prolific and early bloomer, and judging 

 by the report of those who have seen it 

 growing it is a good commercial variety. 

 A committee of judges was appointed 

 consisting of Wm. Murphy, Ben George 

 and August Hoffmeister, to pass upon it 

 and they awarded it the society's certifi- 

 cate of merit and recommended it as a 

 commercial variety. Mr. Baur says that 

 it is a cross between Armazindy and 

 Joost. 



The Market. 



The least said of business at present, 

 the better. Besides funeral work there 

 is very little doing. Once in a while 

 there is a spurt but it soon subsides into 

 the same slow rut. Roses are about equal 

 to the demand but prices have dropped 

 considerably, especially on pink. Carna- 

 tions have increased greatly in supply 

 and the price has dropped fully fifty per 

 cent on ordinary grades, with more than 

 enough to go around. Violets have been 

 almost a dead letter and some days they 

 would scarcely move at any price. Bulb- 

 ous stock has moved well and valley is 

 scarce. Sprengeri and asparagus are 

 scarce but there is plenty of smilax. 



The coming week holds forth better 

 prospects as society is beginning to bet- 

 ter itself after the post-holiday rest. 



Various Notes. 



A great many of the trade are on the 

 sick list, none seriously ill, but still un- 

 able to attend to business. Among the 

 invalids are Chas. Jones, R. A. Betz and 

 T. W. Hardesty. 



Geo. Murphy reports one of his chil- 

 dren as very sick with pneumonia. 



R. Witterstaetter 's mother-in-law died 

 last Friday. She had been very sick for 

 some time. The funeral took place Sun- 

 day afternoon, the burial being in Spring 

 Grove cemetery. 



Miss JHinnie Culton, who for many 

 years has been stenographer for J. M. 

 McCullough's Sons, has just received the 

 appointment as chief stenographer to 

 Wade H. Ellis, attorney general of Ohio. 



Theo. Bock, of Hamilton, is on the sick 

 list. It all came through a leaky boiler. 

 Mr. Bock was obliged to attach a traction 

 engine to his heating pipes in order to 

 keep up the required temperature in his 

 houses. Everything moved along nicely 

 till one night the engineer went to slee-^ 

 and before he awoke about $300 wortli_ nf 

 plants were frozen. Mr. Bock in doing 

 what he could to save his entire plant, 

 caught a severe cold. He is much better 

 at present. 



Two new retail stores will be opened 

 for business this week. One on McMillan 

 street. Walnut Hills, by Lew Villner, the 

 other in the • Arcade, between Race and 

 Yine streets, by Freemas & Co. 



C. J. Ohmee. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Everyone has felt a falling off in 

 business the past fortnight as compared 

 with the same period a year ago. Peo- 

 ple are not buying our stock now. Prices 

 are low and irregular, consignors are dis- 

 pleased, stall holders gloomy and the 

 dealers have their own troubles. The 

 weak-kneed chaps are blue; comparisons 

 appal them. The spunky chaps are quiet 



but hopeful; they expect to make it up 

 later. A prominent dealer, when asked 

 whether there was any strong item on the 

 list, replied with a smile, "wild smilax." 

 Single dift'odils are in ; W. K. Harris has 

 them in pots. The feature of the mar- 

 ket is the arrival of gardenias. Robert 

 Scott & Son have cut the Gordian knot 

 and S. S. Pennock is now able to offer 

 the swells their cherished English bou- 

 tonniere iu midwinter. Leo Niessen had 

 some shipping orders for Trenton on 

 Tuesday for the opening of the state 

 legislature. This week is better than 

 last, anyway. 



"R. L. H." 



The letters "R. L. H. " are printed on 

 certain railroad envelopes and are said 

 to indicate that dispatch is required. It 

 is said that these letters are the initials 

 for "run like hustler," and are bor- 

 rowed by the railroad men from the flor- 

 ists, whom they know to be quick. The 

 profanely inclined attach a different 

 meaning to the last letter, but florists 

 are not profane and will agree with me 

 in interpreting them. Evidently they 

 were forgotten on Phil's last letter to 

 the Review-, or else the railroaders were 

 too busy thawing out frozen switches to 

 heed th'em, for everything was held up 

 on the way except a few little things 

 and the Florists ' Club meeting wire wds 

 hardly recognizable. 



Know then, kind reader, that the 

 market last week was bad, very bad. 

 Prices fell and flowers spoiled. Then, 

 to add to our trials, there was a big 

 storm that consumed much energy, coal 

 and oil. That the club meeting did Sec- 

 retary Lonsdale proud. Alfred Burton's 

 pa]ier on the advantages of horticultural 

 education was a good one; the fruits of 

 it show at Wyndmoor. Francis Canning 

 sent another clever paper on the same 

 subject. Besides, C. W. Ward and Rob- 

 ert Craig spoke on carnations. John 

 N. May's exhibit consisted of The 

 Bride, a white carnation of great size, 

 and some blooms of a free flowering 

 red rose called General McArthur. Will- 

 iam Bidden will. I trust, pardon the way 

 his name was spelled, while Robert Craig 

 & Son, with a fine lot of Adonis and 

 others; John Kuhn, with a fine seedling. 

 And Adolph Farcnwald, with his superb 

 Liberties, will, I know, exercise the same 

 CHiristiau virtue regarding their being 

 side-tracked altogether. , 



The Ball Season, 



The ball season is well under way. One 

 or two big affairs preceded the holidays, 

 but the season proper has just opened, 

 with a huge private ball, a veritable 

 rout, followed by the first assembl.v and 

 another dancing class and the dinners, 

 etc., incident thereto. Unfortunately 

 they don't cut much ice for florists, in 

 general, just a spalsh that momentarily 

 disturbs the serenity of the pond, that's 

 all. 



The season is a short one, Lent begins 

 February 17. From present indications 

 we shall have plenty of business until 

 then. 



The Germantown Horticultural Society 

 met January 11. The speakers sched- 

 uled were Frank M. Bartram and War- 

 ren J. Chandler. Orchids, cut flowers, 

 ferns and fruits were shown. 



Dunn & Co. claim to have been very 

 successful since opening and sa.y the out- 

 look for business in 1904 is very en- 

 couraging. Phil. 



