l''EBKI AKV 11. IIMM. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The iiiaiket has been more active this 

 week than for some time past, the de- 

 iiiaiKl, liowever, being almost entirely 

 from out of town. City trade improves 

 very slowly, if at all, but the .southern 

 buyers have been callinff for larjfe i|Uan- 

 titles of stock this week and have kept 

 the wholesale houses completely cleaned 

 out on shipping roses. Keceipts in this 

 department are very light, indeed, there 

 being very few good Beauties and not 

 enough Brides or Maids to meet the re- 

 <|uirenients. Red roses have been very 

 scarce and what few Liberties have been 

 available have brought close to Beauty 

 prices. Meteor is almost an unknown 

 quantit}'. although now and then a pot 

 of this variety is seen. Several of the 

 commission men agree on the proposition 

 that the carnation growers are not cut- 

 ting to within twenty or twenty-five per 

 cent as many flowers from a given si)ace 

 as they were at this time last year, but 

 the receipts are ample to the require- 

 ments, in general the stock grades very 

 high and prices are low by comparison. 

 As a matter of fact the fancy stock is 

 selling so cheaply that it makes the low 

 grades hard to sell at any price. 



Bulbous stock continues to be in large 

 supply, but the better grades are selling 

 •Hit fairly well. There is a good de- 

 nurnd for first-class red tulips and good 

 yellow tulips find ready buyers. Paper 

 Whites and freesias go slowlj-. Callas 

 have been in demand this week. The 

 receipts of Harrisii lilies are increasing 

 steadily and of late the stock has shown 

 considerable improvement in quality, 

 very fair flowers being obtainable at from 

 •li-i "to ,$2.50 per dozen. It is noted that 

 a good many of the bidbs are producing 

 only one or two flowers for some of the 

 growers and there is not much money in 

 that. 



Violets are not so abundant as a few 

 weeks ago and are affording little con- 

 cern in the market. Smilax has become 

 one of the few scarce items and the first 

 of the week was selling higher tluin the 

 light strings of asparagus, something 

 probably never before known in this mar- 

 ket. Orchids are in good demand. 



ilardi Gras at New Orleans ne.xt week 

 should keep things going for a few days 

 more and St. Valentine's day, February 

 14, ought to help the violets a bit. 



Club Meetings. 



There was a very good attendance at 

 the regular club meeting, February 3, 

 the growers being interested in hearing 

 what the building material men had to 

 say on the latest wrinkles in greenhouse 

 construction. Several of the local firms 

 made exhibits and Lord & Burnham Co., 

 Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., sent some 

 excellent photographs, illustrating their 

 methods of construction. R. W. King, 

 of Toronto, was present and spoke like 

 one who knows his subject. He is to 

 have charge of the erection of the mil- 

 lion feet of glass to be put up at Elmira, 

 N. Y., by the United States Cut Flower 

 Co. Stollery Bros, showed some fine 

 tulips at this meeting. 



On Saturday evening the last of the 

 revival meetings will be held, this time 

 at the Diexel Cafe, which is very ac- 

 cessibly located, at the corner of Cottage 

 Grove avenue and Thirty-ninth street. A 

 good program has been prepared and ev- 

 erybody should be on hand to help give 



the ball another shove. It is rolling well 

 now. 



Club members lia\e received tickets for 

 distribution to their friends for the ex- 

 hibition to be held in Handel hall next 

 Wednesday. February 17. It is to be 

 open to the (lublic from 2 to 4 in the 

 afternoon. It .seems certain that there 

 will be a good show of carnations and 

 bulbous .stock. P. J. Ilauswirth has the 

 arrangements in charge. 



The club has placed all bowling alTaii-i 

 in the hands of a committee, consisting 

 of P. .1. Hauswirth, George Asnius ami 

 George Stollery, There is a meeting for 

 practice at the Gereaux alleys on Mad- 

 ison street every Tuesday evening. There 

 is a good attendance, two alleys lieing 

 placed at the disposal of the niemljers' 

 wives. 



The Carnation Meeting. 



Chicago will be well represented at the 

 Detroit carnation convention. It is ex- 

 l)ected that the delegation will go down 

 on the Wabash on the afternoon of 

 ilarch 1. reaching Detroit the evening 

 before the convention. In the party will 

 lie W. N. Rudd, Jas. Hartshorne, 'C. h. 

 Washburn. Peter Reinberg, N, J, Wietor, 

 Leonard Kill, L, Coatsworth, Anton 

 Then, Fritz Bahr, E, F. Winterson, P, J. 

 Hauswirth, P. J. and J. P. Foley. Wm. 

 Kroeschell and several others, including 

 a number of ladies. 



Various Notes. 



C. M. Dickinson, manager of E, H, 

 Hunt's, has been elected secretary of 

 the National Oil Refining and Manufac- 

 turing Co,, a million dollar corporation, 

 which is developing a big tract of oil 

 land in the Kern river district in Cali- 

 fornia, Tlie concern has its general of- 

 fices at 79 Dearborn street, Chicago, 



Those who have visited Poehlmann 

 Bros.' establishment recently say their 

 Beauties are coming on finely. They had 

 the misfortune to get the stock in several 

 houses frosted last fall and have ijot had 

 much out of them, but they are now in 

 good shape. 



A. H. Budlong is now in personal 

 charge of affairs at J. A. Budlong's 

 wholesale store. 



Frank Garland has leased a room on 

 the second floor of the Atlas block, ad- 

 joining Peter Reinberg's, to which he 

 will remove May 1, 



E, F, Winter.5on Co. reports the call 

 for fancy baskets much below last sea- 

 son's demand and says the retailers are 

 not using them as much as formerly. 



Last Saturday a water pipe burst in 

 the Atlas block and flooded Deamud and 

 Garland. Little damage was done. 



Henry Muno has left C. W. McKellar 

 and may start a retail store or go into 

 some other line. 



Henry Hansen, son of H, Hansen, the 

 North Clark street carnation grower, and 

 Miss Mary Smith were married yes- 

 terday, Mr. Hansen sells his father's 

 stock at the Growers' Market. 



John Hoeft has sold his retail store on 

 North Campbell avenue to Kuehne & 

 Pearson and will devote his attention to 

 his greenhouses at Park Ridge. He is 

 planning a trip to California for his 

 health. 



A. L. Randall Co, is getting quantities 

 of white lilac and very fine valley from 

 Buettner, 



Bassett & Washburn have a fair cut 

 of Liberty, and red roses are at a pre- 

 mium, 



Wietor Bros, are cutting good Beau- 

 ties, 



Kcnnicott's are getting in Klehm's 

 Novelty tulip in quantify and it is sell- 

 ing fairly well, 



A. C Kohlbrand, of E. C. Amling's, 

 is ill this week. 



Among recent visitors were E. G. Hill, 

 Richmond. Ind. ; Mr. Smith, of Smith & 

 Fetters, Cleveland; Mr. Hill, of the 

 Grand Rapids Violet Co., Grand Rapids. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



We are having most beautiful weather 

 in sj)ite of Mr, Ground Hog, who re- 

 turned to his winter quarters after see- 

 ing his shadow last Tuesday, Business 

 during the last few days 'of the past 

 week dropped oft' greatly,' The fine, clear, 

 warm weather has brought out an abun- 

 dance of cut flowers of all kinds and of 

 the best quality. Prices, of course, have 

 dropped and on Saturday good carna- 

 tions were selling at $15 per 1,000 and 

 $2 and $2.50 per 100 in small lots. 

 Among them were seen Mrs. Lawson, 

 Mrs. Nelson, Enchantress. Prosperity, 

 Queen Louise, Wolcott and other good 

 stock. Brides and Maids are again plen- 

 tiful; so are Meteors, Gates and Perles. 

 About the only scarce rose now is fancy 

 American Beauty. Some good flower's 

 are seen but very short stemmed. Prices 

 on roses run from $4 to $10 per 100. 



Bulbous stock is moving slowly; plenty 

 of it in the market for all demands, es- 

 pecially Roman , hyacinths and Paper 

 Whites. Very few Dutch hyacinths are 

 in as yet, Harrisii are in and are sell- 

 ing well at $12,50 and $15 per 100, Cal- 

 las, too, are plentiful at 10 cents, Lily 

 of the valley is very slow at 4 cents. 

 Tulips are coming in fine, but not mov- 

 ing as they should at 4 cents. The Nov- 

 elty tulips at Keuhn's are fine, going at 5 

 cents, A big supply of California vio- 

 lets is in the market at 50 cents per 100 

 and about 35 cents in 1,000 lots. Street 

 fakirs are peddling them out at 10 cents 

 a bunch. The green market is healthy 

 and there is plenty of everything and 

 especially fine asparagus and smilax, 

 which has quite a demand. 



Various Notes. 



I paid a visit Sunday to two of our 

 well-known florists in South St, Louis, 

 Messrs, Fillmore and Schray. At Fill- 

 more's I found Frank just awakening 

 from liis afternoon nap. Everything is 

 moving well at this place. A fine crop of 

 callas was seen, also a large number of 

 deep wooden boxes filled with Asparagus 

 Sprengeri, from which thousands of 

 sprays can be cut, A fine bench of Mrs, 

 Nelson carnations was seen in the next 

 house, of which Frank is very proud. 

 For white he backs his money on the 

 Hoosier Maid, which is by Anders Rasmus- 

 sen, of New Albany, Ind, The flowers 

 are large, well formed, good stem and 

 calyx never bursts, A few Enchantress 

 also looked well. Roses have been off 

 crop for some time but from the looks of 

 the houses his big four, Brides, Maids, 

 Perles and Woottons, will yield him a 

 big crop soon. They also report plenty 

 of funeral work of late. Their faithful 

 dog. Monkey, which is a terror to drum- 

 mers and w-hich saved the place from de- 

 struction by flre some time ago, is still 

 on watch. 



At Schray's place evei-ything is looking 

 well, Mr, Schray is forcing a lot of li- 

 lacs, which will be blooming this week. 

 We were also shown a lot of white poin- 



