E^BRnAKY 18, 1904 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



601 



■what I did, namely that Jablonsky was a 

 grower of seedlings himself, I am sat- 

 isfied he would have barred him alto- 

 gether. Mr. Blisen and I being rose 

 growers (I am not afraid to say that 

 in St. Louis) were not watched so close- 

 ly. This place is indeed a wonder in 

 earnationdom and the hospitality shown 

 there is unbounded. 



We arrived at Indianapolis late in the 

 evening and after getting lost a few 

 times finally found a hotel. After sup- 

 per Mr. Jablonsky, seeing everything 

 looked so different from Missouri, sug- 

 gested a stroll around, but we had not 

 gone very far before we missed our friend. 

 On retracing our steps for several blocks, 

 we found him taking notes of a well 

 grown cyclamen plant in a store win- 

 dow. Next morning, bright and early, 

 we were on our way to Baur & Smith 's. 

 Here Mr. Baur took us in charge and 

 introduced us first to Indianapolis. The 

 city itself is noted for its cleanliness, but 

 it's simply not in it with the carnation 

 that bears its name. It is certainly a 

 clean grower, a good producer and we 

 believe has all the qualifications claimed 

 for it. We were next shown the cut- 

 tings in the sand, all in fine, healthy 

 condition. Next we went to the seed- 

 ling house. Here I made it my espe- 

 cial business to watch Mr. Jablonsky, 

 while he watched the seedlings, and as 

 soon as I discovered that he was getting 

 nervous I suggested it was train time an,! 

 with a vote of thanks to Mr. Baur we 

 departed for New Castle to see roses. 



Our first stop was at Heller Brothers', 

 of the South Park Floral Co., and right 

 here is where Jablonsky got the laugh 

 on us, for the looks of their roses I must 

 admit did not exactly agree with mc. 

 But I felt much relieved on looking 

 around at my foreman, Mi-. Blixen. You 

 ought to have seen him. I was afraid 

 Mr. Heller would notice it and at once 

 suggested that the smeU of natural gas 

 did not seem to agree with him, as he had 

 never been near any before. When T 

 say that all the stock here is as good as 

 usual, I think it is enough said. Wc 

 stopped at the Benthey greenhouses just 

 long enough to inspect one of the best 

 equipped heating plants either of us had 

 ever seen. A peep at the stock showed it 

 looking very well, and now for home. 



LONDON AUCTIONS. 



A. Hem^ley writes that on January 20 

 there was a very large consignment of 

 Japanese liliums at the auction rooms. 

 There have been several sales previously, 

 but they continue to attract large num- 

 bers of buyers. Among the buyers on 

 the above date were several from long 

 distances. Some of the bulbs offered 

 were the largest I and others have seen. 

 In the catalogue they were aptly de- 

 scribed as ' ' mammoth bulbs. ' ' No ex- 

 ceptionally high prices were made, unless 

 it was for L. speciosum album ; for bulbs 

 of this there was lively competition, the 

 largest being particularly in demand. In 

 all other varieties it was the largest 

 bulbs that attracted most attention. The 

 medium-sized bulbs were bought in largo 

 quantities by market growers. Judging 

 from these sales, it would appear that 

 though the trade may be dull just now. 

 growers anticipate a better time later on. 

 American Pearl tuberoses were sold in 

 large quantities. In all there were up- 

 wards of 200,000 sold. These fetched 

 about 26s. per 1,000. Palm seeds sold 

 well, cspeciallv Cocos Weddeliana and 



Kentia Belmoreana, but Kentia Forstcr- 

 iana did not make quite such high prices, 

 although the samples were very good. 

 Lily of the valley Fortin 's Giant sold 

 well at about double the prices made by 

 the ordinary Berlin crowns. — Gardeners ' 

 Chronicle. 



DETROIT. 



Carnation Convention, 



The time is fast approacliing when the 

 met ting of the American Carnation So- 

 ciety in Detroit will be a thing of the 

 past and the anxiety of the members of 

 the club to make it a success will have 

 been either realized or attended by fail-' 

 ure. But we have every reason to be- 

 lieve, from the thought and hard work 

 given the matter, both as to staging 

 the stock and the entertainment, that 

 success will crown our efforts, provided 

 we are given the support of the members 

 of the society in attendance and discus- 

 sion of papers and matters of interest to 

 the society. 



An invitation will be extended by 

 John Breitmeyer's Sons, through Philip 

 Breitmeyer, president of the S. A. F., 

 to visit their plant at Mt. Clemens on 

 Friday morning to see the new rose. La 

 Detroit, and it is hoped that everyone in- 

 terested in roses will accept. Special 

 cars wUl carry the party and I will say 

 that the special brand of rose juice kept 

 in the Breitmeyer cellars at Mt. Clemens 

 is of the purest, for they make it them- 

 selves. 



Through some oversight the name of 

 the donor of the prJie in the sweepstakes 

 class was omitted from the nremium lists. 

 This should have read ' ' given by Jlichi- 

 gan Cut Flower Exchange. ' ' If this 

 omission was caused by the president he 

 humblv apologizes to the donor. 



E.\G. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



This has been a week like old times. 

 Business was steadily on the increase, 

 until last Saturday proved to be the best 

 day of the year to date. Local demand 

 has again shown some signs of life and 

 shipping trade is fine. The feature of 

 the situation is the shortage in th3 

 rose crops. Beauties are hard to get in 

 any good grade and tea I'oses are not 

 equal to the demand by quite a little. 

 Some of the country buyers have pro- 

 tested at what they called "Christmas 

 prices" when charged 10 and 12 cents 

 for Brides and Maids, but that has been 

 the market rate for the select stock. 

 Qualities in the rose department are un- 

 usually good but the unfavorable weather 

 we have had keeps the plants standing 

 still. 



Carnations are also of very good quali- 

 ty and in large supply, but the daily re- 

 ceipts are being cleaned up in good 

 style and at fair prices. Valley has 

 come to be a good item ; it has been go- 

 ing slowly for a long time. Violets had 

 a couple of good days, Saturday and 

 Sunday, for St. Valentine's. While large 

 quantities were sold it was not possible 

 to advance the price to any considerable 

 degree. Callas and Harrisii are doing 

 well and in fact all bulbous stock is far- 

 ing better than it has. 



Ferns seem to be running short and 

 the price has been advanced to .$3.50 per 

 thousand. 



Various Notes. 



There was considerable disappoint- 

 ment because Lincoln's birthday last 

 Friday had been overlooked in the matter 

 of its effect on the mails. There is only 

 one delivery on a holiday and a good 

 many orders which had not reached the 

 Chicago postofiBce by 8:30 a. m. were not 

 delivered until the next morning. And 

 it is not even possible to get the letters 

 by going to the postoffiee after them, 

 so bear this in mind for Washington's 

 birthday, next Monday, February 22. 



The Florists ' Club had the last of its 

 outside meetings on the south side last 

 Saturday night. Supper was had at a 

 cafe and adjournment taken to a hall 

 across the street, where W. F. Bums 

 dissertated humorously and patriotically, 

 a gantleman named Woodruff talked 

 ' ' business ' ' and some colored gentlemen 

 whom George Asmus brought along dem- 

 onstrated that they were all right. There 

 was a large attendance and everybody 

 had a good time. 



The George Wittbold Co. reports no 

 trouble with shipments of plants even in 

 the worst weather of this most severe 

 winter. They shipped specimen plants 

 worth $250 to Smith & Fetters, CTeve- 

 land, the other day and they arrived all 

 right. Their own heated wagon takes 

 the stock to the depot and a letter is 

 sent the day before to the express agent 

 at destination notifying him that the 

 shipment is coming and directing that 

 if the weather is freezing the box be 

 not delivered but set in a warm room and 

 the consignee notified. 



Bassett & Washburn are grafting 100,- 

 000 rose plants, probably more than 

 were ever grafted by any rose forcers 

 in the country. Just now the cut they 

 are getting shows the value of grafted 

 stock. Mr. Washburn says thaf their 

 order is now for delivery to them of 

 ninety tons of coal a day. 



J. A. Budlong has decided to go ahead 

 with four new houses 27x300, which will 

 cover up all his real estate. 



The main party to the carnation con- 

 vention will leave on the Wabash at 3 

 p. m., March 1 and another party, in- 

 cluding several with exhibits, will be on 

 the 11 o'clock train. Everyone passing 

 through Chicago is invited to join the 

 local delegation. 



The secretary of state has licensed the 

 incorporation of the Benthey-Coatsworth 

 Co., capital stock $10,000, objects, a gen- 

 eral florists' business, incorporators, 

 Louis Coatsworth, Frank F. Benthey and 

 Philetus Smith. 



It is stated in political circles that 

 P?ter Eeinberg is likely to receive the 

 democratic aldermanic nomination in the 

 Twenty-sixth ward. 



On the morning of February 12 fire 

 did $400 damage to the greenhouse of 

 Herman Krause, 7801 Jeffery avenue. 

 The fire started from a defective flue 

 in the boiler shed. 



C'attleyas have become very scarce. 

 C. W. McKellar reports a nice business 

 on orchids. 



Kennieott Bros. Co. is getting fine 

 vaUey from Klehm 's. G. E. Pieser, of 

 this house, spent last week in Iowa. 



Sam Pearee is sending in fine Murillo 

 tulips and other growers are also cutting 

 this variety good for so early. 



A. Dietsch left Tuesday evening for 

 Mobile and will go thence to southern 

 Florida to speiid two or three months. 



T. J. Corbrey is starting a seed farm 

 at Long Beach, Cal. 



The prospects are for a very good 



