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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Marcu 24, 1904. 



the larger cities, Boston, New York, 

 Philadelphia and Chicago leading, where 

 they are placed in cold storage to pre- 

 vent heating. At a temperature of 

 about 33 degrees Fahrenheit they will 

 keep in good condition till next year's 

 new crop conies in. 



"The bronze colors appear only late 

 in the year when the plants ripen and 

 the frosts begin, but in the deep woods, 

 where there is dense shade, the leaves 

 never turn color. The area over which 

 galax is now collected extends from 

 Virginia to Georgia, and I am happy to 

 say that I believe there is no danger 

 of exterminating the species. This is 

 partly because the plant is not pulled 

 up by the root, the foliage only being 

 plucked. Another reason is that only 

 absolutely perfect leaves are taken, 

 since the slightest speck or flaw makes 

 a leaf worthless to the trade." 



Country Life in America is not a hor- 

 ticultural journal in a trade sense, but 

 its breath is that of life outdoors and 

 it is deserving of a place on the library 

 table of every one who loves nature 

 and is fond of good printing. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Business continued to improve stead- 

 ily last week and by Saturday the mar- 

 ket was apparently more active than it 

 has been in weeks. We say ' ' appa- 

 rently ' ' because some of the wholesal- 

 ers reported that the commotion was as 

 much the result of lighter receipts as it 

 was of heavier demand. But business is 

 brisk and most lines have profited to 

 the extent of a considerable stiffening 

 in prices. Shipping trade is good all 

 through the market and locally retail 

 business is now by no means bad. Ag- 

 gregate sales for the week are about as 

 last year. 



While receipts may naturally be ex- 

 pected to fall off just before the period 

 of greatest demand, there is little change 

 in the situation at the greenhouses. The 

 same conditions prevail as a week ago. 

 Beauties are blooming no more freely ; 

 there are just as many and no more tea 

 roses, quality is of the same average; 

 carnations are developing just as fast or 

 even a little faster than they were. The 

 only point at which there is any change 

 is in the ' ' green goods ' ' market. Smilax 

 has been scarce for some time and now 

 some of the asparagus growers are re- 

 ported pretty well cut out, so that prices 

 have advanced a little on plumosus 

 strings. Violets had a few days of good 

 demand. Bulbous stock plentiful. 



While it is quite in the course of hu- 

 man events that the growers should try 

 to accumulate all the stock they can 

 well do for Easter and that prices should 

 more and more approximate Easter rates 

 as the days pass, yet light receipts this 

 week must not be considered as indis- 

 putable evidence that stock will be 

 short for the big demand at the close 

 of next week. It is quite within the 

 memory of those not old in the business 

 when there were practically no flowers 

 for the week before Easter and a very 

 great plenty the day before. With fair 

 prices prevailing in the next week it 

 will be far wiser to send in stock while 

 it is yet good rather than hold it until 

 it becomes stale, for stale stuff won't 

 bring much of anything on even the 

 shortest of markets. 



There seem likely to be large sup- 



plies of lilies but the prospect of a 

 large part of them being of indifferent 

 quality is causing orders to come in more 

 freely than they otherwise would. 

 There are no particular crops in sight 

 anywhere and there will not be any to 

 spare on good roses but probably a 

 plenty of ' ' our selection. ' ' Both long 

 Beauties and Liberties will be scarce. 

 Some of the growers have the idea that 

 carnations are going to be very short, 

 and there is little prospect of good 

 grades being more than equal to orders, 

 certainly not until Saturday, but sev- 

 eral houses are still booking orders for 

 thousand lots where anything goes at 

 $30 ; but drowsy stuff does not even 

 get in on this grade. Bulbous stock 

 will be plentiful, also violets. 



Various Notes. 



E. E. Pieser says he is looking for a 

 shortage of good roses to develop in the 

 market as Easter draws near. He has it 

 figured out that the more the growers 

 try to increase the Easter supply the 

 lower the average quality will be, and 

 there haven 't been any too many first- 

 I'lass roses even when the demand was 

 lightest. He is looking for the best 

 Easter business on record. 



At the Florists' Club meeting Wednes- 

 day night it was voted to extend the 

 American Rose Society a cordial invita- 

 tion to hold its exhibition in Chicago 

 next year in the same hall with the Car- 

 nation Society show. The big banquet 

 room at the Auditorium will probably 

 be used for the combined exhibitions. 



Peter Eeinberg is busy setting a hot 

 pace for his opponent in the race for al- 

 dermanic honors. His is known as the 

 carnation campaign and he is getting a 

 great deal of favorable attention frctn 

 the daily papers. The election is April 

 5. 



Poehlmann Bros, are among those who 

 expect to get their lilies in on time for 

 Easter, not less than 20,000 to 25,000 of 

 them. Their stock is all in good shape. 

 August Poehlmann says that thirty per 

 cent of the Beauties have been twenty- 

 four inches or over. They have just 

 given the Moninger Co. an order for ma- 

 terial for five houses 27x500. Last 

 year's addition was 125,000 feet of glass 

 and already they are planning on what 

 the}' will do next year to round out the 

 plant. 



C. W. McKellar pulls out those trays 

 of orchids for all comers. He keeps the 

 stock in vases ingeniously set in low 

 boxes of corrugated paste-board, the re- 

 ceptacles being inserted through holes 

 cut in the cover. 



Wietor Bros, have 15,000 Lawson car- 

 nations in pots which they will carry on, 

 shifting as needed, until they can plant 

 them in solid beds following a lot of 

 summer roses. The rest of their Law- 

 sons will go into the field as heretofore. 



Mrs. Horton. of Bassett & Washburn's, 

 has everyone's sympathy in the criti- 

 cal illness of her mother. 



Cypress is still high but glass is com- 

 paratively cheap, which goes a long way 

 toward encouraging new building. M. 

 G. Holding, of the Sprague. Smith Co., 

 says that the inquiries for prices indi- 

 cate a great deal of new glass going up 

 in the next few months. 



The Foley Mfg. Co. has a new gal- 

 vanized iron gutter which they make in 

 long lengths and which they believe will 

 eventually be generally adopted. Peter 

 Eeinberg has ordered one run of it for 



trial on the houses he will rebuild this 

 summer. 



The Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. has es- 

 tablished a temporary ofSce at 46 and 48 

 E. Van Buren street with warerooms at 

 Jackson and Franklin street. Their 

 burned building will be reconstructed at 

 once. 



Albert Fuchs is going out of business. 

 This time he will sell the greenhouses for 

 removal from the ground. 



Harry Kowe had a nice St. Patrick's 

 day order, for the banquet at the Audi- 

 torium, for which he imported a large 

 number of shamrocks in pots from the 

 east. 



P. J. Hauswirth is a committee of one 

 on transportation to the St. Louis con- 

 vention. He may be expected to sustain 

 his reputation as an excursion manager. 



Peter Eeinberg was so well pleased 

 with the Morehead steam trap which ho 

 saw on exhibition at the carnation con- 

 vention at Detroit that he gave the in- 

 ventor an order for two of them. 



Sinner Bros, have their place in nice 

 shape and are looking for a good spring 

 business. They are working up quite 

 a shipping trade. 



Max Ringier, brother of Arnold Ein- 

 gier, is now with the Kennicott Bros. 

 Co. 



CINCINNATL 



The Market. 



General trade shows a great improve- 

 ment over a week ago. The demand was 

 much more steady and every variety and 

 grade of flowers seemed to enjoy the 

 welcome prosperity. For one thing there 

 were numerous spring openings, and they 

 used up large quantities of the second 

 and third grades. This had a tendency 

 to raise the price of the better stock. 

 There was material advance in all lines 

 of stock, with the exception perhaps of 

 American Beauties. But that was due 

 more to the extremely poor quality of the 

 stock coming in than to the lack of de- 

 mand. 



There is just about enough stock to 

 take good care of the demand at pres- 

 ent. JIaids are perhaps a trifle short. 

 Meteors and Liberties always are scarce 

 in this market, and but few first-class 

 blooms are to be had at any time. Bulb- 

 ous stock is going better, Harrisii espe- 

 cially. Callas, too. are in good demand. 

 Green goods are very short. 



The outlpok for Easter is very bright, 

 but as is usually the case, carnations 

 will be scarce. The prospects for roses 

 are much better, and it appears as if 

 there will be enough to flll all orders. 

 There will be a large supply of bulbous 

 flowers, but no surplus. It is probable 

 that Harrisii lilies may miss Easter by 

 a week or so. Even at that, this market 

 will be well supplied with them. We 

 are having some beautiful spring weather 

 now and that ought to help bring in 

 a large cut for Easter. 



Various Items. 



As the rents received from the stands 

 in the .Tabez Elliott flower market are 

 not sufBcient to pay the running ex- 

 penses, it was decided by the trustees 

 to raise the rent of each stand $5 a 

 year, to take effect the 1st of May, 

 \\Tien it is understood that the rents 

 range from $25 to $30 a year, it seems 

 that the trustees are not imposing a 

 very great hardship upon the standhold- 

 crs. 



