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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Maech 31, 1004. 



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as to where to send for your Cut Flower 

 wants for Easter bear in mind that we 

 receive the daily cut from — 



M £\ ^ W^dWJUW^W^QL. ^"^ ^i*^ handling some of the 

 ^\J f3tC\J ▼▼ LtC^^ finest ROSES, CSRNaTIONS 



VIOLETS and BULBOUS STOCK coming into this market. 

 ir prices will be found consistent with ruling quotations here. 



TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH or WRITE at the last moment if necessary, we will look after your interests. 



I When in doubt 



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!Our prices will be found consistent with ruling quotations here. f 



TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH or WRITE at the last moment if necessary, we will look after your interests. \ 



I E. F, WINTERSON CO. ! 



E. F. WINTERSON 



JOHN P. DEGNAN 



L. H. WINTERSON 



i Successors to McKELLAR & WINTERSON. i 



45.47.49 Wabash Ave. Established i894 CHICAGO 5 



showed a prettily trained plant of capa 

 jasmine covered with .blossoms. Wm. 

 Wunder, of Pittville, Pa., brought a 

 bunch of a pale pink sport from Brides- 

 maid, very distinct. The Henry F. 

 Michell Co. made a fine exhibit of their 

 stock on the lower floor. 



The Rose Society. 



The features of the rose society's an- 

 nual meeting were the paper and discus- 

 sion on grafting, which was very instruct- 

 ive, and Dr. Huey's paper with colored 

 illustrations of outdoor varieties. Boston 

 was chosen as the place for next year's 

 meeting and Alexander Montgomery, nt 

 Natick, :Mass., as the new president. The 

 ■other officers chosen were: Vice-presi- 

 dent, F. R. Newbold, Poughkeepsie, N. 

 Y. ; treasurer, J. N. May. Summit. N. 

 J., and secretary, Leonard Barron, New 

 York City. A number of special prizes 

 were promised for next season's show. 



The Rose Banquet. 



Fully seventy-five rose growers, whole- 

 salers, florists, seedsmen and visitors 

 gathered at the invitation of the Florists' 

 Club to do honor to the American Rose 

 Society. For a full account of who were 

 there and what things, both witty and 

 wise, were said I must refer you to an- 

 other column. 



Various Items. 



Leo Niessen reports an excellent de- 

 mand for wild smilax. 



William P. Craig opened a florists' 

 shop at Tenth and Chestnut streets last 

 Monday, just for Easter. He has been 

 doing a plant commission business in the 

 past few weeks. 



Chas. F. Edgar & Co. have had grati- 

 fving returns from their first Easter price 

 list. 



A prominent bulb grower was in this 

 city recently, trying to locate a grower 

 whom he had been assured wanted 50.- 

 000 Von Sion narcissi. He left bound 

 for New York and Boston to continue 

 his quest. 



Miss Eisele, daughter of J. D. Eisele, 

 vice-president of the H. A. Dreer Co., 

 has happily recovered from a severe ill- 

 ness. 



BeTger Brothers have an attractive 

 horse and delivery wagon on the street. 

 John Berger made a flying visit to New 

 York this week. 



The price of hardy ferns has advanced 

 from $2 to $2.50 per 1,000. 



Floral Life recently published a very 

 prettily written account of the violet 

 plant of Francis Bloomer 

 Beatrice Clayton. 



by Miss 

 Phil. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The weather turned unseasonable! to- 

 wards the end of the week and the mar- 

 ket has showed no improvement what- 

 ever in values up to this writing, in fact, 

 only accentuated the fact that the week 

 before Easter is always one of the dull- 

 est of the year. The finest Beauties often 

 failed to go above 15 cents and 8 cents 

 was high water mark for Brides and 

 Maids. Special violets were glad to touch 

 35 cents a 100. Bulbous stock is still 

 overwhelming in quantity and shipments 

 of narcissi from the south add to th" 

 denression. Some rumors of a let-up in 

 shipments were heard and the old fear 

 of pickled stock is again in evidence, li 

 seems some growers never will learn the 

 lesson. If the practice is continued, then 

 it will be a plant Easter again more 

 pronounced than ever. But if stock is 

 shipped regularly and the demand is not 

 "starved" during the early days of tho 

 week, the demand for cut flowers of good 

 quality at reasonable prices will find the 

 market completely depleted on Saturday. 

 The retailers will again do their share 

 in replacing the cut flower department of 

 the Easter trade where it belongs. 



Death of G. E. Fancourt. 



The sad news of the death of Geo. E. 

 Fancourt, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., reached 

 New York on Monday evening, and was 

 a great shock to his many friends in 

 this city. He had made every prepara- 

 tion for his trip to Spokane, Wash., and 

 his sudden taking away is much de- 

 plored. A widow and four children are 

 left to mourn his untimely death. 



Various Notes. 



The retail stores everywhere in the 

 city were made very attractive for Palm 

 Sunday, the plant decorations in many 

 of the shops being elaborate. It remains 

 for Thursday of this week to demonstrate 

 what the plantsmen around New York 



have accomplished. There will be no 

 scarcity of anything. Novelties are in 

 evidence, in boxes, vases and unique de- 

 signs in decorative material. No wonder 

 it takes an extraordinary flower show to 

 draw the New Yorkers in the fall when 

 they can "without money or without 

 price" see this week the greatest of flow- 

 er shows. 



Elliott will have his regular auction on 

 Good Friday, selling blooming plants for 

 Easter. Importations of rhododendrons, 

 roses and evergreens, are large and the 

 interest in his semi-weekly sales is grow- 

 ing and the attendance increasing. 

 Cleary's horticultural hall, 62 Vesey 

 street, is also bidding for a share of the 

 auction patronage. 



Lansing, Mich., rejoices in the liberal- 

 ity of the Lord & Burnham Co., whose 

 donation to the horticultural department 

 of the college there of a model green- 

 house, is heartily appreciated. 



The lily shipments from Bermuda are 

 here on time, to cheapen the legitimate 

 stock. Poor enough stuff most of this is. 

 but its influence is a menace to the reg- 

 ular grower whose crop in many places 

 is still, with the dull weather prevailing, 

 a most uncertain quantity. 



A new wholesale cut flower house is 

 making a bid for a share of Brooklyn's 

 patronage. Beake &, Crist is the title of 

 the firm, and headquarters are at 20 

 Boerum place. 



J. O. Hanft. of Hanft Bros., returns 

 this week from the south after a long 

 stay, fully recovered. Tliis firm had the 

 big Rice wedding at Delmonico's last 

 week, in which lilies and daisies com- 

 prised the decoration. A large funeral 

 order Saturday included a pall contain- 

 ins 15,000 violets. 



Warendorflf had a window crowded last 

 week with his dollar boxes of roses and 

 tulips, a scheme that seemed to make 

 rapid inroads on the surplus. 



At the next meeting of the Florists' 

 Club. April 11. one of the representatives 

 of the horticultural press will read a pa- 

 per on "The Easter Business in New 

 York," and at the May meeting William 

 Elliott will make an address on the 

 "Idiosyncrasies of the Auction Business," 

 a subject many years of experience en- 

 ables him to treat from every stand- 

 point. He will especially elaborate the 

 humorous side of the question. 



