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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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by hunched thousands and the voice of 

 the robin is heard in the parks, where 

 the grass begins to take on the first 

 tints of emerald. Some predict no 

 "spring/" but a sudden transition to 

 summer. The season is now of necessity 

 a short one and three weeks behind the 

 average. 



The majority of bulb men returning 

 from tlieir annual tours report exception- 

 ally good demands. 



L. Ussing, of Cranford. X. J., sent in 

 a fine supply of the Knglish cowslip to 

 Geo. Bradshaw, who disposed of them 

 to good advantage and declared the mar- 

 ket could have used many times tlic 

 shipment. 



Peter Koss, of Broadway Station. 

 Flu.-hing. had the misfortune to have a 

 large portion of his Easter supply stolen 

 from the grertihouses tliere. 



The retail stores of New York were 

 many of them floral exhiliitions. Never 

 were thej- so entranoingly decorated. 

 The plants most popular and most in 

 evidence were Crimson Ramblers, aza- 

 leas, rhododendrons, acacias, metrosid- 

 eros, hydrangeas, tubs of lilies, ericas 

 bougainvillea and orchids. Hampers. 

 Pompeaian designs and baskets, artistic- 

 ally filled with blooming plants and ferns 

 were especially in demand. 



H. A. Molatsch, of Brooklyn, who has 

 been very ill for some time, is now con- 

 valescing. 



The Xew York FlorLsts" Cliil) will hold 

 its regular monthly meeting next Mon- 

 day, April 11. The Easter trade and 

 its lessons will be discussed by the mem- 

 bers and the commissary department, un- 

 der Jno. B. Xugent's management, will 

 be especially attractive and commemora- 

 tive of a banner Easter. 



Scollay. of Brooklyn, is the architect 

 of the two new greenhovises beins erecteri 

 for Henry Hession. of Flatbush. 



Arthur T. Boddington. of tlie Clucas 

 & Boddington Co.. has commenced busi- 

 ness on his own account at 35 Warren 

 street, having severed his conneetioTi 

 ■with the Clucas & Boddington Co. Mr. 

 Boddington is popular and has had manv 

 years of ' experience traveling for this 

 firm, and some years ago for Pitcher & 

 JIanda. His trips have covered every 

 part of the country, and his friends are 

 legion. 



Acting as the representative of the 

 XeW York ^larket Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion. .John Birnip has leased the site of 

 the old Clinton Market for three months 

 for .$1,000. Tents will be erected for 

 shelter and $15 a grower will be charged 

 for stands for the' season. Tlie assoeii- 

 tion has fifty members. It is possible 

 that a permanent market may he erected 

 some day. No stands outside the grounds 

 will be permitted this year. 



SiiTniund Geller has moved with his 

 family for the summer to Sheepshead 

 Bay. ' 



Bowlin£. 



Tu the prize bowling contest of last 

 week the second prize winner, Mr. Ford, 

 was left out of our record. His total 

 of 175 and the box of cigars won. are' 

 worthy of special mention. One more 

 prize night will be given later on that 

 will be conducted on different lines, the 

 prizes being unwrapped and awarded the 

 winners in the order of merit, so secur- 

 ins a better "run for their money." 



Tlie Bowling Club will meet at the al- 

 leys at 3 p. m. next ^londav and a 

 cordial invitation is tendered all florists 



to participate before attending the regu- 

 lar montlily meeting of the club. 



The "aftermath" of Easter decreased 

 the attendance at the alleys last Mon- 

 day, many of the prominent men "rest- 

 ing from their labors." However,' there 

 was a fair turnout and some excellent 

 scores were made, as the following list 

 gives evidence: 



Slebrccht 157 I".'! 172 IT.'. 153 150 



O'llora 177 16U 14S 1.^0 184 170 



Shaw 135 133 347 131 187 155 



Frank 138 143 163 146 134 184 



James 168 148 121 l.'iS 155 18.S 



Nugent 125 106 106 'Xi 14il 101 



Van Teilingen 99 115 115 Ins 114 116 



Gibbs 130 147 112 



J. Austin Shaw. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Easter Trade. 



Easter trade in our city, from all ac- 

 counts, was somewhat larger than last 

 year, and especially so with blooming 

 plants. The increase in sales on these 

 should run 50 per cent at some of the 

 larger places. Keports from those who 

 handled mostly cut flowers say trade on 

 Saturday and Sunday was much better 

 fhau last year. Among the •west end 

 florists, where the most plants are sold, 

 it presented a very busy appearance in 

 both cut flowers and plants. The north 

 and south end florists also report the 

 best Easter in years. 



The trade was very fortunate in hav- 

 ing beautiful, warm weather on Satur- 

 day, when most of the plant deliveries 

 were made. The plant trade did not 

 present any especially novel features. 

 The strongest demand was for azaleas 

 and lilies; these, with hydrangeas, 

 Dutch hyacinths, tulips and cinerarias, 

 sold well. Church decorations the past 

 week were quite numerous with the 

 plantsmen. 



The wholesalers were kept very busy 

 with both shipping and local trade. All 

 these rcjiort a splendid trade in every- 

 thing. A great quantity of lilies were 

 disposed of at $15 per 100 blooms. Tlie 

 inferior grades in roses and carnations 

 sufliered somewhat, but first-class stock 

 was not any too plentiful. In second 

 and third-class stock plenty ■was to be 

 had. Prices on roses ran from $3 to $8 

 per 100 and carnations from $3 to $6. 

 American Beauties were in good de- 

 mand at from $3 to $8 per dozen. 



Bulbous stock of all kinds was very 

 plentiful and the quality of the stock 

 unusually good. On this stock the price 

 remained as usual. Violets were poor, 

 ■with the supply somewhat limited, fhe 

 bulk of them being California. The 

 best wholesaled at $1 and from that 

 down to 40 cents per 100. A big lot of 

 sweet peas were in the market on Sat- 

 urday morning, of good quality, with 

 fairly long stems; 40 to 75 cents per 

 100 was asked for these. 



What the Retailers Say. 



St. Louis florists certainly had the 

 biggest Easter trade in years, if re- 

 ports count for anything. Here is what 

 some of the leading florists say of the 

 business: 



In South St. Louis, Diemer and Oscar 

 Heile report a fine trade. William 

 Schray & Sons, Carl Beyer, F. Fillmore, 

 W. H. Kruse, George Windier and Pred 

 Bruenig were kept busy with plants 

 and cut flowers. At these places things 

 look pretty well cleaned up. 



Ellison Floral Co. had a very busy 

 week and everything sold well. Easter 



trade was never better. Ostertag Bros, 

 never had so much to do as this Easter. 

 Henry reports that they have the new 

 Jefferson Hotel opening this week Thurs- 

 day, in which a big lot of cut flowers 

 will be used. 



The Eggeliug Floral Co. say they 

 could not have done any more business 

 than they did. \oung & Sons Co. sold 

 out pretty clean on everyt'hing in plants 

 and cut flowers. 



Among the downtown florists Miss 

 Badaracco, Fred Foster, Eiessen Floral 

 Co., Alex Siegel, Jas. Dunford and the 

 St. Louis Palm Co. all report a heavy 

 trade in cut flowers. Very few of these 

 had any plants to speak of. All were 

 kept busy disposing of their big stock 

 of cut flowers. 



I^p-town, Otto Koenig says he had a 

 big rush on everything, is glad it's over 

 with, and now for the advance work 

 on our convention. Fred Meinhardt also 

 reports the biggest Easter trade in 

 years; everything sold well, plants es- 

 pecially. Max Eotter has a good word 

 for his Easter trade and is well satis- 

 fied with his business. 



The west end florists are very en- 

 thusiastic regarding their Easter trade 

 from the following expressions: F. C. 

 Weber's trade in plants and cut flow- 

 ers was very much better than in for- 

 mer years. All fancy stock sold clean. 

 Theo. Miller was well pleased with his 

 Easter business; plants and cut flowers 

 sold much better than last year. 0. C. 

 Sanders had all he could do in the plant 

 line and there was not much of any- 

 thing left; cut flowers, too. had a good 

 call. AVith Kalisch & Sons everything 

 sold big, plants better than ever be- 

 fore, with not much of anything left. 

 .T. F. Windt could have sold more 

 blooming plants; everything sold clean 

 and it was the best Easter in years. 

 Miss Xewman had a fine trade, in fact 

 better than expected. George Waldbart 

 had not enough left to carry away in a 

 chip basket; cut flower trade was be- 

 yond expectations. F. H. Weber had a 

 fine trade; plants sold clean, with a 

 big call for cut stuff, Mrs. Ayers had 

 all she could do in cut flowers and 

 plants; ten church decorations kept all 

 hands busy. 



Various Notes. 



During the big rain storm last week 

 Thursday hail did some damage. George 

 Windier, at 4059 Delore street, was hit 

 the heaviest. Mr. Windier reports 

 about 250 lights of glass broken. Among 

 the other florists in South St. Louis 

 only a few lights were broken, not 

 enough to make a claim. The storm 

 also did considerable damage to the 

 Cascade Gardens at the World 's Fair 

 grounds, which were repaired at once. 

 Lightning also played a part in the 

 damage to the Dastard Seed Co., on 

 Third street. A thunderbolt passed 

 through the roof, clear to the basement, 

 setting fire to the woodwork. The dam- 

 age is estimated at .$200. 



The landscape work around the Eng- 

 lish building in the World 's Fair 

 grounds is in fine shape and bulb stock 

 is now in full bloom. Mr. ''Brown, the 

 Englisli landscape gardener, was con- 

 gratulated on all sides for having the 

 first flowers to bloom on the grounds. 

 Other landscape work on the grounds is 

 being greatly advanced by hard work. 



Robert Karlstrom. forester for the 

 liark department at Hartford. Conn., is 

 in town looking nfter the landscape work 



