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The Weekly Florists* Review, 



April 28, 1904. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market, 



The week openoJ witli an incieased 

 supply of flowers, many cf tuom of 

 rathor poorer qualiry, due to the sud- 

 Idcn change in the we^.llie-. The demand 

 most satisfactory last week has fallen off 

 and prices are receding. Sweet peae 

 continue active; prices for fancy white 

 and lavender are abuvo market quota- 

 tions on some days. Vi inlets .iro still 

 with us and sell well. Daffodils are ex- 

 ceptionally fine. W. K. Harris has a 

 fine lot of Emperor. Daisies ami i^ansies 

 sold pretty well. Roses an; plentiful; 

 the best are in demand. Carnations are 

 fair stock, not nearly as good as a 

 week ago. 



The Florists' Club. 



A special meeting of the club was held 

 last Monday evening to eudorse Edwin 

 Iionsdale for the position of gardener 

 at Girard College, to succeed the late 

 George Huster. Prompt as was the 

 action of the club, it became known be- 

 fore the meeting that the powers that 

 be had already come to an understanding 

 with Mr. Lonsdale regarding his taking 

 charge of the college greenhouses and 

 grounds. The appointment is a splendid 

 one and should make this oasis in the 

 desert blossom even more abundantly 

 than in the past. 



An April Wedding. 



A pretty idea carried out recenty on 

 Walnut street for a wedding breakfast 

 was the canopying of adjoining yards 

 with wild snulax. In this improvised 

 dining-room carpeted with rugs, eighteen 

 small tables were placed for the guests 

 at the wedding breakfast. Each tabic 

 was adorned with a different kind of 

 spring flower. The bride 's table had 

 lilies of the valley. A table each was 

 decorated with daffodils, daisies, mig- 

 nonette. Narcissus poeticus, heliotrope, 

 pink sweet peas, white sweet peas, pur- 

 ple sweet peas, freesia, and so on. A 

 beautiful idea, but rather a tempting of 

 providence, one would think, in this 

 month of showers. The church old St. 

 Peter 's, with its high pews and galler- 

 ies, was put in holiday attire with Eastet 

 lilies and pink carnations, a plan effect- 

 ively carred out by Hugh Graham, in 

 whose hands both house and church were 

 placed. 



Various Notes. 



H. H. Battles had an elaborate wed 

 ding decoration on Saturday, both in 

 church and house. White sweet peas, 

 lilies and choice ferns were largely used. 

 Pennock Brothers have been very busy 

 with handsome wedding orders on Mon- 

 day, Tuesday and Wednesday of this 

 week. 



J. J. Habermehl's Sons had the dec- 

 orations for the banquet given by tbc 

 National Casket Company. 



Joseph Eenard's Sons, of Unionville, 

 Pa., have purchased the place and green- 

 bouses of E. J. Cloud, at Avondale, Ches- 

 ter Co., Pa. 



August Doemling is sending in somo 

 fine Liberties to S. S. Pennock. 



W. E. Fowler & Co., Silverside. Del., 

 are sending in excellent Brides ami 

 Maids to C. F. Edgar & Co. 



Joseph Johnson, of Hightstown, i^ 

 sending probably the best violets coming 

 to this city to the Flower Market. 



The junior partner of the firm of Hos- 

 kins & Giles, in Reading, was in town 

 this week. 



Edward Eeid had some fine shipping 

 orders this week. 



M. Eice has arrived safely in Europe. 



A calceolaria show, a novelty here, is 

 being held in Horticultural Hall, Fair- 

 mount park, this week. 



When a florist calls to know just what 



kind of stock you grow and you have an 

 awful fright because your houses aren 't 

 ' ' all right. ' ' 



Keep him talking in the shed. 

 About Iwilers. fuel, pipes o'er bead; 

 -Vnythlog in that line will do. 

 Till too dark to show him through. 



Phil. 



New Cumbekland, Pa. — J. A. Kepner, 

 who has been seriously ill with pneumon- 

 ia, is now improving. 



HoPKiNsviLLE, Kt. — T. E. Metcalfe 

 will considerably enlarge his establish- 

 ment this year. 



Boulder, Colo. — The Cannon Floral & 

 Seed Co. is starting in business, building 

 five Dietsch short-roof greenhouses, each 

 16x104. 



Oxford, O. — W. M. Hull has given up 

 his lease on the greenhouses at Eosemore. 

 The proprietor, A. T. Eondebush, is now 

 in charge. 



Streator, III. — This has been a very 

 good season for W. C. Hill and he will 

 add two good-sized houses to his plant 

 this season. 



EocHESTER, N. y. — At Highland Park 

 a greenhouse 22x100 and a propagating 

 house 12x100 will be built at once, with 

 a potting shed 16x100. 



Fort Scott, Kan. — W. C. Zimmer 

 says that this has been an ideal spring. 

 The demand for bedding plants is 

 greater than the supply. 



Springfield, III. — ^Messrs. A. C. 

 Brown and A. C. Canfield have begun 

 work on their new ranges and will have 

 them ready for early planting. 



East Palestine, 0. — J. N. Spanabel 

 has purchased a tract of land adjacent 

 to his greenhouses, which he contem- 

 plates enlarging in the course of time. 



CouNcn, Bluffs, Ia. — J. F. Wilcox 

 has ordered material for a rose house 

 32x275 feet and is contemplating a 

 whole new range in another section of 

 his plant. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — J. J. Curran, 

 who for nearly six years has had charge 

 of the greenhouses of G. Van Bochove 

 & Bro., has resigned and will remove 

 to Elmira, N. Y., to become supeTin- 

 tendent of the new range of the United 

 States Cut Flower Company. 



Utica, III. — Frank J. Baker has 

 bought a tract of land on Sunset ave- 

 nue and will erect six greenhouses 18x 

 150 feet. There will be a shed along 

 one end and the range will be heated 

 by two seventy-five horse-power steam 

 boilers. The plant will be devoted ex- 

 clusively to roses. 



MONTCLAIB, N. J. — A Ghent, Belgium, 

 exporting company is suing Eobert 

 Chesney to recover $128.32, the value, 

 duty added, of certain plants ordered 

 by Mr. Chesney when the plaintiff's 

 agent visited him April 10, 1902. Mr. 

 Chesney contests on the ground that he 

 refused to accept the plants because thev 

 were not what he ordered. 



Ehinelander, Wls. — 'Peter PhiUip will 

 double the extent of his glass this sum- 

 mer. The new house will be used for 

 roses and carnations. 



Plainville, Mass. — The second in- 

 cendiary fire in this village within a 

 week occurred April 14 at the green- 

 houses of Frank Sandland, the damage 

 being $1,000. 



WooDBRiDGE, Fla. — Albert Buckwell 

 has 3,000 feet of glass and cloth shade 

 covering 6,000 feet. Palms are his prin- 

 cipal output. Stock is good. Plumosus 

 strings sell well. 



Mobile, Ala. — F. P. Davis is building 

 two new greenhouses 14x100 each. Wil- 

 liam S. Maull, of Holland, Pa., is now 

 his foreman. Roses and carnations ; re 

 in fair shape and selling well. 



Owatonna, Minn. — The Clinton Falls 

 Nursery Co. has bought the Lord green- 

 houses and will remove them to its 

 grounds on West Bridge street, where 

 the business will be continued. 



Birmingham, Ala. — Hugh Scales, who 

 does business as the Magic City Florist, 

 has had so good a season that he is 

 adding four houses, about 8,000 feet of 

 glass, to his place this season. 



Fitzgerald, Ga. — Joel Thomas expects 

 to build another greenhouse 20x100 this 

 season for general stock. He reports a 

 good season's business, the bedding plant 

 trade being now at its height. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — Abraham Gro- 

 fvert, who has been with G. Van 

 Bochove & Bro., will start in business 

 for himself this summer, building a 

 new range of about 30,000 square feet 

 of glass. 



Columbus, 0. — Henrietta and Charles 

 E. Stone have filed a claim for $1,540 

 damages to their greenhouses March 26 

 and April 1, caused by floods and a 

 defective sewer for which they hope to 

 hold the city. 



Detroit, Mich. — John Breitmeyer 's 

 Sons have decided to name their giant 

 antirrhinum Breitmeyer 's New Pink 

 Snapdragon and will propagate it and 

 send it out next spring. They find it a 

 very ready seller as soon as they can 

 get them in, and that as early as Janu- 

 ary. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. — Wm. Murphy, of 9 

 Dennett place, was arrested recently for 

 whistling on the street on Sunday and 

 the judge sentenced him to six months in 

 the penitentiary, in spite of the fact that 

 the young lady companions of Mr. Mur- 

 phy testified that it was a boy a few feet 

 in advance of their party who was whist- 

 ling. Subsequently the judge released 

 Murphy. 



