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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mat 12, 1904. 



neighborhood in the celebration uf the 

 e^'ent. 



Mrs. A. M. Schafer is cutting some 

 very tine roses. 



C. N\'. McKellar is getting in a very di- 

 versified stock, including cape jasmine, 

 Bridal Wreath spiraia, arbutus, very line 

 pansies, sweet peas and orchids. lie is 

 on a floor practically given over to roses 

 and carnations and finds business very 

 satisfactory. 



Prank i'eu is rebuilding four of his 

 oldest houses, using Garland's iron gut- 

 ter. This will give him a range prac- 

 tically new and in fine shape. 



The E. V. Wintersou Co. is still glutting 

 in immense quantities of southern nar- 

 cissi. 



Ed. Eagle has been having a bad time 

 ■with the rheumatism all winter and finds 

 that it handicaps him badly in handling 

 the hea\y spring trade. 



All the retailers who do outdoor plant- 

 ing report very busy times and it looks 

 as though rather more of this kind of 

 v.'ork i.: being done than usual. 



Bassett &, Washburn are cutting very 

 fine Carnot roses. Their crop of Liberty 

 is rather light just now as they- are 

 drying otf some of the plants preparatory 

 to their getting a midsummer crop. 



John I'ochlmann takes an optimistic 

 view of the situation. He says the glut 

 is bad but he has seen it worse and it 

 will soon be better. 



The A. L. Rondall Co.. vvhich has been 

 headquarters for white lilac all season, is 

 not getting in quantities of outdoor white 

 lilac, but they do not find it strongly in 

 demand. 



At E. H. Hunt's they report shipping 

 trade still keeping up fairly well, but 

 most of the orders are small. 



George Eeinberg reports the business 

 in carnation cuttings keeping up unusual- 

 ly well, perhaps because some are already 

 sold out. He has propagated immense 

 quantities this year. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. says they 

 are cleaning up in fair shape each day 

 except on Brides and Maids, which are 

 hard to move. 



Visitors: E. G. Hill, Richmond. Ind.; 

 Louis Noe and Mis. Noe, Madison, N. J. ; 

 T. E. Cashman, Owatonna, Minn.; C. 

 Spickerman, Sandwich, 111.; James Cha- 

 cona, Milwaukee. 



The Florists' Club will hold the first 

 of the Thursday night meetings this 

 evening. Secretary Wienhoeber has sent 

 out the following call: The regular 

 meeting nights of the Chicago Florists' 

 Club will hereafter be on the second and 

 fourth Thursdays of the month. Bv c • 

 respondence vote the meetings will be 

 called to order promptly at 8 o'clock 

 p. m., in our new and larger rooms in 

 Handel Hall, 40 Randolph street. Come 

 in and help make the opening of the new- 

 rooms a success. 



It is possible that the fact that good 

 lettuce is not now bringing more than 20 

 cents a case may serve to quiet some of 

 the carnation growers north of town who 

 felt uneasy when their neighbors, for a 

 month or two only, got 40 to 50 cents a 

 case for their crop. 



Bassett & Washburn are getting in 

 large quantities of new ferns from the 

 south and Mr. Washburn say? tlicy are 

 of such quality that he thinks the dealers 

 there could compete with Massachusetts 

 in ferns if they went at it properly. 

 Ferns are bringing all the way from $2 

 to $4.50 in this market. Bassett & 

 "Washburn are also handling large quan- 



tities of cape jasmine, but fiud them slow 

 sale at $1 per 100. 



The George Wittbold Co. reports that 

 this promises to be the busiest month in 

 the history of the concern, including all 

 ilepartments. As one item they have sold, 

 iu small lots, 500 loads of soil at $4 a 

 load. 



The ' ' get away ' ' iu the bowling tour- 

 nament is positively announced for next 

 Tuesday night, at alleys selected by the 

 committee. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The market on Monday was about as 

 depressed as at any time this year. Sum- 

 mer heat prevailed, the shipments were 

 enormous aud the ice boxes were full to 

 overflowing. The last of the violets could 

 not be given awaj-. Over 50,000 of the 

 remuants went into seclusion in the refuse 

 barrels on Saturday. Where large quan- 

 tities of roses are purchased the buyer is 

 the autocrat and what he offers generally 

 goes. The retail demand is very light. 

 Lilacs from the south are very good. 

 Carnations have fallen, even for fancies, 

 to the low prices of the poorer grades of 

 a few weeks ago. These are certainly 

 melancholy days for the cut flower trade. 

 But the over-supply must diminish and 

 before the week is over there is a general 

 hope of improvement. Meantime com- 

 parison with the records of other seasons 

 seems to lead the reasonable ones to look 

 upon present conditions philosophically. 



Club Meeting. 



The monthly meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club was well attended and the 

 exhibit of bedding and other plants most 

 varied and creditable. The exhibitors 

 were: John Birnie, of Hoboken, N. J., 

 assorted verbenas, two boxes Alfred 

 Henderson geraniums, box pelargoniums; 

 H. C. Steinhoff, West Hoboken, spira;as, 

 Crimson Ramblers, a grand specimen of 

 Magna Charta and a finely trained larch 

 in the form of the missing link; Daly 

 Bros., Granton, geraniums Grant and 

 Paunpeck; Herman Mende, Secaucus, as- 

 sorted geraniums; Leach Bros., Jersey 

 City, anthericum, geraniums and helio- 

 trope; John Lappe, of Long Island, 

 candytuft and Phlox subulata rosea; 

 John Pearson. Jersey City, Draca?na in- 

 divisa; A. C. Schroeter, Bayonne, pansies 

 and lemon verbenas ; George Darsley, Jer- 

 sey City, heliotrope; Geo. Fiek, West 

 Hoboken, daisies; Hartman & Wagenfor, 

 Winfield Junction, cowslips ; John T. 

 Schupp & Co., West Hoboken, Fuchsia 

 Little Beauty; B. Paseler, echeveria; 

 Lehnig & AVinnefeld, Celosia Thompson!, 

 now, and fifteen varieties of new pelar- 

 goniums; Charles Hunt, Staten Island, 

 pansies and fine assorted geraniums. The 

 whole formed one of the most interesting, 

 varied and meritorious exhibitions ever 

 made in the club room and evoked much 

 enthusiasm and appreciation. 



The committee of awards reported 

 that, there being no competition, no cer- 

 tificates were awarded, but that every- 

 thing shown was worthy of general com- 

 mendation. jNIr. O 'Mara, the chairman 

 of the committee, in commenting on the 

 exhibit so typical of the spring season, 

 expressed the gratification of the com- 

 mittee and became reminiscent and elo- 

 quent in recalling happy memories of past 

 experiences in the growing of this class 

 of stock in the old days and hoped for 

 many repetitions of the growers ' enter- 

 prise in future opportunities. Votes of 



thanks were given the exhibitors and a 

 special vote was tendered John Birnie for 

 his earnest efforts in making the exhibit 

 a success. 



Mr. Birnie in responding said the dis- 

 play was an epitome of the plant market, 

 where $5,000 changes hands every morn- 

 ing, and announced that the agitation 

 going on for the market building would 

 eventually bring about the erection of a 

 handsome building for the plant growers. 

 He felt it was the duty of the New York 

 Club aud the horticultural press to assist 

 the project iu every way possible and 

 predicted that the time would come when 

 all plants would be sent to and sold by 

 commission men, even if a new race of 

 these valuable agents must be created, 

 ilr. Wallace gave some interesting in- 

 formation as to Covent Garden and its 

 methods of selling, spoke of the encour- 

 aging efforts of the New York city press 

 in behalf of the projected market build- 

 ing and suggested a resolution endorsing 

 the work already done by the plant grow- 

 ers looking to the securing of a perma- 

 nent market, which was unanimously 

 adopted. Mr. Eberman spoke of a pros- 

 pective exhibition of plants and flowers 

 in October by the Siegel-Cooper Co., at 

 which premiums were to be given and 

 sought the endorsement of the scheme by 

 the club, which will consider the propo- 

 sition at a subsequent meeting. 



The outing committee reported rapid 

 progress, many tickets sold, the program 

 progressing encouragingly and every in- 

 dication of a banner attendance. The 

 transportation committee announced a 

 fifteen-day-tieket rate of $23.25 to the 

 St. Louis convention and return, with no 

 certificate plan. The decision as to the 

 route was left to the committee. 



Mr. Bunyard appeared on crutches, 

 though greatly improved in health, and 

 hopes to be himself again in time for the 

 bicycle race at the outing in June. Alex. 

 Burns, Jr., was elected a member of the 

 club. The June meeting of the club will 

 be peony night, vpith accompaniment of 

 strawberries and cream and the ladies. 

 A large attendance is assured. 



William Elliott delivered his address 

 on the "Idiosyncrasies of the Auction 

 Business," interspersing it with many 

 historical facts, humorous anecdotes and 

 prophetic hints as to consignments of 

 goods for auction disposal from the 

 Netherlands, Japan and Porto Rico. A 

 vote of thanks was accorded him for the 

 effort. 



Various Notes. 



Next Monday evening will be farewell 

 night at the Tenth avenue alleys and 

 after next Monday the club will meet at 

 modern alleys near Twenty-third street 

 aud Sixth avenue, a mucli more con- 

 venient location. The St. Louis repre- 

 sentation will probably be decided at 

 next Monday evening's contest. 



C. H. Joosten reports a very prosperous 

 season, every rose sold of his big im- 

 portation and could have sold 50,000 

 more. Mr. and Mrs. Joosten are going 

 to the nurserymen's convention next 

 June, at Atlanta, and to the S. A. F. 

 meeting in St. Louis, and there will be 

 ' ' otliers ' ' from New York. 



G. C. Eldering, of Overveen, Holland, 

 the six foot four bulb man, is in the city 

 and reports stock in Europe in excellent 

 condition on his departure. He is one 

 of the firm of W. J. Eldering & Sons and 

 one of four brothers of equal physical 

 proportions. 



Arbor dav last Friday was an im- 



