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The Weekly t^lorists' Review. 



May 10. 1904. 



have three-foot stems, but the length is 

 not so unusual as the stieugth. The 

 plants are said to be growing in lettuce 

 soil. 



John Muuo has decided to reduce his 

 rose planting and go more heavily into 

 carnations lor next sea.sou. He will 

 therefore keep lus roses going as late as 

 possible instead of replanting very can;', 

 as has been his custom. 



J. A. Budlong expects to have his new 

 " range ready next week for planting to 

 Beauties. 



Henry Payne will soon take up, divide 

 and reset all the plants in his big house 

 of adiantum, 4,500 in all, giving him a 

 surplus of divided plants to market. He 

 will also plant some of Kasting's Crow- 

 eanum. 



Ivory rose is not popular in this mar- 

 ket and several growers will discard it, 

 among them Sinner Bros., who will also 

 reduce their planting of Beauties and 

 give additional space to Brides and 

 Maids, with a few Chatenay. Eniil 

 Kunz is now foreman at this place. 



Coal on track for immediate delivery 

 is down to a very reasonable figure; de- 

 murrage is piling up on it. 



Baumann & Co., dealers in florists' 

 supplies and artificial flowers, have re- 

 moved to large quarters on the fourtii 

 floor at 76 and 78 Wabash avenue, over 

 Bassett & Washburn and E. H. Hunt. 

 They make very attractive goods in their 

 line and are already planning their ex- 

 hibit at the St. Louis S. A. F. convention. 

 O. P. Bassett has returned from a 

 stay at West Baden. 



C. W. McKellar has been getting in 

 large quantities of good outdoor violets 

 which have sold well at 10 cents a bunch. 

 C. jM. Dickinson, manager of E. H. 

 Hunt's, has been at St. Paul for a few 

 days on business. 



C. \V. Northrup, at La Grange, is 

 sending Kennicott Bros. Co. some unusu- 

 ally good outdoor tulips and Mr. Pieser 

 says they are selling better than the in- 

 door crops did. They have brought as 

 high as 5 and 6 cents. 



The Andrew McNally funeral last Sat- 

 urday made business for the retailers, 

 nearl.v all the leading stores being repre- 

 sented in the very large floral display. 



E. C. Amling is getting some splendid 

 Easter lilies from Matt Mann. Better 

 stock is seldom seen, but they are slow 

 sale at unprofitable prices for there is 

 much 5-cent stock in the market. 



Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Hauswirth an- 

 nounce the marriage of their daughter, 

 Eisa Katherine, to Walter F. Hoyt on 

 April 2. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is still getting 

 in a very heavy cut. 



Peter Eeinberg has begun his rebuild- 

 ing operations. 



Visitors: J. A. Young, Aurora, 111.; 

 Martin Eeukauf, of Bayersdorfer & Co., 

 Philadelphia; Eobert Lundstrom, Oeon- 

 omowoc. Wis.; A. E. Smith, Cleveland; 

 G. F. Crabb, Grand Kapids. 

 Bowling. 



The make-up of the convention team 

 will be determined by a series of thirty 

 games, five each, Tuesday at Mus.sey's 

 alleys. • All members of the Florists' 

 Club are urged to participate, as only 

 twenty games are required to qualify. 

 To keep up the interest, the same scores 

 will count in a scaled handicap, the win- 

 ners of which will get some handsome 

 trophiee. George StoUery is handicapper 

 and has given everybody a show. Follow- 



ing are the scores of the first series, 



rolled Tuesday night : 



V\nyn: ' 1st. 2d. 3d. 4th 5th 



.Vsmus 14S 170 ISS 202 lo.! 



HiilUitl 163 JS2 196 142 Ijj 



llausniilh 140 US 152 140 16S 



S.ott i'M 15S 153 136 154 



I- StoUiTV 17U 195 137 20S 165 



StfviMis ." 134 197 1S6 133 148 



Keiisch S2 120 133 100 98 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The feature of the market was the 

 sharp advance in Beauty roses at the 

 close of last week. George Samtman hail 

 notified his customers that roses wouhl 

 be higher. It is probable that he counted 

 on the crops going oft' about Wyndmoor, 

 basing his conclusion ou that fact only. 

 The festivities attending the coaching 

 parade last Saturday, the visit of our 

 president's daughter. — no, Roosevelt's not 

 Wcsteott 's— and other things brought 

 good demand and higher prices sooner 

 than anticipated. Sweet peas and valley 

 have also been in very fair demand. Thi'-' 

 week the general tone of the market is 

 rather dull, and on Wednesday Beauties 

 •nere lower. There are more poor flowers 

 about than heretofore. The street men 

 are active, snapping up bargains at a 

 great rate. 



Wyncote. 



Visiting Wyncote when the genial pro- 

 prietor is away seems much like wit- 

 nessing the play of Hamlet without the 

 prince. While everything looked neat 

 and orderly as always, one couldn't help 

 feeling there was something missing when 

 the genial smile and homely story of Jo- 

 seph Heacoek were not there. A hurried 

 look through showed the great Beauties 

 producing their last crop of specials be- 

 fore the annual house cleaning. A house 

 of Libert}' was not staked, but the plants 

 kept ofl' the walks by wires run along 

 the edge of and above the table. The 

 foliage on this variety was exceptionally 

 luxuriant, promise of a good crop of 

 bloom. A 250-foot house full of palms 

 was a fine sight, the ]dants being tall 

 and bushy, of good color and shape. Tlie 

 carnations were loaded with buds, look- 

 ins fit for much work yet. A feature of 

 this place is the side ventilation, freely 

 used in mild weather during the day. 

 both on carnations and roses. Much im- 

 portance is attached to this form of ven- 

 tilation, and to it may be due in part 

 the general good health of the plants al- 

 wavs noticeable. Thomas Cartledge once 

 urged me to visit this idace, saying it 

 was the most eeonomicallv heated place 

 he knew. This is most true. With tli- 

 houses compactly built on the side of a 

 hill with southern exposure, the sun has 

 full power, cold north winds are cut ofif 

 and steam heat ascends easily to th.^ 

 house farthest from the boilers. 



Various Notes. 



Leo Niessen believes that there will be 

 a sood supply of peonies, as well as of 

 choice greenhouse flowers, for Decora- 

 tion day. There is no question that the 

 demand in the city for that day is stead- 

 ily increasing. 



It is curious how much commotion Utf 

 little word "the" can make. 



11. Baj-ersdorfer will sail for Europe, 

 Tuesday, May 24, on the good ship 

 Kaiser Wilhelm, on his annual business 

 trip in search of the best novelties and 

 standard supplies that the market af- 

 fords, ilrs. Bayersdorfer will accom- 

 pany him. 



Harncs & Lolfland sold the property 

 consisting of about six acres of gi'ound, 

 residence, 30,000 feet of glass, buildings, 

 plants, etc., belonging to Edwin Lonsdal.? 

 at public sale on Monda.v. The place 

 was bought by John Burton for $12,600. 

 Dr. Henry Skinner delivered a lecture 

 before the ' Pennsylvania Horticidtural 

 Society last Tuesday evening on "In- 

 sects and the Architecture of Their 

 Homes. ' ' 



Stephen B. Green, of M. Eice & Co., 

 has lately returned from a successful 

 business trip through the country. He 

 found that Easter had p.roved generally 

 satisfactory. The florists whom he met 

 felt encouraged in spite of the heavy 

 fuel expenses of the winter. 



Eobert Craig & Son have been award- 

 ed $17,000 damages against the city, 

 duo to the opening of Fiftieth street 

 from Market to Chestnut street. 



Though busilv engaged with shipping 

 orders, Edward 'Eeid made time to name 

 the best varieties of carnations from a 

 wholesaler's point of view. White. 

 Flora Hill ; pink, at this season Mrs. E. 

 A. Nelson; scarlet, in general cultiva- 

 tion G. H. Crane. He believes in Mrs. 

 Lawson when cut tight, and in Enchan- 

 tress. He thinks it very important tha' 

 carnations should be picked before the 

 sun is on the houses at this season. 



Fred Foulds, son of Thomas Fould-- 

 has taken the place of Albert Ivnapper 

 at Ambler. The latter will remove to 

 Germantown. 



C. W. Cox is sending in the first Cen- 

 taurea imperialis. 



W. L. Edwards, of Norwood, is send- 

 ing in fine cand.vtuft. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. state that they 

 have sold more wheat sheaves in the past 

 month than in any previous year. They 

 have been working overtime to keep pace 

 with the demand for metal wreathes. 



George F. Krueger. of Narberth, diea 

 on the morning of May IS at Bryn Mawr 

 hospital, as the result of a cut received 

 on Tuesday. 



Bowling. 

 The Eeview is indebted to W. K. 

 Gibson for the score of the games played 

 ia Washington May 6. These games de- 

 cided the Kramer cup contest in favor 

 of Philadelphia, as described in this 

 column last week. The cup has been 

 01 exhibition at Pennock Bros.' hand- 

 some store and has attracted much at- 

 tention. 



Philadelphia. 1st 



W. II. Gibson 214 



B. IS. Starkej- 156 



v. T. Connei- 149 



Wm. Graham 172 



Sam'l Dnulap 216 



2d 3d 



1S3 123 



146 155 



172 165 



IBS 

 165 



Tl 

 520 

 45T 

 486 

 529 

 554 



Totals 907 866 773 2.540 



Washington. 



1st 



16S 



McLt^nnan 166 



Shaffn- 169 



Field 199 



Ernest 15' 



2d 3d 



179 122 



140 1-17 



172 16S 



ISl 1S4 



170 131 



Totals S59 S42 



Baltimore. 1st 2d 



niohmond H>e 143 



Halliday 121 155 



I.elir 145 97 



Kiehr 127 1S9 



Seybold 135 



3d 

 140 

 150 

 119 

 174 



T'l 



453 



564 

 458 



T'l 

 449 

 428 

 361 

 490 

 419 



132 15 

 Totals 694 716 735 2.145 



A Puzzle, 



1 havd been asked to tell. 



.\s one who onght to know. 

 Of those who s*ii-t and sell. 



Where loves the "biz" to go. 



'Tis verv qneer. I'm told. 



Pennock. the Market. Reid. 

 .\nd Ijeo Niessen. bold. 



All claim best to svieeeed. 



