The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Easter Plant Arrangements by C. A. Samuelson, Chicago. 



after planting should do them good, pro- 

 viding it is followed up by a good cul- 

 tivating as soon as the soil is dry 

 enough. We seldom need to water our 

 young plants in this locality, as we can 

 usually depend on a rain every few 

 days during April, and when the young 



is really necessary, as exoo—ive mois- 

 ture is very conducive to stem-rot. You 

 will always find this trouble the worst 

 in wet seasons and on low ground where 

 the water cannot drain off well. After 

 the young plants take a good hold on 

 the soil they do not need a great amount 

 of water to keep them in good growing 

 condition and. in fact, a season of only 

 a moderate amount of rain is best for 

 them. During a wet season the plants 

 will become larger, but softer, too, and 

 transplanting will be much more diffi- 

 cult. Keep your cultivator going to 

 keep the soil loosened up and it will 

 have to get extremely dry to cause any 

 suffering among your carnations. 



Another thing" that may be causing 

 your plants to turn dry is grub worms. 



They will eat awaj the root- and leave 

 the rootless plant standing, but it soon 

 begins to wilt and dry up. I'm worms 

 usually cut the plant- off and thej drop 

 over. Then there i- the -tern borer, 

 which bore- ink the -tem and kills the 

 plant. The grub worm you can kill 

 with the lime, but for the borer I do not 

 know of anything. A. F. J. Baur. 



CHICAGO. 



There were no good while roses except 

 a \ei\ few Kai-erin and Ivory. .Maid- 

 were not only small and -oft. but off 

 color. Liberty was good. 



There were great quantities of ear 

 nations and the qualities were good as 

 compared to roses. The demand was 

 also excellent and there was a prettj 

 fair clean-up. although in some houses 

 white predominated, and rather hung 

 fire. The popularity of carnation- 

 seemed to react on the peonies, but 

 there were not large supplies and many 

 of the receipts were poor. South Water 

 -fleet was in the cape jasmine trade 

 with cheap grades at a dollar a box, 

 and it is probably ju-t as well that 

 the receipts of this item were lighter 

 than usual in our market. The mis- 



cellaneous items did not move very well, 

 a very large part of the sales being on 

 shipping orders. Decoration day was 

 rainy, with a temperature of 45 degrees, 

 ami Sunday little better for local trade. 



There have since developed a great 

 many "kick-" from buyers, who say the 

 stock did not arrive in salable condition. 

 Undoubtedly there wa- more or less 

 pickled stock; there always i-: but no 

 one sent out stale stuff if he knew it. 

 and all goods were soft. There are also 

 reports of several shipments having been 

 caught in the Kansas Hood-. 



This week has seen a very fair bu-i- 

 ness. Supplies were light, as every- 

 thing had been cut close for Decoration 

 day. and the dark, cold weather held to 

 Tuesday afternoon. As a result, good 

 price- prevailed on roses, carnations and 

 peonies. 



Various Notes. 



Fritz Bahr is growing Marie Liger 

 chrysanthemum and will exhibit it at 

 I he fall -how. 



It has become the proper thing for 

 downtown retailers to -how a slate in 

 the window giving the steamer sailings 

 from New York, with a few words to 

 the effect that cut flowers can be deliv- 

 ered to the staterooms of those en route 

 to Europe. 



Kennicott Brother- Company reports 

 that their cape jasmines failed to show 

 ii|.. They have the -ame -ource of sup- 

 ply each year, to insure the quality of 

 stock they want. Last year thev han- 

 dled upwards of 50.000 and expected 

 25,000 for Decoration day this vear. but 

 the receipts were only 3.500. The late- 

 tie— of the stock leaves the shipper 

 practically without a market. 



Frank Schramm cut 25.000 carnations 

 of first-rate quality for Decoration day. 



