The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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nig, of Milvale, Pa. Mr. 

 connected with the Pitts- 

 a i nation Company. 

 Visitors: Miss Alice Barnes, Spring- 

 field, Ohio; Arthur Langhans, Wheeling, 

 \V Va.; Martin Reukauf, Philadelphia. 

 Hoo-Hoo. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Business, outside of funeral orders, is 



at a standstill, although the indications 

 are that there will be a big Decoration 

 (I. i\ business, judging by the inquiries 

 florists are having. Rain has been a 

 \,i\ scarce article in California since 

 the first of April, and as a consequence, 

 mosl of the interior towns are very short 

 of outdoor flowers. I refer to those 

 places thai have no dower stores and re- 

 ly mi the supply from gardeners for cem- 

 etery Durnoses on Mav 30. On this ac- 



uill 



\,mi and we shall have a chance to get 

 rid of a lot of surplus stock. Just think 

 of it in the whole state of Nevada, and 

 Arizona also, there an- not over half a 

 dozen florists ami. of course, all the 

 il, mil- must mine from outside. One 

 San Francisco florist shipped to Virginia 

 City. Nev., last season 1,000 bouquets 

 .if mixed flowers. Sacramento. Stock- 

 ton, San Jose and a hundred smaller 

 towns are large consumers and our pros- 

 pects are g 1 for heavy shipments. 



Although (lie greater part of Califor- 

 nia is sull'ding at the present moment 

 for rain, we Mill have an abundance of 

 outdoor flowers in the immediate vicin- 

 ity. Bride gladiolus is seen in large 



scriptions, coreopsis, mignonette. Canter- 

 bury- bells, peonies, carnations and a few 

 wild flowers make a good assortment 1" 

 choose from. 



Notes. 

 H. H. Lilienthal, president of 

 fornia State Horticultural So, 

 received a dispatch from the pi 

 retary co President Roosevelt, 

 the chief executive expresses hi 

 ness to Become an honorary n 

 i he society. The message i- as 

 Yours ol the 13th with ench 

 been received ami in 1 1 it- Presi 

 half I beg to thank you ami the 

 of your society for the complii 

 him bv (he recent action of vni 

 , organization. 



paid 

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CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



The wholesale market has been 

 flooded with good stock of roses in all 

 varieties, while white carnations have 

 been a good second; consequently the 

 prices have eased up a little, the top 

 price in roses being $6, and from that 

 down to $1 a hundred, and in 1.000 lots 

 even that price is shaded. Carnations 

 rule from $1 to $3 for fancy varieties. 

 A few lilies are seen, also some out- 

 door valley, which brings a fine price. 

 Sweei peas are scarce, only a few 

 growers forcing them here. Common 

 ferns air short at $2 per 1.000. Good 

 adiantum brings $1 per 100, galax, $1 

 per 1.000. 



Among the Growers. 



A recent visit to Isaac Kennedy's new 



place at West Park, a pretty suburb of 

 Cleveland, and on the Linsdale car line. 

 found Mr. Kennedy in the midst of 

 building operations. Three modern 

 even span houses, running east and west. 

 are going up. These houses are open 

 under the gutter, making them prac- 

 tically one house, and covering about 

 9,000 square feet of ground. Mr. Ken- 

 r 1 1 ■ 1 1 \ is a very tall man. and did not 

 propose I" bump his head on those 

 gutters. The boiler house is on the 

 north side of the greenhouses, thus 

 avoiding any shade on the glass; it is 

 a fine building and covers a large 

 tubular boiler with a capacity for three 

 times i In' in. —nt amount of glass. On 

 enterine the boiler room, the first thing 



Hell 



It is built of brick and will certainly 

 last a life time. These houses will be 

 planted with roses before June 1 and 

 should do well, as Mr. Kennedy has as 

 fine a rose soil as the writer has ever 

 seen, and his whole place seems to be 

 of the same quality. 



A trip to Newburgh, with a stop at 

 Geo. Jewett's place at 1338 Broadway, 

 found everything looking good, except 

 Mr. Jewett, who has been confined to 

 his bed for the past weeks with typhoid 

 fever, but be is improving and expects 

 to be back in the store in a few days. 

 Mr. Jewett grows bedding plants and 

 a genera] variety of flowers, and has 



;i \.i\ g 1 trade in all lines. 



The next call was on J. M. Strajcek, 

 near the corner of Wilson and Broad- 

 way, where he is located in a very nice 

 store, and reports a good trade in cut 

 lli. w, is, plants, and funeral work. 



The next jump was a long one to 

 P.. II. Hoffman's place on Miles avenue, 

 Newburgh. where he has a large place 

 devoted to nil flowers and plants grown 

 for the wholesale trade. Property in 

 this section of the city is booming, and 

 a- Mr. Hoffman has a large frontage 

 on Miles avenue, he is seriously think- 

 ing of laying a part of it out into 

 building lots. 



A short walk took us to Mr. Bumd's 

 place, where we found everything in 

 it- usual good condition, with a large 

 stock on hand and ready for the plant- 

 in- -i.i-i.n. Mr. Bumd makes a specialty 

 of carnations and mums. 



The last rail was on Mi. Kunze; that 

 gentleman was found worrying because 

 it had not rained for the past two 

 weeks, his soil being the kind that 

 hakes hard, and is almost impossible 

 to work, once it gets dry. He wants to 

 gel his carnal ions planted out. His 

 -lock is in first class -hapo. and he is 



i; Addicott i- Son, of Hayden avenue, 

 East Cleveland, will build quite an ad- 

 dition to their already large plant, and 

 will grow more roses and carnations. 

 Thev are sending in some very fine 

 Brides and Maids to The F. R. Wil- 

 liams Co. They have just finished 

 planting 15,000 fine carnation plants 

 in the field and, like the other growers, 

 are looking for rain. E. 



Dover. Del. — T. J. Von Reider reports 

 trade on Easter stock as very satisfac- 

 tory, there having been more call for 

 pot plants than for cut flowers, although 

 there was a fair sale on both. Mr. Von 

 Reider has a new seedling rose, a cross 

 between Kaiserin and Perle, that is a 

 delicate pink and very fragrant. He.be- 

 lieves it to he a verv promising new 



The Drought. 

 ,\ passing cloud ami a few drops of 

 lain I his morning gladdened our spirits 

 for hali an hour, but it passed without 

 even laving the dust and we continue 

 to suffer. We have recollections of dry 

 times in July and August that have been 

 worse than this one. but somehow it fit- 

 ted the season of the year and nothing 

 suffered. The six weeks of sunshine have 

 I eenlj felt on the farms and gar- 

 dens. Residents of cities do not realize 

 it, for thev have the hose and faucet, 

 but the villager sees the grass burning 

 up, the grain scarcely moving, trans- 

 planted trees and shrubs wilting, the 

 young carnations planted three weeks 

 ago burning up and lots of other things 

 that makes him sigh. If he goes down to 

 the creek he will find it reduced to little 

 pools here and there, and struggling for 

 existence little pickerel and pollywogs 

 ami many other creatures that must 

 have water or die. But we shall get over 

 all this and forget it. 



The Market. 

 Business has been fairly good and 

 flowers quite plentiful. Outdoor valley 

 i- .j , which -hows how early this sea- 

 son is. Lilac is gone and about all the 

 outdoor stuff for Decoration day will be 

 peonies, and they are quite a help. What 

 with the Long 'island and New Jersey 

 crop and then our home grown, the sea- 

 son of the peony lasts some time. Plant 

 men are very busy. The usual amount 

 of flower gardening will be done, but no 

 abnormal increase, and I see nothing 

 unusual in any feature of the demand. 

 It is the same' old thing, except that the 

 verv artificial hanging basket is fast 

 going out and but few are now asked 

 for. 



Visitors. 

 We have sadly missed out of town vis- 

 itors of late. ' In fact, we have been 

 quite lonesome, but there was an oasis 

 in the dull times in the shape of August 

 Rhotert and his representative, Mr. 

 Knhkinan. We have done business for 

 years with Mr. Rhotert. but never saw 

 'this well groomed man in the flesh. It 

 is good for a customer to know with 

 whom he is dealing. Then when he 

 reads his letters he can read better be- 

 tween the lines. Mr. Rhotert might be 

 taken for the third assistant secretary 

 of the treasury and is business from the 

 word "go." W. S. 



Bridgeport, Conn.— G. B. Whitehead 

 has sold out to Keith & Jackson. 



Ft. Wayne, Ino. — Mrs. Wm. Paap, 

 wife of the foreman at the city green- 

 house, died May 18. aged 61 years. 



Montreal, Que.— On May 18 fire de- 

 stroved a barn belonging to Aaron Mar- 

 tin & Sons, at Cote St. Paul, causing 

 hi-- of S4..300. 



Grand Junction, Cot..— The Grand 

 .fund km Seed and Nursery Company, 

 capital s:ai. into, has been incorporated 

 bv G. J. i n mail. i. -Tno. F. Moore and 



Clyde, 0.— Rain is badly needed for 

 carnation plants in the fields. W. E. 

 Hall says trade in bedding plants has 

 also been slow because of the drought. 

 He is thinking of dropping plants al- 

 together and confining his efforts to cut 

 flowers. 



