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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



877 



and American Institute exhibition in 

 this city. 



Fred Breitmeyer, of Mt. Clemens, will 

 be in the city this week and will bring 

 some sample blooms of his wonderful 

 new rose, which is still unnamed, and 

 for the best name for which $100 in 

 gold is offered by his firm. Fred will 

 undoubtedly have the $100 with him, 

 and a warm welcome awaits him and his 

 pink charmer. 



In common with other supply men. 

 Keed & Keller report one of the best 

 seasons on record. Christmas is still 

 some distance away, but in two weeks 

 they sold over 10,000 of their folding 

 bell. This is one of their most success 

 ful novelties; it can be carried in the 

 pocket and is not injured by usage. 

 Another good novelty is the chime of 

 bells and another is the plushine bell of 

 which they are the originators. 



Albert W. Wadley and Miss Mary 

 Gorton, of Newport, were married Octo- 

 ber 12. They will reside at New 

 Rochelle. J. Austin Shaw. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Chrysanthemums rule now ; everywhere 

 these gorgeous colors add brilliancy to 

 the shops. Colonel Appleton, yellow, and 

 H. Balsley, pink, and Quids are recent 

 acquisitions. The list of fancies is small 

 compared with the ordinary sorts; varie- 

 ties that brought good prices when they 

 first came into flower, are now offered 

 at very low figures and are hard to sell 

 at that. Prices are unsteady now; the 

 best bring top figures, but they are few 

 when compared with the army of medium 

 grade flowers. Cosmos is tremendously 

 plentiful all at once and "no good," 

 commercially speaking. Dahlias are also 

 plentiful. They still sell, but prices are 

 steadily receding. Carnations are im- 

 proving and increasing in numbers; the 

 best are coming from a distance. Lil- 

 lian Pond, Floriana, Enchantress, Mrs. 

 Lawson and other fancy sorts are offered 

 in some quantity. White is still better 

 stock than colored sorts in ordinary 

 grades. Violets are pretty nice now. 

 Valley is fine. Among roses medium 

 Beauties are more popular than extras. 

 Queen of Edgely is coming i n more free- 

 ly. The teas are slowly recovering from 

 the siege of bad weather. Maids espec- 

 ially suffered. It is a pretty clever 

 grower whose stock of this rose is clean 

 and well colored today. To sum up : It 's 

 a buyer's market now. 



The Flower Mirket. 

 The first annual meeting of the Flower 

 .Market — His Grace of York informs me 

 I am wrong in saying its the second — 

 was held on Monday last at the Market. 

 The reports of the officers and the aud- 

 itor were read. They may be summed 

 up in that of Secretary Lonsdale. It 

 was given in one word "Progress." 

 The election of directors resulted as 

 follows: For the short term, Alfred 

 Burton; for the long term, Charles E. 

 Meehan, R. G. Palmer. J. W. Young. 

 Two amendments to the by-laws were 

 proposed :' The first changing the fiscal 

 year from October 1 to September 30, 

 to July 1 to June 30, passed without op- 

 position. President Heacock stating that 

 it was simply intended to make the mar- 

 ket year coincide with that of the grow- 

 ers. The second amendment removing 

 the clause limiting the number of shares 

 to be held by a stockholder, now placed 



at fifty, met with lively opposition. It 

 \\;is said that removing this check might 

 easily result in the Market becoming a 

 innate concern and unsatisfactory to 

 the growers who supported it. Aftei 

 spirited debate a vote was taken, re- 

 sulting in 285 shares for the amend- 

 ment and seventy shares against. Numer- 

 ically the friends of the amendment were 

 in the minority, but they were the big 

 stockholders and they held proxies. It 



was then ,,ig., I on g I authority that the 



amendment was lost, the by-laws provid- 

 ing thai any alteration required the vote 

 of two-thirds of the stock. After a 

 warm discussion the chair decided that 

 the by-laws bearing on this point meant 

 two thirds of the stock present, and not 

 two-thirds of the total number. The 

 amendment was therefore declared car- 

 ried. The auction sal< ol stalls, held 

 Mist before the meeting produced a small 

 premium, the growers feeling that it 

 is stuff, not position, that counts. 



At Dreer's 



The months of August and September 

 have brought results in the great palm 

 growing industry precisely similar to 

 those achieved during the same months 

 by the now famous Lou Dillon and the 

 no less famous Major Delmar — old rec- 

 ords broken, new records made. Yet so 

 vast is the stock that the various sizes 

 of each variety remain unbroken, and 

 whether it is "sixes" or "sevens" that 

 are ordered, matters not ; they will be 

 forthcoming and in perfect condition. 

 One is told that there is nothing new 

 about the palm business. Perhaps that 

 is so, still there is always food for 

 thought gathered in a stroll through 

 these ranges of houses, — the thrift seen 

 everywhere, the perfect system, the care- 

 ful attention to every detail necessary 

 to command success, always something 

 new, worth learning if you want to learn. 

 The novelties of interest are present as 

 well as the standards. There is the 

 beautiful green ami gold Selagineila Wat- 

 soniana, very pleasing to the eye, evi- 

 dently an acquisition. Then there is a 

 new- evergreen, a novelty indeed for this 

 tropical place, of such promise that an 

 exception had to be made in its favor. 

 It is Betinospora Sanderii, said to make 

 perfect specimens, two to two and a half 

 feet high. Phoenix Boebelenii. a rival of 

 Oocos Weddeliana in grace and probablv 

 its superior in durability, is on trial. 

 These are both imported specimens and 

 home grown seedlings. 



A very bright red alternanthera, con- 

 sidered better than the so-called A. bril- 

 liant] sima, grown successfully at Girard 

 college and at Fairmount park, is on 

 trial. It seems vigorous, as much brighter 

 than briliiantissima as the latter is than 

 A. amoena speetabilis or A. parony- 

 . hioides major. 



The ' ' fernery asparagus ' ' described 

 before, a hybrid that would climb, has 

 proved a good subject for propagation 

 by cuttings, a most desirable attribute 

 not shared by many of its family. 



This week Pandanus Sanderi will be 

 distributed, or at least the distribution 

 will commence. The orders for the golden 

 pandanus have far exceeded expecta- 

 tions. Growers, retailers, gardeners and 

 amateurs have shown full appreciation of 

 its good qualities by ordering freely. 



Notes. 

 W. P. Peacock sent in 13,000 dahlias 

 in one shipment on Monday last, to S. S. 

 Pennock. Over 10,000 were disposed of 

 before 3 o'clock that afternoon. 



The Doylestown National Bank re- 

 opened its doors last week for business 

 under the new management. It is pleas- 

 ant to note that the amount deposited 

 was larger than that withdrawn. 



George Farrell started work on Tues- 

 day with George M. Moss, wholesale 

 florist, 32 South Seventeenth street. 



Edward Reid's paper on the West, 

 published last week, elicited much favor- 

 able comment. 



C. A. Dunn & Co. are adding the next 

 door basement to increase their facili- 

 ties for handling stock. 



II. Bingham Myers celebrated the first 

 anniversary of his assuming control of 

 the Colonial Flower Shop. Mr. Myers 

 is pushing the Colonial with a will and 

 should make it a success. 



M. J. Brinton, of Christiana, Pa., is 

 sending in a nice assortment of carna- 

 tions to W. J. Baker. 



Edward Eeid received about 6,000 nice 

 carnations one morning lately. This 

 flower, for which he has a reputation, 

 is gradually rounding into shape. His 

 Maids are of good quality, with fine fo- 

 liage. Kaiserins here are also excellent. 

 Mr. Reid believes in "turning on the 

 light" when showing his stock. 



The October meeting of the Pennsylva- 

 nia Horticultural Society was held on 

 Tuesday evening. Perennials, hardy 

 chrysanthemums and cosmos were called 

 for on the schedule. 



Eugene Bernheimer reports receiving 

 nice flowers of Enchantress and Mrs. 

 Lawson carnations; also Col. Appleton 

 and G. W. Childs chrysanthemums. The 

 Floral Exchange is shipping him nice 

 flowers of Queen of Edgely. 



Charles Fox, Broad and Master streets, 

 had a very large wedding decoration last 

 week. 



George Faulkner is doing a nice busi- 

 ness at his Fifteenth street store. 



It is curious how three truthful writ- 

 ers can describe the same thing different- 

 ly. Take the case of early chrysanthe- 

 mums. Three local writers agreed as to 

 the grower who produced the first flow- 

 ers, and the commission merchant who 

 i...]\,.l them. They probably would 

 have agreed as to the retailer who bought 

 them, the swell who ordered them and the 

 pretty girl who received them, had they 

 gone so far; but on the question of 

 varietj there was a startling difference. 

 line said it was Glory of Pacific, another 

 Merrv Monarch, while a third Montmort. 

 Who was right.' Phil. 



BOILER AND PIPING. 

 I am building a greenhouse 20x100 

 and would like some information as to 

 how to pipe it and the adjoining houses. 

 Two houses I want to run about 50 

 degrees at night and the other at 65 to 

 70 degrees. The coldest nights are about 

 20 to Z5 degrees below zero. I have a 

 high pressure boiler twelve feet long and 

 forty-four inches wide, with forty-six 

 flues. How many runs of pipe will heat 

 the houses and what sizes are the best ? 

 How many flows and how many returns. 

 At what 'part of the boiler should the 

 returns enter? E. J. 



It is not possible to give detailed in- 

 formation with the scant data furnished. 

 If the houses have glass on the roof only 

 one 2-inch overhead flow and ten 1-inch 

 will answer for the cooler houses, and one 

 2%-ineh or two 2-inch flews with twelve 

 1-inch returns for the warmer house. If 

 there is glass on the sides of the houses 

 more returns will be necessary and in the 

 cooler houses the flow must be increased 



