Januakv -UK l.s;»s. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



349 



The Market. 



Trade is quiet. There is decidedly 

 iiiore supply thau demand, although the 

 quality is ycry much better than a week 

 or two back. The retailers are reporting 

 a little better business, as weddings and 

 parties are now beginning to appear. 

 The following are about ruling prices: 

 Beauties |i to f4 per doz.; Brides, Brides- 

 maids and Jleteors I3 to f\2 per 100; 

 Perles and other yarieties $:■, to |S per 

 100; carnations |i to |2 per 100; yalley $1 

 to 54 per 100; Roman hyacinths, per 100; 

 «i to J2; paper white narcissus, per 100, 

 Ji to $2; Lil. Harrisii, per 100, |8 to|r2. 

 Violets are coining in more freely, but in 

 some instances are very poor quality. 

 The price ranges from 50c to 75c per 100. 



C. H.J. 



OBITUARY. 



Henry S. Rupp. 



Henry S. Rupp, of the firm of Henry 

 S. Rupp & Sons, Shirenianstown, Pa., 

 died Jan. 14, of heart failure, in his 72d 

 year. He started in life as a farmer, but 

 in 1S62 embarked in business as a nur- 

 seryman and florist and was remarkably 

 successful. Mr. Rupp was an honored 

 member of the comnuniity in which he 

 lived, taking an active part in everything 

 that tended to the public good, and was a 

 .sincere Christian. He leaves a widow, 

 four sons and two daughters, his being 

 the first death in the family, which is 

 quite remarkable. The ages of the 

 children range from thirty to forty years. 



During the past two years the firm of 

 Henry S. Rupp & Sons has been closing 

 out the nursery department of their busi- 

 ness, the son, John F., having taken the 

 floral and seed department and removed 

 the greenhouses to the village of Shire- 

 nianstown to secure more perfect mailing 

 and shipping facilities. This well-known 

 firm has had a wide-spread reputation for 

 improving the Chinese primrose and 

 growing large quantities of seed and 

 plants of the same. They also were 

 amongst the first to engage in the mail- 

 ing of flowering plants. 



ROCHESTER. 



Favorable Trade Conditions. 



To record the continuance of a flourish- 

 ing trade affords great pleasure to the 

 writer. Several years have passed since 

 we last could conscientiously report such 

 favorable trade conditions. In the past 

 our florists would feel hopeful whenever 

 the demand was brisk for a few successive 

 days, but their hopes were only of short 

 duration, the .spurt would pass over 

 quickly and a relapse into the old inani- 

 mate trend cooled off' their premature ex- 

 altation. Now they have learned to be 

 reticent in the expression of their hopes 

 but do not deny the constant and marked 

 growth in the bulk of business which 

 they have expsrienced in the last six 

 weeks or more. If the improvement 

 should not turn out to be pemanent, we 

 at least had a very favorable December 

 and the present month has distinguished 



itself so far by crowding closely together 

 social events in variety', which have 

 proved a source of profit to our decora- 

 tors; indications, in my opinion, point to 

 continued and increasing prosperity, yet 

 I may err in this assumption and the 

 rosy view I have liere depicted may be 

 shattered to smithereens in another week 

 by a sudden change for the worse. 

 A Visit to Buffalo. 

 After having two or three days of hard 

 frost we again are favored with unusual 

 mild weather, but without the bright sun 

 which we had in the first part of tlie 

 month. Rain and soft snow falls .''re- 

 quently, but the unpleasantness of the 

 weather was not heeded by a party of 

 Rochester flori^its who, last Friday, gave 

 up their usual position behind the coun- 

 ters for a dav to pay a visit to the then 

 partly inundated streets of our great 

 neighboring city of Buffalo. The party- 

 would have been wise if they had pro- 

 vided themselves with rubber boots, for 

 in some instances it was necessary to 

 wade through watery mud in order to 

 reach certain places of safety and com- 

 fort, where the inner man could find the 

 necessary encouragement to venture fur- 

 ther on and continue on the march 

 through the soft mixture, but nobody 

 hesitated to walk on, and th ■ proverbial 

 hospitality of the Buffalonians and their 

 amiable and obliging manners smothered 

 every thought of complaint in the bud. 



The party was royally entertained, and 

 after viewing several greenhouses and 

 stores they were escorted to \V. J. 

 Palmer's place, in Lancaster, where Day- 

 breaks are grown to such perfection. 

 They were unanimously pronounced as 

 the finest ever seen, and it is not sur- 

 prising that Mr. P. can, as he stated, dis- 

 pose of a thousand of these grand flow- 

 ers to eifery dozen of Scotts, but not 

 everybody can raise such Daybreaks; 

 they are simply perfect. A low house, 

 shaded heavil\' with canvas, is used here 

 for forcing out the fine tulips for which 

 this place is .so favorably known in this 

 vicinity. A good steady heat is kept up 

 here, and Mr. P. manages to develop a 

 long stem even on the early lots under 

 these conditions. 



Here the Buffalo delegation bid good 

 bye to the party, who journeyed on to 

 Corfu, where Wm. Scott was caught 

 planting lettuce in a house in which the 



violets would not respond to generous 

 treatment; and he got mad at them, so 

 they had to make room for the lettuce. 

 Two other houses planted to these blue 

 beauties are in fine shape and it remains 

 a myster}- whj- the other house should 

 act differently. All the carnations show 

 remarkable vigor in their new growth, 

 promising a great crop before long. Mr. 

 Scott thinks a world of the new white. 

 Genesee and calls it a bread and butter 

 carnation. Certainly it is here in many 

 respects superior to the other whites. 

 Dazzle, the new scarlet, was shown to the 

 visitors with the same justified pride, but 

 Dick Salter ventured the remark that 

 this variety might prove a razzle dazzle 

 to many of our growers although under 

 the hands of a W. S. it appears not only 

 to bloom freely, but its growth is also 

 vigorous enough to satisfy all. Time had 

 past quickly, while viewing the houses, 

 and it was getting late. A contem- 

 plated visit to Mr. Webb's houses had to 

 be postponed for a future day much to 

 the regret of our party. They had to 

 catch a certain train, else they would 

 have been obliged to remain over night, 

 and their presence in the stores on Satur- 

 day morning was a dire necessity, so they 

 parted reluctantly from our highly es- 

 teemed jovial friend and his hospitable 

 farm as he calls it. K. 



w 



iSi 



Armstrong's 

 Everblooming 

 Tuberose==^ 



A new departure in Tuberose 

 growth. Flower bearing buds 

 continue to form around the 

 old flower stalk in<letinitely. 

 Flowers greatly .superior to 

 those of all other single Tube- 

 ro.ses. .\warded Certificate of 

 Merit by the S. .\. F. at Provi- 

 dence last .August, and the 

 Shaw Gold Medal at St. Louis 

 in November. 



FOR PRICES AND PARTICULARS 



Address Luttier flrmstrong, 



3720 Olive Street, ST. lOUIS, MO. 



i!2 



^ ^ EEDS FOR FLORI STS ^ 



Trade pkt. oz. 



Al.vssum Little Gem 10. In. $0.50 



Begonia Vernon 2.t 



Candytuft Empress 10 .30 



Centaurea Gynnocarpa 15 -50 



Coboea Scandens 15 .35 



Dr.ica'na Indivisa 15 .30 



Nasturtium Dwarf mixed, lb.60 .10 



Petunia, fine mixed 15 .50 



~ SPRING BULBS. 

 \ii\A HI I lAXT Tuberose Dwarf Pearl, tirst size... 

 WrI ri I nil I Tuberose Dwarf Pean. second size 

 Ml 1. E-i-t-tv ' ■ Begonias.Tuberous.single, separate colors 3..50 30.00 

 r CAMC Begonias. Tuberous. double, separate colors 12.00 

 oUnO ..New York Gloxinia Erfcta, separate colors B.OO 



^^ Trade pkt. oz. 



Petunia, large flowering 



mixed *I.OO 



Phlox Nana Compacta 



mixed 25*1..=>0 



Salvia Splendens 25 1..tO 



Thunbergia mixed 10 ::0 



Verbena Mammoth mixed. .25 1. 



per 100. per 1001.- 



JlOO $7.00 



75 .1.0 I 



Gln.xinia F.recta. mixed SW 



mmmmmmmmmm*mmmf^f^^ 



