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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



MARCH 24, 1S98. 



the demand was so brisk that every- 

 thing loolved prosperous for a fort- 

 night, when suddenly things were dif- 

 ferent and prices went as low as last 

 season. 



From many sources of information I 

 am inclined to believe that growers 

 hereabouts are a little disappointed 

 on the effect of the duty so far as bulbs 

 are concerned. They probably dis- 

 counted the good effect on general bus- 

 iness .a little too heavily, failing to al- 

 low sufficiently for the fact that this 

 class of stock is to a certain extent on 

 the back track now. Many growers 

 reason that the duty will prevent the 

 small growers importing their usual 

 supply; so the.v generously increase 

 their own orders to prevent a shortage. 

 It seems the small men didn't scare 

 worth a cent and the public wanted 

 bulb? most when they couldn't get 

 anything else. 



Notes. 

 George Anderson has the record for 

 lilies. He bought 1,000; received 1,005; 

 two didn't come up; two were broken 

 in handling; he has 1,001 good p'.ar.ts. 

 Where did you get them, Mr. Ander- 

 son? 



The failure of D. D. L. Farson wa.s 

 announced on Friday. This is sincere- 

 ly regretted not only on Mr. Farson's 

 account but also on that of Wm. Gib- 

 son, who worked so hard for his em- 

 ployer. 



A lady on Chestnut street priced a 

 nice little bunch of Maids. "Six for 

 a quarter, ma'am," the vender said. As 

 she moved across the street he pursued 

 her. "Say. lady, eight for a quarter," 

 he called. She shook her head. "I 

 guess you want 'em for nothing," the 

 disgusted fakir muttered. 



J. W. Y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 

 The maiket is exp?riencing many 

 ups and downs, and it is difficult to 

 say what the next day miy bring forth. 

 One day the demand will be brisk and 

 prices correspondingly stiff, and the 

 next day the weakness will be painful. 

 Shipping orders have, however, been 

 fairly steady, and this demand has 

 prevented any serious gluts, except in 

 violets and some bulb stock, thou^i 

 there have been many sales of lower- 

 grade stock at cut rates. On Tuesday 

 the quotations on tea roses ranged 

 from $2 to $4, with occasional sales of 

 extra select at ?5. Carnations of ordi- 

 nary varieties from ?1.2.5 to $1.7.5, with 

 *2 for extra good. Tulips and daffodils 

 from ?1 to $2: some of the extra qual- 

 ity going a little higher. The outlook 

 for a good supply at Easter is excel- 

 lent, and from the advance orders al- 

 ready placed the demand will be 

 strong enough to take it all. Unless 

 some unforeseen circumstances inter- 

 vene, the Easter trade of 1898 will be 

 a record-breaker. Certainly the pres- 



BUFFALO. 



Stock for Easter. 



The remarkable mild weather with 

 many fine days has helped business 

 some and plants have sold freely, but 

 there has been no heavy business ex- 

 cept that associated with the dear de- 

 parted ones, and there has been quite 

 the average of that sad but lucrative 

 work. All guesses about crops being 

 on time have been confused and eon- 



ent Lenten season has broken all pre- 

 vious records for good sales. May the 

 good work go on. 



Various Items. 



"Lilies and other bulbous flowers" 

 is the subject for discussion at the 

 meeting of the Florists' Club this 

 Thursday evening. The programme in- 

 cludes a paper on the Harrisii disease 

 by Mr. E. Buettner. 



Mr. Louis Gresenz, with Bussett & 

 Washburn, was married last Tuesday, 

 The bride was Miss .lulia Reg. Con- 

 gratulations are in order. 



"Welcome Spring" were the words 

 outlined in crocus flowers that greeted 

 visitors to Lincoln Park last Sunday. 

 Mr. Stromback is to be congratulated 

 on this bit of sentiment. 



We learn from Mr. J. S. W-lson that 

 the report that one of his brothers 

 died on the way to Alaska was erro- 

 neous. We are pleased to be able to 

 correct the false report. 



Carl A. Lundstrom, one of the old 

 landmarks in the trade, died last Sat- 

 urday of paralysis, aged 65 years. He 

 was born in Sweden, and has been in 

 America fourteen years, doing land- 

 scape work. The funeral took place 

 last Tuesday, the interment being in 

 Graceland. Many friends were in at- 

 tendance and the floral tokens were 

 numerous. Mr. Lundstrom left a \ 

 widow and four grown sons, one of 

 W'hom is connected with Lincoln Park. 



The wife of John C. Ure died last 

 week and was buried Sunday. D?ath 

 was caused by a cancer in the stom- 

 ach. 



Recent visitors: R. L. Blair. Des 

 Moines, la.; Geo. Faber, Kankakee. 

 111.: F. Danzer, Columbus, O. ; Robt. 

 Craig and John Burton, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



E. E. Peiser, of Kennicott Bros. Co.. 

 has returned from his outing, and is 

 again in the harness. Larry Kelly has 

 returned from a visit to his grand- 

 parents in Milwaukee. 



Mr. 0. P. Bassett, of Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, entertained Robert Craig and 

 John Burton, of Philadelphia, at his 

 home in Hinsdale last Tuesday. 



A. L. Randall will remove from Dear- 

 born street to larger quarters at 4 

 Washington street the last of this week 

 and will bo in shape to handle his Eas- 

 ter trade at the new location. 



Chas. H. Fisk has" removed to 169 

 Wabash avenue, where he has a very 

 neat basement store. 



founded by the long spell of New 0;r 

 leans kind of temperature. 



I ran around a little the other day 

 and got an idea of what there is in the 

 county. W. J. Palmer, in addition to 

 his fine cut of carnations and roses, 

 has a fine lot of bulbous stuff, lilies and 

 azaleas. He swears pretty loud about 

 the disease and has good cause to do 

 so. Joseph Rebstock has as usual a 

 very clean lot of lilies, azaleas, rhodo- 

 dendrons and smaller lots of other use- 

 ful stuff, John Pickleman, of French 

 street, has the banner lot of lilies. Out 

 of several thousand but a few hundred 

 will miss the mark. Several other calls 

 revealed a good assortment, which I 

 will report next week with others yet 

 to visit. For the past two or three 

 weeks there lias been far too many 

 daffies and tulips forced here; with 

 some firms who have them wasting 

 they have descended to the unhealthy 

 price of 25 cents a dozen. This is a 

 ridiculous price and it would have 

 been cheaper to feed the bulbs to the 

 pigs soon after paying duty on them. 



There does not seem any surplus of 

 good flowers. Roses of phenomenal 

 quality arrive in town and splendid 

 carnations meet with a ready sale. I 

 notice again to-day that Dazzle, that 

 splendid scarlet that never receives a 

 great puff, is grand in stem, form and 

 color. 



A Week for the Drimmers. 



This has been a week long to be re- 

 membered by the writer. Drummers 

 have been here as thick as locusts in 

 Egypt and fairly covered the land. 

 They have come singly, in pairs and 

 in flocks. Very early in the week, in 

 fact the Sabbath day, arrived Dan Mc- 

 Rorie and Walter Mott. I accompanied 

 this pair to the Botanic Garden to pro- 

 tect the poor professor from being 

 killed with kindness. Each put on 

 their respective styles of amiability, 

 which was worth a little suffering to 

 witness, but the man from the banks 

 of the Delaware got the best of it. He 

 received an order for a trade packet 

 of Erysimum Perofskianum. Then 

 followed several from across the 

 sea, whose names I cannot either 

 write or pronounce. Then Mr. 

 Hutchison, representing Mr. Aug. 

 Rhotert. As the name implies, 

 this young man is not one of 

 those who belong to the land of black 

 and white cows, wooden shoes and 

 deep rich soil. He is a native of that 

 prosperous country, Australia, and 

 proud of it. When Mr. McH. keeps his 

 order book in his pocket he is very 

 interesting, and is well posted aboiit 

 the laws and institutions of his far 

 distant home. Then the old war horse. 

 John Barclay, stepped up and talked in 

 the interest of Messrs. Elliott & Son. 



The last gentleman whohad anything 

 to sell was Mr. J. P. Ohmstede, who so- 

 licits orders for Mr. Kuyk. If there is 

 such an institution as Harvard Col- 

 lege in Holland. Mr. 0. must be a grad- 

 uate. He also looks to have passed 



