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The Weekly Florists* Review* 



December 4, 1902. 



were compelled to do so, so the tele- 

 phones In the retail stores did the rest. 



Carnations, in all grades, are very 

 ehort, and there are not enough to fill 

 all orders. 



Roses are helping things along, by be- 

 ing in very good supply, there being 

 plenty in all grades to fill all orders. 

 The quality is Al. Liberties are very 

 good, and are the most sought after. 

 Golden Gates are meeting with popu- 

 lar favor in this market. Some very 

 fine ones are being offered . Long- 

 stemmed Beauties are unequal to the de- 

 mand, though the supply is gradually 

 increasing. Short-stemmed ones are in 

 much better supply, and there are about 

 as many of them as can be used at pres- 

 ent. 



Chrysanthemums are almost out of 

 the market. There is yet an active de- 

 mand for them, and good ones would 

 bring a very good price. 



Tliere is a heavy demand for good 

 violets, and not nearly enough to go 

 around. Lily of the valley is in good 

 demand, but rather scarce just at pres- 

 ent. Some good Harrisii lilies are to 

 be had : also longiflorum, which sell 

 very well. 



Notes. 



The long-looked-for but slow-arriving 

 freeze made its appearance here Sunday 

 night, when the thcrniomotor dropfcd to 

 22 degrees, which will put an end to the 

 outdoor stock. 



Tlie large exhibition greenhouse that 

 is being erected in Eden Park is fast 

 nearing completion. Ifr. Critchell, the 

 superintendent, has just taken out a 

 patent on a new clipper sash bar, and 

 is using it exclusively on the new 

 house. Tt is a contrivance which does 

 away entirely with putty : a rubber strip 

 above and below tlie edge of the glass 

 to keep out all moisture, and a wood 

 strip, grooved, to fit into the bar, \te- 

 ing firmly screwed down, holding the 

 glass in place and pressing tightly 

 against the rubber strips. 



R. A. Kelly has put in his application 

 for membership in the Oraball Club, 

 of which Julius Baer is chief potentate 

 roaster and Cliarlie Jones is aroma dis- 

 tributer. 



F. W. Ball says that he is highly sat- 

 isfied with his first week in the retail 

 business, and that his trade was much 

 better than he had anticipated. 



S. S. Skidelskv, of Philadelphia, and 

 E<1. Bissel, of Dayton, Ohio, were vis- 

 itors. ■ C. J. Ohmer. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Since Thanksgiving trade has averaged 

 rery good, though the market was quiet 

 on Tuesday. There is sufliciont demand 

 to take up all good stock coming in and 

 there is a marked shortage in the sup- 

 ply of Beauties and violets, with none 

 too many good carnations. The short- 

 age in violets is very noticeable after 

 the surplus of last week. Prices are 

 well maintained, especially on the select 

 grades. Most of the Beauty growers 

 seem to be off crop at present, but we 

 hear that several anticipate fine crops 

 in for Christmas. 



In carnations there are a few fancy 

 Prosperity that reach $8.00, and on the 

 other hand there are some low-grade 

 flowers that are sold at as low as $1.00, 

 but the great bulk of the stock is moved 

 at the quotations given in our list. 



Beginning next Monday, the price of 

 hardy ferns will be $2.00 per 1,000. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. are receiving some 

 very fine \'iolets from a . small grower 

 that sell quickly at $2.00 per 100. 



Notes. 



The sad news comes from Alma, Mich., 

 that the physicians attending Mrs. C. L. 

 Washburn at the sanitarium there 

 have given up hope of her recovery. Both 

 Mr. Washburn and Jlr. Bassett, Mrs. 

 Washburn's father, are at her bedside. 



A. C. Kohlbrand is again at his post 

 at E. C. Amling's after a two weeks' 

 illness. 



Matthew Weber, foreman of the car- 

 nation section at Peter Reinberg's, died 

 last Friday, of pneumonia, aged 35 years. 

 He leaves a widow and three children. 

 He had been with Mr. Eeinberg about 

 seven years. He was a genial, compan- 

 ionable man, as well as an able grower, 

 and the news of his death will be heard 

 \vith deep regret by many friends in the 

 trade. 



A few chrysanthemum stragglers are 

 seen in the market, but the reign of the 

 Queen of Autumn is practically over for 

 tliis year. 



Leaden skies and a fall of mixed rain 

 and snow was the program Tuesday and 

 Wednesday. 



Edgar Sanders continues to improve 

 and is now able to take a few steps 

 almost without assistance. lie is 

 cheery and hopeful. 



Mr. 0. L. Baird, Dixon, 111., was a re- 

 cent visitor. 



BALTIMORE. 



Market Conditions. 



Tlie past week has seen a marked 

 change in the Aveather and in the trade 

 conditions of this center. Of seven days 

 we have had five of heavy downpours or 

 sullen clouds, varied with cold nights, 

 when the thermometer marked 2G de- 

 giees, the lowest so far reached. As a 

 result flowers have been scarce even for 

 the .season. 



Saturday last found the trade pan- 

 icky over the likelihood of a failure of 

 the American Beauty and violet crops. 

 Tlie great Army and Xa\-y football game 

 at Philadelphia on that day cleared up 

 all contiguous markets and left a blank 

 outlook for the demands of today (Dec. 

 1) of this city, when the event of the 

 year, the first German of the Bachelors' 

 cotillion, constitutes high-water mark of 

 the smart social set. This is the oeca-* 

 sion of the introduction of the season's 

 debutantes, and the popularity of each 

 is indicated by the number of bouquets 

 she receives. Tlie demand for flowers 

 of the best grades may be judged of. 

 By a liberal use of 'phone and wire most 

 of the florists succeeded in securing 

 from abroad enough for their require- 

 ments, but there is no surplus and prices 

 rule high. 



Generally, stuff is advancing in the 

 face of many weddings and other social 

 functions, the promise of an unusually 

 brilliant season being, it is proclaimed, 

 very marked. Hardly a day last week 

 that demand did not exceed visible sup- 

 plies. Violets are especially short, and 

 good roses on some days were out of 

 the market. Today has been one of 

 bright sunshine, and a clear, crisp at- 

 mosphere, and with a continuance of 

 these favorable conditions improvement 

 in production is to be expected. 



Items. 



The fuel problem continues vexatious. 

 Some of our growers are dependent upon 

 precarious supplies. The arrivals of 

 coal are irregular and prices are uncer- 

 tain, but always certain to. be almost 

 extortionate. We heard of one man 

 who today paid $9.50 a ton for a car- 

 load of hard coal. Soft coal, which 

 ought, from the nearness of the mines, 

 to be abundant and reasonable, is about 

 as hard to get as the anthracite. We 

 believe the oil burners, which were put 

 in here in the hope that that fuel would 

 prove an effective substitute for coal, 

 have all been laid aside as impracticable, 

 either failing to produce a high enough 

 temperature or ruinously prodigal of 

 oil. If prices of flowers advance with 

 cost of production there must be a 

 mark-up along the whole line. 



Fredk. C. Bauer, of Govanstown, is 

 sending in a new variegated carnation, 

 yellow and carmine, of brilliant and 

 pleasing shades, with good-sized flowers 

 and stiff stems, and said to be very pro- 

 ductive. 



The decorations of the hall of the 

 German tonight were done by Black 

 Bros., who have a celebrity for tasteful 

 and effective work in this line. B. 



CARNATIONS REGISTERED. 



With American Carnation Society. 



By W. X. Rudd, Mt. Greenwood, 111.— 

 "Phyllis." Color Daybreak style, per- 

 haps a little more on the salmon and 

 even throughout. High built, fringed, 

 fragrant, good stem and early and con- 

 tinuous bloomer. 



By the Chicago Carnation Co., Joliet, 

 111. — '"Fiancee." (No description.) 



By Dailledouze Bros., Flatbush, N. Y. 

 — "Fragrance." Color a bright satin 

 pink, size medium, stem good and long, 

 calyx best we have ever seen, fragrance 

 full clove and very powerful. A good, 

 steady bloomer, strong and healthy, has 

 been shown as "Blush Seedling," also as 

 "Xo. 3." 



By John G. Sholl. Burlington, N. J. — 

 "Success." Color light pink, shade of 

 La France rose, without a trace of blue 

 or purple, strong and rapid in growth, 

 producing stiff stemmed flowers of large 

 size. Caly.x never bursts. An early and 

 tremendous bloomer. 



Albert 'M. Herr, Sec'y. 



Lancaster, Pa. 



A COPT of the Florists' Manual by 

 Wm. Scott, makes a most acceptable 

 Christmas present to an employe or a 

 friend in tlie trade. It costs only $5, 

 and, being a reference book, its value in- 

 creases with use. 



Des Moines, Iowa. — The 37th annual 

 convention of the Iowa State Horticul- 

 tural Society will be held in the horti- 

 cultural room in the Capitol, this city, 

 Dec. 9 to 12. 



Carlisle, Pa.— A very successful 

 chrysanthemum show was given the 

 week of Nov. 17, under the auspices of 

 the Ladies' Civic Club. 



St. Paui., Minn. — Wm. J. Lemke has 

 purchased the business of Mrs. C. Beli- 

 lens, at 1(10 and 162 Kent street, and 

 will continue same. 



Send order and copy at once for ad- 

 vertisements in our special Christmas 

 number, to be issued next week. 



