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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Febriarv 12. 1003 



CHICAGO TO BROOKLYN. 



A number of Chicago florists will 

 travel to the Carnation Society Con- 

 vention at Brooklyn, X. Y., by the Penn- 

 sylvania Lines, taking the train leaving 

 Chicago at 3 p. m., Tuesday, February 

 17, and reaching Brooklyn at 8:30 p. 

 m. the evening of the following day, 

 Wednesday, the 18th. Tliis is the only 

 line that carries passengers from the 

 west directly to Brooklyn, it having a 

 ferry boat that carries its passengers 

 from the Jersey City station direct to 

 Brooklyn. The fare is $20 going and 

 one-third of this returning, on the cer- 

 tificate plan. Through sleei^er and din- 

 ing car. 



Those who expect to attend the con- 

 vention from Chicago or points farther 

 west are cordially invited to travel with 

 this party. Berths in sleeping car may 

 be reserved and further information ob- 

 tained by addressing H. B. Bering, as- 

 sistant general passenger agent, Pennsyl- 

 vania lines, 248 South Clark street, cor- 

 ner Jackson, Chicago. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Trade Conditions. 



The business done by the retailers last 

 week was really encouraging, and the 

 different large establishments report 

 trade as never better than at the pres- 

 ent time. There is a shortage of stock 

 at the wholesale bouses, and most of 

 their supplies have to be procured from 

 outside of the city. 



Prices on all kinds of stock ^vith the 

 exception of violets have kept up since 

 the holidays. Last week. Brides. Maids, 

 and roses of this class, sold as high as 

 $10 per 100 for first grades. Beauties 

 are scarce and at no time this season 

 has there been a siirplus of good blooms. 

 Those in the market at present are short- 

 stemmed and very much deformed and 

 are not salable. Good carnations are 

 holding up well at top prices. Some 

 extra fine Joost, Lawson, Wliite Cloud 

 and Guardian Angel were graded as 

 fancies and sold out clean, while others 

 had equally as good demand, especially 

 white, as funeral work seems plentiful. 

 Violets are very plentiful and are com- 

 ing in 10,000 lots, which soil at $3 per 

 1,000. As other flowers are scarce, those 

 sell well. Pilcher. Gross and the Ude 

 boys are supplying this market with 

 some of the best. 



Bulb stuft' sells fast, owing to the 

 scarcity of other stock, valley being 

 about the only slow seller the past 

 week. A few daffodils are in, and 

 these, with tulips, sell well, Harrisii 

 and callas are also selling well. 



Since my last report we have had 

 some cold weather with snow, which 

 will have the effect of keeping stock 

 scarce. In talking with some of our 

 local growers the past week nearly all 

 of them say that they are off crop at 

 present, but the chances are that the 

 first week in Lent mil see stock of all 

 kinds in great abundance in this mar- 

 ket. 



News Notes. 



ilr. P>alph W. Ward was in the city 

 last week in the interest of \V. Ilage- 

 mann & Co., of New York. Mr. Ward 

 reports that he has had a fine trade in 

 plants and bulbs. 



Mr. Bruecker, of Marcus, and W. A. 

 Jablonsky and John Steidle. of Clayton, 

 are sending in some fine carnations. 



None of them, however, is sending to 

 the commission houses, as the output of 

 these growers is taken by Theo. Jliller, 

 Jlrs. M. M. Ayers and F. C. Weber. 



Mr. Tony Peterson^ formerly of this 

 city, is now assistant to the head gar- 

 dener at the Soldiers' Home, Dayton, 

 Ohio. Tony has many friends here who 

 wish him success in his new position. 



The entertainment of the club on 

 Saturday promises to be a grand affair. 

 Everything is in readiness. The time 

 for accepting invitations is limited to 

 Saturday noon, as it is necessary to 

 know how man.v to provide for. Presi- 

 dent Dunford in a letter from Florida 

 regrets very much his inability to be 

 present at the entertainment and wishes 

 the members and their friends an enjoy- 

 able time. A mandolin club will be 

 furnished by F. B. Call, of the St. Louis 

 Carnation Co., to play for tue dance. 



J. J. B. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Continued cold, frosty weather is 

 the climatic condition here for the last 

 week. Thermometer 30 F. this (Feb. 

 (Uh ) morning and the weather prophet 

 predicts the same kind for some time to 

 come. 



Tulips have made their appearance 

 and help to liven the florists" windows. 

 They are selling wholesale at $2.50 per 

 hundred. Violets still very plentiful, 

 but the stems are somewhat shorter on 

 account of the frost. Daffodils in any 

 (juantity at $1 per hundred. Narcissus, 

 paper white, begging at .50c per hundred. 



RosQs hold their own better than 

 anything. Good Beauties are scarce and 

 sell at $2..50 to $4 per dozen. Brides and 

 Maids are in .short supply and sell at 

 $1 to $1.50 per dozen for the best stock 

 and 50 to 75 cents per dozen for short- 

 stemmed. Kaiserin and Liberty are sell- 

 ing at $1 for medium grades. Carna- 

 tions have not changed in price or qual- 

 ity. Fanc.v, such as Lawson, Prosperity. 

 Estelle and a few others, sell at 50c and 

 the balance at 35c per dozen. 



The yellow flowered acacia (Acacia 

 Molissima) is brought into town in 

 large quantities from the surroimding 

 country, and many of the stores as well 

 as the street vendors iise a great deal 

 of it. It is a splendid flower to use 

 for decorating. Keeps for a week in 

 water and lias a pleasant odor. 



Notes. 



Tlie writer made a visit to the estab- 

 lishment of Mr. Sydney Clack at Menlo 

 Park several da.vs ago and found his 

 houses in splendid shape as to order 

 and quality of flowers grown. Mr. 

 Clack has a large shipping business with 

 Oregon and Washington and has a large 

 quantity of valley, carnations and lilies 

 to cut from. G. 



PITTSBURG. 



Tbe Market. 



Business in cut flowers is not in such 

 a flourishing condition as when reported 

 last: still, it could be worse. So far 

 as large decorations for balls, teas or 

 weddings were concerned, snakes in 

 Ireland were never scarcer! 



Among the wholesalers there has not 

 been much change in the prices of the 

 best grade flowers. It has not been pos- 

 sible to clear out completely, and left- 



over stock has had to be cut down in 

 price in order to get it out of the way. 



We have had another week of bright 

 weather, which brought large quantities 

 of good roses to this market. The prices 

 w-hieh held up so well on roses this sea- 

 son, are now on the wane. Colored car- 

 nations are plentiful, but white ones 

 still continue scarce. 



There is no change in the prices on 

 bulbous stock. A sufficient supply is 

 now arriving to meet the demand. 



At the last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club, the express rates were again de- 

 bated. Mr. Randolpn said that he had 

 no complaint to make as to the in- 

 creased rates. He is willing to pay 

 double rates, if such would guarantee 

 to him a quicker ser\-icc. The commit- 

 tee having this matter in charge will 

 report at the next meeting. 



Win. Lauch is sending the Pittsburg 

 Cut Flower Co., quantities of very good 

 freesia and some white lilacs. 



Frank Britenbaugh, who has been 

 seriously ill with pneiunonia, is now out 

 of danger. 



J. J. Fuchs has invested in a new de- 

 livery wagon. 



Will. Diews has opened a store for 

 the sale of cut flowers, seeds and plants, 

 at Braddock, Pa. 



Visitors: S. S. Pennock, Philadel- 

 l>hia; B. Esehner, of M. Rice & Co., 

 Philadelphia; W. A. Herbert, Wells- 

 ville, Ohio. Hoo-Hoo. 



DETROIT. 



At tlio meeting of the club in Janu- 

 ary, it was decided to hold a carnation 

 exhibit at the next meeting, on Febru- 

 ary 4, but the chairman of the enter- 

 tainment committee and the president 

 went one letter and made it the occa- 

 sion of a dance, to which Tom, Dick and 

 Harry were invited with their best girls 

 and a very enjoyable time was had, at 

 Harmonic Hall. 



The exhibit was quit« extensive and 

 some good blooms were shown both by 

 outsiders and local growers. 



The most notable ones from outside, 

 were made by the Chicago Carnation 

 Co.. which were staged by that genial 

 light-weight, Mr. Jas. Ilartshorne, and 

 consisted of Harlowarden, Her Majesty, 

 Marshall Field and Higinbothani; also 

 one by Boehringer Bros., of Bay City, 

 consisting of Daybreak Perfection and 

 several seedlings. Chas. Frueh & Sons 

 showed a new red seedling that was 

 very fine. E. T. Graves sent President 

 Mckinley. Mr. Murphy sent his new 

 White. IIopp & Lemke, of Grand 

 Kapids. ccmtributetl a beautiful vase of 

 their new rose. 



Some of the new- carnations arrived 

 too late to be .seen, which was very 

 much regretted, as all were anxious to 

 see the new varieties. 



Among those staged by the local 

 growers was a vase of 50 blooms of 

 Lawson, by Jas. Taylor, which would 

 have been a prize winner anywhere. At 

 present we are sure of five representa; 

 lives at the Brooklvn meeting, viz., G. 

 H. Taepke, E. H. Beard, Phil. Breit- 

 meyer, Norman Sullivan and Eag. A 

 few, to be sure; but we go strong in 

 the determination that the meeting of 

 1904 shall be held in Detroit. We shall 

 go early, so as to be on the ground 

 first, leaving Monday evening, the IGth, 

 and arrive in Brooklyn Tuesday even- 

 ing and begin the good work of exhorta- 

 tion for Detroit. Rao. 



