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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Fkbri-auy in. 1903. 



good for odd color; President McKinley, 

 very good pink of its color. 



Tlie judges on local growers reported 

 as follows: Vase shown by J. F. Am- 

 raann, first prize; Xorway. by St. Louis 

 Carnation Co., second prize; and vase 

 shown by St. Clair Floral Co.. third 

 prize. Also special mention was made of 

 the white seedling, Xo. 10. by St. Clair 

 Floral Co. 



Essays for the next meeting on ifarch 

 12 will be "Construction of .Solid Beds.'' 

 by Max Herzog, and Otto Koenig will tell 

 us about "Greenhouse Help — How to Ob- 

 tain Best Results." 



The question box resulted in quite a 

 discussion on Easter lilies, which was 

 very interesting. .James Ilart.shorne of 

 the Chicago Carnation Co., who was 

 present, gave the b<iys some good advice 

 on carnations, and urged them all to 

 join the National Carnation Society and 

 make an effort to hold the society's next 

 nieetine in this cilv. J. J. B. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



After about a. month of steady rain 

 everything has cleared off nicely and we 

 are having plenty of sunshine, with some 

 dry winds to accompany it. 



Business is abo\it the same — that is, 

 only fair — everything is plentiful excei)t 

 good roses, and they are holding their 

 own as to price. Beauties are worth to- 

 day from .$3 to .'{vfi per dozen, and only a 

 few seen at any i)ri(e. I saw some very 

 fine JIaids today in George B. Jones' 

 store on Sutter street. They were from 

 Mcl.^'llan's place at Hurlingame and re- 

 tailed for .$'2 |K"r do/en. Xo good Test- 

 out aro seen, but Liberty and Bride have 

 good color and nice, long stems. 



Carnations are in good supply and 

 have not changi'd in price. 



Roman hyacinths are about over and 

 dalTodils aro in great profusion. The 

 single Trumpet Major is the best seller 

 and thousands are disposed of daily: 

 they are selling today at .$1.50 ])er inn 

 wholesale. 



Violets are to be seen by the millions. 

 I counted forty street vendors today 

 within a radius of half a block of the 

 Chronicle building, and they were all 

 heavily supplied with I'rincess violets. 

 A bunch containing al«)ut 80 (lowers and 

 •with a little trimming of wild maiden- 

 hair sells for 10 cents. 



Notes. 



Tlie regular monthly meeting of the 

 California .State Floral .Society will be 

 held on Friday of this week. Mr. Peter 

 Thiesen will address the meeting on 

 "Rose Culture." Mr. Thiesen is a prac- 

 tical horticulturist and has made a 

 specialty of roses for many years. 



Mr. A. D. Pryal, who has been horti- 

 cultural commissioner of Alameda coun- 

 ty for twenty years, has been superseded 

 by P. J. Keller, also well known in this 

 neighborhood. Mr. Keller li;is been en- 

 gaged for manj' years in the tlorist and 

 nursery business in Oakland. Mr. Pryal 

 was a very faithful ollieial and the flor- 

 ists, nurserymen and fruit growers have 

 been saved many a visit from some dan- 

 gerous insects by Mr. Pryal's vigilance. 



E. Lacazette, of Fruitvale. is cutting 

 some good Liliura Harrisii. They whole- 

 sale at from .$.3 to .$4 per dozen. 



Mr. P. McDonnell, of .\lden. is going 

 to erect another large carnation liouse 

 the coming season. He has had remark- 



able success this winter both as to quan- 

 tity and quality and means to continue 

 his good work. 



Mr. James Xiven. for many years in 

 charge of Thermal Vale nurseries in Oak- 

 land, has .severed his connection there 

 and will move to his own place on High 

 street, where he is about to erect green- 

 houses, principally for carnations at 

 which Mr. Xiven has become an adept 

 in the growino'. G. 



PITTSBURG.- 



The Market. 



The cut flower business has been very 

 active. Supply was just about equal to 

 the demand. A week of bright, mild 

 weather brought forth a large supply of 

 extra fine roses and the quality was 

 never better. 



Good long-stemmed Beauties are 

 scarce. The medium and short ones are 

 crippled. 



Prices held up stitT on good and fancy 

 slock. Fancy l?ridcs and Briilesmaids 

 sold as high" as $1.5 per 100 and a few 

 Sliecials brought $20. 



Carnations are more plentiful and the 

 quality is good. The choice, faniy- stock 

 brings go(!d prices. Fancy white and 

 Lnvson .sold at (i cents. 



-Ml kinds of Inilbous stock of very 

 goinl quality is iimiing in in larg(> qiiau 

 titles: it is r;ilher slow sale; pri<-es low, 

 quality considered. 



Miunonette is selling well. Tlie de- 

 maud for sweet peas is not brisk. In 

 greens there has been a heavy demand for 

 sniilax. Asparagus, pluniosus and Spren- 

 geri are quite scarce. I^ilies are again 

 plentiful. The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. 

 is making daily shipments of roses and 

 carnations to Xew Orleans. 



The demand for (lowers for St. Valen- 

 tine's day was s\irprising. and e\cecrle>' 

 all expectations. 



Notes. 



.\t the reguhir monthly meeting of 

 the I'lttsburg and Allegh<'ny Flinists' 

 :ind Car.leners' Cluh on Febriiary .'!. the 

 otiicers of the eluU for 1002 were unani- 

 mously re-elect eil for lOO.'S, viz: Presi- 

 dent. \Vm. Falconer, Scheuley Park, 

 Pittsburg, Pa.: vice president. E. C 

 Keineman, Ixjwrie street. .Allegheny, 

 Pa.: secretary, H. P. Joslin. Bon Avon. 

 -Allegheny, Pa.; assistant secretary, E. 

 C. Ludwig, Allegheny Market. Allegheny. 

 Pa.; treasurer Fred Burki, Bellevue, 

 Pa.; executive committee. Fred linrki. 

 Jno. Bader. P. S. Kandoljih. 



Albert Lorch, Carson street. S. S., 

 Pittsburg, is receiving bids on two car- 

 nation houses. 



.r. Porter has opened a store at 411 

 Stokes avenue, Braddoek. Pa. 



Fred Burki is sending the Pittsbmg 

 Cut Flower Co. lots of fancy and special 

 Maids and Brides from his Bakerstown 

 place. 



A. \V. Smith is busy these davs with 

 decorations. Last Thursday he had livi 

 large ones. 



C. T. Sieberfs "Liberty :Market flower 

 shop" is doing a good business. 



Sam McClenients. of Randolph & Mc- 

 Clements, is busy planning several large 

 dei'orations for this week. 



T. M. I'lam reports business good. 

 The following ones left here Tuesdav 

 evening to attend the carnation conven- 

 tion: Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Elliott, Mr. 

 and Mrs. E. C. Ludwig and family. Fred 

 Burki, T. P. Ivangbans. Walter Breiten- 

 stein. .John L. Wvland. William Lauch. 



E. C. Reineman. Casper Limbach, David 

 Geddis, Edward Blind. M. M. Bunting 

 and C. Hinkle and William Schmidt, of 

 .Tohnstown. The party traveled over the 

 Penn.sylvania railroad. 



Charles T. Siebert is burning natural 

 gas under his boilers at almost the same 

 price as .soft coal. 



Visitors: Edward Reid. of Philadel- 

 phia, and Mrs. Siuionds. of .Sinionds Flo- 

 ral Co., Cleveland, O. 



Death of Frank Britecbaugh. 



Frank Britenbaugh died at his home 

 at Milvale, Pa., on Monday morning, 

 February 1(). after a short illness. 



He was born in JliU.ile .'jl years ago 

 and was educated as a gardener. 



He started in business in a small way 

 with his brotlu'r -John at the present lo- 

 cation and eventually had ten acres of 

 land and ."lO.OOO feet of glass, which was 

 all devoted to the culture of jdauts and 

 cut flowers. Jlr. Britenhanyh was one of 

 the first to grow the "Little I'.cauty" 

 fuchsia. He took great pride in this 

 plant and made a financial success out 

 of its culture. 



Joseph lireker. a gardener, 78 years 

 old. of Dixon street. Allegheny, dropped 

 dead last Thursday at his home. Heart 

 disease is given as the cause. 



H(X)-Hoo. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The early part of last week the mar- 

 ket eased up a little with a light de- 

 mand, Ixjtb roses and carn;itions drop- 

 ]iing a jioint in value. This condition, 

 however, ilidn't last long. By Tliursday 

 the market had fully recovered and 

 prices took an upward turn again. 



Valentine's day cut more of a figure 

 this season than has ever been experienced 

 ill this market before. The shipments 

 for out-of-town orders were heavy with 

 all the wholesale houses, and the local 

 demand eleaiicd up everything in sight. 

 By Saturday night every ice-box was 

 swept bare; some late orders in many 

 instances could not be filled at all and 

 others had to bo cut more or less par- 

 ticularly ill roses and carnations. 



Bulb'stock which had bi-en dragging 

 somewhat the early part of tlie week also 

 stifl'ened in sympathy with the general 

 advance. Values on the whole did not 

 materially rise over regular quotations, 

 except in the line of Beauties and spe- 

 cial grades of teas and fancy carnations. 



There was a heavy denuuid for violets, 

 the best grade selling up to $l.:'iO per 

 100; fair quality realizing $1 to $1.25. 



With a heavy snow storm Saturday 

 and Sunday and zero weather Monday 

 and Tuesday, the cut has diminished 

 jierceptibly. ' In consequence, the mar- 

 ket this week opened decidedly bullish. 



Tlie coal situation is somewhat eas- 

 ier, at least it was until the cold snap 

 set in, which is apt to set prices soaring 

 upward again. 



Last week there was plenty of soft 

 coal to be had with a drop in price of 

 about $1 a ton. 



C. S. Stewart, who for some time has 

 been manager of Frank Garland's whole- 

 sale establishment, left for New Or- 

 leans Wednesday afternoon. 



Cori.t) not do business without tlie Re- 

 view. — Frederick A. Taylor, Canastota, 

 X. Y. 



