Febkl'akv la, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



485 



stitute for roses by the hundreds, and 

 nolets, jjaper whites and tulips for car- 

 nations. Anything, so long as it was a 

 good (lower, seemed to go. 



Prices of carnations, 50 cents, To cents 

 and.$l per dozen. Roses, $1 to $1.50 per 

 dozen; American Beauties, $2 to $6 per 

 dozen. Tulips, 75 cents; valley, 50 tn 

 75 cents; paper whites, 50 cents; lilies, 

 $2 per dozen. Violets, Lady Campbell. 

 35 cents per bunch of 25 ; darks, 25 

 cents; single, 2.5 cents per dozen. 

 Reorganization of the Florists' Club. 



Monday evening the florists held a 

 meeting at the store of Henry Smith ami 

 reorganized the old Florists' Club, adopt- 

 ing the old constitution and by-laws, 

 with slight alterations. The club is to 

 meet the third Monday of each niontl\. 

 at a place yet to be determined, but pre- 

 sumably at the Board of Trade- rooms. 

 The first meeting under the new consti- 

 tution will be at Henry Smith's Monday 

 evening, February 16. Officers were 

 elected as follows: President, Henry 

 Smith; vice president, W. Hannah; sec- 

 retary, X. B. Stover; treasurer, James 

 Schols; reporter, George F. Crabb. 

 Standing committees appointed by the 

 president: Reception. Wencel Cukerski, 

 P. Kunsts and X. Freylick; entertain- 

 ment, A. Hanna. Henry Van Velda and 

 George F. Crabb. The club will start 

 otf with about fifteen members, uith tl:e 

 prospect of as many more by next meet- 

 ing. An attempt to call it the Florists" 

 and Gardeners' Club failed to carry. At 

 our next meeting X. B. Stover will read 

 an essay on "How to Grow Violets." 



G. F. C. 



TORONTO 



Trade during the past week has been 

 good, and with the short supply in many 

 lines it ha.s appeared greater than per- 

 haps it otherwise would as we are short- 

 handed all the time. The social ftmc- 

 tions of note have used up a great 

 amount of surplus stock for decorations. 



All eyes are now being turned to the 

 event of the season, the gi-eat Canadian 

 Carnation Exhibit, dated for March 5, 

 in St. George's Hall. This, to the Can- 

 adian florists, especially those who arc 

 interested in carnation growing, will be 

 an important event. Elaborate prepara- 

 tions have been made so that those of our 

 American cousins, who wish to exhibit 

 any new varieties, or especially well- 

 grown standard varieties, can have the 

 best of opportunities for doing so. The 

 Toronto Gardeners' and Florists' Associ- 

 ation ha.s been making special arrange- 

 ments with the customs officials and the 

 Canadian Express Co. so that shipments 

 will be delivered without delay. How- 

 ever, just write to the Master of Cere- 

 monies, Jlr. Geo. Mills, 227 Ossington 

 avenue, Toronto, and he will cheerfully 

 furnish all the information. 



Your correspondent is also informed 

 that the C. H. A. executive will hold 

 a meeting at 9:30 a. m. in Diinlop's Con- 

 servatories, on Friday, the 6th. Frcjm 

 present indications it looks as though 

 tliere were going to be something doing 

 the first week in March. 



We had a visit from Dr. Roe, of George- 

 town, this week, and were informed on 

 the side that he is going to extend his 

 place very considerably during the sea- 

 son. Mr. C. Turp, of this city, is also 

 making preparation's for largely increas- 

 ing his plant. 



Grobba & Wandrey have been bring- 

 ing in quantities of lilac and azaleas, 

 fine plants and well bloomed; these 



have helped to keep up the decoration 

 of the florists' stores considerably. 



This week we saw the first issue 

 of what promises to be a real live Cana- 

 dian florists' journal; it is called the 

 Canadian Florist, and is published 

 by Messrs. D. C. Xixon & Co.. of this 

 city. It is to tje, at first, a semi-month- 

 ly, to be published on the first and 

 fifteenth of every month. We believe 

 there is room for such a paper amongst 

 the Canadian trade, and if it is taken 

 hold of by the trade, as the American 

 journals are taken hold of by the 

 American trade, it will prove a success, 

 and will soon be circulating amongst the 

 trade in the United States as the Ameri- 

 can journals are amongst the trade in 

 Canada. D. J. 



EXPRESS RATES. 



We have received a communication 

 from .J. L. O'Quinn & Co. Raleigh. N. C, 

 in which they state that after vigorous 

 protest to their agent against the in- 

 creased express rates, that went into 

 effect December 10, without receiving any 

 satisfaction, they began sending small 

 lots by mail, and to nearby towns by 

 freight. They were soon in a position 

 to show their express agent that his 

 company had lost the carriage of over a 

 hundred packages, and they then received 

 a communication from the headquarters 

 of the Southern Express Co. through 

 their agent at Raleigh, stating that from 

 that date they would put the rate back 

 to single merchandise rate to all points 

 not reached by any other express com- 

 pany, but that to all competitive points 

 they would still have to charge the one 

 and one-half rate, and that on all par- 

 cels that were delivered to them by other 

 express companies they would have l< 

 charge the one and one-half rate. 



This report makes it clear that the 

 only agency which is holding up the rate 

 of one and one-half times merchandise 

 rate is the combination of the companies 

 Known as the Express Traffic Managers' 

 Association. It would seem as though 

 the proper way to get effective action in 

 this matter is to make the express com- 

 panies understand that unless the rate 

 is changed and the florists' business is 

 no longer discriminated against that they 

 will, through attorney's, attack the char- 

 ters of the companies, as indicated by 

 the resolutions adopted at the last meet- 

 ing of the Chicago Florists' Club and re- 

 ported in our last issue. 



LOUISVILLE, KY. 



Trade the past week has been good, 

 owing to much funeral work, and lots of 

 white flowers were used up. Roses are 

 still scarce. Stock is suffering for the 

 want of sunshine. We have had eight 

 weeks of real cloudy weather, dtiring 

 which time the sun shone only three 

 days. Carnations are not overplenti- 

 ful. Some vei-y fine Lawsons can be 

 seen. Harrisii lilies are coming in and 

 find a ready sale.- Violets of good -qual- 

 ity are now coming in. 



Joseph Coenen is the happiest man in 

 town over the arrival of a fine bouncing, 

 boy. Congratulations are in order. 



Nanz &. Neuner report a very good 

 shipping trade this season. Tlieir green- 

 houses out at St. Matthews are in apple- 

 pie order. Tlieodore Strockhecker is the 

 right man in the right place. 



C. H. Kunzman has been on the sick 

 list for two weeks, but is able to be out 



Hy. Fuchs' greenhouses are looking 

 fine just at the present time. 



E. Heitz, opposite St. Louis Cemetery, 

 intends to put up two more green- 

 houses this season. Ed. is a hustler of 

 the old school. 



The firm of Geo. Thompson & Sons is 

 no more. It is now Geo. Thompson, Jr. 

 He has the finest violets that come to 

 tnis market. He considers the Luxonne 

 the best paying violet. 



F. Walker & Co. had a very large 

 M'edding decoration, in which they used 

 a great quantity of flowers. 



E. G. Reimei's wife, who has been 

 quite ill with typhoid fever for some 

 time, is improving slowly. 



Joseph Bell, the polite assistant fore- 

 man at Joseph Coenen & Co.'s, is the 

 busiest man in the Highlands. All he 

 talks to you about is ferns and palms, 

 and he is always ready to sell you a bill 

 of goods. " Ht. Lichtefeld. 



CLEVELAND. 



Business here has been very good. Lp 

 to the present time there is and has been 

 a scarcity of flowers of all kinds. Bulb 

 stock helps out, but that at times is 

 rather hard to get. Valentine's day 

 cleaned up most everything in bloom, 

 that evening finding some stores entirely 

 cleaned up on cut flowers. Violets 

 seemed to have the first call, although 

 carnations, roses and bulb stock sold 

 well. 



In plants, azaleas sold very well, es- 

 pecially the colored ones, there being 

 not milch call for white stuff. It is be- 

 coming the fad here, and a very nice 

 custom it is too, of sending flowers as a 

 valentine; it is not only sensible but it 

 also puts the shekels into the florists 

 pocket. 



There has been a great call for fu- 

 neral flowers here this winter, conse- 

 quently white stuff has been very scarce 

 all winter and prices have ruled high 

 for all kinds of flowers, Texep. 



CROMWELL, CONN. 



Visitors have Ix-cu numerous of late, 

 amono- them S. S. Pennock, Philadel- 

 phia ;" W. W. Foster, Westerly, R. I.; 

 Henry Cliffe. Fairfield, Conn.; Edwin 

 Jenkins. Lenox, Mass,; F. H. Bishop. 

 Guilford, Conn.: D. A. Spear, Hartford, 

 Conn.. C. F. Fairfield. Springfield. Mass. 



Without doubt Golden Gate and Ivorj- 

 are the best and most profitable roses on 

 the place, at least at present. 



In one of the cooler houses a very 

 fine lot of Ci-imson Ramblers is getting 

 into shape and bidding fair to be fine 

 specimens at Easter. 



Tlie call for grafted roses has been 

 very large this year and, as w^as the case 

 last year, late orders will have to be 

 refused. 



In the carnation houses the cut for 

 January did not come up to the cut 

 for the previous month, but the short- 

 age was due simply to the dark weather. 



Lily of the valJey has been very fine 

 of late and the cut" large. The demand 

 for special selected stock has been nota- 

 bly on the increase. There is in every 

 city a demand for the best and it is in 

 the retailers' power to encourage and 

 increase this call. W. R. Pierson. 



Enclosed you will find $1.00 for an- 

 other year's subscription to the Review. 

 I cannot do without it. My last classi- 

 fied adv. sold nearly all the stock I had 

 ready. — A. Brumlet, Birmingham, Iowa. 



