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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



FEBRUAni- 26. 1903 



Notes. 



Quite a large number of Philadelplii- 

 ans ivent to the carnation sliow in 

 Brooklyn last week. All were entlu 

 astic over it. 



R. G. Palmer is bringing some fine 

 Brides and Maids to the Flower Mar- 

 ket. 



Edward Reid met a man from Dayton 

 in Brooklyn. "Hello, Eeid, how are 

 sweet peas?" was the greeting of tlie 

 M. F. D. 



Hugh Graham is cutting Brunners 

 from his place at Logan. 



It is said that gardenias will be plen- 

 tiful here for a while. 



Leo Xiessen's new place is practically 

 next door to the Flower JLarket. 



The H. A. Dreer Co. have the entire 

 stock of a fine new single violet. It is 

 said to Ix" larger and deeper in color 

 than the California violet. Phil. 



BOSTON. 



The une.xpected blizzard caused a 

 change to come over the spirit of our 

 dreams. Of course it decreased the num- 

 ber of our customers, but much more so 

 the amount of available flower supply, 

 so that outside of bulb material all 

 kinds of goods have had quite a ten- 

 dency to be scarce and prices on carna- 



They have 12,000 feet of space about as 

 nicely arranged for retail work as one 

 might ask. and the contents for the most 

 part are in fine condition. They have 

 four acres of ground in a magnificent 

 location in the city and live in such 

 commodious quarters the only wonder 

 is they have not physically expanded to 

 meet their surroundings. They are lit- 

 tle — but oh. my gracious! And no 

 floral movement in Boston is complete 

 without their co-operation. 



Their work shop arrangement was one 

 idea, that appealed to me. Convenient 

 holders for each tool are arranged on 

 the wall and a silhouette of the tool 

 to be held is painted in its place so that 

 a glance at the wall tells what is there 

 and what is gone. Another good scheme 

 is their way of staking their carnation 

 plants. Galvanized wires six inches 

 apart are strung lengthwise of the bed 

 about a foot from the ground, or less, 

 and sticks are woven in crosswise to 

 complete the necessarj' support. About 

 a foot higher the same process is repeat- 

 ed with both wires and sticks placed 

 farther apart, thus giving room for nat- 

 ural enlargement of the plant towards 

 the top. Painted dowels make the best 

 sticks for the purpose. 



The annual trade exhibition of novel- 

 ties and standard varieties of cut blooms 



The Remarkable Group of Cyclamen Shown at the Brooklyn Exhibition of the American 

 Carnation Society, by the Little South Floral Co., Natick, Mass. 



tions and roses especially took a slight 

 turn ■ upward, or. at least, more were 

 graded into the higher priced classes. 



An agent for the Postal Progress 

 League has been trying to interest us in 

 a movement for extension of that serv- 

 ice, but not w-itn so much success. ' 

 fear, as recent action of express compan- 

 ies might warrant. Why not try to get 

 Uncle Sam to aitempt parcel delivery 

 on a quicker and larger scale? This 

 league agent claims our nation is much 

 behind other nations in this respect. 



W. E. Coburn. the Everett florist, is 

 utilizing spare time in a way to give 

 others a hint. He gets out a little paper 

 for house to house distrilnition. Solic- 

 ited advertisements pays all the bills 

 and he gets his own free and a big one 

 at that. 



G. H. Davis, formerly with X. F. JIc- 

 Carthy & Co., reports a good business 

 at his new store at the Brookline street 

 transfer station in Cambridge. 



iin appreciable number of our most 

 enterprising growers attended the New 

 York show last week. 



A business call at West Xewton was 

 extended into a social afternoon tea at 

 the glass rooms of E. A. & W. K. Wood. 



of carnations, roses and violets will be 

 held under the auspices of the Boston 

 Co-operative Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion, on Saturday. March 14, 1903, at 

 the large salesroom of tlie Flower Mar- 

 ket. No. 1 Park street, at 10 a. m. 



All shipments for this exhibition 

 should be sent to Flower Market. Park 

 street. Boston, care of John Walsh, man- 

 ager, to arrive if possible Fridav. March 

 13. 1003. or not later than 11 a."m.. Sat- 

 urday. March 14. For any further in- 

 formation apply to George Cartwrigbt. 

 secretary. Flower JIarket. Park street. 

 Boston. J. S. !Maxter. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Business has been excellent during the 

 past week and prices have been well sus- 

 tained. There is now a sufficiency of 

 pink roses and carnations to meet de- 

 mand but not enough white, and quota- 

 tions run higher on white than on co'- 

 ored stock in consequence. The shortage 

 is especially noticeable in carnations and 

 almost any sort of a white carnation 

 will command .$3 a hundred, while good 

 flowers sell ra])idly at .$4 and fancy 



whites reach $5 and even $6. In colored 

 carnations good commons can be had at 

 $1.50 to .$2.50, while fancy stock ranges 

 from $3 to $5. In roses the best Brides 

 reach .$12, while $5 is the low notch 

 for most and only a few reach as low as 

 .$4. In Bridesmaids $10 is the top and 

 the lowest grade reaches down to $3, 

 though not many drop below .$4. All 

 good red roses are scarce and impossible 

 to obtain in quantity. 



Bulbous flowers hold up somewhat bet- 

 t«r in price on account of the shortage 

 in white carnations and roses. Dutch 

 hyacinths are appearing in the market 

 and sell at .$4 to $10"per 100 spikes. 

 Single tulips still sell at $2 to $4. but 

 the double sorts now arriving reai-h $5 

 and $6. Freesia shows some little ad- 

 vance, the price now ranging from $2.50 

 to $4. 



Violets are in good supply. The spe- 

 cials are offered at .$1 and a few extras 

 $1.25. The commons range from 30 to 

 00 cents. Large sales of good single' 

 violet.s have been made at $5 per 1.000. 



On the whole trade conditions are 

 generally satisfactory. Little stock is 

 being lost and anything good commands 

 a good price. The large retailers gen- 

 erally report a very satisfactory volume 

 of trade, but there is some complaint 

 from the smaller ones, who find it diffi- 

 cult to make a satisfactorj- profit with 

 wholesale rates at their present level. 



Various Items. 



Archie Spencer, of Peter Reinberg's 

 city salesroom, is the happy father of a 

 lK)y. who arrived last Thursday. 



(^lentzer & Gow is the name of a new 

 firm that will open a floral store at 2206 

 .Michigan avenue about March 1. 



Frank Loekyear is now manager of 

 the city salesroom of Frank Garland. 



Mrs. O. W. Frese and 5Ir. George Rein- 

 liergs son have returned from Michigan 

 much benefited in health. 



Mr. Edgar Sanders was well enough 

 Saturday to go down stairs for the first 

 t ime since he became ill. 



The carnation convention pilgrims are 

 returning and tell of badly delayed 

 trains and frozen flowers. 



Mrs. Oscar Kreitling is continuing the 

 store at 380 W. Twelfth street, but has 

 sold the one at 1500 W. Twelfth. V. C. 

 Stock is the purchaser. 



C. Clenimensen is building two houses, 

 each 24x150. on tlie northwest corner of 

 Eighty-first street and Sherman avenue, 

 which will enable him to meet the in- 

 creasing demand for bedding and decora- 

 tive plants in his vicinity. 



L. ^losback. on Eighty-fifth street near 

 South Chicago, is working up an im- 

 mense stock of liedding plants for his 

 constantly expanding shipping trade. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The past week wound up the social sea- 

 son and nearly everyone had his hands 

 fiill with all kinds of work for weddings, 

 receptions, dinners and funerals. Plant 

 decorations were hard to make, owing to 

 the very cold weather the early part of 

 the week : but a great many were ac- 

 complished, thanks to the Lehman wagon 

 •heater. The greatest trouble with the 

 retailers was to get flowers enough to fill 

 (heir orders, as stock of all kinds was 

 very scarce and prices very high. 



The most abnormal feature of our 

 trade at the present time is the condi- 

 tion of the rose market. The demand is 

 so great and stock so short that prices 



