March 10. 1003. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



661 



A Field of Cannas on the Grounds of the Wagner Pafk Conservatories, Sidney, O. 



Jr. ilr. Vinepnt is an En<rlisliinan l)y 

 birtli, wiio, from a modpst, lifginning. lias 

 built up an enormous yreenliousc plant 

 anil businrss. Tbe Imlk of bis trade is 

 in vegetable plants, wbieb he grows by 

 tbe millions anil distributes at all sea- 

 sons from tbe New England eoast to the 

 Gulf of Jllexieo and across tbe continent. 

 His production of flowerinj; |ilants is 

 also a jrreat one and bis cncrjiy and busi- 

 ness astuteness are illustrated by his am- 

 ple use of the advertisin;; )«inps of the 

 Eeview and other trade papers. 



John A. Cook, .son of our veteran rosa- 

 rian, John Cook, was made vice-presi- 

 dent ; John J. Perry, long tbe efficient 

 .secretary, was re-elected to that post: 

 Philip B. Welsh was made financial sec- 

 retary: F. G. Burger, treasurer, and 

 John Wagner, librarian. 



The return to the old rates of carriage 

 by tbe expiess companies is received flitb 

 thankfulness, whicli would te enhanced 

 if tbe service was also imjiroved. It 

 seems, so far. unfortunately, that it is in 

 pain to expect this. 



The dean of tbe gardeners here is An- 

 thony Cook. The old gentleman recently 

 completed his eigbty-fiftb year. He may 

 Ih» found at his routine work every day 

 at bis idd homestead on West JIulberry 

 street, where be has lived for over half 

 a century, as much interested and as 

 enthusiastic over tbe objects of his pro- 

 fessioiuU care as though be were a l>e- 

 ginner. He kee])s up with tbe trend of 

 the trade, knows what is new and good, 

 still imports bis see<ls from the great 

 houses of Germany and France, and is 

 an example to many of us much younger 

 for attention and zeal in bis calling. .May 

 he live as nuicb longer as life is com- 

 fortable and ])leasant! R. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



On Tuesday tbe sujijily seemed to have 

 shortened up some since previous re])ort 

 and with a good demand for the season 

 prices were rather Ijetter held than the 

 same time last week. This was espe- 

 cially noticeable in carnations and i$2 

 was ])ractically the hotlom on any de- 

 cent Mower. The outside demand was 

 strong and it was impossible to fill all 

 orders in full, certainly a lemarkable 

 condition for the season. But we have 

 had a phenomenally long .stretch of 

 gbjomy and foggy weather and many 

 plants have stood pretty nearly still 

 as far as flower production is concerned. 

 Kven tbe su]i]dy of bulbous flowers seems 

 to have shortened to a considerable de- 

 gree. 



On Wednesday came the fiist bright 

 sunshiny day for about two weeks and 

 it is likely that conditions will chaufie 

 speedily should tbe sun continue to 

 favor us. though a luimlier bold that the 

 jilants haven't the buds with which to 

 sucblenly expand the supply even with 

 fa\'orable weather conditions. 



There is a good deal of guessing as to 

 tbe probable supply for Easter, but 

 there seems nothing definite to base 

 o]jinions upon. We bear some gloomy 

 jiredictions as to the supply, but are in- 

 clined to l)elieve that it will be fully as 

 large as eyev l)efore. When the stored 

 up energy of the plants is tapped by a 

 week or more of sunshine, which seems 

 morally certain to come lietween now 

 aiul Easter, things are sure to happen. 

 It is up to the weather. 



Notes. 



-\. Jj. Kandall is spending a week M'ith 



his mother at the old home in Pennsyl- 

 \ania. 



('. W. JIcKellar has returned from his 

 southern trip and reports a warm tijne. 



President Burton and Secretary Stew- 

 art of the S. A. F., and Alex. Wallace 

 and Geo. C. Watson stopped in the city 

 on Monday on their way to tbe execu- 

 tive committee meeting in Milwaukee. 

 They ^\■ere jiiA'en a dinner at the Audi- 

 torium on ilonday evening at which 

 numei-ouf^ libations were poured, and 

 left Tuesday morning for ililwaukee. 



Messrs. Tesson. of St. Louis, and 

 Coles, of Peoria, were also visitors. 



Several local florists, including P. J. 

 Hauswirth. accompanied tbe S. A. F. 

 couunittee party to Milwaukee. 



Leopold Koropji. the Ravenswood flor- 

 ist, has invented a very useful wire 

 banger that can be quickly attached 

 anywhere to a greenhouse sash bar and 

 Ijc as quickly i-emoved. It will be very 

 bandy for taking tbe place of objection- 

 able screw hooks in suspending hanging 

 baskets, shelves, etc. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



We ba\e bad a steady downpour of 

 rain for the last four days and as a con- 

 sequence business outside of funeral work 

 has been very quiet. Roses are scarce. 

 I have seen no really good Beauties all 

 week and good Brides are scarcer than 

 hcn"s teeth. John Young, of the Dwight 

 Way Xursery. has been bringing in a few 

 good Bridesmaids, but nothing is up to 

 cobu- or leng-th of stem. Carnations are 

 scarce — that is fancy stock, but every- 

 thing points to a big crop with all the 

 growers in about two weeks. 



