JSIARCH 26, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



73 J 



J. J. Habermehrs Sons have a fine col- 

 lection of Easter plants. 



Gardenias will be vet'y plentiful liere 

 during April. 



VVni. J. Baker is receiving some fine 

 calla lilies. 



The tlowers at the funeral of Hugh 

 Graham were of exceptionally fine qual- 

 ity, most tastefully arranged. 



The Florists' Club bampiet was held 

 in Horticultural Hall on Wednesday 

 evening. 



The appointment of G. C. Watson as u 

 member of the executive committee of 

 the S. A. F. has given pleasure to his 

 many friends here. Phil. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



At the present time there is plenty of 

 first-class stock in the market, although 

 there is no actual glut. Still there is 

 more of some kinds of stock than can 

 be disposed of and prices have fallen 

 somewhat. The few beautiful days we 

 had brought about the sudden oversup- 

 ply, but this (Jlonday) morning it 

 looks like the approach of winter. It is 

 cold and quite a bit of snow is falling. 

 This will no doubt hurt trees and shrubs, 

 which are somewhat advanced in leaf. 



Some of the bulb stock has become a 

 drug on the market and plenty of Von 

 Sions are being dumj)ed. along with col- 

 ored tulips. Other bulb stock is quite 

 plentiful, but sells better. Harrisii and 

 longiflorum are scarce at present, but 

 callas are very plentiful. 



Tlie pleasant feature the past week at 

 the wholesale market was that first-class 

 roses were more plentiful and prices not 

 -SO high. Some extra fine Beauties the 

 past week brought only $3 per dozen, 

 and good Beauties could be bought as 

 low as .'f!1..50 per dozen. Brides and 

 Maids held up the price on the best stock, 

 same with Gates and Meteors. There 

 were quite a few nice Perles in at $5. 

 All seconds and thirds in i-oses sold very 

 cheap. 



The warm days did not have a good 

 effect on shipped carnations and a great 

 many slept soundly scon after getting 

 into the wholesalers' hands. The best 

 stock is down to .$4 and good stock is 

 down to $2. 



Violets were dumped right and left 

 for a few days the past week, but Sat- 

 urday, took a sudden jump and were 

 in big demand. Tlie Saturday Even- 

 ing Post had it that fifteen millions 

 of violets were sold that da}' an<l 

 estimated that it took thirty acres 

 of ground to raise the violets sold here 

 i-oday, each plant l>earing about forty 

 Mowers in a season. It also stated that 

 in New Orleans they were selling at $1 

 per bunch, in Cliicago at 2o cents, in St. 

 Louis at n to 1.5 cents, in SaM Francisco 

 at 25 cents, and in New York at $2. Just 

 think of it, how nice that would be for 

 US if it were only true! 



Notes. 



J. F. Windt, the Bayard avenue florist, 

 celebrated the 25th anniversary of his 

 marriage last week. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Windt held a reception at their residence 

 and many old friends of the happy cou- 

 ple sent elegant presents. The singing 

 .society to which Mr. Windt belongs 

 ga-e them a .serenade in a body. 



Martin Reukauf. representing H. Bay- 

 ersdorfer & Co.. Philadelphia, was a 

 caller. Martin lost his moustache in 

 r)('troit and he hardlv looked himself. 



The Ellison Floral Co. opened up its 

 new store at 3568 Olive street last week. 

 ITie incorporators are Claude P. Berry, 

 a lawyer; Harry Y. Ellison, and Alice 

 Y. Ellison. The latter two are the chil- 

 dren of Mrs. William Ellison, of Ellison 

 & Tesson. 



Mrs. William Ellison has left the firm 

 of Ellison & Tesson, on Grand avenue, 

 and will become manager of the Ellison 

 Floral Co., which opened up last week. 



J. H. Billington will on April 1 open 

 a new retail store at 5415 Easton ave- 

 nue. The front greenhouse is 25x25 with 

 an cKtension of 10x65. Mr. Billington 

 was formerly a grower on Belt avenue. 



R. F, Tesson. who spent a few days in 

 Chicago and Milwaukee, is back and re- 

 ports having a good time. He is very 

 proud of being high man in his bunch 

 in the bowling match in Milwaukee. 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Conditions have changed but little 

 from last week, though roses may possi- 

 bly be a trifle sc-areer. The pleasant 

 weather was of short duration and there 

 is still a shortage of good roses and car- 

 nations. Though quotations are un- 

 changed there is a smaller proportion of 

 roses in the $3 class and more in the $5 

 to .$8 classes. It is much the same with 

 carnations. The prices are unchanged 

 but the quality gradations are not so 

 sharply defined. Long Beauties are held 

 stiffly up to quotations, and mediums 

 are in especially brisk demand, ^■iolets 

 move slowlj-. There are heavy receijitsot 

 southern single narcissus and daffodils 

 from the south and thev are sold at .$5 

 to .$10 per 1000, going slowly at that. 



Predictions as to the supply for Easter 

 are necessarily little but guesswork. 

 Many growers who are usually important 

 factors in the lily supply will have but 

 few this year, but again there are others 

 not usually strong in this department 

 who will have a heavy cut read}'. It 

 looks as though we may average up with 

 jucvious years. Of other bulbous flow- 

 ers there will be the usual supply. The 

 rose and carnation crop for Easter is 

 still dejiondent upon the weather. 



Various Items. 



Faster [ilanls was tlie subject for dis- 

 cussion at the meeting of the Florists" 

 Club \\'ednesday evening. 



ilr. L. Coatsworth of Benthey & Co. 

 is on a trip south. He will visit Mem- 

 phis. Xew Orleans and other southern 

 cities. 



.Mr. Geo. M. Kellogg, Pleasant Hill. 

 Mo., is in the city. 



The quotation on lilies in the adver- 

 tisement of McKellar & Winterson in 

 this issue should he .$15 instead of $18 

 to $20. The error was not noted until 

 the form containing the adv. had been 

 jirinted. 



The office of the S. Wilks Mfg. Co.. 

 makers of the Wilks boiler, is now at its 

 new factory. Thirty-fifth street and 

 Shields avenue, to which address all let- 

 ters should be sent. 



A. L. Randall has returned from his 

 visit east. 



The Lilly Chemical Co. has been carry- 

 ing on exhaustive experiments for a year 

 ]iast with a view to producing an in- 

 secticide that would exterminate thrips 

 without injuring the plants. Bassett & 

 Wasliburn. who have been in a position 

 to watch these experiments, say the de- 

 sired result has been attained and that 



the greenhouse career of Mr. Thrips is 

 about at an end. The insecticide is a 

 fumigating powder, and disposes of 

 greenfly as well as thrips. It is being 

 placed on the market by E. H. Hunt. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



Trade did not have much snap to it, 

 the weather being entirely too warm; 

 but there was no surplus of stock, as 

 the supply was very limited, and prices 

 did not suffer to any great extent. 



Roses are coming in very nicely and 

 .selling well. Brides, Bridesmaids and 

 Gates are just about equal to the de- 

 mand. There are not enough Meteors 

 and Liberties to go around. There has 

 been a large increase in the supply of 

 American Beauties, and they find a ready 

 market. Tlie price on long-stemmed ones 

 has dropped somewhat, but they still 

 bring a very good figure. A few Franz 

 Deegen are seen now and then, and they 

 sell well. 



Carnations are short in supply, and 

 the outlook for tlie near future is pretty 

 bad. There are scarcely enough to fill 

 all orders, and the price is holding up 

 very well. 



Bulbous stock is selling very well, 

 <?speeially Harrisii lilies, which sell on 

 sight. Callas are not doing so well. 

 Tulips and Dutch hyacinths are finding a 

 read}' market. Narcissi are also selling 

 well. The market is flooded at present 

 with outdoor-grown daffodils, and they 

 sell for whatever the purchaser will give. 



The supply of violets is fast giving 

 out, and the quality is very poor in most 

 cases. A few' Princess of Wales can be 

 had, which are of pretty fair quality, 

 and they are quickly bought up. The 

 price has advanced also. Sweet peas are 

 coming very slowly, and it is just as well 

 that it is so, as there is not much de- 

 mand for them at present. Smilax is 

 still scarce, there being scarcely any on 

 the market. Asparagus is growing more 

 plentiful and sells readily. 



Various Items. 



T. W. Hardest}' & Co. had the decora- 

 tion f<ir the banquet of the Friendly Sons 

 of St. Patrick, which was held at the St. 

 Nicholas. Great quantities of flowers 

 were used and the efl'ect was vei'y pretty. 



The firm of Corbett & Wilson, which 

 has been doing business for a number 

 of years, with greenhouses at College 

 Hill, has dissolved, George Corbett buy- 

 ing out the interest of Mr. Wilson. Mr. 

 Corbett will continue the business. 



Julius Baer had one of the most at- 

 tractive window displays seen on Fourth 

 street for some time. Hundreds of light 

 pink tulips in flats and va.ses were used, 

 banked closely together, intermingled 

 with green. It was a very beautiful 

 sight, and attracted a great deal of at- 

 tention. 



The special meeting of the florists so- 

 ciety was held last Saturday night. The 

 iittendance was not very large, but the 

 members quickly got to work, and a 

 schedule for the two flower shows, to be 

 given during the Cincinnati fall festival 

 in September, was adopted. It remains 

 only to be accepted by the Festival As- 

 sociation, which meets March 26, when 

 the fate of the schedule will be decided. 



Visitors were: Mr. C. P. Dietrich, of 

 Maysville, Ky. ; Walter Mott, the well- 

 known seedsman, and Martin Reukauf, 

 of Philadelphia. C. J. Ohmek. 



