APRIL 9, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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is very neat and novel with purple bells 

 and birds' nest baskets. 



Mackintosh will use his new store at 

 1144 Broadway as a branch for Easter 

 and will be "in it for good" by the first 

 of May. His Easter expectations were 

 enlarged by an order for a $500 orchid 

 basket to go on the "Oceanic," to Mr. and 

 Mrs. John F. Harris; the gift of a 

 wealthy westeiner. 



It is rumored that one of the promi- 

 nent Broadway retailers has disposed of 

 his lease for a fat advance and will 

 vacate his present quarters on the first 

 of the coming month, and that his new 

 abode will be near enough to the old one 

 to make moving handy. 



Siebreeht & Son have some fine orchid 

 specimens in their windows, the tulip 

 orchid being especially beautiful. Their 

 facilities for the Easter trade are in- 

 comparable. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The supply of roses, and in fact of 

 everything except carnations has mate- 

 rially increased and the outlook for Eas- 

 ter is much more encouraging. Though 

 the advance orders are heavy it is likely 

 that all will be filled practically in full 

 except on the carnation items. It prom- 

 ises to be the greatest Easter ever 

 known. 



The weather has been very favorable 

 altogether the last week. There has been 

 a good proportion of sunshine but no 

 very hot days to bring the crops along 

 too fast as well as softening the flowers. 

 The quality ought to average good. 



Lilies are looming up in larger quan- 

 tities than was deemed likely a week 

 ago and it looks now as though there 

 will be an abundance of lilies, though 

 possibly none too many of first grade. 

 Short stemmed ones are much in evidence 

 but there seems to be a good supply of 

 long stemmed blooms also. 



The supply of Dutch bulbous flowers 

 is apparently as large as ever and it 

 seems as though the quality averaged 

 better than usual, owing probably to the 

 absence of over warm weather. There is 

 a host of violets, such as they are, but 

 the quality averages poor and good ones 

 are hard to get. 



We hear of several large crops of 

 Beauties coming just right for Easter 

 and there will undoubtedly be less cut- 

 ting do\vn on orders than usual at a holi- 

 day. 



Some carnations may have been held 

 back on the plants but none now reach- 

 ing the market show evidence of being 

 held, and it would be foolish to hold any 

 as Easter quotations are and have been 

 practically in effect for nearly a week. 



It looks now as though those needing 

 additional stock would be fairly sure of 

 securing it in this market, and it also 

 seems certain that there is no likelihood 

 of any variation from Easter prices 

 already quoted. 



Notes. 



The Florists Club asks those intend- 

 ing to join the party going to St. Louis 

 in response to the invitation of the St. 

 Louis Florists' Club to report to Geo. 

 W. Wienhoeber, see'y, 415 Elm St. The 

 party will start on Friday, April 17, and 

 return Sunday evening. 



"The Floralia" is the title of a new 



floral store at 47 Monroe St. L. P. Walz 

 is manager. 



The 2-year-old baby boy of Mr. VV. 

 Kyle, with Kennicott Bros. Co., is very 

 ill. It is hoped by all that the little 

 fellow will speedily recover. 



Keference to the fire that destroyed the 

 building occupied by the Leonard Seed 

 Co. will bo found in the seed trade news. 



The bowlers start their series of thirty 

 games next Tuesday evening, April 14th. 

 at Anson's alleys on Madison street, at 

 8 o'clock. All entries must be made be- 

 fore the games start that evening. 

 Twenty-one games out of the thirty mxLst 

 be played to qualify. Tlie ten highest 

 men in this series will then play a series 

 to determine the membership of the team 

 to represent Chicago at the Milwaukee 

 convention next August. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



During the past week trade in cut 

 flowers slackened up some; still some of 

 the down-town florists had a large 

 amount of funeral work, which made a 

 big demand for white flowers at the 

 wholesale houses. On Saturday the de- 

 mand was heavy and nearly everything 

 was cleaned up before noon. Tlie con- 

 signments the past week were quite 

 heavy and plenty of stock of all kinds 

 was in the market, except white carna- 

 tions. 



Narcissus and lilac from the South are 

 in, with fair demand. Good roses were 

 sold below the quotations. Brides and 

 Maids were quite plentiful. A big lot 

 of these came from Bro. Wilcox, of 

 Council Bluffs, Iowa. Gates, Meteors 

 and Perles vpere somewhat scarce. A 

 great many short Beauties are coming 

 in, while good, long-stemmed ones are 

 scarce. 



A few warm days put a stop to violets 

 and they are coming in small and pale. 

 No doubt there will be a scarcity for 

 Easter unless the southern stuff comes in 

 to relieve the market. 



In carnations we have plenty of 

 colored ones, but white are very scarce, 

 as they have been all of this season. 

 Fancy Prosperity bring as high as $5 and 

 .$6 per 100, while other fancy sorts can 

 be bought at $4. 



In bulb stock the market has been 

 fairly well supplied with the best. Von 

 Sion are selling slowly. Valley is fine 

 and has good demand. Harrisii and callas 

 are coming in better and the indications 

 are that we will have a good supply of 

 them for the Easter trade. 



The plant trade in the West End is re- 

 ported as brisk. There is no shortage 

 in anything in the line of pot plants. 

 There will be about the usual supply of 

 azaleas, spiraeas, rhododendrons, hybrid 

 roses, hydrangeas and bulbous stock in 

 pots and pans. 



Of the hydrangeas shown, Theo. Miller 

 has some extra fine pink, which have 

 from eight to ten heads of fine color 

 that need no support whatever. 



Geo. Waldbart has about the best 

 rhododendrons, and they make a great 

 show. 



Fred C. Weber, on Olive street, is well 

 stocked with the finest Easter plants. 



C. Young & Sons Co. are also making 

 a great show of their well-grown Easter 

 stock. John reports that in all their 

 departments everybody is kept busy. 



Visitor. 



Arnold Ringier, the big and popular 

 salesman of Barnard & Co., Chicago, 



fresh from Frisco, City of Mexico, and 

 New Orleans, was a visitor. 



Arnold reports that never before had 

 he such a successful trip. 



Club Meeting. 



Don't forget the club meeting at Belle- 

 ville next Thursday afternoon. Pres. 

 Dunford requests that all meet at the 

 St. Louis end of the bridge at 1 o clock 

 sharp and go in a body, which will make 

 the trip more pleasant for all. A large 

 attendance is expected. J. J. )i. 



Seed Trade News. 



Chicago. — The seven-story building at 

 71 and 73 West Monroe street, occupied 

 by the Leonard Seed Co., was destroyed 

 by fire the night of April 4, and the 

 loss on the stock of seeds, etc., amounts 

 to $100,000, which is fortunately almost 

 wholly covered by insurance. 'The vault 

 withstood the fire and the books of the 

 company are safe. The fire started in 

 an adjoining building and worked its 

 way into the Leonard Seed Co.'s build- 

 ing despite the efforts of the firemen. It 

 was a bad fire. The company was to 

 have moved to 79 and 81 Kinzie street 

 on May 1 and temporary quarters have 

 now been established at that location. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The Prior Seed 

 Co., successors to the Crocker Seed Co., 

 has opened a seed store at 209 South 

 Fifth street, and is after a share of 

 city trade. We now have four "seeds- 

 women." Nursery salesmen are very 

 much in evicience here. The writer 

 knows of no less than twenty-six who 

 are soliciting orders for nursery stock 

 in this county. 



ISlEMPHis, Tenn. — R. G. Craig & Co. 

 report the volume of seed business as 

 satisfactory in some departments and 

 disappointing in others. Owing to rains 

 and overflows local business has been 

 retarded, and the rains are now being 

 followed by a drought, which is bring- 

 ing further complaint and materially 

 affecting the seed trade in this section. 



Indianapoijs, Ind. — The seed stock 

 of the Vail Seed Co. is being offered to 

 the wholesale trade by the Union Trust 

 Co. as receiver. 



BROCKVirxE, Ont. — Messrs. A. Abbot 

 and G. Brown have bought the business 

 of the A. L. Fisher Seed Co., which was 

 insolvent. 



New York. — Mr. Henry, of Henry & 

 Lee, is away on his annual trip to Ber- 

 muda. 



OBITUARY. 



J. Frank Greene. 



J. Frank Greene, of the firm of Greene 

 & Underbill, WaterLo.vn, N. Y. died 

 March 29, aged 46 years. He had been 

 in poor health for several years, but 

 his last illness was of short duration 

 and his death was quite unexpected. 



He was a son of the late W. W. 

 Greene, who established the greenhouse 

 business later conducted by the firm of 

 Greene & Underbill, and was a life- 

 long resident of Watertown, where he 

 was highly respected and had a host 

 of friends. 



He leaves a wife, two daughters and 

 one son, Westel Greene. 



