April 23, 1003. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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View in "The Rosary," New York, at Easter. 



superb Brides which have earned an en- 

 viable reputation. He had an order for 

 400 one day lately. Adiantum cuneatum 

 is of good quality with his growers. 



John Liveared, formerly vvitli David 

 Anderson, is now with George Water- 

 field, of Wyndmoor, as rose grower. 



Edward Eeid is sweet pea king. He 

 had two orders this week for white 

 which looked well. They aggregated 

 3,500 blooms. 



A strike has been on for over a week 

 among the employees of the Laurel Hill 

 Cemetery Co. The men want more pay — 

 25 cents a day more. The company will 

 give it to the good men, but not to the 

 indifTerent workers. So all are out and 

 the outside gardeners are getting a lot of 

 work in the cemetery. 



Samuel S. Pennock had one order for 

 2,500 valley this week. 



J. L. Dillon, of Bloomsburg, has been 

 in town for several days lately. 



John and W. H. Westeott sent some 

 fine, long-stemmed lilies into town lately. 



Eugene Bernheimer's fine Jacqemi- 

 nots are finding a ready market. 



Phil. 



DENVER. COLO. 



Easter Trade. 



Easter opened with a hard snowstorm 

 in progress and many a lady had tears 

 in her eyes when she looked upon the 

 raging storm, and even some of the male 

 se.x were not far behind, for our esteemed 

 A. J. Graham, superintendent of City 

 Park, had laid himself out for Easter 

 with everything spick and span new; 

 but alas ! he wore the old ones instead. 

 Notwithstanding the storm Easter trade 

 was up to if not ahead of previous year.s, 

 with quality of stuff good, both plants 

 and flowers. Whatever surplus we had 

 was due to the storm. 



Plants seemed to take the load though 



large Eamblers and azaleas went slow, 

 quite a lot of elegant ones being left 

 over. Good baskets of assorted plants 

 well filled sold well. Bulbous stuff at 

 stiff prices, but went slow with excep- 

 tion of pans of tulips. Supply of lilies 

 short on account of disease; sold at 25 

 cents per flower. Stock sold out early. 

 One of the neatest and best sellers was 

 violets in 5 and 0-inch pots, well filled 

 with bloom also 5-inch heliotropes with 

 purple trimmings went fast at 75 cents. 

 Spirea was good. Lilacs, deutzias, etc., 

 were firm, but went slow. 



In cut flowers the prices were: Beau- 

 ties, $4 to .$15, with the call for $10; 

 ■Brides and Maids, .$1 to $4, call for .$2; 

 Chatenay (fine), $5; Liberty, .$1.50 to 

 $6; violets (fast), at $2 per hundred; 

 carnations, 75 cents to $1 ; sweet peas, 

 $2 to $3 per hundred; lily of valley, $1 ; 

 tulips, 75 cents to $1. 



The decorations were confined to the 

 churches, and while fine there was 

 nothing particularly worth mentioning. 



Items. 



Mrs. AlaufT is building four large 

 houses in one for Beauties at her whole- 

 sale place in Harmon. 



Phil Scott of the Park Floral Co. says 

 he only put in thirtj'-six hours at one 

 stretch. Charles F. Fawcett has taken 

 a position with the Colfax Avenue Flo- 

 ral Company. F. X. Wolf, who has been 

 in the East for quite a while, is back 

 again at his old position with the Colfax. 



We are glad to see the smiling coun- 

 tenance of Ed Emerieh, who was with 

 the Gallup Floral Co. to help them out 

 for Easter, but am sorry to say that 

 Ed has kind of gone back on the florists, 

 as he s])cnds the most of his time in the 

 mountains, where he makes his $G per 

 day. Can't blame him. 



That veteran globe-trotter, E. Flohr, 

 passed through Denver from California 



to Chicago, and as this is his seventeenth 

 trip back and forth from the Western 

 coast he can well be called the veteran 

 globe-trotter. 



, Sam Lundin is again with the Park 

 Floral. Sam has had very hard luck, 

 having lost his wife, who left a pair of 

 the prettiest twins in the world to look 

 after. TiiOBXE. 



PROVIDENCE, R. 1. 



Easter has come and gone and the 

 worried looks are all cliangcd to glad 

 smiles. We had perfect weather Friday, 

 Saturday and Sunday, and the Monday 

 after to get things in shape again for the 

 regular routine. There was a good sup- 

 ply of almost everything except violets 

 and red roses. The latter are always 

 scarce here. TTie scarcity of violets made 

 quite a number of hundreds of dollars 

 «orth of difference in the result. How- 

 ever, there were more blooming plants 

 sold than ever before, and that made up 

 somewhat. All of the retail stores were 

 crowded with beautiful plants and never 

 before were so many sold and at such 

 good prices. Saturday evening it was 

 hard to find a good lily plant down town. 

 The delivery is a great drawback. You 

 have to cover all points of the compass 

 at the same time, and plants are so fra- 

 gile that you are liable to have to cover 

 the same ground twice. There wasn't 

 any surplus of cut stuff, but enough to 

 go around. As usual there was lots of 

 funeral work with the rush. 



O'Connor and George C. Kelly held 

 their annual opening receptions Palm 

 Sunday at their greenhouses, Avhich are 

 located on the aristocratic East Side. 

 Thej- both had great, grand shows and 

 were well i>atronized. 



T. J. Johnston was fortunate to get 

 an empty store next door to his, and it 

 lieljjed out wonderfully. His business 



