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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



April, 30. 1903. 



Local gardeners are reporting heavy 

 losses, early fruits are all damaged. M. 

 C. IXinlevy, one of our largest fruit 

 growers in this section, reports that 

 cherries and strawberries are badly in- 

 jured. 



Randolph & McClements had the dee- 

 orations at the bride's home for the 

 Tliaw-Yarmouth wedding. Quantities 

 of white lilacs, Bridesmaids, yellow iris 

 (Spanish) and yellow daisies were used. 

 The decorations were beautiful, expens- 

 ive and lavish. Breitenstein & Flemm 

 had the decoration for the wedding 

 breakfast at the Union Club. Valley, 

 gardenias and moss roses were used. A. 

 N. Smith furnished the decoration for 

 the Amerieus Club's banquet. 



The Rose & Carnation Co., Bakers- 

 town, Pa., are shipping quantities of 

 ver>- choice Maids, Brides and Beauties 

 to the Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. 



Tlieodore F. Beckert is cutting quite 

 heavily of sweet peas, and the quality 

 is superb. 



A statement was filed in our local 

 courts in the case of Julia D. HofTmeyer 

 against the Mansfield Coal Co., for .$25,- 

 000 damages to her property and gi-een- 

 houses. The coal company had Ijeen min- 

 ing coal beneath the farm which the 

 plaintiff owns. A great part of the 

 farm is sinking and other damage has 

 been done. 



I am in receipt of a letter announc- 

 ing the death of Mrs. J. E. Black, of 

 Grove City, Pa. Tlie interment took 

 place Sunday, April 2G. 



A trolley car demolished ai wagon be- 

 longing to John Foss, of Etna. John 

 has made a claim and we all hope he will 

 be repaid for his loss. Hoo-Hoo. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Conditions have changed but little 

 from last week. Trade "is holding up 

 well and the supply has not increased 

 to any extent. Prices seem a trifle easier 

 on roses in spots, and with many $6.00 

 is the top figm-e, though others hold the 

 best select at $7.00 and $8.00. Carna- 

 tions are still well cleaned up, but very 

 few reach into the fancy class. The 

 great bulk of the good stock commands 

 $3.00. Some batches of very inferior 

 flowers are jobbed off at less than $2.00, 

 but the last named figure is the bottom 

 for anything presentable. 



Valley is scarce, and forced tulips, 

 hyacinths and daffodils are practically 

 past for the season. Some outdoor 

 grown tulips are arriving. A few scat- 

 tering violets are seen, but they are too 

 few to be quotable. Smilax is veiy 

 scarce, and might almost be said to be 

 unobtainable. 



Tuesday the sun was bright and the 

 temperature high. Should such weather 

 conditions continue, the supply of the 

 staples would probably be considerably 

 increased in a short time. 



Tlie demand has continued steady and 

 market conditions are very satisfactory 

 on the whole. 



Various Items. 



The hyacinths are now in bloom in 

 the parks and the tulips will soon be in 

 their full glory. 



A fine collection of glo.xinias is now 

 in full bloom in the conservatory at 

 Lincoln Park. 



Head Gardener Stroraback of Lincoln 



Park has recovered from another attack 

 of pneumonia. This was his sixth battle 

 with this disease. 



Recent visitors: S. S. Skidelsky, 

 Philadelphia; W. H. Drake, Kenosha, 

 Wis.; C. W. Keller, VVoodmere, Mich. 



The bowlers who visited Joliet last 

 Saturday evening can not say enough 

 in praise of the hospitality shoAvn them 

 by Mr. James Hartshorne and the other 

 Joliet people. A report of the games 

 appears elsewhere in this issue. 



A. L. Randall is now established on 

 the second floor of the building at 19 

 and 21 Randolph street, where he has 

 an immense floor space. A huge new 

 ice box will supplement the ones for- 

 merly used. 



Mr. Lloyd Vaughan started Monday 

 on his annual spring trip in the inter- 

 ests of E. H. Hunt. 



Bowling. 



Following are the scores made by the 

 bowlers last Tuesday evening: 



o. Scott 128 IGl 151 



Foerster 17S 153 23T 



Ncwett 117 120 120 



Kreitling 105 126 108 



Baniift 133 138 192 



Lambros 156 144 155 



Asmus 1S9 157 147 



Hauswirth 140 148 159 



G. .Stollery 140 167 156 



Sch,ne(er ..; 153 121 ll.S 



P. .Stollery 146 1.38 179 



Winterson 1B2 168 157 



ONONNATL 



The Market. 



Trade is still holding out finely and 

 everybody reports doing a first-class 

 business. Prices are holding up remark- 

 ably well and there is not nearly enough 

 good stock to fill the demands. 



Flowers of all kinds save Harrisii 

 lilies are scarce. In roses. Brides espe- 

 cially are short. Miaids and Gates are 

 a trifle better, but still far short of the 

 demand. Liberties are increasing in 

 number, but still there are not enough 

 to go aroiuid. American Beauties are 

 coming in in large quantities, but 

 there is a good demand for them, and 

 the supply is none too large. 



Carnations are scarcer than usual. 



Harrisii lilies are very plentiful and 

 the price is now down to $S and $10 per 

 hundred, but notwithstanding the large 

 supply they sell out very well and are 

 pretty good property. 



There has been quite a call for lily 

 of the valley latelj', and the supply is 

 very limited. !Many orders had to be 

 turned down. Other bulbous stock is 

 .practically out of the market. Violets 

 also are a thing of the past. Sweet peas 

 are scarce and sell well. Daisies, too, 

 go quickly. 



Various Items. 



H. M. Altick, of Dayton. 0., who was 

 elected justice of the peace at the last 

 election, had quite an experience with 

 burglars last week. Coming home in 

 the evening from the city, he was sur- 

 prised to find three men in his house. 

 He was unarmed, but managed to 

 frighten the thieves away, but not until 

 they had fired upon him a few times, 

 several of the bullets passing through 

 his clothing, but he was not injured. 



On June 1 the Ohio Cut Flower Co. 

 will remove from its present quarters 

 to the northwest corner of Tliird and 

 Main streets. 



Charles Murphy is rapidly getting 

 things into shape to erect a plant at 



Murphyville. He will build two houses, 

 21x100, and a propagating house. Car- 

 nations will be grown exclusively. 



J. Evans and his brother were in the 

 city during the past week. We did not 

 get to see much of them, as they were 

 busily engaged fitting the city's new 

 exhibition greenhouse at Eden park 

 with their challenge ventilators. 



I regi-et to report the death of ISIrs. 

 Kelly, wife of R. A. Kelly, the well- 

 known retail florist of this city, which 

 occurred Sunday. Mrs. Kelly has been 

 ailing for some time and her death was 

 expected. The sympathy of the craft 

 is extended to Mr. Kelly amd his two 

 daughters. 



Mr. Ford, of Kew York, was a visitor. 

 C. J. Ohmer. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The cut flower business was anytliing 

 but good the past week and nearly every- 

 body was complaining. The weather, 

 too, was very disagreeable — cold and 

 rain nearly every day. About all the 

 business done was funeral work among 

 the downtown florists and weddings by 

 the West End florists. Business should 

 be good this week, owing to the dedica- 

 tion of the World's Fair, with such dis- 

 tinguished visitors as President Roose- 

 velt, ex-President Cleveland, and promi- 

 nent men from all over the country. We 

 hear that quite a number of orders have 

 already been placed for decorations of 

 plants and cut flowers for the reception 

 that will be tendered them. The city is 

 already looking gay. all the downtown 

 business houses having their fronts deco- 

 rated. The great concourse of people 

 that will be attracted by the dedication 

 should surely be of great benefit to our 

 trade as well as others. 



The consignments the past week were 

 very heavy and stock of all kinds is very 

 plentiful. Carnations, which up to a 

 week ago had held up very well, are 

 feeling the effects of the overstocked 

 market. The quality is very good in all 

 varieties, but the quantity compelled the 

 wholesalers to lower the price on them 

 to $15 per 1,000. A few extra fine fan- 

 cies are still held at $4 per 100. 



All three wholesalers are now well 

 supplied with extra fine Beauties, with 

 thousands in the lower grades, for which 

 the demand was not so good. A great 

 many of them were left over. Other 

 roses are selling slowl}' and the market 

 is very much overstocked with all grades. 

 Signs are again displayed downtown, 

 which read "Roses and Carnations, 25 

 cents per dozen," and good stock at that. 

 Tlie wholesalers claim that they have to 

 dispose of the stock at cheap prices or 

 dump it. 



Sweet peas are of fine quality and are 

 good sellers, especially the light shades. 

 The price on them is still up and will 

 remain so until they become more plenti- 

 ful, which won't be long. 



Lilies are most plentiful and callas 

 are going begging at $6 per 100, but 

 Harrisiis are holding at $10 with the 

 demand only fair. Roman and Dutch 

 hyacinths and paper whites are over and 

 out of the market, and so are violets. 

 Valley is still good in this market with 

 fair demand. 



Some extra fine adiantum is ' in the 

 market from an Eastern grower, which 

 is handled by Ellis. Smilax is very 

 scarce and the demand for it is big, with 



