May 



1003. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1003 



View in the Colonial Flower Shop, Philadelphia, at Easter. 



cently by the Cincinnati Florists to the 

 visitors to the carnation meeting. 



That under the circumstances his 

 soemincr negligence will be all forgiven. 

 Xow, Cincinnatians. do your duty. 



■Hl.SXIBS.' 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cut (lower market is veiy quiet 

 now. Immense quantities of flowers are 

 used at prices that must not be looked 

 at too closely; there are many that are 

 not disposed of to advantage. Sweet 

 peas and valley continue pretty good, 

 especially the peas. Edward Reid makes 

 a specialty ui white; Eugene Bern- 

 licimer has lavender, which proves the 

 right thing; a few fancies are to be 

 seen. S. S. Pennock has the violet 

 market pretty much to himself, and 

 ■when that is over he will have an at- 

 tractive specialty in Cattleya Mossi*. 

 now to be had in good condition. "Lie- 

 locks" are plentiful as coals in Xew 

 Castle. It is said, though, that the 

 street men prefer carnations in job lots 

 to these perishable spring flowers. The 

 carnation market is weaker than a week 

 ngo. Not only have prices fallen, but 

 some really good stock is hard to move 

 tit times. Daisies are plentiful. W. J. 

 Baker handles a grade that is of fine 

 •quality — large flowers borne on good 

 stems. Easter lilies are still plentiful. 

 It is puzzling to guess where th_ey all 

 come from after the sweep of a month 

 ago. 



Germantown. 



This suburban part of Philadelphia 

 lia> been the scene of rapid progress in 

 floriculture lately. For many years 

 nearly a half-dozen florists did a gcn- 

 •eral growing and retail business, dis- 

 posing of their surplus in the city 

 proper and drawing on the wholesale 

 dealers and growers for their special 

 orders. Two of the>e florists have large 

 •stores on the main direct. Oerniantown 



avenue, besides their extensive range of 

 greenhouses. One of these is William 

 Berger. A photograph of his store ta- 

 ken at Easter appears elsewhere in 

 these columns. The other is Albert 

 Woltemate. The business has grown 

 to an extent that whilp each can accom- 

 modate a brother florist in need of 

 stufl". neither has much difticulty in dis- 

 posing of his own product and a great 

 deal more besides. 



William J. Young. Jr.. has a well run 

 ])lace. prettily located in the heart of 

 the residence district, which serves as 

 an object lesson to his customers. He 

 also does a large business, drawing heav- 

 ily on the wholesalers in spite of the 

 quantity of good plants and flowers he 

 produces. These places and those of 

 several smaller florists, notably llrs. 

 Baumann, Mrs. Cliflfe and the florist de- 

 partment of T. N. Yates & Co., lie west 

 of Germantown road. Until lately the 

 eastern side has virtually been repre- 

 sented by the ileehans — Tliomas Jlee- 

 han & Sons doing a little in the florist 

 line until lately, and Cliarles E. ;Mpelian 

 having a good sized place near the nur- 

 sery firm, on which he does a little 

 retailing with his wholesale business. 

 .Now the east side is becoming a verit- 

 able flower garden. F. & H. Jlergen- 

 thaler have added to their rose growing 

 plant, established onl.v a few years ago. 

 until they have seventeen fine house-; 

 full of fine stock. 



The latest addition to this section is 

 R. .Tamison. who left his ])Osition as 

 foreman at another place this spring 

 in order to go in business with his 

 brother, as mentioned a short time ago. 

 He will build three houses. Dietsch pat- 

 tern, each l.'>0xl4 feet 8 inches. Tliesp 

 in addition to the three houses now on 

 the place will give a good supply of 

 roses, carnations, etc., for the local de- 

 mand. The Messrs. Mersenthaler are 

 doing a wholesale business. Every- 

 thing is in readiness for an immediate 

 -tiiil. SiNleen bv l.'iinrb 'jbis- is to be 



used. Twelve hundred Beauties will be 

 grown for a full crop, to be followed 

 by pot plants. Among the newer roses 

 Sunrise and Ivory will be tried. 



Notes. 



The Flower Market had a great order 

 for .5,000 roses and 1,000 carnations on 

 Monday last. The order was from the 

 department store of X. Luellenburg i: 

 Co.. who wished to celebrate their thirty- 

 fourth anniversary. The roses used 

 were chiefly Beauties, Brides, Maids and 

 Meteors. Tlie carnations were Hill. 

 I.«wson, Crane, .Joost, Scott and others. 

 The flowers were distributed among the 

 patrons of the store at certain hours in 

 the morning and afternoon. 



Tlionuis Weiss, a retired florist and 

 resident of (Jerniantown, died last \ve<^k, 

 aged seventy-eight years. His sons, Eu- 

 gene and Harry Weiss, are well known 

 in business circles. They have the sym- 

 pathy of their many friends, 



A bright eonunission man says the 

 average grower does not realize how- 

 hard it is to sell flowers. He takes lit- 

 tle interest in where his flowers go, how 

 they suit, or any other detail of sell- 

 ing. His own cares are (piite enougli. 

 He simply wants a little statement at 

 the end of each week with a check at- 

 tached — the bigger the iM-tti'r. 



The Florists' Club meeting last Tues- 

 day evening was devoted to a Imwling 

 discussion on the ways and means of 

 sending a good feiini to Milwauke<' that 

 would do the Quaker City prou<l, and 

 not to Walter Whetstone's paper on 

 pi])e, as erri.nenu-ly staled in thoe eol- 

 unuis last wi'ck. Mr. Whetstone's talk 

 will be given at the .lune meeting in- 

 stead. It should prove of great inter- 

 est. 



Waller P. Stokes, of the lirni of .lohn- 

 son & Stokes, and president of the 

 Seedsmen's l>eague, was elected a uuni 

 lier of the Florists' Club last month. 



Eugene Bernheimer is handling a 

 pleasing scarlet carnation seedling. It 

 nuisl be a good bloomer, as he received 



