May 21. 1003. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



1091 



WASHINGTON. D. C. 



During the last woek flori.sts have suf- 

 fered (•(nisiderably on account of the 

 ab.sence of rain. non<! having fallen for 

 nearly one month, in fact not -since car- 

 nations have been planted. All kinds 

 of plants will suflTcr. It is to be hoped 

 that the drought will soon be broken. 



Business continues good, for the sea- 

 son. Carnations and rases are coming 

 in almost too plentifully, and prices, of 

 course, are consequently low. Ro.ses sell 

 from 2 to 6 cents; carnations, 1 to 2 

 cents. Gladioli are coming in fine at 

 6 cents. .Sweet peas. oO cents per 100. 

 and fine at that. Bedding plants are 

 selling well and there is hardly enough 

 good stock to go around. 



The bowling team is about to go to 

 Baltimore and have a three-cornered 

 contest lietween Philadelphia, Baltimore 

 and Washington. Captain Erne.st of the 

 local team will have something to face 

 which will not be so very easy, but he 

 says he will try it. He expects at least 

 twenty or twenty-five of the boys to go 

 to Baltimore. Following is the score 

 bowled in practice May 13: 



Player— 1st. 2d. 3d. Total. 



W. H. Ernest 153 IGil 202 515 



George Cooke 172 16S 165 505 



W. S. ClJirk 189 138 165 492 



J. L. Barber. Jr 132 1.50 203 485 



J. Shine 179 160 143 482 



J. L. Barber 146 147 177 470 



O. A. C. Oehmler 151 148 171 470 



C. Wolf 1.37 148 135 420 



Willie Clark 169 133 117 419 



A. Esch 143 112 119 374 



J. Minder 99 112 96 307 



J. W. Freeman 122 1 34 96 352 



W. F. Gude 137 122 .. 2.59 



F. H. Kramer 148 120 .. 274 



F. H. Kramer. 



ORANGE, N.J. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society took 

 plac-e on May 6 at their rooms in Orange. 

 The usual monthly fioral display wa.s 

 varied only by the exhibition of Cattleya 

 Mossiiie of great beauty by Dr. J. M. W. 

 Kitchen, of the Willowniead Orchidery. 

 It is only the second time that the plant 

 has bloomed since its importation two 

 years ago. John Crosby Brown and fam- 

 ily \VBre among the visitors during the 

 course of the evening. Two new mem- 

 bers were elected. A. D. Rose, who \\as 

 to have addressed the society, was pre- 

 vented b}' serious illness, which, liow- 

 ever, the doctors hope will be but tem- 

 porary, and Dr. Kitchen spoke upon 

 "Freaks of Nature in Plants." The 

 deaths of members, James Withers and 

 Heniy Bird, one of the oldest Newark 

 florists and a member of long standin<>, 

 were noticed and entrusted to a com- 

 mittee for appropriate expression of sym- 

 pathy', etc., to the families of the de- 

 ceased. J- B. D. 



KANSAS CITY. 



Stock is all being u.sed up. Every 

 florist in town is busy with funeral 

 work and May weddings. Mrs. Lamb, 

 wholesale, reports a very busy week. 

 Geo. M. Kellogg says that his peonies 

 never looked better at this time of the 

 year. Prospects are good for plenty for 

 Decoration day. All the greenhouse men 

 are busy witli bedding plants, both for 

 shipping and planting out. 



Arthur Newell has .sold his favorite 

 trotting horse, Pat. and is now on the 

 lookout for one to replace him. It will 

 be hard, Arthur. 



J. P. C'oen, of Lexington. Mo., was in 

 town Sunday. He reports business very 

 good at home. L- M- S. 



Blue 1!ii«,k. I'.v. — John t'. Bullitt has 

 removed his business here from Becklev, 

 W. Va. 



HouoriTON, Mich. — The Lutey Floral 

 Co. is building a new store on Sheldon 



street. 



Madison, Wis. — Fred. Rentschlcr has 

 bought a residence on Spaight street for 



$4..300. 



Tekre Haute. Ind. — George Hunt 

 took unto himself a w'ife at Perrysville, 

 Ind., May 9. 



Greenfield, Ind. — Jacob Forest is re- 

 ported to have a white sport of the I>aw- 

 son carnation. 



Ogden, Utah. — James Varney has 

 built a house 50x12.5 and reports a 

 good business. 



Eaton Rapids, ;Mich. — Mary La Fever 

 reports trade good and increasing at a 

 rate truly surprising. 



Bristol, Vt. — L. M. Gage reports an 

 increased demand in all departments, 

 particularly for bedding plants. 



Reiiobotii. R. I. — The greenhouse of 

 .James A. Eddj-. near this village, was 

 burned on the morning of May 2. 



Hiawatha. Kan. — .T. W. Margrave 

 may well claim to be the dean of the 

 craft. He was born August 16, 1814. 



Anamosa, lA.-^Mrs. Charles Abbey 

 has built a greenhouse on' Ford street 

 and embarked in the florist business. 



Wilmington, Del. — The Creston 

 Floral Co., capital $20,000. will engage 

 in growing cut flowers and nursery 

 stock. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Three heavj' 

 frosts the first three nights in May 

 ruined all tender plants that had been 

 put out. 



Beaitfort. S. C— On May II hail 

 broke 2,800 lights of glass in the green- 

 houses of Admiral Beardslee, on St. 

 Helena Island. 



Utica, N. Y. — Wm. B. Hill, who has 

 been in the employ of florists here at 

 times for many years, died April 29, 

 aged 70 years. 



Chatham, N. Y.— The Chatham Flor- 

 al Co., capital stock $50,000, has been 

 incorporated by R. E. Shuphelt, P. A. 

 Shuphelt and R. S. Tank. 



Brandon, Man. — Fred MansofT is 

 building another house 21x100. It will 

 first ))roduce a crop of lettuce, to be 

 followed by chrysanthemums. 



Springfield. III. — On the last evening 

 of the session the legislature passed the 

 l)ill appropriating $270,000 for the 

 Agricultural College at Urbana. 



Springfield, Mass.— M. F. IliRKins 

 has taken the greenhouses of Humphrey 

 Grout, one of the oldest florists in this 

 city, who has removed to Feeding Hills. 



Minneapolis, Minn.— Peter Sehotzka. 

 gardener at the Soldiers' Home, has dis- 

 appeared and is supposed to have com- 



mitted suicide. He was formerly em- 

 ployed in the Chicago parks. 



WV^STON, O. — A. M. Ncifcr reports a 

 very good s])ring business. He also does 

 a considerable trade in early vegetables. 



Peobia, III. — Earl W. Mctz and Miss 

 Laura W. Wheeler were married at the 

 homo of tile bride at Meredosia. 111.. May 

 l.i. Mr. Met/, is decorator for .1. ('. 

 Murraj'. 



Lynn, Mass. — Frank Dolansky, who 

 was at one time in tne business with 

 Fred Smith, has recently purchased the 

 Smith greenhouses and will add several 

 new houses. 



Newburo, N. Y. — The Cliadburn Man- 

 ufacturing Company, makers of auto- 

 matic ventilating machinery, are build- 

 ing a new factory, which will be com- 

 jilcted in the early fall and will greatly 

 increase their facilities. 



Los Angeles, Cai. — The Golden State 

 Plant and noral Co. has been incorpor- 

 ated with a capital stock of $25,000. 

 The incorporators are Carl F. Schrader, 

 T. A. Johnson. Nellie M. Schrader, T. H. 

 Dudley and V. E. Hatheway. 



NoiiTH Yaki.ma. Wash. — .\ lot of 

 2.500 (rccs shipped here by Missouri nur- 

 serymen has been condemned by the 

 county horticultural inspector. Eighty- 

 eight were ordered burned and the rest 

 dipped at the expense of the nurserymen. 



Nkw-burgh, N. Y. — Some idea of the 

 extent of the business of the Caldwell 

 Mower Co. may be gained by the fact 

 that they have "already this season ship- 

 ])ed over 30,000 of one pattern of the 

 many lawn mowers they make. The 

 factory is working day and night. 



Battle Crfjsk, Mien.— The firm of El- 

 dred & Warburton has been <lissolved 

 and Mr. C. C. Warburton will hereafter 

 be permanently located at the green- 

 houses, where he will conduct a whole- 

 sale and retail business. He expects to 

 add about 5,000 feet of new glass to hia 

 present range this summer. 



Flint, Mich. — B. Hasselbring is per- 

 fecting plans for overhauling his entire 

 greenhouse plant and intends also to 

 add three houses, each 30x140 feet He 

 will then have a modern plant of about 

 50.000 feet of glass, of which a large 

 part will be devoted to growing carna- 

 tions for the wholesale trade. 



Bitffaix), X. Y.— The Ridge Lawn 

 Cemetery Co. has built two houses 20x 

 100 for lilies, bulbs, ferns, rubbers, har- 

 dy roses and a general line of bedding 

 stock to cater to the cemetery trade, 

 which is hea\7 in this vicinity. They 

 report a ready sale for all that they 

 have been able" to produce. It is intend- 

 ed to erect during the summer a cam»- 

 tion house 21x150. with iron gutters 

 and all the latest improvements. Ed- 

 ward and Chas. Werick arc proprietors. 



Yof CAN sell your surplus stock quick- 

 ly and economically by offering same in 

 the Review's classified ndvs. 



