JUNE 0, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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east and nothi»g.but praise can be said 

 of his stock. And, again, he is originator 

 of the prize Tvinning Anna Foster fern, ot 

 which we all know and hear so much, 

 having named it after his beloved wife 

 now deceased. Mr. Foster was at one 

 time president of the Florists' and Gar- 

 deners ' Club of Boston and also a member 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety. He leaves one daughter. Miss 

 E4ith P. Foster, for whom the: well 

 known Edith P. Foster carnation is 

 named. Mr. Foster was a man of broad 

 views and was always willing to help 

 ',an<^ advance others, instructing his hire 

 to do the 9ame and by hii? death the 

 trade has lost a noWe soul, one we could 

 look to as an example in education for 

 the future advancepient of the many in 

 our profession. He fought a good fight 

 but still livM in our memory. 



Daniel E. Sullivan. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Business has been disappointing since 

 Thursday of last week. The hot weather 

 of Saturday, Sunday and Monday took 

 life out of the flowers and out of the 

 flower lovers as well. Locally things 

 were decidedly flat. They revived some- 

 what by the middle of the week, the de- 

 mand being more brisk. The encourag- 

 ing feature of the market is the out of 

 town demand. There were many good 

 shipping orders early in the week. Leo 

 Niessen had some laTge orders for choice 

 Beauties, Brides and Maids, which are 

 not nearly so plentiful since the last 

 hot wj|ve. Some exceptionally fine 

 Bridesnoaids have been coming in from 

 Westerfy, B. I., to S. S. Pennock who gets 

 much choice stock from growers in that 

 locality. These flowers were so fine they 

 readily brought 121^ cents, or about dou- 

 ble the market price. 



Carnations are not particularly good 

 stock now. There are some really' fine 

 flowers and some sleepy looking and sour 

 smelling bunches that are not a credit 

 to the grower or dealer. Many of these 

 go to waste and some are offered with 

 better stuff by the street men at 5 cents 

 a dozen retail. Sweet peas are in fine 

 form. The outdoor flowers, pot grown 

 or frame protected, are in crop. C. E. 

 Meehan was one of the first to have 

 them in quantity. The price is, of 

 course, lower but they sell well. Valley 

 has been selling for the weddings, as 

 also the orchids obtainable. Leo Nies- 

 sen had bluets, or cornflowers, last week. 

 Lilies, which were rather poor stock at 

 Decoration day, went a shade better for 

 the weddings. Callas do not seem to be 

 wanted now. 



Last, but not least, peonies. They are 

 in their glory but unfortunately they 

 are tremendously in excess of the demand 

 and many are wasted and many sell at 

 ridiculously low prices. The glut cannot 

 last beyond this week. 



Work Hard; Play Hard. 



The sporting event of the week will be 

 the great baseball game set for Satur- 

 day afternoon, June 11, when the hustlers 

 of the Flower Market will meet their 

 no less active brethren of Bobert Craig & 

 Sons, at Forty-ninth and Market streets, 

 rhe Flower Market team will be minus 

 the services of their famous pony battery, 

 but they will have a fast aggregation of 

 talent confident of victory, while the 



St. Lotds Exposition BtdUtos* where Ae S, A. F. will Meet Atisfust 16. 



West Philadelphia team strengthened by 

 some notable players from outlying dis- 

 tricts, feel certain of increasing their 

 reputations as winners. The Market 

 will close at 4 p. m. on this eventful day. 

 Every florist with a drop of sporting 

 blood in his veins should see this fierce 

 contest. 



Variotis Notes. 



C. G. Papsch has just opened a store 

 at Atlantic City. 



E. C. Hayden, of C. F. Edgar & Co., 

 ■and Thomas ; S. Beattie, of the Straf- 

 ford Flower Farm, were elected members 

 of the Florists ' Club last Tuesday even- 

 ing. 



Adolph Faretowald is cutting new crop 

 Beauties. 



George E. Carpenter is said to make 

 bouvardia pay well. His method is to 

 flower it in December, not attempting 

 another crop but following with Easter 

 and bedding plants. He grows all three 

 colors of bouvardia. 



The Florists' Bowling team and sev- 

 eral others in the profession spent 

 Thursday at Essington, with the mem- 

 bers of the other teams in the bowlers' 

 league and their friends. 



C. F. Edgar & Co. have put electric 

 lights in their ice box, which is a great 

 improvement. They are receiving some 

 nice carnations. 



Edward Eeid has lately sold a farm in 

 Dakota for a satisfactory price. 



It ig rumored that Myers & Samtman 

 will plant a large house with Liberty 

 this season. 



Miss Wyatt, daughter of William H. 

 Wyatt, of 236 North Thirteenth street, 

 was married last Monday. 



Edward Swayne, of Wawaset, sent 

 some superb white peonies to S. S. Pen- 

 nock for Memorial day. 



Carl Jurgens, of Newport, B. I., is 

 sending some nice Kaiserins to Leo Nies- 

 sen. Phil. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM MANUAL. 



Send the Eeview 25 cents in coin or 

 stamps and we will mail you a copy of 

 Elmer D. Smith's new book, the Chry- 

 santhemum Manual. It is a pamphlet 

 of eighty pages, with eighteen illustra- 

 tions, and embodies the experience of a 

 lifetime spent on this specialty. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Another good week in cut flowers has 

 just passed. According to the glowing 

 accounts of our daily press of the elab- 

 orate decorations that are being done in 

 the different state buildings at the 

 World's Fair, also weddings and school 

 work about the city, the past week must 

 have been a busy one for our florists. 

 The almost incessant rain stopped work 

 on the outside, though most of it is fin- 

 ished. A lot of planting is yet to be 

 done at the World's Fair grounds. 



The President 's daughter is still with 

 us, having prolonged her stay, attending 

 social affairs given in her honor almost 

 every day and night, at which a great 

 many cut flpwers are being used and of 

 course only the choice stock is wanted for 

 these occasions. Those who were fortu- 

 nate enough to furnish these orders wish 

 that Mis,s Boosevelt would remain with us 

 all sunjmer. But others of note will visit 

 us this summer, who will receive much 

 attention frpm . the social folks, and of 

 course floral decorations will be one .of 

 the features, so the St. Louis florists ex- 

 pect to be busy all this summer with work 

 of that kind. 



Stock of the first quality is very 

 scarce, but in other grades there were 

 plenty for all demands the past week. 

 In American Beauties fancies were lim- 

 ited, with good demand for all that came 

 in. Shorts, too, cleaned up every day fcr 

 design work. For the best Beauties 

 $2.50 to $3 per dozen was asked. Others 

 ran from $1.50 per dozen down to $5 per 

 100.. Of the smaller roses, such as 

 Bride, Maid, Gate, Liberty and Meteor, 

 there seemed to be plenty in the market, 

 of the first and second grade stock. 

 There was a big demand for fancy stock 

 in these, and prices ranged from $3 to $6 

 per 100. Some extra fancy brought $8 

 per 100. In the poorer grades of carna- 

 tions the market is well supplied at pres- 

 ent, only fancies being scarce, the de- 

 mand for these large, and $2 to $3 per 

 100 asked for the best; $1 to $1.50 for 

 the common small stock. Outdoor stock 

 suffered a great deal last week from the 

 heavy rains, the demand being good for 

 this material for the many lawn decora- 

 tions. Sweet peas are in great abund- 

 ance, prices ranging from 25 to 60 cents 



