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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Septembeb 1, 1904. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



Scrapie's asters are the feature of the 

 market this week. They are very fine 

 and can be had in quantity in aJl the 

 colors. That the buyers appreciate them 

 is evidenced by the way they are sell- 

 ing. Most orders seem incomplete with- 

 out a bunch or more of asters. Carna- 

 tions from freshly planted stock are put- 

 ting in their appearance. The Leo Nies- 

 sen Co. has had some fragrant blooms 

 of Flora Hill, Mrs. Lawson and •Queen 

 Louise. Dahlias, especially pompons, are 

 becoming more plentiful. They are very 

 nice blooms, but a trifle short in stem. 

 There is a steady demand for fine valley. 

 Tuberoses are in season now. They are 

 not likely to be plentiful. Roses are very 

 abundant and the ordinary grades are 

 cheap, but selected stuflf brings fair 

 money ;for the season. 



The Event of the Week. 



The event of the week was the opening 

 of the Flower Market on Monday morn- 

 ing. Their new quarters consist of a 

 ground floor 30x60 feet, with the base- 

 ment underneath. There are twenty-five 

 stalls besides some floor and wall space 

 rented. The office in front is very well 

 lighted. Nearly all the stalls are rented. 

 Being early in the season, about half 

 the growers were represented on the 

 opening day. The location is unsurpassed 

 from a business standpoint, being only 

 one square away from each of the two 

 great railway terminals. Manager Mee- 

 han is making preparations for an active 

 campaign during the coming season. 



A Clever Contrivance. 



It is a privilege to be admitted to the 

 sanctum of a successful business house. 

 It was Phil's good fortune, one after- 

 noon, to pass a too short half hour in the 

 second story front rooms on lower Mar- 

 ket street from which Johnson & Stokes 

 conduct their seed business. A pleasant 

 greeting from Walter P. Stokes was fol- 

 lowed by an interesting chat, partly de- 

 voted to a device which Mr. Stokes has 

 planned and carried out for photograph- 

 ing fruits, vegetables and flowers. His 

 camera, with a short focused lens espe- 

 cially adapted for the work, stands on 

 a frame set on casters, in front of the 

 large window. Just in front of the 

 camera, and connected with the frame, 

 is a sort of easel on which the fruit or 

 vegetable is placed with a background 

 of light gray or dark green cloth, as 

 best suits the coloring of the subject 

 to be photographed. Should a flower be 

 used, a frame with plate glass front skil- 

 fully arranged to hold the flower in place 

 is added. The easel can be turned to 

 any apgle necessary to avoid or secure 

 shadow, be it horizontal or perpendicu- 

 lar, the camera turning to suit. In a 

 room back of the office the plates are 

 developed, the ruby light being admitted 

 softened to give just the strength desired. 

 Some plates of fine melons were wonder- 

 ful in their perfection of detail. Mr. 

 Stokes is president of the amateur pho- 

 tographers' association. His work is of 

 a high order and the firm is thus able 

 to illustrate its catalogue with repro- 

 ductions of the product of their own seed. 



Ombre Effects. 



Progress in combinations of colors and 

 shades is most strikingly shown in the 

 so-called ombre effects produced in chif- 

 fons, chip ribbons and pot covers. The 



gradual shadings from a deep to a pale 

 tint of color and then to shades of an- 

 other color that harmonize with the 

 first are exquisite. The softness and 

 beauty of these ombre effects will appeal 

 to the taste of the flower artist at first 

 sight. Another dainty effect is the fairy- 

 like magnolia leaf. This appears to be 

 simply a skeleton leaf; no tissue or 

 sap left, only veins and stem, a graceful 

 green wand that a breath of air will 

 sway. Phil is indebted to the courtesy 

 of M. Rice for a glimpse of these dain- 

 ties. 



Various Notes. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. have their hand- 

 some and spacious warehouse crammed ' 

 full of beautiful novelties and stand- 

 ards. Some new designs and colorings in 

 Christmas bells are very pleasing. The 

 firm has done a great business in the 

 west lately. 



William J. Moore, wholesale florist, has 

 opened for business at 1235-37 Filbert 

 street, where he is ready to see all his 

 old friends. 



Edward Reid is receiving some fine 

 Scrapie's asters in all the popular colors. 



Charles P. Poryzces has opened a new 

 store on Fifteenth street, near Chestnut. 



Samuel S. Pennock is enjoying an 

 ideal out of door life in a camp in the 

 Adirondacks. 



Berger Bros, continue to receive good 

 shipments of fine asters. 



Pennock Bros, are displaying some 

 beautiful pink cosmos. 



H. Bayersdorfer and Mrs. Bayers- 

 dorfer have returned from Atlantic City. 



Joseph Heacock has sent out a beauti- 

 fully illustrated booklet, with photos of 

 his place, his specimen kentias and in 

 raised and colored figures his phones. 



'Wilmington. 



N. D. Gachor, the well known Broad 

 street station florist, declares that car- 

 nations are now the best paying flower. 

 This stateraent is borne out by the build- 

 ing about Wilmington, Del. Nelson 

 Tally has erected two houses, doubling 

 his plant. C. H. Simon has added one 

 house and H. M. Paschall, of Holly 

 Oaks, nearby, has also added one house 

 during the past summer. It is under- 

 stood that all these houses are for car- 

 nations. All the growers named above 

 ship their stock to the Leo Niessen Co. 

 Phil. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



Trade the past week has been reported 

 extremely slow, but in looking through 

 the stores one finds a little doing in all 

 of them, and the proprietors in a good 

 humor, so that it is not as bad as it 

 might be. The stock on show in most 

 of them looks very good for this season. 

 Gladioli and asters are specially fine 

 and roses are improving every day. Car- 

 nations are not in evidence at all. but 

 with Harrisii, lancifolium lilies and val- 

 ley they manage to make a good front 

 and take care of any trade coming their 

 way. 



The nights being extremely cool have 

 caused some mildewed stock, to appear 

 and the fellow who does not grow roses 

 himself asks the old question, "Do those 

 growers take care of stock all spring 

 and summer, and then allow themselves 

 to be caught napping in the fall; is it 

 carelessness, or do they forget from year 



to year that their young roses will not 

 stand the cold, damp nights?" 



Variotfs Notes. 



A crowd of the Pittsburg and Alle- 

 gheny florists took advantage of the 

 Turners' excursion to Wheeling last Sun- 

 day. They took in the parks, ball game& 

 and visited their Wheeling friends and 

 got home about midnight, after being 

 held up by a passenger wreck on the B^ 

 &0. 



There was a kind of harvest home out 

 in Butler county one day last week. 

 Some of the boys went out And all, with 

 the exception of one who was left along 

 the road, got back safely. 



Karl Klinke, the Pittsburg Cut Flow- 

 er Co. 's bookkeeper, is back from the 

 World's Fair. He says he went to see 

 it all, and thinks he did, especially the 

 Pike. He says you are not saving money 

 while in the hands of those fellows. 



T. M. Ulam and wife have been spend- 

 ing a couple of weeks in the raountains. 



Most of the larger growers have all 

 their stock planted for the winter and 

 are off'ering their surplus roses and car- 

 nations for sale. 



Wra. Falconer went from the St. Louis 

 convention to Chicago to attend the con- 

 vention of the Society of American Cem- 

 etery Superintendents. 



Frank Faulk, of the Allegheny mar* 

 ket, is an expert taxidermist and when 

 the cut flower business is dull he puts 

 in his time raounting fine speciraens of 

 fish and birds for the sportsmen of this 

 vicinity. He makes it pay as well as his 

 regular business. 



G. & J. W. Ludwig had a busy week 

 with funeral work. Among the designs 

 there was one in particular which was 

 well executed, a scales of life, for which 

 they received $125. 



Ed. McGrath, of Breitenstein & 

 Fleram, is visiting New York and Phila- 

 delphia. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. have 

 Christmas bells on exhibition. It seems 

 early for Christmas goods, but these 

 boys usually know their business. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Cooler weather the past week has im- 

 proved stock and business somewhat. 

 Shipping trade, too, seems to be revived 

 at the wholesale houses. In fact the gen- 

 eral outlook is very much better, though 

 most of the business is confined to funeral 

 work. On Saturday the floral parade at 

 the World 's Fair used up a lot of surplus 

 outdoor stock, which is over-plentiful. 



The cool nights have a bad effect on 

 roses, which show traces of mildew. 

 Kaiserin is the best. Meteor and Liberty 

 are also good. Brides and Maids are 

 very poor. Beauties are not first class 

 and. on a limited number of good flowers, 

 are being held at $2 to $2.50 per dozen, 

 the average being worth only 75 cents to 

 $1.25, with plenty of shorts at $5 per 

 100. Most of the flowers are poorly col- 

 ored. 



In carnations the market has a poor 

 supply at present. The field-grown stock 

 has suffered a great deal of late from 

 the heavy rains. Fancy sorts bring $1.50 

 per 100, but the bulk sell at from 50 

 cents to $1 per 100. Asters have short- 

 ened in supply, that is, the fancy sorts. 

 There seems to be plenty of common va- 

 rieties for all demands. Tuberoses are 

 in big supply, more than the trade can 



