<!>CTOBEB 20, 1904^. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



J071 



CURRENT PRICES, SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 



AMERICAN 



BEAUTY* ppf doz. 



30— 36-inoli stem $8 6u 



a^-laoli utna 8 OO 



BO-lBob atmi ^ 1 BO 



le-lnob ■tain 1 86 



la-iaoh Bt^m 1 OO 



Bboirt stem p«r 100. f 3 OO to 4 00 



ROSES. Per 100 



BTidM and Maids (8 OO to 96 00 



lf«t«or« and Oatoa 8 OO to 6 OO 



Ubartr 3 OO to 6 OO 



Saisona .V..: 3 CO. to BOO 



OABHATXOJrS-Oood stock 1 OO to 1 50 



" Kar^e and fknoy 8 OO to 3 OO 



WIETOR BROS. 



I 51 Wabash Avenue, 



CHICAGO. 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



flndianapolis 

 " Floral Co. 



■^rvJSrr INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 

 WHOLESALE 



Commissioo Florists 



All ordora promptly flUod in best 

 poaaibl* manner. 



OoDBlRnmentB solicited. We are in position 



to ffive prompt and liberal returns 



on all conslRnments. 



WANTED --BULBS. 



We want to buy in lota of 1000 to 10 OOO 

 eacb of tbe followInR : — Tnllpa, select 

 mixtures ; Orootia, Hyaointba, separate 

 colors and mixed; Varoiaana, all kinds; 

 Uliaa. 



Mention The BeTlew when jroa wilt*. 



500 Strings Asparagus 

 Plumosus Nanus. 



2000 Strings Smilax. .'::V.!l£^:s% 



Aspidistra lurida. 6 to 10-incb plants, 4c per leaf. 



WILLIAM CLARK, 



0OXiOBA.1>O ■PBXJrOB. COKO. 



Mention The Berlew when yoa write. 



BALTIMORE. 



"Mum" is now the word. The sup- 

 ply of white is considerably more than 

 the demand. Pink and yellow are less 

 plentiful and nearly all have been sold 

 up to date. Best Kalb, Willowbrook 

 and Estelle have been going at $1.50 

 per dozen, with smaller ones down to 

 $5 per hundred. Unless they begin to 

 move more freely in the next two days 

 the price will drop considerably. The 

 average quality of all varieties is good. 

 Caruatiops are about suflBcient to supply 

 the demand. Good roses are a little 

 scarce. At 6 o'clock Monday there was 

 nothing to be had at the Exchange ex- 

 cepting mums, every rose of every grade 

 having been sold. Callas and violets are 



coming in limited quantity and not very 

 good yet. "Valley was sold by the street 

 men last Saturday at $1 per hundred, 

 violets, good ones, at 50 cents. It seems 

 to me the growers farther north must 

 be getting much less for stock than the 

 market price here, as the valley and 

 violets came from the north. Violets 

 are wholesaling here at 50 cents. There 

 are still a few outdoor flowers, but the 

 cool nights have a telling effect on 

 them. 



There will be an exhibition of mums 

 at the next meeting of the Gardeners* 

 Club, Monday, October 25, 8 p. m. The 

 merits of the various varieties will be 

 discussed. A large attendance is ex- 

 pected. A. F. 



Lansing, Mich. — G. H. Biley and Mrs. 

 Riley are both engaged in the business. 

 Mr. Riley grows lettuce for the local mar- 

 ket and Mrs. Riley grows carnations, 

 violets and a few mums. They have 

 just added two houses 14x80, intending 

 to try violets for the wholesale market. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — John G. Eisele is 

 tearing down his nursery at Twentieth 

 street and Ontario avenue after thirty- 

 five years of activity in gro^ng a general 

 aesortment of plants and cut flowers for 

 his local and wholesale trade. Mr. Eisele 

 at one time was the owner of the whole 

 square of ground between Westmoreland 

 street and Ontario avenue and from Twen- 

 tieth street part way to Uber street. 

 Builders have gradually bought 

 sections of ' the ground and built 

 dwellings thereon until he is 

 hemmed in on all sides. Mr. Eisele 

 himself has built nine dwelling houses and 

 at present is building six more on Twen- 

 tieth street, below Bellevue street. He 

 claims there is more money in houses than 

 in growing plants at the present time. 

 Although very busy with his building op- 

 erations, Mr. Eisele is not retiring al- 

 together from the florists' business, as he 

 is now building an office and three green- 

 houses of about 3,000 feet of glass next 

 to his dwelling for the convenience of his 

 Tioga trade, which is quite extensive, and 

 also as he says to keep his mind occupied, 

 for he cannot be idle. Mr. Eisele also 

 has a city salesroom on Columbia avenue, 

 which is managed by his son. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOOATION. 



Pres., C. N. Pa«e, Des Moines. la ; Flrat Vlce- 

 Prea., L. L. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and Treaa., C. B. 

 Eendel, Cleveland. The 33rd annual meeting 

 will be held on the- St. Lawrence, June, 1906. 



The California growers report a good 

 harvest of onioii seed. 



BuKPEE & Co. had their advance whole- 

 sale price list in the mails October 15. 



Visited Chicago: — Lester C. Morse, 

 of Santa Clara, Cal.; D. L. Sloan, of Palo 

 Alto, Cal. 



The fine weather of the past week has 

 added considerable to the standing seed 

 crops and has been of great benefit in 

 drying out crops that are ready to thresh. 



The seed trade employees at Boston 

 have organized a bowling league, the 

 firms represented being Joseph Breck 4 

 Sons, W. W. Rawson & Co., R. & J. 

 Farquhar & Co. and Schlegel & Fottler 

 Co. 



In the vicinity of Chicago a fine cron 

 of Hubbard squash has been harvested. 

 The bulk of it goes into the squash 

 houses to await an advance in the ton 

 price, which growers expect after Jan- 

 uary 1. 



Commission men say the present 

 month has been the best October for 

 garden produce in many years. Cauli- 

 flower is especially abundant and the 

 quality of the heads is far above the 

 average. 



J. W. Deal, of W. W. Johnson & Son, 

 Boston, England, is quoted as saying that 

 the black fly which attacked the broad 

 and longpod beans while in flower last 

 summer, made it one of the worst sea- 

 sons on record for these crops. 



Owing to the exceedingly unfavorable, 

 enormously hot and dry weather during 

 the latter part of spring and throughout 

 the past summer, only once interrupted 

 on June 17 by a thorough rain, preceded 

 by a heavy thunder and hail storm which 

 affected very badly gart of the more 



