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NOTSMBBB 24, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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• - The wholesale market the past week 

 had good supplies of almost everything 

 in season. There was a good shipping 

 trade, with big business for Thanksgiv- 

 ing day. The stock on Monday was 

 somewhat limited, most of the growers 

 holding off for Thursday, the big day 

 in the cut flower line. 



The Beauty crop has fallen off con- 

 siderably of late and fancy stock is very 

 scarce with orders in for more than can 

 be supplied. The stock in other roses, 

 such as Brides, Maids, Meteors, Liberty, 

 Perles, Ivory and Gates the stock is look- 

 ing much better than it has been, with 

 less mildew. The demanu for these is 

 good and enough are in for the local 

 trade. 



Chrysanthemums seem on the down 

 grade and not near as many as formerly 

 are coming in. Fancy stock in these is 

 becoming very scarce and another ten 

 days will see them out of the market. 

 Then the rose and carnation growers will 

 be happy once more and their stock will 

 bring a better price. 



Carnations are becoming extra in qual- 

 ity and the demand so good as to clean 

 up the consignments each day at fairly 

 good prices. Some fine Enchantress, Wol- 

 cott, Joost, Estelle and Boston Market 

 were seen Monday morning. 



Violets are now in great demand and 

 not near enough are received to supply 

 the local florists who have standing 

 orders. Romans, Paper Whites and lily of 

 the valley are the only bulbous flowers 

 in at present and they find a clear mar- 

 ket, as demands are good for this slock. 

 Plenty of good smilax is to be had, with 

 demand light. 



The prospects for Thanksgiving are 

 very good at this writing, but stock is 

 likely to be scarce, so the wholesalers say. 

 The growers were early advised not to 

 hold back but to ship stock right along, 

 as prices early in the week were about as 

 good as they will be at any time. 



Various Notes. 



There is every evidence of a hot time 

 at the next meeting of the Florists ' Club. 

 The business to be transacted is of great 

 importance to every member of the club. 

 President Juengel will make a personal 

 appeal to every member to be present. 

 The membership of the club is 103. The 

 meeting will take place on Thursday 

 afternoon, December 10, al; 2 o'clock, in 

 Odd Fellow's building, hall No. 2. 



Ostertag Bros, furnished the decora- 

 tions for the big ELrenning-Sutter wed- 

 ding the past week. This was one of the 

 fashionable events of the season. Henry 

 Ostertag reports two more for this week, 

 for which a large amount of stock will 

 be used. 



Henry Felter, on Lexington avenue, 

 has had some extra fine chrysanthemums 

 in pots of fine quality. Among them 

 were Major Bonnaffon, White Bonnaffon 

 and Mrs. Jerome Jones, which had an 

 active demand. 



John Connon, of Webster Groves, is 

 sending in some good stock in roses and 

 carnations. 



A. Berdan, of Kirkwood, had a fine lot 

 of Romans, Paper Whites and lily of 

 the valley for Thanksgiving trade. 



W. J. Pilcher, T. W. Ude, Sr., Charles 

 Tide, Hugo Gross and other Kirkwood 

 fiorists are sending in a good supply 

 of California violets, for which there is 

 a heavy demand at present. 



It has been reported that Robert Tes- 

 son will again start in the growing busi- 



ness after the World's Fair officials va- 

 cate his greenhouses, which they have 

 used the past eighteen months. Robert 

 at present is working his farm in Clay- 

 ton. This news will be welcome, as 

 Robert always grew first-class stock, es- 

 pecially in roses. » 



Mr. Kalisch, who was hurt recently by 

 the street cars, is, from last accounts, 

 progressing nicely and expects to be out 

 in a few &ys. 



The Florists' Bowling Club members 

 seem to have lost interest in the game of 

 late and the bowling on Monday night 

 has stopped until the busy season is over, 

 at least until after the holidays. Messrs. 

 Kuehn, EUison and Beneke are rolling 

 in the Palace league and Carl Beyer with 

 the Western league. J. J. B. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Business last week was excellent, es- 

 pecially on the last two days, for chrys- 

 anthemums and violets but poor for 

 roses. There were a number of weddings 

 but transient trade was dull and prices 

 drooped at times. This week has opened 

 well, with prices advancing, especially 

 on Beauties, carnations and violets, 

 which are scarce. Thanksgiving orders, 

 both in the city and out of town, are 

 very heavy. There is an immense lot of 

 stock in the market. The growers have 

 learned how to do chrysanthemums at 

 the end of November despite the mild 

 weather. Timothy Eaton, Major Bon- 

 naffon, Mrs. Jerome Jones, all three both 

 in yellow and in white; Maud Dean, 

 pink; Golden Wedding, yellow, and a 

 few others make up the list. To these 

 must be added the snowy white Dorothy 

 Faust, a large, incurved, globular, Jap- 

 anese variety of exquisite finish which 

 Fred Ehret has been receiving since Mon- 

 day. The Leo Niessen Co. reports heavy 

 orders for chrysanthemums, also for car- 

 nations, of which they handle an im- 

 mense number. Prices on tea roses, es- 

 pecially the poorer grades, are lower 

 than in former years at this time. The 

 scarcity of violets is most unfortunate. 

 Many more could have been used to ad- 

 vantage, both Thursday of last week, 

 when New Haven wanted more, and on 

 Thursday of this week. Gardenias and 

 cattleyas are both scarce. S. S. Pen- 

 nock has an abundance of white orchids 

 and some fine long stemmed heliotrope. 

 The Cut Flower Co. has a nice lot of 

 mignonette, which is in demand. The 

 Leo Niessen Co. is again making a spe- 

 cialty of pansies, of which a great many 

 are sold. Valley and white violets have 

 sold well. 



Business Instinct. 



One of our leading commission men, 

 commenting on the want of business in- 

 stinct or sagacity displayed by many 

 growers at a time like the present, when 

 flowers are in demand, said that the diffi- 

 culty of securing buyers for the flowers 

 in times of plenty is forgotten and the 

 flowers are held back just before a holi- 

 day, COTnpelling the wholesaler to waste 

 precious time, to say nothing of money, 

 telephoning and sending for stock when 

 he should be filling his orders. The 

 wholesalers are the growers' representa- 

 tives. They understand how to sell flow- 

 ers better than the growers do, just as 

 the growers understand how to grow 

 flowers better than the wholesalers do. 



Every grower should keep his wholesaler 

 posted on what stock he is to have and 

 ship it as required. 



Various Notes. 



Charles F. Edgar will next Monday 

 commence work with Berger Bros. 



The trio of bowlers with Samuel S. 

 Pennock, C. J. Watson, R. G. Sheigley 

 and Charles Gray, again defeated the 

 trio with J. J. Habermehl's Son^, last 

 week, winning three games out of four 

 on uptown alleys. 



The scene at Bayersdorfer & Co.'s this 

 week is full of animation. In the court- 

 yard large drays loaded with cases, 

 clerks hurrying about selecting stock for 

 orders, customers coming and going, the 

 members of the firm taking and filling 

 orders and directing their assistants with 

 business like precision. 



Henry I. Faust, of Merion, is sending 

 heavy shipments of Maud Dean, Golden 

 Wedding and a Deven-like white, sold in 

 bundles of twenty-five sprays (nota bene, 

 Robert Kift), as well as di his beautiful 

 Dorothy Faust to Fred Ehret. He is, 

 in truth, keeping that active commission 

 man on the jump to dispose of it, all. 



George Carpenter is sending fine pink 

 and red bouvardia to William J. Baker. 



William J. Muth reports that the Cut 

 Flower Co. is already receiving large 

 orders for holly. 



A. Farenwald, of Hillside, cut 45,000 

 Liberties from 10,000 plants in four 

 weeks. 



Samuel S. Pennock received a flne lot 

 of Bonnaffons on Tuesday which "-brought 

 $3 a dozen. He also had a few choice 

 Carnation Judge Hinsdale grown at the 

 Strafford Flower Farm. 



Theodore Edwards, of Bridgeton, is 

 sending fine Roman hyacinths and 

 Paper White narcissi to William J. 

 Baker. 



Pennock Bros, had a handsome har- 

 vest display in their window this week. 



The Review, the foremost florists' 

 paper of the day, got a week too far 

 ahead in announcing the opening of J. J. 

 Habermehl's Sons' new shop in the Belle- 

 vue-Stratford, which was again post- 

 poned owing to the strike. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Review readers are invited -^iBo send 

 any questions relating to culture or mar- 

 keting of plants and flowers in Phila- 

 delphia to Phil, in care of any of the 

 leading seed or commission houses or 

 the Flower Market. Each question will 

 be submitted to a competent person and 

 answered under number. Correct name 

 and address must always accompany in- 

 quiry, but will not be published. 



20.-^You are right; there were 'more 

 chrysanthemums on "the main stairway 

 at the show than last fall. As a matter 

 of fact the word "unusual" was trans- 

 lated over the wire as "usual" in de- 

 scribing this feature. 



21. — It will pay to lay in your win- 

 ter's supply of anthracite coal now. The 

 price is lower on buckwheat than it was 

 in August or September and the quality 

 is much better than it will be after a 

 while. Clever business men like Myers 

 & Samtman have just laid in their entire 

 stock of buckwheat coal for the season. 



22.--The Chestnut Hill show was a 

 fine exhibition and well worthy of an 

 account. It is, however, generally de- 

 scribed by another writer ^iii this col- 

 umn- / Phil. 



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