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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Januabx 26, 1905. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Conditions show a distinct improve- 

 ment all around as compared with a 

 week ago. The weather has been clear 

 and bright in the main, with tempera- 

 tures most of the time more like April 

 than January. While this has increased 

 the output in some lines, the demand 

 has greatly improved and markets have 

 cleaned out very nicely. 



Brides and Bridesmaids are scarcer 

 and prices considerably advanced, extra 

 good stock bringing as high as $20 per 

 hundred. Beauties and other roses are 

 all coming in lessened quantities. Car- 

 nations are moving at last week's quo- 

 tations and there seems to be no sur- 

 plus. Violets have recovered from the 

 slump of a week ago and sell at better 

 prices, singles fetching 50 to 75 cents 

 and doubles 50 and 60 cents per hun- 

 dred. 



Romans and Paper Whites have sold 

 much better, there being a heavy de- 

 mand for funeral work. Tulips have 

 sold at $4 and yellow trumpet narcissus 

 at $5. Lily of the valley remains about 

 the same. Freesia is coming in more 

 plentifully. Asparagus Sprengeri is less 

 plentiful. Few of the small and cheap- 

 er bunches are now seen. Adiantum cu- 

 neatum fronds are also rather scarce at 

 present. 



Various Notes. 



Theodore F. Borst, consulting forest 

 engineer of Boston, was the lecturer at 

 Horticultural Hall on January 21, his 

 subject being "Forest Planting for 

 Profit," which was very fully and in- 

 telligently treated. 



Mrs. Oliver Ames, of North Easton, 

 will offer special prizes for fifty blooms 

 of Rose Mrs. Oliver Ames at the coming 

 meeting of the American Rose Society 

 in Boston. M. H. Walsh, of Woods 

 Hole, also offers a special prize. 



J. Newman & Sons' store was broken 

 into on the night of January 15 and 

 goods to the value of $75 stolen. While 

 the thief, or thieves, have not yet been 

 caught, suspicions point to the guilty 

 parties. 



John O'Brien, who recently left Car- 

 bone's fiower store, opened a store on 

 his own account at 288 Boylston street 

 on January 23. He has engaged Miss 

 Wrenn as bookkeeper. A good stand 

 and an excellent knowledge of the busi- 

 nes should insure him success in his new 

 venture. 



William A. Hastings, salesman for 

 Homer Bogers, of South Sudbury, has 

 been quite sick with diphtheria, but at 

 last report was somewhat improved. 



The fine collection of plants belonging 

 to W. P. Windsor, of Fairhaven, will be 

 sold in a few weeks. Peter Murray has 

 had charge of Mr. Windsor's place for 

 over fifteen years and his annual exhi- 

 bition each February has always been at- 

 tended by many of the craft. Orchids 

 are well done here. Dendrobiums and 

 odontoglossums particularly so. The 

 plants will be sold after the annual ex- 

 hibition about the end of February. Mr. 

 Murray meditates hiring the plant and 

 running it on a commercial basis. 



The stall holders at the new market 

 presented $106 to the widow of the late 

 James Denning, salesman for the Bud- 

 long Co., a few days ago. 



George Solomon, for some time with 

 N. F. McCarthy & Co., has left the 

 employ of that firm. 



Wellesley Rose seems to grow in pop- 

 ularity at the stores. Orders for plants 

 are coming to the Waban Conservatories 

 in a very satisfactory manner. 



Lilacs in pots and cut are in great 

 favor at the stores at present. 



Doyle has been displaying some nice 

 Acacia pubescens. 



Peter Murray's new seedling carna- 

 tion, Windsor, has been bought by the 

 F. R. Pierson Co. 



William Spillsbury is shipping 5,000 

 to 6,000 very fine Princess of Wales vio- 

 lets to the Park street market. 



We are glad to report that J. T. 

 Butterworth 's condition is now much 

 more satisfactory. 



Norton decorated for the boot and 

 shoe manufacturers' banquet at the 

 Brunswick on January 18, at which Gov- 

 ernor W. L. Douglas was one of the 

 guests of honor. 



Galvin had the decorations At the Som- 

 erset on January 18 for the Phillips- 

 Metzler wedding reception. They used 

 a large quantity of choice material. 



W. N. Craig. 



* ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The tone was not very encouraging 

 the past week among the leading re- 

 tailers up and down town. The whole- 

 sale markets were greatly overstocked 

 and were so still on Monday. Even 

 first grade was in oversupply, which 

 is seldom the 'case, as this stock always 

 has first call when the market is glut- 

 ted, as it has been. The trade is in 

 hopes that these conditions will change 

 for the better next month and continue 

 80 until Lent sets in. 



Social affairs with large decorations 

 are unknown and smaller affairs are not 

 numerous. There were quite a number 

 of deaths the past week and when one 

 of us was busy it was with that kind 

 of work. The three wholesale houses 

 carried considerable more stock than 

 the demand called for and, of course, 

 prices had to suffer a big cut in large 

 lots. Some of our large growers will 

 not like the looks of their statements 

 when they receive them by the first of 

 the montL It may be that the Grow- 

 ers' Club, which is about to organize, 

 and from which retailers and Wholesalers 

 are excluded, will try to remedy this 

 state of affairs. 



Stock in a few lines is having some 

 call, especially white carnations and 

 roses. There are plenty of all grades 

 of Beauties to be had, also Maids, Me- 

 teors, Liberties and Perles. Brides are 

 in demand. Prices on small lots remain 

 as quoted last week. Carnations in the 

 colored sorts are a glut, especially in 

 pink and red. White, as in roses, has 

 the call. Good colored stock sold as low 

 as $1 per hundred the past week. 



Romans, Paper Whites, valley, Har- 

 risii and callas are very abundant. 

 Romans have hardly any value at pres- 

 ent. Violets, too, are more than the 

 deitland can use, $3.50 to $4 per thous- 

 and being considered a fair price for 

 fresh stock. There are plenty of greens 

 with slow demand. 



Various Notes. 



J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, paid 

 us a visit the past week. Fred is an 

 enthusiast over the cartiation meeting 

 this week. He also paid a visit to 



Henry Aue 's place at Lindenwood, where 

 some fancy carnations are grown. 



C. Young & Sons Co. have issued their 

 spring catalogue, which is a beauty and 

 very attractive with colored plates. 



H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co., at 

 Gardenville, St. Louis county, has 

 let contracts for two new houses 25x250. 

 These houses are for growing roses for 

 the local trade. 



The committee which will have charge 

 of thecamation exhibition at the next club 

 meeting held a meeting Monday, and a list 

 of prizes was made up, $25 being set aside 

 for the local growers and $25 for out- 

 side growers. A list of these will be 

 sent out by the secretary next week to 

 all carnation growers. The committee 

 on constitution and by-laws will meet 

 this week to revise the constitution, 

 which is to be reported at the 

 next club meeting. The committee 

 on club house has several sites 

 in view for the proposed building. An 

 interesting report is expected at the next 

 meeting. 



On Thursday night nineteen growers 

 met at Louisiana Hall for the purpose of 

 organizing an association to be known 

 as the St. Louis Plant Growing and 

 Flower Association. A committee was 

 appointed to draft a constitution and by- 

 laws. Your correspondent, not. being 

 eligible to membership, cannot give a 

 full account of what all transpired, but 

 the number who attended is correct. 



In the St. Louis party who left Tues- 

 day night for Chicago to attend the 

 convention of the American Carnation 

 Society, there were about' fifteen, A 

 challenge from the Chicago Bowling 

 Club for a game on Wednesday night 

 could not be accepted, as only one or 

 two of the bowlers attended. 



Recent visitors were R. Stern, of Phil- 

 adelphia; J. O'Neil, Chicago; Joseph 

 Rolker and A. Meyer, of New York. 



J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The market during the past week 

 showed signs of steadiness, with a firm 

 and upward tendency, except in the vio- 

 let department, which was most discour- 

 aging; 50 cents per hundred for specidls 

 seemed to be top and the ordinary goods 

 were cleaned up at the buyers' option. 

 Great quantities were disposed of as 

 low as $2.50 per thousand. Not very en- 

 couraging news for the Bhinebeck build- 

 ers, but they will build nevertheless. 

 Yale folks seem to have soured on the 

 violet. The big florists from New Haven 

 were in town Saturday cutting- and coun- 

 termanding orders "to beat the band." 



There are not too many roses and the 

 best of them hold their top price well. 

 Quality is now superb and color perfect. 

 Carnations come in millions. Prices are 

 naturally wabbly under these conditions, 

 but good stock never fails to command 

 fair values. Orchids are quite equal to 

 the demand. McManus is handling some 

 twenty fine varieties. The shipping to 

 other cities grows more encouraging ev- 

 ery week. There is an abundance of 

 bulbous stock and lilacs, sweet peas and 

 mignonette. The latter retrogrades yearly 

 in popularity. Forsythia and other forc- 

 ing shrubs are already in evidence. The 

 coming of spring is foreshadowed every- 

 where and two long, weary months of 

 winter still on tap. 



The public of New York city will be 



