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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



E^EBBUABY 9, 1905. 



been quite plentiful, with the demand 

 only fair. Best Galifornias sold as low 

 as $2.50 per thousand. Southern stock 

 is looked for soon, which will cut into 

 the value of home-grown stock. Romans, 

 Paper Whites and lily of the valley are in 

 over-supply. Von Sions, freesias, tulips 

 and Dutch hyacinths are coming in, but 

 are not as yet too many. Harrisii and 

 callas make up the collection in this stock. 

 The cut of smilax has been quite heavy 

 of late, with some demand. In other 

 greens everything is plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



All of the St. Louis Florists' Club's 

 delegation who attended the meeting of 

 the American Carnation Society at Chi- 

 cago last week are home and loud in 

 their praise of the show and the treat- 

 ment they received in the hands of the 

 Chicago boys. 



The committee on revising the consti- 

 tution and by-laws of the St. Louis Flor- 

 ists' Club met Thursday afternoon at the 

 Missouri Athletic Club rooms. The com- 

 mittee is composed of Otto Koenig, Emil 

 Schray and Fred H, Meinhardt. Their 

 report will be read for this week's meet- 

 ing of the club. 



Edward Buechel, manager of the Bies- 

 sen Floral Co., who broke his leg in two 

 places just before the holidays, is pro- 

 gressing nicely but it will be March 15 

 before he will be able to resume his 

 place. 



C. Young & Sons Co. are making prep- 

 w-ations for a busy spring business. 

 James Young, who is in charge of the 

 down-town store, reports the trade has 

 been good with them in seeds and bulbs, 

 also in the cut flower department. 



William Borche, the landscape gar- 

 dener, is busy making plans for laying 

 out two large tracts of land for the Park 

 View Eealty Co. and Richmond Heights 

 Realty Co., which are just north of the 

 World's Fair grounds. 



C. DeWever, who has charge of the 

 conservatory of the Lewis Publishing Co. 

 in the extreme western part of the city, 

 has all his plants in fine shape. It is 

 reported that the company will make a 

 few new additions to Mr. DeWever 's 

 department this spring. 



It was reported that the Growers' 

 Club, which is about to organize, would 

 exclude wholesalers and retailers. This 

 may have been incorrect, as we hear of 

 one wholesaler and a number of retailers, 

 also ex-members of the local Florists' 

 Club, who were present at its informal 

 meeting last month. The second meet- 

 ing will be held Thursday night, Febru- 

 ary 9, at 8 o'clock. 



Visitors: J. H. Creighton, represent- 

 ing Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia ; Joseph 



Rolker, New York. 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



Zero weather is never conducive to 

 good business in the wholesale cut flower 

 market and during the past week we 

 have had temperatures ranging to 14 

 degrees below; Tuesday was the only 

 mild day. The result has been that local 

 trade haa been practically paralyzed. 

 Those retailers who depend upon tran- 

 sient business have been doing nothing 

 at all for a week and the demand haa 

 been solely from those who do a telephone 

 trade, and even they have not been ae- 

 tire. Shipping business continues fair, 

 Init also influenced by the severe weather. 



Very heavy packing has been necessary 

 to make stock travel safely. 



The Beauty crops are passing oflf and 

 prices have stiffened materially. On the 

 other hand, the tea, roses are at length 

 coming into crop after a period of sus- 

 pended growth due largely to the cold, 

 dark weather. If we were to have a week 

 of good bright weather we should have 

 an inundation of Brides, Maids and 

 Chatenay which would tax the resources 

 of the market. Practically everyone's 

 houses went off crop about holiday time 

 and have been slowly gathering headway 

 for a big production as soon as the 

 weather turns favorable. Prices have 

 weakened a trifle with the slack demand 

 this week. 



The receipts of carnations have in- 

 creased in the last few days and this, 

 coupled with the decrease in demand, 

 has had the result of making prices very 

 weak on colored stock; whites are doing 

 better and, indeed, are sometimes not 

 t(i be had because the call is largely for 

 funeral flowers. The receipts of violets 

 are not so heavy but returns show little 

 improvement. Harrisii lilies are not 

 abundant but there are callas for all re- 

 quirements. Paper Whites and Romans 

 are not now conspicuous but there are 

 plenty of jonquils and daffodils. Tulips 

 are beginning to assume something like 

 good quality. The best seller is La 

 Reine but good reds do nicely. A good 

 many of the retail stores are handling 

 tulips in pans and find them good sellers 

 as dinner table centerpieces and the 

 prices at which the cut stock can be had 

 ip detracting from the value of other 

 flowers. 



Reinberg's Season's Building. 



Peter Reinberg has within the last few 

 days acquired five acres of land on 

 Foster avenue from M>s. A. M. Schafer. 

 The property is vacant at present but 

 it won't be long. Mr. Reinberg has not 

 yet decided whether he will cover it all 

 this season or leave a part for next 

 year. He had planned to build five 500- 

 foot houses at "the farm," a piece of 

 land a couple of miles away that he ac- 

 quired a year or two ago, but this is now 

 given up. 



In addition to building a good-sized 

 range Mr. Reinberg proposes to rebuild 

 about a dozen houses which are not old 

 but which have wooden gutters, which 

 waste space. 



Use More Papers. 



The E. F. Winter son Co. voices a very 

 general report in the following words: 

 "Numerous eastern shipments of violets 

 and other stock have arrived in Chicago 

 during the past few days in a badly 

 frozen condition. This was largely owing 

 to the fact that packages were insuflS- 

 ciently wrapped and, if we may suggest 

 it, it might be a good thing for you to 

 publish this fact, with a caution to 

 shippers to take more pains with regard 

 t(> wrapping packages better for western 

 shipment during the balance of the 

 winter season. ' * 



Various Notes. 



George Theilman, whose place on Di- 

 vision street is one of the oldest stands 

 in the city, died on Saturday at the home 

 of his mother in California, where he 

 had been for several months. He had 

 been in poor health for a long time, 

 though very robust in appearance and 

 when he left home was suffering from 

 a disease of the throat which rendered 

 him speechless and finally caused his 



death. He was about 42 years of age 

 and leaves a widow and five children. 

 Mrs. Theilman has been active in the 

 store for years and will continue the 

 business. There are also two brothers 

 in the trade in Brooklyn. 



Fire destroyed the greenhouses of 

 Philip and Charles Schmitt, in Rogers 

 Park, on February 4. The fire occurred 

 before daylight and two employes sleep- 

 ing above the boiler room had narrow 

 escapes. The loss was from $5,000 to 

 $8,000. 



The Kennicott Bros. Co. report having 

 received their second carlot of wild 

 smilax, with the third car on the way. 

 This is the first season they have handled 

 this specialty in quantity and are well 

 pleased with the volume of business. 



The George Wittbold Co. has a Bundy 

 steam-trap which they say gives very 

 g(.od satisfaction in returning the con- 

 densation. Most florists use the More- 

 head and Wittbold 's also have this trap 

 giving excellent service. The Bundy is 

 made by the Griflfing Iron Co., Jersey 

 City, N. J. 



Wietor Bros, have several houses of 

 Beauties which have been dried off and 

 have just been started up from which 

 they expect to get the stock which will 

 enable them to repeat their successes 

 of the past two summers. 



The last of the carnation convention- 

 ists to depart was C. W. Ward, who 

 remained in this vicinity till Saturday. 

 He will be here again at the time the 

 American Peony Society meets, in June. 



There are good reports of the condi- 

 tion of stock at Fritz Bahr's at High- 

 land Park, especially Lawson carnations 

 and plants of cyclamen and primula. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. has sent 

 out seed of its new aster on orders re- 

 ceived from England, so far has its fame 

 and its advertising extended. 



Word has reached this market that the 

 Lutey Floral Co., Houghton, Mich., is in 

 financial difficulties with liabilities of 

 $13,000. They were large buyers here 

 at one time. 



There was a meeting Monday at which 

 an effort was made to reconcile the ob- 

 jecting creditors to the proposed plan 

 for continuing the business of M. Win- 

 andy. 



Adam Zender is planning to build in 

 the spring four more rose houses which 

 will average 25x200. 



Fred Sperry, of Vaughan & Sperry, 

 has been on the sick list again this 

 week. 



C. M. Dickinson, at Hunt's, is more 

 than busy with the annual catalogue. 



Fire did some damage in John Man- 

 gel's store February 1. The principal 

 loss was on stock frozen. 



Ground hog day was bright and fair 

 with the temperature 20 degrees below 

 zero at Bassett & Washburn's. 



V. Siegel, manager of the Columbia 

 Gardens, Butte, Mont., is in town buying 

 stock. ^ 



The club will hold an important meet- 

 ing to-night. 



Cards have been received announcing 

 the marriage of Miss Elizabeth Grant, 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Grant, 

 and Mr. James E. Olive, January 29, 

 at the home of the bride's parents. Over- 

 look, Sequel, Calif. 



Pawtucket, R I. — James Hockey has 

 been in poor health lately, but is get- 

 ting into good shape again. He reports 

 business good. 



