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1236 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



April 13, 1906. 



the name of the Andorra Nurseries popu- 

 lar all over the country. 



M. Rice & Co. 's facilities are being 

 taxed to their utmost getting their Easter 

 orders off. They just received one of 

 the largest importations of chiffon bands 

 ever brought to this country. 



John F. Andre, of Doylestown, has re- 

 ceived six letters of inquiry regarding his 

 new white rose, described in the Review 

 of March 16. Wait a little, gentlemen! 

 Too much attention may spoil a young- 

 ster, even though he be a real sport. 



One of the brightest of our visitors 

 from Holland remarks that rebuilding 

 greenhouses is bad for bulb sales. 

 There's a fact in a nutshell. 



Herbert Baker has been growing some 

 good Beauties at J. Henry Bartram's. 



Henry J. Faust, of Merion, has a very 

 nice lot of lilies for Easter. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. have a good 

 thing in their twig nests, which the flo- 

 rists have been quick to appreciate. To 

 all appearances their business has been 

 extraordinarily heavy this Easter. 



The Henry A. Dreer Co. experienced 

 the largest day in the history of their 

 seed house recently. 



The Leo Niessen Co. expects to have 

 enough lilies to meet the demand. They 

 believe good carnations will be in fair 

 supply. 



A department store is offering Ameri- 

 can Beauties, rose plants, cut back, eyes 

 just starting, at "two for a quarter." 

 They are said to have come from Chi- 

 cago. 



Hugh Graham has one of the largest 

 if not the largest stock of azaleas about 

 this city. 



William J. Baker is receiving fine 

 •white daisies from A. & G. Rosbach, of 

 Pemberton, and white and yellow dai- 

 sies from Theodore Edwards, of Bridge- 

 ton, N. J. 



Joseph I. Black's Sons, Heightstown, 

 N. J., are sending some nice carnations 

 to the Flower Market. 



William J. Muth states that the Phila- 

 delphia Cut Flower Co. will be strong 

 in Kaiserins for Easter. Phil. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



A notable feature of the market this 

 season is its resilience, an attribute with 

 which it has never before been attributed 

 and one which keeps the wholesalers on 

 the alert that they be not caught nap- 

 ping by the change in either direction. 

 Heretofore when the market was once 

 down it staid there for some time, but 

 this season there comes a depressing day, 

 or series of them, and then the rebound 

 comes with unexpected suddenness, stock 

 cleans up and prices, if low, are at least 

 stable. Such was the experience at the 

 close of last week. Wednesday was one 

 of the poorest days this season, with a 

 large stock carried over, which Thursday 

 did nothing to relieve, but on Friday 

 from an almost breaking strain the mar- 

 ket sprang back to a condition of fair 

 activity. 



This week started with reduced re- 

 ceipts, particularly in tea roses. There 

 are still rather too many long Beauties 

 for the legitimate demand, but the con- 

 dition is not so bad as it was a week 

 ago. Teas are a trifle soft and smaller. 

 Some splendid Chatenay are offered. 

 Liberty is not in so large supply. 



There is not much let-up to the steady 

 influx of carnations but the demand has 

 taken all in sight at moderate prices the 



past few days. It has come so that the 

 growers expect a low place in the middle 

 of the week and in a measure regulate 

 their shipments accordingly. Quality is 

 very good. 



There are fewer tulips but still the 

 buckets of single whites obstruct the 

 counters. The outdoor stock will be 

 along soon; indeed, outdoor narcissi are 

 now received so heavily that it is im- 

 possible to clean up one shipment before 

 another arrives. Lilac is coming but is 

 not good. Harrisii lilies are abundant 

 and selling slowly. Callas continue a 

 glut. Sweet peas are doing fairly well. 

 Single violets are not often seen. Doubles 

 show the lateness of the season. Valley 

 has shortened in supply. 



Green goods, especially smilax, are 

 more plentiful but not in so large de- 

 mand as a fortnight ago. For the first 

 time in years the price of common ferns 

 is weakening as Easter approaches. 



Bulbous Stock. 



The- cooler weather of the past few 

 days has been very welcome to the grow- 

 ers of bulbous stuff. Temperatures have 

 been down to normal, or below, except on 

 Sunday, which was hot, and Dutch bulbs 

 have advanced but little, which has im- 

 proved the prospect for an Easter sup- 

 ply. Stollery Bros, report hyacinths de- 

 signed for Easter as having pretty much 

 come into flower and been sold, but 

 tulips are going to be all right. Sam 

 Pearce also has a good supply of tulips 

 in sight. With the Garfieid Park people 

 all bulb stock is pretty well over, but 

 they have a good lot of lilies, hydrangeas 

 and other subjects. 



No May Moving. 



It looks as though moving day would 

 go by with no changes in the wholesale 

 market. Available locations are hard to 

 flnd, and although rents in the wholesale 

 district are becoming a matter for serious 

 consideration, none of the wholesalers 

 feels like breaking away and going out 

 of the locality so long recognized as the 

 cut flower center of the west. Early in 

 the year L. A. Roy interviewed a num- 

 ber of the wholesalers with regard to a 

 florists' building. This is a project which 

 has been up several times and which 

 will go through when the right plan is 

 presented. Mr. Roy has the Athenseum 

 building, which is to be vacated May 1 

 and which he proposed to remodel for 

 florists' purposes, making it up-to-date 

 in every respect. The plan had several 

 disadvantages. It is not so favorably 

 located for transportation facilities, nor 

 is it in a cheaper locality. Again, it is 

 not large enough to accommodate all in 

 the trade but Mr. Roy was told to come 

 again when he had a larger structure and 

 a location better suited to the needs of 

 the trade. 



Various Notes. 



E. C. Amling is a believer in publicity 

 ds applied to the cut flower business and 

 he sees an evidence in its favor in the 

 large number of new buyers who came in 

 at once when word went out that the 

 market was so heavily stocked that bar- 

 gains were to be had on large lots of 

 ' * our selection. ' ' He thinks that if whole- 

 sale prices of cut flowers were quoted 

 in the daily papers, the same as of fruits 

 and vegetables, the public would buy 

 heavily when stock is cheap just as they 

 now buy fruits when they see the prices 

 are within their reach. 



Bassett & Washburn have decided to 



put up a steel stack for their new cen- 

 tral boiler plant. It is to be 150 feet 

 high and eight feet six inches in diame- 

 ter at the top. Steel costs a little more 

 than brick but has several advantages 

 and only one disadvantage, that it should 

 be painted inside and out every year or 

 two. 



Harry Papworth, of New Orleans, has 

 been in town this week. He is figuring on 

 putting up a range of sixteen green- 

 houses for cut flowers in the Crescent 

 City and has visited the big growers to 

 study their plants and called on the 

 builders to study their plans and esti- 

 mates. 



A. C. Kohlbrand, of Amling 's, was 

 called to Cincinnati Monday, with his 

 family, by the death of his father. 



The rule against flowers in the city 

 council chamber was amended at the last 

 meeting to permit of testimonials to the 

 new mayor and city clerk. The display 

 was not nearly so large as on some pre- 

 vious occasions, because flowers for alder- 

 men were barred, but a good many big 

 pieces were seen. 



In spite of the very big glut of callas 

 lately one grower says that he has taken 

 80 cents per plant off of his bench of 

 callas. They brought good money for a 

 long time early in the season. 



Sol. Garland has a white sport of En- 

 chantress of which he proposes to work_ 

 up stock as fast as possible. 



Jacob Schurer, 2291 Mozart street, 

 was struck by a Lincoln avenue electric 

 car one night last week and quite badly 

 injured. 



Wietor Bros, have become possessed 

 of the desire to dabble in new Toses and 

 have ordered a lot of European novelties. 

 One good one pays for a lot of disap- 

 pointment. 



Henry Philips, in Rogers Park, has 

 eight houses in roses, only three varie- 

 ties, Chatenay, Ivory and Maid. Of 

 the former he is cutting some extra 

 stock. He ships to E. H. Hunt. 



The society columns of the daily pa- 

 pers are full of announcements of spring 

 weddings and a good many orders for 

 decorations after Easter are already 

 booked by the leading retailers. 



H. Bauske is sending the A. L. Randall 

 Co. the first of a very fine crop of Lib- 

 erties which he expects to see hold out 

 for Easter. 



Geo. F. Crabb was over from Grand 

 Rapids last week taking Easter orders. 



Carl Thomas, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co., is counting on a visit to his old 

 home in Pennsylvania after Easter to 

 recuperate. He has not been feeling 

 well for many weeks. 



A. Dietseh, who has, as usual, spent 

 the winter in Mexico, has started home- 

 ward by easy stages but will not reach 

 Chicago much before June 1. 



The greenhouse builders around Chica- 

 go are now nearly all using galvanized 

 nails to guard against rust. 



L. Baumann, the supply man, is plan- 

 ning a three months' European trip, 

 combining business and a honeymoon. 



C. H. Fisk is building some apart- 

 ments above his store on the west side. 



The express drivers are threatening 

 trouble again. 



Regular Florists' Club meeting to- 

 night. 



We can't afford to lose the Bivixw; 

 it is "it." — ^Robert Schultz, Madison, 

 N. J. 



