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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVBMBBB 2, 1905. 



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been making an exhibit of some fifty 

 sorts of dahlias in his show windows, 

 which has attracted much attention, and 

 resulted in many orders. 



C. Peirce, of Dighton, Mass., has also 

 had a collection of cactus, show and 

 fancy dahlias on exhibition at Barney's 

 music store, booking many orders for 

 1906. 



The commercial fruit growing business 

 of Charles Stark, Jr., who for many 

 years has leased the greenhouses of the 

 William Findlay estate and raised nec- 

 tarines, grapes, peaches, melons and to- 

 matoes, has been given up. Mr. Stark 

 has gone to California. 



Siebrecht & Son, after a very satisfac- 

 tory season, have closed their Bellfevue 

 avenue establishment for the winter. 

 Ralph Armstrong, their manager, rejfforts 

 a fine business in renting large Bays, 

 palms and other foliage plants; in fact, 

 they placed for the season all they 

 brought from their New Eochelle nurser- 

 ies. Their increasing business demands 

 many store improvements for the sum- 

 mer of 1906, among which will be a 

 much larger ice-box and a new concrete 

 floor. 



Outdoor-grown melons have blighted 

 80 badly for several years in this sec- 

 tion that many growers have given up 

 trying to raise them. It is pleasing to 

 note that Ritchie's Greenhouses have suc- 

 ■ceeded in ripening a nice lot, including 

 Miller's Cream, Emerald Gem, Extra 

 Early, Hackensack and Improved Christi- 

 ana. 



The seedsmen are all having their fall 

 sales of plants. Palms, rubber plants, 

 ferns and a few other kinds sell very 

 well at this season and help out t^e 

 bulb trade. The small plants go the 

 best, 50 cents to $1 being about the 

 limit. Quite a run on the new Scott 

 fern is the florists' report. 



H. L. De Blois and wife have for 

 the past ten days been taking a vaca- 

 tion trip to Ne\<^ York and Washing- 

 ton. Mr. De Blois represents J. M. 

 Thorburn & Co., of New York, here. 



Zero. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



The market was in crescendo last 

 week. This week it is in diminuendo. 

 Thursday, Friaay and Saturday saw a 

 steady stiffening in prices. Sunday was 

 just a trifle weaker than Saturday be- 

 cause there was a limit on what the 

 southern All Saints' day shipping or- 

 ders would stand. Monday was still 

 weaker in spite of short supplies, because 

 of decreasing demand and Tuesday and 

 Wednesday saw the market returning to 

 the conditions which prevailed prior to 

 the recent flurry. The horse show week 

 was certainly one of the most active this 

 market has ever seen at this season, with 

 supplies not large and entirely inade- 

 quate to the demand. Where orders were 

 filled in full it was only at the expense 

 of rejecting others entirely. There was 

 no limit to prices except the limit at 

 which the buyers could no longer use the 

 stock. 



All Saints' day shipments went out on 

 Sunday. These were as large as ever, if 

 not a little larger. The bulk of the 

 business went out on the 6 o'clock train 

 on Sunday night and made a full 

 car-load of cut flowers. Some stock 

 -went Saturday night and a second 

 shipment Monday, so that the business 

 <5ut a large figure. There was the. op- 



portunity to have done a great deal more 

 had the stock been available and prices 

 where the buyers could have used quanti- 

 ties. There was hardly an item on which 

 it was possible to supply all needs, 

 chrysanthemums being more nearly equal 

 to the demand than anything else. White 

 loses were very hard to get and white 

 carnations have seldom brought higher • 

 prices for the lower grades. 



The present week began with cold, 

 a^rk, dismal weather and has had the 

 etfecl of retarding production. Growers 

 report that there is little immediate pros- 

 pect of large increase in the carnation 

 cuts but that roses are well under way 

 with new crops, which are already affect- 

 ing the mal-Jet. Chrysanthemums have 

 not yet become over-abundant, although 

 each week it has appeared that the next 

 one would see an inundation. It still ap- 

 pears so. The mid-season varieties are 

 cow coming in and some fine flowers are 

 seen. Top prices are $3 to $4 a dozen, 

 and all grades are bringing exceptionally 

 good prices, especially the small flowers. 



Since the horse show the demand for 

 violets has fallen away. There is now. 

 plenty of lily of the valley. Callas are 

 frequently seen and Harrisii lilies are 

 no longer so scarce as they have been 

 for the past month. Cattleyas are equal 

 to all demands. A number of growers 

 are pretty well cut out on smilax and an 

 advance in price is neted. Plumosus in 

 bunches is also shortening in supply. 



The Million Dollar Show. 



All. over town there are signs an- 

 nouncing the "million dollar flower 

 show ' ' of next week. It will be a big 

 affair. . Plenty of exhibits are assured 

 and new features will be numerous, in- 

 cluding exhibits of good back yard 

 planting, window boxes, popular lectures, 

 restaurant, etc. The list of committees 

 is a long one and includes many who 

 have not been active before. Many new 

 premiums are announced in the supple- 

 mentary list just out. 



Visiting florists will be cared for by 

 the following committee: J. P. Degnan, 

 care of E. F. Winterson Co., 45 Wabash; 

 John Poehlmann, care Pohlmann Bros. 

 Co., 35 Randolph; E. C. Amling, 32 Ran- 

 dolph; C. W. Scott, care Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, 84 Randolph ; Arnold Ringier, care 

 W, W. Barnard Co., 163 Kinzie; John 

 Zech, care Zech & Mann, 51 Wabash; C. 

 W. McKellar, 51 Wabash; James Harts- 

 l.orne, Joliet, 111., or 45 Wabash; A. C, 

 Spencer, care Peter Reinberg, 51 Wa- 

 bash; C. L. Washburn, care Bassett & 

 Washburn, 78 Wabash, The committee 

 wishes it stated that if trade visitors will 

 call on any of the above before going tc 

 the show they will be fixed up with 

 tickets. A banquet is planned, probably 

 for Thursday night. 



Various Notes. 



The wholesalers are almost unanimous 

 in deploring the recent flurry in prices, 

 several saying that they believe the in- 

 jury done the market, could it be 

 measured in dollars, would far exceed the 

 gain. When, as happened, the price of 

 carnations is doubled between two issues 

 of the Review it is sure to cause many 

 complaints from surprised and uncompre- 

 hending buyers. Then, too, there is al- 

 ways a point above which it is folly to 

 go, for buying stops. Last Friday any 

 really good carnation was worth 3 cents 

 but on Saturday, when 4 cents was de- 

 manded, several houses found that they 

 had gone too • far > the buyers simply 



turned away. Then, too, the effect is 

 bad in the retail end. A customer goes 

 into a retail store and finds that carna- 

 tions which a week ago were 50 cents a 

 dozen are now, without apparent reason, 

 75 cents or $1; he not only doesn't buy 

 but it is probably several weeks, perhaps 

 months, before he again vantur^ into a 

 flower store. ^"'^^^v 



When G. H. Pieser, of the Kennicott 

 Bros, -do., was at Rhinebeck, N. Y., the 

 other Saturday night, he held an im- 

 promptu levee at the hotel. It was reg- 

 istration day and, as word of his pres- 

 ence Avas passed around, by twos and 

 threes the growers dropped in to pay 

 their respects and learn about the west- 

 ern violet market. Mr. Pieser was the 

 second Chicago wholesaler to visit the 

 Hudson river violet district, W. E. 

 Lynch, of Hunt's, having preceded him 

 a year. The violet growers must at least 

 have gained the idea that Chicago whole- 

 salers are well fed. 



Among the growers who will add ex- 

 tensively to their glass next spring is J. 

 A, Budlong. The eight remaining old 

 bouses will bo taken down and replaced 

 by new structures and all the remaining 

 vacant ground in their block will be built 

 up, there being room for seven new 

 houses, the dwelling of Mr. Budlong and 

 Phil Shoup being moved across the street 

 to clear the square for glass. 



John Schoepfle had a fine decoration 

 at the Masonic Temple October 26, for 

 Waubansia! Lodge, A. F. and A. M. It 

 called for cut flowers, plants, etc., in 

 quantity and the effect was notable. 



Carl Thomas, of the A. L, Randall Co., 

 is doing a two weeks' term of jury ser- 

 vice. 



N. J. Wietor says that if nothing hap- 

 pens to a certain batch of Yellow Ejiton 

 in the next four days he will show the 

 visitors to the Coliseum what that va- 

 riety is like at its best. He also has 

 Balfour fine. Wietor Bros, will stage 

 500 mums. 



E. F. Francis, formerly with D. Wood 

 Brant, is now with Vaughan & Sperry, 

 where increasing receipts make work for 

 more hands to do. 



The Errst Wienhoeber Co. has dis- 

 tributed its engagement book for the so- 

 cial season of 1905-6. The work is of 

 the best character and the advertising 

 value, placed in right hands, is so great 

 that the book is an annual feature. 



Bassett & Washburn are cutting very 

 fine Appleton and Morel chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



Mrs. R. Hilmers, 190 E. Forty-seventh 

 street, writes from 34 A II Schiller 

 strasse, Charlottenburg, near Berlin, of 

 the success with which her little daughter 

 in meeting in her musical career. 



Leonard Kill and N. J. Wietor will 

 go to the Kansas City show with ex- 

 hibits. 



The Moninger Co. is tearing down itfr 

 old office building preparatory to putting 

 up a new two-story structure which will 

 give them much needed room. 



The George Wittbold Co. has recently 

 leceivcrl a large importation of bay 

 trees, azaleas, rhododendrons and other 

 stock. 



Bettsville, O. — ^M. W. Walters has 

 added a house 11x65, making 7,000 feet 

 of glass in all. 



St. Joseph, Mo. — Fred Kuhn, an em- 

 ployee of the Stuppy Floral Co., was held 

 up October 21 by two masked men and 

 robbed of $20. 



