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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



January 18, 1906. 



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ONCINNATL 



The Market 



Business has improved somewhat over 

 last week and trade is moving along at 

 a very nice gait. Decorations of various 

 descriptions have helped the market out 

 and all first-class stock was sold quickly 

 and at good prices. The price of Beau- 

 ties has dropped somewhat, but is still 

 very fair value. The supply of this 

 flower is increasing a great deal and that 

 will surely lower the price in a week or 

 so, especially if the kind of weather con- 

 tinues which we are having at present. 

 Maids are in heavy demand and other 

 varieties of roses are not far behind. 

 There is no surplus stock in roses. 



Carnations are coming nicely and sell 

 well at a litte reduction in price. Lilies, 

 both Harrisii and callas, are coming in 

 larger numbers and sell well. ' Other bul- 

 bous stock, such as narcissi, Romans and 

 valley, are all to be had and sell fairly 

 well. Tulips are on the market at $2 

 to $4 per hundred. 



Violets are in neavy supply, both single 

 and double. Some fine stock is being sent 

 in. The demand is not quite what it 

 ought to be. 



Various Notes. 



The long contest as to who shall be B. 

 P. Critchell's successor has been settled 

 by the appointment of J. W. Kodgers, a 

 well-known and popular florist of Price 

 Hill, aged 34 years and engaged to be 

 married to Miss Martha Meyer. Mr. 

 Critchell has been a very capable super- 

 intendent, and Mr. Eodgers comes into 

 office just as much important work is to 

 be undertaken. 



There will not be many Cincinnati 

 florists at the Boston carnation show. 

 So far E. Witterstaetter, Will Sunder- 

 bruch and Ed Foster are the only ones 

 who will go. There may be others at the 

 last moment. It is too long a journey 



for most of the boys, as they would 

 have to be away not less than a week. 

 Mr. Witterstaetter expects to stage Aris- 

 tocrat and it will be in fine form. The 

 Cincinnati delegation will leave here 

 Monday at noon. 



Wm. Murphy has been taking a trip 

 through the south. 



Julius Baer has had a large decoration 

 in Cherleston, W. Va. 



A visit to the Hoffmeister Floral Co. 

 greenhouses shows them to be in good 

 shape. Since giving up the store on Elm 

 street they have been conducting a retail 

 business over the phone from their green- 

 houses and they report it as quite a suc- 

 cess. Business has been fine with them. 

 They grow all their own stock and do it 

 in good form. They operate twenty- 

 seven houses, making quite a large ex- 

 panse of glass. C. J. Ohmee. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Pasadena, Cal. — The annual rose 

 tournament January 1 was the most 

 elaborate in history. It is estimated 

 that 5,000 visitors were in the city to 

 see the floral parade and to participate 

 in the many festivities. 



Long Beach, Cal. — The week before 

 Christmas there was a freeze which did 

 great injury to the outdoor carnations, 

 so that there will be few if any good 

 blooms for at least two months. The 

 Alamitos Nursery is building a green- 

 house 18x60 for ferns and bedding 

 plants, and a house for roses is contem- 

 plated a little later in the season. 



SEASON SHORTENED. 



From present indications, and accord- 

 ing to the prophecies of some of our old- 

 est "weather sharps," the Pacific coast 



is going to have a "dry year" again 

 this season. This condition may not ap- 

 peal to our eastern horticulturists, but 

 to the Californian it means a great deal. 

 We are now in the middle of January and 

 we have only had a fractional part of 

 our usual rainfall. When it is taken into 

 consideration that our planting must 

 practically be completed by the first of 

 March, tMngs begin to look serious both 

 for the grower and the planter. 



In both central and southern California 

 at the present writing there has been 

 insufficient rainfall to permit digging 

 stock properly, the ground in most in- 

 stances not being moist over eight inches 

 in depth. This rule will, of course, not 

 apply in districts where the soil is 

 sandy or where considerable irrigating 

 has been done during the late summer 

 and fall, but in the majority of our con^- 

 mercial nurseries the natural rainfall is 

 relied on both for the digging and the 

 customer's ability to replant. 



Our season at the best is at least six 

 weeks shorter than that of the eastern 

 and middle states and when, with the 

 approach of warmer weather, which 

 usually comes early in March, the buds 

 of the deciduous trees begin to swell and 

 grow, we know we have reached our limit. 



This state of affairs is especially dis- 

 tressing to the grower of fruit and shade 

 trees, especially the former, as most of 

 the dealers growing this class of stock 

 rely almost entirely on it for their sales 

 and another year added to cultivation 

 means a loss of many dollars, the result 

 being a tree probably too large and old 

 to be handled to advantage. 



With other lines of ornamental stock 

 the effect may not be as apparent, al- 

 though large planters will not handle 

 stock after the proper season has passed 

 and the dealers will have to carry it until 

 another year. 



Our eastern friends have a distinct 



