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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Fbbbuary 1, 1906. 



Best BEAUTIES 



Carnations and Tea Roses 



IN LARGE SUPPLY. WE HAVE THE STOCK AND SHALL APPREOATE YOUR ORDERS 



GEORGE REINBERG 



51 Wabash Ave. l. d. Ph.n. mf. CHICfliGO 



represent this section at the carnation 

 convention. 



Mr. Dykes, representing Jansen & Co., 

 and Martin Eeukauf, of H. Bayersdorfer 

 & Co., are in the city looking after the 

 interests of their respective £rms. 



The Pittsburg Eose & Carnation Co. 

 is raising another carnation house 50x400 

 feet, material furnished by the Burnham- 

 Hitchings-Pierson Co. Mr. Burki saved 

 considerable money by purchasing the 

 glass when it was very cheap. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



Business is very brisk in all lines of 

 cut flowers. Koses are a little more plen- 

 tiful, but with quite enough demand to 

 maintain prices on good stock. The fea- 

 tures of the market are the improve- 

 ments in tulips; La Seine and Yellow 

 Prince are both in fine form and can be 

 had in quantity; freesia, of a quality 

 never surpassed in this city, can be had 

 in great quantity at the price formerly 

 asked for ordinary grades. Cattleyas 

 are also plentiful and of fine quality. 

 Some disappointment was experienced in 

 shipping cut flowers during the abnor- 

 mally warm weather of last week. For- 

 tunately, these conditions have changed 

 and the stock is now arriving in much 

 harder condition, assuring ite keeping 

 qualities. McKinley day created quite 

 a demand for carnations, pink being pre- 

 ferred. William Graham stated that he 

 had sold 20,000, 10,000 in one order. 

 Some of the department stores distri- 

 buted these flowers on this day. The 

 Union League also presented its mem- 

 bers with carnation boutonnieres. 



At the Bellevue-Stratford. 

 Through the courtesy of Edward 

 Habermehl, I am able to give the Be- 

 VIEW readers a few ideas about what 

 the street pronounces the handsomest 

 decoration ever seen in this city. This 

 decoration was arranged in the ball-room 

 of the hotel on the evening of January 

 25 for Mrs. E. C. Knight. The ball- 

 room being too large for the occasion, a 

 balcony was arranged around the entire 

 room at the proper distance from the 

 walls. The idea carried out in the 

 decoration was that of a French garden, 

 the masses of foliage rising behind the 

 balcony in some places to a height of 

 filteen feet, being relieved by magnifi- 

 cent vases of fancy American Beauty 

 roses which were placed on the posts at 

 regular intervals around the balcony. 

 Azaleas, perfect pyramid specimens, 



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Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



matching the Beauties in color, were also 

 used, especially on the stage. White lilacs 

 were the only other flower in the decorij- 

 tion. It is estimated that nearly two 

 thousand Beauties were used, two-thirds 

 of them being of the fancy grade. The 

 shorter-stemmed flowers were used on 

 trellises near the entrances. Mrs. Knight 

 was greatly pleased with the eflfeet pro- 

 duced, complimenting the decorators on 

 the ability with which they had carried 

 out every detail of a French garden. The 

 tables were ornamented with vases of 

 fancy Beauties, rose foliage being used 

 on the cloth. Two days later, January 

 27, the same decorators arranged very 

 handsome floral effects for the dinner 

 given by Mr. and Mrs. Clothier for Miss 

 Roosevelt. The ladies* table was a hol- 

 low oval, the centre being filled by Azalea 

 Vervaeneana, bordered with white lilacs. 

 Each guest had a bouquet of eight- 

 een fancy Bridesmaid roses. The gentle- 

 men's table, in another room, was ar- 

 ranged in a horeshoe shape, the guests 

 sitting on the outside, and a little way 

 up the inside of the horseshoe table, most 

 of the space inside being reserved for a 

 Japanese garden, which was skillfully 

 planned and executed. American Beauty 

 roses were freely used in this decoration. 



The rooms and corridors were also 

 adorned. 



The Disadvantage of Shows. 



Much has been said and written of the 

 great benefits of shows, and I am a 

 warm advocate of these exhibitions, be- 

 lieving that they do much to advance the 

 interests of horticulture. There is, how- 

 ever, something to be said on the other 

 side. A friend tells me that an amateur, 

 whom he met. frequently, always spoke in 

 the most glowing terms of his gardener's 

 accomplishments, believing that he could 

 do almost anything with plants that 

 grew. One day, however, the amateur 

 talked about other topics, and finally, 

 when pressed to know how his gardener 

 was doing, he admitted that things were 

 not well. He said that he was very fond 

 of bulbs, imported a good many, and 

 liked to have them throughout the flow- 

 ering season. But his gardener insisted 

 on flowering them all at once, so that he 

 could pick the best for the show. There 

 some other amateur, recognizing his abil- 

 ity, offered him a higher salary than he 

 was receiving, with many other induce- 

 ments thrown in. "Well,'* my friend 

 said, * ' I suppose he went t ' * * * Went I ' ' 

 the amateur echoed, "no; he just flew." 



