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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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CUT FLOWERS 



are more plentifult quality fine and 

 prices right* Let us have your order* 



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Everlasting Tile Bench 



AMERICAN BEAUTY, 



86 to 40-incb stem perdoz., $6.00 



24 to 30-lnch stem " 5.00 



20-incb stem " 3.00 



15-inch stem " 1.50 



12-lnch8tem " 1.00 



Short stem " .75 



Brides, Bridesmaids per 100, $6.00 to 10.00 



Chatenay " e.OOtolO.OO 



Meteor " e.OOtolO.OO 



Carnations " 2.00 to 5.00 



Pansies " 1.50 



SweetPeas " 1.00 



Violets, single " .50 



fancy N.Y. double.. " .75 to 1.00 



Tulips, white " 4.00 



Valley " 4.00to 5.00 



Asparagus per string. .25 to .50 



Sprengeri per 100, 2.00 to 4.00 



Galax, green per 1000, $1.00; per 100, .15 



Adiantum " 1.00 



Smilax per doz., $2.00 " 15.00 



Fancy Ferns per 1000, 1.50 " .20 



Subject to change without notice. 



The Cleveland Cut Flower Co 



Long Distance Phones CLEVELAND, OHIO 



Mention The R^ylew when you write. 



roses, including Ivory, Killarney and 

 Eosalind Orr English. As usual he has 

 a fine lot of Harrisii in pots for Easter. 

 Jacob Pflueger, who was formerly 

 with J. M. McCullough's Sons Co., Cin- 

 cinnati, and who for the past four years 

 has made St, Louis his home, left Sat- 

 urday night with his family to again re- 

 side in Cincinnati, where he will open 

 a bowling alley. 



Bowling. 



The florists finished their bowling in 



the city handicap championship, each 



rolling four games, single, double and in 



team. In the single game H. Lohrenz 



came in first by the following scores: 



Player. H. T. Av. 



Lohrenz 32 744 186 



Melnhardt 18 728 182 



Ellison 16 709 177 



Kuehn 20 683 170 



Beneke 23 670 163 



Beyer 18 650 163 



In the doubles the scores were: 



H. T. Av. 



Melnhardt and Ellison 50 1,430 3.'57 



Kuehn and Beneke 72 351 361 



The team in its four games made 3,261, 



average 815, their handicap being 55 per 



game. The list of the standing of the 



players has not yet been made public 



and it is hard to tell if any of the boys 



come in for any of the prizes, ivhich 



amount in total to $1,000. J. J. B. 



Thursday for a stock of supplies. He 

 also says trade is quite good, especially 

 funeral work. Dr. A. S. Halstead, also 

 of Belleville, passed through here Tues- 

 day on his way to Chicago to contract 

 for building material for his new houses. 

 He is president of the St. Clair Floral 

 Co. 



Robert Thompson, a local contractor, 

 has the contract to build the four new 

 houses for John Steidle at Central. The 

 houses will be used for growing roses. 



Frank M. Ellis left last Thursday for 

 a six weeks' trip to Panama in the in- 

 terest of his chocolate plantation. He 

 says he will have an interesting story to 

 tell of his trip at the March meeting of 

 the Florists ' Club. 



Robert Melnhardt, formerly of the 

 firm of Melnhardt & Dirkies, is now in 

 the employ of Ostertag Bros. 



Henry Braun, foreman at Jablonsky's, 

 was the happiest man in the trade last 

 week. "It's a boy," is the way the 

 proud father puts it. 



Charlie Kuehn 's wire department was 

 so busy the past week with shipping or- 

 ders that Mr. Kuehn himself had to be 

 pressed into service to help pack. 



Ostertag Bros, have been preparing the 

 last four days for one of the largest 

 flecorations of the season at the Union 

 Club. 



The Riessen Floral Co. had the decora- 

 tions for the big Liederkranz ball last 

 week. 



A. G. Greiner, the local cactus grower, 

 reports that he is busy with shipping 

 orders, most of them going east. 



J- W. Dunford, in Clayton, will have 

 a fine lot of Harrisii in pots for Easter. 



J. F. Ammann is cutting a fine lot of 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



Business is still very slow and everyone 

 is complaining of not having more to do. 

 It is a very good thing that the cuts of 

 all flowers have been short; otherwise a 

 glut would have been with us and prices 

 cut to low water mark. 



Variottt Notes. 



Isaac Kennedy, of West Park, is still 

 cutting very fine blooms from his new 

 white rose and it does not seem to go off 

 crop. 



Bate Bros, are sending the Cleveland 

 Cut Flower Co. some very fine carna- 

 tions. 



A. Weaver, of Massillon, was a recent 

 caller. 



Mr. Peat, of Peat & Fanning, Nor- 

 walk, Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Salmon of 

 Akron were calling on the trade last 

 week. C. 



I GUESS it would be a hard thing to 

 do without the Review. — Peter Mootz, 

 Dodge City, Kan. 



Denver, Colo. — Maler & Dankworth 

 are considering the feasibility of equip- 

 ping their houses with tile benchv'is the 

 coming season. 



PHILADELPHL^. 



The Market. 



February, the last month of the social 

 season, has opened briskly, the demand 

 for fancy roses keeping prices above the 

 average for this season. The supply is 

 wonderfully short. It seems as though 

 nearly all the growers were cutting less 

 than usual, despite the increased quan- 

 tity of greenhouses. Carnations are silso 

 in good demand, with the supply below 

 the average for February, the month 

 when carnations are at their best. Vio- 

 lets do not receive the attention they 



