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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 7, 1«06. 



NOTICE 



Beotise of the new wage scale which 

 tfie Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to stofer 

 interruption of their business, especially 

 because of tliat part of' tiie scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitive, 

 it is of first importance that the Review 

 obtain its advertising ''copy^ earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

 that all advertisers nukil their ^copy^ 

 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of Wednesday mom- 

 lag, as many have done in the past. 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist (lllus.) 147 



— Bridal Bouquets (lllus.) 147 



— Seasonable Suggestions 147 



— Department Store Sales 147 



— Decoration Day 14S 



— Long Hours 148 



Council of Horticulture 148 



A Famous Horticulturist (portrait) 150 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 150 



— A Chapter on Bench Building 150 



— Beds for Asparagus and Smllax 150 



— A Digression 150 



— &)8t of Bench Material 151 



— Several Styles of Benches 151 



— The Best Style of Bed 151 



— Soil Beneath the Tiles 151 



Store of the Schiller Estate, Chicago (lllus.) 151 



Bituminous Mines Resume 152 



Roses — Carrying Stock Over 152 



— Fumigating With Arsenic 152 



Peony Premiums 152 



Glass Making Goes On 152 



Carnations — Style of House 153 



— Carnations in England 163 



Obituary — C. H. Kunzraan (portrait) 154 



Publications Received 154 



Notes from England 154 



Help Wanted 154 



Society of American Florists 156 



Cincinnati 155 



Grand Rapids. Mich 155 



Detroit 155 



Worms in Soil 155 



Chicago 156 



Columbus, Ohio 159 



St. Louis 160 



Boston 161 



New York 162 



Philadelphia 165 



Washington , .• ,167 



Want Advertisements 168 



Seed Trade New? 169 



— General Conditions iQU 



— The Season's Business 170 



— European Seed Notes 170 



— Seed Imports 170 



Frultdale, Ala 170 



Steamer Sailings 179 



Milwaukee 179 



Baltimore 1*1 



Pacific Coast 1.S0 



— Riverside. Cal ISO 



— San Francisco 180 



Nursery News 182 



— The Lake Nurseries 182 



Pittsburg 184 



Indianapolis 186 



Northern Texas 188 



Twin Cities 190 



Buffalo 200 



Orange. N. J 202 



New Haven. Conn 202 



Bangor. Me 204 



Rochester 204 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



FAll catalogues are filed by The Review and 

 are accessible to the trade for reference at any 

 time. Following are the latest arrivals.] 



Wm. B. Beed, Chambersburg, Pa., 

 hints on rose culture; Kellogg-Slackay- 

 Cameron Co., Chicago, heat economizers; 

 Searl & Sons. Sydney, New South Wales, 

 complete horticultural catalogue; E. H. 

 Hunt, Chicago, To-bak-ine and sprayers; 

 Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Mid- 

 dlesex, England, retail catalogue of 

 American varieties of carnations; Geo. 

 Wittbold Co., Chicago, retail circular, 

 * ' For June Brides ; ' ' Pure Culture 

 Spawn Co., Pacific, Mo., "Mushroom 

 Spawn and Guide to Mushroom Culture ; ' ' 

 De Graaff Bros., Leiden, Holland, bulbs 

 and plants. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business held steady up to Saturday 

 in the mid-afternoon. Late receipts on 

 that day congested the market and the 

 slump began. This week opened with 

 heavy receipts in all departments, sup- 

 plies being several times the legitimate 

 demand and prices broke on everything 

 but the select goods, and even on these 

 concessions were made. It looks as 

 though this week will see a glut even 

 worse than the exceedingly bad one of 

 a fortnight ago. The change was one 

 of the most sudden on record in a market 

 widely known for its violent fluctuations. 

 About the only consolation growers are 

 likely to get out of this week's figures 

 will come by averaging them with the 

 fine ones of last week. 



There is still mucn good material but 

 with 88 degrees in the shade Monday 

 and 90 degrees Tuesday all kinds of 

 stock suffered in quality. Brides and 

 Maids again grew smaller anu soft. 

 Most carnations are also diminutive and 

 lack keeping quality. Peonies are wide 

 open. The outdoor valley came hurrying 

 in. Sweet peas no longer require super- 

 latives for description. That summer is 

 here was shown by the first receipts of 

 water lilies. The supply of green goods 

 is not up to the requirements of the 

 June brides and some of them will likely 

 have to do without smilax or asparagus 

 unless orders are placed early. New 

 ferns are everywhere. 



Decoration Day Aftermatli. 



Last week's Eeyiew went to press in 

 the height of the rush, but nothing re- 

 mains for the second telling but to em- 

 phasize the satisfaction with which 

 wholesalers sum up the week. The total 

 sales were, with practically every house 

 in town, considerably the best ever 

 recorded for Decoration day. The de- 

 mand was something to marvel at. Sup- 

 plies were less than had been expected, 

 because of three cold days, and orders 

 had to be cut. It was inevitable that 

 prices should advance, and advance they 

 did, sharply, all along the line. For the 

 last few days the wholesalers, who a 

 week before were explaining to growers 

 who protested that stock was being given 

 away, have been excusing themselves to 

 buyers who assert that they were 

 "roasted" on prices for Decoration day. 

 And now the glut is on again. Whichever 

 way the market goes, the commission men 

 stand between the devil and the deep 

 sea. They like the short end best, if 

 things won't come out even, and they 

 seldom do. 



Peonies. 



A week before Decoration day fear 

 was expressed that peonies would be a 

 glut; but the southern crop passed and 

 the local stock proved a week late, so 

 that, with a scarcity in other lines, con- 

 ditions were as though made to order 

 for the holders of cold-storage peonies. 

 The principal lots were the Sarcoxie 

 crop stored by Kennicott Bros. Co. and 

 the Carbondale crop of E. E. Kennicott, 

 stored and distributed by his father and 

 brother. Kennicott Bros. Co. in particu- 

 lar was fortunate in a large supply, for 

 everything cleaned up at fine figures; 

 indeed, the demand was not wholly sup- 

 plied. 



It was peculiar that peonies brought 

 better prices for a CQuple of days after 



Decoration day than they did before; 

 demand continued and supplies were 

 light, except local Old Eed. This week 

 the glut is on again heavier than ever. 

 Too bad the newly converted vegetarianB 

 can not eat them. It will take little 

 more than the rest of the week to work 

 through the local crop, and then will 

 come another fortnight of good business 

 for those who know how peonies should 

 be stored. 



For the past couple of years the car- 

 load shipments of the Chicago Carnation 

 Co. have been a feature of the peony 

 market, but this year these are missing 

 because most of the stock was divided 

 and replanted last fall. They have about 

 an acre of singles in bloom and are 

 cutting moderately of other sorts. 



Bassett & Washburn are cutting a 

 big crop of peonies thi^ week, part 

 for current order, but 2,000 dozens go 

 into cold storage. 



Street Stands Removed. ' 



The commissioner of public works on 

 June 1 ordered the removal of all side- 

 walk stands throughout the loop district. 

 The order applied to fruit as well as 

 flower stands and the Greeks and South 

 Water street are up in arms. They will 

 bring all possible influence to bear to 

 secure a modification of the order, which 

 now permits no selling on the sidewalk, 

 even by the tenant of the property. 



The market is feeling the effect this 

 week, for several of the largest buyers 

 of job lots are temporarily out of busi- 

 ness. As the frequent crusades against 

 the Greeks never are of more than 

 transient effect, some of the wholesalers, 

 while sympathizing with the retailer 

 under whose nose a stand is operating, 

 are inclined to deprecate these periodical 

 interruptions as in the end not profitable 

 to anyone. 



And in the end the Greek, driven off 

 the street, gets a store next to the regu- 

 lar florist, where he becomes a much more 

 damaging competitor. 



Qub Picnic. 



The entertainment committee of the 

 Florists' Club held a meeting Monday 

 morning and decided to issue a call for 

 a big picnic on Sunday, June 24, at 

 Hjginbotham 's woods, Joliet, 111. It is 

 several years since the club has in- 

 dulged its old-time proclivities for pic- 

 nicking. Baseball and other games are 

 scheduled, with liberal prizes. Every one 

 is to bring a basket of provender. Eail- 

 road tickets will be on sale at all the 

 wholesale stores by June 11 and it is 

 expected that a record crowd will turn 

 out. 



Cape Jasmines. 



Although all other houses handle cape 

 jasmines, E. F. Winterson Co. had the 

 largest supply for Decoration day and 

 the store has since been odoriferous with 

 the daily receipts of many thousands of 

 capes. The Texas crop was a few days 

 late for the best demand. The capes have 

 brought from $1 a hundred down to $1 

 or less a thousand, largely according to 

 the skill used in bunching. Some of the 

 stock was tied six in a bunch and placed 

 loose in berry crates; it did not realize 

 express charges. Na better stock, all at 

 the same stage, all of the same length, 

 bunched with heads even, above the 

 green, wrapped tightly in newspapers, 

 sold in preference to buds put up in 

 any other way. In general prices have 



