March 29. 1906. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review^ 



1309 



A Good Business Offer 



We will allow you twenty cents on every doIIar^s worth 

 of orders for Flower or Vegetable Seeds that you send 

 us from your retail customers* These you can readily 

 secure during the next few weeks^ thus increasing your 

 revenue^ helping us and obtaining for your customers 



THE BEST SEEDS 

 IN THE MARKET 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO 



1018 MARKET ST., PHILADELPHIA 



COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



The Market. 



On the afternoon of Sunday, March 

 11, it began to snow, and with intervals 

 it has snowed ever since. Of course be- 

 ing so late in the year it melted largely 

 as it came, but when I tell you that 

 twenty-seven inches of snow covers the 

 ground you will realize how we have 

 been fixed the past two weeks. It has 

 been the coldest of the winter also ; zero 

 to 20 degrees above. With the exception 

 of Saint Patrick's day and last Satur- 

 day trade has been only fair. 



Carnations have been a glut lately, 

 many sales being made by growers as 

 low as $1.50 per hundred. Bulb stock 

 the same rate. 



Variottf Notes. 



The fakers are springing up all over 

 the city, selling carnations at 25 cents 

 a dozen. 



Tred Windmiller has several very ele- 

 gant seedling carnations; especially two 

 very large and heavy stemmed varieties 

 — a pure white, and a clear pink. 



The Florists' Club held four meet- 

 ings during the month just closing, the 

 special work being the packaging of 

 flome 40,000 penny packets of both flower 

 and vegetable seeds for the children of 

 the public schools. 



The Livingston Seed Co. has just pub- 

 lished for free distribution to its cus- 

 tomers a very neat and attractive leaflet 

 on the "Care and Cultivation of the 

 Baby Eambler Rose." 



Graff Bros, have been having a violet 

 sale of twenty-five flower bunches at 25 

 <;ents. It went well. 



Not only have the seed orders fallen 

 off since the snow came, but it is im- 

 possible to ship potatoes, onion sets, 

 bulbs, etc., until the weather breaks. 



Eobert Livingston, of the Livingston 

 Seed Co., during the past week made a 

 business trip to Toledo and other Ohio 

 cities. 



Some varieties of vine and tomato 

 seeds are getting short. 



Emil Metzmaier has some 5,000 ele- 

 gant tulips which he is holding back for 

 Easter. 



The Fifth Avenue Floral Co. reports 

 a fine business lately in funeral work; 

 other trade very slow. 



The recent meeting of the oflScers and 

 executive board of the S. A. F. at 

 Dayton, has started the enthusiasm 

 among the craft in this vicinity for a 

 grand turnout next summer. 



The F. M. Kirby & Co. department 

 store is having a special. sale of Stumpp 

 & Walter Co. 's sweet peas at 5 cents 

 an ounce. 



Our visitors the past week were Wil- 

 liam E. Langbridge, of Jerome B. Rice 

 Seed Co., Cambridge, N. Y., and Jacob 

 Kershaw, representing William Rust & 

 Sons, New Brunswick, N. J. Zero. 



DETROIT. 



The Market 



Business remains about the same. Good 

 roses are keeping up their price, $1.50 to 

 $2.50 a dozen, retail. For the first time 

 in many months carnations are more than 

 plentiful. Not only the Lawson but the 

 lighter colored varieties also. Valley, 

 callas, snapdragon, daffodils and violets 



are also almost too plentiful. Green keeps 

 pretty well on the move. 



Qub Meetifigi 



Despite the fact that florists as a rule 

 do not mind bad weather, a terrific bliz- 

 zard greatly reduced the usually large at- 

 tendance at the club's last meeting. 



A very interesting paper on steam 

 heating was read by Frank A. Siraonds, 

 of Grand Rapids. 



The fall exhibition question was again 

 put over until next meeting, but it was 

 decided to hold a carnation exhibition 

 in the' near future, either at the club 

 room or at the Michigan Cut Flower 

 Exchange. With the co-operation of the 

 local growers and of the introducers of 

 new varieties throughout the country, it 

 is hoped to have a very complete exhibit. 



The question box brought forth little 

 of interest, presumably on account of 

 the small attendance. 



Under the heading of miscellaneous 

 business, two letters addressed to the 

 club were read. One was an invitation 

 from the American Rose Society to at- 

 tend its annual meeting at Boston. The 

 other letter was from Louis Wittbold, 

 giving a practical demonstration of his 

 watering device at Rackham's. 



A paper by Hugo Schroeter on "Sea- 

 sonable Preparation for Easter Trade" 

 was greeted with applause. 



After adjournment the members en- 

 joyed a social hour. 



Schroeter 's men were very busy the 

 past week decorating for the spring 

 opening of Detroit's largest dry goods 

 store. Besides several van-loads of plants 

 and about fifty elaborate baskets, several 

 hundred American Beauties, KiUameys 

 and Richmond roses were in evirience. 



