May 17, IDOG. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1863 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



Over-production, modified somewhat by 

 a cool wave, and, on Saturday, by the 

 children's festival, foreshadowed in the 

 Review exclusively last week, tell briefly 

 the market conditions. Carnations have 

 pold perhaps as well as anything. 

 Beauties have also been in demand. But 

 both in carnations and in Beauties there 

 are surpluses at times. There is con- 

 siderable demand for white lilac, rather 

 difficult to satisfy, but our hustling com- 

 mission men have usually been able to 

 unearth it. (I use this word advisedly.) 

 The feature of the market is the arrival 

 of peonies from the south, the Leo Nies- 

 sen Co. reporting excellent flowers, white 

 being "especially fine. 



A Key to Success. 



Under this heading in this column two 

 weeks ago appeared an account of the 

 establishment of the Floral Exchange at 

 Edgely, near Bristol, Pa. 



Supplementaiy to that account I am 



and the Beauties were 8 years old, hav- 

 ing been 3-year-old plants when put in 

 the house. The cut for twelve months 

 was as follows: Total cut, 386,337, of 

 which number 16,136 were Beauties. 

 Cut per mouth was as follows: 



Incliullng 

 Totiil Cut. Ueautlps. 



September 57,072 '2.071 



October '2.H,012 Sll 



November ."{O.aKi ;J77 



I)e( ember 10.427 210 



January 1S,7:{0 :{78 



rebriuiry 11,77:{ 257 



-MnrcU 17,635 .554 



April 2:{,270 8!)1 



M..y ;{6,ll;! 2.0fi0 



.Tune ;!2,2.55 2.,50S 



.July 48,022 2,505 



August 02,312 a,.')05 



Total 386,337 10,1.30 



' ' House No. 3?, planted Avith over 10,- 

 000 teas, has not yet completed its first 

 year, so report can not be made until 

 September 1. This house is sixty-two feet 

 wide by 307 feet long. ' ' 



Over the Phone, 



''Is that Mr. Flowers? This is the 

 Intramural Coal Company, Mr. Colson 

 on the phone. ' ' 



Rose Farming Under Glas^; 



(A little over 10.000 tea 1 08€8 in this house 62x307.) 



enabled through the courtesy of the 

 management to give the cut of one of 

 the Edgely houses for a year. It will 

 be noticed that these plants had re- 

 mained undisturbed for a long time, and 

 therefore the figures cover tlie entire 

 period of twelve months without the loss 

 of time required had the house been 

 cleaned and replanted. While it is im- 

 possible to gauge actual money returns 

 merely from the cut, the figures given 

 below are so large that they will be of 

 special interest to the majority of grow- 

 ers who have been working on diamet- 

 rically opposite lines. That is, they have 

 aimed to produce a maximum number 

 of flowers during the winter months and 

 to do this have expended money in clean- 

 ing and replanting, to say nothing of 

 the cost of young stock, all of which 

 expense has been saved under this sys- 

 tem. Here are the details: 



' * Report of House No. 36 for one 

 year. Size of house, 54x307 feet. 

 Planted in house, 8,028 tea roses, 600 

 Beauties. The teas were 5 years planted 



"Yes." 



"How about those two cars of coal 

 that were seized by the railroad the liist 

 week in Maich ? May we duplicate the 

 order now?" 



"No, not now." 



Various Notes. 



n. H. Battles will grow American 

 Beauty roses and, it is understood, 

 Madame Abel Chatenay, at his Thorn- 

 hedge greenhouses, Newton Square, Pa. 



John A. Shelton will rebuild two large 

 greenhouses during the coming season. 



Charles D. Ball, of Holmesburg, has 

 about finished repotting his entire stock 

 of palms and foliage plants for the sum- 

 mer growth. 



Supt. Powell, of the Vacant Lots As- 

 sociation, delivered an illustrated lec- 

 ture before the Germantown Horticul- 

 tural Society last Monday evening, which 

 was much appreciated. 



The annual parade of the Coaching 

 Club, which took place last Saturday, 

 was the occasion of handsome luncheon 



decorations. Yellow daisies, both for 

 corsage bouquets and boutonnieres, were 

 much in evidence. 



I'rof. Stewardson Brown lectured be- 

 fore the Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety last Tuesday evening. 



H. Bayersdorfer and Mrs. Bayersdor- 

 fer arrived safely in Bremen on May 11. 



Paul F. Richter bade farewell to his 

 business friends last Monday amidst gen- 

 eral regret. He left, as previously 

 stated in this column, for Martinsburg, 

 W. Va. George Thomson, who was to 

 have succeeded him as manager of the 

 Henry F, Michell Company, also de- 

 parted at about the same time, feeling, 

 it was said, that the strain would be too 

 great. Fred J. Michell promptly stepped 

 into the breach, and, for the present at 

 least, his cheerful personality will grace 

 both the manager's and treasurer's posi- 

 tions. He will be aided in the former 

 arduous place by several leading lights 

 of the company. 



Rice & Co. received a notice of a se- 

 rious shortage in one of their ribbon 

 shipments recently. The firm checked up 

 the shipment and, finding it correct, 

 wrote the customer asking that the box 

 be again carefully examined. This was 

 done and the employed who had un- 

 packed the box, and, on second examina- 

 tion, still insisted the shipment short, 

 brought out the missing pieces of ribbon 

 from a corner of the case which had been 

 deposited under a bench in the green- 

 house. The amount involved was consid- 

 erable. 



The Leo Niessen Co. has been ship- 

 ping lilacs to the south, indicating that 

 the demand there has outlasted the sup- 

 ply. 



E. J. Fancourt, in charge of S. S. 

 Pennock's ribbons and supplies, will be 

 installed in Ids new quarters on the first 

 floor in a few days. 



W. E. McKissick has instituted a new 

 book-keeping system, with an expert in 

 charge. 



Wholesale commission houses, growers, 

 retailers or seedsmen having baseball 

 nines, arc invited to communicate with 

 John Wilson, care of the Leo Niessen 

 Co., 1217 Arch street, Philadelphia, with 

 the view to arrange a baseball game for 

 the afternoon of Memorial day. 



Paul Berkowitz, of H. Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., reports many dujjlicate orders for 

 their metallic designs for Memorial day, 

 which are of finer grade this year than 

 over before. 



Last week I gave an account of a 

 new adju.stable plant stand, under the 

 heading "Mr. Berkowitz Helps Decora- 

 tors." It seems tliat this paragraph 

 caused a misapprehension in the minds 

 of a number of readers, who thought 

 that 'Sir. Berkowitz had invented the 

 plant stand himself. Clever as Mr. Ber- 

 kowitz is, he did not invent this plant 

 stand, nor did I intend to say that he 

 had done so. He is merely distributing 

 it for his firm. 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Co, 

 represents a very clever sweet pea grow- 

 er who has been producing good stock 

 all season through. 



One of our brightest business men 

 says he can invariably tell whether a 

 florist is making money, by chatting 

 with him. 



Rice & Co. are sending out the new ac!- 

 justable plant stand which Mr. Eschner 

 (considers a great acquisition. With sneb 

 support it should speedily become popu- 

 lar. Phil, 



