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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



February 3, 1910. 



EVANSVILLE,IND. 



The Market. 



Business is good and all are busy. 

 Koses and carnations are fine and not too 

 j)lentiful. Green goods are only in fair 

 supply. Funeral work is plentiful and 

 keeps coming, and all the florists seem to 

 get about an equal share of it. There has 

 been a goodly number of weddings, also. 

 McKinley day was not well observed 

 here, not nearly so generally as it 

 should be. 



January was much warmer than De- 

 cember. 



Various Notes. 



Emil Niednagel says that his firm 

 has been busy and has had a good supply 

 of roses and carnations. 



The Blackman Floral Co. is cutting 

 some extra fine carnations, and they have 

 a ready sale. 



Ben Kramer has been busy all along. 



J. C. Elsperman is getting a good 

 share of trade. He has been sick for 

 several weeks, but is improving. 



Royston & Fenton could use a good 

 many more roses and carnations than 

 they are getting. 



Xellie Goodge is up and about again 

 after her illness. E. L. F. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market 



Conditions have materially changed 

 since the report of two weeks ago. The 

 weather has moderated; in fact, we have 

 been enjoying a genuine January thaw, 

 with a moderate amount of sunshine and 

 an immoderate amount of fog. The fog 

 did not do any good, but the sunshine 

 helped production to a marked degree. 

 The demand has hardly improved in pro- 

 portion to the supply and prices are a 

 shade easier. 



Business is good for the last week in 

 January, the volume being much larger 

 than during the cold spell of two weeks 

 ago. The demand for carnations has im- 

 proved, the market being better sustained 

 on all grades and varieties. White was 

 scarce at the end of the week, and reds 

 were exceedingly scarce. Eoses are in 

 fair supply and are bringing good prices. 



Violets were more plentiful last week 

 and could be had at 50 cents and 60 cents 

 per hundred. The singles are exceedingly 

 fine, but local doubles are only fair. Daf- 

 fodils are selling well, the supply being 

 larger than a week ago. Freesias are ar- 

 riving in fine shape. Gardenias have been 

 telling well indeed, and it is doubtful if 

 fhis market has ever seen such fine stock. 

 Sweet peas are more plentiful; the fine 

 grades are eagerly sought, but the poor 

 grades go begging. 



There are odd conditions in the green 

 situation. Stated briefly, bunches of 

 j)Iuniosus arc scarce and Sprengeri is not 

 wanted at all, and will not be extensively 

 grown another year. 



Club Meeting. 



At the last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club, E. A. Vincent gave a talk on the 

 summer meeting of the Maryland State 

 Horticultural Society, which will be held 

 at Harrison's Nurseries, at Berlin, Md., 

 and after the meeting is held the mem- 

 bers will go to Ocean City. Md., for sev- 

 eral days. 



Quite a discussion was had as to what 

 was tlie cause of carnations splitting their 

 ealyxes. Some thought it was caused by 



too high a temperature, while others 

 thought it was caused by too low a tem- 

 perature. 



The next meeting will be held February 

 14, which is to be carnation night. A 

 large display of new carnations will be 

 seen; among them will be Dorothy Gor- 

 don, Alma Ward and Mrs. C. W. Ward. 

 A committee was appointed to look after 

 the novelties when they arrive here. 



Various Notes. 



Peter Eberhart and Mrs. Wilhelmina 

 Jones were quietly married on Wednes- 

 day, January 26, at Catonsville. 



Carnation day was well observed here 

 on Saturday and there was a heavy de- 

 mand for pink, which was McKinley 's 

 favorite color. The bronze bust of the 

 martyred president was decorated with 

 pink carnations at the Baltimore post- 

 office. 



Charles H. Cook has just received his 

 greenhouse material for his four new 

 houses, to De erected this spring on his 

 new place at Catonsville. The material 

 was furnished by the A. Dietsch Co., of 

 Chicago. 



Frederick Beitz has been cutting some 

 extra fine Golden Spur. He grows about 

 20,000 every year. 



Mathias Thau, of Govanstown, has in- 

 stalled a new boiler to replace the one 

 which burst during one of our cold speHs. 



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GLEN COVE, N. Y. 



The Nassau County Horticultural So- 

 ciety enjoyed its annual banquet on the 

 evening of January 25. President James 

 Doty was in the chair. The vice-president 

 is E. A. Eeidenbach,, and John Ingram 

 and Oscar Adder are recording and cor- 

 responding secretaries. The attendance 

 was the largest in the society 's history. 

 From a distance came C. H. Totty and 

 William Duckham, of Madison, A. T. 

 Boddington, Al Eickards, George A. Bur- 

 nett, W. A. Sperling and J. Austin Shaw, 

 of New York, Mr. Stewart and Mr. At- 

 kinson, of the Tarrytown society, John 

 McNichol, of Cedarhurst, and several of 

 Glen Cove 's leading citizens also at- 

 tended. The decorations were by Alex- 

 ander McKenzie, gardener to Percy 

 Chubb, in carnations and novel pyramidal 

 centerpiece of valley in wickerwork and 

 moss, the first of its kind. There were 

 several vases of grand carnations by Will- 

 iam Eckles, gardener for Mortimer 

 Schiff, and plant decorations by Henry 

 Matz, the local florist. 



The year's medals were won by Paul 

 Beul, gold ; Valentine Cleres, silver ; and 

 George Wilson, bronze, for the highest 

 number of points in the whole season 's 

 competition. Each of the winners re- 

 sponded happily or proudly. John Ever- 

 ett, the retiring president, received gold 

 cufl' buttons as a token of the club's es- 

 teem. The presentations were made by 

 President Doty. J. Austin Shaw acted 

 as toastmaster and referred to the loss of 

 the society and the Island in the deaths 

 of John Thorpe, E. V. Hallock, John 

 Scott, Herman Dreyer and Eichard Shan- 

 non in the last year. Eobert Petrie fur- 

 nished selections on the bagpipes. John 

 McNichol sang. Al Eickards presided at 

 the piano, and while the formal banquet 

 lasted only from 6 o'clock to 10 o'clock, 

 the subsequent hilarity continued to the 

 wee small hours. C. H. Totty, William 

 Duckham and A. T. Boddington didn't 

 go home until morning. The toasts were 

 all ably responded to, and were as fol- 

 lows : 



"Jhe President of the United States," ,y 

 Harry Hedger, of Glen Cove. 



"Glen Cove and Its Horticultural Society," ,y 

 Frank Bowne, of Glen Cove. 



"Our Guests," by D. M. Munge, of G' n 

 Cove. 



"The Press," by C. W. Maynard, of N w 

 York, and Mr. Davis, of the Glen Cove Ecim. 



"The Society of American Florists," by A. i\ 

 Boddington, of New York. 



"The New York Florists' Club," by C. ir. 

 Totty, of Madison. 



"The Auxiliary SocU'tles," by W. H. Du. U 

 ham, of Madison. 



"Southern Horticulture," by W. A. Sperliiig, 

 of New York. 



"The Commercial Traveler," by A. Rlcknr'U, 

 of New York. 



"Bonnie Scotland," by William Klnnear, of 

 Glen Cove. 



"The Seedsmen," by George Burnett, of New 

 York. 



"Tam O'Shanter," by ex-Presldent John i:v 

 erett. 



"The Ladies," by President Doty. 



"Tlie Gardening Profession," by Oscar Addor, 

 (Jeorge Wilson, Alex. McKenzie, John Everott 

 and Messrs. Stewart and Atkinson, of Maina- 

 roueck, N. Y. 



J. A. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The market conditions last week were 

 excellent. There was plenty of every- 

 thing except roses, which are still scarce, 

 and the rose shippers to this market say 

 they will hardly be in crop before Lent 

 begins. According to the wholesalers, 

 stock cleaned up well all week and at sat- 

 isfactory prices, and from that the re- 

 tailers must have had a busy week, espe- 

 cially so Saturday, January 29, McKinley 

 day, when a large quantity of carnations 

 was sold and the wholesalers were asking 

 as high as $5 per hundred for the best 

 quality. California violets are abundant 

 and have been for some time. Other 

 stock, such as Bomans, Paper Whites, 

 callas, valley, Harrisii and sweet peas, is 

 in fairly good supply at the usual prices. 

 Tulips and freesias are scarce. Aspara- 

 gus, smilax and galax sell well daily. 



Various Notes. 



J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, 111., 

 Henry Baer, of Peoria, 111., and Henry 

 Johann, of CoUinsville, 111., made up a 

 party recently and paid a visit to our 

 Belleville florists. 



A. S. Halstead, head of the St. Cliiir 

 Floral Co., Belleville, 111., spent a day 

 with the trade last week, showing some 

 fine blooms of the Eose-pink Enchantress, 

 Lawson color, of which the company lias 

 quite a stock. 



Grimm & Gorly were busy all last w«'ek 

 at their Washington avenue store. John 

 Barnard, the buyer for the firm, says at 

 their Cass avenue store and at the green 

 houses they had plenty of work in all 

 lines. 



The Bentzen Floral Co. had the deen ra- 

 tions and cut flower work for the Yeat- 

 man high school's midwinter gradual 'ig 

 class. 



A. Werner & Bro. are sending the ^V. 

 C. Smith Wholesale Floral Co. a h: jj;e 

 cut of carnations. 



E. J. Windier had some pretty win l '^^ 

 decorations last week. Mr. Windl' i s 

 store is one of the attractions ai ag 

 South Grand avenue. 



In the vicinity of Grand avenue : i"' 

 Olive streets, George Waldbart, the Ay'r^ 

 Floral Co. and Miss M. S. Newman are 

 making window displays which attrai i a 

 great deal of attention. 



The Grand Leader, one of the lar;;>'sr 

 department stores, was the largest buy^r 

 at the recent auction sale of the bankiup'' 

 stock of the Michel Plant & Bulb ( '>•; 

 which they are advertising in the cim'} 

 press at cheap prices. 



Our Kirkwood growers sent in lartje 



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