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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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J^fi Ttr^^i*'' ™«eti°g, which will be 

 pld Monday evening, June 12. 

 Ge Dale. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The expectation of lighter shipments 

 of roses and carnations has not mate- 

 nahzed. There has been no decrease, 

 and the market is literally crowded, so 

 there is little to be added to the re- 

 port of a week ago. For Mothers' day 

 there was a thorough clean-up of every- 

 thing in white carnations and white 

 roses, while valley and white sweet 

 peas also were well taken. Interest in 

 this token of affectionate memory is 

 certainly increasing, and each year 

 finds its observance more general. The 

 close of the week, therefore, was fairly 

 encouraging to the wholesalers, and re- 

 tailers all over the city featured the 

 mother sentiment and advertised it per- 

 sistently. 



Business at the opening of this week 

 is stagnant and prices are low. Late 

 inquiry would indicate a top of 4 cents 

 for roses and 2 cents for carnations, 

 while the best Beauties were selling 

 at $10 per hundred. The opening of 

 the big ocean resorts at Coney and 

 Eockaway has lessened the street 

 brigade already and decreased that out- 

 let for the surplus. Orchids hold well, 

 the best cattleyas bringing 60 to 75 

 cents, while 30 to 50 cents buys the 

 commoner and smaller varieties. 



Memorial day promises to be the 

 largest floral holiday of the year. 

 Lilies will doubtless advance consider- 

 ably before that day, but at present 

 there has been little improvement from 

 the low figures of April, 2 cents to 

 4 cents now being the limit. Valley 

 is down to $1.50 per hundred for the 

 selected and gardenias go at 50 cents 

 a dozen. Sweet peas must be long 

 stemmed and perfect to induce an offer. 

 Callas are neglected, with 50 cents a 

 dozen the best offer. Iris and gladi- 

 oli are arriving profusely, with little 

 call for either. Eetailers complain of 

 vanishing customers, many of the Four 

 Hundred having already departed for 

 the continent and the coronation. 



Various Notes. 



The new market is a busy place from 

 midnight on. The florists complain of 

 the early and complete clean-up of all 

 the best bedding and other plants by 

 the peddlers. Most of the stock ar- 

 riving is sold in advance. By daylight 

 there is not a vestige of the busy mar- 

 ket left. Years of this method have 

 established it so that it has become a 

 habit, and the majority rules — only ofii- 

 cial city interference can change it. 

 The veteran John Birnie drops in on 

 his bowling confreres at about mid- 

 night occasionally, Friday nights, on 

 his way to his favorite enterprise, for 

 he may safely be styled the father of 

 New York's coming Covent Garden. 



S. S. Butterfield is seriously ill at 

 the Seney hospital, Brooklyn. His fam- 

 ily is in Oklahoma. 



"William Kessler, of Kessler Bros., 

 and Miss Minnie Krieger, of Brooklyn, 

 were married April 7 at St. John's 

 church, of that city. Miss Krieger has 

 managed her own very successful re- 

 tail store in Brooklyn for some time, 

 and in assuming the duties of domes- 

 ticity has sold her place on Fulton 

 street, next door to the immortal 



Johnnie Weir, to David Benjamin. 

 The congratulations of the trade are 

 given these popular young people as 

 they set sail on life's sea. 



For Mothers' day the Penfaock-Mee- 

 han Co. had a neat card printed and 

 distributed many hundreds oF them for 

 window reminders. 



Patrick O'Mara is back from his 

 southern trip well rested, but nursing 

 one of Job's comforters. 



An enormous amount of window box 

 decoration and hotel roof garden work 

 is in process of completion in New 

 York. Many of the larger contracts 

 have been filled direct by growers. 



Wadley & Smythe, A. T. Bunyard 

 and Joseph Leikens will be New York 's 

 offering to swell Newport this year, 

 and already the principals have been 

 down preparing for the busy season 

 there. 



George and Walter Siebrecht are both 

 fully recovered from their illnesses. 



The sympathy of every one goes out 

 to Charles Schenck and Mrs. Schenck 

 in the loss of their only child through 

 an accident. Many beautiful floral 

 tokens were sent as silent evidence of 

 the sorrow felt by all their friends. 



Bowling. 



New York sent some crack bowlers. 

 May 10, to rescalp the Tuxedos in the 

 return match, and the result makes it 

 necessary for a deciding match — Tux- 

 edo vs. New York, Saturday evening. 

 May 27, on the New York alleys. In 

 other words. Tuxedo entertained the 

 New Yorkers so hospitably that their 

 hands forgot their cunning and they 

 lost their reputations. The scores tell 

 the story: 



Tuxedo. 1st 2(1 Sd New York. Ist 2d 3d 



E. Barth...l31 126 160 Manda 142 166 185 



Thomson ...130 128 96 W. Kick'ds.l35 135 162 



Miller 136 143 133 Kakuda ...103 113 134 



Fisher 131129 119 Scott 135 116 114 



F. Earth... 219 209 159 Chadwick ..149 172 122 



Totals 747 734 667 Totals. . . .664 702 717 



Messrs. Ebel and Holt were the vis- 

 itors and the special prize for high 

 score, given by Mr. Ebel, was won by 

 Fred Barth, with 219. 



Saturday, May 20, the return match, 

 Madison vs. New York, will be bowled 

 at Thumm's alleys. There will be a 

 goodly crowd of New York rooters. 



May 12 the scores were: 



Player. 1st 2d 3d 



Chadwick 191 186 202 



Manda 166 196 169 



Scott 179 162 138 



W. Rickards 130 171 142 



Al. Rickards 176 ISO 1,57 



Nugent 99 109 117 



Kakuda 140 104 127 



Holt 108 121 111 



J. Austin Shaw. 



A petition in bankruptcy was filed 

 May 12 in Brooklyn against Adolph 

 Jaenicke, who resides in Floral Park, 

 L. I. , The petitioning creditors are 

 George Houbitzer and Thomas Callister, 

 of Queens, and John Lewis Childs, of 

 Nassau county. The three allege debts 

 on JaenicKe's part amounting to about 

 $570. 



LOUISVILU!, KY. 



The Market. 



Business for the last two weeks has 

 been good. Funeral work has been the 

 leading factor. There were several big 

 funerals, which kept the cut flower 

 stock cleaned up well. Carnations are 

 scarce, and are sadly missed; it is im- 

 possible to get as many as fifty of any 

 one color, Boses are in good supply. 



The winter crop of sweet peas is about 

 off and there will be nothing in this 

 line until the outdoor stock comes in. 

 Ten weeks' stocks have been a fizzle 

 here, as only a small percentage of 

 them were double, and the single ones 

 do not amount to much. 



Lilies have been abundant and a 

 good many have been used. The grow- 

 ers who missed the crop for Easter 

 found no trouble in disposing of them 

 as fast as they came in. In fact, with- 

 out them the market would have been 

 extremely short. 



The outlook for an increase in stock 

 is good, as some gladioli, iris and other 

 early summer flowers are coming on 

 rapidly. Peonies will be in crop in 

 about ten days and a good many will 

 be cut, as the plants are all well 

 budded. 



Everybody will be busy planting out 

 for the next few weeks. May 10 is 

 usually the starting day here, but the 

 recent warm weather tempted the Ipcal 

 florists and some were hustling out bed- 

 ding stock three or four days before the 

 usual date. There are good prospects 

 of a heavy business in this line this 

 season, ^- -"• 



ROCHESTER, 



The Market. 



Cut flower trade is picking up con- 

 siderably and consequently there is not 

 now the overstock of carnations, roses 

 and tulips that there has been the last 

 few weeks. All cut flowers are bring- 

 ing better prices. 



A few warm days have made a big 

 demand for bedding plants of all kinds 

 and although it is still a little early, 

 local florists are selling these fast. 



There is a great scarcity of greens, 

 such as cut ferns, asparagus, smilax, 

 etc., in Eochester and vicinity; so much 

 so that some local florists have cut 

 fronds from their stock of Boston ferns 

 and cut up spiraeas to use in sprays for 

 funerals. The cold storage ferns which 

 were kept over from last year are use- 

 less, and the southern ferns have not 

 begun to arrive as yet. Cut asparagus 

 and smilax are bringing a good price. 



Various Notes, 



W. D. Oviatt is growing some fine 

 Spencer sweet peas under glass; large 

 flowers, pale pink, white and lavender, 

 with stems ranging from six to ten 

 inches in length. J. B. Keller Sons 

 have contracted to buy all he can pro- 

 duce, and that firm could handle twice 

 the supply shipped them. 



E. C. Campbell, who opened his new 

 store at 9 North street, near Main, at 

 Easter time, reports that business is 

 growing and that there has been a big 

 sale of bedding plants in the last week. 

 Felix Alberts, who is manager of Mr. 

 Campbell's store, executed an artistic 

 plant decoration in the store of the 

 Guilford Drug Co., which opened a new 

 store May 12. The druggist gave away 

 some 3,000 carnations to the visitors. 

 An opening in a new store with floral 

 decorations and music was an innova- 

 tion in Eochester. Mr. Alberts is show- 

 ing some good Golden Glow mum plants 

 in his window this week, which is unu- 

 sual so early in the season, 



Geo. Boucher, 345 Main street east, 

 says trade is brisk and that outdoor 

 plants are selling best just now. 



Salter Bros, report business as good. 



The Eochester Floral Co., 245 Main 

 street east, is doing a good business in 



