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The Florists' Review 



FEBUL'AHr 27, 1913. 



Unfortunately, a shipment of the 

 new pink rose, Mrs. Charles Russell, 

 from the Waban Rose Conservatories, 

 Natiek, Mass., and a .box of Carnation 

 Philadelphia, from Thomas Browne, 

 Greenfield, Mich., failed to arrive until 

 the morning after the meeting. 



ST. LOUIS. 



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The Southwestern Market. 



The retail business must have fallen 

 off considerably, to account for the 

 stock left over last week. Of course 

 this condition made prices suffer on 

 everything except roses. These are just 

 beginning to come in again, as all of 

 our local shippers were off crop for 

 quite a while. Richmond, Killarney, 

 Bride, Maid and Beauties are of splen- 

 did quality. The market has been 

 strong on violets and sweet j>eas. These 

 had a run, in big lots. Violels sold as 

 low as $1.5U Tier thousand and sweet 

 peas $2 and $3 per thousand. At that, 

 quite a lot of them were left unsold. 



Carnations have been coming in rather 

 heavily of late, with quality extra fine 

 and the price ranging from $15 to .$20 

 when sold in thousand lots. Enchant- 

 ress, "White Wonder, Washington and 

 Sangamo are among the best. Jn bulb- 

 ous stock shipments are heavy. Among 

 the best sellers are Fas-ter lilies and cal- 

 las, vallej'. Von Sions, jonquils, freesias 

 and tulips. The supply of this stock 

 for this market is expected to be large 

 from now until after ?raster. 



The uptown retailers say last week 

 was not any too brisk and only a lot of 

 funeral work kept it from being called 

 dull. The greenhouse men are kept 

 busy watching their stock of blooming 

 plants, with Easter only four weeks 

 away. 



Various Notes. 



Frank Thost, son of G. M. Thos-t. of 

 De Soto. Mo., spent a day here with 

 the trade las-t week. 



Fred Foster received word last week 

 of the death of his father in f^cotland. 

 The trade extends sympathy. 



Fre<l Animann, secretarv of the Illi- 

 nois State Florists' Association, has ex- 

 tended an invitation to all members 

 of the Florists' Club to attend. the an- 

 nual convention of the association, 

 which takes place March 4 and o, at 

 Peoria, 111., and quite a few will mal^e 

 the trip. 



Edward P. ('i-'.kowski, known as the 

 Cass avenue florist, has had quite a 

 good run of I usinets in funeral and 

 wedding work. Mr. Ci'.kowski also is 

 in the employ of the city forestry de- 

 partment. 



The W. ('. Smith Wholesale Floral 

 Co. is having quite a run on white en- 

 ameled wooden easels of its own make. 



At the seed stores the mild weather 

 has started trade with a rush. 



R. .T. Windier, C. Pergsteruiann and 

 Carl Beyer, the Florists' Club's pub- 

 licity committee, are hard at wor'< get- 

 ting thinsrs in shape for Easter adver- 

 tising. The fund for this is becoming 

 quite large. 



A. W. Gumz. secretary of the Windier 

 Wholesale Floral Co., was on the sick 

 list last week. 



Moskapf & Irish Co., Chas. Fullorraf. 

 Wm. Fouche and L. Bauirann, our land- 

 scape architects, all say thev have a 

 busy season before them, with plenty 

 of orders ahead. 



Hugo Werner, of Werner Bros., at 



Clayton, rose growers for this market, 

 says that they will have a full crop 

 for Easter. 



At the last meeting of the Retail 

 Florists' Association, February 17, the 

 chair requested Fred H. Weber to pre- 

 pare a paper for the next meeting on 

 ♦'The Daily Routine Work of a Retail 

 Florist." Mr. Weber has consented. 

 This meeting takes place a week before 

 Easter. 



If ibas been rumored that efforts will 

 b#inade to bring the American Carna- 

 tion Society's meeting to St. Louis in 

 1914. The Convention Bureau is pre- 

 paring an invitation and has asked the 

 Florists' Club to work with it in the 

 matter. 



The town of Kirkwood, long a florists ' 

 center, will add considerable glass this 

 summer. From what we can under- 

 stand, some of the growers will take 

 to roses. Until now only carnations, 

 violets, sweet peas, mums and bulbous 

 stock have been grown there. 



We hear that Mr. Crepe Puller is get- 

 ting quite active again. We might try 

 a dose of that Pittsburgh medicine that 

 Scribe Clarke speaks of in his notes in 

 the issue of February 13 and see if that 

 won 't kill him off. This fellow always 

 becomes active when stock is plentiful 

 and cheap. 



Paddy Patton's latest for St. Pat- 

 rick's day advertisers: 



Reinomber, bo.v, .vou're Irish. 



So wear your colors sra.v; 

 A green carnation on yonr coat: 



It's a boost for St. Patrick's day. 



Foster, at King's highway and Del- 

 mar avenue, reports that he has leaseil 

 the entire basement of the building, 

 which will be transformed into a tea 

 garden this summer. The new lease is 

 for ten years. 



Grimm & Gorly and Alex. Siegel say 

 they had a great run of transient trade 

 last week. Violets and peas had a big 

 call. 



Wm. Schray & Sons, .John Held, Chas. 

 Beyer, Geo. W'indler and the Bourdet 

 Floral Co.. who furnish the local re- 

 tailers with their blooming plants, will 

 all 1 e in fine shape for Easter. 



Frank H. Gorly will read a paper at 

 the March meeting of the Florists' 

 Club, on "The Benefits Derived from 

 the Florists' Telegraph Delivery," by 

 reouest from Albert Pochelon, secretary. 



A. W'. May, of Kirkwood, was awak- 

 ened earlv February 24 to find his home 

 in fames. He and his faniilv barely 

 esca|>ed. They took shelter from the 

 cold in the greenhouses. The house and 

 contents was a complete loss, but was 

 covered by insurance. Mr. May is a 

 consignor to the Windier Wholesale 

 Floral Co. .T. .T. Beneke. 



LOUISVILLE. 



The Market. 

 Stock continues to arrive in splendid 

 shape, particularly bulbous stock. Kil- 

 larney an<l White Killarney roses are 

 elegant. Good valley and orchids are 

 also to 1 e hatl. Weather conditions 

 have changed considerably since last 

 week, when the thermometer registered 

 a.s hii?h as 70 degrees; it is now down 

 to freezing and the town is covered 

 with a beautiful blanket of snow. 



Various Notes. 



The 25 eents-per-dozen carnation sales 

 are still in full blast. This condition 

 is due to the support given bv some of 

 the Chicago wholesalers. The carna- 

 tion grower is entitled to more consid- 



eration. Our local growers have no 

 trouble in disposing pf their carnations 

 at $3 per hundred. 



Philip Schupp, the hustling manager 

 of J. A. Budlong's Chicago store, spent 

 several days in Louisville last week, 

 hunting Indian relics. Mrs. Schupp, a 

 most amiable little woman, accompanied 

 her husband. 



Nearly all the downtown stores are 

 displaying a fine assortment of spring 

 flowers. The C. B. Thompson & Co. 

 window is full of small baskets and 

 flower holders filled with freesias, 

 tulips, hyacinths, primulas, roses, etc. 

 Wm. Walker is featuring Primula mal- 

 acoides, well grown. Henry Fuchs, F. 

 Walker & Co., and Nanz & Neuner are 

 displaying tulips, hyacinths, azaleas, 

 etc. Schulz's Flower Shop is featur- 

 ing baskets and hampers filled with 

 calendulas tied with ribbon to match, 

 also boxes and baskets of bulbous 

 stock. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Kentucky Society of Florists will be 

 held at the residence of G. E. Schulz 

 March 5. G. E. S. 



SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 



The Market. 



Business has been good the last two 

 weeks, considering the Lenten season 

 usually putvS a damper on the flower 

 trade. St. Valentine 's day was a busy 

 one for all the large florists. The old- 

 fashioned colonial bouquets were in 

 great favor this year and many were 

 sold. Violets and fancy baskets were 

 used as valentines. 



Bright, cool weather improved stock 

 considerably last week and carnations 

 are arriving in large quantities. Amer- 

 ican Beauties are much better and in 

 demand. Sweet peas are plentiful and 

 good in quality, with long, firm stems. 

 Killarneys are not especially good. A 

 few of the .new rose, Hilda, have made 

 their appearance, and are rather popu- 

 lar. They resemble My Maryland 

 somewhat, but are much deeper in color 

 an<l more elongated in the bud. Yel- 

 low marguerites, myosotis and freesias 

 are used a great deal. Violets, both 

 single and double, are excellent and 

 are selling well. Gardenias and cat- 

 tleyas are plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



Miss May French, of Aitken's store, 

 is visiting in Toronto, Can. 



Osterman & Steele report their St. 

 Valentine's trade good and that violets 

 sell best. Thev had a novel display 

 Washington 's birthday. 



Charles Tsselee spent Sunday, Febru- 

 ary 23, in New York city. 



N. F. Higgins has closed the Flower 

 Mart for the present. 



Meacham & Hassell 's Washington's 

 birthday wimlow was most attractive, 

 with a large cherry tree in the center 

 surrounded by numerous smaller cherry 

 trees. Various other novelties made up 

 this unique display. 



T. F. Sheehan is to move into the 

 larger store, corner State and Willow 

 streets. March 1. The store is being 

 remodeled and repainted. 



Visitors: Valen G. Milloy, of Will- 

 iam B. Lake, PhiladeJphia, Pa.; H. A. 

 Tobey, of the Madison Basketcraft Co., 

 Madison, O. t ,, 



The tulip show will be held May 6 

 and 7, and the rose exhibit June 17 and 

 18, by the .\mateur Horticultural So- 



