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The Weekly Resists' Review. 



Afbil 16, 1909. 



able prices. All of this stock was of the 

 best quality ant] sold well. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club should have held its 

 regular monthly meeting Thursday after- 

 noon, April 8, but not enough showed up 

 to make a quorum, owing to preparations 

 for the Easter rush. The next meeting 

 of the club will not take place before the 

 second Thursday in May. 



The heavy rain and hail of Tuesday, 

 April 6, did quite a lot of damage to 

 glass about the city. The heaviest loss 

 fell on those in the northern part of the 

 city. John Nyflot, at 7311 Florissant 

 avenue, had a complete loSs. Dan 

 Schloser, John Shields, A. Brix, Koenig 

 Floral Co. and Fred Meinhardt each had 

 some loss. In the northwest Kichard 

 Frow, Alex. Johnson, A. Jablonsky, J. W. 

 Dunford, John Steidle and J. Hecht all 

 suffered some broken glass. 



*i4^ry I Ostert^g was defeated as a 

 member of the house of delegates at the 

 election April 6. He made a good run, 

 but says there were too many republicans 

 in his ward. He has one consolation, that 

 he was not the only democrat defeated; 

 the whole democratic ticket went down. 



Miss Estelle Bough, who recently 

 opened a retail flower store at 217 Col- 

 linsville avenue, East St. Louis, reports 

 her Easter trade beyond expectations. 



Monday evening, April 12, the Engel- 

 mann Botanical Club held its regular 

 monthly meeting in the Central High 

 School building. The feature of the 

 evening was a lecture profusely illus- 

 trated with lantern slides, by L. P. Jen- 

 sen, gardener for the Busch estate, on 

 "Natural Effects in the Planting of 

 Modern Parks and Private Places. ' ' The 

 subject was presented in a manner that 

 appealed to all that were interested in 

 the planting of either home grounds or 

 public institutions. The meeting was 

 largely attended. 



George E. Kessler, landscape architect, 

 who laid out the Kansas City park sys- 

 tem and the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 

 tion grounds, has been engaged by the 

 city park department at a salary of $500 

 per month to lay out six new parks, im- 

 prove Kingshighway and restore Forest 

 park, that part used by the world's fair. 

 The appointment was made by Park Com- 

 missioner Philip Scanlan, which was ap- 

 proved by Mayor Wells. The park fund 

 now amounts to $85,000. 



The forestry committee of the St. 

 Louis district observed Arbor day, April 

 9, by planting about 1,500 trees in the 

 different parts of the city. J. J. B. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



Last week was the most unsatisfactory 

 satisfactory week one ever saw. Starting 

 out with a balmy day, it turned to cold 

 and rain, developing into freezing and 

 snow, until Wednesday, April 7, which 

 everyone will remember as the day of the 

 big wind. 



My grandfather was an Irishman and 

 I often heard him speak of Kelly's won- 

 derful calf and John Murphy's thir- 

 teenth boy and McSwigen 'a big litter of 

 pigs that were all born the year of the 

 big wind in Ireland, and so this Easter 

 will be known in this section as Easter 

 in the year of "the big wind." The 

 wind blew sixty-eight miles an hour for 

 eight hours, doing all kinds of damage. 

 H. L. Blind & Bros, lost the big plate 

 glass window in the front of their Lib- 



erty street store, and their palm and 

 fern houses were partly blown in, giving 

 them much trouble to repair in time to 

 keep from the freezing weather that fol- 

 lowed. 



At Charles Koenig 's, of Millvale, all 

 the glass was taken out of the two new 

 houses which he finished last fall. These 

 houses were filled with lilies for Easter, 

 part of which were badly cut with broken 

 glass, making quite a loss. The Pitts- 

 burg Eose & Carnation Co. lost about six 

 boxes of glass, but all the oil derricks on 

 the place were blown down, which will 

 make their loss considerable. Almost 

 every greenhouse lost more or less glass. 



This brought us up to the middle of 

 the week, with the market people stand- 

 ing looking at their plants freezing, and 

 no customers. Thursday was raw and 

 cold and Fjriday was the same, with 

 snow. Heavy snow continued until mid- 

 night, but Saturday was fair .and; it, 

 seemed as if bdth tHfe' customers and the 

 florists were just waiting to "get to it," 

 which they did. There were never half 

 so many good plants seen here, but they 

 disappeared. The cut flower market, 

 like the plant market, was most dis- 

 couraging up to the last day, but, like 

 the plants, they were cleaned up. This 

 market had just enough lilies and Beau- 

 ties to get through. Eoses of all kinds, 

 as well as carnations, were plentiful, no 

 orders bcrf*g refused at any of the whole- 

 sale houses, and better stock was never 

 offered. Prices were not raised as usual, 

 and the wisdom of this was proven by 

 the way things cleaned up. Nearly all 

 the retailers advertised "No increase 

 in prices," and people with small means 

 were not afraid to ask the price of flow- 

 ers. Evidently the way the trade are 

 pushing the plants at holiday time is 

 going to have the effect of keeping the 

 cut flower market down to reasonable 

 prices. 



Violets were poor up until Saturday, 

 when the stock showed some improve- 

 ment, but Easter violets are never quite 

 satisfactory. However, all in all, it was 

 a good Easter, everyone reporting hav- 

 ing sold up, and the Easter of the "big 

 wind" goes down in history as having 

 been all right. 



Various Notes. 



The firm of Breitenstein & Flemm has 

 dissolved, William Flemm retiring on ac- 

 count of ill health. He has been unable 

 to take an active interest for several 

 years. The style of the new firm will be 

 Breitenstein Co. A charter has been ap- 

 plied for. 



Ollie Beeb, manager for Chas. Eisner, 

 is seriously ill with blood poisoning, 

 caused by rose thorns. His speedy re- 

 covery is hoped for. 



Schenley Conservatories are a sight 

 for the gods, but the people are looking 

 at them, thousands flocking there every 

 day. 



The Phipps Conservatories, in the 

 North Side park, have the finest display 

 ever seen there and that is saying some- 

 thing to the credit of James Moore, 

 Avho invites his friends to call, and prom- 

 ises it will look as good for another 

 week. 



The Pittsburg Eose & Carnation Co. 

 made its record breaking cut of roses and 

 carnations last Friday, and Fred Burki 

 is wearing one of those satisfied smiles 

 that look like a man making easy money. 



The market people were up against it 

 last week, as it was freezing most of 

 the time and they could not show plants 

 to advantage. Hoo-Hoo. 



With the Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Irrigation ONE 

 MAN can do the woi*k 



of FORTY MEN 

 watering with a hose. 



The Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROY, O. 



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Vegetable Plants 



FOR TRANSPLANTING 



CABBAQE— Wakefield and SucceBsion, $1.50 



per 1000. 

 K8G PLANT - N. Y. Improved and Black 



Boauty. 40c per 100: $8 00 per 1000. 

 PKPP«R-Bull Nose. Ruby King and Sweet 



Mountain, 40c per 100; $3.00 per 1000. 

 Chinefse Giant and Cayenne, SOc per 100. 



TOMATO— Earliana, Chalk'B Jewel and Early 

 June Pink, 80c per 100; »'2.00 per 1000. 



TOMATOK8— Stone. Favorite and ParaRon, 

 small Planes, $1.00 per 1000. 



CKLVRT— Small, for transplanting, White 

 Plume and Golden Self Blanching, $1.00 

 per 1000. 



Cash with order. 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO., White Marsh. Md. 



Menoon The Kp<npw wnnn vou writ/* 



CONNOVER 



15,000 l-yr .-old Asparagua plants, extra fine. 

 94.00 per 1000. 

 ISOO DRACAENA INDIVISA Per 100 



2-in $2.00 



SOOOPbceniz Canariensis Palms. 8-in 8.00 



1500 Chameerops Ezcelsa. 2>s-in 6.00 



500 Asparagus Surengeri, 3-in 6.00 



500 Asparagus Plumosus. S-in 6.00 



2000 Coleus, 4 varieties, rooted cuttings 60 



2000 Geraniums— S. Nutt, Double Ivy and 

 Miss Perkins, 2ifl-ln 2.50 



W. E. Trimble 6reenhouse Co., Princeton, Hi. 



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Vegetable Forcing. 



GREENHOUSE VEGETABLES. 



Chicago, April 13.— Cucumbers, 65c to $1.40 

 (loz.; lettuce, 25c to 27%c box; radishes, 15c 

 to 40c doz. bunches; musbrooms, SOc to SOc lb. 



New York, April 12.— Beet tops, SOc to 7Sc 

 box; cucumbers, SOc to $1.50 doz. ; lettuce, 

 $1.75 to $2.25 strap; musbrooms, 25c to 60c 

 lb.; mint. SOc to SOc doz. bunches; radishes, 

 $1.50 to $2 per 100 bunches; rhubarb, $3 to $6 

 per 100 bunches. 



Boston, April 12. — Romalne. 75c to $1 doz.; 

 escarolle, 50c to $1 doz.; chicory, SOc to $1 

 doz.; rhubarb, 9c to lOc lb.; tomatoes, 40c to 

 60c lb.; cucumbers. $3 to $7.50 box; mint, 40c 

 to 60c doz.; mushrooms, $2.75 to $3 box; beet 

 greens, 60c to 75c box; parsley, $1.25 to $1.50 

 box: dandelions, 85c to $1 box; lettuce, 60c to 

 $1 box. 



A FLORIST is not a florist if be is not 

 in touch with the Review. — Jacob KaIt 

 LEMBACH, Erie, Pa. 



I HAVE grown so accustomed to relying 

 on the Review that I can not get along 

 without it. — George Hartunq, Chicago. 



Fall River, Mass. — The new green- 

 houses at Oak Grove cemetery have been 

 completed. The entire contract price for 

 erection, furnishing material, supplying 

 boilers and heating plant was $5,250. 

 The plant consists of two houses 22x91 

 feet, with two connecting glass corri- 

 dors, about twenty feet long and eight 

 feet wide. 



