The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



at 1212 Olive street a month ago, has 

 closed up. John is dangerously sick at 

 his home, 720 Carpenter place. 



C. A. Kuehn has been verj sy of 

 late with wire work, and night work has 

 been going on regularly. His shipping 

 trade of llorists' supplies has been great 

 of late. 



Frank M. Ellis is now located in his 

 new quarters at 1316 Pine street. Frank 

 reports business good since the holi- 

 days. 



Henry Berning reports an excellent 

 trade in cut flowers and supplies. 



The stock and fixtures of The Vale of 

 Cashm'ere were sold at auction Monday, 

 Jan. 7th, at 2 p. ra. Quite a number of 

 florists were in attendance during the 

 sale, which took place at the Odron 

 building. 



BOWLING. 

 The bowling club rolled Its first games of the 

 new year and some fair scores were made. 

 They were as follows: 



1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. T'l. Av. 



A. T. Ellison 144 186 1S7 170 687 171 



C. A. Kuehn 167 169 182 155 673 168 



C. C. Sanders 130 143 149 ... 422 140 



J. W. Kunz 158 144 105 ... 407 139 



John Young 109 159 ... 268 134 



Wm. Adels 118 137 255 127 



F. C. Weber 104 122 ... 226 113 



Frank Ellis 107 97 116 114 444 111 



The Market. 



The supply has considerably increased 

 during the past week, and though the 

 demand has kept up very well, it has 

 not been strong enough to absorb the 

 larger supply without a weakening in 

 prices. There has, however, been but lit- 

 tle decline in the price of really first- 

 class roses, sales of the best being still 

 occasionally made at $8, though a good 

 deal of lower grade stock has suffered. 

 This applies with especial force to car- 

 nations, and the fancy sorts have shown 

 weakness, too. White and light colors 

 have been in brisk demand lately, and 

 this has been made sharper by the funeral 

 of Philip D. Armour, which took place 

 Wednesday, and at which an immense 

 quantity of flowers were used. 



Shipping grades of tea roses are quoted 

 at $6 to $8 and good seconds at $3 to $4. 

 In carnations, fancies are held at $3. to 

 $5 and commons at $1..50 to $2.50, while 

 some poor stock is sold at as low as 50 

 to 75 cents. Paper white narcissus and 

 Romans are very abundant and move 

 slowly at $2 to $3 for the best. The 

 call for funeral flowers helped early this 

 week to clean up an accumulation of 

 these, though at low figures, and even 

 then some were unsalable. There seems 

 to be a lot of poor violets in the market 

 that fail to get action and prices on 

 them rule very low, though strictly first- 

 class violets go all right at satisfactory 

 figures. Harrisii are beginning to come 

 in and they sell at $2.50 a dozen. 



Club Meeting. 



At the last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club Mr. John Reardon read an instruc- 

 tive paper on "A Succession of Plants to 

 Keep the Greenhouse Benches Full," 

 ■which appears elsewhere in this issue. 

 A paper on "The Trials and Tribulations 

 of Retailers," by Walter Kreitling (at 

 least, his name was attached to it), was 

 read by the secretary. In it the fakir, 

 the "red violet" workers and the crape 

 chaser were pilloried, but in a style some- 

 what sedate and ponderous for Walter. 

 It sounded a good deal as though Wal- 

 ter's thoughts had been filtered through 



some substance that eliminated all the 

 effervescence. And Walter is nothing if 

 not effervescent. Try it again, Walter, 

 and don't let anybody blow the foam off. 



The officers of the club were made a 

 committee to arrange the details of the 

 annual carnation meeting which will be 

 held Friday, January 18. Introducers of 

 new varieties are requested to send to 

 this meeting blooms of varieties they 

 wish to bring to the attention of growers 

 in this vicinity. These carnation meet- 

 ings have increased annually in magni- 

 tude and importance and are now visited 

 by many florists from other cities. 



Mr. James Hartshorne extended an In- 

 vitation to the club members and the 

 trade in general to visit the establish- 

 ment of the Chicago Carnation Company 

 at Joliet the same day as the carnation 

 meeting of the club, Friday, Janiuary 18. 

 Free tickets will be supplied by the com- 

 pany's representative at the station in 

 Chicago for the Rock Island train leav- 

 ing the city at 11:45 a. m. that day. 

 The train will arrive at Joliet at 1 p. 

 m. and will leave there on the return 

 trip at 2:30 p. m., reaching Chicago 

 again at 3:45 p. m. 



Meeting of Horticultural Society. 



At the annual meeting of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of Chicago held last Tues- 

 day afternoon four applicants were 

 elected to membership and the reports 

 of the secretary-treasurer were read and 

 referred to the auditing committee. 

 Edgar Sanders was appointed a commit- 

 tee of one to draw up suitable resolu- 

 tions on the death of Nathan M. Freer 

 and that of Philip D. Armour, both hav- 

 ing been liberal supporters of the so- 

 ciety, as well as strong friends of hor- 

 ticulture in general. 



The following officers were re-elected: 

 W. H. Chadwick, Pies.; E. G. Uihlein, 

 1st Vice-Pres.: H. G. Selfridge, 2d Vice- 

 Prcs. ; E. Wienhoeber, 3d Vice-Pres.; J. 

 C. Vaughari, O. P. Bassett and G. L. 

 Grant, members of the executive com- 

 mittee for three years. The election of 

 a secretary and treasurer and a board of 

 directors was laid over till next meet- 



Various Items. 



Flint Kennicott Is laid up with an at- 

 tack of bronchitis and la grippe. 



McKellar & Wintcrson are now hand- 

 ling rooted carnation cuttings in addi- 

 tion to their other stock. Their new 

 green and red catalogue is mentioned 

 elsewhere. 



The bowling team will play a series 

 of games at Anson's alleys next Monday 

 evening. 



Anton Then, Frank Felke and C. M. 

 Dickinson will start Thursday on a four 

 day's trip through the carnation district 

 in Indiana. 



W. W. Barnard & Co. have just re- 

 ceived a car load of tuberose bulbs. Their 

 new florists' seed list has just been issued. 

 Mr. R. R. McGill, of this firm, is around 

 again after a three weeks' tussle with the 

 prevailing la grippe. 



We wish to call your attention to 

 the value in our Florists' Manual as 

 recognized by many readers. See their 

 letters that have appeared from time 

 to time in the Review. 



THE NATURAL IN LANDSCAPE 

 ART. 



The incentive to introduce active, real- 

 istic life into landscape efl'ects received 

 its initiation at the time of the laying 

 out of the World's Fair grounds — at 

 least as far as we in the uncouth west 

 are concerned — and the goose and the 

 swan sported with infinite grace on the 

 placid bosom of the lagoons. 



Their presence added greatly to the 

 pleasures of all concerned, save to those 

 in charge of the Wooded Island. Th'e 

 geese would persist in scratching up the 

 flower beds and mixing up their fresh- 

 laid eggs with the fruit of Thorpe's So- 

 lanum Melongena, thus hybridizing them 

 in a manner heretofore unknown. 



But art must not sutfer on account of 

 such little idiosyncrasies as these, and 

 in the future active life must go hand in 

 hand with still life. Inventive genius 

 will not stop short at swan and geese, 

 and other animated subjects will be 

 added to the list. In fact, we have a 

 charming example before us in the re- 

 production here given of "The Natural 

 in Landscape Art." What a charming 

 example it is! Still, with the thermom- 

 eter hugging the zero mark and coal at 

 $8 a ton, we feel sorry for the 

 kid and think him a goose for being so 

 far away from home without his mit- 

 tens. Of course, it was summer when 

 the picture was taken, the foliag'e shows 

 it, and the fact is demonstrated by his 

 manner of scratching a musquito bite 

 on his back. 



The artist who introduced him into 

 this sylvan scene as an improved form 

 of animation may have had more in his 

 mind than a hasty glance would dis- 

 close. The boy may be intended to rep- 

 resent in his different parts, various den- 

 izens of the forest and thus bring to mind 

 {hat exquisite poem by the Brooklyn 

 Bridge Bard, of which we give a few 

 stanzas: 



Two sportive calves 



In sweet repose. 

 Bereft of covering 



And of clothes: 

 A lot of hairs 



(Not Belgian bred) 

 That love to nest 



Upon a head. 

 Two-lips to grace 



The scenic art. 

 And to the view 



A charm impart: 

 And as a whole 



This image here 

 Suggests the rotid 



Unclothed— not hid— 

 Is well shown here 

 By this naked kid. 



Jane's Brother John. 



TARRYTO'WN, N. Y. 



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Meeting of Tarrytown Hort. Society. 



The iri-ular iiKuitlily meeting of the 

 Tarrytown HarticiiKiiral Societywas held 

 Dec. 27. with President Turner in the 

 chair and a large attendance of members. 

 Th'e ehief business of the evening was 

 the election of officers and the second 

 annual supper. The following candidates 

 ware apjxyintcd for the ensuing year: 

 James W. Smith, president; William 

 Scott, vice-president; E. W. Neubrand, 

 treasurer: Thomas Cockburn, secretary; 

 L. A. Martin, press secretary. The ex- 

 pciitive committee is as follows: M. J. 

 Conncllon. Francis Gibson, William 

 Tumor, A. A. Taaffe, William F. McCord, 

 D. MaeFarlano. A. Fallon and John 

 Eagan. The treasurer's reports were 

 very .satisfactory, members of good stand- 



