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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



The final cflfccl sliould be much better 

 than that secured by some cliaiice or ex- 

 cursion scheme whieli cannot appeal to 

 the better classes in the comnmnity. 



The National League of improvement 

 Associations offers to respond to all in- 

 quiries and to supply any needed details 

 in carrying out either of iliese two plans. 



EVART GR-4NT. 



ODCAGO. 



The Market. 



Last Sunday we were shifted from late 

 winter into midsuninier, and midsummer 

 weather conditions continue to prevail at 

 this writing. As a result the quality of 

 all stock has deteriorated rapidly and 

 the proportion of best grade in a con- 

 signment of roses has been very mate- 

 rially reduced. Though prices on first 

 quality shipping roses are still held up 

 to $4 to $G, the great bulk of the re- 

 ceipts is sold at much lower figures, and 

 some very fair stock is sold at $3, while 

 a good deal of it socs 



and tl 



poorest in job Ni- ,if -1 iiiil >l..'i). 

 And even with r,. ^,,,,-.-1 ...,.■ ,„ -,■ 

 lection of shi|i|'ii!L' -i -l. ii -irm- ,|iili 

 cult to give uiiiii'i 111 -It 1^1. n 1 1. II. lis till- 

 weather is very hard on the .-lock after 

 it is packed. 



Carnations have suffered with the 

 roses. While quotations range from $1.50 

 to $3, the great bulk, and good flowers, 

 too, sell at $2, while medium grades go 

 at $1.00 to $1.">0, and the poorest are 

 cleaned up at ini\ ulil pii.r. if at all. 

 Sales at 50 (.ni- .i Imi nir not very 

 uncommon. Alj um - im i \i m line Law- 

 sons and Red Itmlt- Ihiiil: a^ liigh as $4. 



Beauties arc in good supply, but the 

 proportion of firsts is getting smaller. 

 The best still bring $3 a dozen, but the 

 great bulk of the stock goes at much 

 lower figures. We have heard of sales 

 in thousand lots that are too sad to 

 mention. 



Libert V i= irninin- fiif.nl-. S„mr veallv 



firSt-cIa- Mnnlll- ll.Hr lirrH -rrll llir las"t 

 two ni.lllll-. lUI.I liir 1,-1 ill ill,' liill._r- 



steninicil mic- lia\r In ii-jlil |ii i. r- ri|iial 



to th,' l..-t r„llllllr- \i. \\.l-!il,ll,„. nt 



Basselt A Wa-liliiiMi, -,m - ihri ■^.■\ llinr 

 extra Inn.j -inniiir I III, -,i,,- ■;,li,iu,.ilirr 

 from til.' -Ililti'il |i!jllt-, ami -a\- ii i., 

 unwise til al l.iiipi tl, Lji i,,» It nil ii - (iwn 

 roots. \li, \ ^|iiir,i. Ill iliai-r of 

 Peter ];.'iiil.. i ^ - -air- ,a\.- I.ilicity 



for it. Though the proportion of tirst- 

 class blooms is much smaller than de- 

 sirable and it is nnwhero near as free as 

 Meteor, iln 1,]. .mi- mciage good in price 



and till' ill iiMihl 1- iiii-k. 



The liK .iiuaii 

 The \m^., ,,i), 1,1 



uaiinii 1- |)ositively painful. 

 II |,i a, 1 iially name his own 



price il I Ill I- I,, ih.an up a lot. On 



lilies that iiiii-i l„ -ih'ctcd and packed 

 for slii|aii.iit SI t sii is asked, and oc- 

 casionally niui.f lui extra select, but a 

 good many are jobbed off at most any 

 price ofTered. 



Sweet peas are arriving in very good 

 shape. We noticed some extra good 

 Blanche Ferry at Benthey's. The^e sell 

 at $1. Cornflowers are expected soon 

 at this place. 



Trailing arbutus is arriving more 

 freely. Kennicott Bros. Co. are receiv- 

 ing some large shipments and it is now 

 offered at lOcents a bunch. 



Tulips and other bulb flowers are 

 quiet— so quiet you can hear a pin drop. 

 There is no more welcome visitor in the 

 market than the buyer who wants a few 



thousand tulips, and he has a whole lot 

 to say as to the basis upon which an 

 exchange of tulips and cash shall be 

 nuxle. 



This is the sort of weather when a 

 little care will make an immense differ- 

 ence in the value of the cut. The grower 

 who cuts his roses every hour or so and 

 cools them at once in an ice-cooled room 

 will have a much larger percentage of 

 marketable blooms than the one who cuts 

 them Uul twice a_ day and has only a 

 cellar for a cooling room. 



Various Items. 



A regular meeting of the Florists' Club 

 will be held at the usual place tomorrow 

 (Friday) evening. Several essays arc 

 due, and it promises to be a very inter- 

 esting meeting. 



Martin Peterson, who has been for 

 some time with E. H. Hunt, will open 

 a retail store on Division street, near 

 Humboldt Park, in time for Decoration 

 Day business. 



Mrs. C. M. Dickinson started last 

 Tuesday for Seattle, Wash., where she 

 will 111 joy a two-months' visit with her 



|,airllt- 



r.i-ril & Washburn have been very 

 -It. I I --ml with their Beauties this year; 

 in fact, they have never before done so 

 well with this rose. 



Robert W. Schenck has been appointed 

 commissioner plenijinf i ntiaiy ami gar- 

 dener extraordinary tn thr ,ii\ pump- 

 ing stations, of wliirh tin 11 all 1.11. with 

 grounds ranging in si/a lunii a handker- 

 chief up to an acre or so. lie will plant 

 these grounds and look after them, and 

 if he runs short of water will know the 

 reason why. 



During his recent visit to the city 

 Mr. M. F. Kyle reported business good in 

 Kalamazoo and that his son "Billy." 

 who is with Kennicott Bros. Co., grati- 

 fied him exceedingly by making him a 

 grandpa. 



The hyacinth beds are now in gorgeous 

 bloom at Lincoln Park and the tulips 

 are show'ing color. The tulips grown on 

 the Pacific coast seem to be several days 

 in a.haiiir ni (]„■ llnllaml ^mun bulbs. 

 ill., liai.U plant- -irni t,, lini, come 



thliilluh tllr Hilltcj- ;jillrlall\ ill gOOd 

 -ha|i.-. "Ihr ti.l-\tliia i~allrail\ inbloom 



in a day or so. 



The bowling series has not yet been 

 definitelv arranged for. Another meet- 

 ing is ti) be held this week. 



'I'liis is a III it ml,, nl ijuick climatic 



changes. A hnl, than a week ago 



we were \»a,lii/ il uli a foot of wet 



snow and |,"l i\ v\r ai,, ha^iking in sun- 

 shin,- at a tl iiipi ladirc of 75. with daf- 

 fodil- ml livaiiulhs in all their glorv. 

 an,l ih, 1, lull - heart is full of joy, for 

 (he wi.ini ,-,■l^ out at the same time he 



docs. The grass i< j n. ih w gives 



more cream, the inn, I i- ^i im and all 



nature is glad. M\.ii ili- t.niid man 



is happy and forget> the .iniouni of work 

 he lias to perform. 



The Exposition. 



I am afraid the daily press spread 

 abroad the impression that the Pan- 

 American suffered a calamity through 

 the storm. Nothing of the kind, except 



a few broken panes of glass and a few 

 days' delay in work, and that just now 

 is seriou-. a- e\iiy moment is needed. I 

 may a< w.ll ii,|ii,rt now that although 

 there are -pot- li.r,, ami there that are 



fini 



up that li.i- In. 11 iloii,- the pa-1 three 



weeks i- a /III,,. Ml m.ii ml- ate 



now coM'iiil \\iili a-pii,ilt. Kshiliit- will 

 be all in plate by Um ,. aid ol the « eek. 

 The landscape features are showing up 

 grandly. The Music Garden with its 

 180 beds will soon be gorgeous with its 

 thousands of spring flowers. On Satur- 

 day last every building and the tower 

 was a blaze of electricity. The Goddess 

 of Light holds her hand aloft 405 feet 

 above the ground. She is 30 feet high, 

 but does not lyok on her lofty perch big- 

 ger than Mrs. Nation — going in swim- 

 ming. Now, gentle reader, to say that 

 I have never seen such an electrical dis- 

 play would mean little, but those who 

 know say that the world has never seen 

 its equal or approaching it. But you 

 are all going to see this fairy land, so 

 I will say no more. 



Business has been very good. Grum- 

 blers and pessimists who said that they 

 could not see what benefit this great un- 

 dertaking would be to Buffalo will be 

 greatly deceived. All classes, from the 

 laboring man through all grades of in- 

 dustry and business, are already feeling 

 the great benefit from the increased work 

 and the large number of visitors. Some 

 days there have been fiowers enough, 

 but on many days there is not near 

 enough to go round. The bedding plant 

 and decorating business is also sure to 

 be a big advance on any previous year, 

 as all who pride themselves on their 

 home, and this is particularly a city of 

 detached residence homes, will want to 

 fix up a little extra and many a good 

 deal extra. , 



A Cote Little Thing. 



My attention was called to a small 

 paragraph in your Chicago contemporary 

 which reads as foUow's: 



Now the little man who wrote this 

 cute little paragraph knows very well 

 ago there was a 

 ■ounter in a store 

 :uid that was a 

 are they drew 

 I hair and many 

 lesses. Our de- 

 lot yet had a cut 

 l>ly because they 

 iin it at a profit. 



hat fovi 

 firm ha 

 right . 

 ladies' 

 teeth. 

 other 



li;n 



don't think tlu-y ecuihi iiin it 



but they have sold bulh-. - I-. m-e 



bushes, palms, bedding iilani- ami ,'\,iy- 

 thing else but cut flower-. -,i I \\a- not 

 the first or even the third to avail my- 

 self of the opportunity of getting near 

 the madding crowd at Easter time. 



No, it was not for information that 

 Mr. A. penned this; it was just a little 

 unkind cut and comes with very poor 

 grace, all things considered. If a patrol- 

 man had died that day I would have 

 been spared, for Mr. A. would have seen 

 an order ahead and felt kindly to all. 

 You must not think, my friends, when 

 you read the Buffalo notes in the Am. 

 Florist, that you are getting all the glo- 

 rious literature that Mr. Adams has 

 written for you. He writes spontaneous- 

 ly and voluminously and works in orig- 

 inal jokes and brilliant witticisms, hut. 

 alas! the profound and metaphysical 

 brain (hat wields the blue pencil in 



