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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



to do so) 

 heavily. 

 and Ailli\ 

 read ineoi 

 Bible for ; 



lid fined 

 •lit Geo. 

 k'- issue 

 ii'spon- 

 ois dur- 



ing the past score of moons or so. 



Bert Leavitt, Welch Hrotliors' right- 

 hand man, is in bad condition physically 

 as the result of a fall at his home. He 

 has been away from the store for two or 

 three weeks and there is no immediate 

 hope for his return. 



he t.ini a..Hii -, lir lia- lriii,,^,.,l 1,, a lili,' 

 location on City Hall avenue where his 

 courteous manner and knowledge of busi- 

 ness can hardly fail to draw a good 

 degree of patronage from the constantly 

 passing crowds. 



Monday morning. May 20, just in time 

 for me to make a note of it before mail- 

 ing, comes the news of the death of 

 Bert Leavitt. spoken of above. Blood 

 poison set in as the res\ilt of a broken 

 arm at the time of the fall and produced 

 this res\ilt at the city hospital, where he 

 was taken some two,wee"^s since. 



J. S. Mantek. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The supply of all stock is still large, 

 but prices are a trifle firmer in tone on 

 tlic best tirades, though weaker on the 

 pom .|ii;iiltic-. uliich last form an en- 

 lai^iiii;: |ii .i|i.ji 1 1(111 of the stock received. 

 Fni -.Mi.il (|;i\> the weather has been 

 dark, gloomy and rainy as well as cool, 

 and this naturally has not benefited the 

 plants. For the best Brides and Maids 

 $5 is about the top price, though we 

 hear of a few specials bringing $G. The 

 best Gates go as high as $8 and Lib- 

 erties up to $10. But the great bulk 

 of fair quality teas go at $3 to $4 and 

 the great quantities of culls sell at as 

 low as .50 cents to $1. The best Beauties 

 still hold up to $3 a dozen, but there 

 are very few of them and the poorest 

 are sold at as low as $2 a hundred, 

 with all sorts of prices in between. 



In carnations a few extra fancy bring 

 ■$3, but very fine flowers can be had at 

 $L50 to .$2, with good ones at $1 to 

 •$1.25, and odds and ends in big lots 

 are cleaned up at 40 to 75 cents, 



Paeonies arc moving very well at $5 

 for good slock, but the poor don't go at 

 all. Parrot tulips sell fairly well at 

 •$4, but the other sorts are apparently 

 not \vMnir(|. his can't be given away. 

 \Vc .iM- 111 iIm mi, Idle of the lilac season 

 anil It Li'i- \,iy well at moderate prices. 



The demand concentrates more and 

 more on the best grades of everything, 

 and the difference in prices of the best 

 and the poorest is becoming wider all 

 the time. It is rare that there is a sur- 

 plus of really e.\tra grade stock, but a 

 surplus of poor quality stuflT seems to 

 now be always with us. 



Local demand is very light and were 

 it not for the shipping trade the mar- 

 ket would be very badly demoralized in- 

 deed. 



The lily situation has materially im- 

 proved and good blooms are now quoted 

 at $8 to $10. The latter price will pre- 

 vail for Decoration Day. 



The supply for Decoration Day prom- 

 ises to be sufficient to meet the usual 

 demand, but quality will probably not 

 be up to the usual standard unless 

 weather conditions change very quickly. 



Club Meeting. 



At the meeting of tin l-l.m-is' Club 

 last Friday evening ,\li I'mil l\..).an- 

 ka's paper on growiuL' ilie im Ihhhii I'or 

 seed, which appear- ,1-. « li.i ,■ in this 

 issue, wMs i-iMil ;iip| ,li-rii-„.,l. Thc gen- 

 eral fiTline , irj ilir eMi^vcrs seemed 



to be tli.ii ilh' V' liiiiirii was not a 

 |.i.ilit:ilil, |il;iiii lo 'jiiiu lor this mar- 

 kri. ,i~ liinn- wniiM not pay an ade- 

 ,|ii.iir |,i i,r' |mi lin.'lv j;rown plants. Mr. 

 \iieii-i .liii L'rii-. \\1mi formerly grew 

 ,|Miir ,1 iiiiiiiIhi, h.i- |iraiii.-ally aban- 

 .1,1111(1 ilicii ciiliiiic i((i iliat reason. 

 Il,(. |,,i|.(i-. Il(,^^.■^.■l^ «..- iduiiil very in- 

 tiii-tiii- 1111(1 the thank- ni the club 

 were voted Mr. Kopanka for his essay. 

 Little else but routine business was 

 transacted. 



At the howlin,.' session after the 

 iinct ill,,: Ml- Idliii Ucardon developed 

 iiiii\|i(( led |i(i\\(i and passed up to the 

 I, -.(I (la-. iiiakiiiL; (.lie score of 163. Ed 

 W intcrson's best was 184. But the main 

 interest now centers in tlie league games 

 on Tuesday nights. 



Various Items. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. are receiving 

 some very fine longiflorum lilies from 

 Klehm's Xurseries and will have a big 

 lot of tliriii Ici lle((.rali.in Day, 



McKellai and Wimki-m,, have just 

 receivi'il :i l(,i (d ii(\i lia-lvci- from Ger- 

 many and lia\e nialirially -tiengthened 

 their line of supplies for Commencement 

 and Decoration Day demands. 



E. H. Hunt is receiving some extra 

 grade lily of the valley and will have 

 some heavy consignments of it for Dec- 

 oration Day. This place is being fitted 

 throughout with new electric lights. 



Pochlniaiiii lii(,-. I'd. are now estab- 

 lished ill lllcll ( lilale, ii ,|>lalt.TS in the 

 basemeiii ,,i whai -li,,iil,| i eally he known 

 as thc (lit I'h.uei hiiildiiiLi,' as it how 

 contains no less than eleven wholesale 

 florists. 



Recently reported reductions in the 

 price of glass must have been based upon 

 erroneous conclusions. Glass of the 16x 

 24 double A grade is still quoted in the 

 neighborhood of $7.00 a box. The low- 

 est quotation one large buyer of glas's 

 could get on Tuesday was $6.48 a box in 

 large lots. 



Walter Kreitling & Co. put up a very 

 pretty decoration at the Chicago Club 

 last Saturday when Mr. James Deering 

 entertained the French Ambassador, M, 

 Cambon, at dinner. There were 36 

 covers and the table was set in the form 

 of a square. The inner edges of the ta- 

 bles were studded with red and white 

 electric lights and from these edges 

 there sloped to the center a supporting 

 frame ^^■ork covered with hardy fern 

 fronds, and in the center was a huge 

 circle of yellow variegated parrot tulips 

 which surrounded a fniint.iin enrlain- 

 ing gold fish. At cadi eornir .if the 

 inner square was laid a iIhl' .f led and 

 white carnations and blue (din i1,i\mis. 

 two American and t\\,i I'kikIi. I:, 

 tween these were placed l.m-i Ihuh In - 

 of red paeonies. On the lal.le- was a 

 tracery .d' Siinaitieii and apple blossoms. 

 Over th( l;ilil.- \\a- a huge canopy of 

 lilac, wliili an 1 |iiii|,l,. mixed. The ef- 

 fect was e\( ( lleiit. I'lic price of the dec- 

 oration was $200. 



F. Blondeel has succeeded to the busi- 

 ness of F. Grosse & Co., at Oak Park. 



The Geo. Wiftbold Co. recently re- 

 ceived a large importation of kentias 

 and araucariaa of large sizes and they 

 arrived in excellent condition. 



C, C, Pollworth, Milwaukee, was a 

 visitor last Mondav, 



1 he failure id .\ugust Dressel seems 

 to have been ,, niid.de and Mr. Dressel 

 has the syiii|iaih\ nf iii.niy friends in the 

 trade. At lie iiniii.ii -ale of the stock 

 held last wc k vei.\ niddeiate prices were 

 realized and it is feared there will be 

 little for unsecured creditors. It is cer- 

 tainly a very unfortunate conclusion of 

 a long business experience and a life of 

 hard work. A side venture in the brick 

 business is partly responsible for present 

 conditions. 



Jlrs. E. F. Winterson has been con- 

 fined to her home by illness for some 

 time and .seems to make little progress 

 toward restoration to her usual good 

 health. 



Bowling. 



Tile third series in the league contest was 

 played last Tuesday evening and the scores fol- 

 low. Some very remarkable spares were made 

 by Ed, Winterson. Chas. Balluff and G«o, As- 

 mus that drew tumultuous applause from pro- 

 fessionals present. In these games the Whole- 

 salers won from the Retailers and the Growers 

 took a heavy fall out of the Seedsmen, None 

 of those dollar prizes for 200 scores were won, 

 though G. StoUery came within one pin of one, 



WHOLESALERS. 



E, F, Winterson 170 14S 152 



C.Hughes 144 124 142 



W, S, Heffron 112 120 123 



G. L. Grant 112 153 166 



Jos. Foerster 191 178 193 



Totals 729 723 776 



RETAILERS. 



C. Balluff 184 1.10 164 



W. Kreitling 118 89 105 



P, J, Hauswirth 141 160 135 



o. Kreitling 105 129 131 



Gen. A.(imus 133 158 191 



Totals '. 6S1 666 726 



GROWERS, 



G. StoUery ISO 142 199 



F. Matti 149 122 153 



N. A. Schmitz 134 124 135 



J. Paulus , ,,, 10.-1 121 163 



F. StoUery 143 191 154 



Totals 711 700 804 



SEEDSMEN. 



,Tno. Degnan 115 137 197 



C, A. Hunt 121 122 119 



Duncan 124 175 159 



Chadwick Ill 112 97 



Nagel 86 



Scott 115 135 



Totals 557 661 707 



The Market- 



There is little ehange in the trade 

 since my last writing. Stock is as plenti- 

 ful as ever and the prices are still going 

 down ; the quality is poor on account of 

 the warm weather. The cut of roses and 

 carnations during the past month has 

 been enormous. 



In roses the best Meteors, Brides and 

 :\laids are sold at $3 per 100, and from 

 that ddwn to $1. Only a very few choice 

 (.11.- aie now coming in and the second 

 ■jiadi -i(..k is very plentiful and about 



I ':i I iia I idii- are still ver.v fine and of 



'-■ I ,1.1,1. While and Daybreak are 



alidiii ili.i lie-i -idlers; of the other va- 

 rieties, plenty are going to waste. Price 

 of fancies is $1,50 per 100; good stock, 

 $1, and common grades, 50 cents per 100. 

 All can be bought cheaper in 1000 lots. 



Paeonies are coming in now and are 

 sold from $4 to $5. Dark red are the 

 only ones in at this writing. Sweet peas 

 are good in quality and color and are 

 bringing from 50 cents down to 25 cents 

 per 100. Cornflowers, at 25 cents per 

 100. have little call, though very good. 

 Good vallev brings $3, but is not plenti- 

 ful. 



