JUNE 2S, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



J35 



Conservatories oi Miss Helen Gould, Irvington, N. V. 

 Erected by Lord & Burnham Co., New \'ork, for tlie late Jay Gould. 



cleaned up, though Kennicott Brcs. 

 Co. have about 200 dozen held back 

 to keep the supply good till July 4th. 

 This firm handled a total of 15,000 

 dozen this season, and estimate that 

 an equal amount was handled by 

 other local dealers, making a total of 

 30.000 dozen for Chicago this se.ison, 

 against about 20.000 dozen last year. 



Most of the Catholic school closings 

 come this week and it has kept the 

 shipping demand up to the full limit 

 of the supply of high grade stuff. 



It surely has been a great .)une and 

 we have never before heard such gen- 

 erally satisfactory reports from ev- 

 ery quarter. 



Mr. Washburn, of Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, says it has been his experience 

 that the best keeping carnations are 

 the newer fancy varieties. He finds 

 them not only the best shippers but 

 in best demand. At present America, 

 Crane and Bradt are in big demand at 

 $3.00 per 100. Hill is fine now and 

 brings $1.50 per 100. Hill is decidedly 

 the best white for summer with 

 them, and America has been superior 



to Crane for summer work up to date. 



Various Items. 



The wholesale houses will all close 

 early during July and August, at 

 5 p. m. 



Sam Pearce is the proud father of 

 a boy that arrived Monday for the ex- 

 press purpose of supplying a brother 

 for each of Sam's six girls. 



McKellar & Winterson are doing a 

 land office business in florists' sup- 

 plies as the result of their "clearing 

 sale" offer. 



Nick Wietor is nursing a pair of 

 very sore thumbs that were poisoned 

 by rose thorns. But he don't at- 

 tribute it to any insecticide on the 

 roses. Says his blood was out of or- 

 der and this was a forcible reminder 

 of the fact. 



Mrs. Horton, cashier at Bassett & 

 Washburn's, enjoyed a little fishing 

 trip recently and captured a 15-pound 

 muskallonge, which she had the pleas- 

 ure of exhibiting to friends first in 

 the natural state and later as the cen- 

 tral feature of a little dinner. 



Ed. Winterson says the local club 

 ought to have enough delegates to 

 the New York convention to fill a 

 special train and to go down with 

 decorated cars and colors flying. He 

 says he will supply the flags for one 

 car. 



The new houses to be built by Wei- 

 land & Risch will be six in number 

 and they will be 28x200 each. 



Recent visitors: C. J. Reardon, 

 Harvey, 111.; Albert Woodward, Lake 

 Geneva, W^is. 



James Jensen, formerly superin- 

 tendent of Humboldt Park, is doing 

 some landscape work on the grounds 

 of E. G. Uihlein's new summer home 

 at Lake Geneva. 



Mr. S. A. Tinker, proprietor of the 

 South Side Floral Co., at Austin, has 

 sold the property and the greenhouses 

 will be removed and the material sold. 



In the hardy garden at Lincoln park 

 I^ilium umbellatum is making a splen- 

 did show of color, and Lychnis chalce- 

 donica is beginning to add brilliance. 

 The delphiniums are gay now and 

 Anemone pennsylvanica is covered 



