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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JULY 



1900. 



out there. The geranium beds are 

 about perfection and looli as if planted 

 four months. They are Nutt. Alphonse 

 Riccard, Mrs. Hill, Ernest Lauth and 

 old General Grant, the best of all yet 

 where a large mass of scarlet coloring 

 is desired. 



That Tired Feeling. 



Every visitor says. "O'h, yes, we have 

 had nice rains." We get none. They 

 tell me the race course is so dry at 

 Fort Erie, over the Niagara river, that 

 they have to sprinkle the track be- 

 tween each race; at least this is what 

 Billy Kasting. S. A. Anderson and W. 

 Belsey Scott tell me. Perhaps this is 

 exaggerated and partly imagination. 

 Sometimes the results of a race will 

 produce a parching, feverish and sink- 

 ing sensation, and instead of exhilai-a- 

 tion you wish you had hold of the hose 

 and were watering a bench of Boston 

 ferns, from which the returns may be 

 slower but much surer. W. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Monday opened with good business 

 and a fine lot of shipping orders, but 

 on Tuesday the dealers found they 

 were up against the real summer dull- 

 ness, stock (with the very few good 

 roses as an exception) selling at any 

 old price. The usual report is: "The 

 less said about the market the bet- 

 ter." 



There is a tremendous glut of sweet 

 peas and the very finest are sacrificed 

 at any price. Axtell of Evanston sent 

 25,000 to McKellar & Winterson Tues- 

 day and the price they brought would 

 hardly pay for the picking, though 

 they were extra fine. There are lit- 

 erally sweet peas to burn and no buy- 

 ers except the fakirs. 



Peter Reinberg is cutting some 

 good Goiden Gates, all of which sell 

 well; the best bring $8 a hundred. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. say they are 

 handling an immense amount of stuff, 

 but at prices that wear on their nerves. 



It is truly a fakir's market now and 

 without these gentry it would take 

 many wagons to cart away dead stuff. 



Various Items. 



John Hoeft is adding two new mod- 

 ern carnation houses, each 20x203, to 

 his plant at Park Ridge. 



Adam Harrer has rented his houses 

 at Niles Center to a vegetable grower. 



E. E. Pieser of Kennicott Bros. Co. 

 leaves this week for West Baden. Ind., 

 the first of his series of short summer 

 outings. He lakes his vacation in 

 chunks, as it were, from now till Sep- 

 tember. An eastern trip will be in- 

 cluded this summer. 



O. C. Doerrier will next Saturday 

 open a store at Evanston Ave. and 

 Gray St., in Lake View, and it is un- 

 derstood he will also soon erect a 

 range of glass. 



C. W. McKellar has been cal'.ed to 



his old home in Chillicothe, O'., by the 

 serious illness of his father. 



H. Schiller is entirely rebuilding hi^ 

 store and greenhouses on West Madi- 

 son St., and will have a model estab- 

 lishment when the work is completed. 



A. Rosen, bookkeeper for McKellir 

 & Winterson, is back from a Iw-o 

 weeks' vacation spent in Louisv.lle. 

 Ky. He says the Louisville florists 

 were unusually busy with commence- 

 ment work when he was there. 



William Desmond, an old time flor- 

 ist, very prominent in the trade here 

 in the early days, died of heart dis- 

 ease last Saturday night. Death came 

 while he was alighting from a Cottage 

 Grove Ave. car at 50th St., near his 

 home. He was 60 years old and un- 

 married. 



The Globe Nursery and Greenhouses. 

 53d, Adams and Jackson Sts. (Austin), 

 are building four houses, each 12x.O 



Bowling. 



Following are the scores of the first 

 three games for position on the team 

 to represent Chicago in the New York 

 tournament. Fred Stollery got the 

 highest average and there went with 

 it a box of cigars offered by Ed. Win- 

 terson. 



12 3 Tot. Av. 



P. Stollery 173 113 157 443 14S 



Wilson 137 142 148 427 142 



Hauswirth 139 155 131 425 142 



Degnan 156 136 130 422 141 



AVinterson 1.37 115 164 416 139 



Kreitling lOS 95 137 340 113 



The contest for a bowling ball be- 

 tween Degnan. Hauswirth and Win- 

 terson resulted as follows: 



Games Tot. Ave, 



Degnan 10 1594 159 



Hau.swirth 10 K2H 153 



Winterson 10 150S 151 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



From the middle of the month until 

 the 28th trade was Al most of the 

 time, weddings and graduations, you 

 see. The morning of the 29th fell flat 

 and stale and ever since it has looked 

 as if all the honeymoons were over 

 and the last diploma had been given. 

 Thus closes the campaign of '99-'00, 

 which has not revolved so swiftly 

 about the "Hub" as predicted, but has 

 really been a successful season, every- 

 thing considered. But where is the 

 fairness of prices going up on every- 

 thing the grower has to buy and going 

 down on everything he has to sell? 

 There is a little complaint about col- 

 lections being slow. With general bus- 

 iness as good as now reported, the re- 

 tail fiorist ought to be able to keep 

 his ledger fairly well cleaned up and 

 give the grower the benefit. 



Prices: The best roses at the co- 

 operative market got up to 8 cents, 

 and the best ordinary kinds of carna- 

 tions touched XV2 cents a day or two; 

 6 cents is the highest just now on roses 

 and 50 cents per 100 will start about 



all the pinks. A fair supply of out- 

 door blossoms at usual prices. 



News? Scarce. 



Houghton & Clark have on their 

 look of superiority again. This time 

 Helen Gould has been in and ordered 

 goods for Wellesley's class day. As 

 the delivery was largely made from 

 Freeman & Fletcher's new sweet pea 

 "Royal Purple." there is an autumnal 

 tinge to the atmosphere out West 

 Newton way. B. T. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business was a little better the past 

 week than it has been for some time, 

 owing to the extra demand caused by 

 funeral work. Saturday and Sunday 

 nearly all the florists were busy with 

 this kind of work and white flowers 

 were scarce and all kinds of outside 

 flowers sold well. The supply of roses 

 and carnations is limited and the best 

 of these stocks sell out clean each day. 

 Beauties have been in good demand 

 but are very scarce; the best sell at $3 

 per dozen; Meteors and Kaiserins at 

 $-4 and $5 per 100, and other roses at 

 $2 and $3. Brides and Maids are small 

 and still badly mildewed and only good 

 for work. Sweet peas are still very 

 plentiful and bring 20 cents per 100 or 

 $1.50 per 1000. They are badly water- 

 ooaked and many are unsalable. Car- 

 nations hold out fairly well. Pink and 

 white are the principal colors and the 

 price runs from $1 to $1.50 per 100. 

 Few carnations have gone to waste 

 the past season and little or no com- 

 plaint is heard about them. Smilax is 

 plentiful and sells well at $12.50. 



Notes. 



The second meeting of the exhibi- 

 tion committee was held Thursday af- 

 ternoon. All were present except Mr. 

 Kunz, who was sick. The preliminary 

 list was put in shape for the printer 

 and the Shaw prizes ready to be in- 

 spected by the directors of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden. F. J. Fillmore 

 resigned from the committee and P. 

 H. Weinhardt was put in his place. 

 The committee will meet again when 

 the lists are out, which will be some 

 time next week. The committee on 

 hall is expected to report by that time. 



The trustees of the St. Louis Flor- 

 ists' Club will meet this week and com- 

 plete arrangements for our annual pic- 

 nic, which will be held some time this 

 month. 



Don't forget the meeting of the club 

 Thursday afternoon, July 12. at 3 

 o'clock. 



Thomson, Anderson & Kennedy are 

 very busy just now. They are building 

 a $5,000.00 house at the Missouri Bo- 

 tanical Garden, a $2,500.00 one for 

 George Walbart on Grand avenue, and 

 a $500.00 conservatory for Judge Sed- 

 don, on Watterman avenue, which Is 

 nearly completed. 



The St. Louis delegation which go to 



