AUGUST 30, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



397 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The market gives some indications 

 of the beginning of fall activity. There 

 is no real change in prices, but there 

 are fewer sacrifices. Good roses are 

 scarce, though there is an abundance 

 of short-stemmed stuff. Carnations 

 are coming in more freely and the 

 quality is fair for the season. The 

 present cool and comfortable weather 

 has helped all around. First-class as- 

 ters are now in better demand, but 

 there is an immense amount of poor 

 ones that can't be moved to advan- 

 tage. Hardy hydrangeas of first-class 

 quality anil with good long stems sell 

 well, but short-stemmed stock hangs 

 badly. 



Various Items- 



The pilgrims are straggling back 

 from New York, tired out but pleased 

 ■with their outing and all with a good 

 word to say for the hospitality of the 

 New York florists. 



The bowlers bring back the Queen 

 of Edgely cup, of which an engrav- 

 ing appears herewith, which they won 

 by acquiring the highest scores in 

 the first two games. This cup was 

 donated by the Floral Exchange, Phil- 

 adelphia, the originators of the new 

 rose. Queen of Edgely. 



McKeilar & Winterson have re- 

 ceived a shipment of bulbs of extra 

 fine quality. 



W. P. Kyle and wife, of K?nnicott 

 Bros. Co., are spending the vacation 

 of the former in Kalamazoo. 



Recent visitors: S. Alfred Baur. 

 Erie, Pa.; N. Bommersbach. Decatur. 

 Ill.;'c. P. Mueller, Wichita. Kans.; 

 Geo. A. Heinl and wife. Toledo. 0. 



The city is full of visitors on ac- 

 count of the annual meeting of the 

 G. A. R.. but the business of the flor- 

 ist shows no increase as the result 

 of their presence. 



BALTIMORE. 



Various Items. 



Following several weeks of excep- 

 tionally warm and dry weather las; 

 week gave us rain each day for six 

 days. Some copious showers, aad 

 more lighter ones, with electrical at- 

 mospheric disturbances, which in us- 

 ual seasons would have been followed 

 by a break in the torrid heat. But 

 yesterday was set to the same old 

 gauge, say, 96 deg.. with air loaded 

 with humidity enough to make man 

 and beast miserable. The nights, for- 

 tunately, are beginning to take on 

 their characteristic August coolness 

 and make some amends for the ardor 

 of the days. 



Carnations in this region are large- 

 ly housed, and those still afield are 

 growing more rapidly than during the 

 earlier season — not perhaps to their 

 benefit, since the growth now is lush 

 and weedy. Trade languishes and 

 open-air stuff overcrowds the market. 



John M. Rider, of Brooklyn-across- 

 the-Patapsco. is building a carnation 

 house, 26xl<"». to be heated by a hot 

 water coil, with wood for fuel. He is 

 one of our most successful growers, 

 an all-around thoroughly good fellow, 

 and the quantity of pinks and violets 

 he gets into market astonishes all who 

 are not natives. As to quality, why, 

 this new house is expressly designed 

 to impress the Carnation Society 

 when it meets here and to silence for- 

 ever the profane babblersi who pretend 

 to believe that the sacred soil of Anne 

 Arundel produces only. peas, states- 

 men and ■'watermillious." 



The Queen of Edgely Bowling Trophy. 

 Won by the Chicago team. 



The representatives of the trade 

 here attending the convention were 

 fewer than promised, but have, all re- 

 turned enthusiastic over their experi- 

 ences and handsome treatment in 

 Gotham. 



Until the receipt of the Review and 

 other trade papers it was difficult to 

 form an idea at this distance of what 

 was going on. For instance, the New 

 York Times, a first-class metropolitan 

 paper, announced Wednesday that Mr. 

 J. C. Vaughan, of Chicago, had been 

 elected president, evidently mixing up 

 the S. A. F. with some subsidiary 

 meeting, and Thursday it gave just 

 fifteen lines to the proceedings. On 

 Friday, the Baltimore Sun had a spe- 

 cial, or an Associated Press dispatch, 

 that "the exhibition under the au- 

 spices of the Society of American 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists" would be held next year in Bal- 

 timore, and would be the most im- 

 portant of its history: 



The daily papers in this latitude, 

 are, nevertheless, giving more atten- 

 tion to the discussion of the cultiva- 

 tion of flowers, the management and 

 decoration of our parks and public 

 gardens, the cultivation of orna- 

 mental and economic plants, etc. The 

 Sun frequently overhauls the Park 

 Board for its shortcomings and its 

 star-chamber methods in dealing with 

 their charge, which is the people's 

 pleasure grounds. That paper a few 

 days ago had a contribution of nearly 

 two columns from Theodore Eckardt, 

 on the varieties and distribution of 

 plants yielding commercial rubber. 



Mr. Eckardt is well posted in such 

 matters, has ideas and experience, and 

 the technical education and literary 

 skill to address intelligent readers. 

 He is endeavoring to get the co-oper- 

 ation of the trade here in a scheme 

 to establish a horticultural display 

 to run for several months, but its de- 

 tails are not fully developed. 



And the American, in its Sunday 

 edition, which has a great circulation 

 (and whose publisher. General Felix 

 -\gnus. by the way. is one of the most 

 enthusiastic amateur plant and tree 

 lovers in this vicinity, with a splendid 

 estate and beautiful gardens in one 

 of our loveliest subuibsl had this to 

 say editorially of the ever-expanding 

 u.se of flowers, and of the efforts of 

 growers to promote the interests of 

 their calling: 



"The attention which the conven- 

 tion of florists attracted shows how 

 much the business of beautifying life 

 with nature's gems has increased of 

 late years. This is a healthy sign, 

 both on account of the growth of the 

 love of flowers — for without a great 

 demand there would not be this cor- 

 respondingly large supply — and for the 

 flourishing condition and opportuni- 

 ties which this demand has infused 

 into the business itself. 



"The extent to which flowers are 

 used, especially in winter, is remark- 

 able. Thousands of dollars are spent 

 annually on their frail loveliness, and 

 the increase of wealth and magnifi- 

 cence in social entertainments has 

 caused them to be used with an al- 

 most fairy-like lavishness. One need 

 only to read accounts of fashionable 

 receptions, balls and weddings to see 

 in what vast quantities flowers and 

 plants are being grown to supply the 

 demand for them as the most beautiful 

 of decorations. As offerings of love, 

 of sympathy, of admiration, their use 

 is increasing daily, and so generally 

 is their use recognized that in our es- 

 tablished charities are particular ones 

 for supplying hospitals and the poor 

 sick with bloom to cheer the dreary 

 hours. 



"The florists of the country in band- 

 ing to call attention to their beauti- 

 ful wares are not only making a good 

 business stroke; they are also confer- 

 ring a benefit upon the country at 

 large." ' 



The belief somehow got currency 

 that your virile, versatile and victo- 

 rious correspondent, William Scott. 

 was to be in Baltimore yesterday, and 



