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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



SEPTEMBER 6, 19O0. 



James Young and son returned with 

 him. The others will not return until 

 the latter part of this week. 



Mr. A. G. Greiner, of 4220 Lee ave- 

 nue, will make a large display of cacti 

 at the Exposition this year. Mr. 

 Greiner has 14,000 varieties to select 

 from at his place. 



Shaw's Garden was open to visitors 

 yesterday (Sunday) for its annual au- 

 tumnal inspection. The showers no 

 doubt kept thousands away, still the 

 crowd was large. Mr. James Gurney, 

 as usual for the past thirty-five years, 

 ,was out to greet the visitors, and 

 everything looked in tip-top shape. 

 The garden will not be open on Sun- 

 day again until June. 1901, but it is 

 open to visitors every week day in the 

 year. J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Trade continues to improve and is 

 good for the season. Roses range in 

 price from $2 to ?4 per 100 and the 

 best easily bring the top price, though 

 there are not very many of first grade. 

 Carnations are improving in quality 

 and go at from 75 cents to |1 a hun- 

 dred for good to extra, while poor 

 grades are sold as low as 40 cents a 

 hundred. Asters are in less supply 

 and better demand. Good ones sell at 

 from $1 to $1.50 per 100, and we hear 

 of a few extra choice ones bringing as 

 much as $2. Auratum lilies are selling 

 very well at ?1.50 a dozen. Smilax is 

 not so plenty and sells at $10 to $12 

 a hundred. Hardy hydrangeas are in 

 fair demand at $4 to $6 per 100. Gladi- 

 olus are about gone. A few light col- 

 ored ones sell at 50 cents a dozen, but 

 dark colored ones don't move at all. 

 Tuberoses are moving better and go &t 

 $3 to $4 per 100 spikes. The supply of 

 American Beauties is improving. 

 Shorts sell^at $4 to $6 per 100, medium 

 at 18 to $12 and long at $15 to $18. 

 There has been a glut of poor adian- 

 tum. Good stock sells at 50 cents to 

 $1 a hundred. 



Various Items. 



The pilgrims returning from New 

 York found the return trip much less 

 pleasant than going. The thousands 

 of G. A. R. people headed Cbicagoward 

 filled all trains and made it almost im- 

 possible to secure berths. Several 

 have "tales of woe" to tell. 



The Queen of Edgely bowling trophy 

 Is on display at McKellar & Winter- 

 son's and is attracting a good deal of 

 attention. Mr. Winterson had to give 

 his personal bond for the delivery of 

 the cup at Buifalo next year and has 

 something of a white elephant on his 

 hands, as the club hasn't a home or a 

 set of glass cases such as owned by the 

 Philadelphia boys. But now we have 

 something to display maybe we can 

 get the glass case. 



One thing the boys badly missed in 

 their last game at New York was a 

 little encouragement from their own 

 people. Philadelphia and Buffalo had 



rooters galore, but during the last 

 game not a Chicagoan, outside of the 

 players, was present. No wonder the 

 boys felt lonely and consequently 

 somewhat discouraged. 



A bunch of about 15 Chicago florists 

 ■were .spectators when MT. Fitzsimmons 

 extended the left hand to Mr. Sharkey. 



G. H. Pieser is again at his desk at 

 Kennicott Bros. Co., and W. P. Kyle 

 has returned from Kalamazoo. 



Recent visitors: F. Haupt, Louis- 

 ville, Ky.; C. A. Birn, Nashvill-^, 

 Tenn. 



B. H. Hunt is adding a new ice box 

 or cool room 12x7i4 feet, which will 

 give him the additional storage cap- 

 acity needed by his growing business. 



Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Bassett have re- 

 turned from Delavan Lake, and Mrs. 

 Horton has returned from an enjoy- 

 able outing in Colorado. 



F. F. Benthey received a few dozen 

 Fitzwygram chrysanthemums recently. 

 But they were only the size of large 

 asters and sold at 75 cents a dozen. 



Geo. Stollery looks as though his 

 European trip had agreed with him. 



F. W. Martin lias started in busi- 

 ness for himself at 280 to 290 Fortieth 

 St., near Langley Ave. i 



H. Duderstadt and family, of 32 Oak 

 Place, have returned from a five weeks' 

 visit in Indianapolis. 



Mr. B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., 

 Philadelphia, is in town, and reports 

 excellent business in the florists' 

 supply line. 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle. 



Blue Hydrangea Hortensla Blooms:— 

 Applv water in which alum is dissolved, 

 at the rate of 1 ounce to the gallon o£ 

 water. Once a fortnight is sufficiently 

 often to do this. Iron-filings mixed with 

 tlie soil in small quantity, and potting 

 in peat naturally impregnated with iron, 

 have a similar effect. 



Mildew on Grapes:— Mix i^ oz. sul- 

 phide of potasium in 1 gallon of water, 

 and syringe the vines at intervals of ten 

 days. After the destruction of the mil- 

 dew, let the bunches be washed with 

 clear rain-water. Berries on which the 

 mildew has rested will not swell, and 

 must be cut out of the bunches. Water 

 at a temperature of 145 deg:rees will also 

 destroy mildew, and not injure the vines 

 or fruit. 



Lily-buds Deformed :— Sclerotinia sclero- 

 tiorum, a minute fungus, is the main 

 cause of the lily disease, being aided by 

 the presence of "green fly." Spray at 

 once with a solution of potassium sul- 

 phide. The bulbs should be examined 

 in the autumn, and all those having mi- 

 nute black bodies (sclerotia) about the 

 size of a turnip-seed imbedded in the 

 scales of the bulb should be destroyed, 

 as the mycelium of the fungus is in the 

 tissues of such, and will start the dis- 

 ease next season. 



Paeony buds not Expanding:— The re- 

 sult doubtless of weakness, brought about 

 by long-continued lack of moisture in the 

 soil at a depth from the surface where 

 the roots mostly are found. This pre- 

 vents the absorption of plant food, even 

 if it be present in the soil. Paeonies 

 are great consumers of nutriment, and 

 when grown in borders of mixed plants 

 and shrubs, they are seldom afforded 

 enough manure for their sustenance. 

 Hence loss of buds, small flowers and 

 foliage, and short duration of the period 



of tiowering. Land for paeonies should 

 be trenched 3 spits deep, and heavily 

 manured at the start, as well as annu- 

 ally. 



The Seeding of Begonia Gloire de Lor- 

 raine: — In the Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 April 21, Mr. Coomber writes about Be- 

 gonia Gloire de Lorraine being shy to 

 seed. In the g.irden of Hornby Castle, 

 Lancaster, there is a small plant with 

 fourteen pods bearing seed, and the plant 

 which bears them was in bloom most of 

 the winter, and is now so full of bloom 

 as to almost hide the foliage. .\ number 

 of shoots suitable for making cuttings 

 were taken from plants last September 

 which have bloomed in thumbs, and I 

 notice that some of these are likewise 

 carrying seed-vessels. There can be no 

 doubt that these plants were cuttings 

 taken from the parent seeding-plant, and 

 possibly from other plants which do bear 

 seed. Cuttings from certain plants 

 could be taken that would always fur- 

 nish seed, providing the flowers are prop- 

 erly fertilized. 



Asters Damping Off:— The asters are 

 attacked by a fungus which enters them 

 below or near the surface of the soil, 

 and passes upwards, causing discolor- 

 ation and softening of the plants. It is 

 a form of damping off, though the fun- 

 gus which causes it is not the one which 

 brings about most cases of this trouble. 

 Use the same precautions as tor all 

 damping off. namely as much ventila- 

 tion as possible, and careful watering. 

 If the soil were top-dressed with some 

 fungicide like "Veltha," or sprinkled 

 with finely-powdered iron sulphate mixed 

 with a large quantity of ashe.? and some 

 quicklime, the early stages of the fun- 

 gus would be checked. 



The Gardeners' Magazine. 



Sparaxis:— You cannot do better than 

 plant the bulbs in a well-drained border, 

 placing them about six inches deep and 

 from four to six inches apart. They can 

 also be successfully grown in pots, and 

 if you desire to cultivate a few this way 

 we advise tive bulbs to five-inch pots, 

 putting the bulbs in when the pot is 

 half full of soil. Use a fairly rich com- 

 post, drain the pots well, aiid over the 

 drainage put a few flakes of dried cow 

 manure. As regards plunging and water- 

 ing treat as for other bulbous plants. 



Roof Gardens on Churches:— The Rev. 

 Dr. A. C. Dixon, pastor of a Baptist 

 church at Pittsburg, proposes to build a 

 new church at a cost of $200,000. The 

 most interesting point in connection with 

 this ediflce is that it will have a roof 

 garden with plants, electric lighting, 

 elevators, movable seats, and a plat- 

 form, the latter to be roofed over like a 

 stage. We have often heard of and seen 

 trees and plants growing accidentally on 

 the tops of churches, but this is the first 

 time we have heard of a church with a 

 roof garden; evening services in summer 

 would doubtless be well attended under 

 such conditions. 



The King and the Botanist:— An in- 

 teresting anecdote illustrative of the 

 geniality of the King of Sweden and 

 Norway, is retailed in the Echo de Paris 

 by M. Goston Bonnier, the botanist. M. 

 Bonnier was botanizing near Stockholm, 

 when he met a stranger similarly occu- 

 pied. The two botanists fraternized, and 

 M. Bonnier suggested that they should 

 lunch together at an inn. "Xo, come 

 home and lunch with me instead," said 

 the stranger; and he led the way to the 

 palace and opened the gate. M. Bonnier 

 was naturally astonished: but his new 

 acquaintance was most apologetic. 

 "I'm sorry," he said, "but I happen to 

 be the King of this country, and this is 

 the only place I have in which to enter- 

 tain anybody." So they went in and 

 lunched, and talked botany together all 

 the afternoon. 



Penzance Sweetbriers :— Tour opinion 

 on the merits of the race of sweetbriers 

 raised by the late Lord Penzance is a 

 mistaken one. It is evident from your 



