SEPTEMBER 20, IMO. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



473 



the books showed that the club was 

 in good financial condition and that 

 the membership is now down to ten. 

 Walter Mott. of Philadelphia, was a 

 visitor and rolled with the boys, im- 

 proving in each game he rolled. The 

 scores were as follows: 



12 3 4 3 Tot. Av. 



C. A. Kuehn....l3S 19!) Vii K2 14li T.s') 15S 



J. J. Beneke ....18i» 1"3 14U lli4 100 775 loB 



F.C.Weber Via 12T 121! 137 ... 52.i 131 



W. Adles I.i3 'M 110 lti2 ... 324 131 



J. W. Kunz Uf. Illfi I.'>1 148 117 IKS 128 



John Voung iml 144 144 113 ... .'i07 127 



Walter Mott .... '.IS 103 120 130 170 1127 125 



J. J, B. 



JOSEPH REEVE. 



We present herewith a portrait of 

 Mr. Joseph Reeve, now foreman of the 

 greenhouses of Mr. J. C. Murray, 

 Peoria, 111., who has made his mark 

 as a grower and as a student of his 

 profession. While in Chicago, with 

 Mr. A. McAdams. Mr. Reeve opened 

 the eyes of local florists with the mag- 

 nificent primroses he produced, which 

 left completely in the shade any seen 

 hei'e before. And he has been equally 

 successful with other plants. 



Mr. Reeve was born in Glasgow. 

 Scotland, in 1865. He was regularly 

 apprenticed to a florist and nursery- 

 man in the city of Ipswich, Suffolk, 

 England, at an early age. and after 

 serving his time became second gar- 

 dener at the fine old estate of Holy 

 Wells of the same city, which covers 

 some hundreds of acres in fine parks, 

 preserves and greenhouses. After 

 three years here, during which time 

 a great many prizes in all classes were 

 taken by the estate, he took a posi- 

 tion as gardener to James H. Luke, a 

 wealthy Quaker banker in Hertford- 

 shire. Here he was very successful, 

 taking all the leading prizes at the 

 local shows for orchids, plants and 

 chrysanthemums. 



At the age of 22 years he emigrated 

 to Canada and spent some time in To- 

 ronto on the Flemming estate, and 

 from there came to Chicago, where he 

 was for some time on a private place, 

 but later was employed in several com- 

 mercial places, and during the World's 

 Fair was on Mr. Thorpe's staff of 

 gardeners who had been attracted by 

 the horticultural features to be seen 

 and studied at the great exposition. 

 Later he became foreman of the green- 

 houses of John Goode & Co., of which 

 firm Mr. A. McAdams was a member 

 and eventually the successor, and held 

 this position for five and one-half 

 years. During this time he became 

 known as an expert plantsman, re- 

 ceiving marked recognition at the 

 flower shows and reading several 

 useful papers before the Chicago Flor- 

 ists' Club. 



Something over a year ago he ac- 

 cepted an offer to go to Peoria. 111., 

 as foreman of Mr. J. C. Murray's es- 

 tablishment, and since that time the 

 place has been enlarged and the nur- 

 sery business added, making it a 

 model place of about 35,000 square 

 feet of glass devoted to cut roses and 



carnations and bedding plants for the 

 city retail store. 



Like all our young men who have 

 received a thorough training in the 

 business, Mr. Reeve has shown him- 

 self to be a first-class all-around 

 grower, no variety of stock, no matter 

 how common, being too much trouble 

 to grow to its greatest perfection and 



be made profitable. And in each of 

 the places he has filled his diligence, 

 skill and executive ability have borne 

 the fruit that those virtues always 

 produce. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Reports of trade conditions are 

 somewhat conflicting. The number of 

 shipping orders has increased slightly 

 but the general volume of trade is 

 certainly no larger than last week and 

 possibly less. Good roses are in fairly 

 good demand but many carnations fail 

 to find purchasers. There seems to 

 have been an exceptionally good cut 

 from outdoor carnations this sea- 

 son. 



Though the weather has been chilly 

 and light frosts are reported from 

 some nearby points it needs a good 

 killing frost to put activity into the 

 market. Last year the first frost 

 came Sept. ISth and business condi- 

 tions were much better the same week 

 a year ago. Prices are much lower 

 now than then. 



Mr. E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. 

 Co., predicts that business will go by 

 fits and starts only from this time 



until at least two weeks after the 

 presidential election, or until the busi- 

 ness world has settled down after the 

 result is announced, whatever it may 

 be. 



Among roses Beauties hold first po- 

 sition as steadily as of yore. Buyers 

 seem never to tire of this rose and 

 a surplus is a great rarity. The man 

 with good Beauties has got a sure 

 thing on a good bank balance. 



Club Meeting. 



A preliminary meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Club was held at McKellar & 

 Winterson's last Saturday and steps 

 taken to inaugurate a successful series 

 of meetings during the winter season. 

 The first regular meeting will be held 

 in the Handel Hall building, 40 Ran- 

 dolph street, tomorrow (Friday) 

 evening. At this meeting Mr. Edgar 

 Sanders will submit a program for the 

 season, to be acted upon by the mem- 

 bers. President Hartshorne presided 

 at the preliminary meeting and looked 

 as though his European trip had 

 agreed with him. The secretary was 

 instructed to communicate with the 

 florists of Galveston and endeavor to 

 learn if many of the craft had suffered 

 from the recent storm that swept that 

 city. 



Various Items. 



Mr. Walter Retzer left last Satur- 

 day for St. Louis for a week's visit. 



Arnold Ringier, of W. W. Barnard 

 & Co., has been conflned to the house 

 by a severe attack of sciatica and is 

 still unable to get about. 



E. H. Hunt has issued a handsome- 

 ly illustrated and finely printed fall 

 list of palms and ferns. 



Ed. Winterson says he did "get his 

 money's worth" in New York and 

 there was some little in the bunch 

 too. 



C. S. Stewart has returned from 

 Omaha and there is now a Mrs. Stew- 

 art. We understand that he will have 

 charge of a city salesroom for Adolph 

 Poehlmann, who now has his big new 

 establishment at Morton Grove in 

 working order. 



H. Clifton, who has a store at 351 

 Chicago ave,, has opened a branch 

 store on Chicago ave. near Robey 



St. 



Mr. E. E. Pieser returned last Fri- 

 day. He went to a point near Quebec 

 after the convention. 



Mr. S. A. Wolcott, of Batavia, has 

 been regaling the boys with some fish 

 stories. He caught two muskalonge 

 that measured seven feet — that is 

 when the two were placed end to end 

 and the tape line used on the com- 

 bination. But he allows the flrst part 

 of the story to sink in well before 

 adding the second part. 



Geo. Souster, of Elgin, was a recent 

 visitor. 



"YOU NEED IT in your business"— 

 The Florists' Manual, by Wm. Scott. 



