OCTOBER IS, 1900. 



The Weekly Horists' Review* 



585 



Display of fancy Caladiums and other plants by E. L. Charles, Columbus, O., 

 at the Ohio State Fair. 



gentlemen know their business and 

 say that they do not need carnations 

 till the end of December. House aft- 

 er house is filled with three varieties 

 of roses, and they are not the kinds 

 you would find in many cities. They 

 are Golden Gate, and a white sport of 

 it they have named Ivory, and Mme. 

 Chatenay, the pink rose, which is cer- 

 tainly not as good as Bridesmaid. All 

 of these roses bear most freely, but 

 many people want a better quality. 



Anyone visiting Washington should 

 see Mr. Geo. Field's orchids. His 

 place is near the fine home of ex-Pres- 

 ident Gude, where we roosted most 

 comfortably for the night. We found 

 Mr. G. F. packing hundreds of sprays 

 of Cattleya labiata. It was the Sab- 

 bath morning, but the orchids bloomed 

 and were being packed most skillfully 

 for the New York market, and we 

 gained a wrinkle on how to ship or- 

 chids. 



Wide, rather flat, houses that once 

 grew roses are now filled with cattle- 

 yas of all the useful species, cypripe- 

 diums, and all as vigorous as pie 

 plants in May. A long narrow house 

 filled with Dendrobium formosum al- 

 bum is superlatively good. I have 

 never before seen this orchid managed 

 so well. You could see growths and 

 buds and money sticking all over it. 

 Mr. Field knows how to grow orchids 

 and his collection is well worth see- 

 ing. 



If you visit Washington during the 

 pleasant months don't fail to visit by 

 trolley car a place called "John's 

 Cabin," a beautiful resort ten miles 

 up the Potomac, a delightful spot 

 where river and woodland delights the 

 eye and higher senses and where there 

 is no need of neglecting the Inner 



man, all of which was enjoyed to our 

 heart's content. We would never have 

 seen this, nor many other beautiful 

 parts of Washington, but for the kind 

 guidance of Mr. Oliver. 



And then we travelled to the busy 

 city of many hills where we saw sev- 

 eral interesting things horticulturally, 

 but of Baltimore, next week if you 

 please. 



A long attenuated young man was 

 being shown over the botanic gardens 

 by one of the fellows that hang 

 around the gate and call themselves 

 guides. He marched his victim up to 

 <T large tub of rhapis as if it was a 

 mummy and I overheard this remark- 

 able information: "This plant, sir, in 

 its native country grows 300 feet 

 high." "Indeed! Extraordinary!" 



W. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Business is good and conditions are 

 satisfactory for the season in spite 

 of election disturbance. There is .a 

 big supply, but it contains much of 

 poor quality. Several shippers note 

 more complaints than usual as to car- 

 nations being asleep on arrival and 

 it would seem that with many grow- 

 ers the carnation suffered in vitality 

 during the recent heated term. We 

 still lack a killing frost, now at least 

 two weeks overdue in this section, 

 but weather is cooler and a little more 

 seasonable than last week. Prices are 

 a little firmer all along the line and 

 good tea roses are quoted at $5.00, 

 seconds going at $2 and ?3. The pro- 

 portion of shipping quality is, how- 

 ever, rather low in many cases, and 



one dealer tells of getting only 85 

 shipping flowers out of a thousand. 

 White roses are a little scarce. 



The funeral of Vice-President Far- 

 go, of the American Express Co., on 

 Tuesday caused a very large local de- 

 mand for funeral flowers. Many elab- 

 orate arrangements were sent and th2 

 display was unusually fine. 



Chrysanthemums are coming in 

 more freely and next week a fairly 

 general supply in variety is expected, 

 though we hear reports from some 

 growers that their mums are from a 

 week to ten days later than last year. 



Beauties hold up well in price and 

 demand continues brisk. The best 

 bring $3 a dozen readily. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. received this 

 week some Soliel de October chrysan- 

 themums, yellow, that were fine 

 enough to command $5.00 a dozen. 



Various Items. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 to be held tomorrow (Friday) evening 

 at 40 Randolph st., a paper on violets 

 will be read by Mr. Ernest Weber and 

 the annual election of officers will 

 take place. 



An important trade event next Wed- 

 nesday and Thursday, October 24 and 

 25, will be an auction sale of palms 

 and other decorative plants at McKel- 

 lar & Winterson's at which over 

 $5,000.00 worth of plants will be sold 

 for the Harms Park Floral Co. 



E. H. Hunt is showing a fine line of 

 silk cords for tying fancy boxes of cut 

 flowers. 



Adolph H. Poehlmann will open a 

 city salesroom at 55 Wabash Av., Nov. 

 10. 



The wife of Geo. W. Scott, the West 

 Madison St. Florist and undertaker, 

 died last Monday. 



Henry Smith, of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., was a visitor Monday, and Mr. 

 Thompson, the South Haven seeds- 

 man, passed through the city on his 

 way to Florida. 



A big fire across the street from the 

 seed warehouse of the Albert Dickin- 

 son Co. last Tuesday night at one time 

 threatened to destroy it, but good 

 work on the part of the firemen pre- 

 vented serious damage. 



The daily papers report that Wm. 

 Stoeffers, an employe of a south side 

 florist is missing and that a reward 

 has been offered for information 

 about him. Foul play is suspected as 

 he was supposed to have recently re- 

 ceived a legacy from Germany. 



C. L. Washburn has returned from 

 a short trip to nearby western cities. 



A new implement seen at McKellar 

 & Winterson's is the "Lightning Com- 

 pressed Air Sprayer," for the spraying 

 of insecticides, etc. It Is a two-gallon 

 can fitted on one side with an air 

 pump much like that used for inflat- 

 ing bicycle tires. After this is ope- 

 rated to the limit the can can be 

 strapped on one's back and the con- 

 tents sprayed to suit through a long 



