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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



617 



man, Glory of Pacific and Lady Fitzwy- 

 gram were seen at $1.50 per dozen. Oth- 

 er varieties are a little late. Stock is 

 small yet, but by the end of the present 

 week they will be quite plentiful, espe- 

 cially if this warm weather keeps up. 



Cosmos has been plentiful at 25 cents 

 p'er 100. Violets are better and sell well; 

 the supply is small. Valley is coming 

 fine and good stock always brings $4 in 

 this market. Smilax is firm and coming 

 in better — price still $12.50 for the best. 



game of tenpins. I don't think this can 

 be accomplished, as our club is on its 

 last legs. Interest in the club has died 

 out, and only two and never more than 

 four come down on Monday nights, and 

 what hurts us more is that Chicago stole 

 our star bowler (his Detroit record 

 shows this) and would, no doubt, roll 

 him against us. By this the Chicago 

 boys will see that we will be unable to 

 be with them ne.xt month. So pass us up 



that a fair start will not be made until 

 after election. 



Prices have not changed to any lex- 

 tent on shipping grades, though a bet- 

 ter quality of roses can be had for $4, 

 and only extra fancy stock will command 

 .$5. First class carnations hold up to 

 last week's figures, but poor stock suffers. 



Clab Meeting. 



At the last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club the annual election resulted as fol- 



Single Plant of Cattleva Labiata with over J 00 pseudo-bulbs and 41 fully developed blooms, grown by N. Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich. 



Various Items. 



Invitations are out for the eleventh 

 annual banquet to gardeners, florists and 

 nursery men, as provided for in th'e will 

 of Henry Shaw. The banquet will be 

 given at the Mercantile Club, November 

 3 at 7 p. m. 



Henry Johan, of Collinsville, 111., spent 

 a day with us last week. Henry left his 

 application for membership in the Flor- 

 ists' Club. 



Joe Dickman, one of our leading seeds- 

 men, was nominated for sheriff on the 

 Democratic ticket. Joe is well liked 

 among the trade and will reeeivg the 

 support of th'e craft regardless of politics. 



The exhibition committee met last Fri- 

 day at Weber's and worked on the pro- 

 gramme, which is now in the hands of 

 the printers and will be out by November 

 1. This year our programme will be 

 handsomer than "ever. The special prizes 

 are large and are from the best people 

 in the city, and we e.xpect to have the 

 best and most successful show in years. 

 Nothing will be omitted that can in any 

 way aid toward success. Extra copies 

 of the programme will be sent to any 

 one upon application to J. J. Beneke, 

 1222 Olive street. 



The Bowling Club is in receipt of a 

 letter from George Asmus, seerttary of 

 the Chicago Florists' Bowling Club, in- 

 viting the boys up to Chicago during their 

 chrysanthemum show to play a match 



for the present, until more interest is 

 taken in the club. J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The market had something of a re- 

 lapse from last week, but there are al- 

 ready evidences of a recovery in spite of 

 untoward conditions. We still lack a 

 killing frost, and the weather is still far 

 from cold. The poorer grades of roses 

 seem to have suffered most, and at times 

 even good ones couldn't be moved satis- 

 factorily. 



In chrysanthemums the skirmishers 

 have during the week been followed by 

 whole regiments, and marching into a 

 weak market some of the slow steppers 

 fell through the crust into the waste bar- 

 rel. Some very fine blooms are seen and 

 prices hold up very well on these, but 

 the poorer grades have weakened mate- 

 rially. Kobinsons are now coming in 

 freely and Bonnaffons are expected next 

 week. 



Shipping trade holds up very well, but 

 local demand is far below what it should 

 be at this season. Last week it seem'ed 

 as though trade had caught on for the 

 regular winter business, but there must 

 have been a greasy spot under the place 

 it caught on. Som'e think that season- 

 able weather is all that is needed to give 

 the necessary stimulus, while others hold 



lows: Andrew McAdams, president; 

 George Woodward, vice president ; C. A. 

 Hunt, recording secretary; E. F. Winter- 

 son, financial secretary; Edgar Sanders, 

 treasurer; E. Wienho'eber, G. L. Grant, 

 John Reardon, W. N. Rudd, and John 

 Degnan, trustees. 



Action was taken looking to the chang- 

 ing of the meeting night from Friday to 

 Tuesday. 



The following new members were elect- 

 ed : W. G. Retzer, C. Nielson, Paul Ret- 

 zer. Frank Wieners. 



The paper on violets, by Mr. Ernest 

 Weber, was brief but interesting. Re- 

 ferring to the violet disease he recom- 

 mended to keep all spotted leaves relig- 

 iously picked off the plants and to keep 

 it up 'even if it did result in making the 

 plants very small. His experience was 

 that such plants would do good work 

 later on if they survived, and if the dis- 

 eased leaves were not picked off the 

 plants would die anyway. The deferred 

 paper by J. S. Wilson on the Boston 

 fern was included in the program of the 

 next meeting, which will be held Friday, 

 November 2. 



Arrangements were mad'e regarding 

 the distribution of free tickets to the 

 chrysanthemum show, and such tickets 

 will be issued to all members whose dues 

 are paid up to November 1. 



The treasurer's report showed receipts 

 during the year of $272.86, and disburse- 



