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1 'he Weekly Rorists^ Review^ 



November 22, 1900. 



Mr. Costello, now employed at Wax 

 Bros.', is allowing his creditors the same 

 satisfaction, but the dividend, if any, will 

 be a small one. 



Business must even be slopping over 

 out Auburndale way. Freeman & Fletch- 

 er have expanded to the extent of es- 

 tablishing a branch store at 122 Moody 

 street, Walthani, where they have the 

 facilities for doing a good business. 



J. S. Manter. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market- 



Trade picked up a little the latter 

 part of last week, but has since relapsed 

 again, and though the supply of roses 

 has shortened still further owing to the 

 continuance of dark weather there is 

 still a sufficiency to meet the light de- 

 mand. The promises of winter were not 

 fulfilled, and rain succeeded the snow. 

 It is about as unsatisfactory a condition 

 as could exist. 



All are still guessing on what we shall 

 have for Thanksgiving trade, and few 

 dare to venture a prediction except that 

 there will be a shortage of roses. It is 

 also probable that there will be none too 

 many carnations. There will no doubt 

 be enough chrysanthemums and violets 

 to meet all reasonable demands. Just 

 how serious the shortage of roses and car- 

 nations will be will depend upon the 

 demand, and if demand is equal to that 

 of last year it will be considerable. But 

 the season has been so abnormal that 

 few feel like judging the possibilities of 

 this year by what took place last season. 

 "All signs fail in dry times," and this 

 season has so far been a very "dry 

 time" with the florists. 



On Wednesday the sun gave us his 

 welcome rays again, and if more favora- 

 ble weather continues we may yet have 

 a fair supply. But the weather man 

 predicts otherwise. 



Several Thanksgiving price lists ap- 

 pear in this issue. 



Qufa Meeting. 



At the last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club Frank Oechlein and John Mangel 

 were elected to membership. 



Mr. P. J. Hauswirth reported for the 

 committee in charge of the booth at the 

 flower show. The gross receipts were 

 $263.10 and disbursements $2.90, mak- 

 ing the net proceeds $260.20, as recorded 

 last week. The flowers for sale at the 

 booth were contributed by the following: 

 J. C. Vaughan, Edwin Eagle & Co., An- 

 ton Then, George Harrer, N. P. Miller, 

 Chicago Carnation Company, John 

 Felke, P. J. Hauswirth, Gaurdian Angel 

 Orphan Asylum, Walter Retzer & Co., 

 Emil Buettner, Johnson & Carlson, A. 

 McAdams, J. T. Anthony, August Jur- 

 gens, A Friend; Geo. A. Rackham, De- 

 troit, Mich.; John Bauscher, Jr., Free- 

 port, 111.; Kainuel Batson, Kalamazoo, 

 Mich.; Geo. Kngel, Xeuia, Ohio; Mrs. 

 E. T. Grave, Richmond, Ind.; Gunnar 

 Teilmann, Marion, Ind.; W. J. & M. S. 

 Vesey, Fort Wayne, Ind., and several 

 others that failed to send their cards 

 with their contributions. 



The thanks of the club were extended 



to the committee, consisting of Messrs. 

 P. J. Hauswirth, W. J. Smith, and C. A. 

 Samuelson, and also to the donors of the 

 flowers, and the trade papers were re- 

 quested to publish same. 



Financial Secretary Winterson re- 

 ported collections of $90 since last meet- 

 ing, which announcement was received 

 with applause, and on motion a vote of 

 thanks was given Mr. Winterson for his 

 able management of his office. 



The essayists for the evening had not 

 prepared their papers, not having re- 

 ceived notice to have them ready for this 

 meeting, and they were passed for the 

 present. At the next meeting roses will 

 be the subject, and papers are expected 

 from Messrs. Luke Collins, Geo. Collins 

 and Paul Kopanka on various phases of 

 rose growing. 



Various Items. 



The chrysanthemum show at Lincoln 

 Park has attracted many visitors, the 

 conservatories having been well lighted 

 in the evening. The collection includes 

 many pompon and anemone varieties in 

 addition to the standard sorts, and there 

 are many of the older kinds to be seen. 

 Head Gardener Stromback has raised a 

 number of seedlings that he has named 

 after local people. 



McKellar & Winterson are showing a 

 big line of vases and jardinieres. Busi- 

 ness in their florists' supply department 

 is growing fast. 



E. H. Hunt has received an early ship- 

 ment of holly and it is remarkably fine, 

 the foliage first class and the sprays un- 

 usually well berried. Judging from this 

 lot the holly will be all right this year. 



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

 adelphia, was a recent visitor, as was 

 also Mrs. Isaac Miles, Oshkosh, Wis. 



Kennicott Bros.' Company are receiv- 

 ing a fine lot of the winterberry from 

 Geo. Scott's country estate in Michigan. 



Weiland & Risch will be especially 

 strong in chrysanthemums and fancy 

 carnations for Thanksgiving. Poehl- 

 man Bros, say they will probably have 

 enough mums to help out. J. B. Dea- 

 mud says he will have an extra fine lot 

 of mums, and the dealers generally look 

 for a good supply. The retailers' op- 

 portunity will be to push sales of mums. 

 They can safely figure on a satisfactory 

 supply and at prices little if any higher 

 than have prevailed recently. 



Geo. Biddy has opened a store at 247 

 35th street. 



Our old friend "Cash" has opened 

 again for the season, this time at 84 

 Jackson street. 



The bouquet green outlook is not very 

 satisfactory. It seems pretty certain 

 that the supply will be very short and 

 that prices will be much higher than 

 last year. 



Otto Fehrlin, of Galveston, Texas, is 

 in town looking for a business opening 

 here. He says that Galveston may never 

 have another flood but he proposes to 

 play safe. 



Robert Lundstrom is now gardener for 

 Mr. John Dupee at Oconomowoc, Wis. 



William Kirkham has taken a posi- 

 tion with Isaac Miles, Oshkosh, Wis. 



B. J. Blameuser, the Wells street flor- 

 ist, is suing for a divorce. He has been 



married but little over a year and seems 

 to have had a good deal of trouble during 

 that time. 



Bowling, 



The bowling team playea three games In the 

 Anson league last Monday night and lost the 

 three by a narrow margin. It was an un- 

 lucky night, for while coaching his team Oapt. 

 Winterson got an ugly cut in the forehead from 

 a bowler in another team who swung his ball 

 back to an unusual distance before delivering 

 it. An ordinary man would have been 

 knocked out of time, but though he bled badly 

 and the crowd was much frightened Ed simply 

 washed the blood away, had a surgeon take 

 three stitches in the cut and was on duty the 

 following day with merely a big patch of court 

 plaster on his forehead to ten that something 

 had happened. The scores follow: 



Geo. Stoilery 169 156 178 



P. Stoilery 159 157 152 



P. J. Hauswirth 158 189 143 



Jno. Degnan 169 175 155 



C. Balluft 180 204 183 



After the last meeting of the Florists' Club a 

 few games were played and the scores follow; 



E. F. Winterson 144 190 168 



N. A. Schmitz 209 128 148 



Jno. Zeck 128 144 130 



C. Hughes Ill 139 124 



Jno. Reardon 125 96 94 



G. L. Grant 136 136 



A. McAdams 91 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Now that the show is over trade is 

 again looking up and can be called better 

 than for some time past. 



Chrysanthemums, while still in abund- 

 ance, are less a factor in the market than 

 a week ago, and roses, violets and carna- 

 tions are resuming their position of 

 prominence. Roses and carnations are 

 slacking up somewhat and are not so 

 plentiful as they were ten days ago. Vio- 

 lets are also scarce and hardly enough 

 come in to supply the demand. 



Prices have also gone up a peg. First- 

 class Beauties are still selling above 

 everything else in the rose line, price 

 averaging about $2 per dozen. Other 

 roses bring from $2 to $5 per 100. 



Carnations for the fancy sorts bring 

 $2; but the bulk is sold at $1. 



Chrysanthemums are selling fairly 

 well, and the large fancy varieties bring 

 from $15 to $18 per 100 and from that 

 down to $2 for the smaller sorts, which 

 are mostly used for funeral work. Good 

 valley still has a call at $3 and $4. 



The wholesalers claim that shipping 

 trade is better than ever and that a 

 great deal of the best stock is shipped 

 out of town. Some r>f them have quite 

 a number of orders booked ahead for 

 Thanksgiving day, and from this they 

 expect to do a rushing business both 

 local and outside. 



Notes. 



At this writing very little can be said 

 about the show financially. The last 

 and best day the weather kept many 

 away, but should there be any loss it will 

 not be great. The committee will meet 

 some time this week and the next issue 

 we can report just how we stand. 



Frank Ellis, who opens his whole.sale 

 house to-day at 1402 Pine street, has 

 been very busy all week getting things 

 in shape for his opening. Frank came 

 in mighty handy last week as a judge 

 during the chrysanthemum show. 



