JUNE 23, 1S98. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



81 



Among the Growers. 



The additional houses now being 

 built at the establishment of Wietor 

 Bros., at Rogers Paik. will give them 

 .a total of about 160,000 feet of glass. 

 Six of the new houses are 27 by 250 

 feet and are remarkable for their 

 height, which is 14 feet to the ridge, 

 and 7 feet clear under the gutters. 

 These houses are long-span-to-the- 

 south, joined together, each one being 

 six inches lower than the other, the 

 land sloping gently to the south. There 

 .are no dividing walls and no corridor 

 house is necessary as the gutters are 

 high enough to clear the head of a 

 tall man. There are four benches to 

 each house. These houses are all 

 planted with American Beauties, and 

 the height of the roof is given to as- 

 sure plenty of room for the long stems 

 that are now so essential. 



Back of these houses were four 

 others that were 23x120 and of the 

 short-span-to-south style. These have 

 been lengthened so as to make them 

 23x250, but they do not like this style 

 of construction, as the north bench 

 ■ does not do nearly so well as the 

 others. In future they will build with 

 the long span to the south. 



There are now in course of construc- 

 tion four houses, each 23x250, for 'car- 

 nations. 



In conversation with the foreman, 

 Mr. L. Collins, we learned that for the 

 coming season they will cut from 40.- 

 000 plants of Beauties, 5.000 Meteors. 

 4,500 Maids, 3,000 Brides and 1,200 

 Perles. In carnations they will grow 

 •6,000 to 8,000 each of Triumph and 

 Armazindy, 4,000 McGowan, 3.000 Ju- 

 bilee, 2,000 Flora Hill and 500 Evelina. 



They have a well appointed packing 

 room, and there is a cooling room 16x 

 24, with space above to hold 50 tons of 

 ice. 



At Morton Grove, Poehlmann Bros, 

 have a number of their rose houses al- 

 ready replanted and the work of re- 

 planting the others is rapidly progress- 

 ing. For the coming season they will 

 have four houses of Beauties, four of 

 Maids, three of Brides, three of Mete- 

 ors and one each of Perles and La 

 France. Most of their rose houses are 

 •of the short-span-to-south style, with 

 two benches and three walks, and Mr. 

 ■John Nelson, the foreman, says this 

 style of house is very satisfactory. In 

 carnations they grow Daybreak most 

 largely, Scott coming next and Tidal 

 Wave third in quantity. They will 

 also gi-ow a small number each of Ar- 

 mazindy. Jubilee, Flora Hill and Har- 

 rison's White. 



They have a lot of chrysanthemums 

 for the coming season, including 2,000 

 Lady Fitzwigram, 2,500 Glory of the 

 Pacific, 1,.500 each of Mrs. S. T. Mur- 

 •dock and H. W. Rieman, 1,200 each of 

 Robinson and Bonnaffon (these two 

 sorts will be grown three flowers to 

 a plant), 1,000 each of Ivory and Gol- 

 den Trophy, 800 M. M. Johnson, 700 

 Morel and 500 each of Bergman, Wood- 

 ford, Maud Adams, Marion Henderson 

 and Mrs. Perrin. There will evidently 

 1)6 no shortage of chrysanthemums at 

 this establishment. 



They will also grow seven houses of 

 violets, and a house of mignonette. In 

 bulb stuff they will force 100,000 each 

 of valley and tulips, 6,000 Harrisii and 

 2,000 longiflorum. In roses they have 

 dropped the Kaiserin, which paid all 

 right in the summer, but which didn't 

 amount to much in winter. 



Geo. Harrer is rebuilding five of his 

 houses and has built two new ones, 

 each 25x100. 



At Niles Center, Jacob Meyer will 

 this season have three houses of Perles 

 and one each of Beauties and Brides. 

 In carnations he will have two houses 

 about equally divided between Scott 

 and Tidal Wave. He will also have 

 three houses of violets. 



F. Stielow is one of the old time 

 growers at Niles Center and is still 

 one of the largest. He is now rebuild- 

 ing seven of his houses with the Gar- 

 land cast iron gutter construction (il- 

 lustrated in our issue of June 9), witli 

 which he is very favorably impressed. 

 Of roses he will the coming season 

 have four houses of Brides, three of 

 Maids and two of Meteors. His rose 

 soil is a compost of pure clay and ma- 

 nure. The clay is the simon pure ar- 

 ticle, such as bricks are made of, and 

 each year he digs a deeper layer from 

 the pit. This is piled up in layers with 

 a generous amount of manure between 

 each, and he says it gives him much 

 better satisfaction than the top soil 

 he formerly used and which was apt to 

 become sour. The clay seems very fri- 

 able when only moderately moist, and 

 of course the proportion of manure is 

 large. The manure is that obtained 

 from the city and in which shavings 

 is mixed, but he reports no trouble 

 from fungus. His rose benches are 

 solid earth, over which 3-inch tiles 

 have been placed close together, the 

 tiles running to the walks. On these 

 the rose soil is placed and there is an 

 edge board. He is very much taken 

 with this style of bench and will have 

 no other in future. 



In carnations he will the coming sea- 

 son grow 5,000 Scott, 4,000 McGowan, 

 2,000 each of Alaska, Daybreak and 

 Buttercup, 1,000 Tidal Wave and a few 

 each of Firefly, Flora Hill, Evelina, 

 White Cloud, Gold Nugget, Pingree and 

 Eldorado. Buttercup still does well 

 with him and he has as yet found no 

 yellow to take its place, though he has 

 hopes of some of the yellows he is try- 

 ing. 



Adam Harrer is putting in a house 

 of chrysanthemums, all Robinson and 

 Whilldin. He expects to get the crop 

 out of the way by November 10 or ear- 

 lier and will then plant the house with 

 carnations, the carnation plants hav- 

 ing been grown on in pots till that 

 time. He don't expect to get as many 

 carnations from the house as if the 

 plants were benched earlier, but be- 

 lieves the chrysanthemum crop will 

 far overbalance what he loses in that 

 way. Of roses he will have three 

 houses, about equally divided between 

 Brides and Maids. Of carnations he 

 will have a house each of McGowan, 

 Scott, Daybreak and Tidal Wave. He 

 is trying Genesee and Evelina. He has 



a bench of longiflorum lilies now in 

 bloom and says the flowers sell better 

 now than a few weeks ago. He will 

 also have a house of violets, and will 

 rebuild one of his houses this sum- 

 mer. 



L. Lindenberg grows mostly roses, 

 and for the coming season he will have 

 1,500 plants each of Bride, Maid and 

 Perle. He will also have a house of 

 mignonette, and he grows a quantity 

 of pot plants. 



Peter Blameuser is planting a house 

 of chrysanthemums, half Robinson and 

 half Whilldin, These will be followed 

 by lilies. In roses he will have two 

 houses of Maids and one of Brides. He 

 will have two houses of carnations, di- 

 vided between Scott, Daybreak and 

 McGowan. He will also grow 1,500 vi- 

 olets, part Marie Louise and part Cal- 

 ifornia. In bulb stuff he will force 30,- 

 000 La Reine tulips and 1,000 Romans. 



Edward Blameuser starts in for him- 

 self this season with six houses, of 

 which four will be planted to violets 

 and two to carnations. He will also 

 grow a house of chrysanthemums, in- 

 cluding Bonnaffon. Henderson, Whill- 

 din, Robinson and' Merry Monarch. 



Chas. Schweigert will have in roses 

 1,200 Brides and 1,600 Maids. He has 

 a house of Kaiserin that was planted 

 early for summer flowers and it looks 

 well. He will have 1.200 plants of vio- 

 lets, half Marie Louise and half Far- 

 quhar. He is very favorably impressed 

 with Farquhar. Of lilies he will force 

 1,200 bulbs, of which 200 will be Har- 

 risii and 1,000 longiflorum. Last sea- 

 son fully one-third of his Harrisii were 

 diseased and he don't want to take 

 such chances again. He has some 

 short-span-to-the-south houses and 

 does not like them so well as the old 

 style. He has a total of about 14,000 

 feet of glass, 



Bo-wling. 



Following are the scores and aver- 

 ages made at the alleys last Friday ev- 

 ening: 



1st. 2nd. 3d. 4th. 5th. Av. 



E. F. Winterson 192 167 125 169 120 154 



G. ly. Grant 146 161 158 129 ... 148 



P. J. Hauswirth 139 144 164 139 ... 146 



J. Degnan 133 194 134 122 130 142 



J. S. WUson 123 129 144 154 140 138 



Rolit. Schenk 116 145 130 



C. BaUuff 139 114 135 129 



li. Stollery 126 104 101 ITS 125 126 



C. Hughes 114 134 111 119 



A. McAdams 121 117 106 114 



C. S. Stewart 124 102 113 



A. Henderson 131 131 107 86 81 107 



P. Stollery 94 68 116 118 113 101 



C. Pruner 59 86 72 



Various Items- 



The rose garden at Jackson Park has 

 been a blaze of beauty the past week. 

 We question whether such a splendid 

 show of outdoor roses was ever before 

 seen in this city. Last Sunday the 

 garden was visited by immense 

 throngs and it was at times diflicult 

 to get around among the beds. Mr. 

 Kanst is to be warmly congratulated 

 on the success of his rose display this 

 year. 



The beds of Paul Neyron, Anna de 

 Diesbach, Mrs. John Laing and Gen. 

 Jacqueminot were especially fine and 

 indicate that these are the bedding 



