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The Weekly Florists* Review* 



JUNE 23, 189S. 



roses par excellence, for this section at 

 least. Magna Charta and Marshall P. 

 Wilder were also excellent, and the old 

 Mme. Plantier was splendid, as usual. 

 Merveille de Lyon was in good bloom, 

 but the plants seem to have made little 

 if any growth since they were planted 

 in 1S93. Jeannie Diclison was also 

 disappointing as to growth. The stand- 

 ard roses have all disappeared and the 

 beds are now filled with those of bush 

 form. That good outdoor roses can 

 be had in Chicago is well demonstrated 

 by this rose garden. The beds are all 

 mulched with clippings from the lawn. 



Mr. O. P. Bassett will soon start on 

 a summer trip and will probably not 

 return till September. 



Mr. E. H. Hunt has gone to West 

 Baden, Ind., to discover the attraction 

 which has made this resort a sort of 

 headquarters for florists. 



The rhododendrons at Lincoln Park 

 are now in splendid bloom. These are 

 the large plants in tubs which are car- 

 ried over winter in a cool greenhouse. 



Friedman & Allen have sued the 

 managers of the last horse show for a 

 balance of $170. The claim is for extra 

 decorations supplied over and above 

 those called for in the contract, which 

 was for ?2,500. 



Bassett & Washburn have built in 

 their store a cooling room 10x12 feet 

 and 7 feet clear inside, which is a de- 

 cided improvement and enables them 

 to handle their large cut to excellent 

 advantage. The chamber carries a ton 

 of ice, and this quantity will keep the 

 room cool for a week, so they consider 

 it more economical than ice boxes. 

 They are now cutting from 5,000 to 8,- 

 000 roses a day in addition to other 

 stock. 



Vaughan, McKellar & Winterson are 

 rapidly developing their business in 

 forcing bulbs and will soon issue a spe- 

 cial bulb catalogue. Mr. Lloyd Vaugh- 

 an reports also large orders for azaleas 

 this season. A feature at their place 

 just now is a large display of florists' 

 baskets, a sample basket or nest of 

 same of each style they carry being 

 laid out on counters where they can 

 be examined at leisure by every visitor. 

 They report heavy orders for calla 

 bulbs, probably partially due to the 

 dropping of the Harrisii by florists, 

 whose experience with that lily has 

 been unpleasant of late. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. are receiving 

 some bachelor buttons with stems 18 

 inches long and flowers twice the usu- 

 al size. They are also receiving a fine 

 lot of longiflorum lilies that sell at $5 

 and $6 per 100. 



E. C. Amling announces that from 

 .Tuly 5th to September 5th, or till no- 

 tice to the contrary, his store will close 

 at 5:30 p. m. Manager Heftron says: 

 "We greatly desire to get home for 

 a short time each day this summer in 

 order to get acquainted with our fami- 

 lies." It is hoped that the other whole- 

 salers will take similar action. Mr. 

 Heffron reports very satisfactory sale 

 of large quantities of campanulas that 

 are coming in. 



S. B. Winter is having a private of- 

 fice fitted up, with paper on the wall. 



cigars in the desk, rugs on the floor 

 and other home comforts. 



S. Pieser, of the Pieser Floral Co., 

 had the order for the wedding of Sen- 

 ator Mason's son at Waukegan Wed- 

 nesday. All pink flowers were used in 

 the decorations. The bride's bouquet 

 was of valley, while the bridesmaids 

 carried American Beauties. 



P. J. Hauswirth made a very pretty 

 buffet table center piece recently, py- 

 ramidal in form, with paeonies below 

 and long stemmed lychnis above. The 

 effect of the lychnis was very pretty 

 and graceful. 



C. H. Fisk has a very pretty window 

 display, almost wholly of hardy flow- 

 ers, such as delphiniums, coreopsis, 

 campanulas, etc. He finds a very fair 

 sale for this class of flowers and says 

 they seem to give excellent satisfaction 

 to customers. 



J. A. Budlong continues his little 

 century runs on the bicycle and re- 

 cently made a run of 112 miles in one 

 day, simply for recreation and to keep 

 his hand (or feet) in. 



Mr. N. J. Kraft, Rockford, 111., was 

 a recent visitor. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Trade in the cut flower line was a 

 little better the past week, owing to 

 a large number of school commence- 

 ments and weddings, but the work was 

 mostly done by the west end florists. 



Red roses were in demand. Meteors 

 and Beauties having the call, but were 

 scarce, that is, good first class stock. 

 The best Meteors sold at $5 and ft; 

 while Beauties brought $3 and |4 per 

 dozen. The poorer stock in roses is 

 now bringing $2 and $3, and not over 

 plentiful. 



Carnations also sold well the past 

 week, especially white and pink. All 

 cheaper flowers such as asters, .sweet 

 peas, coreopsis, cornflowers, alyssum 

 and candytuft continue very plentiful, 

 and sell slowly. Sweet peas are the 

 most plentiful of all flowers just now; 

 price low, 15 cents per KK). 



Planting is about over and the grow- 

 ers claim they sold out nearly all the 

 best stock, but at cheap prices. Stock 

 in general sold better than they ex- 

 pected. 



Committee on Picnic. 



The committee on picnic held a 

 meeting Friday morning, at Jordan's 

 store, and decided to hold same at 

 Belleville, some time during the first 

 part of July. The usual events will 

 take place, such as shooting, sprint- 

 ing, jumping, walking match, sack 

 race, quoits, bowliug, and a base ball 

 game. The Belleville boys promise 

 to take good care of us and will do 

 everything in their power to make us 

 all go home happy. 



The only thing to be done now is 

 for the florists at large to make up 

 their minds to support the committee 

 and help them all they can, in order 

 to make the affair a great success. It 



can be done and all they need to do is 

 to let business take care of Itself one 

 day, and not make the usual excuse, 

 "I was two busy." 



For information in regard to picnic, 

 address John W. Kunz, 822 Olive St. 



Notes. 



J. E. Killen, representing C. H. Joos- 

 ten. New York, was in the city last 

 week selling bulbs, roses, and azaleas. 

 Mr. Killen reports business good in 

 his line. 



The chairman of the chrysanthe- 

 mum show committee, reports that 

 news in regard to show matters is a 

 little scarce just now. A few special 

 prizes come in every day or so and 

 all new subscribers and a great many 

 of the old ones are still to be heard 

 from. 



The next meeting of the club v/ill 

 be entirely taken up with convention 

 matters, and nomination of officers. 

 A number of candidates are now in the 

 field for president. This will make 

 the July meeting very interesting and 

 will no doubt bring out a very largE 

 attendance. President Halstedt has 

 requested me to say that he expects 

 every member of the club to attend 

 this meeting. 



Any florist who has an intention of 

 going to Omaha to attend the conven- 

 tion will do well by seeing or writing 

 the chairman, J. W. Kunz of the trans- 

 portation committee, before the next 

 regular meeting of the club, July 11. 

 at 3 p. m. 



The Florists' Bowling Club rolled 

 its usual three games Monday night. 

 The proprietor of our old alleys trans- 

 formed them jnto regulation size, 42 

 inches wide, and the pins are 12 

 inches apart, and, as will be seen by 

 the scores below, it is more difficult 

 to roll on. Some of our best bowlers 

 made poor scores, but the boys think 

 that it will be overcome by the time 

 they go to Omaha. Mr. Kunz brought 

 "Little Egypt" with him for a mascot, 

 but with poor success. Here are the 

 scores: 



■ 1 2 3 Total. 



J. .1. Beneke 187 150 224 561 



r. A. Kuehn 214 179 129 522 



F. C. Weber 162 127 171 460 



Dr. Helwig 177 140 107 424 



John Kunz 128 148 148 424 



Emil Schrav 133 135 144 412 



John Toung 159 100 147 406 



C. C. Sanders 125 126 142 393 



Carl Beyer 145 116 97 358 



F. Fillmore Ill 112 106 329 



J. J. B. 



PITTSBURG. 



Mr. Joseph Spring, assistant super- 

 intendent of Schenley park, has hand- 

 ed in his resignation and will here- 

 after be found at Charlotteville, Va.. 

 where he has purchased land and will 

 go into business on his own account. 

 Mr. Spring was well liked by the craft 

 here and his leaving is a cause for i-e- 

 gret, though all wish him success in- 

 his new field. 



LONDON, ONT. — J. Gammage & 

 Sons report a splendid season for bed- 

 ding stock, demand exceeding supply. 



