JUJLY 21, 1898. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



183 



tion without any "axe to grind;" pure- 

 ly loyalty to the society and incident- 

 ally a little holiday and sport. 



The boys and girls too are asking 

 when our annual picnic occurs. Early 

 in August will doubtless see us united 

 again in athletic sports at one of our 

 Niagara river resorts. They have beeu 

 for some years a great success, bring- 

 ing together in fraternal feeling more 

 friends, their aunts, cousins and moth- 

 ers-in-law than we thought existed in 

 the state west of Albany, and then you 

 can see them no more for a year. 



Another visitor this week who ex- 

 pressed himself as much pleased with 

 our city was young Mr. Wiegaud of 

 Indianapolis. We showed him what we 

 could of the features of Buffalo, whien 

 we think are at all out of the common 

 run of other cities, notably our parks, 

 Forest Lawn cemetery and our miles 

 of matchless residence streets, 



W. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



During the first few days of the cur- 

 rent week business improved material- 

 ly, it being less diflicult to dispose of 

 all lines of stock, but with the con- 

 tinued hot days things began to take 

 a downward turn and by the middle of 

 the week were in their usual dull state. 



Good roses continue scarce with de- 

 mand fair, but there is such a large 

 percentage of the poorer grades that, 

 necessarily, quantities of stock are left 

 unsold or disposed of at very low fig- 

 ures. 



Carnations seem to have shortened 

 up a trifle and are moved with less 

 difficulty than a week ago, though 75 

 cents is about the top figure. 



In miscellaneous stuff gladiolus and 

 sweet peas are seen in immense num- 

 bers, the latter in particular, it being 

 almost impossible to get any kind of a 

 price for them as the market is abso- 

 lutely glutted with this flower. 



Club Outing. 



The next outing of the Florists' Club 

 will be a trip to the establishment of 

 Messrs. Reinberg Bros., at Summer- 

 dale, next Sunday, July 24. The party 

 will take the 1 p. m. train at the 

 Northwestern depot, reaching Sum- 

 merdale at 1:20. Returning there are 

 trains at 5:37 and <>:53 and in fact 

 every hour. This range of glass is un- 

 doubtedly the largest in America and 

 there is much of trade interest to be 

 seen. Some facts regarding this place 

 will be found elsewhere in this issue. 

 The social features promise to fully 

 equal if not exceed those of previous 

 affairs of the sort, and there .vill be a 

 warm game of baseball between the 

 city florists and the growers. 



Early Closing. 



Following appears a copy of an 

 agreement among the leading retail 

 florists that explains itself. May i>ther 

 cities follow suit: 



Chicago, July 2, 1S98, 

 We, the foUowing Retail Florists, of Chi- 

 cago, 111., hereby agree to close our respective 

 places of business at 6 P. M. dailv and at 12 

 M. on Sundays, trom Tuesday, July 5th. un- 

 til Monday. Sept. 5th, 1898; or until due no- 

 tices to the contrary have been issued. 



We, furthermore, agree, that in the event 

 of ..lui- wiihdi ,i\v.il from the above obligation. 

 herel'\- ■iiLr,.! ini.i, to give written notice to 

 all p:irti'v- wlii'^t- signatures are hereunto af- 

 fixed "f ^ii.h int. ntiun not later than one week 

 previous to the date on which said withiirawal 

 is to go into effect. 

 Signatures; — 



tTBNTRAL, PLORAl- CO. 



P. J. HAUSWIRTH 



ERNST WIENHOEBER. 



WALTER KREITLING 



J. C. CRAIG 



C. T. NEIGLICK. 



W. J. SMYTH. 



E. HOBBa 



C. A. SAMUEI.SON. 



O. J. FRIEDMAN. 



JOHN C. SCHUBERT & CO. 



AUGUST LANGE. 



To Omaha. 



The Chicago Florists' Club has made 

 arrangements for transportation to 

 the Omaha convention via the Chicago, 

 Burlington & Quincy R, R. The round 

 trip rate will not exceed $20 (there was 

 a slight error in the figures announced 

 last week) and the Club is assured of 

 the very lowest rate that can be made 

 by any road. The roads in the West- 

 ern Passenger Association are now tak- 

 ing a vote on a proposition to grant a 

 round trip rate of one fare plus $2, 

 and if this carries, the round trip rate 

 from Chicago will be only $11,75, A 

 special car has beeu arranged for 

 and berths may now be reserved 

 in same by addressing G. L. Grant, 

 334 Dearborn street. The sleep- 

 ing car fare is .f2..50 each way. All in 

 the trade who wish to do so are cor- 

 dially invited to travel from Chicago 

 with this party. The Chicago delega- 

 tion promises to be large, and a pleas- 

 ant time is assured. 



Bowling. 



Following are the scores and aver- 

 ages made at the alleys last Friday 

 evening: 



1st. 2nd. 3d. 4th. 5th. 6th. Av. 



G. L. Grant IBO 170 162 171 158 116 156 



P. Hauswlrth 147 172 135 127 102 137 136 



G. StoKery 133 139 136 117 134 ... 132 



C. Pi-uner 83 173 139 131 



P. Stollery 104 100 86 100 l.'i2 ... 114 



Notes. 



Mr. Wm. Lynch does not seem to 

 mind if the thermometer lingers in the 

 yO's as the writer found him practicing 

 baseball for the game which is to take 

 place next Sunday at Reinberg Bros. 



Mr. G. H. Pieser, bookkeeper for 

 Kennicott Bros. Co., has gone on a 

 week's fishing trip in Michigan. 



Miss Wilson was missed from be- 

 hind the desk at A. G. Prince's. She 

 also is away on a vacation. 



Mr. Axtel, who has a sweet pea farm 

 at Evanstou, and who has a counter 

 in the store of V. McK. &, W.. disposed 

 of 3(5,000 sweet peas on Tuesday of this 

 week. 



Dr. A. L. Wheeler, of the Wheeler 

 Floral Co., Mason City, la., called on 

 his way home from Toronto, where he 

 attended the eleventh annual conven- 

 tion of the International Association 



of Railway Surgeons. He reports a 

 splendid time calling upon the florists 

 in Toronto, Milwaukee and Chicago 

 and finding them all resting .after a 

 good spring trade and ready to take 

 the trip to Omaha next month. 



Recent visitors: T. M. Gibberson, 

 Cedar Rapids, la.; A. E. Crooks, Ben- 

 ton Harbor, Mich. 



Quite a few improvements have re- 

 cently been made in the establishment 

 of Mr. E. C. Amling, a new ice box 

 adding much to the usual neat and up- 

 to-date appeai'dnce cf the place. 



ST. PAUL. 



The Market. 



Summer dullness prevails in every 

 quarter and trade is consequently very 

 light. 



Roses are very scarce and hard to 

 obtain. Kaiserin, as usual, are very 

 nice. Meteor, Perle and Sunset from 

 new plants, are also of good quality. 

 Beauties are fair and sell readily at re- 

 tail for $3 to $4 per dozen. Other 

 roses are of such poor quality as to be 

 unsalable. 



Carnations are beginning to show 

 the effect of the hot weather, coming 

 in small and faded. In lilies auratum, 

 rubrum and album are in evidence. 

 Lougiflorum are not gi'own here for 

 summer use. 



Sweet peas are abundan', and cheap 

 and never before has such a bountiful 

 crop been seen. Nasturtiums and corn 

 flowers are also abundant but sell 

 slowly. The main call is for funeral 

 work and this is spasmodic and uncer- 

 tain. Still it helps to pay expenses. 



Growers' Notes. 



The growers have been very busy 

 repairing and planting roses and 

 mums. Nearly everything is now 

 planted out, which is earlier we think 

 than we have ever known before. 



L. L. May & Co. have done a lot of 

 repairing. The brick wall on one house 

 which began to settle was relaid, the 

 benches and sides of several other 

 houses have been entirely rebuilt, 

 while the entire plant has been thor- 

 oughly repainted inside. As fast as the 

 old benches rot out and need repairing 

 they are moved to the centre of the 

 houses, the alleys being left on the 

 side. This prevents the side walls 

 from rotting away so rapidly. With 

 thorough repairing when needed, 

 wooden houses will last as long as 

 brick, though in the end they are un- 

 doubtedly more expensive. This firm 

 will plant a house of Jubilee carna- 

 tions next week. Their field carna- 

 tions have made an excellent growth. 



Chris Bussjaeger has his new hour,es 

 nearly completed and the benches fill- 

 ed with roses. His entire plant, ihough 

 small, shows skill and thrift combined. 

 Late to bed and early to rise and work 

 all the time when awake seems to be 

 his motto. 



