240 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



batch of rubbers looked as though they 

 had been with Cervera. On the west 

 side Swain Nelson & Sons lost 1,500 

 feet of glass, while it was nearly a 

 clean sweep for H. N. Bruns. H. Schil- 

 ler and H. F. Halle. Vaughan's green- 

 houses at Western Springs lost some 

 3.000 lights of glass. 



In the last issue of The Review ap- 

 peared an engraving of some green-, 

 houses at Auburn, N. Y., that had been 

 riddled by hail, and the local unfortu- 

 naies say the picture was surely true 

 to life. They have had the real thing 

 to compare it with. 



^^arious Notes. 



Edw. E. Peiser, of Kennicott Bros. 

 Co., is enjoying a week's vacation at 

 Spring Lake, Mich. 



W. E. Lynch has returned from his 

 eastern trip. 



Bassett & Washburn have had their 

 store repainted and the walls tinted, 

 making it very bright and attractive. 

 Mrs. Horton reports excellent business. 

 Mr. Washburn is expected back soon 

 from his Colorado trip. Mr. Bassett is 

 still at Delavan Lake. 



Chas Dickinson, of E. H. Hunt's, is 

 enjoying a second honeymoon, his wife 

 having arrived from the Pacific Coast. 



E. H. Hunt is still gaining strength 

 and is able to be at the store a .short 

 time each day. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. are much grati- 

 fied at the way business has held up 

 during the dull period and believe the 

 coming season's business will be a rec- 

 ord breaker. 



Archie Spencer, of Reinberg Bros., 

 also has great confidence in the out- 

 look for the coming season and will be 

 much disappointed it it does not run 

 far ahead of last season. 



Flint Kennicott is still living at his 

 place at The Grove, but comes to the 

 city every day. 



Mr. H. F. Halle is still receiving ap- 

 plications for position as palm and or- 

 chid grower and desires us to state 

 that he does not wish further applica- 

 tions. 



Joshua Brooks, a son of Samuel 

 Brooks, the pioneer florist of Chicago, 

 died July 26 aged 80 years. He was 

 with his father when the latter built 

 the first greenhouses in this city at the 

 corner of Clark and Adams Sts., but 

 later he started a book "store in Ga- 

 lena and was in business there for 

 many years. 



Walter Mott. representing H. A. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia, was a recent vis- 

 itor, and when he left was headed west 

 toward Omaha. 



Bo'wiing. 



Following are the scores made at the 

 alleys last Friday evening: 



Av. 



G. L. Grant Iffi 176 151? 13(1 lf,fl ... ir.l 



A. Kohlbrand . ..96 120 203 13S 167 153 146 



E. Winterson 162 154 164 140 129 89 139 



G. StoUery 112 146 137 101 148 138 130 



F. Stollery 127 147 114 155 118 98 126 



C. Schweigert . ... 85 108 123 118 120 120 112 



C. Pruner 106 106 



A. Lange 83 S3 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G, L UKA.XT, El.itok .\yu M.^naoer. 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



520-535 Caxton Building, Chicaso, 

 334 Dearborn Street. 



Subscription, ?i.oo a year. To Europe, 52.00, Sub- 

 scriptions accepted from those in the trade only. 



Advertising: rates: Per inch, $1.00; X page, Sis.so; 

 full page, S27.00. Discounts: 6 times, s per cent; 13 

 times, 10 per cent ; 26 times. 20 per cent ; 52 times, 30 

 per cent. Discounts allowed only on consecutive inser- 

 tions. Only strictly trade advertising accepted. Adver- 

 tisements must reach us by Tuesday to insure insertion 

 m the issue of the following Thursday. 



Copyright i&jS. 



YOU will make a mistake if you do 

 not have an adv. in our Convention 

 Number, to be issued August IS. 



FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS. 



In an early issue we shall inaugurate 

 a new department in which will be 

 given weekly the very latest fashions 

 in floral arrangements in New York. 



And the florist in charge of this de- 

 partment will be prepared to answer 

 any questions asked by our readers re- 

 garding floral arrangements and deco- 

 rations. 



We believe this department will be 

 very useful to our readers. 



BOSTON. 



Review of the Market. 



The past week has been quite an 

 agreeable surprise all around, and ac- 

 tually was a reminder of the busy 

 season. Manager Walsh, of the co-op- 

 erative market, reports that stock has 

 been cleaned up nearly every day, the 

 demand being for funeral work most- 

 ly, of which there is quite a lot, owing 

 to the demise of two or three very 

 prominent men. 



Roses, as usual, have flrst call, and 

 the supply has shortened up very con- 

 siderably, owing jiartly to a long spell 

 of disagreeable weather and a demand 

 from the prominent summer resorts. 

 Brides and Maids sell easily at from 

 $4 to $6 per hundred. Kaiserins are 

 scarce and good blooms are snapped 

 up quickly at $8; seconds easily bring 

 $6. Red roses are decidedly scarce, 

 especially Beauties, which are selling 

 from $1 to $i per dozen. Carnations 

 are plenty, but the majority are still 

 from the inside, 50 cents per hundred 

 being the ruling price. 



Out-of-door stock is of superior qual- 

 ity and eagerly sought at from $1 to 

 $1.50 per hundred. Valley in ample 

 supply; held at $4. Sweet peas plenty, 

 quality very poor; selling price $1 per 

 thousand. Asters are in good demand, 

 especially whites, which easily bring 

 50 cents per hundred. Pond lilies are 

 plenty, without much call. Candytuft, 

 feverfew and flowers of that nature are 

 selling well, ovring to the demand for 

 white flowers. 



The Weekly Exhibition. 



The show of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety on Saturday abounded with a 

 profusion of seasonable bloom, and 

 with the attractive exhibition of mush- 



rooms, made by the Boston Myco- 

 logical Club, was heartily enjoyed by 

 the many visitors. Prizes were award- 

 ed for antirrhinums, W. H. Lincoln 

 obtaining first and John Jeffries sec- 

 ond. Geo. Hollis made a fine display 

 of perennial phlox and obtained sec- 

 ond prize, while T. C. Thurlow was 

 awarded a gratuity. Prizes were also 

 awarded for native wild flowers, the 

 first going to Mrs. W. S. Eager, second 

 to Mrs. D. P. Richards, third to Miss 

 Genevieve Doran. There were four 

 other exhibitors, making quite a show 

 of natives. Jas. Comley made a fine 

 display of seasonable blooms and was 

 awarded a gratuity, as was also John 

 L. Gardner for a display of the com- 

 mon tiger lily arranged with perennial 

 phlox. Mrs. E. M. Gill and Rea Bros, 

 were awarded gratuities for excellent 

 displays of seasonable bloom. Mr. W. 

 D. Huntingdon, of Lynn, Mass.. ex- 

 hibited a dish of high bush blueber- 

 ries, showing the vast improvement 

 that can be made by superior cultiva- 

 tion, as compared with those grown 

 wild in the fields. 



News Items. 



The old guard, consisting of W. W. 

 Edgar, W. J. Stewart, E. E. Hatch, M. 

 Norton, Lawrence Cotter and others, 

 to the number of about twenty, had an 

 enjoyable outing for a couple of days 

 at Old Orchard, Me., being the guests 

 of P. and Ned Welch. 



F. H. Houghton, of Houghton & 

 Clark, has gone on his annual tour to 

 Newport, as assistant to Miss S. Fad- 

 den, and Tom Clark made a flying visit 

 to help them out on the occasion of a 

 swell dinner given in honor of the 

 Italian prince. 



All the old-timers about Boston will 

 regret to learn of the death of Jim 

 Barrett, for years a trusted employee 

 of the late firm of C. M. Hovey & Co., 

 of Cambridge. p. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



These are dull, uneventful days and 

 to mention prices is like shaking the 

 proverbial "red rag," and there's war 

 enough at present. New crops of 

 roses of the old varieties arc coming 

 in and the market will soon be 

 swamped with heaps of Maids, Brides 

 and Beauties, with the waiolesaler at 

 the mercy of the Greeks and Turks. 

 There is a vast amount of patience ex- 

 ercised by the growers in the produc- 

 tion of flowers, but very little in the 

 sale of them. The New York flower 

 buyer will take no excuse for poor 

 flowers. He simply laughs at you 

 when you tell him there are no fine 

 roses to be had, and he rarely buys 

 the best you can offer him at these 

 times. He is used to having the finest 

 and he knows no differences of sea- 

 son. 



There was quite a demand for or- 

 chids the past week or so, but there 

 were none to be had aside from a few 

 Cypripedium Lawrenceanum and Den- 



