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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AUGUST 18, 1898. 



CHICAGO. 



Mr. and Mrs. Souster have invited 

 the club to visit Elgin whenever the 

 members can arrange to make the 

 trip. 



There is talk of a regular picnic next 

 year at some near-by point. 



Various Notes. 



A. L. Randall has returned from the 

 Michigan resort where he has been 

 spending his vacation. 



A display of orchids recently made 

 by Mr. E. G. Uihlein, of this city, at 

 the weekly exhibition of the Mass. 

 Hort. Society, Boston, was awarded 

 a gratuity prize. 



Chas. A. Samuelson and wife are 

 sojourning at Hamlin lake, Ludington, 

 Mich. 



Some of the delegates to the Omaha 

 convention reached Chicago early and 

 spent several days here before pro- 

 ceeding onward. Among these were 

 J. L. Dillon, Bloomsburg, Pa.; H. D. 

 Rohrer and son, Lancaster, Pa.; Harry 

 Balsley, Detroit. 



H. Schweitzer and Paul Stover, of 

 Mendota, 111., sent the Chicago dele- 

 gates an invitation to meet them and 

 have a passing drink with them dur- 

 ing the five minutes' stop at Mendota. 



Mr. J. A. Budlong started on his 

 fourth bicycle trip on the 10th inst. 

 He writes that he covers on an aver- 

 age of 90 miles a day and expected to 

 reach Cleveland last Saturday. 



Messrs. Helm Bros., of Blue Island, 

 111., lost about 5(X> square feet of glass 

 on Monday morning by hail. It also 

 played havoc with outside stuff, ruin- 

 ing their crop of outside carnations, 

 cannas, etc. 



Business is picking up. This does 

 not appear to be of a spasmodic na- 

 ture and keeps up from day to day. 

 Roses sell well and realize from $.3 to 

 $4 for good stock. Carnations are very 

 scarce, owing to so many storms of 

 late, which ruined a great deal of out- 

 side stock. 



Bowling. 



Following are the scores and aver- 

 ages made at the alleys last Friday 

 evening: 



1st. 2na. 3d. 4tli. 5th. Av. 



a. U Grant 174 1S7 116 169 123 l.V. 



K. F. Winterson 161 167 103 178 137 1« 



G. Stollery 147 147 123 1™ 141 112 



P. Hills lir> 108 1.54 159 163 140 



V. StoUei-y 129 UO 135 122 105 120 



A. I,. Vaugllan Ill 100 113 109 120 Hip 



\V. Kirkham 100 97 95 84 'Jt Vl 



TORONTO. 



In my last week's notes, in the sec- 

 ond paragraph concerning the annual 

 fee of the G. & P. Association, I am 

 made to say, "the fee is only ifl.Oi a 

 year more." It should be. "the fee is 

 only $1.00 a year now," which makes 

 all the difference. I suppose either 

 the "devil" or my bad writing is to 

 blame. 



We have had no rain worth men- 

 tioning yet here, although the sur- 

 rounding country was favored with 



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