The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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had more fun than all the rest to- 

 gether. Edgar is quite a singer. 



Bowling Items. 



The Bowling Club rolled again at its 

 home alleys on Monday night, but only 

 a few made their aunearance. We 

 had the Evans cup on exhibition and 

 a large crowd admired it very much. 

 Mr. Arnold Ringier, of Chicago, who 

 is a visitor this week, rolled with the 

 boys, and with longing eyes on the 

 cup. He says Chicago must have that 

 next year. Here are the scores: 



12 3 Total. Av. 



J. .T. Beneke 155 171 172 498 ICi; 



A. Ringier 178 140 161 488 163 



F. Fillmore 137 14S 142 427 142 



J. W. Kunz 179 123 124 426 142 



C. Kuelin 131 136 142 409 13G 



J. J. B. 



through the northerly houses and an- 

 other through the southerly houses. 

 Thus, start from the southwest car- 

 nation house with a 2-iach return 

 main running east, increasing it to 2V-;- 

 inch when taking on the violet house 

 coils, and continue 3-inch to the boiler. 

 For the north houses, start 2i/^-inch 

 from the northwest carnation house 

 and increase to 3-inch when taking off 

 the returns from the northeast carna- 

 tion house and propagating house, and 

 continue with 3-inch to the boiler. 



Care should be taken that all pipe.-^ 

 grade downwards from "A" back to the 

 boiler; in this manner the pipes will 

 be kept free from water and the conse- 

 quent hammering. Automatic air 

 valves should be placed at the lower 

 end of each of the coils, .just before 



-< Kealmy ??ia,Tii 



* Piping Suggested to M. A. 



STEAM HEATING. 



In answer to M. A.'s inquiry as to 

 the arrangement of steam pipes for the 

 heating of his range of greenhouses, 

 which are at present heated by hot 

 water, I would suggest that he take a 

 .i-inch steam main from the top of his 

 boiler up to a point marked "A" on 

 the accompanying plan, this point to 

 be sufficiently high as to allow of a 

 downward grade in the mains from 

 "A" to where they drop to the coils in 

 the several houses, of not less than one 

 inch in every twenty-five feet. 



The diagram shows clearly the lines 

 and diameters of the flow mains, and 

 also shows the amount of coil surface 

 necessary to maintain the desired tem- 

 peratures. These coils may be made of 

 either 1-inch or lV4-inch pipes, ar- 

 ranged below the benches, and so ar- 

 ranged as to distribute the surface as 

 evenly as possible in the several 

 houses. It would be a good plan to 

 run a 1-inch return along each of the 

 eaves, on each side of the houses; this 

 would serve two purposes, to keep ice 

 from forming at the eaves and gutters, 

 and also to temper the cold air as it 

 falls from the roof glass on to the 

 plants in the side benches. 



The return mains should be run on 

 or below the floor, one line running 



they enter the main returns, also in 

 each main return just where they drop 

 to the boiler. 

 New York. HENRY W. GIBBONS. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The hot wave that arrived ilonday 

 had a demoralizing effect on business. 

 Large quantities of stock .^ra being 

 received and there is a big surplus of 

 everything, especially Beauties and 

 Meteors, and sales are at very low 

 prices in the majority of cases. Still 

 some of the dealers say the results 

 will average some little better than for 

 the same month a year ago. Quality 

 of stock is still very ordinary and 

 really good flowers are obtained with 

 difficulty, except in the case of Meteor, 

 many fine flowers of which arc to be 

 seen. A hot wave seems nearly al- 

 ways to have an unpleasant effect on 

 trade. Even the fakirs buy very spa- 

 ringly at such times, no matter how 

 low prices drop. 



The weather turned cooler Wednes- 

 day and somewhat bettsr conditions 

 prevailed. It is hoped the cool wea- 

 ther may continue though the result 

 will undoubtedly be a shortening of 

 the supply. 



Tuberoses seem inferior in quality 

 everywhere this year. No good rea- 

 son for this has been advanced. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. are receiving 

 some very fine asters that have 

 brought as high as $2.50 a hundred, 

 but they are very extra. The poorest 

 are sold at as low as 1-5 to 3.5 cents a 

 hundred and ordinary stock at 75 cents 

 to $1 a hundred. Lilies, album and ru- 

 brum, have sold very well and seem 

 popular. 



Bassett & Washburn and Reinburg 

 Bros, report business as excellent for 

 the season of the year. 



One wholesaler says: "Bu.siness is 

 out of sight. So far out oi' L-iglit that 

 no one can discover it." 



Notes. 



S. A. Wolcott has retui-Rod from a 

 fishing trip in Wisconsin. Among the 

 results were two muskallongt^ weighing 

 23 lbs. together. One was 13 inches 

 long and the other 41. The catch of 

 pickerel was so large that anything 

 less than IS inches .ong was thrown 

 away. 



C. N. Thomas, bookke,=ppr for A. L. 

 Randall, is spending his vacation at 

 his old home in Pennsylvania. 



Louis Gresenz, of Bassett & Wash- 

 burn's, has returned from liis vaca- 

 tion. Mrs. Horton is no-^' taking her 

 vacation in the east. 



Otto Frese runs his own refrigerat- 

 ing plant and keeps as cool as an iced 

 lemonade. 



Vaughan, McKellar & Winte;-son are 

 giving their place a coat of paint and 

 getting ready for a brisk fall trade. 



A. L. Randall is receiving some very 

 good single violets cut from field 

 plants. 



Local growers have been receiving 

 many visitors of late from among the 

 pilgrims returning from Omaha. 

 Among these visitors w?"e Robt. 

 Craig, Philadelphia; Geo. L. Miller 

 and wife, Newark, 0.; John Coombs 

 and wife. Hartford, Conn.; A. Gude, 

 b'. H. Kramer and C. Schellhorn. 

 Washington. J. F. Sullivan, of De- 

 troit, lingered around Chicago till 

 Tuesday. 



TJ. J. Virgin and wife, o-t New Or- 

 leans, were also recent visitors. 



Robert Craig had an experience 

 while he was here, so did Mr. Wash- 

 burn, of Bassett & Washburn. When 

 Mr. Craig visited the latter he was 

 suffering so with some ulcerated teeth 

 that a dentist was hunted up and Mr. 

 Craig took gas while the teeth were 

 being extracted. While und.'r the in- 

 fluence of the gas Mr. Craig gave away 

 all the secrets of the trade in Phila- 

 delphia and Mr. Washburn has not yet 

 fully recovered from the effect of the 

 revelations. All this time Mr. Craig 

 was going through the motions of 

 smoking and apparently enjoying 

 I himself hugely. He capped his expe- 

 riences for the day by having a de- 

 lightful nap in the car on the return 

 trip from Hinsdale and was quite in- 

 dignant at being disturbed by the 

 brakeman who discovered him after 



