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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



SEPTEMBER 22, 



enough oiled and then take the first 

 calm day to put it on the building. 



This is very cheap, and useful for 

 many purposes. The cost of material 

 is only about one dollar per hundred 

 feet and the labor is not much. The 

 paper is easily renewed when dirty. I 

 renew my paper twice a year. Don't 

 laugh at this, but try it as I have. I 

 find begonias and ferns do finely un- 

 der the paper and if the building is 

 made tight it will keep out about six 

 degrees of frost here. Try it for late 

 chrysanthemums. F. 



California. 



eat for Loosening Soil. 



No. 10. This is an instrument that 

 has proven of great value to me, es- 

 pecially in the hands of inexperienced 

 help in the rose houses. Attached to 

 the handle is a strip of flexible steel 

 about 22 inches long and I'i; inches 

 wide. The edge intended for the blade 

 should be drawn in to an anjxle of 

 about twenty degrees so that when ne- 

 cessary the soil can be easily loosened. 

 The strip being bent into the form of 

 a triangle is attached to the handle 

 by rivets. 



The steel being flexible the danger 

 of breaking young plants or barking 

 old ones is diminished. Its advantage 

 over a toothed instrument in not dis- 

 turbing the roots of the plants is ap- 

 parent. With this tool work can be 

 accomplished with great rapidity by 

 inexperienced help. It is cheap and 

 durable. G. 



No. 20. Tray for delivering Easter Lilies. 



No. 20 is a tray for holding Easter 

 lilies when delivering. It consists of 

 a 10-inch board, three feet long, with 

 three SVo-inch holes, six inches apart, 

 which allows about one inch space be- 

 tween the tops of the pots when set 

 in. Two strips are nailed across the 

 bottom of the board at the ends, rais- 

 ing it about an inch and giving the 

 plant.s a firm stand. On each end is 

 nailed an upright strip two feet long, 

 and these are connected by a half-inch 

 strip across, to which the stems of the 

 lilies are tied to prevent their moving. 

 This tray holds 6-inch and 7-inch pots, 

 but it can be made to suit various 

 sizes. During last Easter week we de- 

 livered over 1,200 lilies in this way, 

 and not one was broken. H. 



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CHICAGO. 



Club Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 last Friday evening considerable rou- 

 tine business that had accumulated 

 during the summer vacation was 

 cleaned up, and by a unanimous vote 

 the thanks of the club was extended to 

 the Nebraska and Iowa Florists' Club 

 for the courtesies extended during the 

 Omaha convention. 



Steps were taken looking to the 

 preparation of an attractive program 

 for the winter. For the next meeting. 

 October 7. the special feature will 

 probably be a paper or address by Mr. 

 E. Buettner on what he saw of interest 

 to the trade while in Europe this sum- 

 mer. 



The Market. 



X)ie favorable weather of the past 

 week' has increased the quantity and 

 improved the quality of stock to a 

 considerable extent. And while the 

 best stock still brings the scale of last 

 week, prices on the medium and lower 

 grades are somewhat easier. All the 

 dealers seem well satisfied with the 

 condition of trade. 



Indoor carnations are coming in in 

 limited quantities and find ready sale, 

 the outdoor fiowers being far short of 

 what they should be. Asters are sell- 

 ing well. A few chrysanthemums ap- 

 peared on the market the past week, 

 but buyers did not seem to be hungry 

 for them. 



Notes. 



E. H. Hunt has returned from Wis- 

 consin, but made only a short stay be- 

 fore he left for Indiana, where he will 

 remain for a short time. 



Wheat sheaves seem to be even 

 more popular than ever. When in 

 Hunt's this week we noted a lot of 

 15 dozen sheaves being packed in one 

 order. 



Emil Buettner and family returned 

 from their European trip on Monday. 



Reinberg Bros, are cutting some very 

 fine La France roses, in addition to 

 large crops of all the standard sorts. 



The Art Floral Co. have opened a 

 downtown store at 82 State street. 

 They have had several stores, as well 



as greenhouses, on the south side for 

 many years, but this is their first ven- 

 ture in the downtown district. They 

 will have the good wishes of many 

 friends for success in the new venture. 

 Vaughan, McKellar iV- Winterson are 

 busy filling their orders for Dutch 

 bulbs. The bulbs were received in un- 

 usually good condition this year and 

 they are much pleased at having such 

 fine stock to send out. 



Recent visitors: John Schneider, 

 Kan.sas City, Mo.: Mrs. M. A. Blake, 

 De Kalb, 111.; L. H. Read, Grand Rap- 

 ids, Wis.;; Frank W. Ball, Cincinnati; 

 Paul Berkowitz, of H. Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., Philadelphia. 



Siebrecht & Son. of New York, will 

 hold a trade auction sale of palms, or- 

 chids, ferns, stove and greenhouse 

 plants at 114 Wabash avenue next 

 Monday, September 26, at 10 a. m. 

 John P. Cleary. the well-known New 

 York plant auctioneer, will officiate. 

 J. Austin Shaw is in the city complet- 

 ing arrangements. 



Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Hauswirth and 

 Miss Annie Kreitling have returned 

 from a trip to Indianapolis and Terre 

 Haute. They spent five days last week 

 at Indianapolis. Mr. Hauswirth attend- . 

 ing the sessions of the Great Coun- 

 cil of Red Men of the IT. S., in which 

 body he represents the jurisdiction of 

 Illinois. At this session he was ap- 

 pointed a member of the finance com- 

 mittee of the Great Council for two 

 years, a very important and responsi- 

 ble position. The party spent two days 

 at Terre Haute before going to Indian- 

 apolis; and best of all, ihey found that 

 business had materially improved dur- 

 ing their absence, and is still improv- 

 ing. At the state fair at Indianapolis 

 they noted some excellent floral work 

 that was entered by Bertermann Bros., 

 of that city. 



It is now fifteen years since Walter 

 Kreitling started in business on his 

 own account, but: Walter isn't a day 

 older than he was when he started — 

 at least so far as one can see. And he 

 says he is happy, even if he has ridden 

 on milk trains and has occasionally 

 been confined to a diet of fried snow- 

 balls. 



Walter Heifron, manager for E. C. 

 Amling, reports a steadily increasing 

 business and anticipates an unusually 

 prosperous season. They are receiv- 

 ing some valley of very fine quality 

 for the season. 



James Sproule, owner of the Sunset 

 Seed & Plant Co., San Francisco, who 

 has retired from the seed business and 

 has his business for sale, was in the 

 city last week. He believes in the 

 never-failing allurements of the sweet 

 pea as the people's flower and may de- 

 cide to still take care of his heavy con- 

 tracts in that line in the future. He 

 says growers are not careful enough 

 in selecting the varieties of sweet peas 

 they are to grow. The public must look 

 to them for education. 



J. A. Carbone. of West Berkeley. 

 Cal., sent a seedling chrysanthemum 

 to the Chicago committee this week. 



