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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



£85 



«xtra fine Bonnaffon mums. August 

 Poehlmann is at the hospital, con- 

 valescing from a serious siege of ty- 

 phoid fever. 



E. V. Amling is receiving some 

 very fine Bride roses. They would be 

 hard to beat. He finds violets in ac- 

 tive demand, the best bringing $1.50 

 per hundred. 



E. H. Hunt reports a good business 

 in both cut flower and supply depart- 

 ments. Mr. Hunt has been a little un- 

 der the weather for the past week, but 

 is now improving. 



Geo. Wittbold is using pine needle 

 soil for palms and ferns, and is mucii 

 pleased with it. It is the accumula- 

 tion of decomposed pine needles found 

 under pine trees in Wisconsin, 



Wietor Bros, say those tall, new 

 Beauty houses are none too tall, as 

 some of the stems are already up near 

 the glass. The longest are now sold 

 by the yard instead of by the foot. In 

 carnations. Triumph stands at the 

 head with them. 



Archie Spencer reports clean sales of 

 everything at Reinberg Bros. 



Bowling. 



Last Friday evening the first series 

 of games under the auspices of the 

 new Chicago Florists' Bowling Club 

 were played, and following are the 

 scores: 



1st. 2.1. 3(1. Av. 



G. L. Gram 153 153 216 174 



G. Stollerj- 163 156 177 165 



J. S. VS'ilson 164 16S 160 164 



E. F. Winterson 173 150 158 160 



C. W. McKellar 139 164 167 156 



Jno. Zech 180 123 153 152 



W. Kreitling 119 164 136 139 



.Ino. Degnan .133 143 128 134 



P. J. Hauswlrth 116 139 143 132 



a Erne 114 141 ... 127 



C. S. Stewart 102 123 ... 112 



F. StoUery 126 103 105 111 



Jno. Reardon 87 126 .,. 106 



A. Henderson 105 105 



C. Hughes 86 107 81 91 



H. C. Rowe 63 108 102 91 



J. a Vaughan 88 SS 



Jos. Reeve 69 95 ... 82 



At the conclusion of the series it 

 was proposed that the question of the 

 appointment of a captain be settled by 

 an additional game, the one making 

 the highest score to receive the ap- 

 pointment. It was a hot game and 

 furnished lots of fun. the uproar near- 

 ly equaling that at a national tourna- 

 ment. Following are the scores: J. 

 S, Wilson, 199; G. L. Grant, 1S8: H, C. 

 Rowe, 18.5; John Zech, j.63: C. W. Mc- 

 Kellar, 157; W. Kreitling. 149: P. J. 

 Hauswirth, 148; G. Stollery, 137; Jno. 

 Degnan, 124; E. F. Winterson, 104. 

 Therefore, Mr, Wilson will be the cap- 

 tain of the team. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Market. 



Business is Improving, stock Is of 

 better quality and prices are stiffening. 

 Roses are now 3 to 4. Mums are a glut 

 and can be had at 4 to 6, though some 

 fancy ones bring 6 to 10. 



American Rose Co. 

 The establishment of the American 

 Rose Co., which contains seven acres 



of glass, is situated on the slope of a 

 hill facing the south and east, the 

 houses rising one above the other, 

 thus securing the full benefit of the 

 sun. In the absence of Mr. Hugh Kane, 

 the manager, we were courteously 

 greeted and shown through the houses 

 by the foreman, Mr. Geo. Pollock. 



The place is devoted principally to 

 roses, carnations and decorative 

 plants. Their leading roses are Mme. 

 Chatenay, of which they grow 15,000, 

 and Golden Gale, about the same num- 

 ber. They also have 9,000 Kaiserin, 

 3,000 Meteor, and a 360 toot house de- 

 voted to experimental work with new 

 roses. All the roses grown on benches 

 are tied up to long wire stakes, and 

 are in the pink of condition. 



Of carnations they have 30,000, a 

 portion of which were grown outdoors 

 in boxes and then transferred to the 

 houses. The use of boxes is an experi- 

 ment which they are trying to make 

 successful, but are met by a serious 

 difficulty in the prevalence of stem- 

 rot, probably due to the frequent wat- 

 erings required during summer 

 growth. The varieties grown are Vic- 

 tor, Daybreak, Triumph. Bradt, Pant- 

 lind, Jahn's Scarlet, Joost, and all the 

 newer varieties, but not including 

 Flora Hill. A house each of Triumph 

 and Victor were a beautiful sight. The 

 firm is experimenting with 4,000 seed- 

 lings, some of which are very prom- 

 ising. One in partietilar, which they 

 tested last season, promises to excel 

 any white carnation on the market. As 

 yet it has not been named, though 

 they have 10,000 planted. The growth 

 and habit is similar to that of Mc- 

 Gowan. The foliage is dark, stems 

 long and wiry, and much superior to 

 Flora Hill. The growth is strong- 

 er than McGowan and it is very free in 

 blooming, as can be seen at a 

 glance, some plants producing last 

 season 140 first class blooms. 

 This variety will undoubtedly reap a 

 harvest for the firm when it is sent 

 out. In all sixteen houses are devoted 

 to carnations, the houses being IS feet 

 wide and from 150 to 250 feet long. 



They grow 30,000 single stem mums, 

 including some forty varieties. The 

 first blooms of the season were from 

 the variety Fitzv.-ygram; later came 

 white and yellow Monarch, Montmort, 

 Midge and Glory of the Pacific, the 

 latter in very fine shape. In order to 

 save the color, a soft shell pink, they 

 keep the plants shaded with cheese 

 cloth. 



Their two violet houses are filled 

 with Marie Louise and Lady Campbell, 

 and all the singles, about 10,000 

 plants in solid beds, the finest ever 

 seen in this section of the country, 

 clean, healthy and full of buds. The 

 cut from these houses will undoubted- 

 ly help considerably to swell the bank 

 account. 



Five large houses are devoted to 

 palms and ferns in fine shape. They 

 are used mainly for decorations. Of 

 Asparagus Sprengeri they grow five 



houses. They have just shifted some 

 into 10 and 14-inch pans, which by 

 Christmas and Easter will open the 

 eyes of the boys. 



They are putting in three new steam 

 boilers of 150 and 200 horse power, one 

 weighing 26 tons and the others 17 

 tons each. These will have capacity to 

 heat the entire plant. They use coke 

 for fuel, which they consider better 

 and cheaper than coal. 



Their entire cut of flowers is sent to 

 their store on F street, which is under 

 the management of Mr. W. N. Craw- 

 ford, and here it is retailed or shipped. 

 They also have a block of stands in 

 Center market under the management 

 of Mr. Frank Slye. 



Mr. H. A. Kane, the manager of the 

 American Rose Co., certainly deserves 

 great credit for the fine condition of 

 the stock at this establishment. 



Visitors. 



Recent visitors: S. S. Pennock, 

 Philadelphia; S. Feast, Baltimore; 

 Martin Reukauf, of Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., Philadelphia. 



F. H. KRAMER. 



BUFFALO. 



So many "mums" appeared in town 

 last week that it made a man feel 

 chrysanthemum, which is a worse dis- 

 ease than typhoid or the yellow va- 

 riety. 



There is no more pronounced de- 

 mand for anything in our line than 

 for violets, with which the market is 

 as yet poorly supplied. Roses of the 

 best quality are sent in from all 

 quarters, and sometimes an invoice is 

 received, soliciting an order. But this 

 will not continue. When snowy days 

 and bleak wintry blasts do blow, and 

 the gentle, turtle - dove maiden and 

 gallant youth go to their respective 

 rendezvous, then will the good flowers 

 be in demand. 



I would say here — right here — with- 

 out fear of contradiction, that our 

 stores on Main street are sadly too 

 numerous. What is there to keep 

 them alive! We are not feeding on 

 flowers. The average — yes, 92 per 

 cent — of the populace does not spend 

 one dollar per year on plants and 

 flowers, and we are in a city where 

 very few American people exist. We 

 have a settlement of true Americans 

 within twenty miles, but they mostly 

 spend their energies to obtain fire- 

 water; they belong to the Iroquois or 

 "Me-Like-It-Hot" nation, the chief of 

 which I lately had the pleasure of in- 

 terviewing. 



A matter of considerable importance 

 to us all locally is the branching out 

 of Wm, F. Kasting into Pittsburg. 

 Mr, Kasting has bought out and will 

 in future run the establishment 

 known as the "Pittsburg Floral Ex- 

 change." Mr. Fred Stokes will be his 

 representative. Mr. Stokes has had 

 experience in all parts of the world, 

 and if he does not do well in Pitts- 

 burg it will be a great disappoint- 

 ment to the writer. Mr. Kasting is 



