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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



JUNE 13, 1S.99. 



the highest average scores from now 

 till August will be asked to represent 

 the club at the national tournament in 

 Detroit. 



Florists* Club. 



The last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club for this season was held on Mon- 

 •day night. June 12. The attendance 

 was rather light, but very great inter- 

 est was taken in the future of the 

 club. President Plumb was in the 

 chair and stirred up a lot of dormant 

 life. The committee appointed to se- 

 cure the S. A. P. convention for New 

 York city next year were not ready to 

 report, and a special meeting will prob- 

 ably be held next month. President 

 Plumb was instructed to appoint a 

 committee of three to attend to trans- 

 portation to Detroit. 



Upon request the president gave his 

 impressions of floriculture in Europe 

 as he recently saw it. He spoke very 

 highly of the commercial palms, ferns 

 and foliage plants grown in England, 

 particularly for the London market. 

 He said they grew plants better there 

 than we did here; it was not because 

 of their superior ability to do so. for 

 he as well as any intelligent man must 

 admit American growers have nothing 

 to learn from European plant culture, 

 but somehow the men were more in- 

 terested in their work over there; they 

 produce better plants, more room was 

 given to produce finer specimens, 

 there was little of the overcrowding 

 and careless growing seen here. He 

 was of the opinion that the growers 

 in this country would reap great bene- 

 fits by producing a better grade of 

 stock. He also described the nurseries 

 of Ghent, the home of hard-wooded 

 plants. He spoke of many fine flowers 

 and plants which are seldom if ever 

 seen here. He hoped to see the gar- 

 deners of this country go in for great- 

 er variety and finer specimens. 



W. A. Manda took up the American 

 side of the question and said this 

 country was too young to be compared 

 with Europe. The people here did not 

 yet properly appreciate plants and 

 flowers; it was necessary to crowd 

 and produce quantity in order to pay 

 expenses and satisfy a demand for tall 

 plants. Expenses here were very great 

 and it was impossible to get gardeners 

 who would remain interested as they 

 were in Europe, because here the man 

 of pluck and ability wanted to start 

 for himself. In regard to collections of 

 plants, he cited the case of the United 

 States Nurseries, at Short Hills, which 

 he said one time had the finest collec- 

 tion of commercial plants in the 

 world. The concern went under be- 

 cause it was too far ahead of the 

 times. American trade was not of the 

 kind to support extensive concerns de- 

 voted to the cultivation of complete 

 collections. The people here want but 

 the most serviceable and showy. Spe- 

 cialists succeeded best here, and he 

 deprecated the narrow lines upon 

 •which the average florists work. He 

 "hoped, nay, he was sure, the day 

 ■would come when this country would 

 he more appreciative floricult '.rally. 



He knew from experience that plants 

 could lie grown better here; we could 

 get colors in our foliage plants un- 

 known in Europe. 



This started a discussion on flower 

 shows, in which Messrs. Wallace, 

 Ward, Atkins, Siebreeht. Morris and 

 Weathered took part. It was the sense 

 of those present that the greatest ex- 

 hibition ever seen in America would 

 be gotten together if the convention 

 could be brought to this city next year. 

 Mr. Ward offered financial assistance 

 to the project and assured the meet- 

 ing of his heartiest support in the 

 matter. 



The A. T. De La Mare Printing & 

 Publishing Co. have purchased the pa- 

 per known as the "New England 

 Florist," and the "Exchange" has eat- 

 en it up. 1VERA. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Trade holds up well and the scarcity 

 of good shipping stock continues, par- 

 ticularly in roses. At the same time 

 there is an immense amount of poor 

 stock and it takes very low quotations 

 to move some of it. Carnations are 

 showing the effects of the weather to 

 a marked degree and quality has been 

 very considerably lowered during the 

 past week. The scarcity of good roses 

 and carnations will undoubtedly con- 

 tinue till the end of this month. 



Some excellent Harrisii lilies were 

 noted at Kennicott Bros. Co. They 

 were from Klehm Bros, and were from 

 bulbs held back in cold storage. 



The first asters of the season were 

 seen at Amling's. They were of very 

 fair quality for so early. 



The supply of hardy ferns is now 

 sufficient to satisfy all demands. 



Various Notes. 



McKellar & "Winterson have issued 

 their annual bulb list. 



Bert Coles and wife, of Omaha, and 

 A. Mann, Jr., of San Francisco, were 

 visitors last week. 



The Nurserymen's convention opened 

 at the Chicago Beach Hotel yesterday 

 (Wednesday) and concludes today. 



Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hills, of May- 

 wood, lost their oldest boy, aged 9 

 years, last Saturday, June 10, from 

 scarlet fever. They have the sym- 

 pathy of all in their bereavement. 



C. C. Keenan has opened a branch 

 store at 363 East Sixty-third street, 

 still maintaining the main store and 

 greenhouses at 6112 and 6114 Went- 

 worth avenue. The branch store has 

 done an excellent business since open- 

 ing. 



Mr. G. H. Pieser, secretary of Ken- 

 nicott Bros. Co., is laid up as the re- 

 sult of a collision with a tandem bi- 

 cycle last week. His injuries are not 

 exactly serious, but at the same time 

 will probably confine him to the house 

 for some time. 



The work of rebuilding the Lincoln 

 Park greenhouses has begun. The 

 south section has been torn down and 

 will be first rebuilt. When this section 



is completed the plants now in the 

 north section will be moved into it 

 and the north section will then be re- 

 built. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 tomorrow (Friday) evening Mr. An- 

 dreas Simon, of the Staats Zeitung. 

 will read a paper on "Bulb Growing 

 in the State of Washington." Mr. 

 Simon has personally investigated the 

 experiments in bulb growing in Wash- 

 ington and his paper promises to be 

 very interesting. 



Bowling. 



The third set of games in the handi- 

 cap prize series resulted as follows; 



1st. 2nd. 3.1. 4th. Tot Av. 



V. Stollerv 145 168 149 14T 609 152 



Jno. Degnan 142 124 123 17'.) r.6S 112 



G. L. Grant 150 125 135 134 r,44 136 



ci. Stollery 102 124 133 166 525 131 



P. .1. Hauswirth 123 131 109 150 513 128 



A, Heridsrson 115 101 119 160 J'.<:. l-':: 



C. Hunt 117 91 131 1«4 443 110 



There is talk of taking a trip to Mil- 

 waukee on invitation of the Cream 

 City bowlers. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



Society Meeting. 



The State Florists' Association held 

 its reguiar monthly meeting at their 

 rooms in the State House on Thurs- 

 day. June 6. In the absence of the presi- 

 dent and vice president, Mr. J. T. 

 Huntington acted as president. The 

 regular routine of business was fol- 

 lowed. Mr. J. J. B. Hatfield read a 

 paper on botany. This was very inter- 

 esting in the opening chapters, but in 

 the last chapter he struck a bad snag. 

 He evidently does not believe in the 

 florists having a little recreation. His 

 finish was somewhat on this order: 

 Botany is a very peculiar study, we 

 ought to be more interested in its 

 mysteries instead of going to some 

 alley and rolling small wooden balls 

 to knock down some sticks of wood; 

 we ought to get some books on botany, 

 study them and find out the reason a 

 rose won't grow in a swamp and other 

 peculiarities of plant life. He also 

 stated that when he receives a florists' 

 paper the first thing he sees is bowl- 

 ing; he turns over to the next page 

 and sees high score and on the next 

 page crack shots, etc., so he is in a 

 quandary as to whether he is reading a 

 sporting or a florists' paper. Some of 

 the boys are talking seriously of buy- 

 ing him a book on bowling to see if 

 he can't learn the game and join 

 them. 



Prof. Wright, of the Lilly Chemical 

 works, also gave us a talk on botany. 



Mr. Weiss was elected a member of 

 the society. 



Mrs. Charles Rieman has extended 

 to the society an invitation to a fare- 

 well supper to be given at her home on 

 the 21st of June. A committee, com- 

 posed of Fred Hukriede. John Hartje 

 and John Heidenreich. was appointed 

 to make the necessary arrangements 

 and from last accounts a hot time may 

 be expected. 



Harry Balsley, he of red pot fame, 

 was a visitor at the meeting and was 



