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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



JUNE 29, 1899. 



meeting of the club without fail. It is 

 rumored that Max is a presidential 

 candidate. 



Prof. Wm. Trelease, of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, is now in Alaska 

 with a party of government officials. 

 Prof. Irish is in charge of the garden 

 until the return of Mr. Trelease. 



Willie Jordan has fully recovered the 

 use of his foot and is again about at- 

 tending to business as usual. 



The members of the Florists' Club 

 should not forget to attend the next 

 meeting of the club July 13 at 3 p. m., 

 as business of importance will come 

 up. Nominations of officers and an es- 

 say by President Sanders will make it 

 worth your while to come. 



The picnic committee has as yet 

 nothing to report and a great many of 

 the florists are anxious to know when 

 we will have our picnic. Hurry up 

 boys, the time is short, or we will 

 have to postpone it until after the 

 convention. 



Chas. Young, of C. Young & Sons 

 Company, has severed his connection 

 with the above firm and will travel for 

 his father-in-law in the woodenware 

 business. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club rolled five games 

 Monday night and Charlie Kuehn 

 seems to be the only one rolling in 

 championship form. The attendance 

 was not so good as it should be at 

 this time of the year. Every member 

 of the club is requested to attend next 

 Monday night, as a meeting of great 

 importance will be held in regard to 

 the S. A. F. meet. The scores were 

 as follows: 



12 3 4 5 Tot. Av. 



C. A. Kuehn .... 170 lr.S 178 IBS 183 838 167 



J. J. Beneke 126 151 ISO 132 146 735 147 



J. W. Kunz 154 121 160 130 163 728 146 



C. C. Sanders.... 142 138 145 K3 104 682 136 



John Toung 124 152 103 143 622 130 



F. J. Fillmore.... 105 106 133 135 105 584 117 



F. H. Weber 91 99 154 129 85 658 112 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Shipping trade has held up very well. 

 In stock the percentage of firsts has 

 been less, with a corresponding 1 better 

 demand for what there was. The sup- 

 ply has been larger than for any pre- 

 ceding June, and though there has 

 been a large percentage of low grade 

 stock the average cash results have 

 been good. Really good stock has been 

 at a premium all through the month, 

 and is still in brisk demand. During 

 the last few days the call seems to 

 have shifted more to white flowers. 

 Milwaukee has lately had several 

 heavy shipments on account of their 

 floral carnival. 



Though some of the paeonies did 

 not carry as well in cold storage as 

 anticipated immense quantities have 

 been marketed. Kennicott Bros. Co. 

 sold over $1,000 worth during the last 

 week, and have still retained 500 dozen 

 to back up their promise of paeonies 

 till July 4th. The Late Rose is, how- 



ever, the only variety that can be suc- 

 cessfully carried to that date. 



Longiflorum lilies, which had been 

 dragging some, were cleaned up in 

 good shape last Tuesday. The out- 

 door grown candidum were not so suc- 

 cessfully marketed, coming in when 

 too many other good showy flowers 

 are available. 



Archie Spencer, of Reinberg Bros., 

 looks for better summer sales than for 

 some years past. 



In garden flowers gypsophila and 

 corn-flowers go very well, but coreop- 

 sis moves slowly and lychnis not at 

 all. 



The wholesale houses have arranged 

 to close at 5 P. M. during July and 

 August. 



Various 1 Items. 



Mr. G. H. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. 

 Co., is still confined to the house as 

 the result of his recent accident, 

 though progressing favorably. 



J. A. Budlong started on a bicycle 

 trip to Denver but in Iowa received an 

 introduction to a cyclone which so im- 

 pressed him that he came home by 

 train. 



A ball game between the wholesalers 

 and the retailers is to take place soon 

 and a hot time is promised. 



Several member's of the craft left 

 for Cincinnati last Tuesday evening to 

 attend the great gathering of singing 

 societies in that city. Albert Ebeling 

 and C. Paasch were in the party and 

 Anton Then was expected. 



Andrew Peterson, Oak Park, will de- 

 fer rebuilding till next spring. 



The price of glass is still soaring up- 

 ward and some projected building op- 

 erations will be postponed for a while 

 in consequence. One pleasant side of 

 the glass situation is that every green- 

 house roof in the country is worth 

 more than it was a year ago. And 

 growers who feel that production has 

 exceeded demand say they wish that 

 the price of glass would advance to 

 $10 a box and thus deter further build- 

 ing till demand has caught up with 

 production. 



Mr. Challenge Ventilator Evans, of 

 Richmond, Ind., has been visiting the 

 growers in this section this week. He 

 acknowledges that there is a quicker 

 lifter than the "Challenge." It lifted 

 the roof off his factory and caused 

 damage to the amount of $1,000. It 

 was an Indiana cyclone. 



Mr. W. C. Cook, who is now mana- 

 ger of the Dunkley Floral Co., Kala- 

 mazoo, Mich., visited his old Chicago 

 friends last week. 



Bowling. 



Last Friday evening an invitation 

 from the Milwaukee bowlers, through 

 Mr. C. C. Pollworth, to visit Milwau- 

 kee, was read, and after discussion it 

 was decided to accept the invitation 

 and to reach Milwaukee Saturday ev- 

 ening, July 8, in time to play the 

 games that evening. A warm time is 

 expected. 



Another four games of the handicap 



prize series were played and following 

 are the scores and averages: 



1st. 2nd. 3d. 4th. Tot. Av. 



C. W. McK3llar 164 171 191 160 686 17t 



F. Stollery 196 128 165 133 622 155 



Ed. Winterson 147 158 134 ... 439 14S 



Jno. Degnan 160 145 124 113 542 135- 



J. S. Wilson 142 111 132 US 533 133 



G. Stollery 127 102 157 133 519 129 



A. Henderson 140 129 108 140 517 129 



G. L,. Grant 129 129 12» 



C. Hunt 154 123 99 ... 376 125. 



J. Hartshorne 124 130 113 ... 367 122 



P. J. Hauswirth 99 108 207 103 



W. Kreitling 103 114 76 ... 293 9T 



DETROIT. 



One of the many trips to be taken 

 outside of Detroit is the one to Mt. 

 Clemens (called the Bath City for Its 

 noted mineral waters of great cura- 

 tive properties), and one cannot put 

 in four hours of more profit and pleas- 

 ure than by taking a car on the Rapid 

 Railway, which passes the city hall 

 at five minutes past the half and even 

 hours. Or better still, make up a 

 party and get a special car, run out 

 to Connor's Creek and visit the green- 

 houses of J. F." Sullivan, which are 

 well worth a visit, as they are located 

 in the ideal spot for a greenhouse 

 plant. Mr. S. grows a general collec- 

 tion of stock to supply his downtown 

 store. After spending an hour here 

 board the car and away for Mt. Cle- 

 mens, passing along the line of one of 

 the oldest roads in Michigan, an old 

 Indian trail, which is now a thickly 

 settled street for the entire twenty 

 miles between the two cities. 



Arriving at Mt. Clemens we proceed 

 to the largest greenhouse plant in 

 Michigan, that of J. Breitmeyer & 

 Sons, consisting of twenty-two large 

 houses, heated by steam supplied by 

 crude oil as fuel. This plant is locat- 

 ed on the banks of the Clinton river, 

 is a most beautiful place and any one 

 who may be so fortunate as to visit it, 

 may feel sure of a warm welcome. 



Just across the way is R. Klegge, 

 who raises more violets, and better 

 ones, than anyone within a ' hundred 

 miles, and within a walk of ten min- 

 utes one can find the new plant of 

 Jas. Taylor, which are models of con- 

 struction, used to grow carnations for 

 the trade. 



In case any one has a touch of rheu- 

 matism there are seven large bath 

 houses where, for the small sum of 50 

 cents, they guarantee a cure. The fare 

 for the round trip is 50 cents, but a 

 special rate will be made to florists 

 wishing to visit the Bath City. 



Arrangements were completed at the 

 last meeting of the local club to ex- 

 tend our boat ride to the Flats or 

 more properly called the "Venice of 

 America," and at the Star Island 

 House to give every one of the party, 

 whether it consists of 400 or 1,200, a 

 fish supper of fish that were caught 

 within twenty minutes of cooking 

 time and as the dining room will seat 

 580 people all may be sure of a treat. 

 There are bowling alleys, billiard ta- 

 bles, etc., in separate buildings, and a 

 large, beautiful lawn on which one 

 can rest and view the boats 



