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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



OCTOBER 12, 1899. 



received a shipment of 3,000 double 

 violets that -were the finest ever seen 

 here at this season of the year. They 

 sold quickly at good figures. 



McKellar & Winterson are receiving 

 some large consignments of fine or- 

 chids and they meet with good sale'. 



Smilax is selling better than usual 

 at the season and there seems an ex- 

 ceptionally good call for all greens. 



The Floral Float. 



The floral float prepared by the 

 Florists' Club for the Industrial par- 

 ade last Tuesday evening was a de- 

 cided success artistically, and in the 

 face of very serious drawbacks. The 

 weather seemed determined to destroy 

 any chance to display the float after it 

 was completed. Rain and wind com- 

 bined to make things unpleasant, but 

 the rain finally ceased, the parade was 

 carried out and success followed. 



The photograph reproduced in this 

 issue does not do the float justice. It 

 was a remarkably beautiful creation 

 and was a credit to the profession. It 

 was worth all it cost the club. All 

 honor to the men who so earnestly 

 devoted their time, effort and money 

 to make it what it ought to be. 



Club Meeting. 



At the last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club Albert Budlong and Charles 

 Dickinson were elected to member- 

 ship. The float committee reported 

 progress. It was decided to offer a 

 special prize at the chrysanthemum 

 show as usual. 



At the next meeting the work of 

 formulating a program for the winter 

 will be taken up. 



Various Items. 



Visitors: W. B. Reynolds. Rock- 

 ford, 111.: Victor Wayman. Madison, 

 Wis.; Charles Chadwick, Grand Rap- 

 ids. Mich. 



Mrs. P. J. Hauswirth, who has been 

 very seriously ill since her return 

 from the east, is now much improved 

 but the doctors report that it will be 

 a long time before she entirely re- 

 covers her former strength. For the 

 last week or so she has been at a 

 North Side hospital, where every pos- 

 sible advantage could be secured. 



Bowling. 



After the last elub meeting a few 

 games were rolled, with the following 

 result, omitting those making less 

 than 100: . 



12 3 4 5 Av. 



G. L. Grant 142 152 209 167 



F. N. Hansen 167 167 



Ed Winterson 167 144 148 156 164 155 



C. Balluff 118 155 167 155 166 152 



Geo. Woodward 145 145 



\ Hi nd( rson 127 151 156 114 



Jno. Degnan U 3 129 169 136 150 139 



Geo. Baldwin 129 129 



W. Kreitling 131141 99 106 111117 



Jas. Novak 103 103 



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DEUTZIA. 

 [From the Florists' Manual, by William Scott.] 



Several of the species are among our 

 earliest and best known flowering 

 shrubs, and gracilis, the smaller grow- 



Simplicity in Greenhouse Construction. 



During our long experience we have not only made many improve- 

 ments in greenhouses, but we have so simplified the construction that 

 building a greenhouse is no longer a matter so full of complications as 

 to tax the patience and the ingenuity of even the most intelligent 

 mechanic. Our 



Clear Cypress Building Material 



is worked out in the best manner ready to be put up, and we furnish our 

 customers such complete detail drawings that any workman of only ordi- 

 nary capabilities can put it up correctly. 



Write for Circulars 

 or Estimates. 



Lockland Lumber Co. 



LOCKLAND, OHIO. 



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ing pure white species, is largely forced 

 as an Easter plant. It is sold in pots 

 or used for decorations, or the cut 

 sprays are used. There is a new form 

 of gracilis called Lemoineii, quite 

 double, a beautiful flower and more 

 lasting than the single. The double 

 form is not yet quite so common and 

 consequently is more expensive, but it 

 will soon be grown as plentifully as 

 gracilis. Plants for forcing of any size 

 can be imported so cheaply and so 

 well and compactly grown that it is 

 useless to attempt to grow plants for 

 forcing; they would cost you far more. 



Those wanting to grow them to raise 

 in the nursery for flowering shrubs 

 :an root them most easily from the 

 young tender shoots taken from forced 

 plants in February or March and put 

 into the ordinary propagating bed or 

 from outside cuttings in June put into 

 sand in a hot-bed. 



When you receive the deutzias in 

 the month of November don't expose 

 them to zero weather. They are a 

 hardy plant, but after their sea voy- 

 age are poorly prepared for a hard 

 freeze. The stems are studded to their 

 tips with their flowering buds, so they 

 want no pruning or you will get no 

 flowers. Keep them protected by a 

 cold-frame and their roots covered till 

 you pot them up for forcing. They 

 should have about seven weeks under 

 glass in a night temperature of 50 de- 

 grees, then they will be nicely out and 

 not unduly forced. 



For forcing we prefer to buy every 

 year, but unsold plants if planted out 

 make good bushes for selling with 

 ither hardy shrubs. 



WANT ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Advertisements under this head 10 cents a line, 

 an average of seven words to the line. 



WANTED— Steady man to look after three rose 

 houses. One who can grow A' stock of Brides, 

 Bridesmaids and Meteors. Steady place for right man. 

 Good wages. F. Holznagle, Highland Park, Mich, 

 (near Detroit.) 



WANTED— Young Florist. Got to have interest 

 for the business and be a hustler. Wages accord- 

 ing to ability. Bluff City Greenhouses, Elgin, 111. 



FOR SALE— Flower Store on south side, good loca- 

 tion. Cheap for cash, low rent. D. J. Deane. 

 3g78 Drexel Boul., Chicago. 



WANTED— Good live partner in well established 

 wholesale and retail nursery, near St. Louis, to 

 superintend grounds or take charge of agents. Death 

 cause of selling one-fourth or half interest, $3,000 cash, 

 balance to be agreed upon. Address 20, care Florists' 

 Review. 



SITUATION WANTED— As assistant on private 

 O place by youngs man, four and a half years exper- 

 ience. Address Assistant, 960 North Broadway.Yonkers, 



N. Y. 



FOR RENT— Six houses, steam heat, fully stocked. 

 #25 00 per month. A. J. Harms, Agt, Berteau and 

 Western Aves., Chicago. 



WANTED— On large place, man who understands 

 propagating and bedding out. S25.00 per month 

 and board, with chance to raise. Address B, care ot 

 Florists' Review. 



'ANTED— Man competent to take full charge of 

 17,000 feet of glass devoted to cut flowers. Per- 

 manent position. Salary, S50.00 a month. Address, 

 with references, Michigan, care of Florists' Review. 



FOR SALE — A bargain, if taken at once. $150.00 

 Store and Greenhouses located on Jackson Blvd. 

 Cannot attend to it. Apply to owner, 14 Colorado Ave. 

 Chicago, 111. 



OR SALE — Old established florist business, 63S 

 Washington Street, Hoboken, N. J. 



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TIME AND MONEY. 



You can save time by consulting the 

 Review's classified advs. when in want 

 of stock. 



You can save money by using the 

 Review's classified advs. when you 

 have stock to offer. 



WANTED. 



At once, 200 Paeony Clumps, from 

 field. Pottsii, or some other good white 

 Paeony. Address Williams & Sons Co., 

 Batavia, 111. 



HITCHINGS BOILER 



Corrugated Fire Box, No. 17, 

 in good condition. Price, $100 



W.°T b 'BELL e '& SONS, Franklin, Pa. 



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