NOVEMBER 2. 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



563 



James Hartshorne, President Chicago Florists' Club. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



There is a firmer tone in the mar- 

 ket. Demand is improving and qual- 

 ity is also somewhat better. The 

 cooler weather is bearing fruit. And 

 while there is no material change in 

 quotations, prices are firmer. 



Chrysanthemums are moving fairly 

 well, but not as they should at the 

 season. Retailers report that custo- 

 mers don't seem to want mums in any 

 quantity until the chrysanthemum 

 show opens. This is getting to be 

 more noticeable every year. Some 

 very good orders for fancy mums have 

 been already placed for delivery when 

 the show opens. Many of the flowers 

 seen at the wholesalers are very im- 

 perfectly developed and would have 

 been much better had they been left 

 on the plant for another week. 



Violets are going much better than 

 last week, and white violets are sell- 

 ing much more freely than usual. 



Lily of the valley has, however, been 

 in the dumps and it seems to have 

 been about the only flower that didn't 

 come up in demand. 



Hardy ferns were never so good as 

 this year. The enormous amount of 

 these now used is shown by the fact 

 that one Chicago commission house 

 <Kennicott Bros. Co.) alone sold 250,- 



000 last month; and every wholesaler 

 handles, them largely. 



We hear of a combination of the 

 fern gatherers and dealers, with the 

 object of controlling the market on 

 this important item, but we hear also 

 of some pretty large stocks that won't 

 be controlled by any combine. The 

 outcome will be looked for with in- 

 terest. 



The Exhibition. 



The annual chrysanthemum show 

 and fall exhibition of the Horticultu- 

 ral Society of Chicago opens next 

 Tuesday in the great Auditorurn The- 

 atre. It will certainly be a magnifi- 

 cent spectacle, and we question wheth- 

 er such a splendid setting was ever 

 before given an exhibition of plants 

 and flowers. 



The International competition in 

 chrysanthemum cut blooms ought to 

 bring out a large display. Though 

 there has been a fine show of flowers 

 in previous years many of the state 

 prizes ($6 each) have not been entered 

 for, and there is an easy thing for 

 those who do enter from many of the 

 states, to say nothing of the possibility 

 of winning the sweepstakes prize of 

 $50. 



Club Banquet. 



The annual banquet of the Florists' 

 Club will be given next Thursday ev- 



ening, Nov. 9. The committee in 

 charge of the affair consists of Messrs. 

 James Hartshorne, Edgar Sanders, C. 

 W. McKellar, A. L. Vaughan, J. B. 

 Deamud. E. F. Winterson is chair- 

 man of committee on decoration and 

 will select his associates. Another 

 committee will see that trade visitors 

 are taken care of, and any such that 

 are in the city at the time are request- 

 ed to make themselves known to any 

 of the following: James Hartshorne, 

 F. F. Benthey, C. W. McKellar, John 

 Degnan, Edgar Sanders, E. F. Winter- 

 son, A. L. Vaughan. 



The Sherman House has been prac- 

 tically decided upon as the place for 

 the banquet, and the tickets will be 

 $2.00. 



A regular meeting of the club will 

 be held tomorrow (Friday) evening, 

 when the new officers will be duly in- 

 stalled and other important matters 

 of business attended to. 



Bowling. 



Arrangements have been made for a 

 match game with the Milwaukee bowl- 

 ers, the games to be played at Anson's 

 alleys next Wednesday evening, Nov. 

 8, starting at 8 o'clock. A hot series 

 is expected and as there will be many 

 other visitors in the city at the time 

 there will doubtless be a large audi- 

 ence. 



There were some warm scores made 

 at the alleys last Friday night, Geo. 

 Asmus breaking the record with a 

 score of 278, John Degnan rolling up 

 an aggregation of 262, and Ed Winter- 

 son accumulating 210. Following are 

 the scores: 



Winterson 115 168 150 155 210 15S 163 134 



Degnan 117 178 149 152 178 138 262 155 



Asmus 129 161142 180 171278 177 166 



Hunt 138 142 143 132 191145 147 135 



Coulson 157 192 160 1S3 165 166 164 



Mr. O. Coulson is a Buffalo boy. 



Recent visitors: Louis M. Noe, Mad- 

 ison, N. J.; I. L. Pillsbury, Galesburg, 

 111.; Fred Dorner, Jr., La Fayette, 

 Ind.; S. A. Baur, Erie, Pa. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Business during the past week was 

 only fair, with lots of room for im- 

 provement. Chrysanthemums are ev- 

 erywhere and all kinds of stock is 

 plentiful, and small roses begin to 

 suffer from the chrysanthemum, al- 

 though the market is not affected on 

 Beauties. Good Beauties are scarce 

 and in demand. Chrysanthemums 

 have greatly improved in quality and 

 some fine specimen blooms are now 

 received. A lot of southern mums are 

 received daily and come in bad condi- 

 tion. Most of them are sold for ex- 

 press charges. Some of the fine speci- 

 men blooms sent in by our local grow- 

 ers brought as high as $3 per dozen; 

 others go from $2 to $10 per 100, while 

 the small stuff is sold from 50 cents 

 to $1 per 100. These are bought most- 

 ly for funeral work and take the place 

 of carnations. 



Roses and carnations suffer alike 

 from the chrysanthemum. Good se- 

 lect roses bring $5; while others are 

 sold from $1 to $3 and much cheaper 



