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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



NOVEMBER 9, 1899. 



is quite cheerful for both grower and 

 wholesaler. 



High grade mums move quickly at 

 good figures. The poorer grades go 

 more slowly but very much better 

 than last year and the mum growers 

 returns ought to average better. 



Some exhibition blooms are to be 

 seen at the wholesalers' now. Amling 

 is receiving some grand blooms, espe- 

 cially from Gunnar Teilman. Marion, 

 lnd.. who made three entries and took 

 three first prizes at the show. Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co. are this year handling 

 W. N. Rudd's flowers, which are always 

 of exhibition grade. J. A. Budlong is 

 receiving immense quantities of fancy 

 grade mums and the place resembles 

 an exhibition every morning. Poehl- 

 mann Bros, are cutting their usual 

 large crop, and the average of quality 

 is excellent. 



Club Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 last Friday evening the new officers 

 were duly installed. The committee 

 on banquet reported arrangements all 

 made for the banquet to take place 

 this Thursday evening at the Sherman 

 House. Mr. Oechlein, 1684 W. Madi- 

 son street, and John A. Grossman, 

 Lincoln and Winnemac avenues, were 

 elected to membership. 



Mr. E. F. Winterson, on behalf of the 

 club members and others, presented 

 to retiring president Sanders a fine 

 gold headed cane inscribed: "Presented 

 to Edgar Sanders by his florist 

 friends." Mr. Sanders responded with 

 a speech of acceptance that showed 

 how thoroughly he appreciated the re- 

 membrance. 



The committee on entertainment for 

 the ensuing year was appointed as 

 follows: E. F. Winterson. chairman; 

 F. F. Benthey, Edgar Sanders. 



An interesting feature of the meet- 

 ing was a display of Washington 

 grown bulbs sent by Mr. A. Simon 

 for the members to examine. Both 

 the hyacinths and tulips were excep- 

 tionally fine bulbs and were warmly 

 commended by all. The hyacinths 

 were grown by Mr. C. F. Canfield, of 

 Fairhaven, Wash., and the tulips by 

 Mr. Geo. Gibbs, Orcas. Wash. These 

 bulbs are now being planted at Lin- 

 coln Park and their flowering in the 

 spring will be looked forward to with 

 much interest. 



Various Items. 



A meeting of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Park and Outdoor Art 

 Association was held at the Auditori- 

 um Annex last Saturday. Among those 

 present were President C. M. Loring, 

 Minneapolis: Secretary Warren H. 

 Manning, Boston; F. L. Olmstead. Jr.. 

 Brookline, Mass.: R. H. Warder, Cin- 

 cinnati. The next annual meeting of 

 the association will be held in this 

 city next June. 



An explosion in a flour mill next 

 door to the seed warehouse of S. F. 

 Leonard on West Lake street. Nov. 1, 

 destroyed not only the mill but caused 



Mr. Leonard's building to entirely col- 

 lapse, resulting in the complete •! 

 traction" of Its contents, fire soon start- 

 ing in the ruins and water finishing 

 what was left by the fire. Fortunately 

 no one in Mr. Leonard's store was in- 

 jured but several of the mill employei - 

 were killed. Mr. Leonard's loss is esti- 

 mated at $100,000, upon which there is 

 an insurance of about $75,000. Mr. 

 Leonard carried a very large stock of 

 onion sets. New quarters have been 

 secured by Mr. Leonard and he an- 

 nounces that he will soon be filling 

 orders with usual promptness. 



Bowling. 



A stiff match game was played a1 

 Anson's alleys last night between the 

 Milwaukee and Chicago teams, with 

 about 60 spectators present. Chicago 

 won the three games. Following are 

 the scores: 



'lin 'AGl l 



Geo. Stollery 152 157 144 



F. Stollery 182 163 154 



P. J. Hauswirth ml 174 1»4 



.Ino. Degnan 14ii 175 I'm 



A. Henderson 144 147 157 



C. Balluff '114 102 103 



Geo Asmus 153 190 166 



E. F. Winterson 146 161 160 



1.141 1.269 1.155 

 Total 3,565 



MILWAUKEE. 



C. C. Pollworth 135 152 146 



W. Edlefsen 1 in 153 ITS 



w. A. Kennedy 115 11" 114 



i Sylvester 141 126 l-'s 



N Zwelfel 131 l-'."' lis 



A. Klokner 139 146 122 



H. Holton 108 138 138 



H. Hunkel 123 161 162 



1,011 1,111 1.106 

 Total 3.228 



After the games the visitors were 

 entertained at a banquet in Anson's 

 restaurant, which was much enjoyed. 



Following are the scores and aver- 

 ages made at the alleys last Friday 

 evening: 



A. Henderson 130 153 17>i 166 154 



E. F. Winterson 126 !24 17<i 174 14s 



Jno. Degnan 150 144 lis 117 117 



C Balluff 126 135 1::" 17" 11" 



Jas. Hartshorne 133 L33 



W. Kreitling 13.i 12ii 127 



A I.. Vaughan Hfl \IV 



C. Sehweigert Ill Ill 



A Dinner. 



Last Tuesday evening a vase of O. 

 P. Bassett's American Beauties was 

 placed in the center of a large round 

 table at the Chicago Athletic Club and 

 a little later ten or a dozen of Mr. 

 Bassett's friends, including the judges 

 at the exhibition, were seated around 

 the table to discuss the Beauties and 

 various other items not so exclusively 

 floricultural. The dinner fully sus- 

 tained Mr. Bassett's reputation as a 

 liberal and hearty entertainer, and he 

 is never so happy as when he can 

 gather a number of kindred spirits 

 around his table. There was a learned 

 and very entertaining discussion on 

 the problem of how to grow Beauties 

 without water and experiments were 

 made with various liquids, which 

 proved eminently satisfactory. Mr. 

 Bassett now has his monogram placed 

 on one of them. 



Visitors. 



The Chrysanthemum Show brought 

 quite a number of visitors to the city, 

 among whom we noted: Jno. F. Cow- 

 .11. Buffalo, N. Y.; A. Herrington, 

 Madison, N. J.; Wm. Weber, Oak- 

 hind, Md.; J. A. Evans, Richmond, 

 lnd.; J. R. Fotheringham. Tarrytown, 

 N. Y.; A. Wiegand, John Hartje, and 

 H. W. Rieman, Indianapolis; A. Klok- 

 ner, Milwaukee; E. H. Giesy. Lock- 

 land, O.; H. Heller and Otto Bourdy. 

 New Castle, lnd.; F. Lemon and Harry 

 May, Richmond, lnd.: Henry Smith, 

 Grand Rapids, Mich.; H. Balsley. De- 

 troit; A. Dimmock, Ladysmith; A. C. 

 Brown, Springfield. 111. 



KOKOMO, IND. 



The members of the State Florists' 

 Association had an invitation to visit 

 W. W. Coles. Kokomo. lnd.. Thursday. 

 October 26th. Seven of the Indian- 

 apolis members, and as many more 

 from other cities, availed themselves 

 of the opportunity for a good day's 

 outing, and arrived at Kokomo about 

 10 a. m., where Mr. Coles was in wait- 

 ing to receive them. After hand- 

 shaking Mr. Coles said the first thing 

 on the programme would be a ride 

 around the town. We were then in- 

 vited to get into a lemon colored 

 "Dewey" express, drawn by a spanking 

 team of Kokomo bays, o\v\\ed by Mr. 

 Coles, and after a few turVs around 

 the corners it was hard to ten whether 

 we were in an express wagon or aboard 

 the Olympia. 



After visiting the principal points 

 of interest ■ we were driven to Mr. 

 Coles' place. There we were first 

 shown the remainder of the Kokomo 

 bays, then the Scotch Collie dogs, light 

 Brahma and Langshan chickens, all of 

 which Mr. Coles said had pedigrees 

 galore. After explaining the full work- 

 ings of his modern barn and chicken 

 house we were taken to the green- 

 houses, where we found Beauties, 

 Kaiserins. carnations, palms, etc., in 

 abundance. Everything was in apple 

 pie order. All plants looked vigorous 

 and well kept, and in all, there was a 

 very encouraging outlook for bountiful 

 returns. Much time was spent in going 

 through the different houses, and 

 many compliments paid Mr. Coles, and 

 it was generally conceded that if he 

 had had any longer stemed Beauties 

 and Kaiserins than he showed he 

 would have said so. 



On reaching the office we were 

 brought face to face with a problem 

 that was easily solved. While we did 

 not know the particular brand that 

 was placed before us everyone was 

 willing to risk Coles' judgment and no 

 questions were asked. Kokomo soft 

 drinks were also provided for those 

 who might have stomach trouble, and 

 a nice lunch was served, and several 

 minutes was spent in enjoying your- 

 self. We were then invited to the low- 

 er end of his broad acres to see his 

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