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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



June 13, 1901. 



Schiay, Beyer, Fillmore and Windier, 

 our South End florists are taking things 

 easy just now, as the planting out season 

 is over. All report a good season, being 

 pretty well cleaned up. 



Theo. Klockenkemper, J. W. Dunford, 

 Billy Winter and The Chicago Carnation 

 Co. are sending in great quantities of 

 fine carnations to this market. 



Carew Sanders has improved much the 

 past week, being now able to sit up. The 

 doctors report that all danger is past. 



J. F. Windt, the Bayard avenue florist, 

 suffered the loss of 350 lights of glass 

 from the recent hail storm. Mr. Windt 

 has his place looking in good shape and 

 reports a fine spring trade in plants; the 

 cut flower trade has also been excellent. 



E. W. Guy, of Belleville, was in town 

 the past week buying supplies. Mr. Guy 

 reports that his father, F. W. Guy, ha.s 

 left Kimmswick, Mo., and has bought a 

 place near Pacific, Mo. 



Bowling;. 



The weather was very hot on Monday, and 

 this, no doubt, kept many of the bowlers away 

 from the alleys. Only six members rolled, 

 and they made the following scores: 



1 2 3 4 Tl. Av. 



.\. T. Ellison 202 184 183 ... 569 189 



J. J. Beneke 175 132 155 163 625 156 



C. A. Kuehn 154 150 155 ... 459 153 



F- M. ElUs 133 126 166 151 576 144 



John Young 123 151 119 126 519 130 



P. C. Weber 146 119 124 121 510 128 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



"There are a few good flowers and a 

 million poor ones. The good ones are 

 wanted and the poor ones are not want- 

 ed at any price." That's the way one 

 dealer describes existing conditions and 

 the majority seem to agree with him. 

 There is certainly a great abundance 

 of fiowers but still it is a little diiScult 

 to pick up any quantity of choice ship- 

 ping grade. Quotations on the best 

 grade of teas are $4 to $5 and on the 

 lower grades the fall is steep and sud- 

 den. On carnations $2 is about the top 

 with e-xcellent stock selling at $1 to $1.50 

 and clean ups at as low as 30 to 50 

 cents. On Beauties $3.00 is still the 

 top but the low grades reach down far- 

 ther and get there quicker. The best 

 Golden Gates bring as high as $8 and 

 fair Liberties are priced at $8 to $10 

 with extra selects up to Beauty figures. 



There is a big supply of paeonies now 

 and good ones are quoted at $3.00 to 

 $5.00 a hundred with some extras at 

 somewhat higher figures. But there is 

 a great mass of poor stock that the 

 dealers are glad to move at as low as 

 $1.00 a hundred. Aside from paeonies 

 there seems to be practically no demand 

 for outdoor flowers. 



Lilies are meeting with very little if 

 any demand though there is a liberal 

 supply of good flowers. Some fine Cape 

 Jasmines are coming in now and they 

 are ofi'ered at as low as 50 cents a hun- 

 dred with few buyers. This is especially 

 exasperating as had they been in for 

 Decoration Day they could have been 

 readily sold at $3.00 a hundred. Glad- 

 iolus Colvillei alba is being received and 

 sells fairly well at $3.00 per 100. 



The stretch of cool weather was broken 

 last Monday and there was a quick shift 

 to the other extreme. Tuesday and 

 Wednesday the mercury was soaring 

 into the nineties. On the whole trade 

 is fully equal to that of last year though 

 the big supply of poor grade goods 



makes an unpleasant glut that is dif- 

 ficult to handle. Fortunately shipping 

 trade holds up well but local demand 

 is very thin. 



Qub Meeting. 



At the last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club the entertainment committee re- 

 ported the grounds on the Reissig es- 

 tate at Riverside as the most desirable 

 place for the proposed picnic and it was 

 instructed to go ahead and complete 

 arrangements. The electric cars go di- 

 rect to the grounds. The committee will 

 report the day and other details later. 



There was some discussion of the rul- 

 ing of the Board of Education forbidding 

 the use of flowers at the closing exercises 

 of the public schools but it did not ap- 

 pear that the club was in a position 

 to take any effective action as a body. 

 However some good will no doubt re- 

 sult indirectly from the discussion. 



The committee on transportation to 

 the Buffalo convention reported progress. 



The next meeting will be held June 

 21 and this will probably be the last 

 for the season as the time for the 

 annual summer vacation is at hand. 



Various Items. 



Solomon Garland, Sr., died at his home 

 in Des Plaines last Thursday of pneu- 

 monia, aged 71 years. He was the fath- 

 er of W. S., Frank, Geo. M. and Solo- 

 mon Garland, Jr., all in the trade, and 

 the father-in-law of Fred Wittbold. He 

 was born at West Farms, N. Y., in 1830 

 and he removed with his parents to Chi- 

 cago in 1843. The family settled in 

 Winnetka in 1846 and here Mr. Garland 

 was married, removing in 1861 to Des 

 Plaines, where he has ever since resided. 

 He engaged in farming and market gar- 

 dening, later building greenhouses, and 

 the sons are now all engaged in the 

 growing of cut flowers except Geo. M., 

 who is now manufacturing and selling 

 the iron gutter invented by him. Mr. 

 Garland retired from business five or 

 six years ago and since then has spent 

 the winters in Florida. He owned con- 

 siderable property but as the title to 

 same had been several years ago vest- 

 ed in his wife, who survives him, there 

 is no change in title. 



The wife of John Thorpe died last 

 Saturday and the funeral was held Tues- 

 day. The many friends of "Uncle John" 

 will deeply sympathize with him in his 

 affliction. Flowers were sent by many 

 in the trade. 



John Winterson, a brother of E. F. 

 Winterson, of this city, who was in 

 the service of a Pacific coast railway, 

 was probably fatally injured in an ac- 

 cident at Walla Walla, Wash., last week. 

 He lost both legs and an arm and a 

 report of his death is hourly expected. 

 Ed is getting it thick and fast lately. 

 Soon after he learned of his brother's 

 sad accident he received a telegram an- 

 nouncing that a sister was dying at 

 her home in the west. 



The greenliouses of Benthey & Co., at 

 New Castle, Ind., are now all glazed 

 and half of them are planted. They will 

 be all in roses. 



Among recent visitors were A. L. Glas- 

 er, Dubuque, la., and Henry Diers, Sib- 

 ley, 111. 



Bassett & Washburn are beginning to 

 cut bloom from their big house, 50,x600, 

 which they rebuilt and planted with 

 roses for summer flowering. They in- 

 cluded in this house a lot of the new 

 Marquise Litta, which they find to be 



a splendid summer rose. In form and 

 color it suggests the Beauty but it is 

 a much better finished flower. The other 

 roses in this house are La France, Kais- 

 erin and Pres. Carnot. 



Jlr. G. Swenson, of Elmhurst, is send- 

 ing in some remarkably fine candytuft 

 of a new strain. 



A team of florists stand a chance of 

 getting their hair curled without charge 

 in a game of baseball to be played with 

 a team of barbers at West Harrison 

 and 40th streets next Sunday afternoon. 

 The florists will start from the corner 

 of Wabash and Randolph at 2 p. m. 



Bowling. 



In the sixth series of league games, played 

 last Tuesday evening, the Wholesalers gave 

 the Retailers red violets in two games and 

 the Retailers returned pickled stock to the 

 Wholesalers in one game. The Growers 

 planted the Seedsmen three games deep. Jos. 

 Foerster captured a dollar prize with a score 

 of 212. The scores follow: 



WHOLESALERS. 



Jos. Foerster 194 159 212 



Jno. Sterrett 134 143 130 



G. L. Grant 142 121 151 



C. Hughes 131 122 150 



W. S. Heftron 141 124 125 



742 601 768 

 RETAILERS. 



Geo, Asmus 191 173 148 



O. Kreitling 107 139 82 



P. J. Hauswirth 146 141 137 



W. Kreitling 109 120 135 



C. Balluff 166_ 131 152 



719 704 654 

 GROWERS. 



N. A. Schmitz 177 181 139 



F. Mattl 139 151 129 



Jno. Paulus 148 138 117 



G. Stollery 190 170 178 



F. Stollery 138 154 168 



792 794 731 

 SEEDSIHEN. 



Jno. Degnan 136 160 168 



C. W. Scott 104 97 113 



W. Trlllow 127 98 113 



E. Hauswirth 166 113 109 



E. Enders 124 140 147 



667 608 650 

 The teams now stand as follows: 



Won. Lost. 



Growers 13 6 



Wholesalers 12 6 



Retailers 8 10 



Seedsmen 3 15 



Below we give the averages to date of those 

 who have played in more than two series of 

 games, omitting fractions where less than one- 

 half and counting more than one-half as one: 

 Games. Total. High. Av. 



Geo. Asmus 15 2543 201 170 



Jos. Foerster 18 3035 212 169 



F. Stollery 18 2992 202 166 



G. Stollery 18 2893 199 161 



C. Balluff IS 2871 214 160 



E. F. Winterson 15 2366 202 158 



Jno. Degnan 18 2839 197 157 



F. Mattl 18 2780 185 155 



P. J. Hauswirth 15 2193 178 146 



G. L. Grant 17 2472 166 145 



N. A. Schmitz 15 2137 181 142 



Jno. Paulus IS 2464 174 137 



E. Enders 9 1189 156 132 



C. Hughes 10 1302 150 130 



W. S. Heftron 17 2131 184 125 



W. Kreitling 12 1458 144 122 



O. Kreitling 15 1758 154 117 



C. W. Scott 17 1955 168 115 



W. Nagle 13 1363 168 105 



A BUNCH OF BOWLERS. 



The 



ing , 



graving is from a flash- 

 le Chicago florists who 

 es of league games now 



light photograph of 

 are bowling in the s 

 in progress. 



The young man in the lower left-hand comer 

 with his hair parted nearly amidship is John 

 Degnan, the calptain of the team of seedsmen. 

 The scores of his team are not parted so nearly 

 in the middle as Johnny's hair. In fact, Johnny 

 has to carry the bulk of the load for his team. 

 Next to the right in the front row is Jos. 

 Foerster, whose average of 165 in fifteen games 

 means good bowling. Directly back of him is 

 George Stollery, who' Is gazing earnestly at a 

 200 score on the board oposlte and admiring its 

 appearance. To the right of Mr. Foerster is 

 Charley Hughes, who has a pretty ankle and 

 don't care who knows it. 



Back of the ball held by Mr. Hughes, with 



the expression of Napoleon 



President P. J. Hauswirth. 



to the right Is Captain 



at Waterloo, 



while in the front : 



E. P. Winterson. Ed doesn't 



any 



