The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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new officers. Other important matters 

 will come up at this meeting. Max 

 Herzog will be back to tell us of his 

 trip abroad, and those who attended the 

 convention will tell the members of their 

 experiences and how the beautiful Pan- 

 American was handled by Brother Scott. 

 This will be a very interesting meeting, 

 and those present will not regret having 

 attended. Secretary Schray will also 

 have something to say which will be of 

 great benefit to the younger members of 

 the club. 



Bowling. 



The florist bowlers who are to make up a 

 team to join the big St. Louis Ten-Pin League, 

 now being formed, held a meeting to select 

 their team. The bowlers present were: A. Y. 

 Ellison. C. A. Kuehn. J. J. Beneke, C. C. San- 

 ders. Carl Beyer, F. M. Ellis, Theo. Miller and 

 Wm. Adels. 



J. J. Beneke was elected captain of the team 

 and A. Y. Ellison representative of the club to 

 the League meetings. The following will make 

 up the team: J. J. Beneke. A. Y. Ellison, C. 

 A. Kuehn. Jno. W. Kunz. C. C. Sanders, Wm. 

 Adels and P. M. Ellis. This team will roll 

 each week during the season of the League 

 rolling and five members make up a team. Be- 

 fore the meeting a few games were rolled and 

 the scores were as follows: 



1 2 .■! 4 Tot. 



A. T. Ellison 142 176 193 207 717 



J. J. Beneke 126 172 156 136 590 



C. A. Kuehn 148 154 302 



C. C. Sanders 125 148 108 ... 381 



Carl Beyer 108 134 101 ... 343 



Wm. Adels 131 167 134 ... 432 



F. M. Ellis 160 105 139 ... 404 



Theo. Miller 110 75 100 89 374 



This is the first rolling the boys have done 

 since the convention and they were a little 

 rusty. A. Y. Ellison being the only member in 



.J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The supply of ^ roses has shortened 

 somewhat on the average and prices are 



up to $4 and $.3 for the best, while a 

 very few cxl]:! K;ii-.iiii^ li:i\e brought 

 as higli :i- .-^i;, Tl,.. jM M iMilk of the 



cut. howrx.'l, -nil l.Mi-.-~ II. Mil $1 to 

 $3. The -iii>i.l.\ ..1 r;iin,ilh.n. is equal 

 to demands and prii.es still range from 

 $1 to .$1..J0 for select. Rates on the 

 poorer grades are lower and we hear of 

 some clean-up sales at as low as 10 

 cents a bunch. There is sufficient de- 

 mand to take all good stock except as- 

 ters and gladioli. Aster sales still av- 

 erage good, though, where the quality is 

 first class, and these bring $1.50 per 100,' 

 with some sales of extra select at as 

 high as $2. The poorer grades are more 

 unsalable than before. 



In roses the pink ones are scarcer than 

 white, quite a chanse from a short time 

 a<ro. ,vhpn white had the p.tII. Br-iiitip* 



and pond blooms bring .$». 



Trade conditions in general continue 

 excellent for the season and the summer 

 will certainl}' averag'e the best ever 

 known in this market. 



Various Items. 



>.-imIiiil; III :. -|.!,Mi.li:l ImI ,,i :,-t,.is. they 



ll:n.' ;l lirl,l rollklllllll:, llli.iut 40,000 



plant- ill which there ueiu few misses, 

 and from which they are cutting an im- 

 mense crop of fancy flowers. Their best 

 flowers are from "Carlson's Improved," 

 introduced last season by Mr. D. S. Hef- 

 fron of Washington Heights. It is a 

 great advance in asters, the flowers re- 

 sembling fair sized ehrysantheiiiuins and 

 the plant is wonderfully robust and pro- 



ductive. They placed the plants 15 

 inches apart in the field, but found they 

 had not given them enough room. Next 

 year they will plant them 18 inches 

 apart and omit every fifth row. They 

 come in three colors — white, pink and 

 light lavender. They also grow Scra- 

 pie's Shell Pink, Giant Comet and Vick's 

 Daybreak and Purity. The latter is a 

 good white, but Daybreak is too light a 

 shade of pink to take well in the mar- 

 ket, and they will not grow it again. 



They have dropped the growing of tu- 

 lips for forcing at Klehm's Nurseries. 

 There generally came a hot spell after 

 the blooming season and the bulbs didn't 

 ripen well enough for forcing purposes, 

 though they were all right for blooming 

 nut of doors. They lost about all of 

 their Liliuni longiflorum bulbs. They 

 did well for several j'ears, but one sea- 

 son they pretty nearly all disappeared. 

 They still grow their valley pips and find 

 it profitable, though at one time were 

 so discouraged they were about ready to 

 give it up. " 



Their greenhouses are now almost 

 wholly ill American Beauty roses. They 

 have ii..")illl ]il:ini- Innrhi'd for this sea- 

 son. All ili.\ ]i.\\i- i-i.l.' II. Ml the Beau- 

 ties i- ..II.' I.. .11-. ..I r.M.lc- and Maids 

 and twii lii.ii-.--. ..f .Ml II iti.iii-. 



W. \V. Barnard & Co. have received a 

 large shipment of Japan longiflorum, the 

 bulbs arriving several weeks earlier than 

 usual. This was arranged for so that 

 growers would have a good start in get- 

 ting the flowers in for Easter, which 

 comes early next year. 



A111..11L1 ic.iil \i-if0r5 were Mr. James 

 Fori...-. ..I M.I 1 1 111 & Forbes, Portland, 

 Ore.. .11. 1 \!i r., l",-chner, of M. Kice & 



M.'K.'ll.ii' A Willi. -I-.. 11 r....iilly re- 

 ceivi-.l ,1 -lii|.iii.Mii ..]■ Is. mill .-.ill;, liiilbs. 



their ......ml -lii| in iln- -.■,.-. .11. The 



stock r.uiie tliruuyli 111 liii... ..■.-.ndiliun. 



Benthey & Co. are beginning to re- 

 ceive Beauties from their new establish- 

 ment at New Castle, Ind., and they are 

 of excellent color and texture. The 

 New Castle .soil certainly has some 

 special virtue in it. 



J. A. Budlong is spending a few weeks 

 in Riverside, R. I. 



Kennicott Bros. Company offer special 

 premiums at the fall show of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society for Irene carnations, 

 as follows: Best 50 blooms, $6; best 

 25 blooms, .$3; best 15 blooms, $1. 



A. Irai.son lias reopened his store at 

 588 East 43d street, having returned 

 from Texas and Oklahoma, bringing 

 with him specimens of asphalt and sim- 



\ nil .1 III:,' of the bowling club will be 

 li.l.l Iln- I Thursday) evening at 8:30 

 .It .Ml Kill. 11- & Winterson's. 



NEW YORK. 



"Nothing doing'' would almost cover 

 this section this week. Everything is 

 dull, even to people and the weather. 

 Better send us another bundle of the is- 

 sue containing photos of the bowlers at 

 Buffalo. Every one is speaking in praise 

 of it ; copies were at a premium in New 

 York. The wives and sweethearts of all 

 the boys shown have swooped up all the 

 papers, so send us a few more. 



Mostly all those who went to Europe 

 have returned nfter Ipavinir a crnn.l many 

 American doll.n- mi 'ii.ili.i -i.j.v 



The market 1- rv...|.i i..ii,i IK in.irtivc 

 this week. Tin n- will I..' :. liltl.' -pluttor 

 shortly in the wav of a few plants for 



the store windows. Things have got to 

 be made to look a bit business-like about 

 September, even if there be no trade 

 worth the mention till November. 



Small will shortly open a store on the 

 Thirty-third street side of the Waldorf- 

 Astoria ; it will be pretty and a good 

 business stand. In the moving of Sie- 

 breeht & Son's store, at Thirty-seventh 

 street and Fifth avenue, one can see the 

 passing away of one of our old florists' 

 landmarks. That corner was made fa- 

 mous by Hodgson, then the present own- 

 ers, who will do business the coming 

 season in their new store at the Wind- 

 sor Arcade, at Forty-seventh street. 



Florists' bowling clubs will no doubt 

 be numerous in this vicinity next win- 

 ter, sufficient in number to have a tour- 

 nament of their own. We have so many 

 crack bowlers here and the sport has got 

 to be so popular that the next national 

 tournament may see many clubs from 

 these parts. 



Out at Flatbush last Thursday night 

 there was a jolly party, and the fun 

 could not be measured. The Dailledouze 

 Bros, offered one of their fine Telegraph 

 cucumbers as a prize for the one rolling 

 the highest score in one of the first two 

 games. D. Y. Mellis was the lucky man, 

 with a score of 173 in the first game. 



A most pleasing incident occurred at 

 the close of the evening's sport. Eugene 

 Dailledouze, with a few congratulatory 

 remarks on behalf of the Flatbush Flor- 

 ists' Bowling Club, presented Carl Woer- 

 ner with a handsome silver water pitch- 

 er, suitably engraved, as a token of their 

 esteem. Mr. Woerner was married to 

 Miss Mamie Purell, of Charleston, S. C, 

 on Aug. 6. He is well known and ap- 

 preciated among the eraft in this section 

 and all wish him much happiness. 



The proprietor of the alleys offered a 

 very handsome ball as a prize to be 

 rolled for by the New York and Flatbush 

 teanis, and the match will probably take 

 place on the Flatbush alleys on Thurs- 

 day evening, Sept. 5, when a good crowd 

 of rooters will no doubt assemble to en- 

 courage things. The scores on last 

 Thursday were: 



Riley lo« 145 150 M.-l;. 1. 



Raynor 102 156 170 E, I>i 



Siebrecht ..120 119 143 P, Ii.i, : I.; 



Sohmutz...l59 113 146 H.H. i 1 . 1 i;,| 



Wocker....lC6 117 141 Wocni.;.| 117 si 



Donlan im 108 116 



J. I. D. 



Trade Items. 



Hold up just one moiiiciii Mi l.li; 1. 

 Before you go to press hi m. .in. 1 iii\ 

 little wail from Boston. \.\.i ,,,i- Mm 

 business in worse shape litu-. Ijiit lil- 

 tlo good material coming in of any kind 

 ami but little call for it. Qui'te an 

 amount of poor material of all kinds 

 coming in and but litle demand for 

 that. The effect on prices needs no de- 

 scription. 



^loney is awfully scarce, too, noticea- 

 bly small change. If a man bargains 

 with a salesman for a dollar's worth of 

 goods for 35 cents, he invariably shows 

 u|i a V or an X, if he offers to" pay at 

 all. Now, there must be a vein of philos- 

 ophy in such a situation as that, and 

 I riiink it is this: The buyers have got 

 mil .if floating capital and gone into 

 Iln II ..111 siii.kiiiii after one of the bills 

 llii\ ]ii(kli-d ilown lai-t winter for just 



is kind 



