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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



then dug out, and when cool enough the 

 bed is leveled and planted. 



Leo Niessen is to handle the entire cut 

 of John Burton's new rose houses during 

 the eoinini; season. 



Edward Swaviii'. of Wawaset, Pa., has 

 expressed his willingness to contract 

 with one ot o\n retailers for a regular 

 supply of sweet peas every day in the 



• lolin C. Gracey, 2028 Columbia ave- 

 nue, is pushing Cibotiuni Scheidei, which 

 he considers a very satisfactory house 

 plant. 



Henry F. Mitchell is displaying a vase 

 of a new white aster, ''Puritan." It is 

 a sport from Scrapie's, very double and 

 keeps well. 



John WcCleary read a paper on the 

 "Culture of Edible Peas" before the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, on 

 Tuesday evening. Phil. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Several heavy rains, accompanied by 

 a marked lowering of the temperature, 

 have played havoc with the supply, 

 which has been cut down probably 40 

 to 50 per cent. The early part of this 

 week overcoats were in demand and on 

 Monday night we were dangerously near 

 frost. The low temperature has seri- 

 ously checked the cut under glass in 

 most places and especially in those 

 where fire heat was not employed, and 

 the cold rains put a decided damper on 

 outdoor stock. 



At the same time demand has in- 

 creased strongly and as a result there 

 is a scarcity all along the line. A con- 

 stant stream of shipping orders has 

 been flowing into this market and there 

 has been difficulty in filling them all. 

 The great demand for funeral flowers at 

 points remote from Washington and 

 Canton indicate that many memorial 

 services will be held on Thursday, at 

 which flowers will be used. 



Still, prices have not changed materi- 

 ally. The top price on Brides and Maids 

 is still $4, with a few extra fancy 

 Kaiserins bringing as high as $5 and 

 $6. But the demand is so brisk that 

 qualities are not so sharply differenti- 

 ated and the shortening in supply seems 

 to have cut out the under grade stock 

 rather than the best. 



In carnations the range is from $1 to 

 $1.50 and anything good will bring the 

 dollar safely, though we hear of sales 

 of short-stemmed poor grade colored 

 sorts at as low as 10 cents a bunch. 

 White is in the strongest position, 

 though good colored ones go well, too. 



Asters show the effects of the unfavor- 

 able weather conditions badly and there 

 are very few coming in that can be called 

 fancy. In fact, a better price than $1 a 

 100 is rare now. in spite of the strong 

 demand for anything in the way of a 

 flower. It is likely that we shall have 

 no more good local grown asters, though 

 good flowers may yet come from other 

 sections if frost holds off long enough. 



Various Items. 



Among the large orders received on 

 account of the president's funeral was 

 one from J. M. Gasser of Cleveland, to 

 Kennicott Bros. Co., for 17,000 carna- 

 tions, to be shipped direct to Canton, 

 Ohio. 



O. J. Friedman and John C. Schubert 

 had divided between them the order of 

 the State Street Business Men's associa- 

 tion for designs aggregating $720. They 



were sent to Canton in a special car. 

 Joe Bieber accompanied the designs to 

 see that they were properly set up. 



It is understood that the wholesalers 

 generally will close at noon this Thurs- 

 day. 



Kecent visitors: U. J. Virgin and wife 

 and M. Cook and wife, New Orleans; 

 J. L. l'a^l^l■l■. i;irniiTiL;liam, Ala. 



At :M(K. Mil A \\ iiiiiMson's it is now: 

 .Paint! I'jmt: ' I'nnl ! ! ! 



The Ceil-.' Wiltli.ild Company has 

 been doing a very heavy shipping busi- 

 ness in palms, ferns, etc., and say that 

 last month broke all previous records in 

 their business experience. 



Mr. Arnold Ringier, representing W. 

 W. Barnard & Co., has arrived in New 

 ■i'ork on his way home from Europe, 

 where he has been for the last three 

 months. 



John Mangel has a very striking and 

 appropriate window display this week. 

 The central feature is a portrait of our 

 late president framed in an oval wreath 

 of short eycas leaves with a background 

 of various flowers arranged very taste- 

 fully. It is the work of Andrew Miller. 



Mr. O. A. C. Oehmler passed through 

 the city last week from Washington en 

 route to Butte, Mont., where he has 

 taken a position with the Butte Floral 

 Company. 



Mr. E. S. Thompson of South Haven, 

 Mich., was in the city last week dis- 

 playing some remarkably fine spikes of 

 gladioli and Michigan grown hyacinth, 

 narcissus and tulip bulbs. The gladioli 

 included a very fine red, an almost pure 

 white, a yellow, several excellent pinks 

 and many of good light shades. 



Present weather indications point to 

 an early frost. But signs are of little 

 value and though a frost may come it 

 is equally likely that we may soon be 

 getting out our summer clothes again. 



C. C. Pollworth, Milwaukeee, was a 

 visitor on Wednesday of this week. 



ST. Loins. 



Club IVleeUng. 



The Florists' Club held its regular 

 monthly meeting last Thursday after- 

 noon at 3 o'clock with President Guy in 

 the chair. This being the first meeting 

 of the club since the convention, many 

 interesting talks came up before the 

 meeting opened as to what was seen at 

 the Buffalo Exposition. 



It was hoped that Max Herzog would 

 have returned in time to attend this 

 meeting so as to tell us of his travels 

 and what he saw while abroad. We 

 shall hear from him, however, at the 

 next meeting. 



Chairman Meinhardt, of the exhibition 

 committee, requested that each member 

 of the club make an effort to bring in 

 at least one special prize for the show, 

 which would be of great help to him and 

 the committee in charge. 



Mr. F. C. Weber resigned as chairman 

 of the World's Fair committee, which is 

 now composed of J. J. Beneke, chair- 

 man; C. C. Sanders and R. F. Tesson. 



At this point President Guy left the 

 chair, which he had so ably filled the 

 past year, and the new president, Fred 

 J. Meinhardt. was installed. All other 

 offices were filled the same way. On 

 retiring Mr. Guy made a few remarks 

 for the good of the club and said he 

 hoped that the members would lend 

 their support to the new officers and 

 help them build up the club and make 

 the meetings interesting. 



The sympathy of the club was ex- 



tended to Mr. John Steidel of Central, 

 Mo., who the day before, lost his resi- 

 dence and its contents by fire. 



Mrs. M. M. Ayers and Mr. William 

 Polst made application for membership. 

 Mrs. Ayers is in the retail business on 

 Grand avenue and Mr. Polst is not in 

 the business, only a lover of flowers. 



The chairman of the trustees made a 

 call for essays for the coming fall meet- 

 ings, the list to be ready by next meet- 

 Mr. Trillow of Chicago and an old- 

 time member, was a visitor and was 

 called upon for a few remarks. Mr. 

 Trillow responded with a few remarks 

 on bulbs. 



The second call was made on the club 

 for 20 per cent of their subscription to 

 the World's Fair, which must be paid 

 at the next meeting of the club in Octo- 

 ber. 



The question box contained quite a lot 

 of interesting questions, which brought 

 out that Frank Fillmore had the finest 

 lot of Flora Hill carnation plants seen 

 in a long time. This was made known 

 by several growers who had visited his 

 place during the day. They also dis- 

 closed the facts that E. W. Guy of Belle- 

 ville, and Charles Connon of Webster 

 Grove, would have a fine lot of Japan- 

 grown longiflorums in bloom ready for 

 Thanksgiving Day trade. Mr. Guy has 

 about 400 and Mr. Connon 800, all in 

 good condition, which were planted on 

 July 3 for an experiment. This brought 

 out a long discussion, which made the 

 meeting quite interesting. 



After adjournment the newly elected 

 president took the members to Hotel 

 Moser. where a fine spread was set for 

 all. The health of the new president 

 was drunk and all had a good time. 

 The Market. 



There was a little more life in the cut 

 flower trade the past week and a very 

 gratifying revival is reported by all the 

 store men. Quite a number of orders 

 have been taken for early fall weddings, 

 of which quite a few will take place 

 next month. 



The quality of roses that are coming 

 into this city is very good ; some fine 

 Beauties are coming in and are sold very 

 cheap ; some good, long stuff sold as low 

 as $5 per 100; Brides, Maids and 

 Meteors average from $1 to $4 per 100. 



Carnations are improving every day 

 and some very fine stock was seen at the 

 wholesale houses the past week which 

 brought $1.50 per 100. Asters are still 

 very plentiful and the commission men 

 have plenty of them to throw away. 

 A fine lot of Clematis paniculata sold 

 well last week for funeral work. Valley 

 still sells well at $3 and quality good. 

 Tuberose stalks are now in fine shape 

 with plenty of them on hand at $3 per 

 100. Smila.x is still very scarce; none 

 to be had in this market. 



A welcomed rain the past week has 

 done a world of good to outdoor stuff. 



Mr. George R. OIney of this city has 

 patented a new device for holding a rose 

 or carnation on the coat which he claims 

 can be made cheap enough to be given 

 away with every rose or carnation sold. 



Mr. John Steidel of Central, Mo., was 

 visited by fire last Wednesday which de- 

 stroyed his residence and all of its con- 

 tents. The worst of it all is that the 

 insurance had expired a few days before 

 and was not renewed. John and his wife 

 have the sympathy of the trade. 



Mr. Felter, on Lexington avenue, and 

 Mr. Bruecker, on Marcus avenue, have 



