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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



species of plants new to science and 

 still more new to commerce, so the jour- 

 ney was profitable as well as being (I 

 should say) a great pleasure. 



Pan-American. 



At our request the Pan-American 

 management have given us $300, to be 

 awarded for some chrysanthemum ex- 

 hibits. A list of the premiums is now 

 published. This is but short notice, but 

 will, I trust, be in time to bring out a 

 good exhibit. We believe that to create 

 an interest and produce a good show it 

 should be competitive, and the premi- 

 ums cash. I earnestly ask my friends 

 to compete for the premiums in any class 

 they possibly can, and I still more ear- 

 nestly ask my brother florists of Buffalo 

 and vicinity to compete in the classes 

 for baskets," etc. Those classes were put 

 in especially for competition among our 

 local men and they should, and I believe 

 will, do all they can to make the last 

 four days of the exposition a credit to 

 floriculture. We are aware that it is 

 nIS,ny days too early to get our finest 

 "mums," yet there are varieties enough 

 to make a good show and all you want 

 is the will and interest to send the flow- 

 ers and je will do the rest. W. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



While there are none too many good 

 roses to meet demands, there is an 

 abundance of medium and poor stock, 

 and some of the latter has to be offered 

 at very low rates to move it. Some 

 dealers think there is a material in- 

 crease in receipts, but others hold that 

 there has merely been a lowerinj of the 

 average quality. In Beauties the best 

 seem to be rather scarce, but there seems 

 to be plenty of the lower grades. In 

 carnations fancies are also scarce and 

 good ordinaries are still held at $1 to 

 $1.50, but shorts and poor grades are 

 jobbed ofl' at low figures; we hear of 

 some clean-up sales at as low as 30 

 to 40 cents a hundred. Good roses are 

 still $3 to $4 and very few are fancy 

 enough to bring $5, while poor grades 

 go at $1 to $2, and the poorest are 

 sometimes cleaned up at 50 to 75 cents. 

 There is some little mildew noticeable, 

 the recent changes in the weather hav- 

 ing apparently caught some growers at 

 a disadvantage. 



Chrysanthemums are daily becoming 

 a greater factor in the market. Good 

 white and yellow blooms are in good 

 call, but sales of the pink Glory of the 

 Pacific have to be forced to move the 

 stock. Prices so far have averaged 

 about the same as last year, and it 

 looks as though the mum would hold 

 its own as usual through the season. 



Various Items. 



McKellar & Winterson had one ship- 

 ping order Tuesday that called for about 

 $200 worth of flowers and material. One 

 of their customers had a good wedding 

 order. They are already beginning to 

 receive many orders for Christmas dec- 

 orative material, indicating that out-of- 

 town florists are thus early preparing 

 for the holidays. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. note a continual 

 increase in shipping demand. Last 

 Tuesday they had in some of the best 

 violets seen in the market this season. 

 Among carnations they are receiving 

 a large cut of Crabb & Hunter's Irene. 



It is certainly a very pretty and re- 

 markably fragrant pink sort. 



Bassett & Washburn report a steady 

 growth in their shipping trade and they 

 expect the season to be an unusually 

 good one. Their stock at Hinsdale is in 

 fine shape and the cut is of their usual 

 high quality. 



Benthcy & Co. are receiving some ex- 

 tra fine Beauties and other roses from 

 thrii- New ( astle houses, and find busi- 

 iic-, >i I iri \y tiist class. 



!■:. II. Ihiiil -ays the season is opening 

 ill liui: ^li.qK; with them, both in cut 

 flowers and supplies. Among other new 

 specialties they will have this season is 

 an excellent folding cut flower box of 

 their own manufacture. 



Wietor Bros, have their stock in good 

 shape, as usual, and are prepared to take 

 care of their full share of the winter's 

 trade. 



J. A. Budlong is showing some roses 

 that are strictly fancy and will handle 

 a large cut of first class mums. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. have been cutting 

 mums for some time and now have them 

 in quantity. Their October Siuishine 

 are remarkably good. 



Frank Garland has just finished re- 

 painting his place all in whi(;e, to be 

 used as a background for his oncom- 

 ing army of mums, with Mr. Stewart as 

 general. 



George Reinberg is cutting his usual 

 nice line of flowers and is especially 

 strong in Beauties and other roses. 



J. B. Deamud makes rather a special- 

 ty of orchids and shows some very fine 

 eattleyas, oncidiiuns, etc., as well as a 

 general line of other stock. 



Robert C. Northam, with Weiland 

 & Risch, met with a serious accident 

 to one of his eyes 'last Tuesday. It is 

 feared he may lost the sight of the in- 

 jured eye. 



Chrysanthemum October Sunshine is 

 a rcniarkalily fine early yellow. Splen- 

 did blooms, averaging six inches in di- 

 ameter and some with stems five feet 

 long and perfect foliage, are now being 

 cut" by Poehlmann Bros. Co. and Peter 

 Reinberg. 



Lloyd Vaughan is now in the north- 

 ern Wisconsin woods, looking up the 

 bouquet green situation for E. H. Hunt. 



J. C. Schemeling, Milwaukee, was a 

 recent visitor. 



Fleischman opened his State street 

 store to the public last Friday evening. 

 Some splendid stock was used and the 

 floral decorations were remarkably rich. 

 A steady downpour of rain all that 



venmg 



and all the following Satur- 

 day must, however, have been discour- 

 aging. It is a beautiful store and at- 

 tracts much attention from passers-by. 



A brotlier of William Schofield, the 

 North Clark street florist, was killed 

 on the Northwestern elevated railroad 

 last Sunday night. He had fallen from 

 the platform on to the track and was 

 run over by a train. 



Larry Kelly is now with .John Muno, 

 at 51 Wabash avenue. 



A regular niPPtiiiL' "f the Flmists' 

 Club will be hrl.l ;il 11:111. 1.1 II:, 11. 40 

 Randolph stvcvt, l.nn.nr.uv (1'm.1:iv) 

 evening. The :iiiiiii:il .'I..1 i..ii ..f ..lli.'.Ts 

 will take pin,-.- aii.l Mr. K.kMv S;iiulers 

 will read a ],niHT i-ntitlc.l "Our Pastimes, 

 ?.v a YouiiL: SV..-.it.- 



The time for the annual exhibition at 

 the Auditorium is approaching and in- 

 tending exhibitors should soon be pre- 

 pared to make entries. If you desire a 

 premium list you may obtain one by ad- 



dressing Mr. Edwin A. Kanst, assistant 

 secretary, 5700 Cottage Grove avenue. 



John Muno is on a pleasure trip to 

 St. Paul with a party of friends. 



George Dolinski, who murdered An- 

 ton Lizle, an employe of Brant & Noe, 

 at Forest Glen, some time ago, expiated 

 his crime on the gallows la.st week. 



Wm. Krueger, of Kruegcr Bros., To- 

 ledo, O., called on the trade the past 

 week. 



Bowling. 



In the third series of league games played 

 last .Tuesday evening the Retailers took three 

 games from the Miscellaneous (thereby trans- 

 porting Geo. Asmus from a cave of deepest 

 gloom to a reserved seat on a pink tipped 

 cloud of bliss), while the Growers won two 

 from the wholesalers, and the latter one from 

 the former. The scores follow: 

 RETAILERS. 



P. J. Hauswirth 180 128 120 



J. Huebner 165 122 121 



E. Hauswirth 117 168 143 



O. Kreltllng 94 



E. Enders 110 198 



Geo. Asmus 169 160 176 



723 688 758 

 MISCELLANEOUS. 



Chas. Balluft 177 143 142 



C. Pruner 110 110 124 



Jno. Degnan 153 132 153 



M. Poerster 135 127 124 



G. L. Grant 132 141 138 



707 653 681 

 GROWERS. 



Geo. StoUery 145 162 115 



N. A. Schmitz 147 144 179 



J P. Sinner 132 174 153 



W.«S. Heffron 159 131 129 



F. Stollery 128 187 192 



711 798 768 

 WHOLESALERS. 



.los. Foerster 143 191 154 



E. Winterson 162 146 170 



C. Hughes 127 108 161 



Jno. Sterrett 126 129 139 



E. Benthey 165 146 120 



723 720 744 



Results to date are as follows: 



• Won. Lost. 



Growers 6 3 



Miscellaneous 5 4 



Retailers ■ 4 5 



Wholesalers 3 6 



There was an error in our report last week. 

 For the Growers it should have been won 4 and 

 lost 2. and the Miscellaneous should have been 

 in first place. 



A BIG EXHIBITION. 



Kansas City is getting ready to show 

 us a thing or two about flower shows. 

 The directors of the huge Convention 

 Hall, which seats 20,000 people, have de- 

 cided to give a huge floral exhibition, 

 Nov. 18 to 23, and to show that they 

 mean business have appropriated the 

 sum of $12,000 for expenses, this aside 

 from any considerations of rental. Of 

 this sum not less than $3,500 will be 

 awarded in cash premiums, and being 

 informed that at some exhibitions pre- 

 miums have been sealed down, or not 

 paid when the box receipts have not been 

 up to expectations, they offer to deposit 

 the premium money subject to the order 

 of the judges. 



Thev fuither demonstrate their wish 

 to make the exhibition all that it should 

 be by securing the services of the vet- 

 eran .John Thorpe as superintendent. 

 In this sort of work "Uncle John" is 

 in his element and, Avith the liberal fi- 

 nancial backing he is assured of, we may 

 expect to hear things from Kansas City. 



Mr. Thorpe is full of enthusiasm over 

 the project and is overflowing with orig- 

 inal and striking new features that he 

 expects to carry out. He has full charge 

 of the arrangement of the premium 

 list and is going to divide the amount 

 into premiums that will attract the 

 very best. There will be three pre- 



