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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



October 24, 1901. 



flowers and we sincerely hope it has paid 

 liim to do so. Mr. W. P. Peacock, of 

 Atco, N. J., also sent another fine lot, 

 embracing all classes. The Henry A. 

 Dreer firm has kept their booth very 

 gay for weeks past with a fine collec- 

 tion of hardy perennials, and the dis- 

 play of James Vick's Sons has been very 

 attractive the entire summer with vases 

 of their specialties, gladiolus, asters, 

 dahlias, lilies and many herbaceous 

 plants. 



The display of fruit has been for some 

 weeks past not only great in quantity 

 but marvelous in quality. Apples from 

 Wisconsin and Michigan are wonderful 

 to look at. Nova Scotia is showing 

 a splendid lot of apples and it carries 

 us back to schoolboy days to see Ribston 

 Pippin and Blenheim orange again. 

 Of all the wonderful fruit for size and 

 color the state of Washington takes the 

 bun. But there are other states making 

 magnificent displays. Nebraska, under 

 the care of that most estimable man, 

 J. H. Hadkinson, has been a thing of 

 beauty for months. New York state 

 has tons of native grapes. A very at- 

 tractive exhibit is a fine lot of exotic 

 grapes grown by D. M. Dunning, of 

 Auburn, N. Y., and most attractively 

 arranged by Julius Heinrieh, the repre- 

 sentative* of Peter Henderson & Co. 

 Mr. Heinrieh has a genius for this sort 

 of thing and seems "in his glory when 

 getting up something original. 



Some people who have been working 

 for the exposition for the past two years 

 will let out a sigh of relief when the 

 last canna root is shipped to its owner. 

 Yet it is sad to think that in two weeks 

 this beautiful spot will be pandemonium 

 let loose. W. S. 



The Market. 



The recent warm sunny days and 

 cool nights have resulted in very con- 

 siderably increasing the supply of roses 

 and the quality has improved, too. All 

 other stock is being received in large 

 quantities, the only item that is not 

 in sufiicient supply to more than meet 

 all demands being white carnations, and 

 there is no important scarcity in these. 



In roses excellent stock can now be 

 Aad for $4 and only a very few extra 

 select bring as high as $5. Ordinaries 

 gjo at $2 to $3 and job lots of poor 

 grades are cleaned up at about the buy- 

 ers' own figures. Shipping trade holds 

 up very well but local demand is decid- 

 edly light for the season. 



On carnations $1.50 is practically the 

 top price now, only a very few spe- 

 cials reaching as high as $2 and the 

 great mass of poor stock being jobbed 

 off at very low figures. Chrysanthe- 

 mums of the best grades are moving 

 very well but small stock and poorly 

 colored Pacifies do not sell. Some very 

 extra Robinsons have brought as high 

 as $4 a dozen but they were phenome- 

 nallv good. Really good mums can be 

 had "at $2 to $2.50, with first class ones 

 at $3, and many are sold at $1 to $1.50. 



There is an abundance of good stock 

 of all kinds in the market now and 

 buyers should be in clover. 



Qub Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 last Friday evening the annual election 

 of ofiicers resulted as follows; E. F. 



Winterson, president; John Reardon, 

 vice president; Geo. W. Wienhoeber, re- 

 cording secretary; C. J. Reardon, finan- 

 cial secretary; Kdgar Sanders, treasur- 

 er. Trustees: Geo. Woodward, Jos. 

 Reeve, G. L. Grant, F. F. Benthey, W. 

 N. Campbell. Treasurer Sanders' an- 

 nual report showed a balance of $182.78 

 on hand. 



The sum of $50 wag appropriated 

 for a special premium at the coming 

 exhibition. Reporting regarding the ex- 

 hibition Mr. Rudd said the arrange- 

 ments for tickets for club members were 

 more satisfactory than last year. The 

 president was appointed a committee of 

 one on transportation for the year. 

 The new officers were constituted a 

 committee to arrange for the annual 

 banquet to be held flower show week. 

 Arthur O'Brien and C. J. Reardon were 

 elected to membership. 



Mr. Sanders said he had left his 

 sporting paper at home but endeavored 

 to give the substance of it. He urged 

 the necessity of members getting their 

 wives and sweethearts interested in the 

 entertainment features and suggested a 

 ball as a start in this direction. 



Mr. John Thorpe was present and 

 told of the preparations for the big ex- 

 hibition in Kansas City. Among other 

 big premiums he mentioned one of $500 

 for the best seedling chrysanthemum. 

 The cordial good wishes of the club were 

 extended by vote. Messrs. Risch, 

 Campbell and Hauswirth were appoint- 

 ed a special finance committee to audit 

 the treasurer's report. W. L. Rock, 

 Kansas City, was present as a visitor. 



After the meeting the entire assem- 

 blage adjourned to a neighboring res- 

 taurant on the invitation of President- 

 elect Winterson and things happened 

 for an hour or so. A feature of this 

 session were the songs by Charley Ball- 

 uff assisted by the chorus. 



The next meeting will be held Fri- 

 day evening, Nov. 1. 



The Annual Exhibition. 



Arrangements are practically com- 

 pleted for the annual exhibition of the 

 Horticultural Society, to be held at the 

 Auditorium. Nov. 5 to 9. The revised 

 premium list is about complete and 

 copies may be had by addressing Edwin 

 A. Kanst, assistant secretary, 5700 Cot- 

 tage Grove avenue. 



Among the new features this year will 

 be an additional competition in table 

 decorations, the prizes for which will 

 be contributed by the lady judges, with 

 Mrs. J. J. Glessner as chairman. Their 

 idea is to encourage florists to produce 

 and customers to buy inexpensive deco- 

 rations and to place especial importance 

 upon skill and taste in arrangement. 

 These prizes are as follows: 



On Wednesday — For table decorations 

 in flowers that the exhibitor would fur- 

 nish to any customer for a price not 

 exceeding $12. 1st prize, $20; 2d prize, 

 $10; 3d prize, $5. 



On Thursday — For table decorations 

 under same conditions, the price not to 

 exceed $10. 1st prize, $20; 2d prize, 

 $10; 3d prize, .$5. 



On Friday — For table decorations un- 

 der same conditions, the price not to 

 exceed $8. 1st prize, $25; 2d prize, 

 $10; 3d prize, $5. 



On Saturday — For table decorations 

 under same conditions, the price not 

 to exceed $o. 1st prize, $25; 2d prize, 

 $10; 3d prize, $5. 



Various Items. 



Peter Reinberg has been cutting an 

 exceptionally large lot of fine Beauties 

 this season and is now showing some 

 Liberties that are strictly first class. 



Recent visitors: J. Austin Shaw, 

 New York; Henry Smith, Eli Cross, 

 Chas. Chadwick and Mr. Hannah and 

 daughter. Grand Rapids, Mich.; H. 

 Hills, Elkhart, Ind.; Mrs. Shepard, 

 Rochester, Ind.; Clark M. Weaver, Paw- 

 paw, 111.; Mrs. Vanderlip, Elkhart, Ind.; 

 W. L. Rock, Kansas City; J. A. Peter- 

 son, Cincinnati. 



The injury to Robt. Northam's eye 

 happily proved less serious than was 

 feared and he is again attending to busi- 

 ness. 



John Muno has returned from St. 

 Paul and reports a good time. 



Frank Howard, formerly at the Wash- 

 ington Park greenhouses, is now garden- 

 er for Mrs. Geo. M. Pullman. Mr. John 

 Algots, who was gardener there many 

 years, has engaged in other business. 



Edwin Cone's sons are erecting a 

 house 14x50 at Walden station on the 

 Rock Island and will engage in forc- 

 ing lily of the valley and growing of 

 mushrooms. They will also engage in 

 market gardening. 



Bowling. 



In the fourth series of tournament games, 

 rolled last Tuesday evening, there was a short- 

 age In players and some 4-men teams were per- 

 mitted. The Wholesalers took three games 

 from the Miscellaneous and the Ketailers two 

 from the Growers. Following are the scores: 

 RETAILERS. 



P. J. Hauswirth 168 144 154 



J. Huebner 104 171 147 



E. Hauswirth 123 138 133 



Geo. Asmus 210 189 157 



605 642 691 

 GROWERS. 



G. Stollery 167 135 160 



F. Matti 129 160 161 



J. Skinner 138 142 153 



F. Stollery 153 153 193 



"587 690 667 

 WHOLESALERS. 



Jos. Foerster 155 172 130 



W. S. Heffron 136 130 140 



Jno. Sterrett 126 126 167 



B. Winterson 191 128 171 



C. Hughes 15S 135 



608 714 743 

 MISCELLANEOUS. 



C. Balluff 113 142 168 



C. Pruner 129 144 121 



C. Hughes 171 



C. Burns 67 75 



J. A. Shaw 116 151 109 



G, L. Grant 172 135 



529 676 608 

 Results to dat^- Won. Lost. 



Growers 7 6 



Retailers 6 6 



WTiolesalers 6 6 



Miscellaneous 5 7 



After the games the annual meeting was 

 held. Officers for the new year were elected 

 as follows: P. J. Hauswirth. Pres.; Chas. 

 Balluff. Vice-Pres. : Jos. Foerster, Sec'y and 

 Treas. : Geo. Asmus. Capt. The prize of a sew- 

 ing machine offered by Henry McCall. city 

 manager of the New Home Sewing Machine 

 Co.. was accepted and the thanks of the club 

 extended by vote. It was decided to issue a 

 challenge to the Milwaukeeans for a match 

 to be played during flower show week, three 



EDGAR F. WINTERSON. 



We present in this issue an excellent 

 portrait of Mr. Edgar F. Winterson, 

 President-elect of the Chicago Florists' 

 Club. "Ed" Winterson has a host of 

 friends in the trade and all \vill be 

 pleased to know that he has been hon- 

 ored by the Chicago florists with the 

 chief office in the local club. 



Mr. Winterson was born in Bristol, 

 England, June 21, 18G9, but his parents 

 came to America when he was only a 

 vear old, . and his recollections of his 



