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The Weekly Florists' Review- 



NOVEMBER 30, 189D. 



The chances are that the upxt exhi- 

 bition hy the club will be a prize fight. 

 This -will probably draw better than 

 flowers. Stranger things than that 

 have happened. 



Notes. 



The Junior Florists' Bowling Club 

 have moved to the new regulation al- 

 leys opposite the court house and will 

 roll regularly every Tuesday night. 

 The match game between them and 

 the older club comes off within two 

 weeks. A prize will be given the win- 

 ning team. The Juniors claim that 

 they are rolling good enough now and 

 that they need no handicap. Great in- 

 terest is taken in this match by friends 

 of both clubs. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club received a chal- 

 lenge from the Junior Bowling Club 

 to roll a match game on Monday night, 

 Dec. 4, at the Court House alleys, 

 which was accepted. Three best games 

 out of five, the losing club to pay all 

 expenses of the evening. The Juniors 

 are putting up some very stiff games 

 and some good ones may be looked for. 

 The scores on Monday night were as 

 follows: 



1st. 2d. 3a. 4th. Tot.Av. 



C \ Kuehn 175 153 1.S4 169 6S1 170 



j' J. Beneke 136 152 121 197 606 151 



C C Sanders 135 116 161 109 524 131 



J.'W. Kunz 140 113 132 ... 385 128 



P C Weber 116 149 111 ... 376 lio 



F: J. Fillmore 78 94 121 .,82^385 96 



J. J. B. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



All the prominent cities except In- 

 dianapolis have had shows this year, 

 but we didn't have the nerve to give 

 one this year. Some of our members 

 are superstitious— this would have been 

 our 13th. 



But we did have a little show among 

 ourselves, so to speak, and the flowers 

 that were shown at the exhibit at the 

 State House were hard to beat. Fol- 

 lowing are the awards: 



Six market plants: First, John Huk- 

 riede. 



Six single stems: First, H. W. Rie- 

 man. 



Cut blooms, six white: First, J. 

 Hartje with Robinson; second, Stuart 

 & Haugh, Anderson. Ind. 



Cut blooms, six pink: First, H. W. 

 Rieraan with Helen Bloodgood; second, 

 B. Hukriede & Sons. 



Cut bloom.s. six yellow: First, F. 

 Conway with Bonnaffon; second. H. W. 

 Rieman. 



Cut blooms, six red: First, H. W. 

 Rieman with Nyanza. 



Six varieties, six blooms each: First, 

 Bertermann Floral Company; second, 

 H. W. Rieman. 



E. G. Hill & Co. received a certificate 

 for the new carnation Ethel Crocker 

 and honorable mention for carnations 

 America and Indiana. 



Bertermann Floral Company and H. 



W. Rieman received honorable mention 



for display of mums, and Stuart & 



Haugh for general display. 



After the premiums were awarded 



the premium blooms were sold at auc- 

 tion, the mums going rather cheap, 

 while the carnations brought a good 

 price. 



At the meeting held in connection 

 with the show the question in regard 

 to holding a show next year came up, 

 and from the favorable comments 

 heard we shall undoubtedly have an 

 exhibit next year. Although our small 

 show was a success, it was not as in 

 former years, for the happy faces of 

 Mr. Giesy, Harry Balsley, Mr. Bock and 

 the Cincinnati delegation were miss- 

 ing. 



Various Notes. 



The Bertermann Floral Company 

 held an opening at their store on Tues- 

 day, November 14, and the society was 

 invited, after the meeting, to inspect 

 the display. The opinion of everyone 

 present is that the window display and 

 the decorations in the store and show 

 house were grand. 



Junge & Sonnenschmidt have some- 

 what Americanized their name and 

 will hereafter be known as the Smith, 

 Young Company, and it becomes them, 

 as in their ideas they are always Amer- 

 icans. 



Bert Stanley, formerly with the Fair- 

 bank summer resort, has opened a cut 

 flower store at 941 Fort Wayne ave- 

 nue. His many friends wish him suc- 

 cess in his new venture. 



E. Hukriede & Son have a sport from 

 Modesto that gives promise of being a 

 fine one. It is a very full flower, deep 

 golden yellow, reflexed and is ad- 

 mired bv all who have seen it. 



FRED. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Short supply, enormous demand, 

 prices at top notch. That's the condi- 

 tion of affairs. The only items in fair- 

 ly suiBcient supply are chrysanthe- 

 mums and paper white narcissus. It 

 is the greatest shortage ever known 

 for Thanksgiving. The rose orders 

 were probably not more than 50 per 

 cent, filled, carnations about t;o per 

 cent. This is the condition that pre- 

 vailed in the midst of the shipping de- 

 mand. 



Practically all the plants are off 

 crop, but the outlook for the holidays 

 is cheering, as the majority should be 

 in crop again by that time. 



'Various Items. 



Mr. A. G. Prince is rejoicing over 

 the arrival of a baby boy at his home 

 in Downer's Grove last Sunday. 



Recent visitors: John N. May, Sum- 

 mit, N. J.; E. G. Hill, Uichmond, Ind. 



At the regular mceting-of the Flor- 

 ists' Club to be held tomorrow (Fri- 

 day) evening there will be a discussion 

 on the benefits of exhibitions to the 

 trade. 



The boys have been too busy lately 

 to indulge in bowling to any extent. 



McKellar & Winterson are showing 

 a very attractive line of glass vases. 



BUFFALO. 



Nothing daunted l>y the failure of 

 last year's undertaking, for which the 

 elements were largely responsible, 

 Wm. Scott this season gave a private 

 exhibition of the Queen of Autumn, 

 which was little behind in quantity 

 and fully equal in quality to the fine 

 show of last year. 



I was struck with the large number 

 of made up pans, in which Ivory, Bon- 

 naffon and Maude Dean were the lead- 

 ing kinds for this purpose. Another 

 success is a house of mignonette and 

 part of a house of Asparagus Spren- 

 geri planted in boxes ranging cross- 

 wise of sufficient height to allow the 

 strings to hang down and far enough 

 apart to prevent crowding. Many 

 other good things can be seen here. 



Mrs. D. S. Newlands has cut a heavy 

 crop of chrysanthemums, blooms of 

 Lincoln measuring 8 inches across, not 

 a rare thing here. L. Canning is one 

 of the best reflexed kinds. Glory of the 

 Pacific was the best pink. Black Hawk 

 would be hard to beat. 



W. J. Palmer & Son have kept up a 

 bright and continuous exhibition. At 

 time of my visit they had just com- 

 pleted a superb wreath of violets and 

 informed me that funeral work has 

 kept them very busy. 



Adams, Anderson and Rebstock have 

 all they can attend to at times, but 

 business is spasmodic. 



At the wedding of the second daugh- 

 ter of Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield, which 

 interesting event took place at the 

 home of the bride at Lockport on the 

 17th inst., the decorations were very 

 elaborate, the handiwork of the lady 

 members of the family. A bank and 

 canopy of palms and chrysantheniun.s, 

 center pieces of asparagus with Helen 

 Bloodgood and The Queen. A mantel 

 of ferns with a grand specimen of 

 Cypripedium insigne Maulei as the 

 centerpiece was most effective. 



■WASHINGTON. 



Now that shows and mums aie 

 nearly gone the florists have got right 

 down to business. What few mums 

 that are left have gone up in price 

 from ?1 and $1.50 per doz. to $:3, and 

 are going fast at that. 



Roses and carnations are scarce and 

 good roses bring 8 and 10 csnts; car- 

 nations, 2 and 3; Romans and paper 

 whites go slowly at 2 and 3; violets 

 are coming in fine and bring 50 and 75 

 cents per 100. 



From all Indications trade for 

 Thanksgiving will be fine. 



There was quite a lot of fine funeral 

 work made here and shipped to Pater- 

 son, N. J., for the funeral of Vice- 

 President Hobart. J. H. Small & Son 

 turned their order for the occasion to 

 tbeir New York store. 



J. H. Granor was presented with a 

 fine young florist in the way of a 

 bouncing boy. P. H. KRAMER. 



SAGINAW. MICH.— Fire did dam- 

 age estimated at $.").000 to the green- 

 houses of Wm. Roethke, Nov. 24. No 

 insurance. 



