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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JANUARY 4, 1900. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



New Year's trade was fully equal to 

 that of last year. It would probably 

 have been better if the weather bad 

 not been so bitterly cold. However, 

 nothing much is expected of New 

 Year's any more except "a good Sat- 

 urday business" on the day preced- 

 ing. The supply was not very large 

 and everything went except white, 

 and we hear of a few thousand violets 

 being left over. 



Although the supply has increased 

 a trifle during the past week there 

 is not too much in colored stock to 

 meet current demand at ruling rates, 

 though the customary lull that always 

 follows the holidays is now with us. 

 Beauties still remain very scarce and 

 prices are held up to Christmas rates. 

 On other stock prices are generally 

 easier. The price lists of two whole- 

 salers will be found in their advs. in 

 this issue. 



McKellar & Winterson did an enor- 

 mous business in Christmas greens 

 this year. Holly was in better de- 

 mand than ever. Immense quantities 

 of green wreathing were called for, 

 with fewer sales of the green in bulk. 

 The winter berry has succumbed to 

 the bitter cold weather and the last 

 batch received was worthless. This 

 firm is showing a fine line of pre- 

 pared palms, and are able to meet the 

 views of all sorts of buyers in palms. 



The immense business now done in 

 hardy ferns is shown by the fact that 

 Kennicott Bros. Co. alone sold 104.000 

 of them in one week. They are also 

 handling galax in very large quanti- 

 ties. 



E. C. Amling is now installed in his 

 handsome new quarters and they are 

 so swell that a person involuntarily 

 looks for a colored attendant at the 

 door to take his coat and hat. The 

 office enclosure is about ready to go 

 into place and when really settled 

 Mr. Amling will surely have a gem of 

 a wholesale house. Mr. Heffron pre- 

 sides over a long line of solid oak 

 tables and greets each comer witli that 

 inimitable Heffronic smile. 



Peter Reinberg is now sole occu- 

 pant of the former Reinberg Bros, 

 place, and Mr. Spencer seems to find 

 none too much space even then. 



Geo. Reinberg is installed in the 

 place formerly occupied by Mr. Am- 

 ling, and Robert Northam is in charge. 



Various Items. 



A small blaze at the store of the 

 Weiland-Risch Floral Co. in Evanston 

 was caused by loose papers blowing 

 in on to live coals. 



We hear that Mr. W. N. Rudd had 

 a very early caller on New Year's day 

 — somewhere between 2 and 4 a. m.— 

 who failed to leave his card but took 

 with him a few souvenirs of his visit, 

 including Mr. Rudd's valued diamond 

 stud, a purse and his wife's watch. 

 Mr. R. can go home at any time of 

 the night now and tell Mrs. R. that it 



is just 9 o'clock, and she won't be the 

 wiser. 



The big drop in the price of glass 

 has decided Wietor Bros, to go ahead 

 with their intended building opera- 

 tions. The new glass will include ten 

 houses for Beauties, ten for Brides 

 and Maids, five for Meteors and the 

 remainder for carnations. The total 

 additions will require from 150,000 to 

 to 17.5,000 square feet of glass. 



August Lange does things on a large 

 scale and admits no light weights. A 

 baby boy arrived at his house last 

 Sunday and it tipped the scales at 15 

 pounds. 



Some of the north side florists in- 

 dulged in bowling on New Year's eve, 

 and admit the following scores: W. 

 Graft, 104: Sam Pearce, 110; R. Damm, 

 103; G. Damm, 81; P. "Weber. 93; E. 

 Weber. S3; E. Benthey, 182. 



The annual meeting of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of Chicago is near at 

 hand. 



E. H. Hunt's new catalogue is 

 about ready for the press. 



WESTCHESTER, PA. 



What is said to be the largest 

 mushroom house in America is now 

 being constructed by Mr. S. Rassmus- 

 sen. superintendent of the John Wy- 

 eth farm at Westtown. The building 

 is 88x110 feet, having four tiers of 

 beds, giving about 40,000 square feet 

 of planting area. The building is con- 

 structed with a driveway through the 

 center, so the manure can be driven 

 into the liuilding and by means of a 

 traveling derrick be conveyed to any 

 part of the building, and aftel^he 

 upper beds are made up the driveway 

 itself is utilized for bedding. 



The house is to be heated with two 

 Hitchings hot water boilers and piped 

 with 4-inch cast iron pipe. It will 

 require 625 tons of manure to make 

 up the beds and 7,500 pounds of 

 spawn to plant them. 



In addition to this house, they now 

 have in bearing three others, having 

 a bedding area of 6,800 square feet, 

 from which they are now shipping 

 about 50 pounds of mushrooms daily 

 to New York and Washington. 



Mr. Rassmussen says they find the 

 growing of mushrooms more profitable 

 than many crops they grow, especially 

 the forcing of grapes, which has been 

 a leading feature with them for many 

 years. Since the foreign grape has 

 forced the price so low the home grow- 

 ers find no profit in it, and they as 

 well as many others have taken up 

 other specialties. 



Mr. Howard Thompson, of Tough- 

 kenamon, who has for some months 

 been confined to bed with a frac- 

 tured leg. caused by the falling of a 

 bench while making repairs in one of 

 his carnation houses, is imiu-oving, and 

 it is hoped will soon be able to resume 

 his duties. Mr. Thompson was a 

 heavy loser by the severe hail storm 

 which visited this section last fall, 

 and this misfortune so closely follow- 

 ing calls for much sympathy. 



Carnations in this section are ex- 

 ceptionally fine and the yield all that 

 can be desired. The growers are quite 

 jubilant over the great demand and say 

 if the prices keep up they will come 

 out on top this season. "Violets are 

 not so encouraging; the crop is oft in 

 this section, but those who have good 

 ones are realizing big prices for liicrr.. 

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W. N. Rudd. Mt. Greenwood, III. 



E. M. Wood, Natiek, Mass. 

 Wm. Scott. Buffalo. N. Y. 

 Philip Breitmeyer, Detroit, Mich. 

 Lawrence Cotter, Dorchester, 

 Mass. 



W. H. TapMn. Holmesburg. Pa. 

 W. F. Kasting. Buffalo, N. Y. 



F. J. Ammann, Edwardsville, 111. 

 Jas. Hartshorne. Joliet, 111. 

 Frank Holznagle, Detroit. Mich. 

 Theron Parker. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 F. H. Kramer. Washington, D. C. 

 W. W. Coles. Kokomo, Ind. 



B. E. Niles, Blis:sfield, Mass. 

 L. B. Brague, Hinsdale, Mass. 

 A. J. Johnson, Astoria, Oregon. 

 T. P. Langhans, Pittsburg. Pa. 

 Bruno Schroeter. Detroit. Mich. 

 John Warncke, Detroit, Mich. 

 J. F. Wilcox. Council Bluffs, la. 

 Robert Kift. Philadelphia. 

 Ernest Mellema. Austin, Texas. 

 Miss Gertrude E. Charles, Colum- 

 bus. Ohio. 



Gustav Taepke, Detroit, Mich. 

 Mrs. I. W. Kersey. Havwards, 

 Cal. 



Benj. J. Passmore, Swarthmore, 

 Pa. 



Andrew Ferguson, Detroit, Mich. 

 Harry Cole. North Easton, Mass. 

 John Dunn, Detroit. Mich. 



Chas. Scheible, Detroit. Mich. 

 George F. Moore. Rushville, Ind. 

 Fred Rentschler, Madison, Wis. 

 R. C. Frank. Beardstown, III. 

 Geo. C. Blitz. State College, Pa. 

 Jas. E. Lee, Jackson, Mich. 

 Max Herzcg, St. Louis, Mo. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



H. Weber & Sons, Oakland, Md., ad- 

 vance list of new carnations; R. Vin- 

 cent, Jr., & Son. White Marsh, Md., 

 wholesale price list of vegetable and 

 other plants; John Peed & Son. We^t 

 Norwood, London. S. E., England, new 

 and choice chrysanthemums and bego- 

 nias; Je.-samine Gardens, Jessamine, 

 Fla., rare P^lorida flowers and plants; 

 Elm City Nursery Company, New Ha- 

 ven, Conn., hardy plants, trees, shrubs, 

 etc.; V. Cutler Ryerson. Newark. N. J., 

 tobacco stems, hose, pots, etc.; Geo. V. 

 Rackhani. SSO Van Dyke avenue, De- 

 troit. Mich., carnations and small 

 ferns; Lord & Burnham Co., Irving- 

 ton-on-Hudson, calendar; Texas Seed 

 & Floral Co., Dallas, Tex., their i-.n- 

 nual illustrated catalogue for 1900; 

 Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, la., seeds, 

 plants, etc. 



