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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



MARCH S. 1900. 



every Monday night: now its JJnly 

 five. No otlier florists' bowling club 

 hag such a record. We never failed to 

 bowl once a week during the past sev- 

 en years, but rolled at only three con- 

 ventions. At home we came iu third 

 (good enough for greenhorns) ; at 

 Omaha we won the cup and the cham- 

 pionship, and at Detroit came in sec- 

 ond, a record to be proud of. We must 

 regain at New York this summer what 

 we lost in Detroit. A full attendance 

 is requested, as only twenty - three 

 more bowling nights are left for prac- 

 tice. 



Bowling. 



The bowling club on Monday night 

 had a very slim attendance. Only three 

 dyed-in-the-wool cranks braved the 

 rain storm and rolled five games. The 

 scores are as follows: 



12 3 4 5 Tot. Av. 



C. A. Kuehn 183 150 169 130 ISS 820 164 



J; J. Beneke 14S 198 134 144 141 763 153 



Fred C. Weber.... 128 116 167 106 ... 517 129 



Your correspondent received a letter 

 this (Tuesday) morning from Mr. A. 

 Henderson, secretary of the Chicago 

 Florists' Bowling Club, inviting the 

 St. Louis Florists' Bowling Club to 

 visit them in the near future and play 

 a match game, which will be acted 

 upon next Monday, our regular bowl- 

 ing night, and no doubt the boys will 

 gladly accept the challenge. So look 

 out for us. 



The February series of twenty games 

 ended with Charlie Kuehn as our 

 champion, with an average of 152 in 

 twenty games, and Fred C. Weber as 

 high single score man, with 211. 

 Beneke came in second to Kuehn with 

 147 average in twenty games and sec- 

 ond to Weber with 209. The averages 

 are as follows: 



Names. No. G. Tot. Av. H. S. 



C. A. Kuehn 20 3047 152 184 



J. J. Beneke 20 2934 147 209 



J. W. Kunz 19 2740 145 185 



C. C. Sanders 20 2807 140 182 



P. C. Weber 18 2494 139 211 



Emtl Srihray 7 930 133 166 



P. J. Pillmore 3 341 114 117 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



Club Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 last Friday evening there was a good 

 attendance and four new members 

 were added to the roll. A few changes 

 were made in the by-laws and the sec- 

 retary instructed to have them printed 

 and mail a copy to each member. It 

 was decided to invite the S. A. F. to 

 hold its annual convention in this city 

 in 1901. A committee consisting of G. 

 L. Grant, W. Kreitling and W. N. 

 Rudd was appointed to arrange for 

 transportation to the convention at 

 New York next August. 



Mr. C. J. Stromback, of T..incoln 

 Park, announced that he expected to 

 display at the next meeting flowers 

 from the Washington grown bulbs that 

 had been sent him for trial. They 

 were doing better than he had antici- 

 pated and thought the members would 



flnd them very interesting. It was de- 

 cided to make "Bulbs" the subject for 

 the next meeting and to invite short 

 papers on the subject from a number 

 of well known growers, it being be- 

 lieved that a very useful and instruc- 

 tive discussion would result. 



The Market. 



Business has kept up remarkably 

 well since Lent began, and though de- 

 mand has fallen off somewhat, the 

 dark weather has cut the supply in 

 proportion, and the relation between 

 the two is about the same as last week, 

 with no appreciable change in prices. 

 The call for white stock is noticeably 

 strong and whenever there is a slight 

 surplus it is generally in color. Good 

 bulbous flowers are moving fairly well, 

 but there are large quantities of in- 

 ferior tulips and daffoails on the mar- 

 ket that are cleaned up at "any old 

 price." 



Violets go slowly and will no doubt 

 continue to hang until bright weather 

 arrives. The Grand Rapids train due 

 here at 7:15 a. m. Tuesday was report- 

 ed stuck In a snow bank and hadn't 

 arrived at a late hour in the afternoon. 



We hear of considerable snow on the 

 glass at some large establishments, 

 which has materially darkened the 

 houses. And as a result a good many 

 split calyces on carnations. Varieties 

 that never split before have done so 

 during recent weather conditions. 

 Dark houses and a close atmosphere 

 seems to make the best of them split. 



The season so far has been a very 

 satisfactory one to the majority of the 

 growers and dealers. Daring the twen- 

 ty days preceding Lent the business 

 done was enormous and far in excess 

 of previous seasons, and the average 

 returns on consignments were better 

 than ever before at the season. There 

 were no real gluts at any time and un- 

 der - grade stuff had a much better 

 chance than usual. 



Various Items. 



Wednesday morning of last week 

 fire destroyed a shed and burned away 

 the ends of three greenhouses at the 

 establishment of Brant & Noe, at For- 

 est Glen. The fire was quickly con- 

 trolled and the loss was comparatively 

 light. The ends of the houses were 

 soon tightly closed with boards and 

 builders' paper, and there was no trou- 

 ble in maintaining desired temperature 

 in the houses, as the plant is equipped 

 with both steam and hot water heat- 

 ing apparatus. The loss on buildings 

 was covered by insurance. There was 

 some damage (lone to the plants in two 

 houses, and, of course, this was not 

 covered. The cause of the blaze is not 

 known. It did not start from the heat- 

 ing system. 



Mr. G. H. Pieser is back at his post 

 at Kcnnicott Bros. Co., and deals in 

 money now instead of justice. 



Mr. Wm. Falconer, superintendent 

 of Schenley Park, Pittsburg, spent last 

 Thursday in the city. He was on his 

 way home from his trip to California. 



McKellar & Winterson are display- 

 ing an unusually fine lot of tuberose 

 and caladium bulbs, 



Mr. C. L. Washburn is suffering from 

 an attack of grippe, and will leave 

 Friday of this week for a two weeks' 

 stay at West Baden, Ind. 



E. H. Hunt is receiving some re- 

 markably fine Brides and Maids. 



NEW YORK. 



Business? Well, dear reader, if we 

 were to take heed of everyone's defini- 

 tion or description of business just at 

 present, we'd write a polyglot of con- 

 tradictions. People seldom know when 

 they are well off, or perhaps it's a 

 growing pain 'mong florists to com- 

 plain. There is one thing, however, 

 indisputable — that the florist of today 

 has less cause to grumble than those 

 of other years. If the trade papers 

 would sometime publish all they hear 

 or know, what a condition affairs 

 would be in: it's more difficult to for- 

 get things than to write them down. 



Our New York letters may be short 

 in comparison to the importance and 

 size of our city, but really, Mr. Editor, 

 we have so many small things here, 

 and so much foolishness, that it's hard 

 to select things the same as they do 

 in Buffalo, Hoboken, St. Louis and San 

 Francisco; the only diversion we have 

 is an occasional bowling match. We 

 have no "Immortals" or home-like club 

 houses, same as our suburbs. Boston 

 and Philadelphia, and what does it 

 matter if a Greek opens a flower stand 

 on the corner of such a street: who 

 cares? 



Yes, to be sure we will have some- 

 thing here in the way of a rose show 

 this month, and our friend, the Flor- 

 ists' Exchange, become..; alarmed be- 

 cause the New York Gardeners' So- 

 ciety wishes to have a carnation show 

 at the same time. This city is big 

 enough for a dozen shows: it's only 

 the men and the circumstances that 

 are at fault. In this present case the 

 officers of the Rose Society not only 

 wanted the carnation show, but also 

 promised to give some prizes for car- 

 nations: all this was afterwards taken 

 back. Now, notwithsUmding this ac- 

 tion of the Rose Society, no one wants 

 to interfere with any possible success. 

 The executive committee of the Gar- 

 deners' Society is urging all gardeners 

 to exhibit at this rose show, and in or- 

 der to make it worth many men's 

 while to walk five miles across moun- 

 tains and travel hundreds of miles on 

 railroads they have arranged that the 

 quarterly meeting and social gathering 

 and carnation show of the (Jardeners' 

 Society will be held on the 27th of 

 March. There is no thought of opposi- 

 tion; there can be none in this case: 

 it's a matter of economy, so don't get 

 alarmed. The Gardeners' Society have 

 never received much encouragement 

 from our contemporary: it can afford 

 to treat the ambitions of its special 

 agents differently. 



Now, a word to growers. Most of 



