MAY 



19011. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



765 



flower show — a large bunch of mixed 

 Uowers hy P. .7. Killniore, and a bunch 

 of 25 very fint' Mrs. !■'. .Joost carnation 

 by E. W. Guy, of Helloville. 



The regular routine business was 

 Iransacteil and all committees were 

 given until next meeting to make their 

 reports. The meeting adjourned 

 early. The miscellaneous flower show 

 was postponed until the next meet- 

 ing of the club, which will be held 

 on Thursday afternoon. June 14. 

 Three prizes will be offered for the 

 best vase of cut llower.s, $5 for first, 

 $3 for .second, and $2 for third. The 

 committee in charge of this is Messrs. 

 Guy. Fillmore, and Schray, from 

 whom information regarding the 

 show may be obtained. We all hope 

 by that time the street cars will be 

 running, so we shall have a large at- 

 tendance. 



Notes. 



W. D. K. Smith, representing the 

 Dayton Folding Box Co.; of Dayton, 

 Ohio, called on the trade this week. 



Phil Hauswirth, of Chicago, who 

 was in town last week attending the 

 Red Men's convention at East St. 

 Louis, called on the trade Thursday 

 evening, trying to find out when the 

 bowlers were coming to Chicago. No 

 definite answer could be given him. 

 as nearly all our members are in bad 

 shape just now and we fear that it 

 ■will be some time next month before 

 the trip can be made. Phil was so 

 busy on the other side of the river 

 that he did not have time to have a 

 game of bowls with the boys. The 

 contest between Phil and Degnan 

 is watched with interest by the St. 

 Louis bowlers. 



The bowling club will have to post- 

 pone its regular bowling until the 

 strike is settled, but no doubt by next 

 Monday, our regular bowling night. 

 the trouble will be over and the regu- 

 lars will again be found at the alleys 

 getting in shape for match games. 

 Below will be found the averages of 

 our April series: 



Ni> Games. Total. Av. H. S. 



C. A. Kuehn 21 .3,391! Ifi2 227 



J. J. Beneke ]i; 2.S7'i li;i 2'!) 



John Kunz li Sol 142 150 



F. C. Weber 4 585 141 149 



John Yriuni: l:i 1.72.S 132 ii;:; 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Market conditions are decidedly un- 

 satisfactory. A stretch of burning hot 

 weather has brought out an enormous 

 supply, at the same time seriously de- 

 teriorating quality, and to make mat- 

 ters worse, what little demand there 

 was has shrunk to exceedingly small, 

 proportions. Nothing seems to move 

 and the quantity is greater than ever 

 before seen in this market at this sea- 

 son. There are literally flowers to 

 burn and evidently burning is what 

 ■will have to happen to the great ma- 

 jority. 



Roses show the effect of the heat 

 more than the carnations so far and 

 some of the specimens that reach the 

 market are truly fearful and wonder- 

 ful. An extreme case noted was some 

 curious objects seen at Geo. Uein- 

 berg's. They were little sticks with 

 what appeared to be a discolored 

 pickled onion at the < nd. The foliage 

 alone made it possible to belirv.' that 

 they were originally intended for 

 American Beauties. Of coursi! this is 

 an extreme case, but all rose s have 

 suffered seriously in quality, and one 

 dealer tells of getting only 80 ship- 

 ping buds out of a thousand that he 

 sorted over. Even the fakirs are un- 

 able to make a notable impression on 

 the immense quantity of lower grade 

 stuff and prices are anything the 

 dealer can get rather than let a pos- 

 sible buyer escape. 



At the same time there is really 

 none too many roses of shipping grade 

 and the dealer has to earn his m:;ney 

 by a lot of careful work in sorting. 



These conditions prevailed on Tues- 

 day and that evening the temperature 

 dropped 36 degrees in four hours. No 

 doubt many were caught without 

 tires and while the big burst of bloom 

 may be checked, mildew will no 

 doubt be rampant. Wednesday was 

 comfortably cool only, but green- 

 house stock without fire on Tuesday 

 night must have suffered seriously, 

 especially after having been almost 

 roasted. 



I'niess the change in weather cuts 

 supply down to a very marked degree 

 there will be a great abundance of 

 stock for Decoration Day. 



There is a tremendous lot of fine 

 lilac in the market as well as a great 

 deal that is not so fine. But even the 

 fancy goes begging for a purchaser. 

 Peonies are in almost the same fix. 



Various Items. 



The hot weather has brought vege- 

 tation along with a jump and the 

 parks and gardens are full of beauty. 

 Tne red-bud is in bloom and In tlie 

 hardy garden at Lincoln Park such 

 natives as Mertensia virginica. the 

 wild geranium, trilliums and dode- 

 catheo.as are in full bloam. 



McKellar & Winterson are contin- 

 ually enlarging their supply manufac- 

 turing department anu are now mak- 

 ing a sickle and sheaf on an easel 

 decorated with grasses that Is very 

 handsome. 



Local retailers who depend largely 

 upon funeral work say the big strike 

 in the building trades has very ma- 

 terially cut down business in their 

 line, as money is now very scarce 

 with the workmen. 



Mr. B. R. Tauch, of Walter Retzer 

 & Co., accompanied by his wife, sails 

 from New York for Europe, June 9th, 

 on the Graf Waldersee. He will 

 visit England, France and Germany, 

 and possibly Holland and Belgium. 



Mr. August Jurgens, 150 Herndon 

 St.. has a house of fine plants of Hy- 

 drangea Otaksa in splendid bloom. 



There are 6 to !t fine heads of fljWers 

 on each plant. 



The bowling match with the St. 

 Louis boys has been indefinitely post- 

 poned, as they are unable to say 

 when they can visit us. The local 

 bowlers rolled a few games last Sat- 

 urday and some good scores were 

 made. 



We learn that Walter Hcffron is to 

 leave his position with E. C. Amling 

 July 1. 



Arthur II. Luck, representing the 

 Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, la., is in 

 town. 



A regular meeting of the Florists' 

 Club will be held at the usual place 

 to-morrow fF"riday) evening. 



The bedding plant season is open 

 and the plant men are hustling. 



BALTIMORE. 



Few lines are required to record 

 the trade news of the week ending 

 with this writing. May 14. The weather 

 has embraced extremes of temperature 

 from 32 to i)l degrees. Frost, with 

 some destruction to garden crops, has 

 been followed by a torrid wave, and 

 the transition season is over and sum- 

 mer is upon us. The markets are full 

 of hardy stuff, plants and flowers 

 grown under sash, and the varied 

 products of the greenhouse. Before 

 the gardening fever has fairly stirred 

 the amateur blood and incited to the 

 plying of the spade and the hoe, that 

 tired feeling accompanying the sudden 

 elevation of the mercury has super- 

 vened and many intended schemes re- 

 main unexecuted. 



Yet, notwithstanding the enormous 

 supplies of flowers, trade continues 

 quite brisk, and for the season, prices 

 are maintained at, at least, fair fig- 

 ures. Good roses continue in demand, 

 carnations are abundant, but first- 

 class ones do not upset the market. 

 Prices necessarily go down, but at 

 last firing is over, or seems to be, and 

 the cost of production is correspond- 

 ingly lessened. Saturday was notably 

 a good day all around. 



Weddings continue vo require many 

 fiowers. the ill name of May having 

 little deterring influence. Haliiday 

 Bros, had a wedding decoration where 

 peonias and blue and white flags were 

 the flowers exclusively employed. 



One of the more beaatiful recherche 

 and expensive wedding decorations of 

 the season was furnished last week by 

 William J. Haliiday. No expense was 

 spared, exerything was ordered to be 

 of the choicest character, and the most 

 sumptuous gifts were bestowed upon 

 the happy bride, but, strange to say, 

 though both church and house were 

 elaborately adorned for the ceremony 

 and the following breakfast, no re- 

 porter "caught on." no description 

 was given in the papers, no formal in- 

 vitations were issued, and only about 

 twenty-five persons were in attend- 

 ance. The lady was averse to the us- 

 ual publicity given to such events, op- 

 posed to the give-and-take system of 

 wedding presents, and wished a beau- 

 tiful service and decoration, without 



