Januaby 30, 1002. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



319 



some of the Boston efiorts may have 

 looked rather small to him. 



W. D. Philbrick. of Newton Center, 

 best known to florists as a violet grow- 

 er, died at the Boston city hospital Sun- 

 day, January 20, as the result of a sur- 

 gical operation performed a few days 

 ago. He had not been well for a year 

 or more, being troubled with complicated 

 kidney ailments. 



.T. S. Manteb. 



Horticultural Society. 



At the adjourned meeting of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of Chicago, held last 

 Saturday afternoon, the old staff of offi- 

 cers was re-elected, as follows: Presi- 

 dent, W. H. Chadwick; first vice-presi- 

 dent, H. G. Self ridge; second vice- 

 president, E. G. Uihlein; third vice- 

 president, E. Wienhoeber; secretary and 

 treasurer, W. N. Rudd ; assistant secre- 



The Florist Bowlers Ready for the Masquerade Ball at Milwaukee. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The supply of roses has shortened still 

 further and as a result prices are even 

 higher than last week. Good Brides 

 and Maids bring from $8 to $12, though 

 some poor stock is sold at $5 to $0. 

 Beauties are equally scarce and stiff in 

 price. Of carnations there is a good 

 supply for the season, but the shortage 

 in roses brings enough call for carna- 

 tions to keep prices up to a very good 

 figure. Good stock ranges from $1.50 

 to $3 in price, with poor short stuff 

 reaching down to $1.25 or even $1. A 

 few very extra fancy reach $4 and $5. 

 In the poorer grades dark colors are 

 least in demand, the main call being for 

 white and light colors. 



In violets good dark colored sorts sell 

 very well at $1 a hundred, but Camp- 

 bells move very slowly at 30 to 50 cents. 

 The only sales of this stock seem to be 

 to people wlio can make them take the 

 place of other cheap flowers in funeral 

 work. Some good lilac is coming in 

 and it sells very well. 



Bulbous stock goes slowly at very low 

 figures, though some very fine valley, 

 forced by the Klehms from home grown 

 pips, i?ell3 readily at .$5. It is remark- 

 able how much finer and richer in fra- 

 grance this valley is than that from im- 

 ported pips. Evidently there is some- 

 thing more in growing the pips here 

 than in any saving in cost. Klehms are 

 also sending in some La Reine tulips 

 that sell well at $3 to $4. 



Taken as a whole the month has been 

 a very good one from the wholesaler's 

 standpoint. And the leading retailers 

 say trade has been good as a rule, but 

 those doing largely a counter trade say 

 business fell short of expectations. 



tary, E. A. Kanst. The only change in 

 the board of directors was the election 

 of W. E. Kelley to succeed Otto Young. 

 There were some adilitions to the execu- 

 tive committee and it is now as follows: 

 The officers and 0. P. Bassett, .J. C. 

 Vaughan, G. L. Grant, E. A. Kanst, Ed- 

 gar Sanders, P. J. Hauswirth, W. A. 

 Peterson and W. C. Egan. 



The project of a .spring show to take 

 the place of the usual fall exhibition 

 was abandoned and the executive com- 

 mittee was instructed to liohl a fall 

 show as usual this j'ear unless thought 

 inadvisable. Three new members were 

 elected. 



Various Items. 



Mr. J. D. Eisele, nuinager of the H. 

 A. Dreer greenhouses, at Riverton, N. 

 J., was a welcome visitor last Monday 

 and Tuesday. 



W. H. Lj'nch is again at his post at 

 E. H. Hunt's and says that his wife and 

 child are now convalescent. 



J. A. Evans, Richmond, Ind., is in the 

 city. 



Some fine blooms of the new white 

 carnation Gov. Wolcott arrived from 

 Peter Fisher, Ellis, Mass., the morning 

 after the carnation show last week, hav- 

 ing been delayed in transit. 



Adam Schillo, the dealer in lumber 

 who has supplied many florists, died last 

 Sunday, aged 65 years. 



Arrangements for the trip to the In- 

 dianapolis meeting and exhibition of the 

 American Carnation Society, Feb. 19 and 

 20. have been made. The party will 

 travel by the Pennsylvania road on the 

 train leaving Chicago at 8:40 p. m. Feb- 

 ruary 18, reaching Indianapolis early the 

 morning of the 19th. Berths may be re- 

 served by addressing E. F. Winterson, 45 

 Wabash avenue. A rate of $6.70 for the 

 round trip is made on the certificate 



plan. All floi-ists who wish to travel 

 with the party are invited to do so. 



Bowling. 



Sixteen of the local florists partici- 

 pated in the pilgrimage to Milwaukee 

 last Saturday evening and all report a 

 great time in the Cream City. The Chi- 

 cagoans won both games from the Mil- 

 waukeeans by a good margin. After the 

 games all attended the annual Brewers' 

 masked ball, where they made quite a 

 sensation, as can he imagined from the 

 picture of the bunch that appears in this 

 issue. All report the hospitality of the 

 Milwaukee boys as unbounded. 



Last Tuesday evening the regular 

 games were played on the local alleys. 

 The growers won two from the Retailers 

 and the latter one from the former, while 

 the Wholesalers took three from the Mis- 

 cellaneous. Following are the scores: 



GROWERS. 



G. Stollery m 



P. Stollery 175 



F. Matti 166 



C. Hughes 155 



L. Schafer 136 



RBI'AILERS. 



P. J. Hauswirtli 212 



.T. Huebner 179 



J. Lambros 165 



E. Hauswirth 151 



Geo. A.smus 139 



S46 

 WHOL,ESAL.ERS. 



.las. Foerster 192 



E. Benthey m 



L. Coatsworth 152 



J. Sterrett 157 



E- Winterson 141 



753 

 MISCELL.'VNEOUS. 



<". Halluff 134 



C. Pruner 134 



W. Kreitling 152 



J. A. B\'ans 92 



G. L. Grant 129 



641 642 713 



Re.sults to date: Won. Lost. 



Wholesalers 26 13 



Growers 23 16 



Retailers 16 23 



Miscellaneous .-. .. 13 3* 



TARRYTOWN, N. \ 



The third annual dinner of the Tar- 

 rytown Horticultural Society was held 

 at the Florence hotel, Tarrytown, Wed- 

 nesday evening, January 22. The after- 

 noon meeting of the society elected for 

 the ensuing year: William Scott, pres- 

 ident; David McFarlane, vice-president; 

 E. W. Newbrand, secretary; James W. 

 Smith, treasurer. 



Mr. Cockburn, the first president of 

 the society, Mr. Francis Gibson and sev- 

 eral of the charter members were pres- 

 ent, and of the 136 members of the soci- 

 ety over fifty participated in the ban- 

 quet. It was a "love feast." Harmony 

 is the watchword of these people and 

 geniality was the prevailing demonstra- 

 tion of the evening. 



A goodly number of visitors were pres- 

 ent, amongst whom were Senator Mc- 

 Clellan, of Westchester county; Lyman 

 E. Brown, president of the Duchess 

 County Horticultural Society; Mr. Fred 

 Frend, president of the Westchester 

 Gardeners' Society, and Mr. Shuey, ex- 

 president; the editors of three local pa- 

 pers, the Argus, Press Record and Daily 

 News ; C. W. Ward, of the Cottage Gar- 

 dens, Queens, N. Y. ; and Messrs. O'Mara, 

 Withers, Butterfield and Austin Shaw, 

 of New York. 



The menu was an elaborate one and 

 none the less palatable because of its 



