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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mr. Kuehu wishes to compliment tHe 

 Review ou the splendid cut from his 

 plioto in the last issue. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists ' Club meeting will be 

 held next Thursday, August 14th, at Ed- 

 wardsville, the home of the ' ' Perle 

 King. ' ' Mr. Ammanu writes that the 

 boys should meet at the east end of the 

 bridge at 12 sharp, and take the stock 

 yards ear for Gross Park, there to con- 

 nect with the Edwardsville car, which 

 leaves Gross Park at 12:30, sharp, and 

 arrives at Edwardsville at 2 p. m. Ed- 

 wardsville ears leave Gross Park, East 

 St. Louis, at the half hours from 6:30 

 a. m. to 11:30 p. m. He would like to 

 have the beys eome in a body, as it will 

 make the trip more enjoyable. As the 

 election of officers will take place at this 

 meeting, a large delegation is expected. 

 Bro. Ammann, no doubt, has a great 

 surprise in store for us, and none of the 

 craft should fail to take the opportunity 

 to visit as fine a place, for its size, as 

 there is in this ccuntry. All are wel- 

 come, so note the date and hour. 



Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Berning left Mon- 

 day night for a month's stay in Califor- 

 nia. 



Arthur Y. Ellison left Tuesday to visit 

 his father and mother, who are spending 

 the summer up north. 



Base BalL 



The Berning and Tesson base ball 

 teams fought a battle royal on last 

 Sunday afternoon on the latter 's 

 grounds. The Berning team won by a 

 score of 3 to 1. Only five innings were 

 played, owing to the Tesson catcher be- 

 coming disabled. Will Sanders was cap- 

 tain of the Berning team and it was 

 due to his wonderful coaching that the 

 three runs were made. A return match 

 will be played in the near future. 



Bowling. 



The night was too hot for the bowlers 

 — only six were there. Kuehn's team 

 won all three games from Beneke's team 

 by close scores, which were as follows: 



Kuehn's Team 1 2 .'J Total. Av. 



Kuobii I6G ]59 174 499 166 1-3 



ICIlis 163 1.59 174 496 165 1-3 



V\eber - 155 199 336 490 163 1-S 



484 517 484 1485 165 



Heneke's Teain.l 2 3 Total At. 



Beneke 1.16 159 173 488 162 2-3 



Miller 161 15n i;!7 467 155 2-3 



Sturtz 156 192 170 518 172 2-3 



473 510 489 1473 163 2-3 



St. Louis will not be represented at 

 the coming convention by a bowling 

 team, as our best bowlers will be unable 

 to make the trip. I look for a good 

 attendance from here and will endeavor 

 in the next issue to give a list of those 

 who are going. J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Koses and carnations are really scarce. 

 Tea roses are quoted at from $2 up to 

 $6, but these prices are very high con- 

 sidering the quality. Beauties are of 

 very good quality for the season and are 

 more plentiful than Brides and Maids. 

 While the best Beauties bring $2.50 to 

 $3, shorts are sold at very low figures, 

 many going at $2 to $4 per 100, and 

 very good blooms too. A good short 



Bride or Kaiserin will now bring more 

 money in the market than a good short 

 Beaut.y. 



Carnations are not so short in supply 

 as tea roses, but there is a marked short- 

 age, especially in white. The best reach 

 .$2, though most of them go at $1 to 

 ii;L.50 and large lots of "weeds" are 

 jobbed off at most any old price. 

 Blooms cut from out door plants are of 

 course the best now, but there are com- 

 paratively few of these yet and the out- 

 look is not over cheerful in view of the 

 great damage done to field plants. We 

 hear of one grower w'ho planted out 40,- 

 000 plants and will have not more than 

 4,000 to house. It w-as low lying land 

 and during the first heavy rains the 

 plants were under water three days. 

 They came out apparently all right, 

 but a later dose of the same sort prac- 

 tically finished them. 



Asters are coming in very freely now 

 and the best sell well at $1 to $1.50 and 

 a few extra fine ones reach $2, but there 

 is a host of under grade blooms that it 

 is hard to sell at any price. Auratum 

 lilies and gladioli are in ample supply, 

 but they move very slowly. Sweet peas 

 have picked up a little in quality, as the 

 result of several days of sunshine and 

 normal summer weather. 



Various Items. 



The picnic committee of the Florists' 

 Club, Messrs. E. Enders, Walter Kreit- 

 liug and E. F. Winterson, announce 

 everything in readiness for the annual 

 outing, which will take place at Berg- 

 man's grove, next Tuesday, August 12th. 

 The florists of Milwaukee have been in- 

 vited to be present. A long list of val- 

 uable prizes has been secured and will 

 be awarded to the winners in the va- 

 rious races and games. There will be 

 a bowling contest for the ladies as well 

 as for the men. The umpire of the ball 

 game is having a special suit of armor 

 made for the occasion. It is expected 

 that both wholesalers and retailers will 

 close their stores the afternoon of the 

 great day. 



New is a good time to make up your 

 mind definitely to attend the S. A. F. 

 Convention at Asheville, N. C. The fare 

 is only $20 for the round trip, sleeping 

 car $5 each way. Special cars from Chi- 

 cago to Cincinnati and special train 

 from the Ohio city on. It will be a 

 happy, jolly crowd and you will enjoy 

 the trip as well as the convention. Tell 

 E. P. Winterson, 45 Wabash avenue, to 

 reserve a berth for you in the special 

 cars now. 



Mr. G. H. Pieser, secretary of Ken- 

 nicott Bros. Co., will after August 12th 

 start for a two weeks' outing at Lake- 

 wood, Wis. 



Mr. C. L. Washburn lias returned from 

 his outing at Athelstaue, Wis. His wife 

 remains there and she will now be joined 

 by Mr. and Mrs. 0. P. Bassett. 



E. H. Hunt has received his Harrisii 

 bulbs and is now shipping out orders 

 for same. The bulbs are of very good 

 quality this year. 



Dean O'Connoll, with L. J. Stuppy, 

 St. Joseph, Mo., has been spending a 

 week in the city. 



Jolrn S. Forster has sold his green- 

 houses at Evanston, where he was one of 

 the pioneers in the business, and will 

 soon start for California, stopping at 

 Colorado Springs for a few weeks on the 

 way. 



F. W. Taylor, Chief of Bureau of 



Horticulture at the St. Louis Exposition, 

 was a visitor last week. 



Mr. Edgar Sanders was taken suddenly 

 ill last Thursday afternoon and has since 

 then been confined to his bed. A clot of 

 blood on the left side of the head caused 

 a paralysis of the right side of his 

 body. At first the case seemed serious, 

 but the doctor now gives hope that he 

 may regain the use of his right side. In 

 view of Mr. Sanders' advanced age. the 

 report of his serious illness naturally 

 alarmed his many friends in the trade, 

 who will all be pleased to know that 

 hope is entertained of his speedy re- 

 covery. 



Mr. F. A. Bailer, Bloomington, 111., 

 was a visitor this week. 



HEATING AN EXTENSION. 



We have a house 17x3.'i, heated by ton 

 runs of 2-inch pipe. To this house we 

 are adding forty-live feet, making it one 

 hundred feet in length. To heat this 

 addition we are advised to not disturb 

 the old piping, but to take a couple of 

 flows and returns from and to the boiler, 

 running on to the new addition, there 

 branching out with the proper amount 

 to heat the new part. Is this the better 

 plan? 



We think we will have to take out 

 part of the old piping, else the new 

 flows and returns will make the old part 

 too warm. Please advise us as to the 

 best plan of heating the additional space. 



51. & Co. 



Replying to M. & Co., the method of 

 carrying the circulation to the farther 

 house they suggest is entirely practical, 

 but it would naturally have a tendency 

 to make the old house warmer than here- 

 tofore. This can readily be obviated by 

 putting valves in the old coils. 



The method of extending the pipes 

 into the new house, and arranging for 

 independent control of the addition, is 

 clearly shown in the accompanying fig- 



" C 2 FLOVA/S "w— > 



3 RFruftNS 



ure, "A" being a tee or cross-valve 

 which controls the circulation in the 

 cross or connecting pipe from the flow 

 to the returns; "B" being the gate- 

 valve to control the circulation through 

 the pipes in the extension. When valve 

 "B" is open, valve "A" should be 

 closed, and vice versa. 

 New York. Henky W. Gibbons. 



RETURNING CONDENSED WATER. 



I am about to change my heating from 

 hot water to steam, but cannot go into 

 the ground more than a foot or two on 

 account of lack of drainage. Would, in 

 fact, like to put a new 50 H. P. tubular 

 boiler on top of the ground. How can 

 I return the condensed water to boiler? 



Ohio. 



Replying to Ohio, it is possible to 

 return the condensed water to the boiler 

 by means of a patent trap; this, how- 

 ever, would compel the florist to rely 

 upon an automatic meclianism for the 

 effective working of his heating ap- 

 paratus, which would naturally entail 

 considerable risk. 



Another plan would be to carry a 



