September 25, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



573 



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White Fish Bay Resort, Milwaukee, the Convention City next year. 



Bride?:. Maids and Liberties are the lead- 

 ers, witli Perles. Kaisprins and Chatenay 

 in smaller quantities. Sunrise has been 

 planted very largely for a novelty and 

 five or six houses arc devoted to it. The 

 younj; growths of this rose are so very 

 red that the plants are quite attraetive 

 even without any flowers. The bloom 

 is not large, but the peculiar combination 

 of colors makes it very attractive. The 

 variety seems to be a very free bloomer. 



Tlie carnations here show the effect of 

 the unfavorable season in this vicinity, 

 but are very good under the circum- 

 stances, and -look as though they would 

 soon catch up. 



A team of florists composed of F. 

 Stollery, C:. Balluff, E. F. VVinterson, P. 

 J. Hauswirth and Geo. Asraus, played 

 three games last Monday night at An- 

 son's in the Illinois Howling League and 

 made totals of 817, 778 and 775. But 

 the other fellows made totals of 9G0, 905 

 and 894, and there you are. 



Ale.v Newett is celebrating the arrival 

 of a son, who made his advent last 

 Tuesday morning. • 



A vase of the new light pink carnation. 

 Enchantress, has been on display at Mc- 

 Kellar & Wintcrson"s this week and the 

 flowers have attracted much attention. 

 Blooms sent for sale have sold readily at 

 $8 per 100. 



Weil & Price have opened a floral 

 store at 506 West (i,3d street. 



"The Lincoln Florist" has opened a 

 store at 407 Center street, not far from 

 Lincoln Park. 



8. W. Pike, St. Charles, 111., was a vis- 

 itor last Saturday. 



Announcement has been made of the 

 marriage of J. Edwin Hauswirth. son of 

 P. J. Hauswirth. and Jliss Pearl Brown. 



The Chicago Floral Co. has been in- 

 corporated with a ca])it.al stock of $20,- 

 000. The incorporators are Eobt. J. 

 Bieg, James W. Taylor and John F. 

 Power. 



Paul Berkowitz. of H. Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., Philadelphia, is in town and repoits 

 business as unusually good in his line. 



He believes that trade will break all past 

 records this season. 



H. S. Harman is again at his post (or 

 ribbon ) at Hunt's. 



The ladies in Bassett & Washburn's 

 store are getting heavier, but would gain 

 more rapidly in avoirdvipois if Louis 

 would let their malt marrow alone. 



Mr. Edgar Sanders has made splendid 

 progress during the past week. He has 

 been sitting \ip in a chair an hour or 

 more each day for the past three days 

 and is very cheerful. 



Are you preparing to exhibit at the 

 fall show in the Art Institute Nov. 11 

 to 15? Remember that, there will be 

 many out of town visitors this year, on 

 account of the meeting of the Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America, and that 

 for the credit of Chicago every local 

 grower should be represented in the 

 show bj- his best. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Business is fair, just good enough to 

 keep good stock from accumulating. 

 Roses and carnations are improving. 

 Dahlias are fine and plentiful. Asters 

 are moving fairly well. There are a few 

 orchids to be had. Exceptionally good 

 value is offered in nearly all kinds of 

 stock. 



The Wholesale Flower Market. 



This week marked progress in the 

 work of starting the market. The direc- 

 tors signed the lease for the third floor of 

 1224 Cherry street from November I. 

 The secretary issued the call for $5 a 

 share on the company's stock, to I)e paid 

 in by October 1. The attorney cried the 

 bans for the second time, once more and 

 we can go to the governor for the char- 

 ter. Last, but not least, the by-laws were 

 thoroughly threshed out all ready for 

 the stockholders to consider at the an- 

 nual meeting next month. 



A New Rose Place. 



A new rose place has sprung up in 

 Germautown, on East Washington Lane. 

 It is only four years old, yet already as 

 large as George Anderson's. This place 

 is owned and conducted by F. and H. 

 Mergenthaler, whose enterprise and hard 

 work are shown by seventeen houses filled 

 with vigorous young roses. They have 

 six houses of Maids, four each of Brides 

 and Kaiserins and one propagating 

 bouse. Their Maids, one house in par- 

 ticular, were in extra fine condition. All 

 the roses looked well. Kaiserins are run 

 up to Christmas. They are in the older 

 houses, those built when the place was 

 started. A fine house was added this 

 summer. Building, glazing, painting and 

 steam fitting are all done by the regular 

 employes on the place. 



The Coal Situation. 



The continuance of the strike in the 

 anthracite coal regions has at last forced 

 all our growers into buying some sub- 

 stitute for bard coal. Nearly all are 

 buying the hardest and least smoky 

 grades of bituminous coal they can find 

 to tide over the present famine. The 

 dealers say it is a matter of record that 

 the large factories who have taken up 

 soft coal in the past have never returned 

 to the use of hard coal. It is doubtful 

 whether greenhouses will like it so well. 

 It will be hard on the man who does his 

 own firing, to say nothing of the smoke 

 and dirt. 



Notes. 



Charles E. Meehan has just returned 

 with bis family from Ocean City, N. J. 



George Farrell. lately with Joseph 

 Heneock, is now with Edward Eeid. 



It is rumored that a great Beauty 

 grower, who shipped to. New York last 

 season, will be seen here once more this 

 season. 



George M. Moss is handling some fine 

 smilax. 



Edward Eeid is out of town this week. 



Julius Wolff, Jr., is making a specialty 



