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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Trade is g 1. but the -nine can hai 



be said i i stock. There is some 

 in. bu1 not enougl 



if!. I. 



iserin is the best 

 probably the most 



irnations are plentiful one day and 

 ce the next. On Monday the best 

 es brought as high as $2; Tuesday 

 could not all be sold at any price 

 on \\ ednesdaj the h ild-ovei s went to 

 Greeks, while good stock was again 

 ■lii.unl. And so it goes. Good asters 

 mi plentiful and poor ones sell cheap. 

 itums continue the showy flower for 



Various Notes. 

 J. A. Endlong is building a stack 

 which is thought to sot a new mark for 

 greenhouse chimneys. It is to be 12.3 

 feet high, with a .even-foot flue. It will 

 require 100,000 bricks, weighing two tons 



eivte fiiiiiiihitinii l_'\Wv). Completed it 

 will cost ovei $1,000, and is to take care 

 of ln.ilei- aggregating sun |„,r-e pouei. 

 Which i- what will be needed when the 

 property is all covered with glass, which 

 will probably be next year. 



C. M. Dickinson returned yesterdaj 

 from his Wisconsin fishing trip. 



Louis Gresenz, of Basset) & Wash- 

 burn's, will start on his vacation Satur- 



\\ ietui Bros, are fortunate in having 

 a good crop of Beauties of good length 

 and good quality just when the market 

 is short : they seli at first class prices 



George M. Garland -ays that he has 

 had a good season in the gutter business 



in spite of some unfavorable c litions, 



such as labor troubles and high prices 

 for iron. He notes that there is less re 

 building than usual thi- year, but is 

 pleased that the fall in pig iron gives 

 him a chance to quote favorable prices 

 for late buyers. 



L. Coatsworth has returned from a 

 i isit to the Benthey & Co. establish 

 ment at New Castle and reports the roses 

 looking fine. The stock is practically 

 all two and some of it three years old. 

 and the oldest Beautj plants are the 

 best looker-. They will begin cutting 

 next week. Libert} also promises well. 

 The asters, however, have suffered be- 

 cause the clay soil holds the water. 



A. Lange and family are at Ml Clem 

 ens for a three -week-' noting. 



Miss Linna Hutchinson and Edson 

 Haas, of Austin, will marry August 5 and 



go east tin i ! ' mi ,, of two or three 



weeks. 



There n as a la i »i amount of funeral 

 work at the obsequies of Inspector Shea 

 on Sunday, but the mistake was made of 

 delivering most of it too early, and it. 

 ny looking lot by the time for 

 the services, for the weather was warm 



and all stock soft. A. Lange had -.uue 

 pieces which were delivered only a 

 couple of hours before the services and 

 looked well. 



The eonimitt u S. A. K. entertain- 

 ments has concluded to do il- "turn" 

 i i'." > i ening, Angus! 21. 



1 1 does one good to listen to John 

 \l.i age) . i here's none of the pessimist 

 about him. He savs hn-ine-s i- good, 

 plenty of funeral work, and the looks 

 of the place bears him out. He is an 

 exception to the general rule in that he 

 keep- his window- filled with the best 

 stock on the market. 



Andrew Millei calls on his friend- in 

 the trade occasionally . He i- now con- 

 ductor on a Santa l'e Pullman running 



There is beginning to be some appre- 



I'or everybodv has them by the acre and 



p.a crop. However, some of the fields 

 -how all the ill- the astei is heir to. 

 and the supply of good flowers may still 

 prove too small. 



Nie Kruchten is sending some of the 

 best carnations coming to town, mostly 

 Flora Hill. 



Fresh paint is now in order, before the 

 S. A. F. visitors get here. Winterson's 

 and Poehlmann's have had their signs 

 out. 



The Flower Growers' Company is in- 

 vesting over $400 in an icebox adequate 

 to any possible needs. 



F. Leu is rebuilding a 12.1-foot house. 

 11 has 1 n a ..,„„] -ra-on with him. 



Mrs. C. Schaffer is cutting some very 

 good Kaiserins. 



Visitors: — F. D. Rennison, Waterloo, 

 la.: J. P,. Laker. Fort Worth. Tex.: Miss 

 Lentz. daughter of J. W. Rentz. Peru, 

 I ml : I'. A. Bailer, Bloomingtonj 111. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 

 Business last week was somewhat bet- 

 ter than for some time, and some good 

 stock i- -till to lie had. Beauties are fine 

 ! a this time and so are Kaiserins. As- 

 ters are more plentiful and supply a 



especially white; the outdoor carnations 

 are not blooming and this causes the 

 -hortage. A heavy demand for funeral 

 work all last week' kept the florists busy 

 trying to secure sufficient good stock to 

 take care of their orders. 



Death of Frederick Dillemuth. 



Thursday evening. July 23, Frederick 

 Dillemuth. construction foreman and a 

 director of the Pittsburg Lose and Car- 

 nation Co.. at Bakerstown, and a broth- 

 er in law of Fred Burki, was drowned in 

 a reservoir on the farm. Mr. Dillemuth 

 went to the pumping house for the pur- 

 pose of pumping water into the tank. 

 Something appeared to be wrong with 



the 



was drowned. Mr. Dillemuth was a very 

 successful man in all his undertakings. 

 He was in the best of health and full of 

 vigor. His sudden demise will be much 

 felt by his partners and employes who 

 respected him highly. 



Mr. Dillemuth leaves a wife, one 

 daughter and three sons, one of whom 



is Harry Dillemuth. with -I no. 11. Dun- 

 lop, Toronto, Ontario. We extend our 

 sympathy to the family and to Mr. 

 Burki. 



Notes. 



Patrick Maier is cutting quantities of 

 well-grown summer roses; his Kaiserins 

 are exceptionally fine. 



W. L. Campbell, one of our largest 

 gladioli growers in this vicinity, is right 

 in it this season with early blooms, 

 which brought him good returns. 



Miss E. E. Maxwell has returned 

 from her vacation. 



Arthur Langhans, Wheeling, is on his 

 annual eastern trip buying fall novel- 

 ties. 



John Baldinger has returned from 

 Buffalo. 



The next meeting of the Florists' Club 

 is to be hehl August 4. when final ar- 



tee report that a large attendance wi 

 l>e present from this city. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



GRAND RAPIDS. 



The Market. 



The weather has been warm, with cool 

 night-, often so cool as to mildew the 

 rose-. Business has kept up very satis- 

 factorily. While the cut of carnations 

 i- growing continually less, still, as the 

 growers have thrown out but very few 

 plants, it is still of good size and at 

 time- not equal to the demand. Loses 

 have ueen scarce and unobtainable right 

 along: prices are about the same as last 



repol ted. 



Notes. 



Mo-t of the florists are behind with 

 planting; too much to see to. too much 

 building, too much repairing and rebuild- 



Cross has all his violet houses planted. 



Schols has planted nothing but violets 

 this year. 



Crabb & Hunter have three of tneir 

 new range of houses glazed and planted, 

 two to roses and one to violets. They 

 have had considerable trouble with get- 

 ting a water supply. After sinking a 

 well and finding no supply, they tapped 

 the lake, 1,750 feet off; after numerous 

 adventures they at last got a first-class 

 crib sunk in seven and one-half feet of 

 clear water, when along came a boat and 

 put that crib through the propeller 

 wheel, chawed it all up. the greedy thing; 

 but the boat was seized with a fit of in- 

 digestion and laid up for repairs. 



Mulick Bros., so report has it, want 

 to sell out and locate in Greenville, this 

 state. 



Cunningham is hurrying his new houses 

 along as fast as he can. His dwelling 

 house is ready for occupancy. When 

 he vacates his present quarters, near 

 John Eall park, the owners, Schmidt 

 Bros., are going to run it themselves. 

 They will grow geraniums, lettuce and 

 cucumbers. 



Flora] Co. has not. yet planted, but is 

 rebuilding the two narrow houses into 

 one large house, as they consider it bet- 

 ter than a small one for violets. 



Bruinslot & Sons have five 100-foot 

 houses built on their new place and have 

 them almost glazed. 



Henry Smith is rebuilding the houses 

 ih-troyed by lire. He is discarding three 

 small boilers and replacing them with 

 larger ones. 



Freyling & Mendals are rebuilding 



