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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



The Market. 



Supplies of stock are at about the 

 lowest ebb. Very few roses are coming 

 in and the carnations arc mostly thrown 

 out preparatory to replanting. As out- 

 door carnations are not yet largely in 

 evidence, and asters are only just begin- 

 ning to make their presence felt, it leaves 

 the market pretty bare. The demand is 

 ample to take up all of the better grades 

 of stock, but thai i- not necessarily say- 

 in- much. Beauties are very scarce, sev- 

 eral large growers cutting almost none 

 at all, and what few there are would be 

 scarcely identified were it not for the fol- 

 iage. Some good Kaiserin are offered, 

 also Meteor and some clean stock from 

 young plants. 



With the decrease in the receipts of 

 carnations there has come a pronounced 

 demand for white, and good prices are 

 obtained wherever the condition of the 

 stock will warrant. In a few days as- 

 ters will be in heavily. Gladioli are sell- 

 ing fairly well and are not in large sup- 

 ply. Sweet peas are about gone and Har- 

 risii are not so abundant as a few weeks 

 ago. There are plenty of auratums. 

 Galax and cycas leaves are in demand 

 for hot weather funeral designs. 



Various Notes. 



Tuesday noon the wholesale district 

 was alarmed by the heaviest hail storm 

 in many a day, but a quick resort to the 

 telephone served to show that no more 

 than a light shower was falling on the big 

 greenhouses north of town. Wienhoeber 

 lost some glass, but no hail fell as far 

 north as Wittbold's, and on the west and 

 south sides the storm was within narrow 

 limits. 



Weber Bros, have Meteor roses in the 

 house the lilies occupied until after 

 Easter. Ernst Weber is away on a va- 

 cation. 



W. J. Smyth is spending most of his 

 time at his summer home on Lake Marie. 

 at Antioch. He has telephone connection 

 with the store and comes to town only 

 once or twice a week. 



Peter Reinberg recently bought forty 

 acres of city property just west of Rose 

 Hill and there are visions of still larger 

 ranges of glass. 



O. P. Bassett is dividing his leisure 

 betwei 11 golf and his automobile. 



C. A. Samuelson is planning a fishing 

 trip to Ludington, Mich., about conven- 

 tion time. 



W. A. Kennedy was down from Mil- 

 waukee Monday, buying material for two 

 carnation houses 2:ix2oi;. Miss Kennedy 

 accompanied him. 



A. C. Kohlbrand", of Amling's. is fish- 

 ing near Gray's Lake. Wis.. "and Max 

 Ringier is at home, anticipating an im- 

 portant event. 



J. B. Deamud i- in southeastern Kan- 

 sas with a party of gentlemen with whom 

 he is interested in developing some oil 

 property. 



E. E. Pieser is taking his vacation a 

 half day at a time this year, going home 

 at noon and spending the pleasant hours 

 with a book under a tree in the park. 

 G. H. Pieser will go into the woods in 

 northern Wisconsin in August for his an- 

 nual fishing trip. 



Herman Lochman. of Bassett A: Wash- 

 burn's force, is a son-in-law of Henry 

 Schweitzer, of Mendota, whose place was 

 destroyed by hail and a tornado July 17. 



He visited there Sunday and says the 

 greenhouses and residence are a wreck. 



Witt or Bros, say it is a wonder the 

 way the chrysanthemum plants and cut- 

 tings sold. 



Hugh Woll has returned from two 

 weeks spent with his parents in New 

 York City. 



Bowline. 



The competition was very close and 

 exciting at the match Tuesday night, 

 Winterson, Hauswirth and Scott each 

 having a chance for sixth place. The 

 latter finally won out by a margin over 

 Winterson of one pin in twenty games. 

 I'll.' -I la in seemed to be too great for 

 some of the old-timers, as will be noted 

 by the score. New pins were respon- 

 sible for many splits. Following is the 

 record of the concluding series : 



Player— 1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. T'l. 



Wiiil. is,.,, 120 179 in.". 125 520 



I\ J. Hauswirth 17.1 140 116 14n 572 



.; Asinns 163 146 177 163 CIO 



BalluS 117 I-':: 180 171 591 



Sterrett 135 136 135 120 535 



1' SMIIery 136 121 126 157 540 



u. stollerv 162 163 1st 150 60S 



l.amljrus 197 119 94 157 567 



Seott 152 158 100 137 837 



Following is the record for the full 

 twenty games: 



Total 



Player— Games, pins. Ay. 



il. St.dlery 20 346 1 173 



Balluff 20 3321 166 



F. Stollery 20 321S 161 



(i. Asnms 20 32u6 160 



Lambros 16 2529 157 



G. Seott 20 3005 150 



Wintrrsnn 2n 30n4 150 



Hauswirth 20 2975 149 



Sterrett 16 2270 142 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Business has slightly improved since 

 last week. There are hardly so many 

 flowers coming to town and the demand 

 seems better. The stock of roses has 

 been reinforced by some really fine 

 young Beauties. Samuel S. Pennock is 

 getting some good flowers on fairly long 

 stems, from Robert Seott & Son, that 

 bring the top price. Of the other roses, 

 Kaiserin is the best; a few really fine 

 flowers may be had. Carnations are be- 

 coming scarcer, really fine stock being 

 difficult to obtain. Asters are becoming 

 more plentiful, but as yet they are small. 

 Leo Niessen received his first shipment 

 of tiger lilies on Monday. Lilium au- 

 ra turn is in evidence. Sweet peas are 

 on the wane. Valley is hardly up to the 

 mark. Greens are selling slowly. 



Various Notes. 



Keller Brothers, of Norristown, Pa., 

 makers of flower pots and pans, have 

 changed their firm into a stock com- 

 pany, to be known as the Keller Pottery 

 Company. 



George C. Watson, seedsman, has re- 

 moved from 211 to 259 S. Juniper 

 street. 



Edward Reid left this week for an ex- 

 tended business trip through the south 

 and west. He will also visit his home in 

 Dakota. 



Myers & Samtman are beginning to 

 cut a few nice Beauties from their 

 young plants. It is understood that they 

 do not expect to plant Queen of Edgely 

 this season. 



Miss Miles, who so ably conducts the 

 accounts at the Flower Market, has just 

 returned from a trip to the Delaware 

 Water Gap. 



Rain caused the postponement of the 

 baseball game last Saturday. 



The street had it that a new assistant 



had just been secured at the Flower 

 Market. This proved, however, to be a 

 jocose way of saying that Manager 

 Charles E. Median had welcomed a new 

 arrival in his family, a little daughter 

 born on Saturday. 



F. & H. Meigenthaler have their place 

 in unusually fine condition this season. 

 Their Brides, Maids and Kaiserins, so 

 successful last year, promise even better 

 results next winter. 



Wm. Graham, formerly with Hugh 

 Graham, has purchased the seven green- 

 houses of Julius Reis, at Olney, and is 

 looking for a suitable store to open for 

 himself. 



George M. Moss is in financial difficul- 

 ties and his place is closed. 



Bowline. 



A team average of 102 pins in a series 

 of twenty-one games rolled on seven dif- 

 ferent alleys is the proud record of the 

 bowling team that Philadelphia will send 

 to Milwaukee next month. The team 

 will consist of Frank Polites. George M. 

 Moss, S. Adelberger, Robert Kift. Walter 

 Yates. Win. Robertson and D. T. Connor, 

 substitute. Eleven other players en- 

 tered the competition and all of them 

 rolled some good games. The contest 

 was the fairest test that ingenuity could 

 devise, but, as the schoolboy explained 

 to his father, ■•Somebody has to be last," 

 and they couldn't all be winners. 



Phil. 



Blufftox. Ixd. — Myers & Co. have 

 put in a gasoline engine to furnish 

 water supply. They will now add one 

 house 18x100 for vegetables. This will 

 give them a total of 12,000 feet of glass. 



Chatjtatjqtja, N. Y— Mrs. H. D. Ir- 

 win says the season has been very satis- 

 factory, particularly on bedding plants. 

 On the Assembly grounds she planted 

 three large beds of cannas from Conard 

 & Jones. All bedding plants are looking 

 fine, with plenty of rain since June 1. 



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