July 16. 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



281 



Mr. Blixen i- a member of the club and 

 the members are with me in extending 

 to the young couple hearty congratula- 



Jolin Koenig, of the Koenig Floral Co., 

 was married i ;> -- 1 week and is off to the 

 east for a bridal trip of a month. John 

 is well known a ig the craft, who wish 



Park Commisssioner Aull is in Buffalo 

 attending the meeting of the Outdoor 

 Art Association, the next meeting of 

 which he expects to land for St. Louis 

 during the World's Fair. 



Mr. and Mrs. ( arew Sanders left last 

 Friday for a six week-' trip through 

 Colorado. 



George Waldbart was seen in Clayton, 

 near the eourl house, by the members 

 wlin were returning from the Kirkwood 



l,i what i 



insects than any of the liquid 

 now in use. The powder i- very 

 id contains copper in the same 

 s in the liquid mixture. Dr. Bird 



is the result of so many inquiries 

 •eceived at Columbia early this 



regarding the manlier of de- 



-I" 



The Michel Plant and Bulb Co. is offer- 

 ing its plant at Old diehard for sale. 

 The improvements consist of over 12,000 

 feet Of glass, with -team heat. The 

 place has a frontage of 330x170 feet. 



Fred Amniann reports that he has fin- 

 ished planting and that his place is look- 

 ing better than ever before. His Perles 

 and Beauties are the best of any. He is 

 cutting some fair Beauties at present. 



Chas. G. Fleekenstein, formerly con- 

 nected with tlie Mound City tut Flower 

 Co.. was in the city last week, looking as 



Bowling. 



The bowling club rolled four games on 

 Monday night.' The how lint; was of a 

 high order. Charlie Kuehn especially 

 was in good form, with an average of 

 191J; Beyer second with 176, and Will 

 Adels made the highest single score, 200. 

 The following scores were made: 



Player— ■ 1st 2nd. 3rd 1th Total \v 



1\ M. Ellis 111 l.-.n 1..4 llii .-.17 1 



F. Weber. Ji 127 Ins l:il lln 47e. l 



It look- as though the team that w'i 

 bowl at Milwaukee „ill be made up 

 follows: < A. Kuehn. Carl Beyer. 

 -J. Beneke, E. W. Guy, Will Adels, The 

 -Miller. F. C. Weber and F. M. Ell 

 Hie bes! average -i\ men of these wi 

 bow I as a team at Milwauki e. 



J. J. B. 



Then 

 but the 



-Maid- wl 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 

 tj little doing at 



ng to come in. hut of 

 re I'erj short and the 

 . too, i- lacking. Here 

 ■- a pot of Brides or 

 of .". 1 summer qual- 



-alahle 

 day wl 

 eeived 



I ii accepted. 



are plenty of carnations sold 

 ekel a bunch, but anything fair 



Various Notes. 



The sale for year-old Beauty plants 

 is a notable development. It i- only 

 three or four years ago that the old 

 plant- were thrown out and burned at 

 replanting time, hut now there i- a read} 

 sale for them at $5 a hundred. John 

 Muno sold every plant he took out of 

 the benches, and the Reinbergs, Wietors 

 and other- sold mam thousands. 



Brant & Noe have 30,000 carnation 

 plants in the field, ready for early bench- 

 ing. 



leek' 



W. E. Lynch ha- returned from a two 

 week-' vi-it at hi- old home at Hat- 

 field. Ma—. 



One of Peter Reinberg's numerous 

 chimneys was struck by lightning last 

 Thursday night and twelve feet knocked 

 out of the middle of one side. Mr. Rein- 



week. 



George Reinberg is fortunate in hav- 

 ing a very fair cut of Brides and Maid- 

 now on. 



J. A. Budlong i- awheel somewhere 

 between here and Providence, R. I. 



Wietor Bros, have a hou i I awson 



carnation- which have been indoors all 

 summer and report them looking fine. 



J. F. Kidwell says thai he -(ill has 

 some of Kennicott's Von Bombock peonies 

 in good condition, after having stood a 

 week in hi- ice box. It i- notew i rtliy, 

 because thej had been in cold storage 

 from four to five we, ks 



C. M. Dickinson writes from Cedar 

 Lake. Wis., that the ha-- are biting line. 



Walter Krcitling ha- been digging up 

 a few prizes to enliven the Milwaukee 

 bowling tournament. Among others he 

 ha- two hall- from the Brunswick-Balke- 

 Collender Co. 



F. Blondeel, until recently of Blondeel 

 A Vanburgen, ha- bought the greenhouses 

 of A. Pedersen ami leased the property 



The Flori-t-' Cluh held a mid-ummer 

 meeting^at Handel Hall la-t evening. 



A. ('. Was- on. fermerlv of Jamestown, 

 N. V.. and Glenville, O.l i- no« at Lin- 

 coln park. 



the 



Horticultural Soeiet.v of ( hieaoo was held 

 at the Great Northern Hold Tuesday 



aftern i, with the attendance of the 



usual participant-. Little was done be- 

 yond a general discussion of the pros- 

 pel- for a fall show. A committee on 

 oils wa- appointed, also on a 

 he -how and anothei to arrange 

 inn li-t. Adjournment was to 



MONTREAL. 



Trade wa- "..oil throughout last sea- 



on record, hut now summer i- with us 

 and business i- at the usual -h,w stage. 



There wa- a well attended meeting of 

 the cluh on duly 7. It was proposed to 

 do away with the membership fee of $2, 

 but the vote was heavily against the 



It is reported thai Hall & Kohiiison are 

 to open a store on St. Catherine street, 



Mr. Alcock is convalescent and getting 

 about slowly. 



The i raft has lost a valued friend in 

 I he death of .lames Cooper, a patron of 



quoits match. 



open race. I 

 Allen won tin 



.leners' and Florists' Club held 

 th annual picnic at St. Rose, 



was a great success. There 

 array of prizes for the winners 

 es. mosth , ■oil,, ted by W. Ha- 

 von the silver trophy in the 

 : MeKenna wen the 

 is. John and Willie 



d -M 



III won llle vollliT 



ladies' races and -Mr-. Harry Eddy that 

 for members' wives. Mr. Eddy was the 

 swiftest mem;., i among 30 and W. Hazel 

 the best sprintei i vei m. Frank Me- 

 Kenna \\ a- a I -i ' hi speediest \ oung man. 

 \li- 1'i.Muck was the winner of the elder 

 members' wives. Harry Eddy won •' 

 hop. step and lump and W. Whitney was 

 the best walker among the committee- 

 men. A. Bee. 



Alexandkia. I.\i).— Ceorge P.entschler 



ha- sold the Alexandria Green! ses t.. 



(has. Nye, of Indianapolis. 



Uti.rTii. Minx. — W. \V. Seekins has 

 removed hi- stock from Canton & 



W bite's to 1 Hi West Superioi -i t. 



w here he ha- a ileal store all to him- 

 self. His old range of i>reeiihoii-e- i- ,„ - 

 ing disnianl led and will I., replaced In 

 five new huu-e- ciweriiiL! a total el U.- 

 000 -quare feet of space. 



