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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 20, 1903. 



by those who attended, and those who 

 didn 't will surely regret it after they 

 hear what a good time we had. 



The next meeting of the club will be 

 held in Edwardsville, 111., at Brother 

 Ammann's fine place, on September 10. 

 At this meeting the installation of of- 

 ficers will take place and we hope for a 

 large attendance to greet the new of- 

 ficers as they take their seats. 



Visitors in Town. 

 B. Eschner, of M. Bice & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, is in town on his war to 

 Milwaukee. Henry T. Moon, of the W. 

 II. Moon Co., of Morrisville, Pa., is 

 looking up space at the World's Fair 

 grounds. A. S. Halstedt. E. W. Guy 

 and Adolph Fehr, of Belleville, 111., J. 

 F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, 111.. F. 

 W. Ude and William Winter, of Kirk- 

 wood, Mo„ were in town to attend the 

 club meeting. 



St. Louis to Milwaukee. 

 The St. Louis delegation left here on 

 Sunday night at !»:05 via Wabash and ar- 

 rival in Chicago on Monday morning at 

 7:30. In this party were the following 

 florists: Mr. and Mrs. Chas Juengel, 

 Mr. and Mrs. John Steidle, Mr. and Mrs. 

 F. J. Meinhardt and sisters, Mr. and 

 Mrs. J. J. Beneke, Mr. and Mrs. Max 

 Herzog, George Waldbart, John Connon, 

 ('. A. Kuehn, Theo. Miller, F. M. Ellis, 

 J. F. Ammann, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Guy, 

 R. F. Tesson, Win. Adels, Otto G. 

 Koenig, Emil Sehray, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Kruse, Vincent Gorley and Adolph Fehr. 

 The following party went bv the Illinois 

 Central R. R.: A. S. Halstedt, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Henry Berning, Mr. and Mrs. F. 

 C. Weber, Misses Adel and Dora Weber. 

 The whole St. Louis delegation spent 

 Monday in Chicago and left Tuesday 

 morning for Milwaukee. J. J. B. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The Market. 



Business, of ci 

 ways is at this 



very dull ; it al- 

 and there "ill 

 not be much stir until about Thanks- 

 giving. There will be some business be- 

 fore, but not any great amount, and 

 with the chrysanthemum glut coming, 

 there will be "lots of hard work and not 

 much profit for some time to come. 



We have had a very cool and quite wet 

 summer. Outdoor flowers are fine and 

 the early fall flowers blooming earlier 

 bj three weeks than usual. Good roses 

 are quite scarce, also pinks at present. 

 Asters are abundant and good. Sweet 

 peas have been knocked out by too 

 much rain. Reports from the growers 

 are encouraging for a good supply of 

 everything for fall and winter. 



Various Notes. 



t;. o. Westcotl died quite suddenly 

 August 8, aged 72 years. 



W. B. Hazard is forced to move again 

 on account of the building coming down. 

 However, he remains in the same block. 



M. Macnair k Sons have been remod- 

 eling their store witli new fixtures, etc, 



month 's rest at the seashore. 



A. M. Rennie, of Rennie & Pino, seeds- 

 men, is expected home from Europe 

 soon, after two months abroad. 



S. J. Reuter, of Westerly, R. I., was 

 in town the past week. He is very busy 

 building a large new stable and boiler 



house, besides remodeling and adding 

 several new houses to his already large 

 plant. 



The J. A. Budlong & Sons Co. has 

 added one new bouse, 58x350 feet, also 

 changed over four large vegetable houses, 

 all to grow carnations, of which they will 

 grow about 75,000 this season, with three 

 700-foot houses in roses. They will mar- 

 ket in Providence and Boston and prob- 

 ably some in New York. 



j. F. Wood and wife and Robt. 

 Greene, of Warwick, are about all that 

 are going to the convention from here. 



F. J. Sullivan is building a new glass 

 front at his greenhouses. 



T. O'Connor is building a large boiler- 



house. 



The Market 



R. I. 



going on 



There has been ver; 

 in a business way this week. For some 

 little time the local retailers have been 

 complaining that trade was nut up to 

 last summer and in the last few days 

 shipping requirements have not been as 

 heavv as the wholesalers think they 

 should be. The call is usually for a 

 few Beauties. Liberties or Meteors, all 

 scarce items, but good Brides and Maids 

 are salable at good figures, 6 cents be- 

 ing paid for some of the best stuff cut 

 from old plants. The cut from young 

 stock is steadily improving but is not 

 yet large. Indoor carnations are pretty 

 well over but outdoor stock, short- 

 stemmed, is plentiful. Asters are in 

 heavy supply, but the quality of most of 

 the receipts is away below par. The 

 low grade stuff is hard to sell at any 

 price but special, long-stemmed stock 

 with good flowers sells all the way from 

 $2 to'$M and is in good demand. White 

 is scarce. The auratum season is near- 

 ing its end, some growers being already 

 out, but there is still plenty of stock. 

 There are some fine gladioli and good 

 dahlias are at hand, but not selling any 

 too well. 



Various Notes. 

 Chas. Erickson is still cutting some 

 very fine Brides and Maids, not haviiy 

 as yet thrown out his old stock. He is 

 going into carnations exclusively next 

 year. 



E. C. Amliug says that the supply of 

 Asparagus plumosus strings was prob- 

 ably tour times as large the past sea- 

 aon as the one before. The demand 

 shows a steady increase and he is look- 

 ing for good 'business on this specialty 

 this fall and winter. 



A. Lange and family returned August 

 13 from a couple of weeks at Mt. 

 Clemens. 



The Foley Mfg. Co. is getting out a 

 new and powerful ventilator lifter and 

 a i.e. shaft hanger. 



The florists have been taking active 

 Dart in the West Madison street fair. 

 In the wagon parade C. Frauenfelder, 

 II. X. Bruns and Mrs. E. Anderson each 

 had finelv decorated turn-outs. 



Frank ' Garland had a deformed au- 

 ratum stem the other day bearing twen- 

 ty-four flowers. 



A new front is being put in Walter 

 Xreitling's store during the repairs on 

 the structure, ordered by the city. 



E. S. Thompson, South Haven. Mich., 

 is exhibiting good gladioli at Randall's, 

 Park Belle and seedlings. 



The express service in and out of 



Chicago is threatened with a strike of 



i the office and depot employes of the com- 



panies, who say they will go out unless 

 granted higher pay and shorter hours. 



A. L. Randall lias been over from his 

 Michigan farm, called by the ill health 

 of Mrs. Randall. 



L. Lockyear, of Frank Garland's, has 

 been on the sick list. 



Robert Northam has been helping out 

 at Deamud's while Alex. Newett was 

 away on vacation. 



Win. Kyle, of Kennicott's, has been 

 at Kalamazoo, visiting his father, M. 

 F. Kyle, with the Dunkley Floral Co. 



Frank Garland is building two cot- 

 tages for the help at Des Plaines. 



Among the visitors last week, on busi- 

 ness or pleasure bent, were Hans Tobler, 

 of the Northern Michigan Asylum, Tra- 

 verse City, Mich.; N. H. Youngberg, 

 Lindsborg, Kan.; H. D. Caldwell, Dan- 

 ville, 111. This week the town has been 

 full of convention visitors. 



On Monday evening St. Louis and Chi- 

 cago had the bout at bowling which in- 

 variably takes place whenever the repre- 

 sentatives of either city visit the other. 

 Chicago won three straight. Following 

 is the score: 



The Market. 

 With such fine weather we, who must 

 stay at home, have nothing much to com- 

 plain of. 



Business is still very slow, although 

 some of the stores last week had a 

 bunch of funeral work. T. M. Flam & 

 Co. seemed to have a little the best 

 of it m that line. 



The flut of asters and gladioli is still 

 with us; the wholesale house is crowded 

 with stock all the time. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. is get- 

 ting in some very nice Maids, Brides and 

 Liberties for this time of the year. 

 Notes. 

 Last week the common salutation was 

 "Are you going to Milwaukee?" and 

 it evidently had some effect, as there 

 was a delegation of eighteen left Pitts- 

 burg Sundav at 6 p. m., to arrive at Mil- 

 waukee at 7 a. m. Tuesday. The route 

 is P. R. R- lines to Cleveland ; Cleveland 

 to Detroit by boat; Detroit to Grand 

 Unven l,» rail; (irand Haven to Mil- 

 waukee bv boat; fare $17 for the round 

 trip. This will be much more pleasant 

 than goine Btraighl through by rail. 



J. F. Gibbs. ,,f Allegheny market, has 

 closed his stand for the summer and his 

 daughter, who manages his business there 

 for him, is traveling and enjoying her- 

 self until business starts in the fall. 



John Baldinger is rusticating at Ava- 

 lon and fishing on the dam. He says. 

 ••It is good fishing, but poor catching. ■ 

 Abraham Hostetter, of Manheim, Pa- 

 wns one of our visitors this week on his 

 way to Iowa; but he expected to get to 

 the convention. 



The genial Ringier, of Barnard & Co., 

 Chicago, was in town this week, having 



