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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Charles Milling is handling - : very 



fine roses, valley and sweet pea-. Aver- 

 age prices have been low but he reports 



something doing all the time. 



Bowling. 



The first practice game in the pre- 

 paratory season of the New Yorkers was 

 rolled June 9. Four of the old guard 

 were there and the scores were fair to 

 middling, as follows: Theo. Lane, 150, 

 176; Alex. Bums. 135, 147; P. I i Mara. 

 195, 192; F. H. Traendly. 119, 126. 



Capt. Lang, as a competitor in the 

 Broadway League, made average i.f 1!MH 

 in ten games and is second on the list 

 of prize winners to date. Mr. Lang 

 and family will leave shortly for their 

 summer outing at their- home at Ml. 

 Marion. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Beauties are fair for the .I'a-mi and in 

 adequate supply, but Brides and .Maids 

 of good quality are scarce, much of the 

 stock showing much mildew a- well as 

 being small and soft. There are large 



supplies of Liberty of g 1 quality and 



some of the growers are cutting fancy 

 Meteor. Chatenay, Kaiserin and La 

 Franc.- are also fair to good in quality. 

 Carnation cuts are on the decrease, but 

 there are still ample supplies. Prosper- 

 ity is fine and Genevieve Lord and Ethel 

 Crocker are showing their quality as 

 summer bloomers. 



The peony crop is off and the stock 

 is coming oul of cold storage. Good 

 bunches of the better varieties are still 

 the best selling item on the list. There 

 are oceans of sweet peas, plenty of lilies, 



pansies, valley and now, 1 f smilax 



and asparagus. Ferns are short. Ship- 

 ping demand continues fair, although 

 i 1 1 . > - 1 1 \ small orders. Local business is 

 not up to last June. 



Death of J. T. Anthony. 

 With the passing of J. T. Anthony 

 Horticulture loses another of her mastei 

 craftsmen. Bom near Providence, R. I., 

 March 7. 184-!. Mr. Anthony spent his 

 life in the profession, wearing Confed- 

 erate lead these thirty years, for he laid 

 down his watering can and trowel to 

 shoulder a musket in the hour of his 

 country's need. He returned to the 

 pursuits of peace with health impaired 

 but with spirit unconquered. and was 

 for years one of the leading figures in 

 the trade. On coming west he spent 

 some time with M. E. Page and then 

 went into business for himself on Michi- 

 gan avenue, near Twenty-second street. 

 In 1885 he built a range of glass on 

 Prairie avenue, just north of Thirty-fifth 

 street, which was one of the most pre- 

 tentious establishments of the day. He 

 grew choice material, including a large 

 stork of orchids, and did a nice 

 business, but in the end met with finan- 

 cial reverses which saddened if they did 

 not embitter his later years. Mr. An- 

 thony was the first, president of the Chi- 

 cago' Florists' Club, organized in 188G, 

 and was always one of its wheel horses. 

 He was elected President of the S. A. F. 

 at the St. Louis convention in 1893. He 

 was a member of the Horticultural So- 

 , „tv of ( liiraiio. of the Grand Army of 

 the Republic and of the Masons. His 

 death occurred June 11, at Geneva, 111., 

 where he had been in business for the 

 past few years and interment a 

 Oakwoods. Mi-. Anthony was left with- 



out resources, but her immediate wants 

 were cared for by Mr. Anthony's old 

 friends, whose attention was called to her 

 plight by C. A. Samuelson. 



Various Notes. 



Frank Hayes, of the 11. M. Hooker Co., 

 -,i\> that there is a big call for green- 

 house glass, bul thai it is not wholly a 

 blessing, for in the days when the sales 

 were not so large the small sizes of dou- 

 ble strength could be had at the faetory 

 for about the price of single, while now 

 the demand is so big that the natural 

 production of small sizes does not nearly 

 suffice and the manufacturers refuse to 

 .in greenhouse glass except at a pre- 

 mium. Mr. Hayes says that the indica- 

 tions point to an immediate and very 

 large increase in the glass used for forc- 

 ing vegetables. 



There was a well attended meetin" 

 on Tuesday, called to [dan for the enter- 

 tainment of those en route to the S. A. 

 ]■'. convention who will pass through Chi- 

 cago on Monday, August 17. After a 

 general discussion of the proposed hos- 

 pitalities, a committee on ways and 

 means was appointed, with sub-commit- 

 tees for the several branches of the 

 trade, instructed to raise a guarantee 

 fund of $1,500. Another committee was 

 appointed to see what can be had for the 

 money. 



The Foley Mfg. Co. is building a very 

 fine conservatory for Harry Rubens, also 

 extending Harry Selfridge's range at 

 Lake Geneva. 



. The cold and unseasonable weather has 

 brought on a return of A. Dietsch's ill- 

 ness ami he has ],ccti confined to his 

 house for several days. It begins to 

 look to him a- though he would be com- 

 piled to remain permanently in the 

 southwest. 



Fred Hills has done very well on La- 

 ter lilies this year and is trying cold 

 storage bulbs for an all-season supply. 



X. J. Rupp says that the Moninger Co. 

 is again enjoying its busiest season. 

 This has been their annual experience 

 for several years. 



Jas. Hartshorne brought a magnifi- 

 cent bunch of i tries to the meeting of 



the era ft last Tuesday. 



ih\ and Mrs. C. M. Dickinson were at 

 St. Joe Tuesday. Mrs. Dickinson and 

 the pride of the family may spend a 

 part of the summer at the Michigan re- 

 sort. 



Sinner Bros, are cutting Brides which 

 n e nil good for the season. 



P. Saunders, for many years in busi- 

 ness on Cottage Grove avenue, leaves in 

 August to make his home at his birth- 

 place in Ireland. 



John Becker will build nine green- 

 houses to cost .*8.000 on his property at 

 1513 Washington street, in Evanston. 



Herman Rennock, who shot Oscar 

 Kreitling, has been given fourteen years 

 at Joliet. 



Unl.i ml & Risi h have benched 25,000 

 Beauty plants in their new range. 



( '. O. Williams, of Batavia. has been 

 sending Bent hey &■ Co. a new pink peony 

 whieh has a future. 



I he J. D. Thompson Carnation Co. 

 will proceed at onee to build a boarding 

 house for the help and another green- 

 house 30x300. 



R. R. McGill, of Barnard's, is at his 

 old home at Ainesworth, la., on vaca- 

 1 ion. 



Brant. & Xoe have admitted to part- 

 ner-hip Richard Salm and W. J. Kei- 



mel, formerly with the Poehlmanns; who 

 now have charge of the producing end. 

 D. W. Brant will do the selling and the 

 plan is lo open a stand at the Exchange. 

 Visitors: C. W. Ward. Queens, X. Y.; 

 Herbert. Heller. New Castle, Ind., D. C. 

 Xoble, Columbia City, Ind. 



Bowline. 



The series of thirty games was ended 

 at Anson's on Tuesday evening, with the 

 following score: 



Player. l B t. 2d. 3d. 



Winterson 179 128 160 



Sterrett 140 



Sto\.-lis 

 IialliKT 



ln4 



120 



d. Stollery 130 



P. Stollery 164 



Kreitling lis 



153 



Geo. Asmus 163 E. Winterson 



1'. Bulluff 163 P. Ibmsuirth 



<;. Stell.rv 102 Coo. Scott 152 



1'. Stollery 161 ('. Primer 149 



J. Lambros 159 J. Sterrett 142 



To decide the convention team a se- 

 ries of twenty games will now be rolled, 

 four each Tuesday evening for five 

 weeks, as follows: June 23, at Michel- 

 son & De Propfs alleys; June 30, at 

 Schiller's, Thirty-first street and Forest 

 avenue: July 7. Sheridan alleys, Wave- 

 land and North Halsted; July 14, Ge- 

 roux alleys. East Madison street; July 

 21, Vlussey's. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



At this writing conditions . are some- 

 what better in receiving express ship- 

 ments, which come by boat from Alton. 

 The early part of the week it was al- 

 most impossible to get any shipments by 

 cxpre-- from Chicago and other points. 

 This had a had effect on the retail trade. 

 which had a very busy week, with large 

 weddings and school work. At. the 

 wholesale houses many disappointed 

 faces could be seen each morning on ac- 

 count of not having the orders filled. 

 The few shipments from the west ami 

 from local consignors did not supply 

 half enough stock to go around. Some 

 of the shipments from Fort Wayne, Chi 



d s 



But 



Trade the past week was very good. 

 Everybody was busy with some kind of 

 work in cut flowers, as weddings, 

 funerals and school commencements have 

 been quite frequent. For the latter 

 events there was not nearly so much to 

 do as in former years, as most of the 

 huge schools prohibited the sending of 

 flowers to the graduates. Those who 

 had orders for the large weddings found 

 it difficult to obtain choice white roses 

 and the number required ran up into 

 the thousands. At the funerals of Mr. 

 Lucas and Captain Evans, of the sal- 

 vage corps, a greai many large designs 

 were seen. These were mostly made up 

 of cape jasmines, galas and sweet peas. 

 indicating that other stock was hard to 

 obtain. For school work a large num- 

 ber of Perles were used, as yellow was 

 the class color at some of the largest. 

 schools. The cool weather of late has 

 made good flowers very scarce, and par- 

 ticularly roses. Shipping orders from 



