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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 4, 1903. 



IOLIET, ILL. 



The President's Reception. 

 Everyone in town is busy preparing 



tor i he recepl i f President Roi se- 



velt, \\ ho i- due hei e on \\ ednesdaj of 

 this week (that is. everyone with the 

 exception of .hum- Hartshorne and 

 crew, reasons given below I. This is the 

 present President's first ■>. i - i i to Joliet, 

 which of course makes it. more inter- 

 esting to all. Charlie Shepard, _ gar- 

 dener i" i olonel John Lambert, is to 

 decorate the President's ear. He will use 

 Roosevelt color carnations and Amer- 

 ican Beauties, as well as some speci- 

 men Piersoni ferns, which he regrets to 

 see go, as no doubt they will have to 

 sutler, but Mr. Lambert says there is 

 nothing too good for Roosevelt. L. L. 

 May & Co., of St. Paul, wired the Chi- 

 cago Carnation Company on Monday 

 for 5,000 carnation-, which were shipped 

 at a moment's notice. These were un- 

 doubtedly used in connection with the 

 President's visit to that city. 



Peony Time. 



James Hartshorne and his three crews 

 of help, from the Chicago Carnation 

 Company, the Higinbotham estate and 

 the Chicago Peony Farms, respectively, 

 are now hustling with the ten-acre 

 peony crop. As yet they have not lost 

 a flower and have been getting at whole- 

 sale as high as $1.50 per dozen for such 

 varieties as Lady Bramwell, Festiva 

 Maxima. Rubra Superba and other nov- 

 elties. They are now shipping by the 

 car load, using refrigerator ears for the 

 purpose. This is the first step in this 

 direction in history and should be the 

 only practical way to handle such an 

 immense quantity. The refrigerator 

 cars run direct to cold storage buildings 

 in various cities where the peonies are 

 kept until the markets are ready to re- 

 ceive them. 



A visit to the peony farms now is 

 worth anybody's time, though all in- 

 tended for market are cut in the bud 

 as tight as an American Beauty rose. 

 But the batch of 15,000 to 20,000 seed- 

 lings, among which are some that will 

 surely displace the best present-day 

 sorts, is a sight fit for the gods. Of 

 course there are a great many single 

 varieties. Even blooms of these have 

 been in strong demand at 50 cents per 

 dozen. The best of these will be saved 

 for forcing purposes. Mr. Hartshorne 

 says they force nearly as quickly as 

 valley when one knows how to handle 

 them. 



Notes. 



Charles Zeigk is back at his old 

 stand, the Spot Cash corner. 



Joseph Labo and Johnson & Carlson 

 were practically cleaned out of flower- 

 ing plants for Memorial day. The 

 former gentleman had as fine a lot of 

 hydrangeas as we have seen in many a 

 year. 



Aaron T. Pyfer, bookkeeper for the 

 Chicago Carnation Company, has re- 

 cently joined the ranks of Benedicts. 

 It came as a surprise to his many 

 friends in and out of the trade. The 

 young lady was a Miss Gertrude Inger- 

 sol, daughter of an old and respected 

 family of Joliet. 



Two weeks ago the great cry was for 

 rain. Now it is the reverse; we are 

 getting too much of it. 



I.s Conklin and all the old tim- 

 ers report good business. 



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