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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, 



VALLEY! 



Open from 7:30a. m. to 6 p. m. 

 During July and August 

 closeonSaturdaysat J p.m. 



Wholesale Florist, 

 1612 Ludlow St, PHILADELPHIA. 



HJF YOU are in the market for fine clean stock in Brides, Maids and 

 ** Meteors ; also first-class Carnations, place your 



order with 



J.H.BUDL0NG 



| 37-39 Randolph St., CHICAGO, 



! as we always have a good supply of the best stock in the market. All 

 ij other cot flowers in season. No charge for P. & D. on orders of $4 and over. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 

 Summer made its belated appearance 

 .this week and the seasonable conditions 



ping orders, which it is difficult to fill. 

 Beauties ait- -carce and the r<>-e crop 

 is light, for the growers arc busy re- 

 planting thr lioii-e.-. Brides are scarce 

 and good ones brought as high a- s 

 cents mi .Monday. Maid- are of better 

 average qualitx than l'.rnh- and are not 



but there arc few Liberty. Taken all in 

 all, the rose market is pretty bare; if 

 it were not prices would be pretty low. 

 There are still some fair carnations 

 and no glut of the lower grades. There 

 have seldom been -u.li large receipts of 

 sweet peas. Everybody lias them by the 

 unsold thousands and the price is more 

 dependent on the quantity the buyer will 

 take than on the quality of the goods; 

 from 2 cent- a bunch up. Canterbury 

 bells sell a little, a- thej make a big 



\\; 



good deal of 

 odds and ends 



There will 

 time yet. Tin 



rger than la: 



lUndred. There is a 



i about and all the 



rden flowers, 



mies for some little 

 thi- year was much 

 not less than 17,000 



dozen went into cold storage. There 

 are supposed to be nearly if not quite 

 5,000 dozen still on hand, all except a 

 few hundred dozen in one lot. Deamud 

 reports Rubra Superba tin- best seller 

 and has handled quantities of it for the 

 Chicago Carnation Co. A. Kennicott & 

 Son report their crop at about 7,000 

 dozen. They stored large quantities of 

 the old Rose Scented and of the L. L. 

 I*. ]iink, or Grandiflorum Roseum, but 

 the hulk of their lot marketed this week 

 was .".oil dozen Von Bomback and 1.500 

 dozen Whitleyii. the former a purely lo- 

 cal name given to a variety grown by 

 old Peter Von Bomback. Mr. Kennicotl 

 says the Drop White (Festiva) were 

 short crop and poor; they would not 

 keep. Three-fourths of the terminal 

 buds 1 were damaged by late frosts and 

 the side buds had to be used. The Old 

 Red (officinalis) was also d-.\u,., 

 frost. Mr. Kennicott says the average 

 returns on the crop are one third less 



Various Notes. 



II. MacMichael, who has lately been 

 rose grower for Weiland & Riseh, has 

 bought the N. P. Miller place al \\ il 

 mette and took possession July 1. 



John Zeck. manager at Budlong's, is 

 taking his vacation a day at a time and 

 spent Tuesday picnicking. He says stock 

 is good for tic -.a-oii and shipping trade 

 holding up fairij well. 



The better class of retail stores are 

 not using common ferns the way they 

 ome did. Of course 1 1 1 < ■ \ keep them on 

 hand for rail-, and use I hem tor con- 

 cealing the moss in designs, but for 

 boxes of loose flowers and for vases thej 



use Sprengeri and adiantum. Wienl 



her'- say they use only a few hundred 

 terns a day, even in the busy season. 

 where they were once very large buyers. 



July 1 sees the beginning of a new 

 business year in most of the wholesale 

 hoii-e-. and the supply dealers have 

 been busj taking inventory. 



The 



of the 

 Glover 

 \ esteri 



health 



YVi 



fori 



lni'j 



liohannon & Canger have a very at- 

 tractive show window at 27 Slate street. 



Earlj closing will be in order during 

 July and August. Get your orders in; 

 the boys want to get awaj at 5 o'clock. 



Fred. Klingel, of Peter Reinberg's, is 

 ill. threatened with typhoid, and Leon- 

 ard Kill is wrestling with the books. 



John Sterrett. of Winterson's, is on 

 deek again after an illness, but is still 

 far from well; it is tonsilitis. 



C. E Finley, of Joliet, who made 

 the lawn rake, has a pot washing ma- 



Fred Nelson, of Wittbold's, is spend- 

 ing his vacation at his old I at I laks- 



burg. 



Visitors: J. C. Rennison, ^ionx City, 

 loua (ieo Souster, Klgin, 111.: 11. E. 

 Philpott, Winnipeg. Man.: C. C. Poll- 

 ivorth, Milwaukee. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers have struck their gait, 

 s will be seen by the following scores: 

 Player. 1st. 2.1. 3d. 4th. Total. 



:ilhill 122 191 221 191 725 



795 

 59 I 



107 



157 



14S 



126 



172 



1 12 



594 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Never before in June were flowers so 

 scarce as the past week, the demand be- 

 ing grca' on account of schools closing. 

 The entire month we were without sun- 

 shine, and raining the greater part of the 

 time, but it has cleared at last and now 

 in our dull season we look for some good 

 weather. The prices soared like quota- 

 tion- on cotton the past week. Carna- 

 lions >-'. ped from 35 cents to $1 and 

 - 1.50 k i di en; roses from $1 to $3 a 

 ih '.i , •■,! t v.uythiiig else in proportion. 

 Thi- -i-hcol liu-itie-- is growing; every 

 graduate must have more or less flowers 

 and it makes a great last hit for the 

 poor florists before the long dull season. 

 It is better than Decoration day, and 

 generally there is plenty of stock to go 



There has been the usual number of 

 June weddings calling for more or less 

 stock, but none of any great importance. 



The la' -ei growers are putting their 

 places in shape for the coming season, 



painting in leling and coaling up for 



next season in case there should be a 



Co. ha 



/thing 



tiou- looking tine out-ide. which they 

 expect to house early. 



John Macrae i- busy painting his en- 

 tire plant: he reports the past season 

 one of the best \< I . 



Keiinie & Pino, seedsmen, have had a 

 rerj good spring nsines's. Mr. Pino 

 i- blowing himself to an auto. 



.lo-eph Mc'.'iinnell. connected with the 

 Tlogg ere. tiIh ii-. - for a loicj period, was 

 married last week. 



I'M Brooke, with T. J. Johnston, goes 

 to Cottage I ity July 6 for the summer. 



T. J. Johnston and family have taken 

 a cot tage at i be seashore. 



Matthew McNair sails for Europe 

 soon. J - . 



