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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



J ONE 25, 1903. 



The Market. 



I In 



i- generally lookcl tonvaru 10 us 

 i. ne uf tin- busiest weeks iii the year and, 

 indeed, shipping trade is verj heavy, but 

 it is doubtful if the week's record will 

 be anywhere near last year's hiking the 

 in. M ).. i .i- ,i « bole I tae of 1 be reasons 

 for this is the scan it.\ of good roses h ith 



which to ct requirement -. I hoi •■ II H' 



still largo receipts of low grade stock, 

 although now and th.-n sees a day 

 with the markel prettj ban and Tuesday 

 found Brides hard to get. Beauties arc 



not plentiful and cuts in genera] will 



be 

 rushed 

 holding 

 factorih 



is offered ai 75c and si a dozen. A. 

 Kennieou said that they still had most 

 of their crop on hand" Tuesday night, 

 but figure on moving it all this week. 

 Sweet peas are very abundant and the 

 quality never better. Harrisii is selling 

 steadily if slowly, but candidums are 

 hard to move. 



At Wienhoeber's they say that they 

 have had a number of complaints where 

 they sent out peonies fresh from cold 

 storage. They think they must be brought 

 on slowly in a cool room for 24 to 48 

 i.ours else they wilt down at once on 

 being put into a customers' home. E. E. 

 Pieser says that peonies from cold stor- 

 age should be unwrapped by the store- 

 keeper, the stems shortened a half inch. 



bunch and set away in water ill a cool, 

 airy place for a day or so, when they 

 will keep equal to stock just cut. 



The general report among the better 

 class of retail stores is that June has 

 not been up to last year. There have 

 been some good wedding jobs but the 

 European hejira seems to come earlier 

 every year and this season there has not 

 been" the usual call for flowers for com- 

 mencements in the many private schools 

 about the city and suburbs. Funeral 

 work, too, has run light this month. 



C. H. Fisk has been under the weather 

 but is now feeling like himself again. 

 He was in St. Louis for two or three 

 days while the flood was on. 



The Glen View Floral Co. has been 

 incorporated by Maurice W. Barnhart, 

 Hans P. Gerhardt and Jas. P. Gaseoigne. 

 The capital stock is $3,000. 



Louis Wittbold and family have re- 

 turned from a two weeks' visit at Wheel- 

 ing, 111., Mrs. Wittbold's old home. 



Peter Reinberg has had a fine cut of 

 Liberty this month, but next week will 

 throw out the two-year-old plants and 

 begin to dry off the year old stock, so 

 does not expect much for July and Aug- 

 ust. 



The Schramms will each build one 

 more house this season. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. report some- 

 thing doing in the supply line. One or- 

 der this week was for 36 dozen wheat 

 sheaves. 



George Reinberg is getting well along 

 with his rebuilding and adding five 

 houses and 700 boxes of French gl.i— are 

 beginning to be anxiously awaited. He 

 has a tremendous field of carnation 

 plants in fine shape. 



Peter J. Schumer, whose place ad- 

 joins Weiland & Risen, at Evanston, and 

 who has had half his establishment in 

 vegetables, will have twelve 175-fobt 



houses of carnations next year. Weiland 

 & Risch »ill market the cut. 



I lain Smyth, of Wienhoeber's, is feel- 

 in- Hue. Be spent four weeks in the hos- 

 pital-just after Easter recovering from 

 a surgical operation which cured a rup- 

 ture. 



Some of the growers report trouble in 

 rooting cuttings of W. H. Ohadwick 

 chrvsantnei. nuns. 



Basset! & Washburn report this their 

 best June, wholly out of town demand. 



Weber Bros, will be in in a day or two 

 with a crop of 4,000 auratum lilies. 



Sinner Bros, arc going ahead with 

 i hnr new rose houses 30x200. 



A. P. Amling is sending in a nice crop 

 of Harrisii, from about 500 bulbs. 



Wietor Bros.' season's addition has de- 

 veloped into ten houses 30x350, which at 

 one time would have been considered 

 quite a sizeable little place in itself. 



otollery Bros, have had a very busy 

 season and arc well cleaned out on bed- 

 ding plants. They are not cutting much 

 of anything at present, but have a few 

 hundred lily bulbs which will be in 

 shortly; however, they are not pleased 

 with the experiment of waiting for the 

 Min to bring the flowers. 



I,eo H. Bather, with his bride, was a 

 visitor last week. He is a son of Andrew 

 Bather, of Clinton. Iowa. 



Mr-.. .1. 1>. Thompson and daughter 

 went to New inrk last Thursday for a 



rk Floral Co. has mar- 

 .1 la rue hydrangeas in 

 ic\ arc in good demand 



ich 



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baby boy at 



George W. Wienhoeber was at Cornell 

 for the commencement. 



N. J. Wietor is at Woodruff, Wis., fish- 

 ing this 'week. 



W. S. ( Jai land, at Des l'laines. has had 

 a very steady cut all season, and it's the 

 steady crop that paj -. 



Neat cards advertising the Milwaukee 

 convention are hanging in all the whole- 

 sale houses. 



A. L. Randall and family are at their 

 summer home near St. Joe, Mich. 



Visitors: B. F. Vandervate, Galena, 



111.; H. L. Wiegand, Indianapolis; Mrs. 



W. T. Hempstead, Bloomington, 111.; C. 



H. Maynard, Allen, Mich. 



Bowling. 



The following is the excellent score 

 made in the first contest of the final 

 series, June 23: 



Flavor. 1st. 2.1. 3d. 4lli. T.itnl. 



As,,!,,'* 142 13T 154 127 06n 



space, the latter for preference. Ayena 

 sterilis, Pennisetum longistylum, Tricho- 

 lena rosea, and Paspalum elegans are 

 taller growers, rising from two to three 

 feet high, and consequently needing to 

 be thinned out to from six inches to one 

 foot apart. 



Spiraea Opulifolia Aurea.— With the 

 solitary exception of Spiraea prunifolia. 

 whose leaves die off in the autumn bright- 

 ly tinged with red, this is the only spir- 

 aea remarkable for its colored leafage. 

 It belongs to that class of golden-leaved 

 shrubs that are seen at their best when 

 the foliage is first expanded, while some 

 others almost green in the spring be- 

 come richly tinted as the summer ad- 

 vances. Another shrub that behaves in 

 a similar manner is the golden-leaved 

 variety of Ribes alpinum pumilum, which 

 by midsummer is quite green; while in 

 Weigela Looymani aurea, the golden 

 elder, and Cornus Spathi the golden color 

 deepens throughout July and August. 



Uses of Electricity in Plant Growth.— 

 The experiments by Dr. Lemstrom, of 

 Helsingfors, in the uses of electricity 

 in stimulating the growth of vegetable 

 and other crops gave some interesting 

 results, and a German translation of the 

 report on them has been issued by Dr. 

 Otto Pringsheim. The experiments ap- 

 pear to have been suggested by an at- 

 tempt to connect the luxuriant growth 

 of plants in high latitudes with the in- 

 fluence of electric currents associated 

 with the Aurora Borealis. The experi- 

 ments showed that for plants growing on 

 arable land of medium quality an in- 

 crease of 45 per cent in the crops is 

 obtainable. On poor soil the effect is 

 trifling. Certain plants, such as pea9, 

 cabbages and turnips, only lend them- 

 selves to electrical treatment after being 

 watered. It is, however, injurious to 

 most, if not all, plants to submit them 

 to the influence of electricity in hot sun- 

 shine. In the introduction, Dr. Prings- 

 heim makes some estimate of the cost 

 of applying the method to agricultural 

 purposes and arrives at the conclusion 

 that it can be made to pay. A further 

 suggestion is that we have here an ex- 

 planation of the needle-shaped leaves of 

 coniferous plants, which are well adapt- 

 ed to facilitate the passage of electricity. 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Magazine. 

 Average Height of Ornamental Grass- 

 es and Space Needed. — Agrostis pulchel- 

 la, Briza gracilis, and B. major all grow 

 about a foot high, while Chrysurus au- 

 reus is only about nine inches high; all 

 these should be thinned out to from three 

 to four inches apart. Agrostis nebulosa, 

 Briza geniculata, Chloris barbata, Coix 

 lachryma, Eragrostis elegans, Hordeum 

 jabafum, Lagurus ovatus, and Panicum 

 capillare grow about eighteen inches 

 high and need from four to six inches 



SPRAYING CROPS. 



In the ten years Prof. Clarence M. 

 Weed's little treatise on spraying has 

 enjoyed a sale which has exhausted three 

 and made necessary a fourth edition, re- 

 written and brought up to date. The 

 book of 150 pacres. fully illustrated, covers 

 the whole field of spraying but, while 

 there is much of interest on every page, 

 probably of greatest value, particularly 

 to florists, is the chapter on insecticides 

 and fungicides, in which formulae are 

 given for making all the standard reme- 

 dies. The book is brought out by the 

 Orange Judd Co., but copies will be sent 

 postpaid upon receipt of 50 cents by the 

 Florists' Review. 



Findlay, O.— S. J. McMichael says 

 that he lost at least 100,000 tomato 

 plants by frost this spring. He had 

 among many orders one for 75.000 plants, 

 but was unable to ship it in full because 

 of the damage by frost. Still it has 

 been a good season. 



If you have a good thing, push it 

 along through the Review's classified 

 advs. 



