July 9, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



245 



quality. Nearly all are busy benching, 

 the size of the plants warranting indoor 

 planting much earlier than usual. 



Leonard Kill is on the sick list this 

 week. 



.Must of the retailers are now closing 

 at 0:30 or 7 p. in., and green stock makes 

 up the window decorations. 



Robert Northam has returned from 

 his wedding trip, is nicely settled at 

 housekeeping and on duty again with 

 Weiland & Risch. 



John Zcck is building a $2,500 house 

 at the corner of Summerdale avenue and 

 Lincoln street. 



John Lambros is out after spending a 

 week in the hospital. 



C. Paasch, 224 Clybourn avenue, has 

 invested $7,000 in building a house on 

 an acre of land at Powers' Lake, and 

 will sell out and retire. He has a very 

 large trade and has laid by a nice com- 

 petence. 



The Foley Manufacturing Company 

 has been granted a Canadian patent on 

 its iron gutter. 



The George Wittbold Company is 

 growing a house of chrysanthemums and 

 half a house of poinsettias at the Buck- 

 ingham street place. 



Andrew Nelson, of Elmhurst. was a 

 visitor on Monday. 



Bowline. 



The bowlers are doing great work. If 

 they can keep it up at Milwaukee it will 

 be a hard team to beat. 



Player— 1st. 2(1. 3d. 4th. Total. 



<";. Stollery 17S 242 175 172 7117 



I' Stnllery 190 139 161 183 t',73 



E. F. W'lnt.Ts.ui.174 

 .Tin.. Sterrott ..163 

 J no. I.uinbros. . .221 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 

 Summer dullness has settled on our 

 business. Until the Glorious Fourth 

 there was activity; since it has been 

 very quiet. A great quantity of flowers 

 is coming in, more it is thought than 

 usual so late in the season. There is no 

 demand to carry them off, and very 

 many are wasted, especially sweet peas, 

 which are now blooming with great free- 

 dom. Beauties are rather scarce, most 

 of the growers having stopped cutting 

 from their old plants. C. W. Cox has 

 just begun sending S. S. Pennock a few 

 new crop Beauties, but they are so few, 

 hardly enough to signify as yet. Kaiser- 

 ins, Liberties and Meteors are the best 

 summer blooming roses to be had in 

 quantity. Carnations are fine for the 

 season and very plentiful, but there is 

 little demand, except for white. Valley 

 is arriving in fair shape, but it sells 

 slowly. The outdoor flowers hardly 

 seem to sell at all. Double petunias and 

 candytuft are used some for funeral 

 work. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club meeting on Tues- 

 day evening was devoted chiefly to con- 

 vention matters. 



Hitchings & Co. have completed six 

 fine iron-frame houses for Edward A. 

 Stroud, of Overbrook. These houses are 

 now nearly glazed and will be devoted to 

 growing fancy carnation-. 



The Flower Market i- r iving some 



Wm. K. Harris and line" Flora Hill fi- 

 liations fro,,, Wilson, of Oxford. 



S. S. Pennock is receiving some nice 

 Liberties from Charles T. Price, of Lans- 

 downe. 



Dr. Lorenz accomplished a wonderful 

 cure in the case of the child of a Phillips- 

 burg florist. 



It is estimated that 50.000 Beauties 

 and Edgelies have been planted out at 

 Chestnut Hill this season. 



Leo Niessen has instituted bis summei 

 holiday system, so successful last season. 

 His entire force has divided into three 



weekly. This arrangement is greatly ap- 

 preciated after the long hours so often 

 neco~an in the winter. 



John Mclntyre, who is Edward Reid's 

 right hand man. is away up the state on 

 a vacation. He is expected back next 

 week. 



Very little business is done in' this 

 city after 6 p. m., when most of the 

 leading stores close. M. Rice & Co. close 

 at 5 each day except Saturday, when 

 they close at 1 o'clock. 



Bowling. 



The fifth series of games was rolled at 

 the Central alleys last week. Four of 

 the eighteen competitors, J. P. Haber- 

 mehl. W. J. Moore. W. Stevens and S. 

 Dunlap. were absent. The scores were 

 very close and ran high, nearly all the 

 competitors securing points. One more 

 series of three games will be rolled on 

 neutral alleys this week, which will be 

 followed by the wind-up on the home 

 alleys. The following are the scores: 



Players— 12 3 Points. 



Geo. M Moss 1S3 179 136 2 



W. K Gibson 15S 15S 130 1 



Geo. Craig 114 137 137 ':. 



Walter rates 1S4 207 197 2" 



D. T. Connor 190 172 137 2«. 



Robert Kin 170 ms 135 1 



Wm. Robertson 172 140 171 2 



1'runk Polites 1S4 164 203 3 



W. K. Harris 170 154 140 1 



John Westcott 1S1 156 13n l 



W. J. linker 121 1M4 1116 



G. C. Watson 174 120 14o 2 



•T. Palck 172 165 117 2 



J. Adelherger 149 151 ion i 



CLEVELAND. 



Business was good right up to the last 

 day and almost the last hour of June, 

 but July 1 tidd an entirely different 

 story; everything seemed to stop dead 

 -till, "nothing doing'' was the general 

 story and up to the present time there 

 has been no improvement, and we are 

 well started on the usual summer dull- 

 ness. What stock is seen at the whole- 

 sale houses is poor, the roses open and 

 small with some mildew. Carnations are 

 showing the effect of the past few hot 

 days, but sweet peas are coming in fine 

 and in large quantities; it is a wonder 

 where they all go. 



The J. M. Gasser Co. has closed the 

 old store at 101 Euclid avenue, and 

 moved the force and fixtures into the 

 other store, at 234 Euclid avenue. 



Some very fine Kaiserin roses were 

 seen last week at the F. R. Williams Co. 

 store. 



The retail stores all closed at noon 

 on July 4. E. 



AMBLER, PA. 



Out on the Plymouth and Consho- 

 hocken turnpike, between Ambler and 

 Broad Axe. Albert Knapper has made 

 some pronounced improvements in the 

 old C. C. Biddle property, which he pur- 



ment is an Ericsson hot air engine for 

 pumping water to a 0,000 gallon tank 

 from an artesian well 120 feet deep. 

 Just now there is a fine crop of sweet 

 peas ami pansies on. the pansies having 

 remarkably long steins. Mr. Knapper 

 also expects a nice cut soon from a stock 

 of roses grown expressly for summer 

 bloom. Among many novelties, sham- 

 rocks and Edelweiss are grown. Much of 

 the stock goes to the Knapper retail 

 -tore at Fifth and Fail mount avenues, 

 Philadelphia, but Mr. Knapper also has 

 a stand at the Market. Twelfth and 

 Cherry streets. One of Mr. Knapper's 

 daughters is a forelady at Henry A. 

 Dreer's. 



CONSTRUCTION SPECIALTIES. 



The new catalogue of the Lord &Burn- 

 ham Co., Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., is 

 one of the handsomest of the several ex- 

 cellent editions put out by that firm. It 

 has 96 large pages and includes a num- 

 ber of new specialties as well as new 

 patterns in heater- and ventilating ap- 

 paratus. A full line of cast-iron pipe 

 fittings for calked joints is one of the 

 additions, also pipe chairs and hangers 

 for all kind- of greenhouses. This firm 

 also issues a very attractive catalogue 

 of greenhouse construction and so ex- 

 pensive are the two books that it is 

 found advisable to insure their reaching 

 the right people by asking that 5 cents 

 postage for each be sent by the in- 

 quirer, although as a matter of fact the 

 postage is cents on the new book. This 

 is a policy which is being largely adopt- 

 ed by houses sending out high-class 

 printed matter and is in line with the 

 tendency of wholesale plantsmen to 

 charge for packing stock for shipment. 



HOTELS OF MILWAUKEE. 

 The following downtown hotels in 

 Milwaukee are within five or ten min- 

 utes' walk of the convention hall. Rooms 

 for convention week may be reserved at 

 any time: 



Aberdeen Hotel. Grand Ave.— Rates, $10 to I 

 Hotel Atlas, Third and Sycamore Sts. — Rate, 



Hotel Blatz. City Hall Square— Rate, $1 1 

 day and upward. European plan. 



Globe II. lei. Wise,,,, sin aii.l lass Sts.— Weekly 

 rates: Anierienn plan. $ln to Sl.V, European plan 

 .S5 o. si" 



Kiiiiv House. E Water and Mason Sts.— Rates 

 $2 to $2.50 per day. 



Hotel Ptister, Wisconsin and Jefferson Sts — 

 Rates. American plan. $3 t.i So per day; Euro 

 Ileal, plan. SI.. Ml t" $3 M per day. 



rianliilitcn House. Grand Ave. — Rates. Amer 

 ir-an plan. $2.50 and upward per day 

 plan. $1 and upward per day. 



Republican House. Third and Cedar Sts.- 



iropcan 



-Rates 



day ; European plan 

 $1 and upward. 



Schlitz Hotel, Grand Ave. and Third St.— Rate 

 European plan, $1 per day and upward. 



St. Charles Hotel. City Hall Square — Rates 

 per day. one person. $2 to $3.50; two persons 



DUTCH HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



E. H. Krelage & Son made a very fine 

 showing at a meeting of the Royal 

 Dutch Horticultural and Botanical So- 

 ciety at Amsterdam. May 27, receiving, 

 among other awards, a silver gilt medal 

 for a collection of 25 varieties of cottage 



tulip. They al-o r ived a first-class 



certificate for Allium Erdeli and a cer- 

 tilicale of merit tm Allium Karata- 

 viense. Other leading exhibitors were 

 i'. W. Vint, of Uverv'eeii; P. W. Sutor- 

 iiis. of llaain: < . J. Kikkert, of Haar- 

 lem, and F. A. Heemskerk, of Amster- 



