The Weekly Florists' Review. 



89 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Local demand is very light this week, 

 but the country is buying fairly well. 

 In fact, it would be called a week of 

 good shipping but for the fact that some 

 of the best towns have been cut off by 

 the flood, including Topeka, Kansas 

 City, St. Louis and southwestern points. 

 From Thursday of last week up to Tues- 

 day the express companies refused Kan- 

 sas City shipments and in several cases 

 goods which had been forwarded v»ere 

 returned two or three days later. St. 

 Louis was accessible only by way of 

 Cairo on Monday and Tuesday and even 

 Nashville was refused on Monday. This 

 has hurt the value of shipping stock to 

 a certain degree. 



The peonv is prettv nearlv the whole 

 thing this week; it is the height of the 

 season. There is a great deal more of 

 this stock in market than ever before, 

 but up to the present very good prices 

 have prevailed, and it looks as though 

 the increased demand for this flower 

 would take up the supplies as well as 

 in former years, unless the quantities 

 going into cold storage should prove un- 

 wieldy at the close of the season. 



Some good Beauties are offered, also 

 extra Liberty, Chatenay and Meteor, 

 with a few good Kaiserin. Brides and 

 Maids are poor but plentiful. Carna- 

 tions are nothing to brag about, but 

 there are plenty of them, also valley, 

 gladioli, Harrisii and all the odds and 

 ends. 



Various Notes. 



A good many carnations have been 

 going to waste this spring, possibly 

 more than ever before. One reason is 

 that the basket men are not on the 

 curb to work off the poor grades; the 

 Greek indoors is as fastidious as anybody 

 in times of plenty. But another reason 

 for the loss of stock can be laid to the 

 growers themselves Many of them ship 

 only twice a week, which is bad prac- 

 tice at any time and particularly so when 

 stock is plentiful or soft. On a re- 

 cent afternoon a shipment of 400 Pros- 

 perity was noted from a grower who had 

 not been heard from for three days. Had 

 he shipped 100 each day he would have 

 received a good price, but as it w:-- 1 uere 

 were so many sleepy flowers ••■■;■ the 

 whole lot was practically valui i--- I he 

 rule should be to ship every dai cue 

 better price for fresh stock will lar 

 more than make up for any increased 

 express charges. 



Some very good peonies have been com- 

 ing in from Bryant & Son, of Prince- 

 ton, 111. They have a very fine soil, but. 

 like many who do not make cut flowers a 

 large feature of their business, they do 

 not appreciate the care necessary to put 

 the goods on the market in the proper 

 shape, and the wholesaler has to put a 

 good deal of work on the stock to get 

 anything like the right value for the 

 crop. 



The Hanna wedding at Cleveland 

 made a call for good stock Monday. Bas- 

 sett & Washburn shipped Smith & Fet- 

 ters 1,500 white peonies among other 

 items. 



Kennicotts have had Canterbury lulls 

 this week, but found little call. The 

 peony occupies the center of the stage 

 just now. 



Robert Northam. of Weiland & Bisch, 

 and Miss Robinson were married on 

 Wednesdav evening. Thev will be in 



Wisconsin for a month on their wed- 

 ding trip. 



E. C. Amling is getting in Beauties 

 from the voung stock of the South Park 

 Floral Co'. 



John Zeck, of J. A. Budlong's, has been 

 at Peoria this week, attending a con- 

 vention of Foresters. 



W. X. Rudd, at Mt. Greenwood, has 

 planted one house of Ivory chrysanthe- 

 mums and next week will plant two 

 houses of carnations, one of Phyllis and 

 the other of Lawson and its white sport. 



The Florists' Club trustees have rent- 

 ed the hall at 417 Handel Hall. This is 

 the room in which the club met a couple 

 of years ago and was all that was to 

 be had for Wednesday nights. 



This is visitors' week at Peterson's 

 Nursery, the peonies being in bloom. 



A. Dietsch has returned from his win- 

 ter in Mexico and the southwest. He is 

 much improved in health. 



Sinner Bros, have a field of 30,000 

 plants of Mrs. Lawson in fine shape. 



Wietor Bros, are getting a particular- 

 ly good cut of Meteor and Kaiserin. 



Although there has been a big trade 

 in bedding plants, W. N Rudd, at Mt. 

 Greenwood, reporting an increase of 25 

 per cent, many of the growers have con- 

 siderable stock, on hand, particularly 

 geraniums. 



Walter Kreitling will move, eventu- 

 ally, because the city has condemned 

 the building in which his store has been 

 located for years. 



Chas. Balluff has been doing two 

 weeks on jury and says it will take two 

 weeks more to get rested up. 



Visitors: C. O. Williams, Batavia, 

 111. ; Oscar Soderholm, formerly with A. 

 X. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn. 



Bowling. 



Next Tuesday evening will finish the 

 schedule of thirty games. A meeting 

 will be held after the finish of the games 

 by the ten members qualifying to deter- 

 mine on a final schedule to select the 

 team for Milwaukee. Tuesday's score 

 follows: 



Plaver. 1st. 2d. 3d. 



>;. Stollery 209 110 171 



P. Stollery 178 156 170 



['. Prunor 154 124 161 



('. Balluff 1SS 140 223 



P. J Haiiswirtb. 121 172 170 



W. Kn-itlmg 114 111 105 



K. F. Winterson 17S 156 147 



Jno. Sterrett 153 111 161 



<;. Scott 130 185 2»2 



A. Newltt 143 119 192 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Business is much quieter this week 

 than last; in fact, it is a trifle dis- 

 appointing. The quantity of roses com- 

 ing into town is enormous. One grower 

 with two 150-foot houses planted with 

 Brides and Maids sent in 1,600 blooms 

 on Monday. Many others cut nearly 

 as well proportionately. Carnations are 

 not so much overdone. There is a fair 

 demand for the good stock, of which 

 there is a moderate supply. The best 

 seen come to Pennock from H. Weber 

 & Sons, Oakland, Md. Prosperity and 

 Genevieve Lord are superb, giving evi- 

 dence of the advantages of culture and 

 cool mountain air during the summer 

 months. Sweet peas, outdoor grown, are 

 daily becoming more plentiful. They are 

 in fair demand, as also are valley. Lil- 

 ies, both Harrisii and candidum of good 

 quality, with long stems, can be had in 

 quantity. Both smilax and asparagus 

 are in demand. Gladioli don't seem to 

 sell. Mignonette is over. 



The June meeting of the Florists' 



Club, held last week, was well attended 

 and interesting. The paper on pipe read 

 by Walter Whetstone was worthy of a 

 good deal of thought by the growers. A 

 discussion followed. Then matters per- 

 taining to Milwaukee in the future and 

 to Morrisville next week were taken up 

 (I hope you are going on both trips), 

 which wa's followed by a lively debate. 

 The bowlers, with the handsome trophy 

 won for the second time in the league 

 tournament, feel that now is the time 

 to make the alleys of regulation length. 

 The members generally want to do as 

 the bowlers wish, but thought the change 

 necessary in the club room unwise and 

 voted against it. 



Notes. 



Wednesday, June 17, 8 a. m., steamer 

 Riverside leaves Chestnut street wharf 

 for Trenton, thence to Morrisville to 

 visit the nursery of Samuel C. Moon. 



W. E. McKissick and Miss Bessie 

 Chaundy were married Wednesday even- 

 ing. Mr. McKissick is well and favor- 

 ably known as right hand man to Leo 

 Niessen. His friends, and they are 

 many, wish bride and bridegroom health, 

 wealth and happiness. 



Robert Craig & Son had the decora- 

 tion for the wedding of A. J. Cassatt's 

 daughter on Monday. Harrisii lilies, 

 American Beauties and plants were used. 



Stephen Mortensen is sending some 

 extra fine tea roses to S. S. Pennock. 



J. J. Habermehl's Sons are sending 

 some nice, long-stemmed Harrisii lilies 

 to the Flower Market. 



William J. Baker is receiving the 

 first Lilium candidum which I have seen 

 here this season. 



The June meeting of the Germantown 

 Horticultural Society was held on Mon- 

 day evening in Association Hall. It was 

 rose night. Some fine displays were 

 made, though the season is far ad- 

 vanced. Joseph Meehan read a good 

 paper on pruning shrubs. 

 Bowling. 



Eighteen players have entered the 

 contest for places on the team of seven — 

 six regulars and one substitute — who 

 will represent this city in the tourna- 

 ment at Milwaukee in August. Twenty- 

 one games will be rolled by each com- 

 petitor, three each evening for six even- 

 ings on neutral alleys and three on the 

 final evening on the home alleys. Wed- 

 nesdav has been selected as play night, 

 although the excursion to Morrisville 

 may make it necessary to choose an- 

 other evening for next week. The Re- 

 view is indebted to Captain George M. 

 Moss for the first night's scores. In 

 each game the seven players having the 

 high scores take one point each. The 

 seven players with the largest number 

 of points' will form the team. This is 

 believed to be an improvement on last 

 year's method of choosing, as every game 

 counts the same. 



Play 



.108 



Gibson 



STatea isi 



Harris 127 



Adelberger 1 61 ' 



Hal.erineM ' '.■.'.'.'.'.'.'.'!.'.';;.'l53 



i:.il.prts.in 1 IT 



Moore 162 



Cmis 92 



Kift 03 



Watson 153 



Fulek 14ii 



rmnlap 125 



Baker 103 



Polites 19S 



