The Weekly Florists' Review, 



553 



Illl .1 -11 I . ■ intended 1 1.1 llllTl .1 -.!•! I. ill- .nil 



ditiou in 111.' gardening a- well as cither 

 trades. It pi,,\ ides that "if an 

 orruptly and without the kmm ledge ut 



as ,ui induce ut or reward, for doing 



or forbearing to do any act in relation 

 to in- principal's business, or for show- 

 ing or forbearing to show favor or dis- 

 favor to ; 1 1 1 _\ person in relation to his 

 principal's business; or if anj pet it a 

 corruptly gives or offers any gift or con- 

 sideration to any agent as an induce- 

 ment or reward . . . shall be guilt 

 of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to 

 conviction on indictment to imprison 

 ment." 



Dahlias — A grower of these writes 

 that though the National Dahlia Society 

 awarded twenty-seven certificates of 



used in future. He fe 



qucntlv the awards an 



in r- of the trade to eac 



The Italian National 



the usual bird s< ares im ffi el i 

 tried the experiment of plaeii 

 strawberry beds a couple of 



parrots. This was successful. 

 being evidently much afrai 

 noises made by the parrots. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



Trade is at the lowest level since sum- 

 mer came and the average returns to 

 the grower- this week are a discourage 

 ment. Demand is not only lighter than 



ever, but n ipts are heavier and it is 



impossible to do anything at all with 

 a great deal of the stork. Asters partic- 

 ularly being dumped in large <jn;i n t i t i •■-. 

 Beauties are more plentiful and not 

 selling any too briskly, the shorts being 

 parti, nlariv difficult to move. The crop 

 of Brides seems to be far heavier than 

 Maids with many glowers, at least they 

 are more in evidence around the market. 

 Red n.ses are not bo plentiful. Carna 

 tion- from the Held are at hand for all 

 requirements and the cut from the early 

 planted houses is beginning to come 

 along. There are longitlnruni lilies again, 

 as auratums are on the wane and some 

 splendid dahlia* are -eon. lint they do not 

 sell very fast. There are good gladioli 



but prices are very low. r.reen e I- g,, 



slow, especially asparagus. 



The Convention Visitors. 

 Chicago took the convention visitors in 



b I on Friday afternoon. Open house 



was kepu at 56 Wabash avenue, with 

 music and refreshments, until six o'clock, 

 when supper was served at the Audi- 

 torium, to about 485, followed by an 

 evening at the concert at the Coliseum. 

 The hotel banquet hall and the tables 

 were very tastefully decorated by Phil 

 Hauswirth and he is entitled to much 

 credit for his work throughout the 

 week. < >n Saturday the \isitors scat- 

 tered in parties to visit the various green- 

 houses. Bassett & Washburn report 247 

 visitors at their place that day. Where- 



ever a stranger went he found eatables 

 and drinkables spread for his refresh- 

 ment and it was not the least of thi pica 

 sant features that the consensus of 

 opinion was that never have the estab 

 lishnieuts in this vicinity made a Letter 

 showing. One of the laughable ' \ 

 periences was that of William Currie, 

 W. R. Smith. E. A. Fetters and Mrs. 

 Fetter- with i). p. Bassett 's automobile. 



Various Notes. 

 Raymond Reinberg, the two-yeat old 



- f George Reinberg, was drowned last 



Saturday afternoon in a tank of water 

 in the rear of his home. The little fellov, 

 had climbed to the edge of the tank, 

 which is liislii feet and five feet deep, 

 when he lost his tooting and fell in. Xo 

 one witnessed the accident. A half hour 

 aftet little Raymond had left the housi 

 his body was found floating in the tank 

 by Christ Brecht, an employe. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Reinberg have the deepest sympathy 

 of o\ eryone in I he I rade in their great 



Leo Niessen. the Philadelphia whole- 

 -u!.-r. -pent a couple ,if days this week in 

 looking over the methods employed in the 

 ■ •ut flower business here. He says that 

 i 'lih-ago undoubtedly handles so\ernl 

 times as many flowers as Philadelphia. 

 but that the quality does not average so 

 good and that we do not handle the stock 

 so carefully in consequence. A. H. Lang- 

 jahr. the Brooklyn wholesaler, also ex- 

 amined the methods in vogue here. 



L. Coatsworth has been laid up with 

 muscular rheumatism but is able to be 

 about again. 



A. Lange has been engaged in a lit- 

 tle controversy with the state factory in- 

 spector, who charged him with enrolov- 

 ing a boy under sixteen. Justice Wolff 

 sided with the inspector. 



E. S. Thompson had a nice showing of 

 Park Belle and seedling gladioli at Ran 

 ■tail's. August 21, and will be ovei Sep 

 tember 1 with another batch, lie also 

 has sonic wr\ g I dahlias. 



C. L. Washburn goes to Wausaukee, 



Wis., tonight for a few days outing be 

 fore taking up the activities of the new- 

 season. 



G. F. Pieser is at home from his out- 

 ing at Lakewood. Wis., and Will Kyle 

 is back from Kalamazoo. 



George R. Scott is no longer with 

 the Kennicott Bros. Co. 



P. i '. Amling has had his plai > taste 

 fully decorated with asparagus tin- week 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 

 The cut flower market show- change 

 from last report. Roses are very plenti- 

 ful and many of them of rather poor 

 quality, due probably to the cloudy and 

 warm weather. The good roses are in 

 fair demand. Beauties are mot-,- plenti 

 1'ul and lower in price. Kaiserins appear 

 to be going off crop; they are scarcer 

 and not so good. Maids are improving 

 and some pretty fair stuff is seen. As- 

 ters arc awfully plentiful in common 

 sorts, white especially. Semple's are dis 

 placing the others in the orders for choice 

 stock, and of these and the best Queen 

 of the Market more could be used. It 

 is easy to get a fair price for good as- 

 ters, but poor ones are bad stock. The 

 Review quotations on asters wen- too 

 high last week, for which the writer is 

 to blame. Note present quotations. Val- 



ley is impnn ing . - ■ I I ' fini 



,,in be seen. Gladioli are awfully plenti- 

 ful. I do not believe that prevailing 

 market prices today can possibly pay any- 

 body not guilty of child labor. Of 

 dahlias there will be more to say later, 

 i :n nations are now at h,w water mark: 

 just a few fine ones can be had. There 



is leinand whati-M-r for gi ns. with 



the p,,—il,lc ,-\,-,pt i a iiit '■ maiden- 

 haii tern. Growers of Asparagus plu- 

 mosus and Spn-ngeri. smilax and Adi- 

 antum Farleyense will make money by 

 holding their stock over for the present. 



A Merchant Prince. 

 Everybody knows that the term "rob- 

 ber baron. ' ' as applied to our bus SS, 



means a rich grower who waits until 

 some poor retailer or commission man 

 is short on an order and then swoops 

 down upon him. refusing to give up the 

 desired flowers until he has -, -cured overv 

 penny tin- poor fellow has except cat 

 fan- home. Fortunately there are no real 

 '•robber barons" around the City of 



Brotherly Dove grc - i - are not so 



cruel — but we have, and we are proud 



of it. a genuini ' ' i bant pun,-,-. 



By this term is meant one who-.- mer- 

 chandise may be found in great quanti- 

 ties on very many steamer- crossing the 

 ocean today, who has dealings in a large 

 majority of the cities and towns through- 

 out this country, and whoso transactions 

 aggregate so large a sum as to sei m 

 fabulous to any of us. Yet hard work, 

 enterprise and sound judgment have 

 brought all these things to - tod; Is 



an example I would give the housi I il. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co. Through the cour- 

 tesy ,,f Mr. Bayersdorfer I was i nabled 



to examine the vast warehouse, si f 



the things seen here for the first time. 



Out Of such a collection of beautiful 



and useful things it would be difficult 



to select I describe a few of special 



interest. it is a task worthy the 

 graphic pen of Sei i etat j Stewart,, but 

 far beyond Phil. Still it must be at- 

 tempted. 



1 1 is evident that the demand- of the 

 plant business are growing more and 

 more importunate year after year.This is 

 evidenced by two beautiful crepe papers 



for pot ,,o ers, a ball patten, stravi . 



very pleasing in appearance; the other, 

 a crimped affair, comes in any shade of 

 color desired to produce an effect. The 

 baskets are in endless variety. I - 



glass, largi trans] I - - - • xquisitely 



oi namented, and smaller ones of colored 

 -j lass, just • i,, thi e fot fragile, shorter- 

 stemmed flowers. These two together re- 

 call mantel effei t- i le v, ith a tall rase 



of Beauties on one side and a tiny vase 

 of orchids on the other. A static- or 



Scotch h, 



fc-th made and of a 

 grei . i- , onsidered a 

 great addition to the list of holiday at- 

 tractions. Then there were some great 

 American Beauty vases of sterni i mold 

 than glass, and a new green stem-colored 

 wire, intended to appear perfect!} 

 when used on the roses in a bouquet, and 

 but you say, "Phil, you are wound 

 up,!' so let's work awhile. 



Various Items. 



M. Rice & Co. report an unusually 



heavy rush of convention orders. They 



are working overtime at this usually short 



hour season. 



