The Weekly Florists' Review. 



637 



The Market. 



Bus ss continues on an even gait, bul 



i he ret urn of warm weather has largely 

 increased the supply of lew grade stock 

 without sj i\ i ni^ greater cuts of the better 



for 

 continued 

 harm just 

 seen and 

 that Mon< 



II pretty briskly, except 

 ng a holiday resulted in 



from old plants, but there are now only 

 exceptional growers cutting these. 

 Brides from the young stock are fair 

 and would be very good with a week of 



I weather. Maids are off in color. 



Liberty is not greatly in evidence. 



The carnation growers are cutting 

 away at a great rate, just as though 

 there were not plenty of choice asters. 

 Despite the very large supplies in this 

 line; good asters are selling briskly at 



g I prices, but | r asters can scareelj 



be sold at all. There are all kinds of 



gladioli in market, also t lany dahlias. 



Tuberoses are use, I for funeral work and 

 auratum lilies also. Valley is plentiful. 



Wanted: A Show Hall. 



able, the Coliseum cannot lie had at the 

 proper dates and the committee knows 

 of no other suitable hall. Any one with 

 a suggestion to make is invited to ad- 

 dress P. J. Hauswirth at once, for not a 

 great deal of time remains if a success- 

 ful show is to lie held. If there is ne 

 show it will be interesting to note tin 

 effect en the market this fall. One gen- 

 tleman, a member of the society, who has 

 confidence in his opinion, believes it will 

 reduce the value of the local chrysanthe- 

 mum crop twenty-five per cent. 



Local News. 

 Henry E. Klunder will open a high 

 class retail store at 33 State street on 

 September 17. This will be three flower 

 stores in the one block and all on that 

 side of the street, Mosconesotes being on 

 .Hie side of .Mr. Klunder and Bohannan 



George Weiland, son of M. Weiland, 

 at Evanston, was married Tuesday morn- 

 ing and is now on his wedding tour 

 west. The bride is a sister of Mrs. J. 

 P. Kisch. 



P. M. Brodbeck is starting up his 

 roses again after drying off and resting. 

 His whole place is in Brides and Minds 

 and the plants are at the beginning of 



( '. A. Samuelson has been fishing north 

 of Ludington, .Mich. He reports trade 

 not half bad for so early in the season. 



M. Winandy has again possession of 

 the ten greenhouses adjoining his range 

 which were formerly leased to a vege- 

 table grower. He will plant them all to 

 carnations. His total increase in glass 

 this season is twenty houses. 



John Degnan is getting up the fall 

 catalogue fur the E. I-'. Winterson Co. 



(i ge M. Garland reports a big call 



for pipe fittings as the growers begin to 

 firo up. 



The chrysanthemums at Lincoln Park 



are in g I shape, and a fine show is 



expected this fall. Alois Prey, formerly 

 of Hartford, Conn., Mr. Strombaek 's new 



assistant, likes Chicago and the park 

 work very much. 



A. C. Spencer, at Peter Weinberg's, says 

 field-grown carnation plants are selling 

 better than ever: man} orders, and He 



Ass, i 



Lmeriean Cemi 



E. II. Cushman, the gladiolus special- 

 ist, of Sylvania, < >.. is sending quantities 



of very line spikes to .1. li. Deamud. 



(>. P. Fordyce, who was at one time 

 in business for himself at Salem, hid., 

 is now at Bassett & Washburn's, Hins- 

 dale. 



Weiland & Bisch are getting some 



g I dahlias, but report the sale verj 



slow. They are little wanted in the ,, 

 tail stores. 



L. Koropp is building two houses, one 

 17x55, the other 24x55. 



W. W. Barnard & Co. are mailing then- 

 fall bulb list. 



Visitors: Joseph Molok, Jefferson- 



Irish, si 



PHILADELPHIA. 

 The Market. 



in August." and so on comments varv. 



There is not much stuff c Lng m, and 



it ^improving. Beauties, Eaiserins, val- 

 ley and fancy asters have strong sup- 

 port among the buyers of choice stock. 

 Dahlias are increasing in numbers; the 

 ordinary, every , lav varieties will soon be 

 eclipse,! by the fa'uc\ sorts, dahlias that 



shall see something fine. 



The Selling of Flowers. 



A decided change has 1 a noticed 



beginning to feel th 

 dling are numbered. ! 

 Flower Market, sonn 



continue with the 



Slip 



plus again; the object lesson recei 

 from the sales of odds and ends is 

 vivid; the hard cash produced by left- 

 overs makes an impression. The day will 

 never pass when orders will be delivered 

 to the retailers promptly and cheerfullv, 

 but this running around with surplus stuff 

 is a waste of time to all concerned, not 

 to be tolerated in modern business. 



Holmesburg. 

 With the brightening up of I he cut 



flower business comes a corresponding 

 improvement in palms and Charles D. 



Hall, who is recognized as an important 

 factor in our great foliage plant in, lus 

 try, is feeling the effects of this increased 

 business vitality. His packing shed eon 

 tained many plants neatly boxed and 

 tagged, readj for delivery to the freight 

 stat Mr. Hall has sixteen houses: 



all were lull id' line plants, sturdy and 

 , lea n, in prime condition 1,, stand a long 

 or draught from a hot air flu- 

 me e. 



I was especially pleased w ith theKentia 

 Hoi- ana. Then wer 



mnties. This week he visited in flies 

 a- county. 

 W. R." Shelmire, of the Thornhedge 



Harris, Jr., at his Ocean City cottage. 



Charles B. Heir, of Strasburg, has 

 built a new house, 100x30 feet. His 

 place is in fine order. 



George Goldbach & Sons, Lancaster, 

 have been doing some building and put- 

 ting their place in shape for the coming 

 season. 



II. D. Rohrer, Lancaster, has torn down 

 some old houses and built two new ones, 

 100x30 each. 



Charles <i. Johnson, of the Haines 



(mien last Wednesday. 

 bringing in some nice 

 young stock, to the 



ntation of the Waretown Rod 

 log book and a pretty silver 



! a happy presentation 

 y present toasted the 

 Westcott punch from 



expects to take a team 

 nit i<- City shortly, 

 am, of Lansdowne, is 

 auties to Edward Reid. 

 Phil. 



Angola, Ind. — Powers & Johnson are 

 putting up a carnation house 14x60. 



Buffalo. — W. F. Easting's storehouse 

 at 153 E. Mohawk street, was damaged 

 $200 by fire caused by the explosion of an 

 oil stove, August 28. 



BlLLERK'A, llASS. Backer A I o. haw 



benched all the latest varieties of carna- 

 tions and propose to go into the cutting 

 business quite extensively next season. 



