SEI-TK.M1IKI! 10, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



639 



For Fall Openings 



If you suggest it, your local dry goods, millinery, 

 clothing and other stores will use a lot of Asparagus 

 for decorating for fall openings. We can supply the 

 goods so you can do the work and make a nice profit. 

 Strings from 25c to 50c. Good value for the money. 



E. C. AMLING, 



The Largest, Best Equipped and Most Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Flower House In Chicago. 



Chicago, 111. 



32-34-36 Randolph St., 



Long Distance Telephones 1978 and 1977 Central. 



MILWAUKEE. 



The Market 



Trade conditions are somewhat quiet. 

 Socially tbere is nothing doing, but a. 

 few prominent funerals the last week 

 cleaned up a little stock in light colors. 

 Shipping trade is also very light. There 

 is a large supply in the market of nearly 

 all seasonable flowers. Eoses are more 

 plentiful at this time than in previous 

 seasons. Carnations are about equal to 

 demand, but the quality is poor. Asters 

 are coming in freely and of good qual- 

 ity, although many growers are com- 

 plaining of the continued wet weather 

 'lamping them off. It has been a bad 

 season for sweet peas and there were 

 practically none in the market the entire 

 season. Gladioli are plentiful, but there 

 is little call for them. 



Various Notes. 



Most of the growers are busy housing 

 carnations and making general repairs 1 

 for winter. There will be quite an in- 

 crease in the supply of carnations the 

 coming season. Some growers have built 

 new additions and many have discarded 

 certain sorts and are growing more heav- 

 ily of the best commercial varieties. 



The violet crop looks better than it has 

 for several seasons. Otto Sylvester, 

 August Schueneman, Robert Zepnick, 

 Loeffler Bros., and Otto Eggebrecht, who 

 are the principal growers of violets for 

 this market, have each benched a fine 

 looking lot of plants and all appear to be 

 free from disease. 



The cut of chrj-santhemums will also 

 be equal to, if not larger than that of 

 former years. Nic Zweifel is growing a 

 fine lot of single-stem blooms. C. Johan- 

 sen will also cut a quantity of them. 

 Currie Bros, have several houses of thenf. 

 Mrs. A. Middlemass and William Edlef- 

 sen have each benched a fine lot of Glory 

 of Pacific. Eaton, Yellow Eaton, Ivory 

 and Bonnaffon. 



H. C. Kruseberg and wife and Mrs. 

 William Edlefsen have returned from a 

 trip to Europe. They spent two months 

 visiting the principal points of interest 

 on that continent. Mr. Kruseberg, who 

 is the son-in-law of Mr. Edlefsen, has 

 interested himself in his establishment 

 and will assume charge of the down-town 

 store. Mr. Edlefsen will look after fhe 

 greenhouse. He has purchased the prop- 



erty on which the store is located and 

 will remodel the latter, making it one 

 of the finest retail establishments in the 

 northwest. 



C. Johansen has completed one new 

 house; C. Burmeister has added one 

 house; Heitman & Baerman, three houses 

 for carnations; H. Schwebke, one house 

 for roses; Chas. Kitzerow and F. Kaiser, 

 one house each for miscellaneous stock; 

 C. C. Pollworth Co., three large rose 

 houses and two carnation houses, and are 

 installing two immense boilers for the 

 heating of their entire plant. 

 Convention Topics. 



Most of the crotons and the large ken- 

 tias and Piersoni exhibited by Craig, 

 Dreer and F. E. Pierson, which were 

 purchased by the C. C. Pollworth Co., 

 have been sold. Otto Speidel, with Mrs. 

 P. A. Valentine, of Oconomowoc, was a 

 large purchaser. The huge goat has been 

 loaned out to exhibit at a state fair. The 

 special rate of one fare and a fifth, 

 granted to C. C. Pollworth Co., as mem- 

 bers of the Manufacturers' Association, 

 attracted many visitors. Membership 

 cards were sent *o several hundred in 

 the trade throughout the west and it was 

 quite a saving to the craft. The Denver 

 delegation alone, which came on these 

 tickets saved about $50. About 250 

 members from western points took ad- 

 vantage of this rate. 



H. V. Hunkel, secretary of the Mil- 

 waukee Florists' Club, is distributing the 

 remainder of the souvenir books to mem- 

 bers who joined the society while here. 

 About 200 members were taken in. n 

 pretty good showing for this convention. 



The photographer has had trouble fill- 

 ing orders for the convention photogranh, 

 but will soon deliver all prints. C. C. P. 



ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



Business is still almost at a standstill, 

 a. small wedding decoration now and 

 'then and an occasional funeral order. 

 The number of deaths during the month 

 of August just past was only thirty- 

 five and for the same month for 1902, 

 sixty-three deaths were reported. The 

 rate this season has been remarkably 

 low, considering a population of 103,000. 



L. J. Stuppy and son, Frank, have re- 

 turned from a western fishing trip. 



Mrs. Fred Krumm is quite ill. 



Mr. Bell, of Mt. Mora cemetery, is on 

 nettles. His greenhouses are torn down 



Miscellaneous Greenhouse Stock 3 



Per 100 * 



* Strobilanthes Dyer 



* Abutilons in var.. $20.00 per 1000 2.50 * 



J Pomuon Chrysanthemums, .50 var., $17.50 



2%-in. pots, per .™ 



' fuchsias, in variety $2.50 * 



» Hardy English Ivy, extra strong 2.00 * 



Lemon Verbena 2.50 1 



» Sed_ 



* Sroili 



J Swainsona Alba 2.00 * 



t (Rooted Cuttings of Hardy English * 



J Ivy. 75c per 100; $5.00 per 1000.) « 



» Send for trade list. Cash with order. * 



» R. VINCENT, Jr. & SON, White Marsh, Md.« 



Mention the Review when you write. 



^irngiebel 



cotdBSc,,,, GIANT PANSIES 



The finest strains in cultivation, either here or 

 abroad. Trade packet at $1.00 each. Also 

 plants for sale at $5 00 per 1000. 



DENYS ZIRNGIEBEL, Needham, Mass. 



MentioD the Review when yoo write. 



to be remodeled, heating apparatus torn 

 out and the plumbers on a strike. 



E. V. Meyers spent a week visiting 

 friends in the country. 



Krumm Bros, have been adding more 

 glass for carnations and roses. 



J. N. Kidd is "setting them up" on 

 account of a big twelve-pound boy at his 

 home. 



During the theater season of 1902-3 the 

 demand for flowers for theater use and 

 wear was very light with the St. Joe 

 florists. A few years ago there were 

 a great many flowers worn on such oc- 

 casions. Has the demand dropped off 

 in other places? What can we do to 

 revive itf 



We are having delightful weather, with 

 enough rain to insure a big corn crop, 

 and this means money for us all. 



Toronto, Ont. — The employes of 

 John H. Dunlop were entertained by 

 their employer at a picnic at Bosebank 

 on August 25. The program consisted 

 of games of various kinds. Those who 

 couldn't run 100 yards were given a 

 chance to sit on a log and smoke a ci- 

 gar in record time. 



