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well known on the East Side. He was 

 married twice and is survived by his 

 second wife, three children, and by John 

 Pickelraan, the Chippewa street florist, 

 who is an adopted son. 



Z. K. Jewett. 



The demise of Z. K. Jewett, of Sparta,' 

 Wis., is announced. He was a pioneer 

 nurseryman and florist, and was widely 

 known in the trade. In recent years he 

 had done a large business in gathering 

 and shipping sphagnum moss. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market- 

 Such a market as we have had this 

 week the stock exchange reporter would 

 describe as "ragged" and "spotty." 

 Some of the houses report nothing do- 

 ing, but in others, principally those which 

 do a shipping trade, there are evidences 

 of considerable activity. Indianapolis 

 and Cincinnati have been large buyers, 

 a state fair at one and a fall festival 

 at the other occasioning the demand. 

 Small orders from other outside points 

 have also been numerous, show- 

 ing conditions in this market to be gen- 

 eral over a wide territory, for in nearly 

 every case the call was for something 

 on which the weather has shortened the 

 supply. Beauties are wanted, but prin- 

 cipally good tea roses are called for, 

 and few are to be had, with simply 

 wagon loads of the short, soft and open 

 flowers encumbering the wholesale houses 

 until jobbed off to the Greeks. 



The increase in the orders for asters 

 is also very noticeable. Not long ago, 

 when there were plenty of good asters, 

 the sale was almost entirely local, for all 

 the country buyers had asters of their 

 own, but now that the heavy rains have 

 spoiled the flowers for the out-of-town 

 grower he wires in for a supply, and 

 is disappointed at the quality of the 

 goods he gets, forgetting that it rains 

 alike on the just and on the unjust. 

 There are still plenty of asters here, 

 such as they are, also gladioli. Auratum 

 lilies are again plentiful and longi- 

 florums are to be had. 



The carnations are pretty good for so 

 early, good flowers and fair stems, but 

 there are too many poor ones here also. 

 The fall openings are taking consider- 

 able stock, both green goods rnd cut 

 flowers. If the florists through the 

 country would look for this work they 

 would get much more of it and could 

 handle it at a nice profit, getting their 

 supplies in this market. 



The cold wave which the weather man 

 has been predicting arrived Wednesday 

 morning, and will do much to shorten 

 supplies of undesirable stock. If the 

 low temperature holds for any length 

 of time there should be a marked im- 

 provement in the average quality of 

 roses, although much mildew may now 

 be looked for, many growers not having 

 begun firing in time. 



Various Notes. 



Peter Reinberg and John Muno will 

 be of a party to go to Sleepy Eye, Minn., 

 next week for two weeks' hunting. 



E. C. Amling shipped out 2,000 valley 

 on a single order on Tuesday. 



Geo. Harrer, of Morton Grove, is send- 

 ing E. H. Hunt small quantities of Queen 

 of Edgely rose. It is seldom seen in 

 this market. 



There will be a final meeting for the 

 settlement of convention entertainment 



accounts at the Union restaurant this 

 evening at seven o'clock. All commit- 

 teemen and subscribers have been noti- 

 fied to be present. 



Wietor Bros.' greenhouses were struck 

 by lightning in the storm Inst Sunday 

 night, but only a little damage was 

 done. 



C. L. Washburn says people who star 

 in town have no idea of the amount of 

 water that has fallen in the last few 

 days. The fields along the Burlington 

 from Chicago to Hinsdale are all flooded 

 and the rivers as high as during the 

 spring floods. It has practically drowned 

 the outdoor flowers. 



D. W. Brant, of Brant & Noe, For- 

 est Glen, has been confined to his bed 

 for two weeks by illness. 



A. Dietsch Company has been incor- 

 porated to manufacture greenhouse ma- 

 terial. Carl Ickes is one of the incor- 

 porators; authorized capital stock, $30,- 

 000. 



S. Muir has another fine stock of 

 Begonia Gloire de Lorraine this year. 



W. N. Budd is making preparations 

 to distribute his light pink carnation, 

 Phyllis, this season. 



Klehms' Nursery is sending in a big 

 cut of auratum lilies. 



H. F. Halle has returned from a two 

 months' trip to Germany, but his health 

 does not show the improvement for 

 which his friends hoped. 



Henry Payne, of Hinsdale, the 

 "greens" grower, has returned from a 

 fishing trip to Northern Michigan. 



The Geo. Wittbold Co. has several 

 hundred very good chrysanthemum plants 

 in 6-inch pots, which they are just mov- 

 ing in from the field, where they have 

 been plunged all summer. 



August Jurgens says there was a great 

 call for valley beginning last Saturday. 

 Monday and Tuesday it was impossible 

 to supply the demand. 



E. F. Winterson Co. is handling many 

 plants. On Tuesday they got in a full 

 carload of Boston ferns. 



J. A. Budlong has 10,000 chrysanthe- 

 mums in about fifteen varieties, nil in 

 fine shape and many showing color. 

 The space will be used for propagating 

 when the flowers are cut. 



George W. Wienhoeber says that fall 

 business is starting in pretty briskly. 



Clifford Pruner is back at Winterson 's 

 fully recovered from his severe i;lness. 



The Beckers, at Rogers Park, are re- 

 verting to vegetables. 



Fred Klingel, at Peter Renberg's, is 

 again on duty, after an all summer's 

 illness. 



H. Hansen, on North Clark street, has 

 most of his carnations housed, all except 

 some Hill and White Cloud, and looking 

 fine. He ships to Benthey & Co. 



W. S. Garland, at Des Plaines, says 

 he has had fire in his rose houses nearly 

 every night this summer. His stock 

 shows the benefit. 



A. C. Kohlbrand, of E. C. Amling 's, 

 has been ill for a week. 



Visitors: J. J. Curran, with Von 

 Bochove Bros., Kalamazoo, Mich.; L. 

 Wasserman, Muskegon, Mich. 



Bushnell, III. — E. D. Lauterbach is 

 building a new greenhouse 25x100. 



Eldora, Ia.— John Pollard, formerly 

 of Des Moines, is removing his plant to 

 this place. 



Athens, O. — Simon Brouwer, formerly 

 of Chillicothe, has bought land here and 

 will start in the greenhouse business. 



NET/ YORK. 



The Market. 



The long delayed "good old 

 time" arn\'"l just :is we are reading 

 of frost and snow in the northwest, but 

 here it is and the market is glutted as a 

 result of the hot wave and prices are 

 receding at an alarming rate. Trade is 

 fair for the. season, however. The schools 

 and nearly all of the theaters opened on 

 Monday and their influence was evident. 

 Every handsome teacher and actress had 

 a hand in the floral pie, but the market 

 supply was enormous and not even a 

 flurry was created. Asters, dahlias and 

 gladioli are abundant. Violets arrive 

 regularly. Chrysanthemums have begun 

 and there is nothing lacking. Roses 

 are abundant and were of superb quality 

 until the hot weather hit them. Carna- 

 tions increase in quantity and improve 

 in quality daily and the windows of the 

 retailers are ablaze with color. All the 

 autumn outdoor flowers and grasses are 

 at their best. Hydrangeas and golden 

 rod are much in evidence. He is only 

 an apology for a florist who cannot make 

 his window display gorgeously attractive 

 now. 



Various Items. 



We regret to announce the death of 

 Mrs. Reed, mother of Mr. Reed, of Reed 

 & Keller. 



Mr. Nash is an interesting fellow to 

 interview these days, with his instructive 

 stories of "Hold Lunnon, don't cher 

 know." He says they can't teach us 

 anything about the flower business but 

 decries our torpidity in not having an 

 established market, like Covent Garden, 

 where every department of the trade 

 could congregate, and up-town, say at 

 the corner of Forty-third street and 

 Sixth avenue, where a splendid site for 

 a market is obtainable, and where the 

 very center of the business interests of 

 the metropolis must ultimately be. In 

 London they are now building a market, 

 through private enterprise, for the floral 

 products of France and the Scilly Is- 

 lands. The market in London opens at 

 4 and closes at 9 a. m. in summer; in 

 winter from 5 to 9. In no other respect 

 save as to its market conveniences can 

 floral London compare with New York. 

 Mr. Nash is much benefitted in health 

 by his trip abroad. His son, who has 

 been attending school in England, re- 

 turned with him. 



On September 6 the home of August 

 Millang was honored by a visit from the 

 stork, with a baby boy in the basket. 

 As the "Beauty King" seems to be a 

 confirmed bachelor, the new arrival will 

 carry the name of Joe, after his uncle, 

 Joseph Millang, manager of the New 

 York Cut Flower Co. 



Mr. Ford is back from his fishing trip 

 to Barnegat and his visit to his violet 

 growers at Rhinebeck. At the latter 

 place he found over fifty new green- 

 houses erected since his trip a year ago, 

 and as an illustration of "the nerve of 

 some people," as he expressed it, he 

 cites the case of one man there who has 

 just built three large houses and benched 

 22,000 plants, and "he never was in a 

 greenhouse but twice in his life." 



Alex Guttman has about doubled his 

 ice box capacity and storeroom and is 

 still handling an average of 4,000 as- 

 ters and gladioli dailv. 



Jacobs & Son, of Brooklyn, have had 

 a great year and even now cannot catch 

 up with orders. They supplied the mate- 

 rials for the Bobbink & Atkins recent 



