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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



MAY 2G, 1S9S. 



might be present, and brought a box of 

 cigars along as a precaution. 



Various Items. 



Ned Washburn is doing well, and it 

 is expected that the injury to his hand 

 will not prove serious. 



Flint Kennicott has taken up his 

 summer quarters at "The Grove." 



The display of floral arrangements 

 at the funeral of the late Police In- 

 spector M. J. Schaack last Sunday was 

 one of the most elaborate ever seen in 

 this city. Four of the largest pieces 

 were placed on a large float and occu- 

 pied a prominent place in the funeral 

 cortege. These pieces included a pa- 

 trol wagon, five feet high, an inspect- 

 or's star, five feet from tip to tip, and 

 a huge floral clock. 



Bassett & Washburn have issued a 

 card giving sizes and prices of ribbon, 

 and attached to same are .samples of 

 two qualities of ribbon they supply. 

 They are also sending out some very 

 pretty advertising matter in the shape 

 of a blotter, in the center of which are 

 the stars and stripes in colors and em- 

 bossed, surrounded by a circle of gilt 

 stars. 



The father of John Muno died last 

 Thursday, and was laid at rest Satur- 

 day. 



Bowling. 



There were some hot games at the 

 alleys last Friday evening after the 

 club meeting. The highest single score 

 was ISd, by Ed. Winterson, who also 

 had the high average. Following are 

 the scores and averages: 



1st 2nd 3nl Av. 



E. Winterson 167 lSi5 140 ICfi 



R. Schenk 166 12S ... 147 



C. HeM 136 15o 118 137 



G. Stollerv 144 12S ... 136 



Cr. L. Grant 154 127 123 134 



P. J. Hauswirth 103 137 137 12S 



C. W. McKelku- 130 13S 120 126 



C. C. Pollworfh 132 102 134 123 



O. Kreitling 118 120 ... 119 



A. C. Kohlbrand 125 111 ... 118 



J. Austin Shaw 93 123 115 110 



W. Kyle 96 113 ... 1U4 



C. Ealhiff 122 74 lOS 101 



S. Snedeker 106 92 . . . 99 



J. Degnan lOS St) SS 92 



C. A. Samuelson 103 69 S3 85 



E. Enders 65 100 83 S3 



T. F. Keeuiaji S3 80 ... 81 



P. Stollery .52 



W. Kreitling 141 



Another series will be played at the 

 alleys at 77 Randolph street tomorrow 

 (Friday) evening. 



Among the Growers. 

 Reinberg Bros, are adding eleven 

 new houses to their already immense 

 range of glass at Summerdale. Of 

 these houses six are being built by 

 Peter Reinberg, each 2.5x2t),j, and five 

 by Geo. Reinberg, each 2r)x3iH>. George 

 will also rebuild quite a number of his 

 old houses this summer. In wandering 

 around the eight acres of surface cov- 

 ered by glass in Peter Reinberg's 

 range, the foreman, Geo. Collins, as 

 guide, to prevent our being lost, we 

 noted a climbing sport from Brides- 

 maid that promises to be useful. The 

 flower is the typical Bridesmaid, but 

 the habit indicates a vigorous climber. 

 On this place there are growing on 

 the benches about 80,000 rose plants. 



Fourteen large boilers supply the heat 

 and there is a force of twenty-five men. 

 The roses grown are the standard 

 market varieties and they are not try- 

 ing anything new. In carnations they 

 are increasing their stock of Flora Hill 

 and Jubilee and will try Argyle. Eve- 

 lina and Painted Lady. They still re- 

 tain McGowan and Alaska. 



At Bownianville Herman Bauske is 

 keeping up his reputation as a first 

 class rose grower. In one of his 

 benches is as fine a lot of young Amer- 

 ican Beauties as the writer ever saw, 

 and Herman admits he never had them 

 better. He is adding five new houses 

 each 21xl'.">(t, and the young stock will 

 have an opportunity to do its prettiest 

 in these new houses. 



Otto Ristow seems to be resting on 

 his laurels and has made no recent ad- 

 ditions. He speaks longingly of the old 

 days when prices kept a better average 

 and when he used to cut from l,il(K» to 

 !,.">(» Beauties a day and all sold quick 

 at fancy prices. He keeps the old 

 range going but don't feel like branch- 

 ing out under present market condi- 

 tions. A leaf-roller has been causing 

 some damage in his rose houses. 



Magnuson •& Pearson have the old 

 A. T. Jackson place and their stock 

 looks well considering the condition of 

 the houses, one of which was partly 

 crushed in last winter by a heavy fall 

 of snow. They are growing mush- 

 rooms quite extensively and have 

 found them rather more profitable 

 than roses. In one bench was seen a 

 lot of asters planted out, from which 

 they expect to cut flowers in late July 

 or early August. 



The newer A. T. Jackson place is 

 now conducted by Johnson & Carlson 

 and the place shows the careful per- 

 sonal attention of the members of the 

 firm. They are thinking of dropping 

 the Meteor, though, as they can not ar- 

 range to give it the extra heat it needs 

 to do well in winter. A lot of callas 

 planted out in beds are producing a 

 great number of flowers. 



It seemed curious to look into the 

 greenhouses of A. V. Jackson and find 

 them devoted mainly to roses. In the 

 old days the two Jacksons were the 

 largest growers of carnations for the 

 Chicago market, and both developed 

 fat bank accounts from their crops of 

 these flowers. 



J. A. Budlong has certainly come 

 rapidly to the front as a rose grower. 

 The stock looks well all through and 

 his young stock is in extra fine condi- 

 tion. Evidently Mr. Budlong can grow 

 roses as well as ride the bicycle and 

 he is an expert at the latter, having ta- 

 ken several little trips from Chicago to 

 Boston and back on his wheel. He con- 

 templates the erection of a new Beauty 

 house 400 feet long in the near future. 

 His son, A. H. Budlong, is actively as- 

 sociated in the business. 



OMAHA, NEB. 



On May 12 we had the pleasure of 

 meeting and entertaining the Presi- 

 dent and Secretary of the Society of 

 American Florists who remained with 



us three days. They were here for the 

 pui-pose of making the final arrange- 

 ments for the next convention of the 

 national society in this city in August. 

 The question of a hall in which to 

 hold the meetings was at once taken 

 up and the one finally secured was the 

 annex to one of our leading churches, 

 a building of two stories. The upper 

 part is to be.used for the sessions and 

 the lower for the trade exhibit. 



As our visitors arrived upon the 

 date for the regular monthly meeting 

 of our local club, Mr. Donaghue, the 

 Vice-president of the S. A. F., invited 

 them to attend and they were intro- 

 duced to the members of the club of 

 whom there were quite a number pres- 

 ent. Both the visitors favored us with 

 very interesting and instructive ad- 

 dresses, giving us some very useful 

 hints as to the way to make the com- 

 ing meeting of the national society a 

 success. 



After the meeting the florists gave 

 the visitors a banquet, which was well 

 attended and much enjoyed by all. 

 Enthusiastic speeches were made by 

 President Gude and Secretary Stewart 

 and several others. All were sur- 

 prised and delighted when Mr. Stewart 

 favored the party with that beautiful 

 song Annie Laurie accompanied by 

 the orchestra. In response to repeat- 

 ed calls he responded graciously with 

 one of his favorites which completely 

 captivated his hearers and which will 

 not soon be forgotten. 



On Friday we visited the florists of 

 Council Bluffs, as well as those of this 

 city, and the visitors were also taken 

 to the grounds of the Trans-Mississip- 

 pi Exposition. They spoke very high- 

 ly of the magnificent grounds and 

 buildings. Saturday being a rainy day 

 the proposed trip to Plattsmouth, Neb., 

 had to be given up and instead visits 

 were made to the most important pub- 

 lic buildings of this city. The time 

 spent in bowling in the afternoon 

 proved that our visitors were no 

 strangers to that amusement. When 

 they left on the evening train for their 

 respective homes it was with the good 

 wishes of all and the hope that we 

 would meet them again in August 

 with numerous others, all of whom 

 will be cordially welcome to the con- 

 vention. J. J. H. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Stock Prices. 



The cut flower trade in this city has 

 been very light the past week, and only 

 tor a few funeral orders, would have 

 been called very dull. Prices on all 

 kinds of stock are tending downward. 

 Flowers have been abundant during 

 the week and of extremely poor qual- 

 ity, owing to the warm and rainy 

 weather. 



Roses of all kinds are cheap; the 

 very best can be bought at $3; others 

 at from 50 cents to $1. A great many 

 are badly mildewed and cannot be sold 

 at any price. 



Carnations are lower in price just 

 now than at any time during the sea- 

 son, and are coming in every morning 



