May 21, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



108: 



Iron-Frame Carnation Houses ot Dailledouze Bros., FUtbush, N. Y. Designed and Erected by Lord & Burnham Co. 



Each House is 29^ x200 Feet. 



supplemented by impromptu perform- 

 ances, vocal and terpsicliorean, by J. P. 

 Ri>ch, E. A. Kanst. George Piesei', J. J). 

 Thompson and ,Mr. Kreitling. 



Mr. Thompson and Walter Kreitling, 

 acting- as the transportation committee, 

 announce that the club will go to Mil- 

 waukee in August, via the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & St. Paul Road. They ask that 

 all delegations passing through Chicago 

 have tickets read so that they can join 

 the club's special train. 



Various Items. 



The introducers ui carnation Adonis 

 have been having their own troubles in 

 propagating, and J. D. Thompson says 

 he wishes to speak a word in their be- 

 half. He says he has 2,.500 as fine plants 

 of the variety as one would care to see. 

 He received 5,000 cuttings in January 

 and sent out half of them to his cu.s- 

 toniers. The remainder he has brought 

 on with a loss of barely 5 per cent, and 

 10 ]ier cent he considers an average loss 

 in handling new sorts. But Mr. Thomp- 

 son says that some of those who received 

 small lots from the same batch report 

 high losses, from which he concludes that 

 much of the complaint as to Adonis is 

 due to some defect in treatment after 

 the cuttings were sent out. 



J. A. Budlong is pushing work on his 

 new range of carnation houses and pro- 

 poses to bench about half his stock di- 

 rectly from pots, giving it most of the 

 summer indoors. He will grow Flora 

 Hill, Peru, Governor Wolcott, Boston 

 Market, Lillian Pond, Governor Roose- 

 velt, Harry Fenn, Mrs. Ine, Prosperity, 

 Stella, Enchantress and Lawson, about 

 35,000 plants in all. John Cook, for- 

 merly with W. N. Rudd, is in charge of 

 the carnation department, ilr. Budlong 

 opened his wholesale house, under the 

 management of John Zeck, five years 

 ago last Saturday. 



P. J. Hauswirth is probably the only 

 florist in town who has artificial refrig- 

 eration. His bo.x is piped from the 

 cooling machine run in the Auditorium 

 Annex, the portion usually occupied by 

 ice containing a coil of 125 feet of IJ- 

 incli pipe cooled by carbonic acid gas. 

 It works almost too well, the tendency 

 being to get the temperature too low. 

 but this will be easily remedied by re- 

 ducing the size of the coil. There is no 

 dirt and practically no drip. 



Alex. Henderson's two-year-old baby 

 fell into a kettle of boiling water last 

 Saturday and was terribly burned al>out 

 the arms and shoulders. Jlr. and Mr>. 

 Henderson have many friends in tlie 



trade who unite in hopes for the child's 

 iccovery. 



The tulips were fine at Washington 

 Park this season. Jlr. Kanst and his 

 force are now busy with iR'dding plants. 



Chicago has for years been known as 

 tlic "Beauty town.'' but there arc oth- 

 ers. L. M. Noe, of Madison, \. J., who 

 is a visitor this week, says that at 

 Faster he handled over 17,000 Beauties, 

 3fl-inch and upward, at his Xew York 

 sales stand, but he notes it was ten 

 times a nornuil sui)ply. 



The referee in bankruptcy has paid a 

 fir.st and final dividend of per cent 

 to the creditors of Walter Retzer. The 

 proved .claims aggregated .I^So.OC^j.So, 

 only a few hundred dollars of which was 

 in the trade. 



Mr. and Jlrs. Peter Reinberg will 

 celebrate their twentieth wedding anni- 

 versiiry next Friday evening. 



Weiland & Risch, with a force of fifty 

 men, are pushing things on their new 

 range of nine houses 2Sxlfia. They ex- 

 j)ect to be ready within three weeks to 

 pbint the entire range to Beauties. 



A. Lange reports a very fair run of 

 work, both at his old stand an<l at the 

 Floralia. He is steadily building up 

 his out-of-town trade as well as local 

 business. 



A number of the friends of .Mr. and 

 Mrs. James Hartshorne assist cil i]i the 

 celebration of their tenth wedding anni- 

 versary at Harlowarden, J«dii't, 111.. 

 May 14. 



D. Branch has the two glass houses 

 on the roof of his Indiana avenue store 

 filled with bedding stock, principally 

 geraniums. 



The Chicago Tribune recently printed 

 a picture of H. G. Selfridge's range of 

 new greeidiouses at Ljikc Geneva, also 

 a view in one of the orchid houses. 

 Charles Gebhardt is in charge. 



Poehlmann Brothers C'om])any is cut- 

 ting Iciiigillorum lilies in quantity and 

 expect tlie su])ply to keep up all sum- 

 mer. 



Fred Klingel, of Peter Reinberg's, 

 welcomed a baby boy to his home Sun- 

 day. 



Bassett & Washburn say that the way 

 the trade is developing on tlie Pacific 

 coast is shown by the fact that they 

 shipped more than 25,000 rose cuttings 

 there this season. Greenhouse building 

 is going on at a great rate out there. 



E. F. Winterson Company is handling 

 a large line of bedding plants and shows 

 some particularly good geraniums. 



Visitors: L. M. Noe, Madison, X. J.: 



Lincoln Pierson. of the Picrson-Sefton 

 Company, Jersey ( ily. N. .1. 



Bowling. 



The following is llie record ma<le in 

 the practice May 20: 



I'Iriycr— i»t. 2il. M. 



Mntli- ir,l 15.) i.Ki 



Wiiit«T!«in 16.1 17.^ l^~ 



n"ii"f 188 2i.-i i:i,'> 



Sliiirtir 80 113 H4 



stiir.'tt 14S 17:4 r.a 



A»mu» 184 221 US 



Liimbros 140 138 ISO 



I'nincr 126 138 13ii 



HailKWlrth 143 lilt 204 



KorentiT 103 103 »U 



Scntt 170 198 lOil 



Kri-ltlln^ 134 no I7» 



I', stolk-ry 130 2i)l 147 



PHILADELPHL\. 



The Market. 



the cut ll< \\<'r market is wvy iliill. 

 The hot weather has iK't^n pulling down 

 the ([uality of the stock, which averages 

 lower than a week ago. There is sonic 

 business, such as the coaching parade 

 festivities, gifts of admiring friends to 

 a newly appointe<l judge on the occa- 

 sion of his being sworn in. tributes to 

 fair amateur singers, etc.. but from 'a 

 wholesaler's standpoint the street men 

 are entirely too important people. Bet- 

 ter things are expected next week. 

 There are lots of orders coming in for 

 Memorial day. Then the eomnience- 

 ments and the June we<ldings are near. 



The hot weather has pushc<l the ont- 

 doiu- stock in a way that nuikes it prob- 

 able that indoor flowers of fair quality 

 will lie eagerly sought for next week, 

 but this is still problematical. Carna- 

 tions have fallen off slightly in quan- 

 tity. There is not much demand for 

 them. Quantities go on the street at 

 buyer's prices. Outdoor valley is to Ik? 

 had in (piantity if anybody wants it, 

 hut no one does. It is divided lietweeii 

 the (Jreeks and the — lios])itnls, let us 

 ho|><>. Bard of Avon gladioli can be 

 had (nuist I say Sliakespcaro?). and 

 some nice stock gillies with good stems. 

 Quantities of roses are coming in. Most 

 of tliem bring something. 



Hillside. 



Just now llill-ide is a scene of tre- 

 mendous activity. There is glass enough 

 going up out there to encourage iho 

 trust to try another raise. It was ilif- 

 fercnl in the early s|.ring, when a party 

 of four took advantage of a grey day 

 in I>ent. when business was dull and 

 the watering light, to take a trip 

 across I'onntry to x* flie roses that 

 grow on the side of the hill. The place 

 is some miles east of Gcrmnntown. out 



