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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



June 2, 1904. 



the ability of the members who intend 

 to be at the St. Louis convention and the 

 make-up of the club to compete there will 

 soon be decided. The scores made at the 

 last meeting were as follows: 



I^ang 150 221 



Juiues 126 



Stewart 106 



Guttman 120 



Nugeut 106 



Ulbbs 121 



Frank 106 



iShaw ". 102 



Slebrecbt 134 



O'Mara 122 



142 

 115 

 1S4 

 168 

 131 

 115 

 117 

 135 

 123 



121 

 164 



117 

 132 

 117 

 126 

 142 

 129 



161 

 44 

 138 

 143 

 132 



161 

 144 



J. Austin Shaw. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



In spite of many unfavorable circum- 

 stances, the Decoration day business is 

 counted as the best on record. This 

 was because of great quantities of stock 

 moved, for prices were lower than usual. 

 The early part of the week was probably 

 the worst period ever known in average 

 returns for the growers, and conditions 

 improved but little up to Friday, when 

 there was considerable shipping business, 

 in spite of the fact that keeping quali- 

 ties were not to be looked for in the 

 stock. Saturday saw an enormous ship- 

 ping demand, which continued fairly 

 strong on Sunday and even up to noon 

 on Monday there were boxes going out. 

 Local business was fair. 



Eeceipts on Saturday and Sunday, 

 while very heavy in miscellaneous items, 

 were not equal to requirements on roses 

 and carnations and prices, which early 

 in the week had been steadily declining, 

 took a brace and were fully up to ad- 

 vance quotations. Many orders for car- 

 nations were sent out short, also many 

 on roses, while at the time there were 

 roses left in the market, but of such 

 low grade that they could not be shipped. 

 There were plenty of long Beauties at 

 all times. On Monday several growers 

 who had not shipped a flower for two 

 days sent in big boxes of carnations, too 

 late to find a buyer, and robbed them- 

 selves of the week's profit. 



There were very heavy supplies of 

 peonies and a big business was done in 

 this line but not at so good average 

 prices as have frequently been realized 

 at this season. When business ceased 

 Sunday there were inany hundreds of 

 dozens still unsold and Monday's re- 

 ceipts were far heavier than the sales. 

 Peonies began going into storage again 

 on Monday but it remains for the future 

 to show what profit there will be in this 

 operation this year. With the unseason- 

 able weather, peonies threaten to inun- 

 date the market all through June, where 

 usually they are well over before school 

 closings and are held for the good mar- 

 ket which comes at that time. However, 

 heavy plantings in late years have so 

 increased the supply that even in normal 

 seasons values must be readjusted. 



All the miscellaneous items sold out 

 fairly well for Decoration day except 

 cape jasmine and valley. The capes 

 were salable only in limited quantities 

 and made very low prices, with many 

 spoiling on wholesalers' hands. Valley 

 was in large supply and did not seem to 

 be wanted. Lilac cleaned up much bet- 

 ter than might have been expected from 

 the quantities oflFered; it all found a 

 home, if good for anything. Lilies went 

 cheaply and there was no time when it 

 was not possible to find a bargain in 

 odds and ends. 



On Tuesday there was fair business 



but unwieldy receipts and prices, which 

 had begun to slide on Monday, took a 

 further drop, except on the best grane 

 of roses, which are so few in proportion 

 to the total receipts that they hold firm 

 in price. ^ 



Various Notes. 



Peter Weiland was up from New Castle 

 last week, returning Monday. Yesterday 

 he came into sole ownership of the big 

 greenhouse plant at New Castle, froi 

 which Peter Reinberg has had half the 

 cut this season. Mr. Weiland has opened 

 a wholesale store at Cincinnati, in the 

 same building with Wm. Murphy, and 

 will hereafter sell his own cut, taking 

 personal charge of the work. The green- 

 houses will be under the management of 

 Peter Heirnes. 



The weather always counts for much 

 in the flower business and it has been 

 so utterly unreliable of late as to be 

 worthy of note. The vagaries of the 

 past weet included: On Wednesday be- 

 fore Decoration day, 87 degrees; twen- 

 ty-four hours later, 45; Friday, 71; Sat- 

 urday, 75; Sunday, 74; Decoration day, 

 42 and rain. 



One of the novelties was bougainvillea, 

 not often seen in this market, which 

 Amling found a good seller. 



The cold storage ferns are gone, 

 cleaned up nicely at $4.50 per thousand 

 where the owners held for it. 



C. M. Dickinson has moved his fam- 

 ily to Park Kidge, where they formerly 

 resided. 



Carl Thomas went to his old home 

 in Pennsylvania Sunday night to spend 

 a two weeks' vacation. On his return 

 A. L. Randall and family will go'lo their 

 fruit farm in Michigan to spend the 

 summer. 



J. B. Deamud was last Saturday elect- 

 ed president of the Model Oil and Gas 

 Mfg. Co., a newly organized company 

 operating in Kansas adjoining the Chi- 

 cago-Kansas Co., in which Mr. Deamud 

 was already interested. 



E. E. Pieser says that in all the years 

 he has been in the trade he never saw 

 so many flowers in market as were moved 

 for Decoration day, and there were not 

 enough carnations or shipping roses. 



F. C. Struvy returned Tuesday from 

 a six weeks' trip to California and Mex- 

 ico. 



Bassett & Washburn report selling 15.- 

 000 longiflorum lilies for Decoration (la\ 



It is the report that young stock of 

 Chatenay rose has not been selling the 

 way the propagators expected it would, 

 from the success which two or three 

 growers made with it the past season. 



There were very few plants oflfered 

 for Decoration day. Some well flowered 

 hydrangeas were good property and 

 Beauty plants with one well developed 

 flower and several buds sold well. 



Edwin Eagle has closed up his place 

 on the south side and will remove to a 

 fruit farm and summer resort near 

 Union Pier. Mich. 



Albert Fuchs has closed a contract with 

 the E. F. Winterson Co.. whereby they 

 will conduct his auction, June 15 and 16. 

 Mr. Winterson will do the selling and Mr. 

 l>egnan will have charge of the business 

 arrangements. There is a very large 

 quantity of good stock in the houses 

 and one of the biggest sales on record is 

 assured. Mr. Fuchs will not only sell 

 the stock, but also the greenhouses for 

 removal from the property. 



P. J. Hauswirth says he is having a 

 nice run of work, a great deal of banquet 

 and dinner work in the Auditorium. 



Bowlins;. 



Following are the scores made by the 



Chicago bowlers Tuesday evening, May 



31: 



Player. ist. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5th. T'l. 



Balluff 127 124 109 176 185 721 



HauBWlrth 165 191 161 148 153 818 



Scott 176 138 165 203 128 810 



F. StoUery 158 178 199 179 172 886 



Asmus 199 183 176 174 168 900 



Degnan 132 147 124 169 128 698 



Ell 100 143 150 121 161 665 



Winterson 135 134 125 104 498 



Stevens 166 162 328 



HAIL. 



The Florists' Hail Association is ad- 

 justing losses at Pueblo, Colo.; Roches- 

 ter, N. Y. ; Reading, Pa., and Guthrie, 

 Okla. The Pueblo storm was the most 

 severe that has occurred since the organ- 

 ization of the Association. Ten mem- 

 bers of the F. H. A. lost from ninety to 

 100 per cent of their glass. All claims 

 that have been properly presented are 

 either adjusted or are in process of ad- 

 justment. 



ELMIRA, N. Y, 



The first consignment of plants which 

 have been ordered to stock the mammoth 

 greenhouses that are being erected by 

 the United States Cut Flower Company, 

 arrived here May 27, over 20,000 carna- 

 tions being received, while over 12,000 

 more are expected in a few days. The 

 plants, which are all strong, vigorous 

 stock, are of the best varieties obtain- 

 able, including the standard varieties 

 and latest introductions. The stock was 

 purchased of Dorner & Sons Co., of La- 

 fayette, Ind.; S. J. Renter, Westerly, 

 R. I.; Baur & Smith, Indianapolis, and 

 others, and several thousand plants were 

 grown in this city by Harry N. Hoffman. 



The work of erecting the gieenhouses 

 is proceeding at a rapid rate. Nearly 

 all of the iron framework has been 

 placed in position and painted. Presi- 

 dent Algie states that two cars of iron- 

 work, which will complete the shipment, 

 are expected daily and can be placed in 

 position in a few days after being re- 

 ceived. Tuesday the work of building the 

 brick benches was commenced. The glass 

 for the greenhouses has all been received 

 and can be placed in position as soon as 

 the structural work is completed. 



Everything about the immense plant 

 will be painted white. The 10,000 sash 

 bars and caps which arer to be used to 

 hold the glass are now being painted. 

 Each piece receives three coats of the 

 best grade of white paint, each piece be- 

 ing dipped into a tank of paint, then 

 passed through steel and rubber dies to 

 work the pigment into the wood, and 

 then brushed to distribute evenly, the 

 work being thus performed with greater 

 expedition than by brushing only. 



"The greenhouse will be completed by 

 July 10," sa\d President Algie. "That 

 does not mean the power houses and va- 

 rious other auxiliary buildings, however. 

 Those buildings are not needed imme- 

 diately, but we will have them completed 

 by the first of August." 



Gi-THRiE, Okla. — Furrow Bros, suf- 

 fered a very heavy loss by hail last week, 

 their place being completely wrecked and 

 all glass broken. Repairs will be made 

 at once. 



I HAVE certainly been well pleased with 

 the Review and would not like to be with- 

 out it; I think every florist should take 

 it. — C. L. Shanks, Newton, Kan. 



