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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 16, 1004. 



diet was against him. It appeared that 

 he had paid one visit to the owner of 

 the property and one to Mr. Newhoqee 

 but had had nothing further to do with 

 the deal. j .. 



w — !■*> - Bowling. 



Tuesday night at the new alleys a fair 

 attendance of the faithful were on 

 hand. The club will doubtless consist 

 at St. Louis of those whose names were 

 given in our last, with J. B. Nugent as 

 spare man, and we look for an average 

 of about 160 and first honors, if the 

 nervine does not run short again. The 

 score shows an average of 197 for Capt. 

 Lang. 



Player. lat 2d Sd 



i/dk lOa 221 170 



Sugent 100 107 111 



raU ..:: 120 113 116 



SUaw 151 112 14S 



jSies 118 120 112 



Prank 136 137 131 



Ford 159 137 157 



Flatbush Bowling Club is like the 

 brook that flows on forever. Never a 

 Thursday in the year is without a 

 quorum and the games are always inter- 

 esting, while the "pots" keep some 

 of the boys in "pin money," especially 

 Eiley. J. Austin Shaw. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



Some of the wholesalers say that we did 

 not paint conditions half bad enough in 

 our report last week and certainly there 

 has been little improvement since. There 

 has come to be a fairly active canvass to 

 secure good Beauties, but there are few 

 buyers who are disappointed. Tea roses 

 may be said to be a little better in quality 

 than in the last two or three weeks ; there 

 are some reasonably good Brides and 

 Maids among the large receipts of poor 

 stock and Liberty is in fine form with 

 many growers. There are also good cuts 

 of Kaiserin and La France. 



It seems that the carnation receipts 

 have been at their heaviest during the 

 past week and stock has accumulated on 

 the wholesalers' hands to a most embar- 

 rassing extent, particularly whites. There 

 are so many good looking carnations that 

 it is diflScult to find buyers for them all 

 and the low grade stuff has little chance. 

 Clean-up sales at very low prices are re- 

 ported. Complaint is still made that, 

 however good the carnations look, they 

 will not travel. 



There are wagon loads of peonies of 

 all grades and colors and the out-of-town 

 demand for these seems very light. The 

 best stock is selling at $3 and $4 per 100 

 and indifferent grades and quantities are 

 sold at very low prices indeed. The Eas- 

 ter lilies still obstruct the market and 

 there are now quantities of gladioli which 

 are little wanted. The receipts of valley, 

 continue large, but these are picked up 

 for the spring wedding work. Candidum 

 lilies are seen in most of the wholesale 

 houses and are slow sale. There are quan- 

 tities of sweet peas, but the quality is off. 

 This is the last of the indoor crop and the 

 outdoor stock will not be in for some 



time. 



There are large receipts in all the odds 

 and ends of spring stock and considerable 

 of this material is going to waste. The 

 new eastern ferns are now plentiful ano 

 prices down to $2 per 1000. Asparagus 

 has become very scarce and hard to ge? in 

 quantity, but there are ample supplies of 

 smilax for the wedding work. Orchids 

 are reported selling briskly at McKellar 'a. 



This week shipping trade is fairly ac- 



tive and furnishes about all there is doing 

 in the market, for the city trade is not 

 heavy and the buyers find no occasion for 

 going to a second house, as they get 

 everything they want at the first stop. 



The Fuchs Sale* 

 The Fuchs place was sold at private 

 sale yesterday to J. S. Wilson, for many 

 years manager of Vaughan 's greenhouses, 



Yucca Whipple! in Bloom. 



Western Springs, III., and George A. 

 Kuhl, the well known plantsman, of 

 Pekin, 111. The sale includes the entire 

 stock, greenhouses, retail store and good 

 will, with a long-time lease on the real 

 estate. The new proprietors are not yet 

 ready to announce their plans, prior to 

 the formal transfer, which is expected to 

 take place today. 



Various Notes. 

 At last week's club meeting the new 

 constitution and by-laws were ordered 



printed and mailed to members. The 

 meeting June 23 will be the last for the 

 season and at this meeting a committee 

 will be appointed to arrange for a sum- 

 mer outing. 



It has been definitely decided that the 

 flower show will open on the Tuesday fol- 

 lowing the presidential election. 



W. N. Rudd has a large proportion of 

 his carnatiohs already benched. His Chi- 

 cago Market white is about the only va- 

 riety he is giving summer culture out- 

 doors. J 



The E. G. Hill Co. has been' sending 

 gooil peonies to E. C. Amling, getting in 

 just before the local cut. \ 



J. E. Holden, at Forty-seventh street 

 and Prairie avenue, has sold hisjplace to 

 Chas. E. Morton, whose place at 3626 Cot- 

 tage Grove avenue will hereafter be con- 

 ducted by H. S. Morton. The; Holden 

 stand is a very good one and a large bus- 

 iness has been done there. ^ 



Bassett & Washburn report a very good 

 sale on grafted Brides and Bridesmaid 

 plants from the benches, which have been 

 grown one or more years. They say that 

 growers who have tried them find that, 

 they get better results earlier in the sea-. 

 son than from the young grafted stock. 

 Last Sunday's Tribune devoted two 

 pages to pictures and writeup of the Mc- 

 Cormiek decoration and stated that 

 fwenty car loads of shrubbery flowers and 

 ten car loads of cut flowers were used. 

 As a matter of fact the quantities were 

 large. The Wittbolds did the work. 



John Eeardon, at Martin A. Ryerson 's, 

 is having very good success this year with 

 his grapes. He is also growing a quan- 

 tity of melons of the English varieties, 

 Frogmore Selected and Royal Sovereign. 

 C. N. Thomas has returned from a two 

 weeks' visit at his home in Pennsylvania. 

 Percy Jones is getting the first aura- 

 tum lilies of the season. 



Peter Eeinberg is at Springfield this 

 week attending the Democratic state con- 

 vention. He has four of his new houses 

 ready for planting. 



Michael Rockland, of E. H. Hunt's is 

 to be married June 21. 



Wietor Bros, are getting a big cut of 

 La France roses, many of them on three- 

 foot stems. 



Miss Nelda Wolf, of J. A. Budlon^'s, 

 is absent from her post because of sick- 

 ness. 



E. E. Pieser says that he is looking for 

 an early change in the market, as a few 

 days of such weather as the last week 

 will dispose of the peony crop and the 

 carnation cut already appears to be short- 

 ening. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. has 

 planted two acres of its aster, Benthey's 

 Perfection, in white and pink, at their 

 place at New Castle. This is growing 

 for seed and a half -acre has been planted 

 north of Chicago for cut flowers. 



Visitors: Nathan Brown, of R. S. 

 Brown & Son, Kansas City, Mo.; H. N. 

 Burt, Battle Creek, Mich, ; Wm. Dittman, 

 New Castle, Ind.; Wencel L. Cukerski, 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Bowling. 



Thei following are the scores made on 

 Tuesday evening, June 14: 



Player. Ist 2d 8d 4th 6th T'l 



Deiman 129 173 158 148 149 75T 



Wlnterson 181 152 113 121 143 710 



P. Stollery 193 128 188 168 163 840 



Aamni 184 180 178 178 194 »14 



Hauswlrth 153 163 146 166 144 772 



SteTens 191 217 162 188 168 918 



^nebner 118 136 140 134 153 681 



Scott 120 218 186 131 152 802 



Wilson 119 168 176 175 160 793 



Ballnft 146 16« 189 166 102 727 



