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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 14. 1004. 



Louis next montli ; some good things 

 are promised. 



Robert Scott & Son are sending in 

 new crop Beauties to 8. 8. Pennock, 



W. S. Peterson, of (.'incinnati, wlu) 

 has been in this city for some months, 

 has happily recovered from an attack 

 of appendicitis and is out of the hos- 

 pital. 



The Philadelphia Carnation Co. has 

 55,000 carnations planted out at Secane 

 which are growing nicely. 



A chat with President Westcott and 

 Vice-president Rust of the Florists' Club 

 elicited the information that the club 

 would probably leave for St. Louis on 

 Sunday, August 14, over the Pennsyl- 

 vania railroad. The round trip ticket 

 will cost $24.75. 



Amos Bernard is building three 

 houses, each 20x100, at Xennett 

 Square, Pa. 



A. M. Campbell, with Edward Reid, 

 says that shipping business keeps up 

 well; lots of paper in winter keeps out 

 cold and in summer keeps it in. 



Summer is here in earnest. Some of 

 the smaller retail stores have closed, 

 while the larger ones have only a small 

 force on. 



Charles P. Poryzees has the first cos- 

 mos, pink and white, seen this season 

 in an effectively arranged window. 



John Mclntyre is away on his vaca- 

 tion. 



Frank Lovett, of Whelen's, at New- 

 town, continues to bring in plenty of 

 stuff. 



Eugene Bernheimer is still receiving 

 Beauties and Edgelys from the Floral 

 Exchange. 



William Muth, with C. F. Edgar & 

 Co., has just returned from his vaca- 

 tion. Phil. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



Receipts have been reduced materially 

 since the last report and the market is 

 no longer encumbered with the over- 

 supply which has been such a problem 

 to the wholesalers for the past couple 

 of months. Replanting roses has result- 

 ed in reducing supplies- to a mere frac- 

 tion of what they were a month a^o. 

 The quality on the whole is up to the 

 usual summer average but there are 

 still too many of the low grade. There 

 are only a few Beauties available but 

 plenty of Liberty and Meteor. There 

 are also enough good Brides and Brides- 

 maids at hand to meet the very light 

 shipping demand, for local trade is con- 

 fined jirineipally to fune]:al work. Prices 

 are a little better than last week. 



The growers are also flS^inning to 

 throw out the carnations preparatory to 

 replanting and this has had its effect 

 in reducing the surplus. But there are 

 still more carnations than the market 

 requires and prices are very low. 



The oversupply of sweet peas is still 

 very largely in evidence. The glut of 

 Easter lilies gave place to an unwieldy 

 stock of candidums, which have in turn 

 been sxicceeded by the auratum, which 

 is now coming in in good quantities 

 but maintaining prices fairly well. Glad- 

 ioli are practically out of the market for 

 the time being. There are still plenty 

 of peonies. Besides stock from cold 

 storage, fresh stock is still coming from 

 northern Michigan. The peony season is 

 likely to last till August this year. 

 Shasta daisies and coreopsis have been 



in favor and occjisionally are hard to 

 find in the market. There is plenty of 

 most outdoor stock. 



Various Notes. 



D. W. Brant has leased the interest 

 of L. M. Noe in the firm of Brant & 

 Noe, at Forest Glen. Mr. Brant has 

 been tlie western representative of the 

 firm ever since it was established, Mr. 

 Noe having large interests at Madison,, 

 N. J., and in New York. Mr. Brant 

 will continue the business exactly as 

 heretofore. He is tearing down one 

 house and a portion of another and will 

 rebuild as one first-class structure 38x 

 185. The planting of carnations wHli 

 be largely increased for next season. 



A. Kennicott says that his supply of 

 peonies will hold out all this week and 

 possibly well into next. He says the 

 peony season all along has been about 

 three weeks later than the average year 

 and prices have shown the effect. He 

 says that the last thousand dozens this 

 year will not be worth to him over $300, 

 where last year the last thousand dozens 

 brought more than $700. He is not, 

 however, looking for old-time prices in 

 the future, believing that the supplies 

 have become too large to permit of it. 



It is reported that N. K. Welter, at 

 Evanston, will abandon carnation grow- 

 ing and give his space to lettuce and 

 cucumbers. John Evert, of Rogers Park, 

 "will do the same thing and there are 

 others who have the same step in view. 

 But several of them are thinking that 

 it is a good deal cheaper to make a 

 start at lettuce than it will be to stock 

 up with carnations again if the lettuce 

 doesn't do so well next year. 



Geo. Reinberg has decided to drop 

 Perle from his list of roses. He is one 

 of the few growers who have had this 

 rose this year. There is very little call 

 for it in this market. 



E. C. Amling has returned from a 

 week's fishing trip. A. C. Kohlbrand 

 will leave Saturday night for northern 

 Wiscxjnsin to spend two weeks with the 

 muskallonge. 



Bassett & Washburn report that they 

 are now completely sold out of rose 

 plants. In general rose stock has not 

 been in its usual demand this season, 

 but this firm has had a very satisfac- 

 tory business on grafted plants. Mr. 

 Vvashburn is in the Wisconsin woods 

 for a couple of weeks. 



E. H. Hunt is addinp considerably 

 to his space by double-decking a consid- 

 erable part of the store. The office will 

 hereafter be on the upncr floor. 



Mr. and Mrs. Louis Winterson are at 

 home from their wedding trip. It is 

 reported that another member of the 

 Winterson firm is shortly t.o take unto 

 himself a wife. 



There is every prospect of a good sale 

 at the Fuchs auction today. A consid- 

 erable part of the stock has already been 

 sold, the Wittbold 's buying all the rub- 

 ber plants. 



Klehm 's nursery is sending Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co. a' great variety of out-, 

 door flowers which are useful for win- 

 dow decorations. 



A. L. Vaughan and family have re- 

 turned from Louisiana, where they have 

 spent six months. 



C. W. Ernie has been spending a few 

 days at Terre Haute. 



On Tuesday evening the scrubs heM 

 the convention team in one gam?. Th^ 

 ladies now have a tournament of their 



own, the Winterson Co. having offered 

 two handsome prizes for a series of 

 twelve games. Tuesday evening Mrs. 

 Kreitling rolled 164. 



Among the week's visitors have been 

 George A. Heinl, of Toledo, and his 

 brother, John G. Heinl, of Terre Haute; 

 Joseph Bock, of Burlington, la.; W. A. 

 Kennedy, Milwaukee; Joseph Labo and 

 Sigurd Biseth, of Joliet; A. L. Glaser, 

 Dubuque, Iowa. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



We are now having what you might 

 call our first real summer weather. The 

 temperature rises very near to 90 de- 

 grees every day. It is needless to say 

 what effect this is having upon stock in 

 the greenhouses. It is what we have to 

 expect, though and we ought to be thank- 

 ful that stock held out as long as it 

 did this year. There is a good demand 

 at present, due largely to the many fu- 

 neral orders, and the supply is not equal 

 to it by a good deal. AH of the whole- 

 sale houses are early cleaned out of what- 

 ever stock they have that was salable 

 and their ice boxes are empty. Especially 

 is this true of carnations, which Jjave 

 suffered most from the heat of the last 

 few days. Even those from the north 

 are rapidly deteriorating in quality. 

 There are not nearly enough to take care 

 of the demand at present, 



Roses are very much in the same state, 

 but some few growers have managed to 

 make their cuts hold out in very fair 

 shape. Some very nice Kaiserins are to 

 be had in limited numbers, also Liberty. 

 Some Beauties come in now and then 

 that are fine for so late in the season. 

 Other varieties of roses are in most 

 cases awfully poor, ffhere is a good 

 lot of outdoor white stock that has sold 

 out quickly. A few lilies find a ready 

 market, ^Iso some gladioli. Sweet peas 

 are still in oversupply. 



Various Notes. 



Trimble McCuUough, son of J. Chas 

 McCullough, the seedsman, sailed on 

 steamer Victoria from Seattle, Wash., 

 July 2 on a pleasure trip through Alaska, 

 stopping at Sitka and Nome and pos- 

 sibly continuing his trip through Si- 

 berian waters. He expects to be gone 

 two or three months, in company with A. 

 J. Trimble, a director of the steamship 

 company. 



The picnic committee is putting fortli 

 its best efforts to make this year's out- 

 ing a great success. D. Rusconi, one of 

 the committee, has already disposed of 

 over eighty tickets and I hear that others 

 are not far behind. All that is neces- 

 sary now is a fine day. The date is 

 Thursday, .July 21, the place. Coney 

 Island. 



The regular meeting of the Florists' 

 Society was held last Saturday evening, 

 newly elected President Ben George in 

 the chair. The rapidly approaching 

 meeting of the S. A. F. was discussed 

 and a committee consisting of E. G 

 Gillett and J. W. Rodgers was appointed 

 by the chair to look after transporta- 

 tion. From present indications there will 

 be quite a crowd from this city. 



Wm. Rodgers is about to install a new 

 boiler. It ^will be considerably larger 

 tlian the old one and capable of taking 

 good care of his plant with the newly 

 added glass. C. J. Ohmer. 



