JULY 21, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



385 



The Establishment of Sinner Bros.« Roofers Park, Chicago. 



who died about four years ago. There 

 are fifteen houses in all, making a total 

 of 85,000 feet of glass. 



Boses and carnations are the prin- 

 <;ipal crops. Beauties are grown in 

 small quantity, but they have not been 

 found to pay as well as the smaller 

 roses, and most of the space will be 

 given to Liberty, Chatenay, Bride, 

 Bridesmaid, and Golden Gate for the 

 next season. 



It takes 60,000 carnation plants to 

 fltock the benches. Not a large list of 

 varieties is grown, the policy being to 

 have only about two varieties in each 

 color, using the best money makers. 

 There will be two houses of Lawson 

 this year. White Cloud and Flora Hill 

 are the principal whites, but the latter 

 did not do so well last year as it has 

 heretofore. America has been found the 

 best paying red. 



In the spring about 75,000 bulbs are 

 forced. One of the accompanying il- 

 lustrations shows a bench of callas. 

 When the cutting bench was emptied 

 this spring it was filled up with lettuce, 

 the crop bringing 40 cents a case and 

 proving about the most profitable bench 

 in the house, considering the time it was 

 occupied. 



The growing end of the business is 

 conducted by J. P. Sinner, the elder 

 brother. John Sinner has charge of the 

 selling department in the Flower Grow- 

 ers' Market and is working a very nice 

 business. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



Trade is no more active this week 

 than in the past fortnight, but sup- 

 plies are so reduced in all lines of sta- 

 ple goods that better averages are re- 

 sulting. On the whole, business is prob- 

 ably about the same as usual in the 

 middle of July. There are still too manv 

 poor roses, but not enough of the bet- 

 ter grades to meet the shipping de- 

 mand. The teas are very small and 

 some growers have a great deal of mil- 

 dew, which renders the stock practicallv 

 imsalable. The summer cuts of Beauty 

 are coming on and some fair qualities 



are shown. There are large quantities 

 of short-stemmed Liberty. 



The carnation crop has been given 

 its quietus by the few days of hot 

 weather. The receipts are only a frac- 

 tion of those of the early part of the 

 month, and with many of the growers 

 the cut is hardly worth shipping to 

 market, but what good carnations are 

 received are selling for pretty fair 

 money, $1 to $2 being asked for the bet- 

 ter grade of goods. 



The principal over-supply at present 

 is in sweet peas, but asters are begin- 

 ning to come in heavily and it will not 

 be long before their disposal will pre- 

 sent another problem to the wholesalers. 

 The peonies are gone except one crop, 

 part of which still remains in storage. 

 Auratum lilies are becoming more plen- 

 tiful, but are selling for funeral work. 

 Garden flowers in general are in light 

 supply. 



Various Notes. 



There was a fair crowd at the Albert 

 Fuchs auction last week and most of 

 the stock was disposea of except such 

 parts as Mr. Fuchs reserved for his re- 

 tail trade. Among the buyers from out 

 of town were: J. C. Eennison, Sioux 

 City; A. L. Glaser, Dubuque; W. E. 

 Kemble, Oskaloosa; W. A. Hartman, 

 South Haven, Mich.; A. McFadden, Cin- 

 cinnati; P. L. Larson, Fort Dodge; L. 

 A. Whitmore, Buchtel, Ohio. The prin- 

 cipal local buyers were the George Witt- 

 bold Company, H. K. and L. C. Hughes, 

 Jacob Bussler, John C. Ure, J. F. Kid- 

 well & Brother and J. S. Wilson, of 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, although a num- 

 ber of local store men were present and 

 bought more or less. In general the 

 prices received were fair, the kentias 

 and pandanuses being in demand. The 

 greenhouses have all been disposed of 

 for removal from the ground. Edward 

 Amerpohl, of Janesville, Wis., bought 

 two houses. Nees Bros., who are start- 

 ing a new place at Glen Ellyn, took two 

 houses. Two more were sold to A. L. 

 Whitmore, Buchtel, Ohio; three to B. 

 Blameuser, at Niles Center, 111., and 

 one to F. Walker & Son, of Junction 

 City, Kan., who are starting a branch 

 place at Wakefield. Mr. Fuchs expects 

 to start this week for Europe. He has 



retained the retail store and two houses, 

 which he will leave in charge of F. 

 Lautenschlager. 



Julius Schnapp is in charge of T. D. 

 Mosconosotes' new store on North State 

 street, having succeeded George Wein- 

 hoeber. 



J. B. Deamud is at Springfield as a 

 guest of Captain A. I. Simmons, the 

 Sixty-third street retailer, who is a 

 member of the Seventh regiment. 



J. P. Bisch is on his vacation this 

 week. Beplanting operations will be- 

 gin at the Evanston establishment next 

 week. 



Phil Shoup, of J. A. Budlong'a, ia 

 doing jury duty this week. 



Wietor Bros, will drop Perle from 

 their list of roses for next year. 



Dr. Weil, a close friend of Alderman 

 Peter Beinberg, was last week appointed 

 a member of the Board of Education. 



Kennicott Bros. Company is still re- 

 ceiving some good White Cloud and 

 Lawson carnations. 



A. Lange and family will leave the 

 latter part of this week to spend a 

 month in Colorado. 



S. Garland, Jr., is sending Percy 

 Jones some very good Enchantress 

 carnations. 



Will Kyle, of Kennicott 's. is away 

 on his vacation. He expects to visit 

 St. Louis. 



George J. Ball, who has the Harms 

 Park Floral Company place, is grow- 

 ing two acres of Benthey's Perfection 

 aster, which is giving indications of a 

 very fine large crop next month. There 

 is no sign of disease in the field. 



Ed Harmes, of Niles Center, died last 

 Friday after a long illness with cancer. 

 He was the son of Henry Harmes and 37 

 years of age. A widow and three chil- 

 dren survive. The Harmes family is 

 well known in the trade, the father and 

 several sons having been connected 

 with several branches of the industry. 

 The deceased was at one time in the 

 wholesale business with Louis Gresenz, 

 the firm being Gresenz & Harmes. 



The building in which the Flower 

 Growers' Market is located was sold at 

 Master's sale July 5. It is likely that 

 (he structure will soon be rebuilt, but 



