JULY 28, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



427 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Beceipta have been at the lowest ebb 

 during thei past week. There are almost 

 no good roses and very few good car- 

 nations and the wholesalers are having 

 much difficulty in giving satisfaction to 

 their out-of-town customers, who seem 

 to forget that stock in this market shows 

 the same mid-summer conditions as are 

 nianifsst elsewhere. The result of the 

 scarcity and a fairly heavy shipping de- 

 mand is that the prices on roses are 

 stiff for the season. Carnations wliieh 

 may be classed as usable are also bring- 

 ing the growers very good returns. As- 

 ters are coming in more heavily, how- 

 ever, and prices on both items will soon 

 be on the downward way. Roses from 

 young stock are coming in and it will not 

 l>e long until supplies are again equal to 

 all requirements. The outdoor stock is 

 very little in evidence just now. There 

 are plenty of greens of all kinds. 



Various Notes. 



Leonard Kill, Mrs. Kill and Mrs. Petir 

 Keinberg have returned from a visit at 

 Denver and Colorado Springs. Mr. Kill 

 speaks very highly of the Park Floral 

 Co. 's place at Denver and of Wm. 

 Clark's establishment at Colorado 

 Springs. Mr. Clark devoted much of his 

 time to showing the party the sights of 

 the neighborhood. One of the places 

 visited was the home of Mrs. P. Jewett, 

 on North Cascade Avenue, in Colorado 

 Springs, where there is one of the finest 

 collections of H, P. roses to be found 

 anywhere in the west. The rose garden 

 contains about 1,500 plants in fifteen or 



twenty varieties, in the highest state of 

 cultivation. Mrs. Jewett cuts about oOO 

 blooms a day and distributtjs them to 

 the hospitals, her friends and the sick, 

 doing great good. Mr. Kill thought 

 Baroness Eotlischild was the best variety 

 in the garden. 



There was a special meeting of the 

 Florists' Club last Wednesday night at 

 wMch the new by-laws were adopted and 

 convention matters discussed. There will 

 be a special meeting of the club at Han- 

 del Hall tonight at which committees 

 will report. 



It is decided that the Chicago Florists ' 

 Club will go to the convention via the 

 Wabash, leaving on Monday, August 15, 

 at an hour not yet determine-!!. If there 

 are 100 in the party a special train will 

 be run. It is probable that the round 

 trip rate will be $8, which will call for 

 first-class equipment. 



During the quiet period the wholesalers 

 are having their places fixed up. It is 

 not safe to lean on any wood work at 

 present, and the few buyers who appear 

 are" not surprise- d at the splashes of 

 whitewash they find a little later on their 

 clothing. Everything is being made spick 

 and span for another busy season. 



Chas. Duerr is now at Colorado Springs. 



Geo. Perdikas, who has had a store at 

 286 Wabash avenue for a year, has 

 opened another at 325 Wabash, using the 

 fixtures from the Anderson Floral Co. 

 He also deals in fruit and soda water 

 at the new address. 



B. Prazil, who has worked around Chi- 

 cago for a number of years, is now gar- 

 dener for Mr. Dameron, at Clarksville, 

 Mb. 



W. E, Lynch, of Hunt 's, and Tom Bo- 

 hanan, of Bohanan & Conger, with their 



families, are at Sodus, Mich., for an 

 outing. 



C. M. Dickinson has been on the sick 

 list this week. 



Hail did- considerable damage west of 

 the city July 22. At Oak Park A. H. 

 Schneider, Geo. Baldwin, F. Blondeel and 

 others lost some glass. 



E, E. Pieser has uecn laid up with 

 lumbago for a couple of days this week. 

 He expects to get away in a few days 

 for his vacation in Canada. 



A. L. Randall Co. is handling cut 

 fronds of Adiantum Croweanum. They 

 are about twice as big a.s ordinary cune- 

 atum and bring $1.50 per 100. 



D. C. Noble, of Columbia City, and Mr. 

 Treanor, of Treanor & Rettic, South 

 Bend, were recent visitors. 



Elgin, III. — George Souster and his 

 family have been camping near Maple- 

 villa, near here. 



Fort Dodge, Ia. — P. L. Larson is 

 building three new greenhouses and a new 

 ofl&ce and extending two old houses. 

 Benching carnations is in progress this 

 week. 



CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — On July 20 Miss 

 S. Amanda Slingluff was married to Wil- 

 liam C. Harry, son of W. S. Harry, the 

 florist, and himself employed by a Phila- 

 delphia florist. 



Dover, N. H. — C. L. Howe reports the 

 past season the best he ever experienced. 

 He is adding three new greenhouses this 

 summer, which, when completed, will give 

 him about 50,000 feet of glass. He is 

 also building a double tenement house 

 for the help. His carnation plants in 

 the field are making a fine growth. 



CHICAGO TO ST. LOUS 



The Chicago Florists^ Club has arranged to travel 

 to the St» Louis Convention of the S^ A^ F* via 



THE W;!(BASH 



A large and congenial party will leave Chicago on Monday, Au- 

 gust 15 (exact hour and rate of fare to be announced next week) and 

 all Florists passing through Chicago are invited by the Chicago 

 Florists* Club to arrange to travel with the Chicago party. 



The Buffalo Florists* Club will also travel via The Wabash, 

 leaving Buffalo, Monday, August 15. 



FOR RATES, WORLD'S FAIR FOLDERS, ETC., ADDRESS 



R. F. KELLEY, G. A. P. D. 



287 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. 



F. A. PALMER, A. G. P. A. 



97 Adams St., Chicago. 



