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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 4, 1904. 



slow. Quantities of gladioli are offered 

 at low rates. There are large quantities 

 of green goods and, as the demand is very 

 light, all items in this department show 

 widely varying values. 



Chicago to St. Louis. 



There was a well attended special 

 meeting of the Florists' Club last Thurs- 

 day evening to discuss the trip to St. 

 Louis. It was decided to start Monday, 

 August 15, at about 11 a. m. The ex- 

 act hour cannot be set until it is known 

 how many will go; 100 will call for a 

 special train. Everyone who is going 

 should notify P. J. Hauswirth, chairman 

 of committee, 227 Michigan avenue, by 

 postal card or telephone. This is im- 

 portant. 



Mr. Hauswirth was at St. Louis Sat- 

 urday and looked into hotel arrange- 

 ments. There will be plenty of room. 

 The committee recommended that those 

 going reserve accommodations at any of 

 the following: 



Hotel St. Nicholas, Eighth and Lo- 

 cust streets, $2 per day and up, two in a 

 room. 



Hotel Rozier, opposite the convention 

 hall, $1.50 per day and up, two in a 

 room. 



National Hotel, close to hall, $1 a bed, 

 two or more beds in a room. 



In private houses, by addressing F. M. 

 Ellis, 1316 Pine street, who will make 

 all arrangements on request. 



street, is adding one house to his estab- 

 lishment. 



The city employes of the Geo. Witt- 

 bold Company picnicked at the Edge- 

 brook establishment last Saturday. Both 

 city stores were closed for the day. 



John P. Eisch has returned from a 

 two weeks' vacation spent in Wisconsin. 



J. A. Budlong will have 60,000 carna- 

 tion plants benched by the end of this 

 week. 



Peter Eeinberg's planting of carna- 

 tions will not be as heavy this year as 

 last, more room being given to roses. 



The Flower Growers ' Market has made 

 a three years' lease from May 1, 1905, on 

 its present quarters, at 58 and 60 Wabash 

 avenue. The agents for the jiroperty say 

 there is no intention of rebuilding. 



C. M. Dickinson was downtown Tues- 

 day for the first time after a week's ill- 

 ness. 



C. L. Washburn is at home from a two 

 weeks' camping e:!Cpedition in northern 

 Wisconsin with his son and five other 

 Hinsdale young men. 



Sinner Bros, are handling gladioli from 

 the Miami Floral Company, Dayton, O. 



A. C. Spencer is on vacation this week. 



G. H. Pieser has returned from a very 

 successful fishing trip near Lakewood, 

 Wis., and E. L. Pieser expects to get 

 away today for his trip to British Colum- 

 bia. 



F. F. Benthey has returned from a 

 week at New Castle. 



Bed of New Ginnas at St. Louis Worlds' Fair. 

 (Exhibit of Wm. Schray & Sons, St. Louis.) 



The ladies' bowling contest was con- 

 cluded Tuesday night, Mrs. George 

 Asmus winning first prize, a jardiniere, 

 pedestal and palm. Mrs. Hauswirth won 

 the cut-glass vase and Mrs. Winterson the 

 palm, second and third respectively. 



' * Back September 1 " is the sign at 

 Iralson 's store, on Forty-third street. 



Visitors: E. H. Hitchcock, Glenwood, 

 Mich.; August Beyer and son, South 

 Bend, Ind.; J. A. Evans, Richmond, Ind.; 

 George Pease and William Kiefaber, 

 Dayton, O. 



NEW BEDFORD. MASS. 



Except for an occasional funeral da- 

 sign, business is almost at a standstill. 

 We are probably not as slack as our 

 nearby city, Fall River, with its cotton 

 mills ' strike. Our mills here are running 

 on short time, but that is better than 

 having them closed up all together. 



The Florists' Club held its first out- 

 ing at Sylvan Grove July 22 and had a 

 first-class time. Lester Mann, of Mann 

 Bros., of Randolph, and Wm. Anderson, 

 of Anderson & Williams, of Waltham, 

 were guests of the club. After partak- 

 ing of a first-class clam bake with all 

 the "fixins, " there was the baseball 

 game between the greenhouse and store 

 teams. The hardest task was to find an 

 umpire. We tried to get "Bill" Ander- 

 son to officiate, but he said that he had 

 promised Mrs. Anderson that he would 

 come home safe and sound and would 

 not take any chances. Covill and Gif- 

 ford were the batteries for the store 

 team and Bly and Flynn for the green- 

 house men. The store men won the game 

 in ten innings, with a score of 16 to 15, 

 Wm. C. Peirce making a fine two base hit 

 with a man on second base, winning the 

 game. Both pitchers pitched a fine game, 

 Covill striking out twelve men. Special 

 features of the game were a fine catch 

 of a fly ball by Borden, of the store 

 team, in the first half of the tenth in- 

 ning, with three men on bases, and the 

 kicking of Bly, of the greenhouse team. 



The second annual fall exhibition of 

 the New Bedford Horticultural Society 

 will be held September 15 to 17. It is 

 expected that there will be the finest 

 display of dahlias ever exhibited in 

 southeastern Massachusetts. Henry C. 

 Denison has donated two silver cops for 

 dahlias, one for the open class for sixty 

 varieties and one for the amateur class 

 for thirty varieties, and great interest is 

 shown. C. 



Various Notes. 



John Lang, who has for many years 

 been in business at Eobey and Melrose 

 streets, has sold his stock and leased his 

 greenhouses for five years to Peter Rein- 

 berger. Mr. Lang has accumulated a 

 modest competence since he has been in 

 business at this stand and will go to 

 Europe in a week or two for a protracted 

 visit. Mr. Reinberger has been in busi- 

 ness in leased houses for several years 

 and is well liked. His new place con- 

 sists of seven houses, largely in bedding 

 stock, chrysanthemums and carnations. 



There was considerable hail southwest 

 of town last Wednesday. About 300 

 lights of glass were broken in the green- 

 houses of Mount Greenwood cemetery and 

 bedding plants were badly cut to pieces. 

 West of there the hail was much heavier 

 and the market gardeners lost practically 

 all their stock. 



J. W. Ensweiler, of 5329 South Morgan 



H. A. Dreer's Exhibit of Aquatics at St. Louis Worlds' Fair. 



