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1 he Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 18, 1904. 



Gtladium Esctilentum at St. James Park, Los Angeles, Cal. 



thought the business could be made 

 profitable in time, Charles E. Meehan 

 replied that the feeling in the past had 

 been that the Market should be developed 

 as a market and not as a commission 

 house, but that if the commission busi- 

 ness were pushed and stalls rented to the 

 growers who wished them, he believed 

 that in three or four years the business 

 could be made profitable and a good mar- 

 ket could be established. 



John Burton asked the privilege of 

 being allowed an opportunity to rent a 

 stall in the Market. Joseph Heacock 

 thought that as the growers had not cor- 

 dially supported the undertaking it would 

 be better to give it up. A. Farenwalc? 

 said the Market had not paid him. C. E. 

 Meehan replied that his stock had only 

 been sent to the Market during the glut. 

 H. H. Battles favored continuing the 

 Market, but thought the manager should 

 be given more power. Joseph Heacock 

 replied that the board of directors had 

 given the manager full power. 



John Burton moved that the Market 

 be continued under the present manage- 

 ment. This motion was twice seconded. 

 After further discussion it was adopted 

 by a viva voce vote. The meeting then 

 adjourned. About 500 of the 674 shares 

 were represented. 



The board of directors met after the 

 stockholders adjourned. They instructed 

 the managers to rent the first floor ana 

 basement of 1235 and 1237 Filbert street. 

 This has been done. The Market will be 

 moved in September to its new quartets, 

 which are more accessible and more cen- 

 tral than the old quarters. 



Our St Louis Delegation. 



Broad street station was the scene of 

 farewells a little after 8 o'clock last 

 Sunday evening when a good sized party 

 of Philadelphia florists left to attend the 

 convention and to see the Pike. There 



was lots to do in helping Commissary 

 General Westcott get his stores aboard, 

 then much sound advice was given the 

 bowlers, by which they cannot fail to 

 benefit, and finally leave-takings. 



The members of the party were : John 

 Burton, Miss Burton, F. J. Michell, F. 

 J. Michell, Jr., Antoine Wintzer, John F. 

 Sibson, Mrs. Sioson, Julius Wolff, Jr., 

 Mrs. Wolff, S. Adellaerger, Edwin Lons- 

 dale, Leo Niessen, Eobert Craig, George 

 Craig, Eobert Kift, J. H. Eibsam, A. 

 Lake, Charles Sim, Mrs. Sim, John West- 

 cott, A. H. Lanser, Wm. Eobertson, J. 

 L. Dillon and son, D. T. Connor, W. F. 

 Gibson, John Conley, Fred Ehret, Chas. 

 D. BaU and W. H. Taplin. 



The Florists' Qub. 



A special meeting of the Florists ' Club 

 was called last Friday evening at the 

 request of five members, who wanted ar- 

 rangements for the club's bowling team 

 at St. Louis definitely settled. After a 

 lively debate the plan mapped out at the 

 August meeting was carried out. Let us 

 hope our team wins a great victory at 

 St. Louis, but whatever the result, we 

 know that every bowler will do his very 

 best. 



Various Notes. 



H. Bayersdorfer, in speaking of his 

 trip to Europe this summer, said that 

 never in twenty years had he experienced 

 such torrid heat. Paris was simply un- 

 bearable. His visit there had to be cut 

 short. 



C. J. Watson reports that his firm, S. 

 S. Pennock, has had some good shipping 

 orders for Beauties and valley. 



The dahlia business at Atco, heretofore 

 carried on under the name of W. P. Pea- 

 cock, will in future be conducted under 

 the name of L. K. Peacock, under whose 

 management it has been developed. 



M. Eice & Co. have built a gallery 



over their oflSce to give more desk room. 

 They have rented two floors in nearby 

 buildings for purposes of storage. 



Laifry Sutter, of Quarryville, Pa., says 

 he would not be without the EEviEV\r. It 

 reaches him almost as soon as it reaches 

 Philadelphia. 



Wm. J. Baker is receiving fine yellow 

 daisies from A. & G. Eosbach, of Pem- 

 berton, N. J. 



Paul Richter, of H. F. Michell Co., is 

 too busy a man for even Saturday half- 

 holidays. He occasionally makes for the 

 shore for a Sunday dip, which he en- 

 joys. 



Chas. F. Edgar is spending a few days 

 in Lancaster and Chester counties. 



J. P. Habermehl and Wm. Westcott 

 have done a little quiet shooting on the 

 Gun Club 's grounds at Wissinoming. 



E. M. Eisenhart has been spending a 

 few days at Atlantic City. He has fouild 

 the present season very favorable for 

 outdoor violet culture. 



It is sometimes pretty hard for a busi- 

 ness man to get away, but Edward 

 Eeid's experience of going fo his berth 

 well down the bay and waking up back 

 at the wharf again is rather unusual. He 

 did finally get off for Savannah. 



Phil. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The demand is nothing remarkable, 

 but it would consume more roses and car- 

 nations if they were available. There 

 are considerable quantities of Beauties 

 from young stock which are fine for the 

 season and they all find a sale. Tea 

 roses are scarce and the shipping stock 

 brings good summer prices; so do low 

 grades, for that matter, considering qual- 

 ity. The supply of field-grown carna- 

 tions is increasing and quality is fair. 

 Asters are still abundant, but are not so 

 plentiful as they were, for disease is 

 playing havoc in many places. The pre- 

 dominant flowers just now are gladioli 

 and rudbeckias. Dahlias are beginning 

 to come in. 



Various Notes. 



These are the dog days, but Bassett 

 & Washburn say that it was 46 at Hins- 

 dale one night last week and they have 

 had steam on in the greenhouses many 

 nights this month. 



John "Van der Wal has rented J. 

 Schau's place at One Hundred and 

 Fourth street and Michigan avenue and 

 will grow cut flowers and bedding plants. 



C. B. Chase has been fishing at Fox 

 Lake and the other dkj pulled out, on 

 his hooks, a tattered pocketbook in which 

 were $10, railroad tickets, etc. 



At its city place the George Wittbold 

 Co. has plantc-d one house to mums to 

 be succeeded by lilies and another to 

 carnations to be succeeded by bedding 

 stock. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. is taking advan- 

 tage of the quiet week locally because of 

 the convention to put the store to rights 

 again, redecorating throughout. 



John Zeck, of Amling's, is on vaca- 

 tion this week. 



The St. Louis Trip, 

 There were considerably over 100 in the 

 party which left Chicago for the conven- 

 tion Monday morning, but the failure of 

 many to notify the transportation com- 

 mittee that they were going, necessitated 

 traveling on the regular train instead of 

 a special, as would otherwise have been 

 the case. But everyone was taken care 



