: > ■ ' 

 October 6, 1904. 



'•;.i^;v^;:;-^- ■■■'- . 



The Weekly Florists^ Revfew. 



9S7 



Chrysanthemums. 



We are handling; the best blooms in the market* Our g:rowers know 

 their business. Cuts are increasing; and prices are more reg;ular* 



Let us have your order. Get your name on our mailing; list for 

 our weekly market report. 



ALL CUT FLOWERS IN SEASON. 



E. C. SNLING, 



The Ita.rg9Mt, Best Bqiiipped and Most Centrally Iiooated 

 Wholesale Cut Flower Honse in Chlcairo- 



32-34-36 Randolph St.. 



i.» n].«..<-. T.i.»i.»... / 1978 end 1977 Ceetral. 

 Long Distance Telephones | j^^ Aotomatk. 



Chicago, III. 



AMBBZOAV BBAUTT. Per doi. 



80— 86-incIi Btem ; $8.00 



24-liicb Btem 2.60 



ao-lncta Btem 2.00 



lO-lncli stem 1.60 



12-lncb Btem i.oo 



Short stem S8.00 to S4.00 per 100. 



Per 100 



Brides and Maids S2.00to $6.00 



Meteors and Gates 2.00to 6.00 



Liberty S.OOto 6.00 



Kalserin S.OOto 8.00 



Carnations, select, all colors. . . . I.OO to 1 60 



large and fancy.... 2.00 to 8.00 

 Mums, large. . .per doz., $3 to $4 

 medium " 11.60 to 2 



Violets 60to 1.00 



VaUey 2.00to 4.00 



Tuberoses — per doz, 85c to 50c 

 Longiflorums " 1.60 

 Asparagus, per string, 35 to 60c. 



Asparagus Sprengeri 2.00 to 8.00 



Perns per 1000, $1.25 .16 



Oalaz per 1000. tl.26 .16 



LeucotboB .75 



Adlantum .75 



Adiantum Croweanum 1.50 



Smllaz per dos., $1.60 10.00 



Bikjeet td ekaace wltkoat aotlce. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



A. Lange says trade is gradually get- 

 ting under way but he wants to see good 

 frosty weather. He has quite a trade 

 with out-of-town florists who wire him 

 orders for funeral and other flowers to 

 be delivered in Chicago or the suburbs. 



Wietor Bros, are growing a big lot 

 of mums this season and are already get- 

 ting in a big cut, for the orders call 

 for them. 



Aid. and Mrs. Peter Beinberg are at 

 St. Louis for Chicago day. 



N. C. Moore & Co. are getting in a 

 big cut of dahlias. 



J. D. Prueesner, of Galveston, Tex., 

 was a visitor Monday. He came from 

 St. Louis. 



There was another fire in the Atlas 

 block Monday evening but it did the 

 wholesale cut flower people no damage. 

 There are tales, not improbable but not 

 fully verified, of how the florists gath- 

 ered at the foot of the fire escape, gaz- 

 ing aloft, alert to catch the pretty 

 young woman who was descending from 

 the fifth floor with her firm's ledger in 

 her arms. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers had an informal session 

 at Bensinger's alleys, 108 Randolph 

 street, Tuesday evening, where they will 

 meet again next Tuesday, every member 

 of the Florists' Club being requested to 

 be present. This weeks scores were: 



Player. Ist 2d 3d 



Balluff 166 131 126 



Asmns 186 183 180 



Wlnteraon 134 110 IW 



Prnner 178 127 186 



Stevens 211 181 181 



Scott 161 127 122 



Lamtros 167 169 125 



Benesh 88 107 109 



Hauswlrth 186 160 



We consider the Review all right and 

 don't expect to be without it as long as 

 we are in the business. — Cook & Cook, 

 Alvin, Tex. 



Council Bluffs, Ia. — J. F. Wilcox 

 shipped a car of decorative plants and 

 large quantities of cut flowers to Ne- 

 braska City for the Cudahy-Morton 

 wedding October 1. 



Philadelphia. — A pleasing story has 

 gone to the newspapers throughout the 

 country of how Wm. Standen, a muscu- 

 lar and polite young florist, has been 

 engaged as escort for the young ladies 

 at Bryn Mawr college. 



BUFFALO. , 



The Market 

 There has been a decided awaken- 

 ing of business during the last two 

 weeks. The folks are home from moun- 

 tain and sea-shore and social events 

 in society are increasing. Tea roses 

 are yet poor and none too plentiful. 

 American Beauty is in good demand 

 and all that come to town find ready 

 sale. Carnations are just commencing 

 and sell well. Of all the varieties to 

 give you good flowers on good 8t«ms 

 at this early date there is none equal 

 to Enchantress. A few chrysanthe- 

 mums are in* the windows. Midge, 

 Monrovia and Fitzwygram are the va- 

 rieties. I have seen the real Lady 

 Fitzwygram. His lordship is the 

 owner of Leigh Park, in Hampshire, 

 near the great naval station of 

 Portsmouth, where the writer let out 

 his initial squall. I wonder if her 

 ladyship knew how often on this side 

 of the Atlantic her name is taken in 

 vain. In another week the mums will 

 be in abundance, for asters are gone. 

 We know where there are some fine 

 Mrs. T. W. Pockett about fit to cut, 

 but this beautiful yellow should be left 

 until it is perfect. 



Various Notes. 



I met our aster king, Rudolph Boett- 

 ger, a few days ago and he said he 

 looks for another good crop of Scra- 

 pie's Branching asters if frost holds 

 off. That speaks well for our climate. 

 Strange to say, while central New 

 York had a terrible frost and we hear 

 of its visit as far south as Baltimore, 

 we have escaped. The weather man 

 reports the lowest in September at 38 

 degrees, yet in low places frost was 

 felt and, what with winds and rain, 

 there is little left outside. In a ten- 

 mile drive through the truly rural 

 roads of Genesee county, we deplored 

 the fact that thousands of barrels of 

 red cheeked Baldwin apples will rot 

 on the ground because, after paying 

 for a barrel and the labor of picking, 

 there would be nothing left for the 

 poor farmer. 



And yet the farmer is not so poor! 

 He generally has health and plenty to 

 eat, clothes sufficient for decency and 

 comfort, rural free mail delivery, tele- 



phone for $1 a month, a district school 

 within a mile or two and all beyond 

 this is frills and unnecessaries. Is he 

 not a king compared to the white 

 slave in our crowded citiesj, paying 

 two prices for everything he eats, 

 drinks and wears and the kids run 

 the streets, and a fourth of his wages 

 is taken for rentt 



We noticed the corn scorched with 

 frost and yet occasionally a dahlia in 

 some front yard four or five feet high 

 loaded with pompon flowers. So all 

 together it can be summed up in the 

 beautiful lines of J. Whitcomb 

 Squash: 



The frost Is on the pumpkin, 

 The buckwheat's In the shock, - 



But dahlia's still a bloomln'. 

 Though the corn has got a knock. 



Mr. Anderson has entirely gotten 

 over the remodeling of his store and 

 it's now a beauty. 



C. H. Keitsch is also in new quar- 

 ters, a wonderful improvement over 

 the store he vacated. 



Byrne Bros, have purchased land in 

 the Williamsville direction and are 

 erecting a range of glass. This, we 

 suppose, is the nucleus of an extensivfe 

 place, as these young men are workers 

 and will stick to it. 



We have not seen many visitors, but 

 the few we did meet might be classed 

 as choice to extra. Mr. Peterson, of 

 Cincinnati, was here and then came 

 "Billy" Craig, of Philadelphia. Each 

 had his order book ready, but they had 

 something else. They each hired a 

 spacious room in a hotel and had sam- 

 ples of what they had to offer. This 

 is an excellent idea, for when you see 

 the palm, fern, pandanus of begonia, 

 it gives you a much better idea what 

 you are buying than any talk of two 

 feet high, seven leaves, etc., etc. There 

 is only one trifling (!) condition to 

 make this system entirely satisfactory 

 to all concerned, especially the buyer, 

 viz., that the order when executed 

 shall be as per sample. 



Speaking again of«S. A. Anderson, 

 he has filled a very important position 

 for the past two weeks. He is fore- 

 man of the grand jury and last week 

 they indicted three aldermen and four 

 ex-aldermen. Of course the offense is 

 the great American specialty, graft on 

 public work. "v^. g^ 



