

OCTOBKB 20, 1904. 



Th^ Weekly Florists' Review* 



1063 



Gold qf Ophir Rose at the Residence of C. H. Gardiner, South Pasadena, CaL 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



This delightful Indian summer is ex- 

 cellent 'Weather for one phase of the com- 

 mission business;, it facilitates trading 

 growers. They are all in a state of un- 

 rest and it is easy to get up a dicker. 

 But market conditions are not nearly so 

 bad as the dissatisfaction of the grower^i 

 would indioate. The city buyers are tak- 

 ing good quantities of stock, including 

 everything but violets, which are slow 

 sale, and the out-of-town shipments are 

 numerous and fairly heavy. The-trouble 

 comes that receipts are large and qual- 

 ity aflTected by the unseasonable heat. 

 Even in this respect, however, there is 

 already an improvement. Cuts are not 

 so heavy as last week, although the pro- 

 portion of low grade material is just as 

 great and "clean-up" sales just as cheap. 



The early mums are gone and the mid- 

 season sorts not yet on in full force. 

 Oood Beauties sell well but are too 

 abundant for any material stiffening in 

 prices. Some tea rosea are very good 

 and in demand, with others soft or mil- 

 dewed and unsalable except for cheap 

 •work. Liberty is fine. Outdoor carna- 

 tions still oppress the market. Fine 

 dahlins are offered. It is too warm for 

 violets, even fine Hudson river stock go- 

 ine very slow. These are again received 

 in quantity. Smilax is in brisk demand 

 and pretty well cut out. It is the one 

 item strong in price. 



The Chicago Show. 



If anyon<? has an idea that because of 

 the St. Louis show interest in the local 

 exhibition will be any less he wants to 

 disabuse himself of it right away. Chi- 

 cago is goini? to have the best show of 

 the year. There was a meeting of the 

 executive committee of the Horticultural 

 Society at the Auditorium Monday after- 

 noon at which the work was pushed 

 along with a will. Seldom, if ever, 

 have there been so many interested work- 

 ers. Everyone wants to do something 

 to make the Chicago show the success 



it should be. The poster will be ready 

 November I. 



Various Notes. 



H. Bau.ske is one of the growers who 

 does not find it necessary to rebuild his 

 houses every few years in order to main- 

 tain the quality of the stock. He grows 

 good stock in any kind of house, no mat- 

 ter how old, because he neglects none of 

 the infinite details of good culture, 

 keeps his houses always freshly painted 

 and as clean as though perpetually 

 swept by a new broom. If Mr. Bauske 

 has his slippers on, he doesn't like to 

 have to stop to put on his gum boots 

 before he can go into the greenhouses. It 

 is an example which many would make 

 money by following. He grows Beauty, 

 Bride, Maid and Liberty. The cut goes 

 to the A. L. Randall Co. 



L. Baumann & Co. report being more 

 than pleased at the way their florists' 

 supply business has grown in the short 

 time they have been pushing it. Take, 

 for instance, folding Christmas bells; 

 their importation of one style amounts to 

 18,000 and practically all are sold. Be- 

 sides they make a bell of their own, 

 white, red, green and other colors, on 

 which they are doing a big business. In 

 fact it has for some time not been a ques- 

 tion of getting business but of filling or- 

 ders promptly. They are working nights 

 and Sundays. They have the whole 

 fourth floor and half the third at 76-78 

 Wabash avenue and a big storeroom on 

 the north side. 



Peter Reinberg says that good coal is 

 the cheapest in the end. Pocahontas at 

 $3.25 a ton he finds cheaper than any 

 coal he has ever used, including Illinois 

 and Indiana coals at much lower rates 

 per ton. The Pocahontas has the lasting 

 qualities, burns up clean, makes little 

 smoke and gives great heat. He buys of 

 Castner. Curran & Bullitt in the Old 

 Colony buildine. 



C. M. Dickinson spent a day at St. 

 Paul last week. W. E. Lynch returned 

 Monday from his trip to the Hudson 

 river violet district and the Berkshire 

 fefn region. He says he saw to the ship- 



ping of two refrigerator cars of femSy 

 now in cold storage. 



At the Growers' Market Crabb & Hun- 

 ter reopened this week. Mrs. Mulliken, 

 who had charge last season, is again on 

 hand but now as Mrs. Jamieson. The F. 

 Blondeel Co. will resume selling on No- 

 vember 1. Mrs. Fred Hills is again on 

 band each morning. 



A. V. Jackson has given up rose grow- 

 ing and torn down his houses. Hereafter 

 all his energies will be devoted t6 mush- 

 room growing. 



The Bensinger funeral on Sunday 

 brought out one of the largest displays 

 of flowers ever seen in Chicago. Mr. 

 Bensinger was the founder of the Bruns- 

 wick-Balke-Collender Co., and many of 

 the pieces were above the hundred-dollar 

 mark. 



All Saints' day, November 1. is annual- 

 ly the occasion for heavy shipments to 

 New Orleans ; nowhere else does it 

 have any importance as reflected in de- 

 mands on this market. The New Or- 

 leans shipments will go out October 29 

 and 30. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. is doing a big busi- 

 ness in wire work this month, but re- 

 port wheat sheaves slow sale. 



Frost has held off so long that the 

 growers are putting carnations from the 

 field in the benches from which the early 

 mums were cut. 



Wietor Bros, report shipping demand 

 as very good the last few days. 



D. Wood Brant is getting a large cut 

 of Beauties. He ships the greater part 

 of his product on standing orders. 



Leonard Kill is chairman of a commit- 

 tee charged with the duty of procurin^f 

 supplies so that a flower may be given t* 

 each lady who visits the flower show. 

 He was also chairman of the progrant 

 committee for the St. Gregory's church 

 fair this week and if he is as successful 

 in getting flowers as he was in getting 

 advertisements for the program ther« 

 will be a whole bouquet for each show 

 visitor. 



E. C Amling has put in a vertical fil- 

 ing system to keep all his correspondence 



