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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Jdmb 15, 1905. 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



NCREASED SUPPLIES AND RAPIDLY INCREASING BUSINESS necessi- 

 tate increased facilities and we wish to announce to the trade that MR. MONS 

 OLSON, for many years identified with leading shipping houses in Chicago^ is now 

 with us and we bespeak the patronage of the many buyers whom he has served in the past. 



There is no house better able to take care of your 

 orders and none more anxious to please* 



ZECH & MANN, 5."w;ST;e CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



the stock and fixtures at the store in the 

 Masonic Temple, although this avails 

 nothing, for Mosconesotes ' brother 

 has been able to show title. However, 

 on Saturday he sold out to Frank Wil- 

 liams, who already has a store around 

 the corner on Kandolph street. The re- 

 ported consideration was $1,100. 



Jas. Foerster, manager of George Kein- 

 berg's city store, was married June 8 to 

 a Miss Eiggs. The announcement came 

 as a surprise to Mr. Foerster 's many 

 friends. 



Bassett & Washburn report that thus 

 far this has been the best June in years. 

 They are getting a good cut of Kaiserin, 

 which helps out. 



The first part of this week has seen 

 the ■'height of thfi ceony season at the 

 Peterson Nursery and the peony fields 

 have been visited by a large number of 

 those interested in the popular spring 

 flower, including many in the trade. Mr. 

 Peterson says the season's blooming has 

 confirmed his good opinion of Delicatis- 

 sima. 



It is reported that one of the down- 

 town cheap sales stores bought 40,000 

 carnations on Saturday. 



The Chicago Carnation Co. has been 

 sending large consignments of peonies to 

 a number of the local wholesalers the 

 past week. They lost a considerable part 

 of their crop, however, in the hail storm 

 at the end of May. 



A. B. Austin, at Downers Grove, has 

 been sending E. H. Hunt immense ship- 

 ments of peonies of fine quality the past 

 week. A large quantity have gone into 

 cold storage. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is at work on 

 another good sized addition to its plant, 

 seven houses each 27x195 feet. 



There was only a small attendance at 

 the club meeting June 8. The next ses- 

 sion, June 22, will probably be the last 

 for the season. 



Besides the rebuilding operations al- 

 ready mentioned, Emil Buettner is ex- 

 tending three of his old houses 129 feet 

 each. 



P. J. Hauswirth says that so far in 

 June business has been exceptionally 

 good with him, a large part of it wed- 

 ding work and decorations in the Audi- 

 torium. 



The Fleisehman Floral^Jo. is to erect a 

 handsome show house 27x50 feet at its 

 new branch store at State and Division 

 streets. The J. C. Moninger Co. is draw- 

 ing the plans. 



The jobbing houses have announced a 

 slight increase in price on the larger 



sizes of window glass. The discount on 

 ordinary greenhouse sizes continues to be 

 90 and 30 per cent from the list; 16x20 

 is reported scarce. 



Ed. Hauswirth has returned from an 

 early vacation. 



The roses at the wooded island in 

 Jackson park will be at their best next 

 Sunday. 



Carl Niemann, at Norwood Park, is 

 building three houses 21x125 to be 

 finished July 10 for early planting with 

 carnations. 



Peter Keinberg is rebuilding a range 

 of houses, raising them and substituting 

 iron gutters for wood, without removing 

 the glass. 



E. E. Pieser says that, although there 

 is ^ure to be big business in peonies for 



Kindly cut out all my advertisement 

 but the late cabbage plants. I surely 

 have no complaint to make, for 



m 



OASES' 



brought me more orders than I could 

 filL I was short over 20,000 tomato 

 plants this spring, 



S. J. McMICHAEL. 

 Findlay, O., June 10. 



the rest of this month, he does not look 

 for any shortage at the end of the sea- 

 son. The Kennicott Bros. Co., which 

 was the pioneer in storing peonies has 

 several thousand dozens more in storage 

 than ever before. 



Webster Randall is paying his annual 

 visit to his old home in Pennsylvania. 

 On his return A. L. Eandall and family 

 will go to their fruit farm in Michigan. 



Howe & Taylor, who started a wire 

 work factory at the Growers' Market a 

 few months ago, sold out June 12 to Jo- 

 seph Kubita, a New York wire worker. 



Zech & Mann are getting the first au- 

 ratum lilies of the season. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. is getting 

 candytuft and coreopsis in quantity and 

 nasturtiums are beginning to come in. 



C. W. McKellar reports a good busi- 

 ness on cattleyas. He is also handling 

 vandas, but they are slow sale. 



W. L. Palinsky says that the bedding 

 plant trade came all in a very short time 

 this year but that everyone so far as 

 he knows is well cleaned up. Some ge- 

 raniums which were not in flower bade 

 fair to be left but are now selling as fast 

 as they come into bloom. 



C. W. Ward, president of the peony 

 society, is due to arrive today for the 

 convention. 



J. A. Budlong reports rose plants sell- 

 ing well. 



A. Siegel, of St. Louis, has been in 

 town for sever al d ays. 



NEW YOHK. 



The Market. 



Summer weather is here at last and 

 Monday a much needed rain fell. The 

 seedsmen and nurserymen and all kinds 

 of growers are rejoicing with great joy. 



The market is a thing of shreds and 

 patches. Plenty of everything and too 

 much of some things. New roses are com- 

 ing in and old ones are still abundant. 

 Prices are uneven and problematical. 

 Boxes go without disturbance and at 

 prices that must bfe heart breaking to 

 the grower and his faithful agent. 



Carnations are also in oversupply and 

 quality continues quite up to the mark, 

 but prices! You should see the stock 

 that goes at 50 cents per thousand. Lilies 

 are no longer a flower for special seasons. 

 Like Will H. Siebrecht's valley, you can 

 have them "every day in the year." 



Peony night at the club came at the 

 right time for an exhibit. Hardly a 

 wholesale house but is flooded with them 

 this week. One man on Twenty-ninth 

 street tells me he has contracted for a 

 shipment from one grower of 60,000 

 flowers. The Cottage Gardens pour their 

 wealth of bloom daily into their regular 

 channel of distribution. One only has 

 to walk through the wholesale section to 

 be set to wondering where the enormous 

 supply can come from. There are some 

 beauties among them, how many varie- 

 ties it would be hard to tell. 



Qub Meeting. 

 The final club meeting until the sec- 

 ond Monday in September was a great 

 success. Between 100 and 200 were 

 ■present, including a large attendance of 

 ladies. Chairman Nugent, not only pro- 



