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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jttlt 20, 1905. 



SEND TO US FOR 



All Your Needs 



RjIE shall have during the summer^ as always, 

 everything to be found in any cut flower 

 market at the season. Send us your order, no 

 matter what you want. We have a reputation 

 for filling orders when others fail. 



On wire work we can discount our own 

 or any otiier list. Get our prices. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 

 40-42-44 Randolph Street, CHICAGO. 



WE HAVE 30O0 



White 

 Peony 



Plants 



such as we can recommend to be 

 grown for c«t flowers. K yott 

 want the right kind of plants 

 write to us about these* : : : 



at the rate of three dozen for a dollar, 

 with some waste of the darker sorts. 



The Florists' Club has a new button 

 to wear at the convention. 



Zech & Mann have large receipts of 

 auratums and report brisk sales. John 

 Zech is wearing a pair of blue glasses, 

 because of trouble with his eyes. 



Wm. Kidwell, better known as 

 "Billy," is at Onekema, Mich., on a 

 fishing trip and writes N. J. "Wietor, dis- 

 ciple of Isaak Walton, that the pickerel 

 are biting well in spite of high water. 



J. A. Budlong has begun shipping 

 field-grown carnation plants. He reports 

 a big call for Boston Market. 



Gus Ahlers is again on duty at Wie- 

 tors' after his annual period for rest- 

 ing up. 



Among the week's visitors have been 

 B. Eschner, of M. Eice & Co., Phila- 

 delphia; H. Krinke, of St. Paul, who is 

 on his way to Germany; George Hunt, 

 of Terre Hatate, who was here to con- 

 sult an oculist; Ludvig Mosbaek, Onarga, 

 111., who sells so many bedding plants; 

 Geo. Galloway, florist and undertaker, 

 of Menominie, "Wis.; C. W. Johnson, 

 Rockford, 111., buying stock for H. W. 

 Buckbee 's new range. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



Summer is here in earnest and we are 

 experiencing some extremely hot weather, 

 with a thunder shower almost every day, 

 and, as a result, good stock is out of 

 the question and business does not cut 

 any figure; many of the store people 

 are trying to amuse themselves. 



Various Notes. 



The Pittsburg Rose & Carnation Co., 

 in drilling for gas, struck oil and last 

 Friday quite a good-sized party were at 

 Bakerstown, including P. S. Randolph, 

 E. C. Reineman, E. C. Ludwig, Arthur 

 Langhans, T. P. Langhans and W. A. 

 Clarke and wife. While the well flowed 

 a few barrels, it will be several days be- 

 fore they get through the pay sand far 

 enough to know how good the strike is. 

 There were twenty-five or thirty oil men, 

 who are interested in the territory about 

 there, who have haunted the farm for 

 ■everal days, waiting the coming in of 



the well. While all hands on the place 

 were greatly interested in the oil well, 

 still it did not interfere with the carna- 

 tion planting, which was going right 

 along. The roses are all planted and 

 looking good and Mr. Burki says that 

 while a good oil well is all right in its 

 way, nothing can interfere with his at- 

 tention to his first love. After a pleas- 

 ant afternoon and some refreshments, we 

 all caught the evening train home, after 

 wishing Mr. Burki a thousand-barrel 

 flower. 



The transportation committee, which 

 has charge of arrangements for the trip 

 to the twenty-first annual meeting of the 

 S. A. F., expects to take a good-sized 

 party to the convention. The club's 

 itinerary will include Atlantic City. For 

 further information consult committee, 

 Fred Burki, John Bader or E. C. Reine- 

 man. 



Ernest Zieger and wife have the sym- 

 pathy of their many friends in the loss 

 of their little daughter, who died July 

 17. 



The Qub Picnic 



The florists' picnic was a decided suc- 

 cess, notwithstanding that it began rain- 

 ing about daylight and kept it up until 

 noon. The largest crowd the club ever 

 had was out on the boat and seemed to 

 enjoy themselves all the way up the river 

 and, after dinner on the boat, were ready 

 to get off when it landed at Moss-side 

 Grove. As it had quit raining the com- 

 mittee laid out the ground for the ath- 

 letic sports, which truly were a howling 

 success. 



The ball game was between the re- 

 tailers and growers. James Moore, as 

 umpire, could not stand the "gaff" and 

 retired in the fourth inning with the 

 growers in the lead and W. A. Clarke 

 was pressed into service. His decisions 

 were not any more satisfactory, espe- 

 cially as the retailers took the lead in the 

 next inning and won the prize, a dis- 

 budding knife for each player in the 

 team. The game afforded much sport 

 and, while some of the decisions on the 

 plays were "rotten" enough, they did 

 not have anything on some of the plays 

 made. Joe Jones broke a finger in the 

 second inning, the only accident of the 

 day. 



Among the athletic events, some of 



which were very good, the following is 



the list of winners: 



lOO-.vard dash, boys under 8, Fred Burki, Jr.; 

 100-yard dash, girls under 8, Marlon Langhans; 

 100-yard dash, boys under 10, Luclan Ahlers; 

 100- yard dash, girls under 10, Myrtle Kraus; 

 100-yard dash, boys under 1.3, Milton Ahlers; 

 100-yard dash, girls under 13, Margaret Cole- 

 man; 100-yard dash, men, open, Howard Carney; 

 100-yard egg-spoon race. Miss Lease; 25-yard 

 potato race Howard Carney; 100-yard bag race, 

 Harry Ham; 100-yard dash, growers, John Wy- 

 land; lOO-yard walk, men, Fred Zieger; 100 

 yard walk, ladles. Miss Lease; lOO-yard dash, 

 fat men, Edward McGrath: lOO-yard dash, 

 ladles. Miss Graf; lOO-yard dash, young ladles. 

 Mary Boss; 20-yard peanut race, James Dble; 

 lOO-yard dash, ladles. Miss Boss; lOO-yard 

 dash, young ladles, Miss Boss; 25-yard hop, 

 Joseph Boss; high jump, Joseph Jones; running 

 broad jump, Howard Carney; cake walk, Mrs. 

 Whelan and daughter. 



Through the generosity of John Evans, 

 of the Quaker City Machine Works, it 

 was necesasry for the committee to add 

 another race, which was •"'*■ on the pro- 

 gram. F. Goodman carried off this prize- 

 Picnic Notes. 



The dancing on the boat caught the 

 young people and the dancing floor was 

 usually filled. 



Ed McGrath, who won the fat man's 

 race, was pretty badly winded, but he 

 wanted the pair of steins. 



Fred Zieger was the only man on the 

 grove who seemed to know what a heel 

 and toe walk was and won the race. 



While there were a few fat women in 

 the party, none would acknowledge it 

 and so the fat woman's race was made 

 a lOO-yard dash for women with lots of 

 entries. 



The broad jump was the best exhibi- 

 tion of the day. Some of the jumpers 

 made good scores. 



The women and girls seemed to take 

 more interest in athl^t^^ics than the men. 



Uncle John Wyland was the oldest 

 man to compete, but won his race and 

 the thermometer. 



Wm. Hamilton, superintendent of Al- 

 legheny park, was with us for the first 

 time in years. Mr. Hamilton looks as 

 young as he did twenty-five years ago. 



Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F. Beckert and 

 their family of nine children were with 

 us for the first time and enjoyed a good 

 day's outing. 



We missed our friend, Wm. Falconer, 

 but no doubt he had a good excuse. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



