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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AuausT 10, 1906. 





WE ARE READY.... 



To take better care of our customers than ever, as we are now cutting heavy from our New Crop 

 of Roaes, which is the best to be found on the market. We are especially strong on 



BRIDE. MAID, AMERICAN BEAUTY, CHATENAY, 



UNCLE JOHN, LIBERTY AND RICHMOND. 

 CARNATIONS OF ALL THE LEADING VARIETIES IN SEASON. 



In addition to tbe cut from onx own larffe plaoo, we sball have the product of soTaral firat-olaas €hrow«ra 

 . ot Bos«B. And we sball have other now oonal^nora who are growers of hlffb-grada Oaraations and other 

 ■took. We shall be in a position to give you tbe best the market affords at fair prices, and would like to add you to 

 our lifrt of satlsflcd customers. We can do It if you give us tbe opportunity. Write us about it. We make no charge 

 for P. A D. on orders amounting to $4.00 and over. 



J. A. BUDLONG, 'cHicATor 



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Mention The Rerlcw when yon write. 



summer home, harvesting a fine crop of 

 peaches. 



Among those who will attend the con- 

 vention are Fritz Bahr, H. N. Bruns 

 and wife, and John F. Kidwell. N. J. 

 Wietor will also go, Mrs. Wietor aud the 

 children visiting in Milwaukee during his 

 absence. 



J. A. Budlong has done a fine business 

 with field-grown carnation plants. They 

 had a big lot but could have sold many 

 more, many orders having to be declined. 

 They are cutting roses from young stock 

 in quantity, their Maids having especially 

 fine color. 



Leonard Kill is devoting his spare 

 time to amateur photography and is be- 

 coming an expert. The illustration on 

 another page of this issue, showing a 

 part of the Peter Reinberg range of 

 glass, and including one of George Rein- 

 berg 's sections, is from one of Mr. Kill 's 

 photographs. 



At E. H. Hunt's they have had sev- 

 eral busy days with a big importation 

 of French chiffon, a large part of which 

 had been sold prior to its arrival. 



E. F. Winterson's mother, who is 

 known and liked by many in the trade, 

 is visiting relatives in Massachusetts. 



The Kasting and Beatty bowling 

 trophies were shipped to Washington last 

 Friday. The boys will do what they can 

 next week to re-establish their claim to 

 them. 



C. W. McKellar and wife are planning 

 to attend the convention if the demands 

 of business do not prevent. 



Matt Mann is cutting a big crop of 

 auratimi lilies and Zech & Mann are 

 handling a fine new crop of Beauties. 



A recent visitor was W. T. Hamilton 

 of Louisville, Ky. 



Jacob Kraft, 1670 North Ashland ave- 

 nue, waa killed by a Northwestern train 

 at Peterson avenue on Saturday. He was 

 71 years of age. 



Fred Sperry, of Vaughan & Sperry, is 

 at his old home in Pennsylvania for a 

 week's visit. 



Rudolph J. Mohr, who has been a 

 member of W. J. Smyth's force for sev- 

 eral months has bought the A. J. Fidler 

 place at Racine, Wis. It consists of up- 

 wards of 20,000 feet of glass and Mr. 

 Mohr has bought real estate, greenhouses 

 and stock complete. He will do a general 



retail business and, as the town is a 

 good one, has excellent prospects. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. is this 

 week receiving a cut of the Benthey 

 aster grown under glass. The outdoor 

 crops will soon be along. 



Geo. Reinberg stands by Liberty. He 

 has had and is getting very good cuts. 



Wietor Bros, have been holding a house 

 of Morning Glory carnation which has 

 been giving excellent flowers all along 

 and only threw it out with regret for 

 replanting. 



E. F. Winterson Co. is handling Gladi- 

 olus America from Frank Banning. The 

 retailers all like it. Word comes from 

 New York that it was the flower used on 

 the Mayflower for the luncheon at which 

 President Roosevelt introduced the Rus- 

 sian and Japanese peace envoys. 



Miss Martin, of the Lamborn store at 

 Canton, O., is in town for a few days' 

 visit. 



E. C. Amling has been away for a part 

 of the week on a business trip in the 

 country. 



Sinner Bros, are handling a large cut 

 of good Easter lilies, the first they have 

 ever grown. 



KANSAS QTY. 



The Market. 



There is no appreciable change in the 

 situation from the report of last week. 

 Roses are showing up in better form 

 but prices have remained the same. Car- 

 nations are hardly fit to handle and can- 

 not be shipped any distance. Asteirs are 

 looking better this year than for any 

 previous year, sufficient rain having 

 fallen to keep them in good growing con- 

 dition. Nearly all the stores are doing 

 enough business to keep things moving, 

 although very little stock is kept on 

 hand. The growers have nearly all filled 

 their benches and what stock is planted 

 is showing up well. 



Various Notes. 



A visit to A. F. Barbe's place is a 

 lesson to the average grower as to how 

 an up-to-date place should be conducted. 

 His business being under his personal 

 supervision, Mr. Barbe is enabled to keep 

 things in first-class condition. Being 



situated close to a popular cemetery, his 

 place is seldom without customers and 

 consequently he keeps his houses in such 

 shape that it is a pleasure to go through 

 them. His stock so far planted is in fine 

 condition and shows the effect of intel- 

 ligent care. 



Miss J. E. Murray and sister keep a 

 fine stock on hand in spite of the hot 

 weather and are getting their share of 

 the business. 



Another store which is an instance of 

 intelligent management is that of Arthur 

 Newell, on Twelfth street. Your corres- 

 pondent remembers when Mr. Newell en- 

 tered the business here and we have seen 

 florists come and go, but by painstaking 

 effort and square dealings his business 

 has reached very gratifying proportions 

 and has become one of the permanent 

 fixtures of a progressive town. 



Still another place that has gained a 

 foothold upon the top of the ladder is 

 that of Lawrence Schwager, Thirteenth 

 and Grand streets. Opening a store in 

 what was at that time an out of the way 

 comer, failure was predicted for him, 

 but the city is now moving in his direc- 

 tion and what many thought would be 

 a losing venture has proven an unqualified 

 success. 



Louis W. Shouse, secretary of the 

 company owning Convention HaU, will 

 attend the Washington convention in 

 the interest of the big flower show to be 

 given in Convention Hall November 13 

 to 18. Kansas City proposes to again 

 this year have the largest show of the 

 season. The premium Ust carries $5,000 

 in "real money," payable to winners 

 the last day of the show, without refer- 

 ence to gate receipts, but the attendance 

 will be all right if the weather is half- 

 way decent. 



Ed Ellsworth, of Geo. M. Kellogg 's, is 

 on his vacation. Ed is one of our hust- 

 ling young men and deserves his holi- 

 day. 



A. Blankenfeld has one of the finest 

 displays to be seen around any green- 

 house in the city. Being upon a promi- 

 nent car line, he has taken infinite pains 

 to make his grounds a show place and 

 has succeeded admirably. 



W. H. Humfeld is getting his houses 

 in tip-top shape and his stock is look- 

 ing fine. Having two places Mr. Hum- 



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