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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



August 2, lOOO, 



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WE WERE IN A POSITION 



where we felt assured of an especially fine and large crop of Sweet Peas. 



WE ADVERTISED 



and received many calls for the stock. But owing to the severe drought at the 

 critical moment the stock did not grade up to expectations. 



WE MAKE THIS EXPLANATION 



because we aim to advertise without exaggeration. We want the trade to understand 

 that orders may be entrusted to us with every assurance of complete satisfaction. 



Large Supplies of Asters, Gladioli and all Summer Flowers 



VAUGHAN & SPERRY, 58(10 Wabash Avenoe, CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



stemmed thus far this season, it has 

 given stems eighteen inches to two feet 

 long. No yellow center is shown. White 

 is the only color. Mr. Ball expects to 

 have a stock of seed which will permit 

 him to let the trade in on his good thing 

 next season. 



Mr. Ball is one of the largest aster 

 growers tor this market. On Monday he 

 sent 5,200 asters to J. A. Budlong, who 

 is his selling agent. 



Mr. Ball goes to Rock Island, 111., 

 Monday for a week's outing. 



Various Notes. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. was in re- 

 ceipt of a aozen yellow chrysanthemums 

 on July 30. They came from O. L. 

 Baird, Dixon, 111., and made a distinct 

 hit. Anotner novelty at Winterson 's 

 was a small lot of pink and red pond- 

 lilies received last week. L. H. Winter- 

 son plans to attend the convention, and 

 then proceed to New York, accompanied 

 by his wife. 



Peter Reinberg, Adam Zender and 

 John Muno, accompanied by their wives, 

 returned Saturday from a pleasant trip 

 of ten days in Colorado. Mr. Reinberg 

 is now devoting his spare time to the 

 candidacy of M. L. McXinley, who as- 

 pires to be county judge. Mr. McKinley 

 is the representative at Springfield who 

 was of the greatest aid to the bill for 

 the appropriation asked for by the 

 Illinois State Florists' Society. 



Louis »/ittbold took a party of High 

 Ridge vegetable growers to Aurora Sun- 

 day, to show them the working of his 

 sprinkling apparatus in the cucumber 

 houses of W. B. Davis. 



The Foley Mfg. Co. reports an ex- 

 ceedingly busy season, their output of 

 greenhouse material this year being to 

 date three times what it was a year 

 ago. 



The Fleischmann Floral Co. has certi- 

 fied to an increase in its capital stock 

 from $10,000 to $100,000. Mr. Rubel 

 states that no especial change in the 

 business is contemplated. 



According to the police reports, a 

 negro highwayman jumped on a wagon 

 in which Mrs. Frank Waterloo, the wife 

 of an Evanston florist, was riding, and 

 robbed her of a pocketbook containing 

 $10. 



In the work of enlarging their retail 

 store, Marshall Field & Co. made 

 changes in the sewer which are alleged 



to be the cause of Kennicott Bros. Co. 

 being flooded every time it rains. Be- 

 ing inundated again on Saturday, Kenni- 

 cotts on Monday instituted a suit for 

 damages against the Field estate. 



Philip Schupp and family have re- 

 turned from a week's outing at South 

 Haven. 



Henry Weiland, son of M. Weiland, of 

 Evanston, will return from Denver the 

 latter part of this month to wed Miss 

 Buchner, of Evanston. 



Miss Nellie C. Moore has returned 

 from her summer outing at Channel 

 lake. 



The A. L. Randall Co. is beginning 

 to hear from Miss Tonner from Ger- 

 many, with advices of large purchases 

 of florists' supplies, which are to be 

 along on the next boat. Miss Tonner 

 herself is not expected home before 

 September 1. 



Matt Mann is sending in 1,000 to 

 1,200 good white carnations each day. 

 The plants did little in the winter, but 

 are giving a fine cut at a time when 

 the market needs the goods. 



L. Gressens, of Bassett & Washburn, 

 is away on a fortnight's vacation. 



John Sinner says that Saturday's fine 

 rain has tempted many carnation grow- 

 ers north of town to leave their stock in 

 the field for a while yet. The season 

 has been dry for those not on low ground 

 and the plants already "show the benefits 

 of the rain. 



E. H. Hunt is doing quite a busi- 

 ness in boxwood sprays, which have not 

 been available for some time except 

 from cold storage. 



C. M. Dickinson spent Sunday with 

 his family at Campbellsport, Wis. 



Henry Phillip, at Rogers Park, is 

 doing well with his field of asters. 



Charlie Erne is sailing on Lake Mich- 

 igan with friends from Toledo and 

 Terre Haute. 



Vaughan & Sperry are keenly disap- 

 pointed at the failure of a big crop of 

 sweet peas. They had every assurance 

 of fine stock, but the severe drought 

 knocked them out after a nvarket for 

 them had been worked up. 



A. C. Spencer is tasting the joys of 

 rural life this week. 



A. C. Kohlbrand, of Amling's, has 

 returned from Cincinnati. 



Visitors. 



Frederick Sperry had as his guest on 

 Monday, B. A. Maxfield, cashier of the 



Dade County State Bank, of Palm 

 Beach, Fla., where Mr. Sperry formerly 

 resided. 



August Beyer, of South Bend, Ind., 

 passed through Monday on his way 

 home from St. Paul, where he had 

 participated in a saengerfest and had 

 acquired a considerable addition to his 

 already large collection of medals. Next 

 year he will have to begin hanging them 

 on his back. 



Other visitors included B. Eschner, of 

 Philadelphia, on his annual round-up of 

 fall orders; C. W. Crawford, of Chas. 

 Frueh & Son, Saginaw, Mich.; O. Will, 

 of R. Will & Son, Minneapolis; F. C. 

 Smith, Ashland, Wis.; G. A. Sawyer, 

 Dundee, 111.; S. E. Morris, of the Man- 

 istee Floral Co., Manistee, Mich., ac- 

 companied by his wife; and B. F. Van- 

 dervate. Galena, 111. 



NET YORK. 



The Market 



There have been no changes in the 

 cut flower market during the last week, 

 nor has the weather changed for the 

 better. Excessive humidity and heavy 

 storms add their influence to an already 

 stagnant trade. Even funeral work is 

 dormant, and weddings and dinners are 

 relegated to the realm of reminiscence. 

 The holiday season is here in earnest 

 and everybody is taking advantage of it 

 to the limit. 



There seems to be some misunder- 

 standing as to the hour of closing the 

 wholesale houses. Instead of one, it 

 is now stated that several did not sign 

 the 3 o'clock document. Even now a 

 number do not close at 4 p. m., and one 

 prominent wholesaler asserted Saturday 

 that the closing hour was likely to be 

 advanced to 6 o'clock after August 1. 

 It is a fact, nevertheless, that all the 

 business by all the wholesalers after 3 

 p. m., from now until September 1, would 

 not equal the sales of one of the leading 

 cut flower merchants in a day when the 

 season is at its height. 



Beauties still command a good price 

 and yet the supply is abundant. John 

 Young says he has been receiving thou- 

 sands daily from Jurgens, of Newport. 

 For the finest, $25 per hundred was 

 easily obtained by all the handlers of 

 Beauties. Brides and Maids are grad- 

 ually improving in quality, length of 



