AuouBT 23, 1006. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



657 



vacation, visiting growers and riding on 

 the lake steamers. 



The Foley Mfg. Co. is working up a 

 list of trade addresses of its own and 

 offers to send a neat souvenir to any 

 greenhouse owner who sends his name 

 and address, and states the number of 

 feet of glass he owns. 



W. G. Matthews, of the Dayton Floral 

 Co., Dayton, and his foreman, Samuel 

 Kurtz, were in town last week, visiting 

 leading growers. Mr. Matthews depends 

 entirely on this market for his roses 

 and carnations. 



J. T. Helbok has a good stand at 1419 

 Wrightwood avenue and does a nice 

 business, especially in funeral flowers. 



J. Enzweiler, on Morgan street, says 

 July was a good month, but August has 

 been dead. 



The A. Dietsch Co. finds its season's 



years, whose mentality is in direct con- 

 trast to his physical disabilities, which 

 are such that he is unable to walk. 



Miss Kate Moulton rose at Peter Eein- 

 berg's is looking fine. 



John Zech says that bis firm has sev- 

 eral new growers for this season and 

 expects to double its business. 



H. N. Bruns sailed from Hamburg, 

 Germany, August 16 and is expected to 

 arrive home about the end of the month. 



S. B. Wertheimer, the New York rib- 

 bon man, was in town last week. 



N. J. Wietor points with pride to the 

 Kaiserins they have been and are cut- 

 ting in quantity. 



L. H. Winterson will proceed east 

 from the convention, combining pleasure 

 with business. 



Fred Sperry is at his desk this week, 

 but expects to go east in a few days. 



Bichmond rose is looking fine with all 

 the growers, and has been planted in 

 great quantity. 



There were sixty-four in the party 

 from Chicago to Dayton. The baggage 

 car was well supplied with refreshments, 

 which were artistically dispensed by the 

 indefatigable Ed. Winterson, and all had 

 a pleasant time. The names of those 

 in the party appear in proper order in 

 the general list of those present at the 

 convention, printed elsewhere in this 

 issue. 



W. F. Gude and Adolphus Gude, of 

 Washington, D. C, were in the city the 

 first of this week, on their way home 

 from a six weeks' trip in Colorado. 

 They stopped off in Dayton for the con- 

 vention. 



The Chicago Eose Co. has put in a big 

 stock of grass-growing heads, including 

 some larger sizes than have been seen 

 here. 



The goose-neck bends at Bassett & 

 Washburn's are in the heating pipes, 

 not in the rose stems. They are the 

 latest invention of the heating experts 

 to take care of expansion. 



Sinner Bros, have their place all paint- 

 ed, planted and in the pink of perfec- 

 tion. 



Albert Fuchs seems to be trying to 

 cover the whole north side with flat 

 buildings. 



Weiland & Eisch say it will be six 

 weeks before their crop comes on, which 

 should be a date for good business. 



Phil Schupp, at J. A. Budlong's, says 

 their rose crop is due about Septem- 

 ber 15. 



Kruchten^& Johnson will get into the 

 shipping trade this winter. 



Joe Foerster says that prospects were 

 never so bright at George Eeinberg's. 

 The young stock looks right and the 

 store facilities are equal to all needs. 



Percy Jones says there will shortly be 

 a number of new growers in the market. 



OUR COVER. 



Reed & Keller's Exhibit at Dayton. 



The special cover on this week's Ee- 

 viEW pleases those who had to do with 

 its manufacture and, as all are excellent 

 firms, it is with pleasure that we give 



business has been limited by its capacity 

 to turn out work rather than by its 

 ability to get orders, and is planning to 

 put in more machinery and more power 

 for next year. The prospect looks good 

 to them. 



Invitations are out to the first gath- 

 ering of the Coatsworth family in Amer- 

 ica, to be held at Kingsville, Ont., Sep- 

 tember 15. L. Coatsworth and family 

 will be there. The Coatsworth faqjily, 

 traces its descent back to the year 852, 

 the first Coatsworth having reached New 

 England in 1770. 



Albert Haisch, of the Memphis Floral 

 Co., Memphis, Tenn., visited the Ben- 

 they-Coatsworth Co. last week. 



Autumn is not far away; Amling had 

 cosmos last week. 



A cork-lined icebox of iarge size is a 

 recent improvement of the Deamud Co. 



Large shipments of America gladio- 

 lus, formerly known as the E. H. War- 

 der, have been received at C. W. Mc- 

 Kellar 's the last week, from Frank Ban- 

 ning, Kinsman, O. It is a fine thing. 



N. B. Stover, Grandville, Mich., has 

 returned home after a visit with his sis- 

 ter, Mrs. Thomas Sparrow, 3318 Archer 

 avenue. He was accompanied by his in- 

 valid son, a. bright young man of 25. 



Partial View of the Trade Exhibits at Dayton. 



