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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



XOVEMBEK 1, 1900. 



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Visiting Florists 



r^nE RESPECTFULLY INVITE you while in Chicago attending the Flower Show, that upon 

 ^^J your tour of inspection among the various greenhouses, that you visit Our Greenhouses and 

 we will take pleasure in showing you about, at the same time Convincins: you that We Shall 

 this season cut stock of the Hig^hest Quality and which from the evidence of our plants the cuts there- 

 from will be Unequaled on this market. 



Seeing is Believing 



and which is the strongest proof, therefore to fully Ck)nvince you that our cuts of Beauties, Rich- 

 monds, Bridesmaids, Brides and Carnations will be such as we claim, Hig^hest Quality. We invite 

 you one and all to Come Out to Our Greenhouses and judge for yourself where the Best Stock may 



be obtained. 



Greenhouses located at Bowmanville, at terminus of Lincoln Avenue electric cars, for further 

 directions call at our Chicago store. 



J. A. BUDLONG 



37-39 Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



fc.-- 



ROSES AND CARNATIONS 

 A SPECIALTY. 



Wholesale 



Grower ol 



CUT FLOWERS 



orders than it is to grow their own cut 

 flowers. With a large range there is 

 added expense and a surplus at times; 

 with a small place, in times of scarcity 

 they have diflBculty in getting stock, and 

 have to pay stiff prices. 



Miss A. L. Tonner, of the A. L. Ran- 

 dall Co., has returned from a week's trip 

 to Aberdeen, S. D., where she was called 

 by the serious illness of her brother, 

 whom she left much improved. 



C. W. McKellar has added gardenias 

 to his list of specialties. 



E. C. Amling last week had occasion 

 to inform a grower as to a shipment of 

 stock, and sent a telegram. This is what 

 the grower got: "Stork arrived three- 

 fifteen; everything fine." The grower 

 mailed the telegram with his congratula- 

 tions on the safe arrival of the ' ' stork. ' ' 



Richard Mansfield, with his family, is 

 again occupying his old quarters, the 

 rooms of George Wienhoeber, above the 

 store of the E. Wienhoeber Co., 415 Elm 

 street. 



A bloom of the E. G. Hill Co.'s big 

 early yellow chrysanthemum. Fusee, has 

 stood on Mrs. Horton 's desk in the office 

 of Bassett & Washburn for two weeks, 

 and remained perfectly fresh. 



E. E. Pieser says the Kennicott Bros. 

 Co. considers itself fortunate that several 

 of its growers have been cutting pretty 

 fair crops of carnations this last week. 



C. J. Johnson, the Limits florist, sold 

 off all his stock last Thursday and Mon- 

 day went to Chillicothe, 0., to take hold 

 of his new greenhouse plant. 



Wietor Bros, sold 3,000 mums on Mon- 

 day, one-third of them being Clemen- 

 tine Touset. 



W. E. Lynch, in E. H. Hunt's price 



list, received Monday, meets the fate of 

 all reporters who write in the present 

 tense about the weather. He says it is 

 "fine; all that could be asked." Even 

 a modest man like Mr. Lynch would be 

 justified in asking something better than 

 we had Saturday and the three days fol- 

 lowing. It has shortened stock ma- 

 terially. 



The George Wittbold Co. has had a 

 more than usually busy October in its 

 decorating department. The big store 

 openings this year have called for fewer 

 cut flowers and more plants, autumn foli- 

 age and the other decorative materials 

 for which the department store buyers 

 rely on Wittbold 's. 



Patrick Buckley, claiming to be a flo- 

 rist, was arrested by the Oak Park po- 

 lice October 27 after a chase in which 

 the former fired several shots at the 

 police officer. Buckley, according to the 

 police, sold ferns to families in Oak Park 

 and in the early evening returned to his 

 customers and asked for more money, 

 asserting that he had sold the ferns too 

 cheap. 



Vaughan & Sperry report Monday 

 much the busiest day to date this sea- 

 son. 



Liberty and Richmond both are in fine 

 form and good crop at Peter Reinberg's. 



E. F. Winterson is selling flower show 

 souvenir post cards; next week flower 

 show wholesale tickets will be his spe- 

 cialty. He expects to break last year's 

 splendid record. 



J. A. Budlong's are beginning to reap 

 the full reward for their work in graft- 

 ing their rose plants. The Maids are 

 especially fine. 



F. Thomas, formerly with Wietor 



Bros., is now with R. Will & Sons, Min- 

 neapolis. He is cutting some fine Kate 

 Moulton and Richmond, and states that 

 their 8,000 mums are coming along 

 nicely. 



Flower show preparations are going 

 forward smoothly. The retailers will do 

 their part fully as well as last year. 

 Prof. Hassel bring again is in charge of 

 the lecture feature, and has word that 

 Miss Susan B. Sipe, who so pleased the 

 S. A. F. during the Washington conven- 

 tion, will be here for two lectures on 

 Saturday. Much good advertising is be- 

 ing done aside from the newspaper work, 

 and everything points to a most success- 

 ful show. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. reports the south- 

 ern orders this year not more numerous, 

 but heavier, than usual. They had an 

 especial demand for carnations. 



Seheiden & Schoos are cutting some 

 fine yellow mums, but most of their place 

 is in carnations. 



Horse show week always is one of the 

 busiest of the year for P. J. Hauswirth. 



Henry Hilmers has received word from 

 his wife in Berlin that the Princess 

 Frederick Leopold, sister of the empress, 

 wishes to adopt their daughter. Daphne, 

 who is a musical prodigy. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Hilmers object. 



Albert T. Hay, of Springfield, 111., 

 was in town last week, and was elected 

 grand master of the Grand Council of 

 the Royal and Select Masons of the state 

 of Illinois, probably the highest position 

 any florist ever has attaint in the Ma- 

 sonic order. Other visitors were B. L. 

 Van Aken, Coldwater, Mich., with his 

 wife; J. W. Springer, of the New Hamp- 

 ton Floral Co., New Hamptop, la.; A. L. 

 Barnett, New York. 



