Jdltt 8, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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Variota Notes. 



The Batons have opened their new 

 store at 73 Jackson boulevard. It ia 

 the smallest flower store in Chicago, but 

 the room is made to appear much larger 

 than it really is by covering the walls 

 with plate glass mirrors. 



Peter Eeinberg, Leonard Kill, John 

 Schillo and their wives motored to Mc- 

 Henry Saturday to spend the Fourth. 



N. J. Wietor and John Sinner are at 

 Tomahawk lake. 



Peter Reinberg has begun to cut My 

 Maryland rose of fair length of stem. 



Frank Johnson and A. J. Eckert, of 

 the A. L. Eandall force, spent the 

 Fourth with a party of friends in a 

 launch on Fox lake. 



C. L. Washburn says that the orders 

 coming to Bassett & Washburn indicate 

 that good stock, especially of roses, has 

 become scarce all over the country. 



E. C. Amling says conditions have be- 

 come such that the peony is again the 

 popular flower, affording the buyers more 

 for their money than anything else now 

 in the market. He looks for a good 

 business on this flower so long as the 

 stock in storage holds its shipping 

 quality. 



W. N. Budd was at Cincinnati July 2 

 on S. A. F. matters. 



It is reported that the growers are 



again having their troubles with asters. 

 Out southwest a large part of the plants 

 have been drowned out, and at Des 

 Plaines wire worm has taken half those 

 planted by some large growers. 



W. K. Kroeschell and Fred Lauten- 

 schlager were the guests of Alois Frey 

 at Crown Point for the recent auto 

 races. Their stand chanced to be just in 

 range of the machine making the moving 

 pictures, and since the races the pic- 

 tures have been shown at several local 

 theaters. Mr. Lautenschlager 's evident 

 enjoyment of the occasion has added no 

 little to the success of the pictures. 



C. W. McKellar says the down-eastern 

 orchid growers are in full crop and 

 are finding markets slow everywhere 

 since the wedding season ended. 



The west park commissioners secured 

 only two bids on their specifications for 

 rebuilding the conservatory in Garfield 

 park. Where several local contractors 

 had been expected to bid, only Lord & 

 Burnham Co. and Hitchings & Co., both 

 eastern firms, made tenders, and each 

 in the vicinity of $70,000. The com- 

 missioners rejected all bids and will draw 

 up new specifications. The opinion seems 

 to be that they have no one but them- 

 selves to blame for the present conditions 

 and that they are not yet ready to pay 

 the price of a first-class building. 



Zech & Mann have had auratum lilies 



for some time, the first to reach this 

 market. John Zech spent a couple of 

 days this week fishing in Wisconsin. 



W. J. Smyth, July 6, was freed from 

 the plaster cast that has confined his left 

 knee for two weeks. It will be some time 

 before he can use the leg as usual. 



Poehlmann Bros, Co. began cutting 

 Golden Glow chrysanthemums July 5, 

 stock that of any other variety would 

 be considered good for October. They 

 report a large number of shipping or- 

 ders for roses. 



H. W. Rogers, who is the right-hand 

 man of John P. Risch, is spending his 

 vacation at the family home at Pent- 

 water, Mich., and at Spring Lake. 



Vaughan & Sperry report having sold 

 the last of their cold storage peonies last 

 week. The stock they now are handling 

 was stored by the growers themselves. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 says the first six months of 1909 gave 

 them a fair increase in total sales as 

 compared with the same period last year, 

 but an increase not at all in proportion 

 to the great increase in the quantity of 

 stock handled. 



C. M. Dickinson, at E, H. Hunt's, 

 states that the firm has become the ex- 

 clusive agency for the sale of the new 

 Chicago sprayer. 



Charlie Ernie has begun his annual 

 contest with hay fever. 



Percy Jones says that in spite of the 

 low prices at which peonies have been 

 sold, he has been selling just as many of 

 Klehm's as ever and at as good prices. 



Among the week's visitors have been 

 W. J. Miller, of Pontiac, 111.; Dr. S. J. 

 Knapp, a peony grower at Evansville, 

 Ind., on his way to Europe; John Kar- 

 stens, Chattanooga, Tenn., buying ma- 

 terial for five new houses 27x150, two or 

 three to go up at once and the others 

 later; Frank Riley, of the Iowa Seed 

 Co., Des Moines, la. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers made the following scores 

 July 2: 



Player. ist 2d 8d 



•T. Zech 162 178 190 



Goerlsch 184 139 137 



Degnan leo iir. lOg 



Asmus 154 164 197 



Totals 680 000 632 



