July 8, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^Revicw. 



27 



C. W. McKELLAR 



Lons Dlsteaoe Plion*, Central S598 



5r Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Large Daily Shipments Now Received of 



Cattleya Gigas and 

 Mendellii ^ 



$6.00 to $7.60 per dozen r '^' 



Beauties, Fancy Teas, Carnations, 



PEONIES, GARDENIAS, 



Valley, Sweet Peas and all Fancy Flowers, Farleyense and all 

 Fancy Greens and Decorative Stock, Ribbons and Chiffons. 



Send for complete Price list. 



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FANCY FERNS 



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KENNICOn BROS. CO. 



Handles All Stock in Season 



At Chicago Market Rate 



48-50 Wabash Avenue, 



CHICAGO 



LONG DI8TANCK PHOIHE, CKNTRAL 406. 



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maximum temperatures not exceeding 80 

 degrees on any day and minimum being 

 between 50 and 60 degrees. What we 

 need now more than anything else is a 

 soaking rain. 



The annual show of sweet peas and 

 other seasonable flowers will be held at 

 Horticultural hall, July 17 and 18. 



J. T. Butterworth is around again 

 after quite a sick spell. His son, George, 

 has reached Europe on his annual trip. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club is 

 planning to hold a field day in August 

 with W. B. Whittier & Co., South Fram- 

 ingham, and with the Bay State Nur- 

 series early in September. Exact dates 

 will be mailed to all members on picnic 

 circulars. 



Thomas Pegler handled the first asters 

 of the season at the Park street market. 



The Montrose Greenhouses are sending 

 in Killarney roses of remarkably fine 

 quality for midsummer, equal to what 

 we are accustomed to seeing at Christ- 

 mas. 



E. B. Dane, of Chestnut Hill, who has 

 a choice collection of orchids, is adding 

 anrither house to allow of more space for 

 his specialties. W. N. Craio. 



Martin E. Tuohy sailed from New 

 York on the Lusitania, Wednesday, June 

 30, on a trip to Galway, Ireland, to visit 



his mother and other relatives. He also 

 expected to visit the continent. Mr. 

 Tuohy makes this voyage about once in 

 two years. 



A RAMBLE IN JERSEY. 



An eight-hour auto trip over those 

 wonderful Jersey roads in the rose coun- 

 try of Chatham, Summit and Madison, 

 in W. G. Badgley's new fifty horsepower 

 machine, is an exhilarating experience, 

 but fast as one may go, it would take a 

 busy week to visit all these caterers to 

 aesthetic flower lovers of New York city. 

 So we will find it a necessity to go again. 



Mr. Badgley himself must be busy 

 while he sleeps. In addition to his two 

 rose plants of 70,000 square feet, he has 

 the big house bee buzzing in his bonnet 

 and will build a house 60x300 in the fall. 

 Next season he will have 20,000 Kil- 

 larney and the same number of Maid and 

 Bride. Killarney, he says, pays 70 cents 

 to the square foot, where Bride and Maid 

 yield but 40 cents. He thinks the small 

 grower need have no fear of competition 

 when he grows good stock, and that for 

 the best there is always a paying market. 

 Mr. Badgley is secretary of the Wilson 

 Plant Oil and Fertilizer Co., which has 

 a long list of specialties. Andrew Wil- 

 son, of this company, has just returned 

 from a successful trip as far west as 



Pittsburg. Mr. Wilson is selling his re- 

 tail flower store at Summit, as the sup- 

 ply business takes up all of his time. 



About two miles out of Madison is the 

 Henry Hentz place of 40,000 square feet 

 and an independent ice plant of large 

 capacity, two to three tons daily. In 

 addition, an up-to-date dairy is main- 

 tained. Bride, Maid, Killarney and Beau- 

 ties are grown. The hot water system 

 was first used here for heating. This 

 was changed to a combination of hot 

 water and steam, and now, as best for 

 rose growing, steam is used altogether. 

 Cement benches have been installed, the 

 experience being that the first year these 

 are detrimental to Beauties, but the mag- 

 nesia from the cement seems to be rel- 

 ished by all the other roses. The second 

 year, however, the Beauties show no bad 

 results and so the cement benches have 

 come to stay. The stock is handled by 

 Moore, Hentz & Nash, in New York. 

 John Milton has been foreman here for 

 many years. It is a delight to visit 

 plants so cleanly and perfectlv main- 

 tained. 



The Brant-Hentz Co., close at hand, 

 where Elwood Brant is manager, is the 

 old Slaughter place rebuilt and renovated 

 and added to until now it is one of the 

 modern places of the country. There is 

 some 60,000 square feet, including the 

 I two new houses 30x300. Beauties, Maidfl 



