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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 30, 1910. 



Milwaukee Can Supply Much the 



Finest Warm Weather Flowers 



Being one of the coolest cities in the United States, the warmer the weather, the hetter 

 Milwaukee tlowers compare with those produced in less favored sections. 



BEAUTIES, ROSES, CARNATIONS 



Sweet Peas, Valley, Swalnsona, Lilies, Daisies, Gladioli, Peonies and all 



other Cut Flowers in Season. 



Plenty of Adiantum, Asparagus String^s and Spreng^eri Bunches. Extra fine Adiantun. 



We can take good care of all orders at lowest market rates. Writet phone or wire tis — we do the rest. 



HOLTON & HUNKEL CO. 



Without Doubt the Best Equipped Wholesale House in the Country. 



462 Milwaukee Sfreef, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



Mpntinn Thp Review when vou write 



years. Most of them are cleaned up 

 on everything. However, from their 

 own reports, there has been consid- 

 erable cutting of prices. 



Notwithstanding the great heat, 

 there are some fine roses, such as Kil- 

 larney. White Killarney and Eichmond, 

 still coming in, and Kaiserins are get- 

 ting better every day. 



We did not have the usual number 

 of large June weddings this year, and 

 this would make one wonder why the 

 cut flower business was greater than 

 for several years. Possibly the fact 

 that stock was so much better than 

 usual had something to do with it. 



Quantities of sweet peas that came 

 into this market last week were un- 

 doubtedly fine when shipped, but were 

 literally cooked when they came into 

 the market. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. E. C. Ludwig, who has been in 

 the hospital for some weeks, was able 

 to be taken home last Friday and, al- 

 though she has not entirely recovered, 

 her many friends among the trade will 

 be pleased to know that her speedy 

 recovery is anticipated. 



Monday, June 27, was ofiicial outing 

 day for the Florists' Club and quite a 

 number participated. They visited the 

 Elliott Nurseries, at Cheswick, Pa. 



Gus A. Geng, of Youngstown, O., has 

 the sympathy of his many friends in 

 the trade on account of the loss of his 

 wife, Mrs. Geng, who died Monday, 

 June 20, and was buried Thursday. 



Mr. Kent, of Kent Bros., Newark, 

 0., was a visitor last week. Mr. Kent, 

 while not a boy by any means, is quite 

 a baseball fan and took in the Pitts- 

 burg-Chicago game while here. Such 

 things help some of the old fellows to 

 keep young. 



The new electric line, which will come 

 into Pittsburg over the Wabash tracks, 

 will reach some of the florists, and will 

 undoubtedly increase the value of the 

 farms of Godwin & Sons, Bridgeville; 

 M. C. Dunlevy & Sons and Chas. K. 

 Hoflfmeyer, Carnegie, Pa. This prop- 

 erty will all be within a few minutes' 

 ride of the downtown portion of the 

 city. 



By way of correction: The statement 



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was made in this column that the Pitts- 

 burg Cut Flower Co. had a bursted am- 

 monia tank; this should have read "the 

 Pittsburg Florists' Exchange." 



Mrs. E. A. Williams had several fine 

 decorations at the horse show at Se- 

 wickley last week. Hoo-Hoo. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Last week's business was fairly good 

 with some of the larger establishments, 

 as there were several big funerals which 

 used up a good deal of stock, and there 

 was surely enough of it in the market 

 for almost any size of order, with prices 

 low, even on first grade stock. The 

 lower grades are nearly all being 

 dumped. The great glut of carnations 

 and sweet peas all of last week kept 

 the market in a deplorable condition. 



All roses are coming in bad, as the hot 

 weather had a telling effect on them. 

 Gladioli clean up well. There is hardly 

 any sale for outdoor stock; only the 

 few asters that come in sell well. There 

 is plenty of all kinds of greens in the 

 market. 



Various Notes. 



J. H. Dayton, of the Storrs & Harri- 

 son Co., Painesville, O., and Thomas 

 Meehan, of Thomas Meehan & Sons, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., spent a day in the 

 city while returning from Denver, 

 where they attended the nurserymen's 

 convention. While here they were taken 

 in hand by Frank Weber and made com- 

 fortable until train time. Both expressed 

 much pleasure in being able to come to 

 St. Louis next June for the nursery- 

 men's convention. 



Pierre Schneider, foreman for Sam 

 Erker's Oakland Floral Co., at Kirk- 



