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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Sepxbmbeb 16, 1909. 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



We announce to the trade the opening of our New Wholesale House at 



51 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 



Monday, September 20, 1909 



We have built this season a range of ten houses, each 27x300, planted to Roses 

 and Carnations. It is our intention to add to this glass area as rapidly as 

 required, and we shall conduct our wholesale house with the object of building up 

 a large and permanent 



Shipping and Local Trade 



We shall be pleased to hear from all buyers, and hope to have them call and 

 inspect our new store, and also our greenhouses at Des Plaines. The store, we 

 think, will compare favorably as to facilities with any in the market, and the 

 stock in the greenhouses will be found to be in splendid shape. 



Oar supply for the preeent will consist of Killarney, White Killarney, Maid, Bride and Rich- 

 mond, with White Perfection, White Enchantress, Enchantress, Beacon, Victory, Afterglow, 

 and other leading varieties of carnations— seven houses of roses, three of carnations. 



dVE US A CALL= 



HOERBER BROS. 



GBEBNHOUSES, 



DEH PJLiALMES, ILL. 



City Store, 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Kron, has a nice lot of carnation plants 

 in the field that he will therefore sell. 



J. H. Willson, formerly a traveler for 

 the Leonard Seed Co., has gone on the 

 road for the A. L. Randall Co. The first 

 violets of the season reached Randall's 

 September 8. 



Leonard Kill and A. C. Spencer will be 

 among those present at the reception to 

 Taft at the west side ball park this after- 

 noon. For themselves and their friends 

 they secured twenty-five reserved seats. 



John Michelsen, of E. C. Amling's, has 

 returned from a trip to New York city 

 and Rhinebeck. He looks after the violet 

 department at Amling's, and his purpose 

 was to get a line on the prospects for the 

 current season. After visiting some of 

 the leading handlers of violets in New 

 York city, he spent several days with the 

 growers. He says he found them all in 

 cheerful mood, although there are some 

 whose stock is better than others, and 

 most of them were interested in the west- 

 ern market. 



At Peter Reinberg's the wish is that 

 the crop of golden wedding celebrations 

 were larger, for Perle is in exceptionally 

 heavy crop with them. 



Red, the expressman who gained fame 

 by winning the pie-eating contest at the 

 picnic, lost a brother by death at Kansas 

 City this week. Many of the wholesale 

 houses showed their sympathy by sending 

 flowers. 



Bassett & Washburn say that their 

 present crop of Beauties is larger than 

 they ever before had at this season, 



Fred Struvy is planning to sell out his 

 flower business and real estate in Chicago 

 and remove to Napa, Cal., where he re- 

 cently bought thirty-five acres of land. 



Frank Paeternick resumed duty at E. 



Wienhoeber's September 13, after a 

 month's vacation. Following the Cincin- 

 nati convention, he visited in Pittsburg. 



F. B. Dickinson, of E. H. Hunt's, and 

 Mrs. Dickinson have returned from their 

 vacation at Pelican lake. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is finishing up a 

 number of additions to the mechanical 

 equipment of its boiler plant, made with 

 the purpose of saving the handling of 

 coal. The fuel will be dumped, instead 

 of shoveled, from the cars, and a con- 

 veyor will displace hand labor in carrying 

 it to the boilers. 



The Eatons have closed their flower 

 store at 73 Jackson boulevard. The 

 store at 273 Dearborn was closed some 

 months ago. 



Wietor Bros, are cutting Mrs. Jardine 

 rose, and say they still think as highly of 

 it as they did last year. It is a free 

 bloomer on stems of good length, and 

 quite distinct among the several good 

 pink roses now in the market. 



John Kruchten reports that his father, 

 Nick Kruchten, is this week installing 

 an electric pump, to take the place of 

 steam. 



C. W. McKellar says Cattleya labiata 

 is now beginning to arrive, and he looks 

 for a good supply of orchids soon. 



Among the week's visitors were: F. 

 P. Myers and Mrs. Myers, of Chestnut 

 Hill, Pa., on their way home from a tour 

 of Yellowstone Park ; H. A. Bunyard, 

 with Arthur T. Boddington, New York; 

 F. Schmeling and Mrs. Schmeling. Wau- 

 watosa, Wis. ; J. A. Evans, Richmond, 

 Ind. ; C. M. Buskirk, Big Rapids, Mich. 



Charlestown, Mass. — Herbert L. 

 Wolff was made happy, August 21, by 

 the arrival of a little son. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



The business of last week did not show 

 any improvement. The weather has 

 again become hot, and it will take some 

 cooler weather to improve the business 

 and stock. 



Most of the retailers report a good 

 deal of funeral work, but there is little 

 doing in other lines. 



At the wholesale houses there seems to 

 be plenty of stock coming in, and white 

 stock sells readily. Asters are coming in 

 more plentifully in all colors, and a good 

 rain last week made all outdoor stock look 

 much better. There are quite a few of 

 all grades of American Beauties in, and 

 Brides, Maids, Riehmonds and Killarneys 

 are longer and of better color. The same 

 is true of carnations; in these the white 

 sorts sell well at present. Quite a few 

 yellow mums are in the market, of good 

 quality. Some extra good valley is 

 shipped in. Everything in greens is in 

 the market, and plenty of it. 



Florists' Club Meetiog. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Florists' Club took place on the grounds 

 of the H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co., 

 Thursday afternoon, September 9. The 

 attendance was large, as it always is at 

 outdoor meetings. This meeting was 

 known as the installation meeting, as all 

 the officers for the ensuing year were in- 

 stalled. Two large wagons, which were in 

 waiting at the end of the car line, con- 

 veyed the members to the grounds, one 

 and a half miles distant. On arriving 

 there, we were met by Frank Weber, who 

 escorted us on an inspection trip over 



