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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



Apuil 29, 1000. 



BOR MAY WEDDINGS we offer extra select Lily of the Valley, Bride, Killarney, 

 ^ American Beauties and Bridesmaid Roses, and of course a full line of all seasonable 

 Cut Flowers and Greens. Try us. We have the stock and can take care of all orders. 



HOLTON & HUNKEL CO. 



462 Milwaukee Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



The best-equipped Wholesale House in the West 



Mention The Kevlew wneu jou wnie. 



escape during the wind storm. A large 

 brick chimney was blown down and came 

 crashing through the roof close to where 

 they both stood, looking at the storm. 

 , It is with regret that we report the 

 illness of Frank Freidley, of the Gasser 

 Co., who has been confined to bed for 

 .three weeks. 



:; , A visit to John Kirchner 's place found 

 everything in shipshape. The stock of 

 ll^edding plants here looks better than 

 ►ever for Decoration day trade. 

 • : The F. R. "Williams Co. is sending in 

 [A fine cut of Kaiserin and Richmond, 

 also some good sweet peas and valley. 



Smith & Fetters had some beautiful 

 floral pieces for the McBride funeral, 

 among which was a blanket of pansies 

 and valley; also a casket cross of violets 

 with a cluster of valley in the center. 



B. 



In the storm April 21 Carl Wilson, 14 

 years old, son of Ella Grant Wilson, nar- 

 rowly escaped being killed when he was 

 buried under the debris. The chimney 

 on the heating plant, fifty feet high, fell 

 and the falling bricks shattered all the 

 glass in the greenhouses and tore down 

 the boiler shed in the rear. Carl, who 

 was in the boiler shed, was saved by the 

 iron steam pipes overhead that stopped 

 the fall of the wreckage. He was dug 

 out by firemen. Besides the loss on the 

 buildings, all the plants were destroyed. 

 There was no insurance on the property. 



The Rocky River Greenhouse Co. lias 

 been incorporated, with $50,000 capital 

 stock, by Charles C. Christensen and 

 others. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



The trade in cut flowers is apparently 

 at a rather low ebb. Prices are away 

 down and even then it is impossible to 

 clean out arrivals, many going into the 

 ice-chest and later the rubbish barrels. 

 There is a fair call for roses, but values 

 are cut in two as compared with a fort- 

 night ago. Carnations are selling at al- 

 most any price ; $2 per hundred is a high 

 figure, some going at one-iourth that 

 price. Owing to absence of hot weather, 

 the quality and color remain remarkably 

 good for the last of April. Few single 

 violets are seen. The present week will 

 end them. Doubles will arrive in small 

 lots for two weeks longer. Sweet peas 

 sell as well as anything in the market, 

 many preferring them to roses and car- 

 nations. Prices on these have a wide 

 margin. 



Valley is rather scarce. Mignonette is 

 getting poor. Snapdragons and gladioli 

 are both selling poorly. Narcissi and 

 tulips are less abundant and, considering 

 the prevailing conditions, sell fairly well. 



IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF 



Good Stock 



We are fully confident that we are in a 

 position to fill your wants 



WM#E^^>0 Because we carry the kind of stock that you are look- 



Ww MMV • ing for, as we make a specialty of producing high- 



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BEAUTIES 

 ROSES and 

 CARNATIONS 



We are in a position to fill all orders in a very satisfactory manner, as a 

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ROSES, All Varieties CARNATIONS, All Colors 



All other Cut Flowers In season 



J.A.BUDLONG 



37-39 Randolph Streot, CHICAGO. 



Roses and 

 Carnations 

 A Specialty. 



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 6R0WER Of 



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In cattleyas the scarcity prevalent of 

 late is being relieved by the arrival of 

 Mossise. Gardenias are still good sellers, 

 as are Spanish iris. The latter are made 

 a good deal of at the better class stores 

 for window decorations. Adiantum and 

 asparagus are abundant, but hardy ferns 

 continue scarce and higher in price. 



Green Goes to Providence. 



Fred C. Green, superintendent for a 

 number of years of the noted estate of 

 Senator N. W. Aldrich, at Warwick, R. I., 

 some notes of which appeared in the last 

 issue of the Review, leaves Warwick 

 early in May to assume the superintend- 

 ency of the Providence, R. I., city park 

 system. Mr. Green has been with Sen- 

 ator Aldrich since he commenced devel- 

 oping his princely estate and has had 

 charge of all the extensive planting, con- 

 struction and other operations there. His 

 many friends in Boston and vicinity wish 

 him every success in his new field of 



labor, which he is well qualified to fill, 

 and have no doubt but that he will event- 

 ually put Providence's park system well 

 in the front ranks. James Hamilton, in- 

 door foreman for Mr. Green, succeeds 

 him in charge of the horticultural depart- 

 ment at Warwick. 



Club Jottings, 



In the discussion on L. J. Reuter's 

 rose paper, printed in last week 's Re- 

 view, the lecturer said Chatenay is the 

 only rose he grows on its own roots. 

 Some My Maryland died off at graft, but 

 if run warmer did not die. He now pre- 

 fers own-root to grafted stock of that 

 variety. He has a house planted with 

 My Maryland for July flowering and an- 

 ticipates that it will prove a great sum- 

 mer rose. It is certainly a great keeper 

 and holds its color well in hot weather. 



W. H. Elliott said he averaged his 

 roses ' money-bringing qualities differently 

 from Mr. Reuter, going on the basis of 



