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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



beauty. The cherry trees in pots must 

 be very dainty when in bloom. In re- 

 gard to these products of the art of the 

 Japanese gardener one who has lived 

 and traveled extensively in Japan, now 

 head of the importing firm of H. H. Bcr- 

 gcr & Co.. New York, writes: 



"The Japanese gardeners excel in all 

 arts pertaining to horticulture, but stand 

 unrivaled in the dwarfing of various 

 plants. The methods they employ are to 

 <liis day kept a secret, and in many 

 families certain dwarf specimens arc 

 lianded down from one generation to the 

 next. It requires infinite patience and 

 care and the stoicism of the Oriental 

 to achieve these wonders of plant life. 



"The Japan conifers form the greatest 

 part of the dwarfed trees, the retinos- 

 poras, pines, larches, etc., though beau- 

 tiful specimens are seen of fruit trees, 

 maples, bamboos, etc. It requires years 

 to train these plants and their value 

 increases until some very perfect speci- 

 mens are held at exorbitant figures by 

 Iheir owners, while others are priceless 

 heirlooms. 



"These small trees imitate to full per- 

 fection all the various characteristics of 

 their large prototypes — the thickness of 

 stem, the spreading branches, the gnarled 

 roots oftentimes protruding from the soil, 

 "l^arge quantities of these dwarf trees 

 have of late years been brought to the 

 United States and some have been sold 

 at enormous figures. But it is to be re- 

 gretted that these dainty exiles do not 

 seem to take kindly to their new home, 

 as most of them lose their leaves and do 

 not thrive well in the close air of rooms. 

 being used to the free and peculiarly 

 soft air of their native climate." 



ST. LOUIS. 



During the past week trade has been 

 good; in fact ever since the new year 

 began there has been but little if any 

 complaint about business being dull. 



Roses are getting to be plentiful and 

 the price on Beauties is from 30 to 50 

 cents each. On Brides and Maids, $4 

 to $6, Meteors, $5 to $8, Perles and Woot- 

 tons, .$2 to $4 per 100. These prices are 

 for first class stock. Carnations are 

 plentiful and fine with the demand good. 

 Scotts, Daybreak, reds and whites go 

 at 2 cents; fancy kinds at .3 and 4 cents. 

 Romans are overplentiful and sell from 

 $1.50 to .$2 per 100; paper whites $2 

 and $3, but not so plentiful; eallas $10 

 and $15; no Harrisii in the market yet. 

 Violets have been quite plentiful and 

 sold as low as 50 cents per 100 for the 

 best. Smilax is very fine, two strings 

 for 25 cents. 



Notes. 

 Mr. E. W. Guy is reported very sick 

 with the grip at his home in Belleville. 

 R. J. Mohr, of the Botanical Garden, 

 has returned from his visit to his old 

 home in Omaha. Mr. Mohr reports that 

 our old friends, Hess, Swoboda, Hender- 

 son, Wilcox and others are doing nicely. 

 The last issue of the liEviEW was spok- 

 en of in St. Louis, by storemen and grow- 

 ers alike, as the best issue ever gotten 

 out among the trade papers. 



I am glad that we have, at last, heard 

 from "Rocky" in regard to bowling. We 

 are very glad that Berry, Mauff and Scott 

 are doing so well in the city league. We 

 have a few in our city league with good 

 averages as Kuehn with 210, Ellison 198, 



and so on. In regard to the challenge 

 during Easter week we will accept on 

 one condition ; that is, that the match is 

 rolled in Chicago and the losing team 

 pay all expenses. Now Rocky send on 

 your challenge in writing and you will 

 hear from us by return mail. 



Club Me«tinj!. 



The January meeting of the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club was a big one and well 

 attended, thirty members being present. 

 Mr. Ammann, owing to the illness of 

 President Guy, occupied the chair. 



The show committee was given one 

 more month in which to settle up the af- 

 fairs of the last show. The Galveston 

 relief committee made their final report 

 and were discharged. 



The next meeting of the club will be 

 the annual rose show and $10 ($5, $3, 

 $2) was donated for prizes. 



The carnations on exhibition were fine. 

 W. J. & M. S. Vesey, Fort Wayne, Ind.. 

 exhibited Crane. Lawson, Bradt, White 

 Cloud, Crocker, Wood and Marquis which 

 were of fine quality and were well grown. 

 They were given special mention. 



J. L. Dillon, Blooimsburg, Pa., sent; a 

 vase of Queen Louise, a fine white, which 

 was given special mention. 



F. Dorner & Sons Co., Lafayette, Ind., 

 showed Lorna, a fine white which was 

 awarded a certificate of merit, and Morn- 

 ing Glory, which received special men- 

 tion. 



The Chicago Carnation Co., Joliet, 111., 

 staged one of the finest lots of carna- 

 tion blooms ever exhibited at our show. 

 Among them were No. 78, on the order 

 of Bradt; Nydia, good variegated; the 

 famous Lawsonp; Chicot, variegated; Mrs. 

 J. J.-Shcdd, a good red; Mrs. Higinboth- 

 am, light pink; Sunbeam, shell pink; 

 Prolifica, a good red and Bon Ilomme 

 Richard, a fine white. 



H. Weber & Sons, Oakland, Md., ex- 

 hibited Egypt, a dark red, and Norway, a 

 very fine white. 



Crabb & Hunter, Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 sent Irene, a good pink. 



C. Besold, Mineola, N. Y., sent Admiral 

 Cervera and Goethe. 



All the above were not entered in cam- 

 petition for the prizes offered by the 

 club. 



The following local growers entered for 

 the prizes: 



John Stridel staged a fine vase of 50 

 mixed hlooms and captured first prize; 

 .J. F. \M,i,Miin, -ro.n.l. Willi a va^o of 50 

 I,i, , . ;,. , . ,.i Wli':' . rl< 11.1. T.nrd. 



K,l',',l'ii,ll l!in.l. Hltli all Wliila Clouil 



which were fine; Or. Halstodt a va-a 

 of 50 mixed; J. W. Dunford a vase ni 

 fine Melbas and White Clouds and Frank 

 Fillmore a vase of his finest Flora Hills. 



The judges for the exhibition blooms 

 were Dr. Halstcdt, F. Fillmore and J. 

 W. Dunford ; on prize blooms, Jaimcs 

 Hartshorne, F. M. Ellis and Max Herzog. 



After the prizes had been awarded 

 we were favored by Mr. Hartshorne with 

 a few remarks on growing good carna- 

 tions. 



The visitors were H. Johann, Collins- 

 ville. 111.; J. F. Ammann. Edwardsville, 

 111.; Dr. Halstedt, H. Emundt. Adolf 

 Fehr and G. Groshart, Belleville, 111.: 

 F. W. Ude. .Ir., H. G. Ude, W. Winter, 

 Theo. Richter. Kirkwood, Mo.; J. W. 

 Dunford, J. Stridel, Central, Mo., and 

 James Hartshorne, Joliet, 111. 



At the next meeting essays will be 

 read by H. G. Berning, F. 0. Weber and 

 J. J. Beneke. 



Bowling. 



The bowline club rolled tour games Monday 

 night and some fair scores were made. A. Y. 

 KlUson was not able to be present, owing to 

 city league rolling the 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



Various Items. 



Trade has settled down again to its 

 normal conditions and prices are about 

 the same as before the holidays. New 

 Year's day here, like in other cities, has 

 ceased to cause any great activity among 

 the florists. Thanksgiving day seems to 

 have taken its place and how much bet- 

 ter it is for all of us who are continually 

 combating floral gluts and famines. 

 Thanksgiving day comes in mighty handy 

 just at that time to clean up the market, 

 which is usually pretty well crowded. 

 After Xmas, trade is rather brisk any 

 way and we can get along nicely without 

 a special rush at New Year's. What we 

 need now is another big day about the 

 middle of February and we hope that 

 the increasing demand for flowers on St. 

 Valentine's day will double and treble 

 until it will rival Xmas in the amount 

 of flowers it will call for. 



On Jan. 16 a party of 150 lumbermen 

 started from here on a trip through ten 

 of the southern states and Cuba. They 

 will be gone fifteen days, with five days in 

 Cuba. IMr. A. Wiegand is one of the 

 party and no doubt he will see a good 

 deal of interest on the way. 



Meeting of the State Florists' Ass'n. 

 The State Florists' Association met on 

 the 8th in the horticultural rooms at the 

 state house. This was the annual meet- 

 ing and many florists from in and out of 

 the city were present. All the old offi- 

 cers were re-elected with the exception 

 of the first vice-president. Mr. Wm. 

 Langstaff, who is succeeded by Mr. 

 Frank Alley. The president in his ad- 

 dress suggested that we not only try to 

 _raake money out of our business, but that 

 uo trr t'T "-avp what we do make. He 

 .,i..^,-i,.l i! • ■■,(' huilii more lasting and 

 .,,K.i,„,i i,,i :, i-i- 1 11 -I rad of houses that 

 will i.a •{•■wu 111 aliout tere years, like 

 most of lluaii do luiw. Wc should save 

 fuel by covering our boilers and large 

 steam " pipes with asbestos and many 

 other methods he spoke of in a very in- 

 teresting and instructive manner. The 

 ~eerctary's and treasurer's reports show 

 the society to be in good condition finan- 

 cially. 



A lively discussion was precipitated by 

 a proposition made by Mr. J. Berter- 

 mann for holding a fall show. Four flor- 

 ists and four city merchants are to guar- 

 antee the payment of all premiums and 

 all other expenses and to take full charge 

 of the show except making out the 

 premium list, which is to be made out 

 by a committee selected from the society. 

 This was afterward amended so that the 

 number of persons taking charge of the 

 show is not to be limited to eight if it is 

 necessary to have more in order to se- 

 cure a sufficient fund. Further report is 

 to be made at the next monthly meeting. 

 It was decided to send a pressing invi- 

 tation to the National Carnation Society 

 to hold its annual convention in this 

 city in 1902. 



