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bit, but instead of a nose the perfect Ijeak 

 or bill of a tluck, short h-i-^. with wobUcd 

 feet; it hiys an r.ji.', 1ml Hickl. s its 

 younf;. Anil if \.'" "■"" '" -' ■ ""^ »"" 



dert 



hunt for lum in Au^liali.i, \\li\ri' In -iil 

 exists in life, but a siiocinicn can be seen 

 in the Museum of Natural Sciences of 

 Montrcfll. 



The other connrrtin? link tbnt was 

 here was Mr. Baivl.n, ..f \. ^v ^H,|, ,,n, 

 Chicago. I call limi l Ii:H li.v;ni-v Min- 



Uiet anil a virtuous youth. 



Unlike most of the cities which are in 

 the front rank as liowlpvs. our boys have 

 scarcely )i;ui a pnnic ^iiirp Now York. 



But two w.ck- ;ivM ili.v -M i iMu-cth'er and 

 are now iLniiu j -inn i\ri\ tliursday 



ni"llt. Tlnir Uri r |,|, - ill .it tllB Ust 



nirHilr. \l. --I- .1 I'.iul I. Iroup, G. 



Mil , W (.ii.Aii, W \.l:in,.. W. F. 



K:i-.i„., W W.liii . i;ii-li. W. B. 

 Si. 11 I >. .1 ■^iiiii III i.iiir games G. 

 Jlii lull' ,iiiil \\ . Wiliir averaged about 

 )sii Mill lii'ii|i mill I'liiiik were close up. 

 Y.jui .III ii-|i'iiiiiriii liMil to attend a 

 vestry mci-tnii; ul liin uliurch, but he in- 

 tends to be present hereafter. Some may 

 think it's curious for elderly men to bowl. 

 I think it's fun to see men like John 

 Westcott and Deacon Harris take part in 

 a game with their juniors. Be boys as 

 long as we can. We have all too little 

 recreation in our scramble for existence. 

 Any misgivings we had about securing 

 a set of alleys good enough for the con- 

 vention have been set at rest, as we are 

 assured that eight fine allrvi nvr =11111 to 



be built in a central In. mi n \liin 



street and will be ready Imu l.. imi 1 In- 

 cago and the rest will vi = ii h~ In ni.rt 

 their Waterloo. W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business of late has been fairly good 

 but there has been no great rush at any 

 particular time. Good roses are selling 

 v.'ell and will no doubt continue doing 

 so until I^nt sets in. The first few days 

 of the past week flowers sold well, and 

 the wholesale houses were soon sold out 

 of all their stock. Flowers of all kinds 

 are scarce, particularly so with the first- 

 class grades. First-class Beauties are 

 very scarce and bring top prices. Brides, 

 Meteors, Maids and Perles are also scarce 

 and bring as high as $8 for choice 

 grades. Very few are sold below $5. 



Carnations are not over plentiful, ex- 

 cept Scotts. Daybreak, White Cloud and 

 Crane are fine and choice stock brings 

 $3 ; ordinary stock, $2 ; very few are 

 sold at $1.50. Good scarlets seem scarce 

 and are in good demand ; whites had the 

 best call the past week. 



Bulbous stock also had a good call all 

 week and nothing was left over except a 

 few Romans, which sold at $2, some at 

 $1.50; papvr whites, $3; good valley, $4; 

 Von Sion, $4 ; freesias, $3. A few tulips 

 and Dutch hyacinths are coming in. Har- 

 risii are out of the market and callas 

 are selling well at $15 per 100. 



Violets are selling well, the best Cali- 

 fornias bringing 40 to GO cents p'cr 100. 

 30 cents in 1,000 lots. The few Princess 

 of Wales that come in bring 75 cents. 

 Southern stock is coming in now, but 



the sale is slow and 20 cents per 100 is 

 about all Ihcy biini;. 



The cut of -iiiil.i.. Ill 1.1 I 11 very hvavy 



and will br -..n ■ 1 time. The 



price for tin., I.i ■ iim. is 15 cents, 

 but the aveiii.^i 1- ,ii" m .-IJ..")0 per 100 

 strings. 



Notes. 



F. W. Zaehritz, keeper of Gravois 

 Park, died of apoplexy the past week. 

 Mr. Zachrit/. was the father of Judge 

 William Zachritz, of the Circuit Court 

 of St. Louis, and was well known among 

 the trade. 



John M. Hudson is up and around 

 again and is at prc-ient selling trees for 

 th'e Sanders Nursery on Dclmar boule- 

 va rd. 



William Bouche, the landscape garden- 

 er, is very busy at present making plans 

 for the new Kdgcmont and Day parks at 

 East St. Louis, 111. 



Frank Gutzman of North Broadway re- 

 ports that trade with him since the first 

 of the new year has been all that he ex- 

 pected. 



Don't forget the club meeting next 

 week. The three essays by Messrs. Web- 

 er, Berning and Beneke will be very in- 

 teresting. The entries for the ro.se show 

 are^ very large and the trustees will have 

 everything in readiness at 2 p. m. The 

 meeting will open promptly at 3 o'clock. 



The decorations for the high school 

 graduating exercises last week at the 

 Adean building were elaborate. The work 

 was done by George Ostertag and was 

 much admired. 



Fred Weber was quite busy the past 

 week with receptions, using on one oc- 

 casion over 200 Beauties. 



George Waldbart has nothing to com- 

 plain of during the month of January; 

 plenty of good work of all kinds. 



Ellison & Tesson, at 625 Olive street, 

 have been having plenty of funeral work 

 of late. This with other work has kept 

 them Very busy. 



James S. Wilson of Western Springs, 

 111., was a visitor this week, and called 

 on his many friends in the trade. 



J. W. Canaga, with W. A. Duke, Dan- 

 ville, 111., was in town Monday, buying 

 supplies and calling on his friends. 



Bowlinj;. 



The bowling club liad a great time Monday 

 "night entertaining their old friend, Jim Wil- 

 son, of Chicago. Nine members were present 



game saw a great finish between Wilson. 

 Kuehn, Beneke and Adels. The scores were as 



1. 2. 3. Total. Ave. 



C. A. Kuehn 167 154 187 608 169 



J. J. Beneke 165 133 183 481 160 



J. S. Wilson 140 134 193 467 156 



C. C. Sanders 125 169 152 446 149 



F. C. Weber 112 151 156 428 143 



Will Adels 118 137 179 424 141 



John Kunz 146 149 114 409 135 



John Young 112 99 118 339 113 



Theo. Miller 106 87 96 2S9 96 



Frank Ellis 7.i 112 187 93 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The supply of roses has increased a 

 trifle during the past week and prices 

 are somewhat easier on m'cdium grades, 

 though there is no change on first qual- 

 ity. On carnations prices are a little 

 lower on poor ffradvs. but the best still 

 liold to former iIl'uh^, I'.ullious stock is 

 in less demand tlum .mi, and Of violets 

 there is a sirmii- -iii|ilu-. Even first 

 class violets are ninveil with dimcultv. 



and t,ho other kind arc practically un- 

 salable at any price. 



The principal call is still for white, 

 indicating a continuance of the demand 

 for funeral flowers. Lilies sell well, both 

 Harrisii and callas. General trade con- 

 ditions continue fair for the season, 

 though the volume of trade will hardly 

 exceed that of last year at same period. 



dab Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 last I'lidav evening there was a good 

 ;ili, ihlinii'iiiiil the us'e of iron in green- 

 Ii,,,i-i , 11-1 1 111 1 inn was thoroughly dis- 

 (U--..I III. I M' essays that were read 

 at ilir iiii.iinj "ill be found elsewhere in 



During the discussion, in response to 

 an inquiry, Mr. Jas. Hartshorne thought 

 that it would take an iron frame house 

 three years to pay for itself from its 

 product, while a wooden one would pav 

 fur itself in about two years. He thought 

 tl„, -,„ii ill, II I nii-l nil linn would on the 

 will, I, |.,i i III 1 1.1 nil I 111' investment. 



i;,i,iMii_. In ihr -ri 1 iiig of iron posts 

 in .iiiiini. \li. \\ . \N . Coles, who was a 

 visitor, said he had set wooden posts in 

 this way with very gratifying results. 

 Instead of tamping in the soil the space 

 around the post in th'e hole was filled 

 with cement, and .posts thus set had been 

 as solid as a rock and had lasted longer 

 than others. 



Mr. Rudd said red cedar posts were all 

 right, but he would never use another 

 white cedar post in a greenhouse. Mr. 

 Garland said that he thought locust 

 would last the best of any wooden post. 

 Mr. IMcAdams noted that locust posts 

 were much used in the east. Mr. Broad- 

 beck said locust would last much better 

 in clay than in sand in this section, on 

 account of the sal ammoniac in the lat- 

 ter. 



The tenor of the remarks by all the 

 speakers was to the effect that the iron 

 post and iron gutter construction was 

 undoubtedly the thing. Mr. Wittbold 

 said they had had the Garland iron gut- 

 ter in use for eight years and would not 

 dream of using wooden gutters again, 

 even if they could get them for nothing; 

 and it was brought out that Wietor 

 Bros, had by using the Garland iron gut- 

 ter and post style of construction in 

 their new range of fifteen houses gained 

 15,000 square feet of bench surface over 

 what they would have had by following 

 the old stvle. This they consider was 

 equivalent "to giving them 20,000 feet of 

 additional glass as well as permanent 

 houses. They are very enthusiastic re- 

 garding this style of construction. 



The committee on transportation to the 

 Bufi'alo convention of the S. A. F. n'ext 

 August was appointed, as follows : G. L. 

 Grant, P. J. Hauswirth, E. F. Winter- 

 son.. 



A committee on the co-operative pur- 

 chase of coal was appointed and con- 

 sists of W. N. Rudd, Jno, P. Risch, Peter 

 Reinberg, N, Wietor and Louis Wittbold. 



Gvo. C. Hartung was elected to mem- 

 bership in the club and before the close 

 of the proceedings Edgar Sanders read 

 some humorous verses on the "Red violet" 

 that were received with much applause. 



After the meeting a few adjourned to 

 the bowling alleys, but no 250 scores were 

 made. 



Various Items. 



Messrs. N. Wietor, Peter Weiland and 

 Luk-e Collins recently took the now fash- 

 ionable trip through the Indiana carna- 



