The Weekly Florists' Review* 



831 



Club Meeting. 



They May meeting of the Florists' Club 

 on la'st Thursday was not so well at- 

 tended as was expected. Only eleven 

 members were in attendance, and of the 

 eleven, six were from out of town. This 

 shows how little interest the city mem- 

 bers take in the club's welfare. 



The meeting was opened promptly at 

 3 o'clock by "President Guy. The ex- 

 hibition committee made a report stat- 

 ing that more time was needed to com- 

 plete the show list. Mr.< Frank M. 

 Ellis was selected the sixth member of 

 the committee. 



The trustees were instructed to make 

 arrangements for the annual picnic to 

 be held in July. 



J. J. Beneke was appointed by the 

 president on transportation to Buffalo 

 for the S. A. F. convention. 



Dr. A. S. Halstedt tendered the use 

 of the Commercial Club rooms at Belle- 

 ville to hold the next meeting of the 

 club on June 13. The invitation was 

 accepted; the members are to be at the 

 club rooms promptly at 3 o'clock. 



Three members were dropped from 

 the rolls for non-payment of dues. 



E. J. Mohr read an essay which was 

 very interesting to the members. 



Mr. H. G. Ude, of Kirkwood, showed 

 a few seedling carnations of the Day- 

 break type with 52-inch stems. The 

 committee voted them worthy of men- 



In a discussion on pink carnations 

 Crocker, Joost and Lord were voted the 

 best in the market just now. 



The meeting then closed to meet at 

 Belleville, June 13, when it is hoped 

 that the city members will come out In 

 full force. 



The Market. 

 The cut flower trade is exceedingly 

 dull at present and there are plenty 

 of flowers of all kinds in the market 

 and with no indication of immediate 

 improvement. The warm weather of 

 late has had a very bad effect on 

 stock in general and roses in particular. 

 There has been quite a lot of funeral 

 work of late, but the transient trade is 

 falling off very fast. Sunday and Mon- 

 day it became quite cool, which helped 

 things somewhat. Some of the roses 

 that came in were mildewed. Beauties are 

 selling cheaper than ever before._ There 

 are so many carnations coming in that 

 the market' can hardly be quoted. Fan- 

 cy carnations bring $1 per 100; good 

 carnations 50 cents, and one would 

 hardly believe the price by the 1,000. 

 Some''of the downtown stores are selling 

 them at 15 cents or two dozen for 25 

 cents and the fakirs even cheaper. 



Sweet peas are ?till a glut at 25 cents 

 per 100, except white, which bring 40 

 cents. Out-door flowers will soon be a 

 thing of the past and when Decoration 

 Dav comes cheaper flowers will be 

 scarce. Good valley still brings $3; 

 poor valley $1 per 100. Harrisii and 

 callas at about your own price. Smi- 

 lax sells well just now. 



The exhibition committee is now 

 composed of C. C. Sanders, F. J. Mein- 

 hardt, Emil Sehray, George Windier, F. 

 M. Ellis and E. J. Mohr. They will 

 meet at Ellis' store. May 28, to select 

 their chairman and finish up the show 

 premiums and the club's preliminary 

 list. The Shaw list must be ready soon 



in order that it may be placed before 

 the directors' meeting of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden for approval. They 

 meet every second Wednesday of each 

 month at their downtown office in the 

 Bank of Commerce building. 



Park Commissioner Eidgely has ap- 

 pointed Timothy O'Brien keeper of St. 

 Louis place. 



Mr. A. Jablonsky has opened a floral 

 store on Kaston avenue, near Hamilton. 

 Bowling. 

 The attendance at the bowling club l3 faUlng 

 off each week and if this keeps up we will 

 hardly have a team to roll at Buffalo. We 

 could put a team together that would make any 

 of them hustle to win. but they don't come 

 down tor practice. Chicago seems to have 

 awakened again and is rolling from fifteen to 

 twenty men each week, but we seem to have 

 lost all Interest, and the few who do come ao-wn 

 are becoming disgusted at the small attend- 

 ance Last night only four came, and from the 

 looks of the scores Bd Winterson's war whoops 

 at Chicago last week were stUl ringing in their 

 ears. Just look at them!^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^^^ 



Kuehn 170 169 170 160 669 167 



ifl,i,on 127 158 141 161 B90 148 



Beneke'.:!.; 122 159 281 140 



ilHs 73 130 ...J... J 203^ 101 



the exposition on the magnificent dis- 

 play of tulips, which has been the 

 bright, particular star of 

 American grounds. 



PITTSBURG. 



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Club Meeting. 



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BUFFALO. 



I am inclined to think that business 

 has been very fair of late, with a plen- 

 tiful supply of flowers. Mr. Kasting re- 

 marked a few nights ago, pointing to 

 a vase or two of carnations, "That's the 

 first time this spring that I have had 

 any carnations left over night." The 

 past few days have been very cool and 

 quite as well for the florist and plant 

 grower that it is, for a warm spell gives 

 folks the fever and they want to plant 

 their gardens two weeks before the safe 

 time. 



The club had a good meeting last 

 week and every committee reported 

 progress, which were all received as 

 quite satisfactory. Mr. Charles H. 



Keitsch has taken hold of the trade ex 

 hibit in a masterly way, as only a 

 thorough and painstaking mind can. He 

 has every detail looked after, and as he 

 won't say it for himself I must, viz., 

 that there never was a more convenient 

 and spacious hall for the purpose and 

 never were the arrangements more care- 

 fully and thoroughly organized. Exhib- 

 itors will find this to their great satis- 

 faction when convention comes. W. A. 

 Adams is also doing good work as chair- 

 man of the Hotel Committee and if our 

 florist friends find themselves without 

 a resting place next August it will be 

 only because they have not sent their 

 explicit requests to Mr. Adams. The 

 Sporting Committee, or rather Commit- 

 tee on Sports, are attending to their 

 duties, and Captain Braik, the chair- 

 man, and W. Belsey Scott sneak off oc- 

 casionally and have a ■ little practice 

 with the gun. 



Visitors have been numerous. They 

 include D. J. Thomas, editor of "Home 

 and Flowers," Springfield, Ohio; James 

 H. Vick, of Eochester; Mr. Grossman, 

 the well known seedsman of Eochester; 

 Mr Dye and J. E. Stillaway of New 

 Jersey; Walter Mott; Mr. J. A. Val- 

 entine of Denver, who is taking a trip 

 from Galveston by ocean sail to New 

 York. That's rather a roundabout 

 way to reach the Pan-American from 

 Denver, but it was good for his health, 

 and he looks as rugged and calm as ever. 

 Mr. Frank E. Pierson, of Tarrytown, 

 has been here two days, and it took him 

 all that time to receive the congratula- 

 ; tions of his friends and the officials of 



The regular monthly meet „ 

 Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists and 

 G udenefs' Club was held last Thursday 

 evening at the rooms of the Pittsburg 

 (Jut Flower Company, 504 Liberty street. 

 There was a large attendance and in ad- 

 dition to commercial florists, private 

 hardeners, interested amateurs and park 

 men all members were out in force and 

 took' part in the discussions. Seven new 

 names were proposed for membership. 



The subject under discussion was 

 palms. It was handled by John Bader 

 of Troy Hill, Allegheny, and he brought 

 in a lot of the different kinds of palms 

 to illustrate what he was talking about. 

 John is the largest grower of these plants 

 in western Pennsylvania; he grows great 

 quantities of young stock to wholesale 

 to other florists, and large plants for 

 those who do a decorating business, ihe 

 different species of a genus were handled 

 in turn, first the kentias, then the la- 

 tanias, then the arecas and so on; the 

 plants of each set to be spoken about 

 were placed on the table before the audi- 

 ence and their merits and demerits 

 thoroughly and pi'a'^ticaly exposed by 

 111 of the members. Then this lot of plants 

 was set aside and the next genus set up 

 for similar treatment. The meeting was 

 lively and merciless. 



Ail points considered, the most favored 

 palms were Areca luteseens, Kentia Bel- 

 moreana and Phoenix Eupicola; the only 

 fault of the last named was its slowness 

 of o'rowth and consequent expensiveness. 

 DoScing with cold water was given as 

 the main cause of spotting and yellow- 

 ing in several palms. Livistoiia rotun- 

 difolia had many friends and so had 

 Ehapis flabelliformis and R. humilis tor 

 long time housework and shady quarters 

 Mr Eandolph declared he could sell 

 but a very limited number of Araucaria 

 excelsa, because of its stiff appearance, 

 but others found a demand for it among 

 German and English people. AH agreed 

 however, that as an all-around useful 

 plant Pandanus Veitchii has never been 

 surpassed "and we never will have an 

 overstock of it, either, for you cannot 

 raise it by the^ thousand from seed as 

 you can palms." , ,, t iq 



The next meeting will be held June 13 

 and the subject is "Outdoor Hardy 

 Roses." An exhibition of these flowers 

 will also be made and the general pub- 

 lic invited to come to see it free of all 



charge. 



Springfieu), 0.— Fire destroyed the 

 crreenhouses and barn of A. G. 'Wenger, 

 Sear Villa, May 6th. Loss is estimated 

 at $2,500, partly covered by insurance. 



E. Oakland, CAL.-Mrs. E.D.Yelland 

 will tnis season build a carnation house 

 18x50 It will be built over the carna- 

 tion beds in August or September. 



EUTLAND, Vt.— S. A. Baker has added 

 a new house, which will be devoted to 

 plants, the old one being devoted wholly 

 to cut flowers. 



Lansdale, Pa.— William Sturzbecher 

 has purchased the greenhouses of Theo. 

 Kneuhl, of North Wales. 



