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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



JANUABT 19, 18S9. 



more care would be used in their ship- 

 ment. 



Harrisiis are becoming scarce again 

 and at present bring $2.50 per dozen. 

 These lilies are like the "coming 

 events which cast their shadows be- 

 fore." Lilies promise to be very poor 

 and high priced this Easter. There is 

 a vast amount of disease reported, not 

 alone among Harnsiis, but also 

 among longiflorums. We have lots of 

 flowers to talk about, but prefer to 

 discuss them in the Retail Florists' 

 Column next week. 



What concerns the florists of every 

 degree and grade in New York at the 

 present is the influence of the swind- 

 ling Greek. The case of the alleged 

 fraudulent transfer of the Giatris bus- 

 iness, with its barefaced and shame- 

 less trickeries, should be a warning to 

 all. Cannot something be done to pro- 

 tect the hard-worked grower and 

 wholesaler — yes, honest retailer, too — 

 against these foreign swindlers who 

 undersell everybody in the day time 

 in order that they may have gambling 

 money at night? Will American flor- 

 ists ever wake up? 



Bowling. '"T^^^:^ 



The New York Florists' Bowling 

 Club had one of their largest and 

 most enthusiastic gatherings at the 

 alleys Monday evening, January 17. 

 It seems that the most stormy nights 

 bring out the greatest crowds. It ap- 

 pears, too, that the jollier or more 

 enthusiastic the crowd, the smaller the 

 scores are, but no one regrets this, for 

 florists, as a rule, have very little of 

 the tun of lite, and what do high 

 scores amount to it there is a thor- 

 ough enjoyment in these accumula- 

 tions of pleasant hours? The average 

 scores on this occasion were: 



Hafner 130 



Burns 150 



Penman 112 



O'Mara 167 



Doran 130 



Reickert 98 



Tracndly 112 



Lang 152 



Lfiuly 160 



Fricken 129 



Schenck 152 



Guttman 117 



Dent 160 



Donlan 97 



The club decided to issue a chal- 

 lenge to the Flatbush Florists' Bowl- 

 ing Club, to play a set of three games 

 on the afternoon of February 13. This 

 will be the date of the next meeting of 

 the Florists' Club, and it is reason- 

 ably expected that everybody who is 

 anybody will be there. The next we 

 look for is a grand tournament among 

 all the societies around here, or at 

 least a brush with the Philadelphians. 



IVERA. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Florist Club. 

 The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Florist Club took place Thursday aft- 

 ernoon, January 12, with eighteen 

 members present, President Sanders 

 in the chair, and proved a very inter- 

 esting one. After the usual business 



was transacted the application for 

 membership of J. F. Windt was read 

 for the first time. At this meeting the 

 club had the giving of a scholarship to 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden. Mr. 

 Rudolph J. Mohr, late of Omaha and 

 a member of the club, made applica- 

 tion for the same. By unanimous vote 

 of the club Mr. Mohr was given the 

 scholarship. Mr. Carew Sanders an- 

 nounced that a World's Fair would be 

 held in our city in iy03-4 and that the 

 club should draw up a set of resolu- 

 tions endorsing same, and invite the 

 S. A. F. to meet in our city in 1903. 

 The chair then appointed a committee 

 of three to draw up resolutions, con- 

 sisting of Carew Sanders, E. H. Michel 

 and John W. Kunz. The merits of the 

 new carnation Evanston and a new 

 white seedling No. 2 by H. G. Ude 

 were looked into. The committee re- 

 ported the carnation Evanston a sport 

 from Tidal Wave, grown by M. Wei- 

 land, of Evanston, 111., an improve- 

 ment over Tidal Wave, possessing all 

 its good qualities, a perfect calyx, full 

 flower and good stem being particu- 

 larly noteworthy. 



Seedling No. 2, white, grown by H. 

 G. Ude, of Kirkwood, Mo.; perfect 

 calyx, full flower, and appearance very 

 promising and worthy of further trial. 

 Mr. Ude is very much taken up with 

 his seedling and expects great things 

 from it. 



The committee on resolutions pre- 

 sented the following resolutions re- 

 garding the World's Fair, which were 

 adopted by the club: 



Whereas, the St. Louis Florists' Club 

 learns with pride and pleasure that our 

 enterprising citizens and leaders in prog- 

 ress have secured for our city the cele- 

 bration of the one hundredtli anniversary 

 or centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, 

 which is to be commemorated hy the 

 holding of an International Exposition or 

 World's Fair in our city in the years 1903 

 and 1904; and as it is to comprise not 

 only of an exhihition of the developments 

 of the arts and sciences, but especially 

 of the industrial progress of our own 

 territory and country, the manufacturing, 

 the mineral and the commercial, and 

 more than all tliese (because they feed 

 us all), the Horticultural and Agricul- 

 tural progress and advancement not only 

 in our own and acquired territory, but 

 throughout the world. 



Therefore, be It resolved, that the St. 

 Louis Florists' Club pledges itself by and 

 through its membership, now and to 

 come, that they "will use their -Htmost 

 endeavors and exertions to make the 

 Horticultural and Floricultural features 

 of said exposition as near and as much 

 of a perfect success as it is within their 

 power and scope to do ; not only by their 

 own local efforts, 'hut they will endeavor 

 to enlist the aid of the National "Society 

 of American Florists" and any and all 

 other clubs and kindred societies as well 

 as individuals engaged in our own call- 

 ing, throughout the length and breadth 

 of the land, to co-operate with us and 

 assist us in making this occasion the 

 greatest and best exhibit of all Horticul- 

 tural products the West, and better still, 

 the whole country has ever seen. 



The question box was then opened, 

 the question that brought out the most 

 discussion being, "Shall we have a 

 flower show this year?" Mr. E. H. 

 Michel, who spoke on this question, 

 said by all means to have a show, but 



on a smaller scale; do away with the 

 charms of music and the elaborate 

 program. To this the members would 

 not agree. We had the greatest show 

 of any city in the country, the finest 

 place to hold one, a flue band, the 

 finest programs, and we made thou- 

 sands of friends. It's true we lost 

 money, but only through bad weather, 

 which seems to have followed every 

 show given last year. If we are going 

 to have a show this year, it must be 

 as large, if not larger, in all respects 

 than the last one, and with good 

 weather we will make money and the- 

 public will be with us. 



The entertainmert committee re- 

 ported everything in good shape for 

 the floral euchre Friday night, Janu- 

 ary 20. All members present volun- 

 teered to donate something, and those 

 that were not present are expected to 

 do the same. Tickets are in the hands 

 of all members, and indications point 

 to a successful entertainment. 



The treasurer's report showed the 

 club to be healthy in a financial way. 

 The meeting then adjourned to meet 

 again on Thursday afternoon, Febru- 

 ary 9, at 3 p. m. 



The Market. 



Trade the past week was better, with 

 plenty of stock coming in. Really 

 good stock brings a fair price. All 

 kinds of white flowers sold well, with 

 demand great. Funeral work has kept 

 us all busy the past week, excepting 

 that one might say it's dull. Down 

 town the West End florists have had 

 a few large weddings to furnish. 



Good Beauties are coming in better 

 and in larger quantities, also a great 

 many short stemmed ones that sell at 

 from $2 to $4. 



Brides, Meteors, Maids and Carnots 

 are selling at about the same price as 

 last week — $5 to $7 for fairly good 

 stock; seconds, $3 and $4; good Perles 

 and Woottons, $4. 



Carnations are plentiful, with no 

 white left over; price runs from $2 to 

 $4; Scotts and Daybreak, $3 for the 

 best. 



Bulb stuff 'is moving well. Romans 

 generally a glut at this time of the 

 year and selling better than ever; also 

 Paper Whites. 'Valley scarce at $4. 

 Harrisii and callas demand a good 

 price. Harrisii $15 and callas $10 to 

 $12. 



Violets are very plentiful. Califor- 

 nias sold as low as 40 cents per 100, 

 double 50 cents, and small single 25 

 cents. There are more violets grown 

 this year than ever before, which is 

 the cause of so many being dumped by 

 the commission men just now. Smilax 

 seems to be selling slow and every- 

 body has plenty at from $10 to $12.50. 



Fred Foster has forsaken his whole- 

 sale business and again ventured in 

 the retail line. This time it's on the 

 northeast corner of 8th and Olive, un- 

 der the Chemical building. He is again 

 trying to undersell everybody in town. 



The Bowling Club had a great time 

 Monday night, ten members being in 



