MAY 25, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



643 



Display of Pot Lilacs at the International Horticultural Exposition at Hamburg. 



shown contains quite a number of va- 

 rieties forced into bloom at a given 

 date to appear in this exhibition. 



The lilac is an important trade 

 plant with the Germans and they have 

 them in bloom as early as February, 

 while very large quantities are dis- 

 posed of at Easter. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The demand continues very light 

 and irregular. Prices on almost every- 

 thing are trending downward. Stock 

 was very abundant the past week and 

 of poor quality. 



Beauties, fancy, sell at from $2 to $3 

 per dozen; Meteors, Brides, Maids, 

 Perles, first choice, sold at $2 and $4; 

 seconds ?1 and $1.50. A great many of 

 the latter were sold to fakirs, in 1,000 

 lots, who divided them amongst them- 

 selves. Carnations are very plentiful, 

 the best choice stock sold at $1; com- 

 mon as low as 50 cents; reds are more 

 plentiful than others. Paeonies are 

 also very plentiful and the ordinary 

 pinks and reds are down to $1 and $2; 

 whites seem the best. Those coming 

 in are fine, but of course will soon be 

 over. Most of them come up from 

 the south and Decoration Day will see 

 them a thing of the past. Snow-balls 

 and lilac are past and no one is sorry. 

 A few cape jasmines are seen and will 

 be very plentiful before long. Sweet 

 peas are rather poor and an off color; 

 some can be bought for 50 cents, but 



the best still sell at 75 cents; corn- 

 flowers are little called for; price 25 

 and 30 cents per bunch; valley has a 

 good call but scarce; Harrisii are 

 about all cut out and only a few calls 

 are now to be had; smilax still sells 

 well at $15 per 100 strings. 



Decoration Day prices go into effect 

 on the 29th. They may improve prices 

 somewhat, but business on that day is 

 not much in the west, especially St. 

 Louis, as mostly cheap out-door stuff 

 is used. 



Club Meeting. 



The next meeting of the Florists' 

 Club will be held June 8 at 3 p. m. As 

 the last meeting was very poorly at- 

 tended President Sanders expects a 

 large attendance, owing to the fact 

 that some very important matters will 

 come up. The preliminary list for the 

 next chrysanthemum show will be dis- 

 tributed among the growers, the picnic 

 committee will be appointed; and mat- 

 ters pertaining to the next meeting of 

 the S. A. F. convention. 



It is said that the Florists' Gun Club 

 will resume practice soon, as they ex- 

 pect to have a team ready for the De- 

 troit meeting. 



Notes. 



The firm of Pfeffer & Rotter, of 3036 

 Easton avenue, have dissolved part- 

 nership. Mrs. Pfeffer will, hereafter, 

 run the place in her own name. 



Thompson, Anderson and Kennedy's 

 crew of workmen, left last week for 

 Toledo, Ohio, to start work on a range 



of greenhouses, the cantract price of 

 which is $30,000. 



The Shaw flower sermon was de- 

 livered last Sunday morning at Christ 

 Church Cathedral. Henry Shaw, the 

 philanthropist, in his will left a sum 

 suflicient to defray the expense of a 

 flower sermon annually. 



W. C. Oughton died at his residence, 

 1910 South King's Highway, on Satur- 

 nay night, aged 71. Mr. Oughton was 

 the father of J. R. Oughton, of the 

 Ougucon Floral Co., at 2736 Washing- 

 ton avenue. 



Bowling, 



The bowling club had a better at- 

 tendance Monday night. The rolling 

 was an improvement over last Mon- 

 day night, but still not what is ex- 

 pected of some of our best bowlers. 

 The scores were as follows: 



„ , „ 12 3 4 5 Tot. Av. 



Carl Beyer 126 1S3 1S6 173 IBS S34 167 



C. A. Kuehn 145 I5S 166 177 146 792 158 



C. C. Sanders.... 123 167 172 19S U7 778 15S 



J. W. Kunz 155 157 136 ISO 118 718 144 



John Young 130 156 120 165 571 143 



J. J, Beneke 130 119 159 126 132 666 133 



P. J. FlUmore.... 91 147 108 144 119 609 122 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



Business Conditions. 



It looks as if our plant business 

 would all come with a rush. The good 

 and sensible intention of filling up ge- 

 ranium beds the middle of May or as 

 fast as you get the order won't work 

 according to programme, because we 



