MAY 31, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists* Review* 



Establishment of Ktz, M. M. Ayres, Sf. Louis. 



can't get anything to eat." I woa't 

 mention the name of the originate r o' 

 the joke, as he might receive offers 

 from some professional manager to 

 enter the burnt cork arena and then 

 we would lose a bright light in the 

 florist business. 



There is nothing new to report 

 about the bowling club. The membeis 

 will not come down and bowl if they 

 have to walk home. From the looks 

 of things at present we may not have 

 a team to represent St. Louis at the 

 S. A. F. convention in New York. But 

 we have some twelve weeks yet to 

 think over the matter, and maybe 

 after all St. Louis will send a team. 



On next Monday night we will 

 start the .June series and we do hope 

 that as many as can will be on hand. 

 We are promised by that time that 

 the street car strike will be at an end 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



Since warm weather has arrived 

 plant men are very busy and on the 

 eve of Decoration Day we are a little 

 more than busy and instead of writing 

 gossip we should be filling vases, or 

 saying, "Yes, ma'm, your work shall 

 surely be done by Saturday night." 

 And then you fret and fume and try to 

 think of 50 jobs all at once and then 

 you nearly curse the business and in 

 two or three week's time we will be 

 saying what fools to fret, we got. 

 through in plenty of time. 



The season is about one week be- 

 hind the normal this year and outside 

 flowers are in great abundance. The 

 truck that is carried to the cemeteries 

 is awful and the demand for green- 

 house flowers is consequently light. 

 Valley is just right and no rains to 

 spoil it. Lilac is just in its first flush 

 of beauty. Late tulips are plentiful 

 and so are the double white narcissus, 

 and in this city of homes and gardens 



thousands have their own flowers. 

 Those that do want a little choicer 

 quality can easily be supplied, for 

 there is an abundance of carnations. 

 roses and sweet peas. 



Decoration, or, as it is known in 

 some states. Memorial Day, will be 

 kept as usual, and what makes us 

 rushed is that of late years everybody 

 wants their vase filled and on their 

 lot by the 30th. I don't blame them 

 for it is time, but when you have to 

 handle 300 iron vases and get them all 

 on the right spot, "Section A. A., 

 north half of lot 311, stone marked 

 John Thomas," it makes you hustle. 



I notice this year an increase in the 

 quantity of plants at the grocery 

 stores and some of very fair quality 

 too. I don't believe they make a cent 

 by it but bother with them just be- 

 cause their neighbor does. It has lit- 

 tle effect on the retail greenhouses, in 

 fact if we had all the old women who 

 turned round and looked at a dozen 

 geraniums and then purchased one, we 

 could not wait on them. 



Some time ago we received a circu- 

 lar fiom the Philadelphia committee 

 about the bowling. As the contest is 

 in New Y'ork I don't see what a com- 

 mittee of Philadelphia men has to do 

 with it. I..ast year going up the De- 

 troit river we had a great meeting. 

 Much of that will be unnecessary this 

 year. The quantity of hot air that es- 

 caped in that cabin was something 

 awful. We now have our officers and 

 I approve of them highly. Kift is a 

 man of action, quick to decide and the 

 essence of fairness. The secretary is 

 A. 1, and the treasurer is a dandy. I 

 only hope that far western man can 

 get to the seaboard. Last year at De- 

 troit there was two hours of valuable 

 time wasted wrangling over absolute- 

 ly nothing on the alleys. The princi- 

 pal rule or law is every competitor 

 must be a resident florist of the city 

 he plays for and a member of the S. 



A. F. All the rest is easy and it mat- 

 ters not in what order the clubs play. 

 If New York is drawn to play against 

 Philadelphia and Chicago is No. 3. If 

 Philadelphia is not ready let Chicago 

 step into their place. What's the dif- 

 ference as long so we get our turn on 

 each alley? I should like to see the 

 Hon. Patrick O'Mara made master of 

 ceremonies on the alleys at New Y'ork 

 because he has the snap and com- 

 mand and executive ability enough to 

 spread over several wards (that's no 

 pun of the carnationists — I mean po- 

 litical wards). If the prizes to be 

 given by the association can be pur- 

 chased and presented at end of game 

 to the winners it will be a great im- 

 provement over last year, but we were 

 new then and could not help it. 



Mr. Charles Havenith, of Belgium, 

 who was almost a year with W. S., 

 sails tomorrow for his ancestral home, 

 Contich, Belgium. Charlie says he 

 thinks he will find when he gets home 

 that much that he has seen and ob- 

 served will be of benefit to him on his 

 father's large establishment and we 

 wish him a pleasant voyage. 



No rain here to do any good since 

 the snow went, about nine weeks. We 

 need irrigation much more than Colo- 

 rado. W. S. 



PHILADELPHL\. 



The Market. 



There is little if any change in busi- 

 ness over last week with the exception 

 of bedding stuff for which there is a 

 big demand. Geraniums have sold 

 well. Cannas are very scarce. 



Prices: Beauties, $1.25 to $3.00 per 

 doz.; Brides, Maids, Kaiserins and 

 Golden Gates. $4 to |S; Meteors and 

 Perles. $4 to $6; Liberty ?S to ?15. 

 Carnations, ordinary, $1 to $1.25, 

 fancy, $1.50 to $2.50; daisies, 50 cents 

 to $1; callas, $6 to $10; Harrisii, $10; 

 valley, $3 to $4; mignonette, $3; sweet 

 peas, 50 to 75 cents; adiantum, $1; as- 

 paragus, $50; smilax, $15 to $20; pae- 

 onies, $4 to $5; cornflowers, 50 cents. 



A visit to the establishment of Chas. 

 Mechy is time well spent for there is 

 to be seen a fine lot of well grown 

 roses, geraniums, etc. He also grows 

 a fine lot of azaleas and lilies for 

 Easter. In pot chrysanthemums he 

 grows from 8,000 to 10,000. He has 

 just finished planting about 20,000 

 roses out of 2-inch pots. These are 

 planted out in the open garden and 

 are intended lor next spring's sales. 



James Cole, of 55th and AValnut 

 streets, is seriously thinking of giving 

 up growing roses, as from a 150 ft. 

 house, planted to Brides and Maids, 

 he realized only about $75.00. He 

 intends growing two houses of carna- 

 tions which he hopes will pay him bet- 

 ter than the roses did. Mr. Cole does 

 quite a business in bedding plants, 

 having two wagons engaged in deliv- 

 ering about the city. 



A visit to G. Aschmann's place found 

 him busy filling orders for bedding. 

 He says this has been his banner sea- 

 son. 



