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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNE H. 1»10. 



conservatories, "ooiilevards, etc., and 

 because he would not pull with the 

 bosses and rob the city they let him 

 out. The florists all agi-ee that we are 

 losing a progressive man and one that 

 has been o£ great benefit to the trade. 



The hot weather last week brought 

 in an immense quantity of all kinds o£ 

 flowers and quality suffered. The de- 

 mand did not keep pace with the in- 

 creased supply and the market was 

 glutted and lots of stock went to the 

 rubbish pile. Growers are now no 

 longer reluctant about cleaning out 

 their houses for transplanting. 



The bedding season is about over. 

 Good stock was all sold and there was 

 not enough of it. Some of the plants- 

 men got much better prices than last 

 year. BAER. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Market Conditions. 



The florists in St. Louis have suf- 

 fered greatly the past four weeks 

 owing to the street car strike, which 

 is still unsettled and there is no tell- 

 ing how long it is going to last. 



The market is very quiet and a 

 large supply of stock is coming in 

 every day. Mildew appears to be the 

 rule among the roses just now, though 

 occasionally a fine lot is seen fiee 

 from mildew. The retail trade has 

 been dull, but the past week it showed 

 some life owing to a few June wed- 

 dings and school commencements. 

 This will wind up the demand for 

 flowers from this source and funeral 

 work will be about the only orders 

 we can look tor from now on. 



Prices the past week were about 

 the same as last reported. Good rose 

 stock in Meteors, Maids and Brides 

 Ijrought $5 and from that down to 

 $2; plenty of poor stock on hand, but 

 the extra grades are a little scarce. 

 Carnations have kept up well and are 

 still very plentiful, though small in 

 size. The color is fine. Scotts and 

 Daybreaks and all white are selling 

 well. Extra fine grades bring $1.50, 

 but the bulk go at $1 per 100 in one- 

 hundred lots. Mr. J. W. Dunford, of 

 Central, is cutting the best Scotts 

 that come to this market. The Udes, 

 Richter, and Berdan, at Kirkwocd, are 

 also in line with fine cut blooms. 

 Candidum lilies are coming in now 

 and sell at $6 per hundred stalks. 

 Sweet peas are a great glut and thou- 

 sands are going to waste; still the 

 price is up to 35 cents per 100. Val- 

 ley is good and sells at $3. Smilax is 

 quite plentiful at 15 cents per string. 



Notes. 



Mr. Carew Sanders will leave this 

 week for Chicago to attend the meet- 

 ing of the American Association of 

 Nurserymen. Mr. Sanders is a cousin 

 of Edgar Sanders of Chicago. 



The Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society held Its annual meeting at 

 Chillicothe, Mo., on June 6. One hun- 

 dred delegates from throughout the 



state were in attendance. The meet- 

 ing lasted two days and addresses 

 were made by some of the most prom- 

 inent horticulturists in the state. 



C. Young & Sons Co. furnished all 

 the flowers for the graduating class 

 of the Mary Institute last Friday. 



P. S. Sexton, formerly with C. 

 Young & Sons Co., but now at Se- 

 dalia, Mo., was a visitor last week, 

 calling on friends. 



Tom Wilson, the carnation grower 

 at Kimmswick. Mo., came up one day 

 last week and called on the trade. 



Wm. Holtz and Frank Ellis, after 

 spending a few days of their honey- 

 moon out of town, are back attending 

 to the wants of the trade. Both are 

 in the best of health snd are still re- 

 ceiving congratulations from the r 

 many friends in and out of the city. 



Wm. Trillow has retired from the 

 management of the St. Clair Floral 

 Co. and Hucke's place at Belleville. 

 Dr. A. S. Halstedt is again in charge 

 at St. Clair and Wm. Hucke at the 

 Hucke place. Both will grow cut 

 flowers for the St. Louis market the 

 coming season. They are renovating 

 and replanting and everything will be 

 new and in first-class condition. 



The bowling club is still waiting 

 for the street car strike to end befoie 

 it can do any rolling. The boys are 

 eager to roll and no doubt when they 

 do start it will be found that some of 

 them are rusty and out of practice. A 

 few of the boys go down in the after- 

 noon and roll a few games, but as a 

 club we will not roll until we can ride 

 home. The chances for a team at New 

 York are very slim. I read th .t 

 Brother Donlan is very anxious for the 

 western teams to enter. I can speak 

 only for St. Louis and it will be Ju'.y 

 before we shall be sure of a team to 

 represent St. Louis at the S. A. F. Con- 

 vention. J- J- ^• 



NEW YORK. 



Trade Conditions. 



According to the records of sales the 

 condition of the cut flower market is 

 about as poor as it is possible to get. 

 Daring the past week roses have been 

 sold for less than twenty-five cents per 

 hundred, same for carnations, two dol- 

 lars a hundred tor paeonies, and any 

 price a buyer thought of for the ma- 

 jority of other stock. Outdoor flowers, 

 especially roses, are coming in in gi'eat 

 quantities and the demand from a com- 

 mercial point is very small. This 

 state of affairs makes many in the 

 trade think of vacation and we find 

 quite a few going to Europe or indulg- 

 ing in fishing tours, and where a few 

 years ago it was customary to publish 

 the names and movements of the most 

 prominent, nowadays it is different; 

 the press has recently been requested 

 not to publish what would be news to 

 many. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the Floris s' 

 Club was held on Monday night. There 



was a good attendance. Several of the 

 committees reported progress on con- 

 vention preparations. A motion to 

 charge admission to the horticultural 

 section of the exhibition was promptly 

 voted down. The sporting committee 

 reported that alleys and shooting 

 grounds had l)een secured. The ver.y 

 beautiful cup, valued at $100, presented 

 l)y the Lord & Burnham Co. as a prize 

 for the bowlers, was shown and great- 

 ly admired; it will lie illustrated in 

 the several papers next week. 



Mr. Miller, of East New York, ex- 

 hibited a fine spike of the new canna 

 Mrs. Kate Gray, a very large orange 

 scarlet flower of the Austria-Italia 

 type, apparently a fine flower for in- 

 door cultivation. The entertainment 

 committee supplied the usual pro- 

 gram. 



W. R. Smith, of Washington, D. C, 

 and Robert Craig, of Philadelphia, 

 were welcome visitors at the meeting. 

 Both were given the privilege of the 

 floor. Mr. Craig paid a very eloquent 

 tribute to the life work of the vener- 

 able F. L. Harris, of Wellesley, Mass. 

 He said he, in company with Messrs. 

 Smith, Manda. O'Mara and several 

 others, had just come from Boston, 

 where they had attended a banquet 

 given in honor of one of the greatest 

 men connected with American horti- 

 culture; it was an affair of a lifetime 

 and he was sure everyone who attend- 

 ed considered they were honored. His 

 advice to all young men, and old ones, 

 too, was to study and emulate the life 

 and works of F. L. Harris. W. A. 

 Manda, after a few words of the same 

 nature, moved that Mr. Harris be elect- 

 ed an honorary member of the New 

 York Florists' Club, which motion 

 was unanimously carried. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers met in the afternoon. 

 The following are the scores which 

 count in the averages for selection of 

 team: 



J. Manda i:a 1C7 344 



\V. Marshall 226 150 142 



T. Lang- 179 162 16G 



A. Burns Ill 158 lis 



P. O'Mara 160 152 112 



T. Roehrs 133 119 



F. Traendly 133 141 



A. Wallace 91 85 



S. Butternekl 101 104 117 



J. Donlan 161 109 124 



Scores rolled on the Flatbush alleys 

 last Thursday evening were: 



L. Scllmutz 160 120 148 



E. Dailledouze 152 141 146 



P. Riley 155 267 149 



H. Dailledouze 84 113 147 



P. -Dailledouze 123 123 129 



W. Prosser 138 130 151 



C. Wocker 113 106 93 



A. Zeller 123 164 194 



S. Butterfleld 85 110 US 



J. Donlan 102 121 103 



Riley's fine score was within two 

 points of E. Dailledouze's record of 

 269. It is to be hoped there will be 

 several records made at the great tour- 

 nament. Will some one tell us who 

 holds the present record for highest 

 score? 



'Various Items. 

 J. P. Cleary this week conducted 



