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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



JULY 19, 1900. 



CYCLAMEN 



Importation Just Received. 



Crop Harvested May and June of this year. 



STRICTLY NEW CROP. 



sow ONLY 

 HUNT'S 



Cyclamen Perslcum Grandiflora, 



The finest strain for FLORISTS 

 use, composed of all the newest and 

 latest shades and prodiicllons. 



WRITE FOR MID-SUMMER SEED LIST- 



Our New Bibbon Iiist, 



Ready July 21st. Something- well 



worth the trouble of asking for. 



CYCIiAMEN PEBSICUM GIGANTEUIliI, ALBUM pure white, WHITE-carmine eye, 

 BOSETJM SUFBBBUM, GRIMSOIT KINO, BUBBUU. 



Calceolaria, Primula, Cineraria, Pansy — all new, all excellent. 



L. n. n Li IN I I WHICAGO. Long Distance Phone Central 1751 



Mention The Revle^F when yon write 



Belleville. 111.: .T. F. Ammann. of Ed- 

 wardsvijle. 111.; J. W. Dunford, of 

 Central, Mo.: F. W. Ude, Jr., and H. 

 G. Ude, of Kirkwood. Mo., and all at- 

 tended the club meeting in the after- 

 noon. They all say that their young 

 stock is in fine shape and are much 

 pleased with the outlook for the com- 

 ing season. 



Mr. F. J. Riese, with the Plant Seed 

 Co., is much pleased with St. Louis 

 and had his family come on from 

 Chicago last week, and will reside in 

 North St. Louis for the present. 



George Walbart has moved next 

 door to his old store, which is being 

 wrecked to make place for his new 

 building. 



Ellison & Tesson have closed their 

 up-town store at 3134 Olive street for 

 the summer: so has John W. Kunz, at 

 504 Olive street, while alterations are 

 being made. 



F. H. Weber, with F. C. Weber, is 

 off on his vacation. Young Fred is 

 enjoying himself in the southern part 

 of Missouri at his sister's place. 



George McClure. of Buffalo, has ar- 

 rived and taken his position at the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden. All that 

 Brother Scott said about this young 

 man is true and he made a great im- 

 pression on the directors of the gar- 

 den. It is understood that George will 

 become a member of our club. We 

 would like more young men of this 

 sort to come to St, Louis. We need 

 them. 



The Art Floral Co., doing business 

 at Taylor and Morgan streets, have 

 closed up and everything was sold at 

 auction last Friday, 



Mr. E. W. Guy returned home from 

 Cincinnati last week much pleased 

 with his trip. His family will remain 

 a week longer. Mr. Guy says that his 

 visit to the different places was of 

 much benefit to him. 



The Market. 



The business the past week was 

 fairly good but the trade was all fu- 

 neral work and some of the fiorists 

 were quite busy with all kinds of de- 

 signs. The supply of flowers has fal- 

 len off and at times there was a scar- 

 city of white flowers for funeral work. 



The rose stock that comes in now 

 is very good and the average price is 

 $3 and occasionally $4 for some extra 

 fine stock. Meteors are the best sel- 

 lers and are very fine tor this season 

 of the year. Carnations are still sell- 

 ing at $1 per 100. Whites and Day- 

 break have the call. Some good Scotts 

 are sold at the same price. No good 

 red in the market. Sweet peas are 

 about over and the price is 20 cents 

 per 100. Gladiolus stalks are a glut 

 now at $2 per 100 stalks: tuberose 

 stalks are $5: asters sell at $1 and 

 $1.50 per 100. but not overplentiful. 

 Smilax is going to waste, not much 

 call for it at present. 



Mr. Ball, of the Cincinnati Cut 

 Flower Co.. Cincinnati. Ohio, called 

 on the trade Monday, Mr, Ball hgs 

 relatives in St, Louis and will spend 

 a week here. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Clulj rolled a few 

 games Monday night and were all out 

 of form, Mr. W. Adles, our new mem- 

 ber, rolled the best game and has the 

 making of a good bowler. Mr. Adles 

 was formerly a member of the Juniors 

 but will hereafter roll with the older 

 club. The scores were as follows: 

 I 



Wm. Adles 



C, A, Kuehn,, 14H 

 C, C, Sanders. , 

 J. J. Beneke 

 F, C, Weber 

 John Young 



2 :i 4 5 (1 T To. Av 



1211 210 142 171 f,4'.l lr.2, 



158 137 l:W Iflo 131 LSI 1054 151 



1,57 177 127 132 ,5113 14.s 



138 131 1,54 i:i5 145 I.3,S 112 ',1,53 13n 

 . . i:«l 121 1211 133 ,522 131 

 11',) l:S3 ll',( ,341 114 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The MarkeU 



Business does not amount to much, 

 but it is good for the season. Certain- 

 ly the summer dullness is not as in- 

 tense as usual. 



What few good roses come in are 

 picked up quickly at .$3.00 to $4.00 a 

 hundred, and a few bring $5.00, though 

 the bulk go at $2.00 to $3.00. Carna- 

 tions run very poor in quality. The 

 best bring 75 cents to $1.00. a very 

 few extras going a little higher, and 

 the great bulk lumped off at most any 

 price offered. The main call is for 

 white flowers and they go first if of 

 fair quality. 



Asters are beginning to come in 

 and they move fairly well at $1.00 to 

 $1.50 a hundred. Some good Harrisil 

 lilies were noted and they bring $10.00 

 a hundred. Gladioli of very good 

 quality are coming in freely from 

 southern Illinois and they sell very 

 well at $1.50 to $2.00 a hundred spikes 

 for good and $2.50 and $3.00 for extras. 



The sweet pea situation is little 

 changed. The supply is still very 

 large. Lavender seems in best de- 

 mand, probably for funeral work, and 

 some extra fine ones bring as high 

 as 30 cents a hundred, but the great 

 majority average about a dollar a 

 thousand, and the poorest grades are 

 sold at prices that do not cover the 

 expense of picking. 



Various Items. 



Miss Lizzie Joho is now bookkeeper 

 and cashier for E. C, Amling, She 

 is well known to local buyers, having 

 lieen employed in the same capacity 

 by T, J, Corbrey when he was in the 

 wholesale business, and later by Mc- 

 Kellar & Winterson, 



O, P. Bassett and wife are sojourn- 

 ing at Delavan Lake, Wis., and C. L. 

 Washburn is spending much of his 

 time with his family at Lake Harbor, 

 Mich, 



Weiland & Risch have a white sport 

 from carnation G, H, Crane that they 

 believe will prove to be a splendid 

 thing. They are curious to know 

 whether there are any other white 

 sports from Crane. 



Word has been received of the death 

 of Wm. McKellar, father of C. W. Mc- 

 Kellar, at Chillicothe, O., at 3 p. m. 

 yesterday (.Wednesday). Mr. McKel- 

 lar was at his father's bedside when 

 the end came. 



H. E. Philpot. Winnipeg. Manitoba, 

 left for home Tuesday. 



Warren Huckleberry. North Vernon, 

 Ind,, was a recent visitor, 



N. G, Axtel has three acres of sweet 

 peas at Bvanston and is now picking 

 25,000 to 30.000 flowers a day. The 

 picking is done between the hours of 

 4 and 7 o'clock in the morning, by 

 school children, who receive half a 

 cent a bunch. There rre 25 or 30 of 

 them at work every morning. The 



