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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AUGUST 9. 1900. 



Philadelphia. Philadelphia always 

 had the name of being slow; their 

 actions, or rather the absence ot any, 

 in the matter of communiiating and 

 arranging with the New York author- 

 ities as to what conditions the Edgely 

 and Wood cups are to be awarded on, 

 have caused no end, of criticism, 

 which ought to be enough to wake 

 even the dead in Philadelphia. It is 

 now the 8th ot August and not a word 

 has been heard fiom Philadelphia. 

 Chairman Roehrs wishes to announce 

 that several prizes will be offered for 

 highest individual scores by lady 

 members of the S. A. F. The ladies 

 will bowl in the evening immediately 

 after the team matches are rolled. 



Club Meeting. 



The next meeting of the Florists' 

 Club will be held on Monday evening 

 next, and a full attendance is request- 

 ed. Final preparations will be made 

 at this meeting, and all should see the 

 necessity of being present. Manager 

 Cleary hopes to hear from those who 

 have not yet applied for space at the 

 trade exhibit. It promises to be a 

 rousing show, and your regrets will 

 lie useless Aug. 21st. 



Gardeners' Society. 



The New York Gardener's Society 

 will hold their quarterly meeting at 

 the Grand Central Palace, Aug. 21st. 

 There will probably be an informal 

 reception given to visiting gardeners. 

 It is earnestly hoped that the private 

 gardeners of all the eastern states will 

 combine in making their part of the 

 convention a success. Show some 

 sporting blood; bring in your plants 

 and flowers, be they for competition 

 or not. 



The Local Bowlers. 



Bowling last night resulted as fol- 

 lows: 



Traendly Ill 145 128 132 



Kiebenheller 106 124 132 163 



Roehrs 173 117 147 156 



Donaldson 116 191 187 140 



Thielmann 135 212 143 147 



Manda 159 128 133 165 



Walters 129 104 112 79 



Burns 135 130 156 



O'Mara 152 139 160 



ponlan 125 143 



J. I. D. 



ST, LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The weather is hot and business 

 dull. Roses coming into the market 

 show unmistakably the severe effects 

 of the hot weather, and most of them 

 are very poor, indeed, and the demand 

 for good or bad is very little. The 

 average price is $2 to ?4 for the best. 

 White is most salable just now. 

 Asters are very abundant, especially 

 the colored ones. The white ones sell 

 fairly well at ?1 per hundred, and only 

 the very large fancy ones bring $1 50. 

 Carnations are small and short 

 stemmed; 50 cents and $1 per hundred 

 is the price. Other outdoor stuff is 

 the same as reported last week. 



Crape Pullers. 



Crape pullers are becoming quite 

 numerous about town, and the few 

 orders they get in this way help to 

 keep them alive during the summer 

 months. I know them, but it wou'd 

 do no good to mention any names. 



Notes. 



Now that the picnic is a thing of 

 the past, the talk among the craft is 

 "Are you going to New York?" and 

 indications at present are that only 

 about eight or ten will go. Not one 

 of the team that represented St. Louis 

 at Detroit is going. 



The St. Louis "quitters," as we are 

 called by Rocky, your Denver corre- 

 spondent in the last issue of the Re- 

 view, was not much to the liking of 

 the bowlers here. But as our record 

 speaks for itself, we will forgive you, 

 Rocky, old boy. 



Frank Fillmore, Schray, Beyer 

 Bros, and Meyer, the South St. , Louis 

 florists, are all busy making altera- 

 tions and repainting for the fall trade. 



John Young and family and F. C. 

 Weber left last night for Atlantic City. 

 They will take in the convention from 

 that place after a short visit to Phil- 

 adelphia. 



Arnold Ringier, representing W. W. 

 Barnard & Co.. Chicago, is in town 

 this week calling on the seedmen and 

 florists. Arnold is always a welcome 

 visitor. 



J. F. Ammann, the well-known 

 florist of Edwardsville, 111., is general 

 superintendent of the Edwardsville 

 street fair which is to be held August 

 28 to 31. With Fred at the head it 

 will be a success sure. 



Alex Halstedt, the Belleville 

 florist, is one ot the prominent figures 

 in the Belleville street fair. Doc is a 

 hard worker and will help make it a 

 great success. 



The florists of St. Louis wish to ex- 

 press through the Review their heart- 

 felt sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Lons- 

 dale in their terrible loss. 



Eugene Haas, for twenty-three years 

 chief clerk in the park commission's 

 office, died suddenly Friday last at his 

 home. Mr. Haas served under all 

 commissions from Eugene Weizel 

 down to Mr. Ridgely. Mr. Haas was 

 a devoted student and lover of flowers 

 and birds, and his great pleasure was 

 in attempting to understand those 

 two great productions of nature. 



Bowling. 



Only three Horist? rolled Monday niglit and 

 some fa-r scores were made, as follows; 



1 2 3 4 .^ 6 To. 



Kuein IM 162 14;t 138 16.i 173 H75 



Beneke Ill 164 174 139 16.-. 146 S8H 



Weber 131 119 163 413 



J. J. B. 



ST. LOUIS TO NEW YORK. 



Chairman J. W. Kunz, of the trans- 

 portation committee has selected the 



"Big Four Route" (the Cleveland, 

 Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry.) 

 which supplies the following informa- 

 tion: 



The rate has been fixed at one fare and a 

 third for the round trip on the certificate plan 

 and the ticltets will be sold here August 18th, 

 19th and 20th and you can leave New York 

 on the return trip as late as August 28th. 



Your people can stop off on the return trip 

 for 10 days at Washington, Baltimore and 

 Philadelphia, and can also stop at Covington, 

 Va., to visit Hot Springs, Va., and at White 

 Sulphur Springs, W. Va. At the two latter 

 places you can stay until October 31st it you 

 want to. 



The regular one way rate. St. Louis to New 

 York, is $21.00 and the return rate will be 

 fT.lo. making J2S.10 for the round trip. 



We have another route via Old Point Com- 

 fort. Norfolk and the Old Dominion Steamers 

 by Ocean from Norfolk to New York, the rate 

 this route Is $23.50 for the going trip and $9.8.'; 

 for the return trip which includes meals and 

 berth on the steamer and is a very delight- 

 ful trip and will give you a chance to visit 

 C)ld Point Comfort, Virginia Beach, etc. 



We run elegant Sleepers. Dining Cars and 

 Observation cars and are fixed to take care 

 of you in a satlsfactor:/ manner and will feel 

 honored if you will select our line as your 

 route for the trip. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



"It is not dead, Init sleepeth." And 

 sometimes it's necessary to pinch it 

 to see it it is merely asleep. Local 

 trade is reported to be the slowest 

 ever known at any season. And an 

 occasional shipping order is about all 

 that disturbs the quietness of the 

 wholesale district. 



Asters are coming in in great quan- 

 tities. Th'ey move very slowly and at 

 low figures. Forty cents a hundred is 

 about the average. A few extra 

 choice go as high as |3, but there are 

 others that bring no more than 25 

 cents. Gladiolus are also a glut and 

 are nearly done. Sweet peas are still 

 considerably in evidence, but they are 

 waning. The heat has been intense 

 here for a week now, and everything 

 has suffered. 



In roses there seems to be a good 

 supply of Beauties for the season, but 

 of other roses but few are worth con- 

 sidering. Though demand is at the 

 lowest ebb, it is enough to take all the 

 really good roses, but they are few in 

 number. There are some very good 

 outdoor carnations coming in, but the 

 glut of asters cuts carnation sales 

 down to almost nothing. 



Various Items. 



The establishment of Kennicott 

 Bros. Co. is resplendent in a new coat 

 of paint, and the force is busy gett ng 

 ready for a hot campaign the coming 

 season. Steve Minon of this estab- 

 lishment is away on his vacation. 



Mike Cullen, for many years in the 

 shipping department at Vaughan's and 

 later employed by W. ,1. Moxley, was 

 recently fatally scalded at the estab- 

 lishment of the latter, and a report of 

 his death is expected at any time. 



Late reports from Milwaukee indi- 

 cate that six or seven from there will 



