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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



SEPTEMBER 13, 1900. 



wood; J. F. Ammann of Edwards- 

 ville; Dr. A. S. Halstedt and E. W. 

 Guy of Belleville. 



Notes. 



Mr. B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., 

 Philadelphia, and Charlie Ford, rep- 

 resenting A. Hermann & Co., New 

 York, are in town with florists' sup- 

 plies. Both gentlemen report trade 

 good since leaving home. 



Carl Rauth, of Springfield, 111., 

 spent Saturday with us. Brother 

 Schmidt, of Edwardsville, 111., called 

 on the boys Saturday with that same 

 smile. 



Fred C. Weber and John Young and 

 wife are back from Atlantic City, 

 where they spent some four weeks. 

 Messrs. Young and Weber both at- 

 tended the S. A. F. convention and 

 report a good time while away and 

 are loud in their praises of the New 

 York boys. Mr. George Windier and 

 mother and Chas. Connon and wife 

 have also returned from their east- 

 ern trip. 



Mrs. Frank J. Fillmore is spending 

 a few weeks in Chicago. 



Dr. and Mrs. Halstedt of Belleville, 

 have returned from their trip up 

 north. They spent the last week in 

 Chicago visiting the different floral 

 establishments. 



Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Buechel, of the 

 Riessen Floral Co., after spending 

 a month up north returned home last 

 Wednesday, both looking the picture 

 of health. 



Miss Weinhardt who has been 

 spending a few weeks at Fort Wayne, 

 Ind., a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Vesey, 

 returned home, having had a very en- 

 joyable time. 



Thompson, Anderson & Kennedy 

 are making some improvements on 

 the large house at Shaw's Garden, 

 building two sections and a dome. 

 When completed will be very attrac- 

 tive. 



Fred Foster has opened a branch 

 store at 510 Olive street. Fred will 

 vacate his old place, at Eighth and 

 Olive, about January 1. 



St. Louis Fair Association, which 

 opens its annual fair October 1, offers 

 in prizes for plants, $261.00; for cut 

 flowers $140.00; and diplomas for the 

 best display of immortelles, grasses 

 and artificial flower designs. Super- 

 intendent J. Ayers reports that a 

 number of local florists have already 

 entered and that he expects the com- 

 petition to be greater than ever and 

 hopes that all florists will take ad- 

 vantage of the liberal prizes offered 

 and make their entries at once. 



Mr. Ayers wishes me to state that 

 the judges will start to judge on cut 

 flowers, at 10 a. m. Thursday, and 

 cut blooms and designs must be in 

 place by that time without fail. 



The Market. 



Stock of all kinds is plentiful but 

 the quality is not what it should be. 



Roses, carnations, and asters are the 

 principal flowers seen. Roses have 

 no doubt suffered greatly from the 

 recent hot spell and choice blooms 

 are out of question. Prices remain 

 the same as reported last week. 

 There are plenty of white carnations 

 in the market just now; colored va- 

 rieties are scarce. All of them are 

 very small, with short stems. The 

 price runs from 25 cents to $1 per 100. 

 Since we have had a little rain asters 

 have become more plentiful and some 

 very fair flowers are seen that sell 

 from 50 cents to $2 per 100. 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The supply of roses and carnations 

 is increasing but demand has fallen 

 off and trade is experiencing a re- 

 lapse from last week. Roses are still 

 $2 to $4 a hundred, but carnations are 

 down to 50 cents to $1 a hundred and 

 often even good grades are diflicult 

 to move at any figure. American 

 Beauties hold up to last week's fig- 

 ures. The market is glutted with as- 

 ters and even first-class ones go beg- 

 ging for a purchaser at $1 a hundred, 

 while poor ones can't be sold at all. 

 Auratum lilies are coming in more 

 freely and are quoted at $1 to $1.20 a 

 dozen. Tuberoses are plentiful. The 

 best bring $2 to $3 per 100 spikes 

 when they sell, and large lots are 

 cleaned out at $1 to $1.50 per hundred 

 spikes. 



'Various Items. 



Mr. J. A. Valentine, of Denver, 

 spent a few days in the city last week 

 on his way home from the conven- 

 tion. 



Mr. Walter Mott, representing 

 Henry A. Dreer. was in the city last 

 week and went from here to St. Paul. 



Mr. E. R. Tauch, formerly with Wal- 

 ter Retzer & Co., has organized the 

 Harms Park Floral Co. and has taken 

 the greenhouses in Harms Park, Ber- 

 teau avenue, near Webster avenue, 

 which have been entirely rebuilt. Mr. 

 L. Gregor, for the last twelve ye_irs 

 with E. Weinboeber, is associated 

 with him in the business. They in- 

 tend to build another 25,000 feet of 

 glass this winter and to continue 

 building in the spring. Last week 

 they planted in 12,000 carnations, the 

 varieties being Joost, Pink Armazindy, 

 America, Crane, White Cloud, Hill, 

 Bradt and Evanston. 



Mr. J. F. Wilcox, Council Bluffs, la., 

 visited the trade here this week while 

 on his way home from New York. 



The Mulick Bros., of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich.; Mr. Joy, Sr., of Nashvil e, 

 Tenn., and Paul Berkowitz, of Phila- 

 delphia, were recent vis'tors. 



Mr. Challenge Ventilator Evans, 

 Richmond, Ind., blew into town on the 



fag end of the Texas gale on Tuesday. 

 The weather is giving us a good deal 

 of the "spice of life" lately. Sunday 

 was cool and comfortable, Monday 

 boiling hot, Tuesday decidedly cool 

 and Wednesday chilly. The .air at 

 present suggests the possibility of 

 early frosts. 



BOSTON. 



Various Items. 



Not much improvement in our run- 

 ning gear yet, altliough buyers are 

 forced to pay the same prices for 

 poorer goods on account of a slight 

 falling off in both quantity and qual- 

 ity, so probably the expected scarcity 

 will soon arrive and there will be 

 something of a discrepancy between 

 aster time and chrysanthemum time, 

 as usual. Advance guards of the lat- 

 ter blossom have been here, however, 

 a squad of six under command of S. 

 J. Goddard fully two weeks since and 

 a dozen one week ago. There are re- 

 ports that Welch Bros, had a few even 

 earlier than these. 



Red roses are getting a surer foot- 

 hold, Beauties having the call at 

 Welch Bros, and Sutherland's. 



The advertised auction sale of the 

 Hayes place at Exeter, N. H., was of 

 the nature of a failure, no genuine bid 

 being made for the property. 



So far as returns have been received 

 Geo. Ayer is the latest victim of the 

 falling bench, and he came very near 

 being a victim indeed, as he had just 

 crawled out from under one a hundred 

 feet long, newly filled with his best 

 carnation loam mixture, when it fell, 

 annexing his propagating bench as it 

 went. 



Decks are being washed, masts 

 scraped and sails trimmed on board 

 the Park street craft of trade in 

 preparation for rush of passengers 

 next Saturday for berths for next 

 year's voyage. B. T. 



THE FINLEY LAWN RAKE. '^'^ 



The Finley Rotary Lawn Rake, 

 which was certificated at the New 

 York convention of the S. A. P., is 

 certainly a very useful instrument and 

 will take the place of the old hand 

 rake on the lawn just as surely as the 

 lawn mower displaced the scythe. The 

 great advantage of this new machine 

 is that it picks up the grass and any 

 litter and puts it in a carrier attached 

 so that the work is cleanly done. The 

 principle is somewhat similar to that 

 of the carpet sweeper, the rake having 

 teeth instead of bristles. 



This rake will be especially useful 

 in the fall in gathering the fal ing 

 leaves, which are so difficult to keep 

 off the lawn during the autumn 

 months. On a windy day it is prac- 

 tically impossible to do a clean job 

 with a hand rake, but the w'.nd will 

 make no difference when the machine 



