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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



SEPTEMBER, 



The varieties they grow are Triumph, 

 Evelina, Bradt, Joost, Evanston. Hill 

 and McGowan. 



G. H. Pieser and G. R. Scott went 

 Dn a little fishing excursion last week 

 and the latter caught a very mixed 

 collection, including a whale, a min- 

 now and a slight cold. 



Bowling. 



At the first meeting of the bowling club since 

 tile New York tournament, held last Thursday 

 evening, the following scores were made: 



Av 



Asmus 168 H2 15,5 132 157 203 202 185 



Balluff 144 166 153 184 150 160 194 164 



Winterson.. 133 172 143 15i l(l9 125 156 143 

 Hauswirth.. 105 124 164 116 143 137 1.50 134 

 Kreitling... 129 121 109 101 119 126 91 114 

 Heffron 123 124 10,5 122 125 107 87 113 



After the club meeting last Friday evening two 

 games were played and the scores follow: 



Av. 



G.L. Grant 169 158 IfS 



P. J. Hauswirth 165 151 158 



Ino Degnan 161 154 ).57 



W. Kreitling 14,8 136 142 



las. Hart^horne 122 149 135 



A. McAdams 135 126 IXI 



W. Tiplady 146 96 121 



Jno. Reardon 96 li7 111 



NEW YORK. 



The Weather and Coal. 



Weather much warmer since my last 

 notes. Have had no frost yet in the 

 vicinity ot ihis city. Outdoor stock, 

 especially cannas, looking good. There 

 is considerable apprehension concern- 

 ing the coal question; prices continue 

 to soar; there is no telling when the 

 strike will end; many think it will last 

 till after election; if so. we expect to 

 see many a frozen greenhouse as many 

 growers have not yet got in their sup- 

 ply for the winter. The possibilities 

 are tremendous and command much 

 consideration,' but the probabilities are 

 hopeful. 



The Marfcet- 



The condition of the cut flower mar- 

 ket is fairly good. Prices, consider- 

 ing the weather and grade of stock, 

 are all that could reasonably be ex- 

 pected. Very few changes in the busi- 

 ness this fall; no new beginners, and 

 the old hands manage to keep cling- 

 ing. Stores are beginning to have 

 that "get ready" look about them; 

 more plants and choicer flowers are 

 shown in the windows. Just at pres- 

 ent nearly all the first class stores 

 have a display of cattleyas. Some fine 

 sprays ot Oncidium are also seen. Or- 

 chids are always popular in New York, 

 and it seems to us the more they are 

 so the better the sale of all kinds of 

 flowers. 



The Auctions. 



Good prices prevailed at the auctions 

 last week. There was a great quan- 

 tity of small Cycas revoluta sold; they 

 brought from ,50 cts, to ?2,0O; these 

 and small palms, rubbers and Boston 

 ferns composed the principal items of- 

 fered. We notice one or two growers 

 who regularly attend these auctions, 

 picking up the bargains and reselling 

 the stock some time after. With a 



convenient place and some foresight 

 there should be more money in the 

 scheme than in patiently growing; for 

 instance, there was a quantity of 4- 

 inch cuneatum sold for 6 cts,; in a 

 month this stock should be worth 20 

 cts,; and so on, Dreyer's annual sale 

 at his place at Woodside was as usual 

 a success this year. The stock was 

 clean and well grown and high prices 

 prevailed on plants ready for retail 

 trade. 



Palms and Ferns. 



There seems to be an abundance of 

 small sized palms all over this sec- 

 tion; many of the large growers are 

 raising their own stocks from seed. A 

 great quantity of these small plants 

 are used up in ferneries, basket work 

 and for furnishing up, but the country 

 needs some one who can afford to set 

 aside a large quantity of arecas and 

 kentias to grow into the sizes almost 

 unobtainable now, 



Arecas seem to be coming into favor 

 again and they deserve it for there is 

 no palm more graceful, but we are in- 

 clined to think that their popularity 

 among buyers rests on their size or 

 quick growing quality, 



Boston ferns seem to 'be treated in 

 a like manner with "mums," insomuch 

 that everybody seems to be in a hurry 

 to get rid of them with the result that 

 few good specimens will be there when 

 most wanted. No sensible storekeeper 

 gets excited over buying a big stock 

 of plants early in the season, for the 

 majority of stores kill or cripple plants 

 quickly. Next month, or for thit mat- 

 ter the month after, is time enough to 

 plunge, and the growers having good 

 quality need not worry. With many 

 of course ready money and coal bills 

 are bothersome thoughts and anxiety 

 breeds desperation, 



Violets and Carnations. 



Good violet plants are as usual 

 scarce this year, that is, plants in the 

 healthy districts. It's getting to be 

 so now that violet plants must have 

 been reared in Poughkeepsie, Rhine- 

 beck or thereabouts to insure confi- 

 dence. 



Most of the carnation growers have 

 considerable outdoor stock left over, 

 particularly of Scott, We hear there 

 is a scarcity of good whites. Scoti..^ 

 were sold at auction, best for IV2 and 

 2 cts. Many of the smaller growers 

 allowed their outdoor carnations to 

 bloom all they could and in this way 

 the stock has paid, for cut carnations 

 have been bringing good prices all 

 along. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club will meet on the 

 second Monday in October, and on that 

 afternoon at 4 o'clock the Bowling 

 Club and those interested will meet 

 at Traendly & Schenck's store for the 

 purpose of making up a program, 

 electing officers for the ensuing year 

 and to make arrangements for alleys 



for the coming season. Bowlers and 

 would be bowlers are requested to at- 

 tend. 



The Plant Market. 



The resolution ordering a new mar- 

 ket to be built on the site of the old 

 Clinton Market for the sale of plants,, 

 has become a law. It was passed by 

 the Municipal Council and the Board 

 of Aldermen and is now in the hands 

 of the Board of Estimate and Appoint- 

 ment. There is no telling what they 

 will do with it. It may go through 

 on account of the nearby elections, but 

 there Is no mandatory law. Plaut- 

 growers who sell at this market should 

 bring the matter before the club and 

 other societies and have them urga 

 upon the city authorities its import- 

 ance. No time should be lost if New 

 \ork is to have a decent plant mar- 

 ket in the near future. .1. I. D. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Improved Market Conditions. 



Business continues to improve; the 

 cool weather and the return of the so- 

 ciety favorites did a world of good to 

 the trade about town. The local de- 

 mand for the better quality of stock 

 shows this. The retailers are carrying 

 larger stocks than they have beea 

 carrying for some time. The whole- 

 salers, too, say that shipping trade has 

 greatly improved and all this goes to 

 show that the trade has opened ia 

 earnest. 



Prices have advanced a little oit 

 choice stock and the choice Meteors. 

 Maids and Brides go at from $4 to |6. 

 seconds -$2 and $3; Beauties are com- 

 ing in better every day, a few choice 

 grades with long stems went for $2,5<> 

 per dozen, others sold from $1 to $;J 

 per dozen. Carnations have not ad- 

 vanced any in price. Field-grown are 

 7,5 cents and indoor go at $1 per 100, 

 Plenty of white on hand; color is 

 scarce, A few small single violets are' 

 coming in but very frail and hardly 

 salable. Asters and tuberose stalks 

 are in good demand and the price re- 

 mains the same as last report. 



Visitors. 



Visitors in town the past week were: 

 Mrs. W. F. Vesey, of Fort Wayne. 

 Ind.; Wm. H. Barry, with Curry &, 

 Co,, Nashville, Tenn,; Frank Howard, 

 representing the Chicago Folding Box 

 Co,, of Chicago, and Walter Retzer, of 

 Chicago, who has been spending a 

 week with us visiting his many 

 friends. He left for home Friday well 

 pleased with the orders he took back. 



Notes. 

 Henry Berning, of 1322 Pine street, 

 was married last Wednesday night to 

 Miss Martha Bruning, of South St. 

 Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Berning left the 

 same evening for a trip north to be 

 gone a week or two. Congratulations 

 are now in order. 



