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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBER U, 1900. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



There is a general improvement in 

 business downtown, as well as in the 

 West End, and everybody feels that 

 the trade will keep up now for good. 

 Although the weather during the day 

 is warm, the cool nights have made 

 a great improvement in the stock. 

 The expected increase in trade on the 

 day of the "Veiled Prophets" ball 

 was realized. Beauties were the main 

 flowers called for. Meteors and pink 

 carnations also were good sellers for 

 use at the ball. 



The rose stock is about the same 

 as reported last week, the bulk of 

 the stock being Bridesmaids, the price 

 of which went as low as .50 cents per 

 100 for the short-stemmed stuff. Other 

 roses, such as Meteors, Brides, Perles 

 and Golden Gates, are in good de- 

 mand, and prices range from $2 to 

 $5 per lOO for the best. Beauties have 

 advanced some; $3 is being asked for 

 the best, and from that down to 50 

 cents per dozen. 



Carnations, too, are showing an im- 

 provement over last week, both In 

 quality and quantity, and some very 

 fine blooms of the newer varieties 

 can be seen. Prices range from 75 

 cents to $1.50 per 100. 



Chrysanthemums have not shown 

 themselves as yet, but it won't be long 

 before southern 'mums come in. 



Notes. 



Visitors the past week were Mr. and 

 Mrs. H. O. Clendenin, of Sparta, 111.; 

 J. D. Carmody, of Evansville, Ind.; 

 Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Wright, of Pitts- 

 burg, Kan.; C. W. Scott, of Chicago, 

 and J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, 

 111. 



August Schuerman left for Fort 

 Smith, Ark., to make a large decora- 

 tion at that place. 



Mrs. M. M. Ayres, who has been 

 quite ill the past week, Is slowly im- 

 proving. 



At the next meeting of the club 

 quite a number of applications for 

 membership will be presented. Among 

 them are Theo. Miller, Mrs. M. M. 

 Ayers, Joe W. North, Walter Kraus- 

 wick, August Schuerman, Chris. S. 

 Eichhorn and F. W. Maas. 



Theodore Miller, who opened his 

 place at Delmar and Euclid avenues 

 last week, reports business good and 

 improving each day. Mr. Miller's 

 place is very attractive and the loca- 

 tion good. Miss Jennie Repeto is in 

 charge of the cut flower department. 



Joe North reports a brisk business 

 in funeral work. Joe has been cutting 

 some very fair flowers of late. 



John W. Kunz, our old sport, Is 

 keeping rather quiet of late, but his 

 friends claim that he will be.,back In 

 harness soon. We hope so. 



Charlie Sehoenle, the Washington 



avenue florist, while decorating the 

 executive mansion at Jefferson City, 

 fell from the ladder and sustained a 

 broken ankle. 



Floral Display at the St. Louis Fair. 



Horticultural and Floral Hall was 

 crowded and the floral display was 

 grand. The following prizes were 

 awarded: 



For best, largest and most tastefully ar- 

 ranged collection of greenhouse and hothouse 

 plants— 1st, Wm. Schray; 2d, C. Young & 

 Sons Co. 



For best pair of hanging baskets of plants— 

 l£t. C. Young A Sons Co. ; 2d, Wm. Schray. 



For best colIectioTi Rex begonia — 1st, C- 

 Yonng & Sons Co.; 2d, Wm. Schray. 



For best collection of named geraniums — 

 1st, Wm. Schray: 2d. C. Young & Sons Co. 



For best collections of palms — 1st, Wni- 

 Schray; 2d, C. Young & Sons Co. 



For best single palm — 1st, Wm. Schray: 2d. 

 C. Y'oung & Sons Co. 



For best single specimen plant of any kind— 

 1st. Wm. Schray: 2d. C. Young & Sons Co. 



For best collection of ferns — 1st, Wm. 

 Schray; 2d, C. Young & Sons Co. 



For best collection of colored foliage plants. 

 arranged so as to produce the greatest con- 

 trast of colors — 1st. C. Young & Sons Co. : 2d. 

 W'ni. Schray. 



For the best twelve roses in bloom, four 

 varieties — 1st, Wm. Schray: 2d, C. Young & 

 Sons Co. 



For best collection of twenty-five blooming 

 plants for house decoration, not more than 

 three varieties— 1st, Wm. Schray: 2d, C. 

 Y'oung & Sons Co. 



For best and largest collection of cacti— 

 1st, A. G. Grlener; 2d, Wm. S:ebert: 3d. 

 H. W. Pilgrim. 



For best floral designs, two pieces: one 

 funeral and one festival emblem — 1st, Ellison 

 & Tesson; 2d, C. Young & Sons Co. 



For best basket of flowers— 1st, C. Young & 

 Sons Co.: 2d, Ellison & Tesson. 



For best and most artistically arranged 

 display of cut roses— 1st, Ellison & Tesson; 

 2d, C. Y'oung & Sons Co.; 3d, Wm. Schray 



For best table decoration, plants used in 

 connection with cut flowers if desired— 1st, 

 Ellison & Tesson: 2d, C. Young & Sons Co. 



For largest, best and most artistically ar- 

 ranged collection of cut flowers of any kind, 

 except roses, all to be properly labeled— 1st, 

 Wm. Schray: 2d, 0. Young & Sons Co. 



For best pair of parlor bouquets— l.^t, C 

 Young & Sons Co.; 2d. Ellison & Tesson. 



For best collection of carnations— 1st. Elli- 

 son & Tesson; 2d. C. Young & Sons Co. 



For best ladies' bouquet— 1st, Ellison & Tes- 

 son: 2d. C. Young & Sons Co. 



Max Herzog acted as judge and his work 

 was done well. 



Bowling. 



Six members of the bowling club rolled Monday' 

 night. C. W. Scott and Theo. Miller wei'e our vis- 

 itora and rolled a few games with us. Mr. Miller 

 is a new hand at the game, but likes the sport and 

 will become a member of the club ne.xt Monday 

 night. The scores were as follows: 



Til. Av. 



C. A. Kuelni 221 U3 1.59 IH3 TIC V'.i 



P C Weber lot! 188 IMl 123 0311 l.i7 



J. J. Ben.-ke 157 11? 144 ... 418 1411 



Wm. Adds 13o 133 l(il K« .Ml l.r. 



C C. Sanders 101 175 122 ... :i'J8 l;i2 



John Young 119 l:« 1U4 i:« 488 122 



C. W. Scolt 122 81 98 ... :iUl KKl 



Theo. Miller 49 121 74 ... 244 81 



J. J. B. 



THE SEED TRADE. 



A report on the development of the 

 seed trade in America has been issue'd 

 by the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington. 



According to this report the first 

 sale of seeds in this country of which 

 any trace can be found was made in 

 Newport, R. I., in 1763. The merchant 

 making it was named Nathaniel Bird, 

 and he was a book dealer. At the 

 outset Mr. Bird confined his attention 

 to onion seeds, his supply having been 

 secured through importations from 



London, England. In 1765 hemp and 

 flax seed were advertised for sale in 

 New York, and in the following year 

 the advertisements included a gen- 

 eral assortment of garden seeds. In 

 1767 there were six seed dealers* in 

 Boston, Boston at that time being a 

 much more important trade center 

 than New York. In 176S one Boston 

 dealer advertised fifty-six varieties of 

 seeds for sale. He did a wholesale 

 as well as a retail business. 



The first farm specially devoted to 

 the raising of seeds was started at 

 Philadelphia in 1784, though prior to 

 that time farmers had been devoting 

 more or less attention to the cultiva- 

 tion of plants, specially for the pur- 

 pose of saving the seed. The Shakers 

 were the pioneers in this line, and 

 Shakers' wagons going through the 

 country peddling seeds were quite a 

 common sight. By the end of the cen- 

 tury there were three farms in the 

 country specially devoted to the rais- 

 ing of seeds, though the acrea,ge of 

 the whole was rather limited. At the 

 beginning of the civil war the country 

 was still largely dependent upon its 

 importations for its seed supplies, but 

 since the close of the war the develop- 

 ment of seed farms has been phenom- 

 enal. By the census taken in 1890 it 

 is shown that there were then 596 

 seed farms in the country, with an 

 aggregate acreage of 169,850, and there 

 has been quite a growth in the last 

 ten years. It is claimed that 100,000 

 acres are now devoted to the cultiva- 

 tion of peas for seed alone. 



MILWAUKEE. 



The Market. 



The writer has somewhat neglected 

 his duty, or Milwaukee, in the Review 

 columns the past few weeks. The 

 trade was too busy to give out any 

 news. 



Growers hustled in their outdoor 

 stock, as a slight touch of frost last 

 week warned them that it was time. 



No building to speak of was done 

 this summer, but improvements were 

 made in the quality of stock to be 

 grown. A few of the enterprising 

 growers discarded most of their old 

 varieties of roses and carnations which 

 were new ones a decade ago, and have 

 put in such varieties as Liberty, 

 Golden Gate, Pink Pearl, etc., in roses, 

 in addition to the standard Brides and 

 Maids, and in carnations, Mrs. Thos. 

 W. Lawson, Ethel Crocker, Melba, 

 Crane, Estelle, Bradt, Wood and Flora 

 Hill can be seen in fair quantities. 



The weather caused the market to 

 be extremely fluctuating the past two 

 weeks. Cold and hot waves followed 

 each other in such rapid succession 

 that the supply was very irregular. 

 .\sters held out longer than usual, 

 much to the discomfort of white car- 

 nations. Violets have made their ap- 

 pearance, but are as yet too small to 

 tempt the buyer to speculate. Trade 



