JUNE 9, 1S98. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



33 



Sweet peas and Jacques are most 

 plentiful. The sweet peas are mostly 

 all Blanche Ferry, and sell at 4'.) cents 

 per Ktfi. The Jacques bring $1 per 1(H>, 

 or $.") in l.fMXI lots. 



All kinds of roses (except Lieauties) 

 can be bought at from $1 to ?:!; Beau- 

 ties, for the very best, $1 and $2 per 

 dozen. Carnations are getting smaller 

 each day and are not in very good 

 color, except Scott. In small lols they 

 sell at $1, but in 1,000 lots go as low 

 as 40 cents per 100. 



Notes. 



At this time of the year news and 

 trade notes among the florists are very 

 scarce, and will be from now until the 

 season opens again. 



Ostertag Bros, have opened i palm 

 house at the southwest corner of Jef- 

 ferson and Washington avenue. In 

 this store they will keep only artifi- 

 cial goods. 



Wm. Trillow. of Belleville, 111., who 



They were gently received by Dr. 

 Helwig, who assured them that their 

 husbands were well taken care of ev- 

 ery Monday night. The doctor or- 

 dered lemonade for the ladles, -after 

 being complimented on his handsome 

 appearance without his mustache. 



After the bowlers had rolled their 

 usual three games the ladies were in- 

 vited to roll a game of cocked hat and, 

 strange to say, they all rolled the same 

 score of 25 each. As all these ladies 

 expect to go to Omaha with their hus- 

 bands in August, they are thinking of 

 sending a challenge to any four ladies 

 at the convention. The score of the 

 club bowlers were as follows: 



1 2 J Tot. 



r. A. Kuehn 174 172 208 554 



.1. J. Beneke 184 200 ICO 550 



J. W. Kunz 160 179 1S8 527 



EmU Schray 191 151 182 524 



Dr. Helwig 186 145 188 519 



John Young 180 185 138 503 



Frank Fillmore 154 169 106 429 



Fred C. Weber 122 131 124 377 



J. J. B. 



creased their glass capacity for this 

 year. Shipping trade was much light- 

 er than last year. Most of those car- 

 nation plants that didn't do as expect- 

 ed during the winter tried to make up 

 for past errors on Decoration Day and 

 everybody seemed to have enough of 

 their own. 



Plant Trade. 



This week will see most of the woi'k 

 finished in bedding out with the ex- 

 ception of out of town resorts and 

 railroad bedding. Salvias are increas- 

 ing in popular favor and the days of 

 hydrangeas except in limited quanti- 

 ties are numbered, one great objection 

 to them being they are so hard to keep 

 wet and wilt so soon in warm weather. 

 Pelargoniums sulfer even more thaa 

 hydrangeas. 



Notes. • 



F. J. Meech & Son, of Charlevoix, 

 report a good Decoration Day trade. 



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Partial View of the establishment of Mr. Ernest Saunders, Lewiston, Me. 



is now in charge of the St. Clair Flo- 

 ral Co.'s greenhouses, has also taken 

 the Hucke greenhouses. Mr. Tiillow 

 has leased both places in order to be 

 in shape to grow flowers of all kinds 

 for the St. Louis market. 



Beyer Bros, will start at .jnce to 

 build four new houses, one (iOxlOO, one 

 14x100, and the other two 2.jxlOO. The 

 boys report that spring planting trade 

 has been very satisfactory with them. 



Missouri Botanical Garden was 

 opened to the public yesterday (Sun- 

 day), and attracted the largest Sun- 

 day crowd in the history of this fa- 

 mous beneflcence. The garden is open 

 to the public on Sunday twice a year, 

 the first Sunday in June and the first 

 Sunday in September, as provided for 

 in the will of the late Henry .Shaw, 

 A Surprise at the Bowling Club. 



The bowlers were treated with a 

 genuine surprise Monday night. After 

 bowling two games and about to start 

 the third one four ladies w-alked in. 

 They proved to be Mesdames Fred 

 Weber, John Kunz, C. A. Kuehn and 

 J. J. Beneke. They said they only 

 wished to see how their husbands 

 spend every Monday night. 



LEWISTON, ME. 



Ernest Saunders has a trim plant 

 with a grand frontage, including one 

 of the best stores in New England. 

 I herewith send a picture of eame. Mr. 

 Saunders has recently added a rose 

 house 2:Jxl10 feet, three-quarter span, 

 fitted with the Ormsby ventilator, a 

 graceful piece of mechanism. Mr. S. is 

 planting grafted stock. W. M. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 

 Decoration Day Trade. 



The weather is hot and dry and a 

 good shower would do lots of good. 

 Decoration Day trade was excellent, 

 while there were flowers in abund- 

 ance, excepting perhaps white carna- 

 tions, good stock sold out close ant^ 

 as predicted plants played a conspicu- 

 ous part in the day's receipts. Out 

 of door stuff was extensively used and 

 had this factor been removed sales 

 would have been far in excess of what 

 they were; as it was the volume of 

 business was from 10 to 20 per cent 

 greater than last year. In consider- 

 ing this estimate, one must remember 

 some establishments had largely in- 



although the bulk of their business is 

 with the resorters a little later in the 

 season. They grow some magnificent 

 callas of the grandiflora type, stems 5 

 to 6 feet long, flowers 14x9 inches in 

 size, and beauties. 



S. J. Long, of Petoskey, says he 

 never had such a good trade on Me- 

 morial day before and is nearly clean- 

 ed out of salable plants. 



In the last issue of The Review it 

 appears that Mr. Stover, of Grandville, 

 had 5.000 carnations . plants in the 

 fleld; it should have read 25,000. 



GEO. F. CRABB. 



OUR LONDON LETTER. 



I From our London Correspondent] 



Odontoglossum Crispum Princess Christian, 



I wish every reader who cares for 

 orchids could see this splendid variety 

 of O. crispum which was shown by 

 Baron Schroeder at a meeting of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society. 



The plant had a spike of twelve 

 flowers, each large and broad, the 

 gi'ound of both sepals and petals being 

 white, but in the former there is a suf- 

 fusion of deep rose, relieved by blotch- 



