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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNE 30, ]S9S. 



of seasonable flowers were made by 

 James Comley, Mrs. D. P. Richards, 

 and others. The display of strawber- 

 ries was very fine, the variety Mar- 

 shall capturing most of the leading 

 prizes. 



News Items. 



The last of the plant auctions was 

 held on Saturday. W. H. Elliott,- of 

 Brighton, will, however, sell young 

 roses and Xephrolepis Bostoniensis on 

 Tuesday, June 2S. 



Pond lilies from the south are in the 

 market; demand light at $4 per hun- 

 dred. 



Al. Hertson, salesman for 'W. H. El- 

 liott, sails for England and France 

 next Wednesday. 



S. S. Pennock. of Philadelphia, has 

 been doing the Hub this week. P. 



NEW YORK. 

 In the Wholesale District. 

 If the wholesalers had their way 

 there would be no summer. To them 

 it is a delusion and a snare; and it .s 

 here now with a vengeance and with 

 it the prevailing low prices, with not 

 an oasis in sight. This week will be 

 the end of what business there is and 

 then there will be a settling down to 

 hard pan and a wait till the fall, when 

 prices will again rise to their normal 

 gravity. Trade was pretty fair up to 

 last Friday; since then it has been 

 tumbling into insignificance and airy 

 nothingness. The following prices 

 give an idea as to the market: Ro- 

 ses, ?5 per l.CttH); carnations, ?2 per 

 thousand, with a few at SI per HX"; 

 sweet peas. IVo to 2 cents a bunch; 

 good longiflorum, ?4; auratums, $3; 

 candidum. 50 cents per 100; valley 

 $1.50 to $2 per 100, according to 

 quality. 



A few cattleyas are coming in and 

 realize 30 cents apiece. Good stock 

 in roses is specially scarce and the va- 

 rieties that seem to fare best are 

 Perles, Testout and Meteor. 



While Beauties. Brides and Maids 

 are very "off color" both literally and 

 otherwise. A few pond lilies are seen 

 and realize 50 cents per 100. 



It is an ill wind that blows nobody 

 good. Dont tell Mr. Thos. Young. Jr., 

 this, however, for in the cyclonic gale 

 lasc Saturday his sign was carried 

 away and was discovered somewhere 

 on the east side. This is the only 

 damage reported from florists so far, 

 though it seemed at one time as if the 

 St. Louis disaster was about to be re- 

 peated. 



Mr. E. Koffman will open his store 

 on iSth street nest Friday. Mr. Koff- 

 man is not superstitious. There will 

 be a collation served at noon with smi- 

 lax salad as the chef de ouvre. 

 Retail Trade. 



This department is at low ebb at 

 present and city folks are scurrying 

 to the shore. Commencements and 

 school exercises have helped a little, 

 but the June weddings so far have not 



been so plentiful as the florists could 

 wish and nothing that has ever cre- 

 ated a furore on the street has hap- 

 pened, and so till fall you might say 

 "requiescat in pace." 



J. H. Small & Sons are making good 

 headway with the enlargement and 

 decoration of their store. It will be 

 a "light effect" with electric light ef- 

 fects and they expected to open about 

 the first of August. When finished it 

 will compare favorably with any in 

 the country. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. Geo. M. Stumpp and his son, G. 

 E. M. Stumpp. will sail tomorrow on 

 the S. S. Trave and will tour Europe 

 on bicycles, returning early in the fall. 

 Both are enthusiastic wheelmen and a 

 very enjoyable time is anticipated. 



The glass market here is in a very 

 erratic condition, on accoimt of the 

 strike last year. The supply does not 

 equal the demand and consequently 

 prices are high with an upward ten- 

 dency. There are plenty of large sizes 

 on hand, but the dealers don't care to 

 "cut" it to florists' sizes. They will 

 do so, however, but the price is 

 higher in proportion. There is not 

 likely to be any break in the market 

 and prices will hold their own anyway 

 till next January. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



During the past week business was 

 dull and the only thing that will keep 

 the florist alive from now on is funer- 

 al work. The school commencements 

 are now over and the trade has 

 dropped to the midsummer level. 



Red roses are mostly in demand — 

 Meteors and Beauties; Bridesmaids are 

 also selling well. Brides are very 

 small. Stock of all kinds is not so 

 plentiful as last week, much of it be- 

 ing very poor; prices about the same. 



Carnations are selling well, but the 

 blooms are very small, and only a few 

 excellent flowers were seen. Of these 

 white sold better than red; price. To 

 cents to $1.00 per 100. 



All cheaper flowers continue very 

 plentiful. Asters are not yet over- 

 plentiful and sell at -^l per 100. Sweet 

 peas are arriving in large quantities 

 each day, white having the call; price 

 on all varieties 15 cents per 1.0<X). 



Much replanting is going on among 

 the growers at present, which will 

 shorten up the stock considerably 

 from now on. 



Florist Qub. 



Don't forget the Club meeting 

 Thursday, July 14th, at 3 p. m. The 

 president says he must have a full 

 house. It will be specially interesting 

 to those who wish to attend the S. A. 

 F. convention at Omaha. There is also 

 a great amount of enthusiasm dis- 

 played among the members as to the 

 nomination of president. 



The Picnic 

 The picnic committee will have an- 

 other meeting this week and fix date 

 for the outing. Belleville is the place 

 decided upon, as stated in The Review 

 last week. The chairman of the com- 

 mittee and your correspondent accom- 

 panied by their wives, visited Belle- 

 ville Sunday to look over the grounds 

 and were assisted by our members of 

 that town. It was raining and our 

 Belleville friends were in waiting with 

 carriages to take us over the town and 

 out to the grounds. The place im- 

 pressed us most favorably and the 

 chairman remarked as we were leav- 

 ing. This is the place the fiorists of 

 St. Louis will have their picnic this 

 year, notwithstanding that the corre- 

 spondent of the American Florist stat- 

 ed Creve Coeur Lake. 



Notes. 



It has been rumored about town that 

 a new commission and supply house 

 will be opened in the fall. 



The Bowling Club held a special 

 meeting Friday night at the Grand 

 Alleys. Sixth and Pine streets. The 

 object of the meeting was to roll on 

 these alleys every Friday night and at 

 our old alleys every Monday night un- 

 til just before the S. A. F. convention. 



The Bowling Club had a good attend- 

 ance Monday, and rolled its usual 

 three games. Mr. George C. Head- 

 worth of Chicago, was a visitor and 

 rolled with the boys, his score will be 

 found below. This ended the July 

 series of 12 games. Beneke wins the 

 average medal, with an average of 

 170; Kuehn, second, average 172; Emil 

 Schray the nigh score medal, with 244; 

 John Young, second. 2.34. Next Mon- 

 day night the club will not roll, as the 

 4th of July falls on that date, and 

 Thursday night. July 7th will be our 

 rolling night next week. Here are the 

 scores and averages of Monday night: 



1 2 3 Av. 



J. J. Beneke 157 117 197 157 



C. A. Kuehn 134 148 182 154 



Emil Schray 1S4 113 143 146 



Carl Beyer 123 165 144 



G. C. Headworth 147 99 141 129 



F. C. Weber 113 148 UO 123 



F. Fillmore 159 85 111 115 



C. C Sanders 122 102 130 114 



John Kunz 121 111 122 114 



D. Helwig 108 125 106 US 



John Toung 94 112 100 102 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market, 



Frequent and copious showers have 

 made the gardens, fields and woods a 

 paradise. There is no need of going to 

 the southern shores of Cuba to see fine 

 vegetation; our own humble fields and 

 orchards are beautiful — so beautiful 

 that I pity the poor souls that are not 

 able to roam at large in and on them. 

 Communion with these useful and 

 beautiful children of nature makes 

 better creatures of us all. Some two 

 weeks ago I predicted that cawiations, 

 which were so cheap then that you 

 gave a dozen to a pencil peddler to get 



