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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



JULY 14. 189S. 



ident. subject to the approval of the ex- 

 ecutive committee. 



5. A Claim Department, whose duty it 

 shall be to look after the adjustm.-nt of 

 claims of members against traasixirtatizin 

 companies. To be in charge of a co nmit- 

 tee of three, appointed by the preijident, 

 subject to the approval of the ■■xe-'Utive 

 committee. 



BOSTON. 



Review of the Market. 



Anybody to go the rounds among 

 the trade would know that business is 

 almost at a standstill, and would miss 

 the sight of many familiar counte- 

 nances, some having been laid off for 

 the summer, others Ivilling time at the 

 sea shore and the moantains. Those 

 left at home manage to catch a little 

 funeral worli, which is the only thing 

 now in the way of businL-ss. The 

 growers, what few come in iron day to 

 day, are now dependent on the falvirs 

 almost entirely, and it is surprising 

 what quantities of stuff they manage 

 to dispose of. 



Prices are very irregular — up today 

 and down tomorrow — especially at the 

 co-operative market. Roses are in 

 good quantity. $5.00 per hundred being 

 the asking figure, with Kaiserins of 

 fine quality held at $8.00; Meteors, 

 plenty, averaging $6.00; .some elegant 

 Beauties sell anywhere from ?2.00 to 

 $4.00 per dozen. 



Carnations are a drug, especially 

 whites, of which Mrs. Fisher is very 

 much in evidence: asking prices are 

 from 50 cents to $1.00 per hundred, but 

 during this week they have sold as 

 low as $1.00 per thousand. Valley, 

 plenty, quality fine, is held at $4.00. 



Peas, druggy, quality poor; held at 

 from 50 cents to $1.00 per thousand. 

 There are still plenty of lilies in the 

 market which sell readily at $5.00 per 

 hundred. Asters are becoming more 

 plenty, but of small size, owing to ex- 

 cessively hot weather; $1.00 per him- 

 dred is the ruling price. Odds and 

 ends of seasonable flowers are in suf- 

 ficient quantity to supply the demand 

 and it Is a case of sell for what you 

 can get. 



The Weekly Exhibition. 



This week's show was advertised as a 

 hollyhock exhibition, but owing to 

 backwardness of season only a few 

 made their appearance. Native hardy 

 flowers were most in evidence, being 

 exhibited by Mrs. W. S. Ea.ger, who 

 received first prize, while the Misses 

 Doran were awarded second and Miss 

 Genevieve Doran third. Miss Hattie 

 B. Winters was awarded first prize for 

 a vase of flowers arranged for effect, 

 Mrs. E. M. Gill second. Gratuities 

 were awarded to E. Sheppard & Son 

 for Iris Kaempferi; R. and .T. Far- 

 quhar & Co. for auratum lilies and 

 Kaempferi; Mrs. A. W. Blake for a 

 nice collection of delphiniums; W. M. 

 Craig for Crimson Rambler rose and 

 hardy phlox; Rea Bros, for a collec- 

 tion of herbaceous flowers, and* Miss 

 Vivian May Norris for native hardy 

 flowers. The Boston Mycological club 



made a very interesting display of 

 mushrooms, named and labeled, which 

 attracted a great deal of attention. 



News Items. 



The retail stores will now close daily 

 at 5 o'clock, and most of them earlier 

 on Saturdays. 



Thomas F. Galvin and family are 

 summering at Siasconsett, Mass., 

 while both P. and Ned Welch are en- 

 joying the salt breezes at Old Orchard, 

 Me. 



W. F. Malloy. salesman for E. M. 

 Wood & Co.. Natick, Mass., is spend- 

 ing his vacation in the neighborhood 

 of Philadelphia, and W. F. Murphy, N. 

 F. McCarthy's right hand man, is do- 

 ing New York. 



Galvin's employes are going away 

 one by one, W. T. Henderson to Ver- 

 mont; Charlie Malone to Nantucket, 

 and Arthur Houghton leaves on the 

 21st for Vallejo, Cal., while .lames J. 

 Coleman sails on Monday, the 11th, for 

 Europe, looking after new attractions 

 and novelties for next season. P. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The week just passed was a very 

 quiet one among the florists. This, of 

 course, must be expected in midsum- 

 mer. There is sufficient demand to 

 consume all the good stock coming in. 

 All kinds of roses are limited in 

 quantity and sell out clean daily. 



Beauties are very short in supply, 

 demand fair. They sell at $2 per doz- 

 en. Brides. Maids and Meteors are 

 in good demand; Perles very scarce. 

 Carnations are not very good, being 

 very small. Scott, Daybreak and any 

 kind of red and white sell well; price 

 still $1 and 75 cents per 100. 



Of the outdoor stuff that comes in, 

 sweet peas are about the only flowers 

 that sell well. They are not so plen- 

 tiful, but are better thaii they were; 

 lirice 15 cents per 100. 



Double and single tuberose stalks are 

 becoming plentiful and go at 5 cents 

 per stalk; some are sold as low as 50 

 cents per dozen. Cornflowers, iberis, 

 phlox in all colors, hollyhocks, dais- 

 ies, gaillardias, coreopsis, gladiolus 

 and asters are very plentiful, but meet 

 with very little sale, except the light 

 colors. 



Taking things in general, the whole- 

 sale men and the growers have noth- 

 ing to complain of, considering this 

 time of year. 



News Notes. 



Charlie Young returned home last 

 week after a week's sojourn up north, 

 with his wife and mother. Charlie 

 will join them again in about two 

 weeks and remain for the summer. 



Chairman Kunz. of the transporta- 

 tion committee, reports that abaut IS 

 names have been handed him who will 

 go to Omaha to attend the S. A. F. 

 convention. Mr. Kunz expects about 

 24 to go when the time comes. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Jordan are still 



at Omaha and expect to remaia there 

 until after the convention. It is re- 

 ported that Mr. Jordan's health has 

 improved greatly. 



Considerable talk is going around as 

 to who is going to open the new whole- 

 sale commission house in the city this 

 fall. Surely there is a grand opening 

 for a first-class house of this kind. 



The picnic committee is progressing 

 most favorably. The tickets and pro- 

 grams will be out this week for dis- 

 tribution. Our Belleville members 

 state that they will leave no-stOiie un- • 

 turned to make things pleasant for all 

 who attend. Now, then, let every flo- 

 rist and his friends come forward and 

 make this outing a grand success. 



W. E. Jordan bought the greenhouses 

 of the Jordan Floral Co. on July 1st. 

 Willie will continue them in growing 

 plants and cut flowers. The houses 

 will have no connection with the Jor- 

 dan Floral Co.. at 822 Olive street. 



Henry Berning of The St. Louis Cut 

 Flower Co., left Monday morning for 

 a trip through Indiana. 



The St. Louis Cut Flower Co. will, 

 on Sept. 1st. move from 1620 Olive 

 street to 1322 Pine street, the former 

 location of the late Mound City Cut 

 Flower Co. 



Bowling Items. 



The bowling club rolled Thursday 

 night and from the scores, whi:h will 

 be found below, it would appear that 

 all the bowlers must have had a glo- 

 rious Fourth. The night was also 

 very damp and hot and. as Dr. Hel- 

 wig says, the pins stick on a damp 

 night. That may be the reason of the 

 poor scores, which were as follows: 



12 3 Tot. Av. 



Emit Schray 198 157 131 486 162 



J. W. Kunz 133 158 144 455 151 



J. J. Beneke 138 167 149 454 151 



Dr. HelwlK 128 137 177 442 137 



Fred Weber 145 139 110 394 131 



C. A. Kuehn 128 145 US 391 13» 



C. C. Sanders 134 101 135 370 123 



F. Fillmore lOS lOS 139 355 118 



The weather was nice and cool Mon- 

 day night and nine members rolled 

 three games. A meeting was held aft- 

 er the rolling and it was decided to 

 roll for the next five Monday nights at 

 our old regulation alleys at 6th and 

 Pine streets. The following are the 

 scores: 



12 3 Total Av. 



J. J. Beneke 130 218 176 524 175 



Carl Beyer 13S 131 189 458 152 



Dr. Helwig 183 97 170 450 150 



C. A. Kuehn 144 152 153 449 149 



Fred 'Weber 107 139 172 418 139 



John Young 114 156 108 378 126 



John Kunz 135 119 115 369 123 



C. C Sanders 129 105 132 357 119 



F. Fillmore 86 80 105 271 9» 



J. J. B. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The week opened with the "Glorious 

 Fourth" and a hotter morning may 

 Philadelphian nor Spaniard ever feel. 

 All our soldiers being away at Mt. 

 Gretna, Tampa or storming the out- 

 works of Santiago, it behooved the 

 city fathers to give us something to 

 look at besides bands and the G. A. R. 

 A floral procession was one of the nov- 

 elties hit upon and Hugh Graham's son 

 decorated some two dozen equipages in 



