JULY 21, 1898. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



181 



prices lately attained by glass. While 

 the houses did not realize high prices, 

 the bidding was quite lively. Glass is 

 now in many sizes 75 per cent higher 

 than it was two years ago. This per- 

 centage is exactly true of 16x24 inch 

 double A, much used by the growers. 

 The advance is not so great propor- 

 tionately in the smaller sizes. 



Planting. 



The planting around Horticultural 

 Hall in Fairmount park is looking well 

 this season. The terrace facing the 

 Schuylkill river is adorned on one side 

 of the broad steps leading to the drive 

 by "1S7()" in great figures, made of 

 Echeveria secunda glauca, with 1808 

 on the other, formed with plants of the 

 same variety, the first being our cen- 

 tennial year, when the building was 

 erected for the great exposition. 



The circle opposite contains a large 

 cactus bed flanked on each side by rich 

 beds of crotons, mound shaped; the 

 two-year-old plants in the center. At 

 the opposite end of the building is the 

 sunken garden, about oue hundred feet 

 in width and stretching far away to- 

 wards the Catholic fountain and 

 George's Hill. 



Beds of geraniums, coleus and alter- 

 nanthera succeed each other down the 

 center as far as the eye can reach, 

 while the sides terraced down to the 

 level of the garden are ornamented 

 with graceful festoons of the same 

 plants. The grass is in good order and 

 the whole presents a variety of color 

 difBcult to describe. An account of the 

 varieties grown will be given later. 



Notes. 



J. D. Elsele and family have gone to 

 Europe for six weeks. Mr. Eissle calls 

 this his wedding trip, as he went to 

 work the day after he was married. 



D. Colflesh, brother of J. W. Col- 

 flesh, has with his nephew leased the 

 Billger and Blakeborough place at Mt. 

 Airy. 



Some palm seed received this spring 

 turned out poorly, it is supposed from 

 getting too dry coming ivor. One 

 grower lost 20,000, which w is replaced. 



Chas. Thomas has a gay re.l, white 

 and blue window, which certainly 

 seems to have charmed permanent 

 "permission of the owner." 



J. W. Y. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club held its regular 

 monthly meeting Thursday afternoon, 

 July 14. President Halstedt was in the 

 chair and all offlcers were in attend- 

 ance. The meeting was well attended 

 owing to the nomination of officers. 



After the regular routine of business 

 the following nominations took place: 

 For president, C. C. Sanders, Fred C. 

 Weber, William C. Young and E. W. 

 Guy, of Belleville; vice-president. Max 

 Herzog, R. F. Tesson, H. G. Ude, of 



Kirkwood, and Chas. A. Juengel; sec- 

 retary, Emil Schray; treasurer, J. J. 

 Beneke; three trustees, J. W. Kunz, 

 Fred Meinhardt, F. W. Ude, F. T. Fill- 

 more, John Steidle and Julius Ivoenig, 

 Sr. 



This closed the nomination. The 

 election will take place at 8 P. M. on 

 Monday, August 8. The payment of 

 dues will be in order at this meeting. 



Messrs. Julius Koenig. Sr., Wm. Hud- 

 son and Gus Eggling were elected to 

 membership. 



The chairman and manager of the 

 next chrysanthemum show reported 

 that the dates for the next show have 

 been changed from Nov. 1.5 to 19 to 

 Nov. 8 to 12th inclusive, the show to 

 be held at the Coliseum (Exposition 

 Bldg.). 



Chairman Kunz, of the transporta- 

 tion committeee, reported that the 

 rates to Omaha and return would be 

 $13.50, and any one who wishes to go 

 should not fail to send in his name. 

 It would be also well to state that 

 should any of the craft from Colum- 

 bus, Cincinnati or Louisville wish to go 

 with us would do well to correspond 

 with J. W. Kunz, 822 Olive street. 



The picnic committee reported that 

 all arrangements have been made, that 

 the tickets were on hand to be dis- 

 tributed and about 200 were taken. 

 The Belleville members at the meeting 

 stated that everything was in readiness 

 to make it pleasant for all who at- 

 tended. 



It was also decided that the next 

 three regular meetings during .\ugust, 

 September and October, shall be held 

 in the evening instead of afternoon at 

 the same hall, and should these meet- 

 ings prove successful we shall con- 

 tinue to hold them at night. After a 

 few lengthy arguments on this ques- 

 tion the meeting adjourned. 



The Market. 



Trade for the week past was ex- 

 tremely quiet, no shipping trade and 

 local conditions very flat. The rose 

 stock that comes to this market is 

 very poor and not enough to fjo around 

 for what little the retailer needs. The 

 average price is $2 and some extra 

 good stock brings $3 and $4. Brides 

 and Meteors are the best sellers. 

 Perles are still scarce. Carnations are 

 down to 75 and 50 cents per 100, a 

 few good ones bringing $1. Sweet peas 

 continue at 15 cents and only the white 

 and light pink sell. Gladiolus and 

 tuberose stalks are very plentiful now, 

 the former selling at .$2 and $3 and 

 the latter at $5 per 100 stalks. Asters 

 were a little scarce last week; $1 per 

 1(X) is still the price. 



Notes. 

 The general manager of the Expo- 

 sition has promised the chrysanthe- 

 mum show committee a special prize 

 of $500 to be known as the Business 

 Men's League prize. This will be for 

 a grand sweepstake to be given the 

 first night for the best display of 



plants and flowers; $250 for first, $1.50 

 for second and $100 for third; three 

 judges to be selected from the Business 

 Men's League and three society ladies 

 to be selected by the florists. 



Frank Ellis, of the St. Louis Cut 

 Flower Co., left Saturday night for a 

 trip West. Frank will be back in 

 about two weeks. 



Bowling Items. 



The Bowling Club rolled four games 

 Monday night at the Grand alleys, 

 with eight members participating. The 

 evening was hot, but this did not seem 

 to have any effect on the boys, as will 

 be seen. We rolled an extra game. 

 The scores were as follows: 



12 3 4 Tot. Av. 



J. J. Beneke 196 175 156 167 694 173 



Carl Beyer 156 157 137 173 623 155 



Emll Schray 143 166 140 171 620 155 



J W Kunz 162 135 170 148 615 la3 



C A Kuehn 124 152 163 174 613 153 



c' C.' Sanders 142 103 129 137 511 127 



F J FiUmore 132 96 100 124 432 113 



John Young 65 113 135 ... 313 104 



J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



In the Market. 



In answer to my enquiries, how's 

 the market, the reply I received was, 

 "there is no market," and this about 

 covers the whole thing. Flowers there 

 are, but what flowers! Truly, it may 

 be said summer is here and with it 

 summer flowers and summer trade, 

 what there is of it, and there is mighty 

 little. 



Beauties and Meteors seem to be get- 

 ting the best of it, some of the former 

 that have been really good realizing 20 

 cents a piece, while tiptop Meteors 

 have sold as high as ?6 per 100. These 

 prices are, however, exceptional, while 

 ordinary roses have scarcely realized 

 the cost of picking and expressage. 



Sweet peas there are in abundance 

 and $1 to !f3 per HX) bunches are about 

 the average prices. 



There are quite a few carnations, 

 some fairly good, considering the time 

 of year, and sell from 25 to 75 cents 

 per 100. 



Retail Trade. 



The tremendous exit by the .;team- 

 ship lines the last week has helped this 

 class of trade somewhat, but it does 

 not come up to expectations by a long 

 way yet, however. 



Mr. Joseph Fleischman opened his 

 new store in the Empire Arcade during 

 the week. The store is beautifully dec- 

 orated in silver and gres.i .ind the 

 whole is resplendent with mirrors, 

 electric lights and cut gliss chande- 

 liers. The ice box of large dimensions 

 is of white porcelain and the floors are 

 tiled. Mr. Gus A. Wolfe is the able 

 manager and he says he is going to 

 make a success of this new venture. 



The N. Y. Market Florists' Association. 



The adjourned meeting of the above 

 took place this (Tuesday) evening at 

 the Clinton market, with Mr. Lehnig, 

 the president, in the chair. About 20 



