AUGUST 11, 1S98. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



265 



ST, LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The cut flower trade has not im- 

 proved any since last week. Roses are 

 better in quality. Some very fine 

 Perles, Meteors and Kaiserins are seen. 

 Asters are in full bloom and meet with 

 good sale at !fl per 100. The heavy 

 rains of late have done a world of 

 good to the outside stuff. 



News Items. 



The talk among the florists nowa- 

 days is, "Are you going to Ihe conven- 

 tion?" and from present indications 

 we will send a large delegation to 

 Omaha next week. 



Mr. Evans, of the Quaker City Ma- 

 chine Co., Richmond, Ind., was a vis- 

 itor last week. Mr. Evans is on his 

 way to Omaha. 



Mr. T. W. Guy, for many years in 

 business at Kimswick. has retired 

 from business and rented his green- 

 houses to Fred Fabry, who will grow 

 cut flowers for the St. Louis market. 



The Ayers Floral Co. have sold out 

 their business at 3024 Easton avenue 

 to Miss Atkinson. Mrs. M. Ayers, who 

 has been the head of the firm for many 

 years, will retire for a short time and 

 will reopen, it is reported, on Grand 

 avenue in the fall. 



Ellison & Tesson have opened their 

 third store under the Century build- 

 ing, Ninth and Olive streets, to be 

 known as the Century flower store. 



Frank Fillmore is very busy repair- 

 ing his houses and making a few al- 

 terations. 



Beyer Bros, are building a fine show 

 iiouse on their place facing Grand ave- 

 nue; also other improvements that 

 will give their place a fine appearance. 



J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, is 

 cutting the best Meteors that have 

 come to this market for a long time. 

 J. F. is talking of entering for the fat 

 men's race at Omaha. 



Max Herzog, at Gratiot Station, is 

 housing his carnations this week. Max 

 is always busy. He has also made some 

 new and good improvements. 



Fred Weber, who has been sick for 

 the past two weeks, is improving and 

 "Will be out again by the end of the 

 week in time to make the trip to 

 Omaha. 



John Young has changed his plans 

 of going east. John will now go to 

 Omaha, in company with his daughter. 

 They will also visit Denver after the 

 convention. 



Gus Eggeling, assisted by Mr. Gadd, 

 is making some great improvements at 

 their place on Grand and Lafayette 

 avenues. Mr. Eggeling will not be able 

 to go with the boys to Omaha. It 

 would be a cinch for Gus in that fat 

 men's race. 



Bowling Notes. 



Following is the list of St. Louis 

 howlers that will be at Omaha during 

 the convention: C. A. Kuehn, C. C. 

 Sanders, John W. Kunz, Carl Beyer, 



Emil Schray, J. J. Beneke, F. C. Web- 

 er and John Young. The first named 

 six will be the team to represent St. 

 Louis in the bowling match. 



Others who will go with the party 

 are: Chas. Connon. Sr., L. Armstrong, 

 R. F. Tesson, J. P. Ammann, Julius 

 Koenig, Sr., Charlie Weber, E. H. Mi- 

 chel, E. W. Guy, Prof. Wm. Trelease 

 and M. Rice, of Philadelphia. Among 

 the ladies that are going are: Mrs. J. 

 Koenig, Sr., Mrs. Fred M^eber, Mrs. J. 

 J. Beneke. Mrs. C. C. Sanders, Miss Mi- 

 chel and Miss Young. 



Florist Club. 



The Florist Club meeting on Mon- 

 day night was not so well attended as 

 it should have been for the annual 

 election of oflicers. This goes to prove 

 that the night meetings will never do, 

 as we have members in Belleville, 

 Kirkwood and Edwardsville who are 

 regular in attendance, but cannot come 

 if night meetings continue. For those 

 who live in town the night raeeting.s 

 would be all right, but we must pro- 

 tect our suburban members, and for 

 this reason must have our meetings in 

 the afternoon at .3 o'clock, as provided 

 for in our constitution and by-laws. 



There were only two candidates for 

 president in the field — C. C. Sanders 

 and W. C. Young — the others having 

 withdrawn. After the ballots were 

 counted it was found that C. C. San- 

 ders was elected president by a vote 

 of 17 to 1. Max Herzog was elected 

 vice president; Emil Schray, secre- 

 tary, and J. J. Beneke, treasurer; elect- 

 ed by unanimous vote, having no op- 

 position. The new trustees for the 

 year are J. W. Kunz, F. W. Ude, Jr., 

 and Julius Koenig, Jr. 



Applications for membership from 

 Richard Frow and Henry Berning were 

 received and filed. 



E. H. Michel, J. W. Kunz and J. J. 

 Beneke were appointed a committee to 

 procure suitable badges for the mem- 

 bers going to Omaha. 



The transportation committee re- 

 ported that between twenty and twen- 

 ty-four would go to Omaha next Sun- 

 day night to represent St. Louis at the 

 convention. The meeting then ad- 

 journed. 



The newly elected president took the 

 whole party over to the Turner build- 

 ing for lunch and refreshments, and 

 after a few speeches the party broke 

 up after three cheers for the new pres- 

 ident. 



BUFFALO. 



With the exception of gladiolus all 

 flowers are rather scarce. The long 

 protracted drought has made peas and 

 asters scarce. Inside carnations are 

 on their last legs, or rather stems, and 

 the new crops from the field have 

 made their appearance, but are small 

 and short. 



The Picnic. 



I expected to have a pleasant story 

 to tell you of our outing, which was to 



have been last Wednesday, but, alas! 

 just as we took our seats in the little 

 "Silver Spray," which was intended to 

 carry us down the river, a great storm 

 came up from the west, changing the 

 atmosphere at the rate of fifty miles 

 an hour, spreading the medium of 

 electrocution all around and raining, 

 not cats and dogs, as you sometimes 

 hear about, but solid sheets of welcome 

 water. The kids got ugly and frac- 

 tious, the girls looked sad, but more 

 than one baldhead thought to himself, 

 "Well, it's mighty good for carna- 

 tions. But, alas! it was local, and our 

 surrounding country badly needs rain. 

 All's well that ends well. Had that 

 storm caught us in the middle of the 

 river and all rushed to one side of the 

 boat, there would have been seventy- 

 five young and old of the craft going 

 at intervals over the falls. That would 

 have made o.uite a gap in the noble 

 army of florists. Still there would have 

 been plenty left to carry on the busi- 

 ness at its present volume. The picnic 

 was postponed till after the conven- 

 tion. There was a good attendance of 

 out of town florists. Mr. Rockwell, of 

 Bradford, was aboard and his cheerful 

 disposition was ready to take a hand 

 in any little game adapted to his age. 

 Mr. and Mrs. John Walker, of Phila- 

 delphia, were also among the list of 

 saved. 



Notes. 



We anxiously look for tidings of the 

 complete recovery of Mr. Wm. R. 

 Smith. Few men, if any, are so well 

 known to the florists and more cor- 

 dially liked than the venerable ex- 

 president. I can't remember a conven- 

 tion without his familiar presence and 

 we all hope to see him at many an- 

 other. 



Mr. and Mrs. Vincent, Jr., of White 

 Marsh, Md., start up the lake tonight, 

 en route to Omaha. The New York 

 delegation intends, I believe, to spend 

 the Sunday at Niagara. If they are 

 a quiet, orderly crowd I would like to 

 meet them. The few from Buffalo will 

 leave either by the Wabash or Lake 

 Shore Sunday evening and join the 

 Chicago party on Monday evening. 



We can't avoid hearing and reading 

 remarks on the next available presi- 

 dent of the S. A. F. It is a new de- 

 parture to discuss or mention the 

 names of candidates in the trade jour- 

 nals, but I see no harm in it. The gen- 

 tleman from Mt. Greenwood who 

 grows the big Jubilee and Pingree 

 carnations would be an ideal man for 

 the presidency, an ornament physical- 

 ly and mentally, the best of guides; in 

 fact, to liken the society to a vessel 

 sailing into the future, she could never 

 have a better Rudd-er. We would have 

 to support him because of his complete 

 and admirable fitness for the position. 



We were favored yesterday with a 

 call by the illustrious Jaggs, I mean 

 Baggs. There is no Jaggs at present 

 about Mr. Baggs. He is a traveled 

 man, has seen much of the world. The 



