SEPTEMBER 1, 1S9S. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



371 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The weather is dry and hot and the 

 growers report they are very much in 

 need of rain. Reports from store men 

 indicate that business has been very 

 quiet during the past week and had it 

 not been for occasional funeral pieces, 

 business would be at a standstill. 



The few cool nights this week here 

 improved the quality of stock some- 

 what, but the demand is very light and 

 all stock plentiful. The only shortage 

 is in first class Beauties for which 

 there was some demand, but very few 

 to be had. There seems to be a good 

 crop of Kaiserin coming in now, also 

 some good Brides and Maids, which 

 sell at $2 and .f4. Good Perles are al- 

 so seen at $2. 



Carnations are not overplentiful and 

 are looking better than they have for 

 some time; price on all kinds $1 per 

 100. 



Hydrangeas are about gone and the 

 few in the market bring if!4. Tuberose 

 stalks are a glut and are very fine, es- 

 pecially those that come from Arm- 

 strong's: price $2 and $3. Gladiolus, 

 too, is plentiful, but very little sale for 

 them. Clematis paniculata is in bloom 

 now and is being used in very choice 

 funeral work. 



Florbt Club. 



The next meeting of the Florist Club 

 will be held on Monday night, Sep- 

 tem'ber 12, at 7:30 p. m. President- ! 

 elect Sanders will be installed, also the 

 other officers. President Halstedt ex- 

 pects a very large attendance and mat- 

 ters of great importance to all the 

 members will come up, also some very 

 interesting stories will be told by the 

 members that went to Omaha. 



Fred Weber and John Young will be 

 back in time to tell of their trip 

 through Colorado and Kansas. 



The committee in charge of the 

 chrysanthemum show has everything 

 in good running order and quite a few 

 new features will be added this year. 

 The show will excel any previous ef- 

 forts. We have now over $2,000 sub- 

 scribed as special prize.-^. This is a 

 good beginning and they say that they 

 are not done with subscriptions yet. 



Notes. 



At the annual harvest gathering of 

 the Schwaben feast Sunday and Mon- 

 day, at Concordia Park, the chief at- 

 traction was the decorations and the 

 superb work of the Beyer Bros. 



The St. Louis Cut Flower Co. will 

 have a special sale of palms and ferns. 

 The sale will last throughout this week 

 at Magnolia and Tower Grove avenues. 



Mrs. C. A. Kuehn and Charlie, Jr., 

 are spending a few weeks at Detroit, 

 the former home of Charlie Kuehn. 

 Charlie will feel like at home next 

 year during the convention. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Weber and John 

 Young and daughter write that they 

 are having a fine time at Colorado 



Springs, Colo., and expect to be home 

 by the latter part of next week. 



Tom Peterson reports that he is now 

 employed at Mr. Millikin's private 

 place on Belt avenue. Tom has the 

 place looking in fine shape. He is al- 

 so one of our old time bowlers and ex- 

 pects to bowl with the boys every Mon- 

 day night after this. 



Bob Tesson and E. W. Guy will, at 

 the next rolling of the Bowling Club, 

 become members and roll regularly 

 with the teams on Monday nights. 



IT WILL BE to your advantage to 

 mention The Florists' Review every 

 time you write an advertiser. 



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$50.00 

 in Prizes! 



The Florists' Review offers the above amount for a 

 description of some really valuable and practical labor or 

 money-saving unpatented device or method of culture of 

 benefit to florists, that has not yet been published. If a 

 drawing is needed to make the matter plain, it may be of 

 the roughest character. 



The awards will be made entirely on the practical 

 value of the device or method, though a well worded de- 

 scription and intelligible drawing will be desirable. 



First Prize, $25.00 



Second Prize, $15.00 

 Third Prize, $10.00 



If you know of some useful labor or money-saving device 

 or method of culture of which a description has not yet been 

 published, you can easily win one of these prizes, and if 

 you know several such you may be able to win them all. 



Make your descriptions as brief as is consistent with 

 clearness. Remember that simple devices are more gen- 

 erally useful than elaborate ones. What are wanted are 

 those that will prove most valuable to the great mass of the 

 readers of the Florists' Review. Competition open to all. 



The prize-winning descriptions (and drawings, if 

 any), will be published in the Florists' Review. And 

 should others seem worthy of publication they will also 

 be given space as opportunity offers. 



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Editor Florists' Review, 



520-535 Caxton BIdg., CHICAGO. 



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