SEPTEMBER 22, 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



441 



The regular sessions of the committee 

 will begin October 1. 



F. B. Stanmeyer Co. have opened a 

 floral store at 273io Lincoln avenue. 



E. H. Mack, a former Cincinnatian. 

 and who has been in the city since the 

 meeting of the Carnation Society last 

 February, committed suicide by turn- 

 ing on the gas in his room last Satur- 

 day. He had of late been selling flow- 

 ers on the street, Kennicott Bros. Co. 

 having given him limited credit for 

 stock to help him along. He excited 

 their sympathy by coming into the 

 store and without saying a word tak- 

 ing a broom and beginning to sweep 

 the floor, then looking for other ways 

 to make himself useful. This anxiety 

 to do something induced them to try 

 to help him, but evidently he became 

 despondent and so put an end to his 

 life. He was about 40 years of age. 

 His remains were sent to his relatives 

 in Cincinnati. 



The oldest daughter of Mr. George 

 Stollery has been very seriously ill and 

 for several days last week her recov- 

 ery was considered doubtful. Fortu- 

 nately a change for the better took 

 place Monday. 



Bowling. 



f^oUowing are the scores and aver- 

 ages made at the alleys after the Club 

 meeting last Friday evening: 



1st. 2na. Av. 



John Zeck . ..; 157 158 KTVa 



F. HiUs 146 ... 146 



E. Winterson 119 157 138 



G. L. Grant 123 146 134 



C. W-. McKellar 114 138 126 



Jno. Degnan Ill 134 122V, 



Chas. Held 136 108 122 



S. Snedelier 104 111 107y. 



C. S. Stewart Ill 103 107 



W. Kyle 96 116 106 



A. Henderson 88 119 103 



J. C. Vau^han 97 ... 97 



vr. J. La Grotte 75 99 87 



BOSTON. 



Review of the Market. 



With a continuation of fine pleasant 

 weather, and a few cold days, business 

 has improved slightly over last week. 

 Most of the retailers with one or two 

 exceptions, are kept fairly busy with 

 funeral work, thus helping the grower 

 and wholesaler to sell out their pro- 

 ducts. White flowers are a leader, and 

 seem to be pretty well cleaned up ev- 

 ery day. Roses are plenty, with the 

 quality of Brides and Maids very 

 much improved, but with no advance 

 in price, which average from $2 to $5 

 per hundred. Kaiserins still hold their 

 own. high grades bringing $S, while an 

 inferior quality sells from .$?. to $■">. The 

 supply of Beauties has fallen off a 

 little, espernally long stemmed No. 1 

 grades, so the prices are not so high 

 as last week; .fH per dozen is an out- 

 side figure. 



Carnations are now much more in 

 evidence, there being plenty of all col- 

 ors: prices range from 50 cents to 

 $1 per hundred. Asters are growing 

 scarcer and scarcer every day, the 

 crops being well cut off. They still 

 sell fairly well at prices ranging from 



50 cents to $1..")0 per hundred; Gladio- 

 lus and tuberoses, .50 cents per dozen 

 stalks; other stock, in fair demand at 

 seasonable prices. 



The Saturday Show. 



The prizes this week were for peren- 

 ennial asters, and the three prize win- 

 ners made elegant exhibits. Mrs. D. 

 P. Richards was awarded first prize; 

 Mrs. E. M. Gill, second, and the Misses 

 Doran, third. 



Gratuities were awarded to Rea 

 Bros, for a collection of seasonable 

 bloom, from herbaceous plants; to Lo- 

 throp & Higgins for a very tine exhibit 

 of cactus and show dahlias; to John 

 F. Colan for an exhibit of Celo^sia cris- 

 tata, and to James Comley for an ex- 

 cellent display of seasonable bloom 

 from both greenhouse and garden. A 

 few specimen flowers of seedling dipla- 

 denias were shown by Geo. Whitin, 

 and the society gave him honoraljle 

 memtion for a fine light pink one 

 named Elsa Whitin. 



News Items. 



N. F. McCarthy & Co. report a very 

 satisfactory sale of palms, etc., from 

 Julius Robers, of New York. The stock 

 was in fine condition and attracted 

 quite a lot of out-of-town florists to the 

 auction. 



Mr. Connon, of the Connon Floral, 

 Co., of St. Louis, spent a little time at 

 the market last Monday investigating 

 the system of management. 



Mr. E. N. Pierce reports an enjoyable 

 visit to Cincinnati during the conven- 

 tion of the G. A. R. He visited sev- 

 eral of the craft and the public flower 

 mart. 



Tom Walsh and Charlie Lynch, of 

 Galvin's Trc-mont street store, are tak- 

 ing their annual vacation. 



W. E. Doyle is remodelling the in- 

 terior of his downtown store, looking 

 forward to a prosperous season. 



The retailers are looking for a little 

 spurt of business during the visit here 

 of Odd Fellows from all over the coun- 

 try. 



Walter Mott, Henry A. Dreer's genial 

 salesman, is doing the "Hub" this 

 week, trying to persuade Boston grow- 

 ers that they need some high grade 

 Philadolpiiia palms. P. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The week just passed was a lively 

 one among the store, as well as com- 

 mission men. Society people are be- 

 ginning to return from their summer 

 resorts, and a few large wedding or- 

 ders have been booked for October. 

 There was also a lively demand for 

 funeral flowers that made white stuff 

 a little scarce. The downtown florists 

 seem to think the season has opened 

 for hustling. 



First quality Beauties sell readily; 

 shorts are selling well at from $4 to 

 $8. Bride and Kaiserin sold well at 

 $2 and $4 and are not overplentiful. 

 Maids and Perles are plenty at $2 and 



$3. Meteors are flrm, the liest bring 

 $3 and $4. Those from F. J. Ammann, 

 of Edwardsville. are the best that 

 come in just now. 



Carnations are scarce, that is, good 

 stock. White and Scott are the best 

 sellers at ?1 for firsts and 75 cents for 

 seconds. The only outdoor stuff that 

 IS coming in now are tuberose stalks 

 and a few asters and dahlias. Smilax 

 IS a little scarce, with good demand. 



The Florist Club. 



The next meeting of the Club will 

 be a very interesting one to the mem- 

 bers and President Sanders expects a 

 full attendance. The changing of the 

 meetings from day to night will come 

 up This will also be the last meeting 

 before the Chrysanthemum Show 

 Other important matters will also 

 come up for discussion. The president 

 and secretary should see that the 

 meeting does not come on the same 

 night that the bowlers roll, as was the 

 case last meeting night. The bowlers 

 like to attend the meetings, but could 

 not miss their rolling and cannot at- 

 tend them both on the same night. 



Henry Berning and Richard Frow 

 are now members of the Florists' Club 

 Mr. Berning is with the St. Louis Cut 

 Flower Co. and Mr. Frow is a grower. 



Notes. 



The item in last week's issue of the 

 Review that Emil Schray was soon to 

 be married is a mistake. Emil says it 

 should read Julius Schray, his younger 

 brother. 



The St. Louis Cut Flower Co. will be 

 in their new quarters at 1322 Pine 

 street by October 1st. These will be 

 much larger and more convenient than 

 their present location. 



Park Commissioner Ridgely returned 

 home Thursday of last week from a 

 tour of the eastern cities and is more 

 convinced than ever that the parks of 

 St. Louis are inadequately provided 

 for in the matter of funds for mainte- 

 nance. "Compare Forest park and 

 Lincoln park in Chicago, for instance. 

 Forest park contains nearly 1,40ft 

 acres and the department is allowed 

 $45,000 to maintain it this year. Lin- 

 coln park embraces only 300 acres and 

 the amount expended to maintain it is 

 never less than $300,000 a year. The 

 system of raising funds for park main- 

 tenance in Chicago is different from 

 ours. There the city is divided into 

 districts and a special tax levied to 

 obtain money for parks. Here the 

 money is appropriated out of the gen- 

 eral revenue. It would be a wise move 

 to adopt the Chicago plan." 



Mr. Ridgely quoted from a letter he 

 had received from F. W. Kelsey in 

 which the writer alluded to an appro- 

 priation of $1,. 500.000 for parks, which 

 had just become available. St. Louis 

 must do more for her parks in the fu- 

 ture if she desires to keep up with 

 Chicago. 



Bowling Items. 



The Bowling Club celebrated the 

 winning of the Evans Challenge Cup 



