SEPTEMBER 29. 1S98. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



467 



Exhibition Matters. 



Chrysantliemum show matters are 

 progressing satisfactorily. The exec- 

 utive committee meets every Wednes- 

 day night until the opening of the 

 show. At the meeting last week it 

 w-as decided to print the second pre- 

 liminary list, whioh will be cut by the 

 •end of the week, to be sent among the 

 growers. The committee was obliged 

 to do this, as a great number of ad- 

 ditional prizes came in since the first 

 one was printed. 



The final list or program will be in 

 shape and go to press by the first of 

 next week and be out for distribution 

 by October 122. The committee also 

 decided to judge all plants, table dec- 

 orations, cut flowers and designs by 

 points, which will be more satisfac- 

 tory to all. 



We hope that this year all florists 

 in the city will give us a helping hand 

 and try and make this show a grand 

 success, as the men who have the real 

 work in hand of running the show 

 are always glad to consider any sug- 

 gestion that may be made, and if they 

 will only pull together as one we can 

 make this a gi-and suc?ess which will 

 benefit us all in a business way. 



Notes. 



Ex-President Halstedt, of the Florist 

 Club, is president of the Belleville 

 Street Fair, which will open in about 

 two weeks. 



The St. Louis fair opens October 3 

 for one week and has offered as usual 

 about .SoOii in premiums for plants, 

 •cut flowers and designs, and quite a 

 number of florists will enter for com- 

 petition. 



Henry Aue, Theo. Richter. Max 

 Herzog. A. Berdan and the Ude Bros, 

 are sending in some very good stock 

 of all kinds that is fully up to th'? 

 mark. Fred Ammann and E. W. Guy 

 may also be included in the above. 



Ellison & Tesson liad a large decora- 

 tion at the Southern hotel which was 

 quite an affair and required a lot of 

 work. 



C. Young & Sons Co. are now send- 

 ing out their fall catalogue, which is 

 larger than usual and quite attractive. 



Mr. Robert Ayers is seen occasion- 

 ally at the wholesale houses looking 

 like a fish out of water. It is said 

 that Mr. and Mrs. Ayers will soon 

 open up business again on Grand ave- 

 nue, near Morgan. 



Miss Atkinson, who bought out the 

 Ayers Floral Co., on Easton avenue, 

 reports business has been good and 

 hopes It will continue so. 



Gus Eggelin.s;. the Soutli Grand ave- 

 nue florist, has just completed his 

 large rose house. 100x2i>. This makes 

 seven houses that Gus has built in 

 tlie last three years. 



Billy Adles, w'ho for many years was 

 with the Ayers Floral Co., is now with 

 C. Schonelle, on Washington avenue. 



Tlie Jordan Floral Co. made a large 

 design in the shape of a keg of beer 

 last week. John Kunz could not resist 

 the temptation. He made it himself. 



Bo-wling. 



The howlers got much amusement 

 out of the postscript by Bro. Scott in 

 the last issue of The Review. I will 

 say that the St. Louis team will also 

 roll an average of 2iM) per man at De- 

 troit next year, but bowling suits and 

 shoes or sneakers we will leave to 

 the Philadelphia boys. I hope that 

 Sir William don't blame us for having 

 forced them to bowl regularly each 

 week. If Buffalo brings a team of 

 Scotts and Kastings they will win the 

 cup without a struggle. The cry next 

 year will be anything to beat Philadel- 

 phia and St. Louis — see if it isn't. 



The Bowling Club held a meeting 

 after the second game on Monday 

 night and decided to remain at our 

 old location at 0th and Pine and roll 

 on its regulation alleys. This will be 

 good news to all who like to improve 

 in their rolling. The vote stood 7 to 

 3 in favor of the regulation alleys. 

 After this we adjourned to roll the 

 third game. John Kunz wins the aver- 

 age medal and Beneke the high score 

 medal for the September series which 

 resulted as follows: 



Xames— No. Games. Tot. Av. H. S. 



J. Kunz 12 18SS 157 191 



C. Sanders 10 1556 155 170 



.T. Beneke 13 1953 150 224 



r. Kuehn 13 1906 146 171 



R. Tesson 6 S.52 HZ% 191 



.T. Touns S 1075 134 132 



F. FiKmore 13 123S ll.S 153 



J. J. B. 

 CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



Cut flower trade is still improving 

 and stock is hardly sufficient to sup- 

 ply the demand, especially good stock. 

 Roses and carnations are the only 

 flowers displayed in the florists' stores. 

 Carnations are coming in much im- 

 proved; some extra fine white (Flora 

 Hill) were to be seen on the avenue. 

 The first chrysanthemums made their 

 debut Saturday. Violets were seen for 

 the first time Monday, of the California 

 variety. Gladiolus are very poor. Dah- 

 lias are in their prime. There was a 

 scarcity of flowers Saturday. 



An Elaborate Funeral. 



The funeral of Col. Wm. Edwards, 

 one of Cleveland's most prominent cit- 

 izens, was one of the largest seen in 

 Cleveland in many years. The esti- 

 mated cost of the flcral offerings was 

 $2,000. Every florist in the city was 

 busy. One store alone had $700 worth 

 of work. Some of the handsomest 

 pieces sent are described below: 



A beautiful waving American flag, 

 by Gasser, with regulation stripes and 

 stars made of red and white carna- 

 tions, blue field of larkspur with white 

 carnations, cut star shape; it was ad- 

 mired by everyone. A handsome roll 

 of honor made by C. Wagoner stood 5 

 feet; it was solid white carnations, 

 with the word honor worked in red 

 carnations. The side was of Brides- 

 maid roses and a large cluster of 



Kaiserin roses. A large bow of white 

 ribbon tied the two rolls. Valley was 

 used freely. A road cart was made by 

 Beaumont, sent by the Driving Asso- 

 ciation of Cleveland. 



One of the most artistic designs seen 

 was an Empire wreath made of differ- 

 ent varieties of fancy ferns and topped 

 with adiantum with a large cluster of 

 cattleyas at the widest part of the 

 wreath. There wen wreaths, crosses 

 and designs of every description. 



'Various Notes. 



Mr. J. M. Gasser is on a business 

 trip in Michigan, stopping at Detroit 

 and Grand Rapids. 



Miss Vida McCullough has returned 

 from New York. 



Paul Berkowitz. of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 was a visitor this week. 



Election of Officers. 



The Florist.?' Club held a meetin.:? 

 Monday evening and elected the fol- 

 lowing officers: Pres., E. H. Cush- 

 man; 1st vice pres., Samuel Pentecost; 

 2nd vice pres., James Eadie; secy., A. 

 H. Graham; asst. secy., Ogdon Gaul; 

 treas., Herman Hart. 



Sam Pentecost was appointed cap- 

 tain of the Bowling team. The presi- 

 dent will appoint an executive com- 

 mittee at the next meeting. 



O. A. C. O. 



ST. PAUL, MINN. 



The cooler weather has brought a 

 decided improvement in trade. The 

 drought assisted by a light frost has 

 killed nearly all outside stock, and the 

 return of flower buyers to the city has 

 made a good demand for all inside 

 stock. The call for funeral flowers, 

 always good, is more brisk than ever 

 and some days white flowers of every 

 description have been hard to secure 

 at any figure. 



Stock is looking good and never have 

 I noted better roses, mums, carnations 

 and violets than are to be seen on a 

 trip to the growers' places at this 

 time. Roses are in most demand, with 

 the supply about equal to the call. 

 Carnations come next with a short 

 supply, especially of white. The new 

 varieties. Flora Hill, Triumph and 

 Bon Ton, are showing flne in this lo- 

 cality and are very welcome additions 

 to this popular family. Roses are sell- 

 ing at from $2 to $3 per hundreil, 

 some very good Meteors going to $} 

 and $5. Beauties are $8 to $20, accord- 

 ing to size. Carnations are held at 

 §1.50 to $2. Mums are not yet in the 

 market, though some of the growers 

 have Fitzwigram ready to cut. Carna- 

 tions and violets are about all housed. 



.\t a recent wedding of one of Min- 

 neapolis' fair ladies the bridal bouquet 

 consisted of twenty dozen choice Kais- 

 erin. The house decorations, as de- 

 scribed by a daily paper, were on the 

 most elaborate scale ever noted in this 

 section. Several hundred strings of 

 smilax and asparagus, eight thousand 

 asters, bushels of Golden Rod and hun- 



