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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNE 15, 1S99. 



few roses and Miss Edith Noyese a 

 collection of native flowers. 



Jack Delay, the popular florist at the 

 new union station, has taken unto 

 himself a wife and is now passing his 

 honeymoon in some unknown region. 



W. J. Dana is making extensive al- 

 terations to his plant in Wellesley, 

 where he will still grow the popular 

 Dana brand of roses. 



J. R. Fotheringham, of F. R. Pier- 

 son Co., has been a visitor this week. 



P. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Club Meeting. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 club was held at 3 p. m. on the 8th 

 and was much better attended (there 

 were fifteen members present) than the 

 last one. President Sanders called the 

 meeting to order. Secretary Sehray 

 being absent, John W. Kunz acted in 

 bis place. The committee on World's 

 Pair subscriptions reported $1,200, and 

 was given more time to complete their 

 work. Florists who wish to subscribe 

 should call on the chairman. John 

 Kunz. The preliminary list for the 

 chrysanthemum show was distributed 

 among the members. 



The chair appointed Mr. Kunz, and 

 he to select two others, to act as a 

 committee to attend to matters per- 

 taining to the S. A. F. meet at De- 

 troit. 



The trustees were instructed by the 

 club to make arrangements for our an- 

 nual picnic, to be held some time in 

 July. 



At the next meeting of the club, 

 which will be on Thursday, July 13, 

 President Sanders will read an essay. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



The Market. 



This week will about wind up the 

 school commencements. There are 

 still a few more weddings for the lat- 

 ter part of the month, when the de- 

 mand from this and other sources, ex- 

 cept funerals, will be about over. 



There is little to be said of the busi- 

 ness the past week. The market was 

 not overstocked with flowers and the 

 demand was good for choice stock, 

 which is very scarce just now. There 

 are plenty of roses, but very poor and 

 badly mildewed. The . very choicest 

 stock of Meteors, Brides and Maids 

 brought $5 and $6; others sold at from 

 $2 to $4. Beauties are a scarce article 

 around here and the few that come in 

 sell at $3 per dozen. 



Carnations are still good and very 

 plentiful. The price was up to $2 the 

 first part of the week, but later 

 dropped to $1 in small lots: $5 in 1,000 

 lots. Scott and Triumph are the best 

 pinks, while Hill is best of the whites. 

 Daybreak always sells well, as it can 

 . be used in any kind of work. In the 

 red sorts Portia sells best, other reds 

 come in spotted with white. 



Paeonies are all gone, they sold well 

 this season; valley has become scarce 

 and is always in demand; sweet peas 



have been plenty and of good quality, 

 selling well at 50 and 75 cents per 100; 

 white, lavender and pink are the best 

 sellers, the darker shades remain un- 

 sold; pansies, cornflower, forget-me- 

 nots and other outdoor flowers have 

 only little call. Smilax is also selling 

 well and lots of it is being used this 

 month for weddings, price $12.50 and 

 $15. 



Notes. 



Harry Jordan, of Omaha, president 

 of the Jordan Floral Co. of this city, 

 was in town last week to visit his 

 father, J. M. Jordan, who is still very 

 sick. 



B. W. Guy, Dr. Halstedt. Gus Gros- 

 bart and Henry Bmonds, of Belleville, 

 were in town Thursday to attend the 

 meeting of the St. Louis Florists' 

 club. 



John Young has been bowling so 

 well of late that the members of the 

 club are talking of sending a chal- 

 lenge to William Scott to roll a game 

 at Detroit during the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion. We'll bet anything from a rose- 

 bush to an apple tree. I wonder if 

 Brother Scott will accept. 



What has become of the regular at- 

 tenders at the club meeting, I refer to 

 Max Herzog, Fred and Herman Ude, 

 Theo. Richter, Fred Ammann, Fred 

 Weber, John Young, Henry Berning, 

 Frank Ellis, W. E. Jordan. Carl and 

 Robert Beyer, and many others. Can 

 it be that they are always busy the day 

 of the meeting? Now come, brothers, 

 and attend the next meeting. It will 

 be nomination of officers and we can 

 surely find one among you who would 

 make a good presiding officer, or help 

 to elect one. President Sanders ex- 

 pects every member to be present at 

 this meeting, Thursday, July 13, at 3 

 p. m. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club had a better at- 

 tendance Monday night and a few good 

 scores were made, but not up to the 

 championship form, and some better 

 work will have to be done if the boys 

 wish to retain the Evans cup. A meet- 

 ing of the club will be held next Mon- 

 day night, just before the bowling, and 

 all members are requested to attend. 

 The scores were as follows: 



1. 2. 3. 4. Tl. Av. 



C A Kuehn 134 151 155 171 611 153 



C. C. Sanders ....150 i37 135 162 584 146 



J W. Kunz 103 166 131 182 582 14.i 



John Young 135 164 137 436 14.", 



J J Beneke 118 133 173 138 562 141 



Emil Sehray 147 147 95 135 524 111 



F J Fillmore 102 147 103 115 467 Hi 



F. H. Weber D4 100 151 " 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



Trade Conditions. 



• The heated term has come; 90 de- 

 grees in the shade for a few days make 

 us wish we were rat catching in an ice- 

 house or cathedral, or better still fish- 

 ing with John Westcott on the shores 

 of some indentation of the great At- 

 lantic coast. But we have to stick to 

 it. We have plenty of flowers to sell 



and school commencements are thick 

 upon us this week. Carnations are 

 very plentiful. This is their last great 

 rally and a very few weeks will ex- 

 haust them and then, dear Puolic, you 

 won't have any more ten cent snaps. 

 Paeonies have sold fairly well this 

 year and thanks to our late spring we 

 have them after the eastern and south- 

 ern supply is over. Weddings are very 

 plentiful just now and although none 

 up to date are of any great magnitude 

 they are doing all of us some good. To 

 look at our "Sassiety" column you 

 would think there was a great harvest 

 ahead for the decorating florist, but 

 the contracting parties are mostly of 

 the George Washington Pumpkin to 

 Miss Mary Ann Squash type. Still they 

 all nelp. 



The representatives of the South 

 American Republic were here last 

 week and they were shown the city 

 to the booming of cannon, and were 

 feasted and banqueted at our aristo- 

 cratic Buffalo Club, which was finely 

 decorated for the occasion. 



This week, in addition to the school 

 commencements, the city will be over- 

 run with 30,000 Shriners. These Ma- 

 sonic gentlemen with their red fez are 

 very picturesque. I hope they won't 

 spend all their change on champagne 

 but will have a little left to buy roses 

 for their admirers in petticoats and 

 bicycle bloomers. 



Visitors. 



Mr. Fred Stokes, of Kasting & Co., 

 Pittsburg, was here this week, and so 

 was Mr. Bobbink of New Jersey, and 

 while he and the writer were discus- 

 sing the hardiness of Japan maples in 

 walued Mr. Sunburt Meehan of Phila- 

 delphia with Mr. Yates, Mr, Fox and 

 two other nurserymen of Rochester. 

 Of course they . were all bound for 

 Chicago, j We. are glad to see. anybody 

 that is decent but very glad to see Mr. 

 Meehan, and : intend to see him soon 

 on his native heatn. . W. S. 



NEW ASTERS. 



We learn from the list of. Messrs. 

 Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co. that they 

 are bringing out some asters which 

 promise to receive a good deal of at- 

 tention from gardeners. One nam^d 

 Reine Marguerite Japonaise is a needle 

 aster, which in habit belongs to the 

 Perfection pyramidal class. The 

 blooms; of a fine rose, are globular, 

 with upright rays, which are twisted 

 round on both sides. The stalk is 

 strong, and capable of holding the 

 bloom horizontally. At the present 

 time the tints are light pink, rose- 

 pink, red, pale blue, and white. 



The second race was noticed in the 

 Revue Horticole in 1894. The blooms 

 are large, very full, with numerous 

 rays of great length, which are bent 

 about the middle, giving the bloom the 

 appearance of a Japanese chrysanthe- 

 mum. The colors obtained in this race 

 are chamois-red, coppery-rose-red, 

 coppery-red, and violet. — Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. , 



