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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



JULY- 6, 1S99. 



W. Love, familiarly known as Bil- 

 lie Love, has again taken the old place, 

 at Dorchester, and gone into growing 

 roses. 



Chas. J. Anderson, of Sharon, Mass., 

 lost his dwelling and greenhouse, con- 

 sisting of 4,000 feet of glass, by fire 

 during the past week. It is said that 

 he had no insurance. 



Messrs. Knickman, representing 

 Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J.; 

 McGee, of McGee & Geary. Salem, 

 Mass.; Doctor Campbell, of the Ray- 

 brook Garden Co., Manchester, N. H.. 

 and Geo. Buxton, Nashua, N. H., were 

 attendants at the trade sale. 



The season of vacation has fairly 

 commenced, James Delay, the Beacon 

 street florist, is spending a few days 

 at Sunapee, N. H., and intends to take 

 a trip abroad, sailing on July 23. 



Julius Zinn left this week for the 

 other side, expecting to spend two 

 or three months of well earned rest. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The past few days the weather has 

 been cool and delightful. There is but 

 little business and not much is ex- 

 pected for the next two months, unless 

 it be funeral work. 



Some of the local retailed and grow- 

 ers do not consider the past reason a 

 profitable one, while others report an 

 increase, but not a large one. Some of 

 the growers are very busy fini&hing up 

 the replanting of rose houses. A few 

 houses of young stock have advanced 

 enough to cut a few fairly good 

 blooms. 



The bulk of the stock now at the 

 commission houses consists of sweet- 

 peas, feverfew, cornflowers, and lark- 

 spur. Roses are slackening up and 

 first class stock is out of question. As 

 one large retailer remarked, "the rose 

 we have to sell nowadays could not be 

 given away during the busy season." 

 Carnations are quite plentiful but 

 small; Scott is the only one that seems 

 to hold in color and size. All white 

 sorts are selling well for funeral work. 

 Smilax is plentiful and very good, but 

 selling slow. Large quantities of 

 sweet peas are coming in and :ae an 

 absolute glut. It would be rather dif- 

 ficult to quote prices on the above 

 stock as the market is slow and stock 

 bad. 



Notes. 



Julius Koenig's Sons are making 

 very extensive improvements at their 

 place and are also building a large 

 palm house at the front entrance. One 

 would hardly know the place. 



Fred Meinhardt is extending one of 

 his houses; also making other im- 

 provements that will make the place 

 very attractive. 



C. W. Wors has given up his place at 

 2740 Olive street for the summer. 

 Charlie says he will be heard of again 

 when the season opens. 



Park Commissioner Ridgely has pro- 



moted William T. Lamar, one of the 

 park overseers, to the position of 

 keeper of Forest Park. Other appoint- 

 ments will be made this week Friday. 



E. H. Michel is putting the finish- 

 ing touches on his new store at Mary- 

 land and Euclid avenues, which will be 

 used as a retail establishment. 



The Florists' Club will hold its an- 

 nual picnic July 20 at Priester's Park, 

 near Bellevue. Tickets will be 50 

 cents for the round trip including en- 

 trance to the park. All the arrange- 

 ments are in the hands of the trustees 

 of the club, J. W. Kunz, Julius Koenig, 

 Jr., and F. W. Ude, Jr., and any in- 

 formation may be had from them. 



Alex Siegel has closed his store at 

 1006 Olive street, for the summer. 



Jordan Floral Co., at 822 Olive 

 street, will close up their store August 

 1. Fixtures and stock for sale. 



Henry Berning, left last night for 

 a trip among the growers through 

 Illinois and Indiana. Frank Ellis is 

 now in charge. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club rolled only three 

 games; the night was very hot and the 

 rolling poor. Some of the old timers 

 showed up, who, from now on, will 

 roll regularly. The scores were as fol- 

 lows: 



12 3 Tot. Av. 



r A Ku'hn 159 140 142 441 147 



J. J. Beneke 170 138 118 426 142 



J. W. Kunz 136 148 114 398 133 



P. J. Fillmore 101 147 148 396 132 



C. C. Sanders 142 143 105 390 130 



Emil Schrav 125 113 131 369 123 



Dr. Helwig 124 123 110 367 122 



John Young 114 95 148 357 119 



R. F. Tesson 107 101 ... 20S 104 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



Various Notes. 



The dullest day of the year — the 4th 

 — approaches. The day that our pa- 

 triotism effervesces, and particularly 

 that of our small sons, in noisy cracks 

 of gunpowder, but the dullest day of 

 all the year for the florist. And right 

 it should be so. All other holidays of 

 the year find us busy. Even Sunday, 

 a day of rest with some but of recrea- 

 tion with the majority, is with many 

 of us a busy business day, and largely 

 it can't be helped. "Who would de- 

 prive the widow of her right to visit 

 the cemeteries and strew flowers on 

 the newly-made grave, or the man 

 and his wife and little ones who have 

 no other day to visit the beautiful 

 spots dedicated to those who have 

 gone before, these not at all melan- 

 choly places with their well kept 

 lawns, beautiful trees, birds and flow- 

 ers in profusion. 



A hot, dry, solemn stillness now 

 pervades our daily life, broken at 

 times by the clatter of the reaper, the 

 "strike two" of the uniDire, "they're 

 off" of the race course, the splash of 

 the soda fountain, and a few other 

 seasonable sounds. 



There is great need of a good heavy- 

 rain, or two days of it. It's getting 

 serious, and lawns and flower gardens 



removed from the reach of the hose 

 are in a bad way. 



Park and Out-Door Art Ass'n. 



The writer could not resist the 

 temptation of a ride to Detroit to join 

 in the convention of the Park and Out- 

 door Art Association. It was the least 

 expensive, most quiet and withal per- 

 haps the most pleasant two days the 

 writer has ever spent at a conven- 

 tion. It is a great privilege to asso- 

 ciate with many of the fine old gen- 

 tlemen who form the backbone of the 

 society. The commercial element is 

 scarcely represented outside of the 

 landscape gardeners, but there were a 

 few, notably Mr. Meehan, Mr. Peter- 

 son of Chicago, and the fine old man 

 whom we had never had the pleasure 

 of meeting before, though living so 

 near for many years, Nelson Bogue, of 

 Batavia. I had seen no less than four 

 other Mr. Bogues several times, but 

 the only and original Nelson was yet 

 to come, and he is the father of the 

 numerous family. He disclaims any 

 knowledge of the half-Nelson known 

 in wrestling phraseology, hut thinks 

 it originated with his great grand- 

 father in the Highlands of Scotland. 



Mr. Zimmerman and W. S. were 

 the sole representatives of the florist 

 trade, but as they both combine the 

 nursery trade with floriculture they 

 were quite in it. For that matter a 

 florist who plants and lays out flower 

 beds is at home in the association, for 

 that is "out-door art." At present 

 there is little talked of by the asso- 

 ciation but the strictly natural land- 

 scape art. There is, however, a large 

 field for the organization, and they 

 have the. means, through the park su- 

 perintendents, of distributing most 

 valuable information to the trade; in- 

 formation about the best trees, shrubs, 

 herbaceous plants, vines and hedge 

 plants. All this will come and many 

 other features of park work, as the 

 writer had the privilege of expressing 

 in a few after dinner remarks. 



The park commissioners of Detroit, 

 headed by President Harry Balsley, 

 did nobly in showing us the parks and 

 cities and catering to our every want. 

 Thursday afternoon on Belle Isle, the 

 unrivalled, will never be forgotten. No 

 park on this continent has such nat- 

 ural blessings and in none are the 

 wants and the tastes and necessities 

 of the public more fully catered to. 

 The leading officials of the city 

 helped to entertain us with their wit 

 and wisdom, and judges of the su- 

 preme court were affable and told us 

 stories. One of Judge McGrath's, told 

 at the water works, greatly amused 

 me. Here it is: Two Israelites "were ar- 

 rested and sent to the house of correc- 

 tion. After their compulsory bath 

 Ikey noticed that the water that Moses 

 had used was dirtier than the residue 

 from his own scrubbing. "Moses, you 

 vas dirtier than me," said he. "Yes, 

 Ikey, but you forget I vas tree years 

 older than you was." 



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