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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AUGUST 10, 1899. 



Wagner was enjoying a hard earned 

 rest at the equine exhibition of speed 

 when I called, but it's the first time 1 

 ever caught him out. And as I only 

 had a day to spare he had the misfor- 

 tune to miss me. 



Smith & Fetters had a gorgeous 

 window of golden rod, and their hand- 

 some store looks as neat as ever while 

 the addition of their greenhouse at 

 the back gives them facilities for dec- 

 orations they did not enjoy when I 

 was here before. 



Miss Eadie has enlarged her store to 

 almost double its former size and re- 

 ports a steady summer trade uninter- 

 fered with by the subletting of part of 

 her establishment to the express com- 

 pany. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business seems slower than last 

 week and the general verdict is that 

 there is very little doing. Many of the 

 proprietors and clerks are off on va- 

 cations. 



Kaiserins are coming in in good 

 quality and quantity, bringing $2 and 

 $3 per 100. Most of the rose stock is 

 badly mildewed and short stemmed. 

 Carnations, field grown, bring 50 and 

 75 cents; a few extra fine flowers sell 

 at $1, but not many. Sweet peas are 

 about over; asters are very plentiful 

 and are down to 50 cents per 100; 

 some extra fine ones bring $1. The 

 latter part of the week there was quite 



The Detroit Bowlers Ready for the Fray. 



Mr. Gasser's store is always lively, 

 and while I called box after box of cut 

 flowers from his two ranges made me 

 wonder how he ever managed to dis- 

 pose of half of them. His new carna- 

 tion "Merrimac" is a beauty, exactly 

 like Lawson in color and a wonderful 

 bloomer. It will be offered to the trade 

 next season. Mr. Gasser will be at the 

 convention, but he doesn't think De- 

 troit can beat the Cleveland meeting 

 in 1896. One thing is sure, we can 

 never hope for a better exhibition hall 

 than we had in Cleveland. 



I had time before my boat started to 

 make one more call, and of course I 

 tested the generous hospitality of Mr. 

 Hart. Florists, drummers and every- 

 body is welcomed there, and a visit to 

 his neat houses and grounds is always 

 an inspiration. Mrs. Hart is away on 

 her vacation and he is as lonesome as 

 usual under such conditions, but he is 

 looking forward to the convention to 

 make up for it, and actually thinks 

 the "Clevelands" will bowl themselves 

 to victory. AUSTIN. 



a demand for white stuff, probably on 

 account of extra funeral work. The 

 general out-door stock, such as tube- 

 Tose stalks, asters, hollyhocks, candy- 

 tuft, hydrangeas, and others, bring 

 very little, prices being rather unset- 

 tled. Ferns, asparagus and smilax are 

 quite plentiful, with very little call. 



Convention Matters. 



The program is now that the St. 

 Louis party will leave Monday morn- 

 ing, August 14, over the Wabash, and 

 arrive in Detroit at 8:15 p. m. The 

 party will number about twenty-four, 

 perhaps thirty, and most of the mem- 

 bers will take their wives with them. 

 Tickets may be secured by addressing 

 Mr. J. w. Kunz, 822 Olive street. 



The bowling team that is to repre- 

 sent St. Louis at Detroit will be made 

 up of the following members: 



C. A. Kuehn, J. J. Beneke, C. C. 

 Sanders, Carl Beyer, John W. Kunz. 

 Robt. Beyer, Emil Schray, John Young 

 and F. C. Weber. These are the nine 

 best bowlers, according to the aver- 



ages, since the last convention, at 

 Omaha. 



The Evans Cup has been shipped to 

 Mr. Geo. A. Rackham, at Detroit, and 

 is now displayed in the window of 

 Mr. Sullivan. We hope the boys at 

 Detroit will take good care of it, as 

 we expect to take it back to St. Louis 

 with us. | We hear that the cry at 

 Detroit will be, "Anything to beat 

 Philadelphia and St. Louis." Any club 

 that beats the above teams will know 

 that they have been in a fight. We 

 must win the cup again or we will be 

 homeless. 



The following florists will represent 

 St. Louis at the convention at Detroit 

 next week: Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Weber, 

 Mr. and Mrs. John Young, Mr. and 

 Mrs. J. W. Kunz, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. 

 Kuehn, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Beneke, Mr. 

 and Mrs. A. S. Halstedt, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Fred Meinhardt and sister, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Chas. Connon, Mr. and Mrs. Otto 

 Koenig, Carl Beyer, Robt. Beyer, Emil 

 Schray, C. C. Sanders, R. F. Tesson, 

 Chas. Weber, Wm. Pape, Geo. Wind- 

 ier, E. H. Michel, Henry Berning and 

 E. W. Guy. 



Bowling. 



The bowling club on Monday night 

 rolled three games. The attendance 

 was good and some fair scores were 

 made. The team that will do the roll- 

 ing at the convention has been rolling 

 every Friday night, and will roll again 

 this Friday, the last before going to 

 the convention. The scores of Monday 

 night were as follows: 



1 2 3 Tl Av. 



C. A. Kuehn 150 183 157 49ii 163 



J. W. Kunz 181 142 147 47<> 157 



J. J. Beneke 152 159 151 462 154 



C. Bever 132 148 178 458 153 



C. C. Sanders 142 108 140 450 150 



E. Schray 119 162 108 389 13» 



J. Young 124 141 123 388 130 



P. C. Weber 149 110 250 13(1 



F. H. Weber 109 130 144 3S3 127 



E. W. Guy 90 140 132 362 121 



A. S. Halstedt 94 120 122 336 115 



F. J. Fillmore 117 89 80 286 95 



J. J. B. 



NEWPORT, R. I. 



The Newport water works, which 

 supplies the city, has been advertising 

 that the use of water for lawn and 

 garden purposes should be discontin- 

 ued, owing to short supply in view, 

 but Jupiter Pluvius has somewhat aid- 

 ed gardeners and florists recently, so 

 that the water works company can 

 postpone strict rules regarding water. 



The sign, "Grapes, melons, nectar- 

 ines, etc., for sale," displayed on some 

 of the estates owned by absent mil- 

 lionaires, indicates continued compe- 

 tition with the ordinary florist and 

 gardener. 



The views of lawns and decorative 

 plants on the Cliffs in several cases 

 are now hidden from the view of the 

 passerby— the owners of those estates 

 building walls and so lowering the 

 sidewalk that such view is completely 

 hidden. 



At the recent dinner given by Hon. 

 C. M. Depew "Beauty" roses consti- 

 tuted the main decoration. 



