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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



SEPTEMBER 21, 1399. 



Anson's tomorrow (Friday) evening. 

 Ed. Winterson recently rolled up 1,958 

 in twelve games, an average of 163. 

 He fails to explain why he didn't make 

 that average at Detroit. "There are 

 others." 



Mr. Charles Klehm was married at 

 noon Wednesday, Sept. 20, at Arling- 

 ton Heights, and Miss Kirehoff is now 

 Mrs. Charles Klehm. May the happy 

 pair live forever in a field of paeonias 

 and lily of the valley, with enough 

 Novelty tulips and American Beauty 

 wine to give variety. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Stock is beginning to look better 

 every day and the down-town people 

 say that business is picking up and 

 that transient trade has begun. There 

 was also a little more life in the cut 

 flower market the past week. The 

 weather is delightful and cool. Still 

 we need rain, as everything is very 

 dry. Society people are beginning to 

 return from their annual migrations 

 to the summer resorts. The opening 

 of our exposition the past week has 

 made some business for the florists as 

 a great many palms are used for deco- 

 rating the different exhibitions, which 

 are changed weekly. 



Stock is by no means plentiful. In 

 roses, Brides, Meteors, Kaiserins, 

 Bridesmaids and Perles are coming in 

 fine shape, but as yet with short stems. 

 The best of them bring $3 per 100; 

 small sorts with very short stems are 

 sold at ?1.50 and ?2. A few good 

 Beauties are seen, but good, long, se- 

 lect Beauties are very scarce; price on 

 stock in the market today is $1.50 per 

 dozen. Carnations are still short in 

 supply and the demand good, price 75 

 cents and ?1 per 100. Housing carna- 

 tion plants is progressing favorably, 

 and all the growers have plenty of 

 work before them just now. Asters 

 are not overplentiful just now and 

 only the large white, pink and purpie 

 are in demand; extra fine brings $2, 

 but the bulk of them go at 50 cents 

 and $1 per 100. Plenty of single tube- 

 rose stalks at $4 per 100. Smilax is 

 scarce. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Florists' Club was not so well attended 

 as it should have been, only twelve 

 being present; mostly store men, the 

 growers being too busy at home get- 

 ting things in shape for their fall and 

 winter's business. 



The picnic committee reported a few 

 tickets still out and the names turned 

 over to the secretary, with instruc- 

 tions that they must make returns by 

 next meeting. This committee was 

 then discharged, as was also the rail- 

 road committee. The installation of 

 officers was next in order. Fred Am- 

 mann, the president-elect, took the 

 chair with a few appropriate remarks, 

 saying that he hoped the attendance 

 would improve and that the members 



should all help to make this year a 

 record-breaker. The other officers 

 also took their chairs with a few re- 

 marks. A vote of sympathy will be 

 sent to the family of our deceased 

 brother, William C. Pape. The meet- 

 ing then adjourned until Oct. 12, at 3 

 p. m., at which meeting President Am- 

 mann expects a large attendance and 

 hopes to see all the Belleville craft on 

 hand. After the adjournment the new 

 president took all present to a place 

 near by and a good time was had, with 

 plenty to eat, drink and smoke. We 

 drank to the health of the new officers 

 and to their success while in office. 



Notes. 



John W. Kunz, formerly manager 

 for the late Jordan Floral Co., will 

 branch out on his own hook and will 

 open a store at 504 Olive street on 

 Sept. 25. The location is the best and 

 we wish him luck in his new venture. 



R. F. Tesson is back from his north- 

 ern trip. Bob reports that he had a 

 good time and that everything look^ 

 good for a good season's business. 



The thirty-ninth annual St. Louis 

 fair will open Monday, Oct. 2, and 

 close Oct. 7. The association has of- 

 fered to the florists $350 in prizes for 

 plants, cut flowers and designs, and a 

 few of the florists have already made 

 entries for competition. In speaking 

 to John D. Ayers, the superintendent 

 of the floral display, he says that this 

 year he will make the exhibitors live 

 up to the rule — that all cut flowers and 

 designs must be on exhibition by 10 

 a. m. on the days named for their ex- 

 hibition, or be ruled out. This will be 

 strictly enforced. 



Sunday we paid a visit to Mr. Johan 

 at Collinsville, 111. We found Mr. Jo- 

 han at home enjoying the cool breezes 

 under a large tree and praying for 

 rain, which he got before we left. He 

 now calls us the rainmakers. Mr. Jo- 

 han grows carnations and violets only. 

 In looking through his houses we 

 found the carnations looking fine. Liz- 

 zie McGowan is the only white that is 

 grown here. Portia and Jubilee are 

 the reds. Daybreak and Scott in pink 

 and only a few Chicago, Flora Hill, 

 Armazindy and Eldorado. The violets, 

 too, are looking fine and from the 

 looks of things Mr. Johan will have 

 a prosperous season. After enjoying 

 a game of quoits with Mr. Johan and 

 his son we had supper and after driv- 

 ing through the city we left for home, 

 having spent a very enjoyable after- 

 noon. J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



At. last we have had a wet rain, inn 

 that has gone down. Since spring the 

 few showers have only been dust sub- 

 duers. Business has improved quite a 

 little the past two weeks. Store open- 

 ings, a few weddings and several 

 prominent citizens passing away, have 

 all been conducive towards a better 

 trade. As a Dutchman of my acquaint- 

 ance remarked yesterday: "People 

 died last week what never died be- 

 fore." 



Roses we can get and asters have 

 been in good supply, but carnations 

 are scarce and they are always wanted. 

 How easy to have a few thousand 

 plants growing and flowering now in 

 the open ground and near enough to 

 the hose to keep them growing and 

 flowering. Although I do not believe 

 in any water for the plants that you 

 are going to lift; it is all right for 

 those that you want to flower and 

 leave for the winter to kill. We have 

 a few hundred such plants and a few 

 thousand would be much better. 



Mr. C. F. Christenson has arrived 

 home from his native Denmark, and 

 although I cannot report on his ap- 

 pearance from personal inspection, we 

 understand it is very fine. A fast and 

 furious chat is in store. 



Mr. W. A. Adams has returned from 

 his ten days' honeymoon looking as 

 cheery as the English sparrow in the 

 green days of spring. Some of his 

 friends thought that so much traveling 

 had reduced his weight, but it struck 

 me that what he had lost in latitude 

 he had gained in longitude. He quick- 

 ly settled down to business and has 

 been the recipient of some good, solid 

 orders since his return. 



Crystal Beach is about closed for 

 the season, which allows Treasurer Jo- 

 seph H. Rebstock and Manager Steve 

 Rebstock to devote their whole time 

 to their extensive business. 



Wm. Kasting has returned from 

 Pittsburg after selling his branch busi- 

 ness in that city, and will now devote 

 all his time and energy to his busi- 

 ness here, which is a large one and can 

 with William's talent be made still 

 larger. 



There has been no drummers call 

 for a long time and so we are deprived 

 of our little joke, but facts are more 

 relished than jokes by the ponderous 

 wise, and for them I will say that the 

 deeds and leases of the site of the Pan- 

 American are all signed and actual 

 work has begun. Time it was. Let us 

 hope now it will hum with energy and 

 without jobbery to its completion. Ac- 

 tual work will again enthuse our spir- 

 its. W. S. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The cut flower stores report a de- 

 cided improvement in business over 

 last week, with the supply equaling the 

 demand. The flower buyers continue 

 to return from their summer homes. 



Pennock Bros, are repainting and 

 remodeling their entire store. When 

 finished it promises to be the finest 

 store of its kind in this city. 



Wm. Moore, formerly with Robert 

 Craig, has gone into the wholesale cut 

 flower business for himself on South 

 Sixteenth street. 



We notice on the streets a new H. A. 

 Dreer delivery wagon. 



Among the visitors the past week 

 we noticed Mr. Geo. Stunipp, New York 

 City; Mr. Humphrey, in the interest of 

 Chas. Thorley, New York City; Mr. H. 

 was in the market for four or five 

 hundred dollars' worth of palms and 

 decorative stuff, which we are pleased 



