rOBBR .".. 1899. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



467 



F. J. Ammann, President St. Louis Florists' Club. 



in course of erection, 20x100, for Cal- 

 ifornia violets. A bench of Golden 

 Wedding mums are very fine and from 

 the looks of things Fred will be heard 

 from at the coming show. Mr. Am- 

 mann has a very interesting family, a 

 wife and three little girls, who make 

 things pleasant for all who visit him. 

 The bowling alley is closed up on Sun- 

 day, so we had to content ourselves 

 with playing a few games of quoits 

 before train time. The party consist- 

 ed of your correspondent and wife and 

 Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Kuehn. 



Bowling. 

 The Bowling Club on Monday night 

 rolled for the first time, as a club, 

 since the Detroit convention and will 

 from now on roll regularly every 

 Monday night. Six members were 

 present, the others being too busy. 

 The scores show that the boys need 

 practice and better ones may be looked 

 for after this. The scores on Monday 

 night were as follows: 



1 2 :: To. A v. 



.1- W. Kunz 157 167 144 168 156 



C. A. Kuehn 112 157 174 -14:: 14s 



.1 J. Beneke 144 137 154 135 14"> 



C. C. Sanders 131 141 153 425 Ml' 



R. V. Tesson 107 155 159 121 140 



John Young 133 154 11:1 W) 133 



J. J. B. 



IF YOU don't find what you want in 

 our classified advs. let us know about 

 it. We will find it for you if it is to be 

 had. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The wholesalers all agree that flow- 

 ers were never before so scarce at this 

 season of the year. Carnations are as 

 scarce as the proverbial "hen's teeth" 

 and prices for what few there are are 

 away up. Rose orders are fairly well 

 filled, but the bulk of the stock is of a 

 quality much below that buyers are en-, 

 titled to at this season of the year. 



Prices are almost up to holiday fig- 

 ures. E. C. Amling reports having sold 

 good Scott carnations at as high as 

 $4.00 a hundred on Tuesday, and good 

 Kaiserin roses at $8.00 a hundred. 

 What carnations are received are 

 mainly from plants inside, but a few 

 are still coming in from outside in 

 spite of the heavy frost. 



In roses Beauties range in price from 

 $1.25 to $4.00 a dozen, other roses from 

 $3.00 to $0.00 a hundred, with occa- 

 sional sales at even higher figures. 

 Most any kind of a carnation will 

 bring $2.00 a hundred, and if really 

 good $3.00 a hundred is not high. 



The principal relief to the carnation 

 situation has been the large receipts of 

 asters by McKellar & Winterson from 

 eastern growers. They have been for- 

 tunate enough to have remarkably 

 large daily shipments of asters of ex- 

 cellent quality, including a large pro- 

 portion of white. These have sold 



readily at from $1.50 to $3.00 a hun- 

 dred. They expect this supply to con- 

 tinue for several weeks yet. 



There is a scarcity of galax, said to 

 be due to the attempts of certain east- 

 ern parties to manipulate a "corner" 

 in them. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. say they antici- 

 pate a splendid season and that the 

 question of supply to meet the demand 

 will be an important factor with the 

 commission man. This opens a very 

 cheerful prospect for the grower. 



Various Items. 



Jack Frost took a good hard bite at 

 vegetation in the vicinity of this city 

 last Friday night. Even native plants, 

 such as sagittarias on the margin of 

 the pond of aquatics in Lincoln park. 

 were badly cut down. Coleus were 

 quite wiped out and cannas were badly 

 browned. Salvia splendens still gives- 

 color in the border, however, though 

 all tender plants may be considered 

 done for the season. Since the frost 

 the days have been much warmer and 

 present indications are that we may 

 have an "Indian summer" this fall. 



Mrs. Charles W. McKellar, who was 

 Miss Harriet Ayres until last Wednes- 

 day evening, is now regulating the 

 movements of the head of the firm of 

 McKellar & Winterson. The marriage 

 took place at St. James church and 

 was a very quiet affair, but there is t o 

 be a less exclusive celebration in the 

 near future, at which a few thousands 

 of Charley's friends will have an op- 

 portunity to express their felicitations 

 on his admirable conduct since last 

 Wednesday, which is now explained. 

 In the meantime he is using a very 

 good brand of cigars. 



The great industrial parade during 

 the fall festival has been postponed 

 till Tuesday evening, October 10, and 

 there will therefore be a little more 

 time to perfect the floral float. 



The fall army worm has worked 

 some little damage to carnations under 

 glass as well as outside. Hand pick- 

 ing is the only sure cure discovered as 

 yet. 



The next regular meeting of the 

 Florists' Club takes place tomorrow 

 (Friday) evening. 



BUFFALO. 



Business Conditions. 



At last wo ran report with emphasis 

 and truth that business is better. It is 

 a good deal better than this time last 

 vear. Although there are perhaps many 

 men yet looking for a job, there are 

 many more men working than have 

 been for the past five or six years. 



Since a New York syndicate bought 

 our city and suburban trolley line for 

 twenty-five millions and are spending 

 several millions on i.ew equipment, 

 work has been more plentiful, and 

 when the workingman earns his wages 

 the dry goods stores and grocery keep- 

 ers get a share of it, and then the 

 storekeeper's wife and daughter ran 

 buy some flowers, and so it goes. 



