OCTOBER 20, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



539 



•committee to arrange for the annual 

 banquet to be held during the chry- 

 santhemum show. 



The sum of $50 was appropriated for 

 a special prize at the coming show. 



Four new members were elected 



Chrysanthemum Show. 



The dates for the annual exmbiuon, 

 November 7 to 11, are rapidly ap- 

 proaching. A supplement to the pie- 

 mium list has been issued announc- 

 ing several new classes. 



Special premiums offered by Kenni- 

 cott Bros. & Co. are for "Best 25 

 blooms, chrysanthemums. Major Bon- 

 naffon, $10.00," and "Best three vases 

 of 50 blooms, carnations, any varie- 



the arrival last Sunday of a bouncing 

 baby boy. 



Mr. M. F. Kyle has gone to Kalama- 

 zoo, Mich., to take a position with the 

 Dunkley Floral Co. 



A building permit for a greenhouse 

 to cost $4,000 has been issued to the 

 officials of the home for incurables, 

 Fifty-sixth street and Ellis avenue. 



Recent visitors: C. S. Ford, New 

 York; E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind.; Ju- 

 lius Roehrs, Jr., Rutherford, N. J. 



Bowling. 



The annual meeting of the Bowling 

 Club was held last Friday evening and 

 officers for the coming year elected as 

 follows: P. J. Hauswirth, Pres.; M. 



Booth of Lewis Ullrich in the Street Carnival at Tiffin, O., Sept. 5 to 8. 



ties, $10.00." The Quaker City Ma- 

 chine Works offer as a second premium 

 in the International competition in 

 chrysanthemums, a $25.00 set of the 

 Evans Challenge ventilating appara- 

 tus. A new class 179B, is for "Best 

 fifty blooms of any variety of carna- 

 tion, introduction of 1899." 



Superintendent Rudd is feeling jubi- 

 lant over flower show prospects. He 

 says that $5,000.00 rental for the Audi- 

 torium theatre does not trouble him 

 at all. The society has never before 

 had a decent place to hold an exhibi- 

 tion. 



This year, with the most magnifi- 

 cent hall in the country and a pre- 

 mium list offering double the money 

 that any other society offers, if the 

 show does not beat all records, he 

 will go to New York and learn how to 

 do it. 



Various Items. 



Mr. C. A. Samuelson had a large 

 wedding decoration at Dubuque, Iowa, 

 this week. 



Mr. O. P. Bassett leaves Saturday 

 for an extended trip through the east. 



Mr. Chas. Dickinson is rejoicing over 



Barker, Vice-Pres. ; A. Henderson, 

 Sec'y and Treas; John Degnan, official 

 scorer. E. F. Winterson was selected 

 as Captain. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Trade is improving steadily. The 

 chrysanthemum is much in evidence, 

 but only the poorer grades are numer- 

 ous, the real silk-edged quality is yet 

 to come. Glory of Pacific, Bergmann 

 find Kate Brown are the only ones in 

 now, but by the end of the present 

 week the better quality is expected. 

 Those in the market brought from $4 

 to $15 per 100. The public has not yet 

 taken to buying them as they will later 

 on, and the sale on them seems rather 

 slow. 



The rose market was overstocked all 

 of last week and the ice boxes of the 

 wholesaler were filled to the top until 

 Saturday. Then they were all sold out 

 at the rate of $5 per 1,000 and those 

 who bought them had signs in their 

 windows, "Roses, 15 cents per dozen." 

 Of course they were not worth more, 

 if as much, and as this price is 



even cheaper than the fakir sells them 

 on the street corner we must now class 

 them below the fakir. This state of 

 affairs does not hurt the business half 

 as much as it hurts those who display 

 these cheap signs. 



The better class of roses, such as 

 Beauties, with good long stems, sell 

 from IS to 25 cents each; shorts, from 

 $5 to $12.50 per 100. Meteors are not 

 so good; too many culls among them; 

 $3 to $5 is the price on them. Kaiser- 

 ins, Brides and Maids, choice stock, 

 biing $5 and $6; seconds, $2 to $4; 

 Woottons, $3 and $6, and Perles, $2 

 to $5. 



Carnations are more plentiful than 

 they were, but not any too many and 

 are generally all sold. The demand for 

 white is good. Scott, Daybreak, Eldo- 

 rado and Portia sell well. Violets have 

 been selling well, especially California. 

 Small single as a rule don't sell when 

 California are on sale. Price during 

 the week was 35 cents for California, 

 15 and 25 cents for the small ones. 

 There was quite a demand for valley 

 the past week at $4 and $5. Smilax also 

 sold well. 



Chrysanthemum Show. 



The prospects for the coming chys- 

 anthemum show are very flattering. 

 The final programs will be out Tues- 

 day, Oct. 24, and will be mailed at once 

 to the growers. Should any one, who 

 would like a copy, be overlooked, ad- 

 dress J. J. Beneke, 1222 Olive street, 

 and their letter will receive prompt at- 

 tention. 



The big posters for the show are out 

 and in the windows of the florists and 

 other stores. They make a fine ap- 

 pearance. The committee will meet 

 again this week and arrange all mat- 

 ters pertaining to the show. 



Mr. James Gurney, of Tower Grove 

 Park, and Prof. Wm. Trelease have 

 promised the committee that they will 

 make a fine display of crotons, for ex- 

 hibition only. A visit to the garden and 

 park found everything looking in fine 

 shape and at their best. The new ager- 

 atum, Stella Gurney, and the new sal- 

 via, St. Louis, are certainly beauties. 

 These will be handled by H. A. Dreer, 

 Philadelphia, next season. 



Various Items. 



Our visitor this week was Walter 

 Mott. representing H. A. Dreer, Phila- 

 delphia. Walter reports trade in his 

 line good. 



Members of the Florists' Club should 

 not forget the next meeting of the club 

 Nov. 9 at 3 p. m. The season passes 

 for the show will be distributed among 

 the members in good standing at this 

 meeting. President Ammann wants all 

 members to attend, as he has some- 

 thing very interesting to tell them. The 

 trustees, also, have promised one if not 

 two essays that will be worth, to any 

 of the members, spending a half day 

 at the meeting. F. W. Pape, the new 

 superintendent of city parks, will make 

 application for membership at this 

 meeting. 



The annual Shaw banquet to florists, 



