NOVEMBER 16, 1899. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



625 



Greenhouses of Mr. John Wolf, Savannah, Ga. 



was good or new from all parts of the 

 world here next August. 



Messrs. O'Mara, Siebrecht and 

 Weathered were appointed a commit- 

 tee to express the sympathy of the 

 club to the relatives of the late Mrs. 

 J. H. Taylor, Mrs. John Morris and 

 W. H. Brower, whose deaths everyone 

 here deeply regrets. 



Bowling. 



The scores at the alleys Nov. 13th 

 were: 



1. 2 3. 



Roehrs 149 125 122 



Traendly 134 159 121 



Theilman 156 131 179 



Atkins 152 lilt 120 



Burns 156 132 160 



Marshall 105 160 127 



Siebrecht 107 134 120 



Donlan 102 138 



Stumpp 115 177 117 



Lang 176 104 



Manda 100 116 163 



Schultheis 133 144 97 



Bunyard 116 



Stewart 112 



Von Aesch '. 117 



Troy 125 



Butterfield 94 107 121 



Notes. 



President Wm. Plumb, who has been 

 laying out a large place at Pitts- 

 burgh, N. Y., is now busy renovating 

 the extensive grounds of Greystone, 

 the late Samuel J. Tilden's old place at 

 Yonkers. 



The New York Gardeners' Society 

 will meet at the Grand Central 

 Palace, Forty-third street and Lexing- 

 ton avenue, 8 p. m., Saturday, Nov. 

 18. Nomination of officers will take 

 place and The Florists' Review offers 

 a copy of Scott's Florists' Manual for 

 the best display of chrysanthemums 

 at this meeting. IVERA. 



BATAVIA, ILL.— Charles Handel, of 

 Pekin, 111., has rented the P. G. Pear- 

 son place for a term of years and will 

 grow stock for the Chicago market. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular November meeting of 

 the Florists' Club was held Thursday 

 afternoon of last week with President 

 Ammann in the chair, and the atten- 

 dance was as good as could be expec- 

 ted. The talk was about show matters, 

 and' the exhibition committee reported 

 that they were all in readiness and 

 that the prospects were good for a suc- 

 cessful show. 



We are satisfied that the public is 

 with us, and the only thing that can 

 mar the show in any way is bad 

 weather. The committee went to see 

 the weather clerk and he has promised 

 them good weather, and all it cost 

 was a season ticket. The delinquent 

 members were given one more month 

 to pay their dues but will not get their 

 season pass to the show. 



Mr. J. M. Jordan, one of our oldest 

 members, and who is very sick, and 

 has been for the past year, has been 

 made a life member by a full vote of 

 the members present. 



Mr. W. H. Kruse, of 284S Arsenal 

 street, made application for member- 

 ship. Mr. K. was formerly with Wm. 

 Schray. 



The trustees were instructed by the 

 president to have an essay read at the 

 next meeting of the club, which takes 

 place Thursday, December 14, at 3 p. 

 m. After the regular business was 

 transacted the meeting adjourned. 



Business Conditions. 



Business during the past week has 

 fallen off a great deal. in comparison 

 with last week, that is, in the general 

 store trade. There is a fair quantity 

 of funeral work and a number of wed- 

 ding and social functions in the West 

 End, but the down town florists got 

 very little of this kind of work. The 

 stock of flowers is fully equal to the 



demand, and the quality of the stock 

 is still improving. Everything is get- 

 ting a trifle better. A few fancy roses 

 have advanced in price but the bulk 

 of them go at any old price. Select 

 Beauties, and some very fine ones, 

 were seen last week, sold at $3 per 

 dozen. Choice Carnots sell well at $6 

 per 100. Plenty of choice chrysanthe- 

 mums are in the market and the decor- 

 ations in the store windows are really 

 fine. Good flowers with long stems 

 brought $12.50 per 1O0; quite a few ex- 

 tra choice blooms have been sold at 

 $25 per 100. Carnations are still $1 

 per 100 for the average stock and $2 

 for select grades. Good double violets 

 are scarce at $1 per 100; poor ones 

 go at 50 cents. Californias are 50 

 cents and small single 25 cents. Smi- 

 lax is very fine and sells at $12.50 per 

 100 strings. 



Herman G. Ude, the carnation grow- 

 er at Kirkwood, has a very fine white 

 seedling which he will have on ex- 

 hibition at the show next week. He 

 has named it Dr. Enno Sander, who 

 is a lover of fine carnations. 



At this writing the florists are bring- 

 ing load after load of show plants 

 into the great Coliseum, and prepara- 

 tions are going ahead for our grand 

 opening Tuesday night, and from the 

 looks of things now the space will be 

 too small for all the exhibits, and by 

 the time this issue is in the hands 

 of our readers the show will be in full 

 blast. But we will not be able to say 

 anything in this issue of the opening, 

 and the full list of premiums will be 

 published in the next issue of The 

 Review. J. J. B. 



WHITE MARSH, MD.-R. Vincent, 

 Jr., & Son have built two houses, each 

 25x100, and are now building another 

 one, 25x165, especially for early veget 

 able plants, such as tomato, egg, pep- 

 per, etc. 



