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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



possible to sell tliem all even at any old 

 price. The supply of roses has also been 

 ■jood and the demand better. Candidum 

 lilies have made their appearance and 

 are in good demand. 



.Ml outdoor stuff is selling slowly 

 and much of it goes to waste for want 

 < f demand. So long as roses, carnations 

 and swoet peas glut the market these 

 conditions will remain. The price of 

 stock advanced a point the past week 

 owing to the extra demand. 



Carnations sold from $1 to .$1..'50 per 

 100: in 1,000 lots about 7.5 cents. Roses 

 of the best quality being $3 to $5 and the 

 seconds from $1 to $2 per 100. Beau- 

 ties are scarce and the best quality are 

 quoted at $2.50 per dozen and from that 

 price down to 30 cents per dozen. 



Candidum lilies are selling from 10 to 

 12i cents per stalk and are of good 

 quality. Sweet peas, almost any price 

 will buy them and they can hardly be 

 quoted; 50 cents to $1 per 1,000 is about 

 the price at this writing. New fancy 

 ferns are now coming in and are quickly 

 iKJught up as they are much better to 

 woriv than the common dagger ferns. 

 Smilax has had a good call all of the 

 past week at $12.50 per 100 strings. 



Notes. 



Herbert Heller, of the South Park 

 Floral Co., New Castle, Ind., was in 

 town the past week attending the wed- 

 ding of one of his friends. Herbert 

 looks well and his many fsiends in the 

 trade here claim that he will soon return 

 as the attraction in the West End is 

 hard to resist. 



Harry Balsley, the red *pot man from 

 Detroit, was also a visitor. Harry looks 

 the same as ever. This is his first visit 

 to St. Louis since the convention in 1893. 



Will Adels is now a benedict. He was 

 married last Wednesday to Miss Emma 

 (lusoskey. Quite a number of presents 

 were sent by his many friends among 

 the craft and the bowling club of which 

 he is a member. Tliey will be at home to 

 their friends at 1422 Kewhouse avenue, 

 after this week. 



Miss Theresa Badaraoco will leave this 

 Wednesday for West Baden Springs for 

 her health. Miss Theresa expects to be 

 gone a month or more. In her absence 

 young Emil Arado will attend to the 

 wants of the trade. 



Wni Bouche the past week planted 

 some 50 mulberry trees for the Cortieelli 

 Silk Co., to be used during the World's 

 Fair as feed for silkworms for their ex- 

 hibit. This is the start of the exhibitions 

 for the World's Fair of 1903. 



Bowling. 



Eight members of the bowling club were at 

 *^" -lleys Monday night and rolled four games, 

 wasdone by Ellison. Kuehn 

 in championship 

 ) show improve- 

 The scores were 



Some good roll 



and Kunz, they being 



form. The others 



J. J. Ben. k. 



W. Adels ... 

 F. M. Ellis.. 



Ill 498 125 



Dixon, III.— O. L. Baird. the florist, 

 was married June 10, tlie bride being 

 Miss Margaret Thompson, formerly of 

 Morrison, 111., but who has for the past 

 eight years held a position in the high 

 school here. The wedding trip will be to 

 Buffalo in August at the time of the 

 S. A. F. convention. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions. 



There is nothing of a particularly en- 

 couraging nature to report. There is 

 such an enormous lot of material coming 

 in that it taxes all efforts to keep the 

 surplus down to reasonable proportions 

 and the assistance of the street vender is 

 invoked to carry at least one-half the 

 product. There is probably as much 

 store trade going on as can be expected 

 but it haiiUy -nni^ -.. because of the 

 pleiity of iii.iirn.il liii. 



I was )nil'l[\ ciiini-i'il a few days 

 ago because 1 ilu nul say more about 

 prices in my weekly (or shall I say 

 'Sveakly?") effusions. But I fail to see 

 any value connected with quotations of 

 prices at W'hich goods have been selling, 

 and no one can tell what prices are go- 

 ing to be in the future. One day even 

 sometimes makes quite a difference in 

 some lines, due largely to Old Sol's in- 

 fluence. And there are so many qualities 

 of the same kind of goods and so many 

 prices by different in^n upon the same 

 quality and so ninnx ].iiii - li> the same 

 man to different cu-i.. Ill, I - ilui the sub- 

 ject is a hard one tn kvc], ii|) « itii. If a 

 man is a regular visitor to any whole- 

 sale establishment of the city he knows 

 figures as well as any one can tell him 

 and if not a regular visitor prices will 

 change before he gets there, so there 

 you are again! 



This is a particularly hard time to 

 locate prices, too, but low figures have 

 the call on everything. Beauties sell all 

 the way from 25 cents to $3 per dozen, 

 and Liberties scale exactly with them as 

 the Wood Co. have some of the best 

 ever grown at the latter figure. IMeteors 

 are selling at from $1 to $8 per 100, 

 there being no very hea\y ones just now. 

 Maids, Brides and Kaiserins are going 

 at from 50 cents to $8 per 100 and 

 Perles are very scarce at about the same 

 price. Pinks sell at from 25 cents to 

 $1.50 per 100; both pinks and roses being 

 represented heavily on the street. Lilies 

 are plentiful at 4 to 6 cents and there is 

 an irregular display of both outdoor 

 and indoor goods all for small money. 



Various Notes. 



It seems Mr. Walsh has been running 

 a matrimonial bureau at the Park street 

 gardens in connection with his manifold 

 duties. Successfully, too! 



"Mike" Shea, F. C. Becker's foreman, 

 is also foreman in the wedding march, 

 being married a few evenings since. 

 Next comes John Clark, foreman for 

 Charles Evans; Hermann Bartsch, fore- 

 man for Wm. Edgar; Dell Cartwright, 

 on the selling force of the E. M. Wood 

 Co.; and Carl J. Dane. Rumor also 

 points at W. H. Knapp, Arthur Kidder 

 and J. J. Johnson's man Charnock as 

 being about to accept degrees at Mr. 

 Walsh's college. J. S. Master. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The market is glutted with flowers of 

 all kinds. One dealer says that never 

 before in his business experience has he 

 seen so many flowers in the market in 

 June. And in r;irnations there are many 

 of gn.iil ,|ii:iliiy. l,nt in roses the grade 

 avcra'ji's v.-i y liiw. Prices on tlie aver- 

 age run of stock are practically umjunt- 



able. At the same time prices on ship 

 1 ing grade arc up to those of last wck 

 :<•.(} out of the great mass coming in 

 the dealer often has great difficulty in 

 picking out enough of shipping grade 

 to fill what few orders he gets. 



locally the market is practically in 

 the hands of the fakirs and they are 

 in clover. State street is lined with 

 them and they are selling enormous 

 quantities. But it makes one feel for 

 the growers to see clean up sales of car- 

 nations, often including very good flow- 

 ers, made at as low as five cents a bunch 

 of 25 flowers. The fakirs retail these on 

 the streets at 10 cents a bunch and it 

 is astonishing the number they dispose 

 of. One fakir alone bought 649 bunches 

 of carnations from one house last Tues- 

 day. 



It is not a pleasant picture to contem- 

 plate and it sets one to wondering what 

 the final result will be. 



One fakir wlm ],.,- jv., -lands sold 



last Saturday 7 .m . i,- ..i carnations 



3,000 tea ros,- I'li - ■ i, )..innies and 

 1,750 cape jasimiH-. \^ a >ample of 

 his profits he bought the pa^onies at 10 

 cents a dozen and retailed them at 25 

 cents. The expense of running his 

 stands was about $7.00 a day each and 

 while he wouldn't say just what he made 

 Saturday he admitted that during Fri- 

 day and Saturday he cleaned up about 

 $100 net. 



Another one who has two stands sold 

 last Saturday 200 bunches of paeonies, 

 3,000 Beauties and 250 bunches of car- 

 nations, and his profit on the two stands 

 was over $60. But of course it is com- 

 paratively rare that conditions are so 

 strongly in their favor and they are 

 making hay while the sun shines. 



To one of these Greek capitalists we 

 humorously put the stereotyped query: 

 "How do you like America?" His re- 

 sponse was: "America is all right." 

 We should think it was, when the Greeks 

 come here without a dollar and soon 

 have thousand dollar wads to play ball, 

 the races, or back theatrical ventures 

 with. 



Various Items. 



A meeting of the Florists' Club will be 

 held tomorrow (Friday) evening at the 

 usual place. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. are receiving some 

 remarkably fine white paeonies. Their 

 receipts of carnations last Tuesday 

 mounted up to 35,000. 



Mr. A. L. Vaughan, who has for the 

 last few years acted as western repre- 

 sentative for the New York firm of 

 Hageman & Meyer, has associated him- 

 self with the firm of E. H. Hunt and will 

 devote his energies to their bulb and 

 supply departments. He has many 

 friends in the trade who will be pleased 

 to again meet him as a representative 

 of "The old reliable." 



Walter Kreitling & Co. did a very 

 pretty decoration at the Washington 

 Park' Club la -I Safiiiila\ and last Mon- 

 day arranu.'il :ium||mi lia inl-niiio dccora- 



a prominriit I, mi m , a i i hr lailer. 



Tlie front of tlir im,. i|,,iil,le store at 

 181 and 183 Siai. -ii,,i. nnder the 

 Palmer House, i.-. r.iiii|ilii rly covered by 

 a huge sign announcing that Jos. Fleisch- 

 man, the New York florist, will on Sept. 

 14 open there one of the finest floral 

 stores in the world. 



Wm. Blackman, Evansville, Ind., and 



