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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBEB 10, 1901. 



report a very encouraging state of af- 

 fairs. 



J. H. Small & Sons have the decora- 

 tions for the Eockefeller wedding at 

 Providence, R. I., and several artists 

 have gone on to execute the order; some 

 innovations arc to be used in these 

 decorations which will be well worth 

 seeing. 



Small & Sons' store in the Waldorf- 

 Astoria, is one of the prettiest little 

 florists' stores in the country; visiting 

 florists should see it. The cool room for 

 keeping flowers is regiilated by cold air 

 pipes; no ice is used in this store, and 

 BO far this system is very successful 

 and seems to point to the future way of 

 keeping flowers; the box is a gem. 



The regular meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held on Monday 

 night next, and as this will be the 

 last general meeting before the show at 

 Madison Square Garden, a full attend- 

 ance is urged. Manager Plumb is work- 

 ing hard to have this show a record 

 breaking success and he should have 

 the assistance of every florist hereabouts 

 to make it doubly so. The prizes oflered 

 are very generous and should bring out 

 all the choicest stock in this section, 

 but most important is to get all to 

 exhibit something. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers will meet in the after 

 noon next Monday. The first two scores 

 last night were: 



Lentz 184 HO Hafuer 153 152 



Van Hoesen ....U5 U9 Elliott 115 



Traendly 119 168 Mansfield U2 114 



Burns 157 150 Lans 173 



Siebrecht 135 138 



We left the boys on the alleys at- 

 tempting to break the record. Capt. 

 Lang is determined to have a team able 

 to meet all comers. 



There was heaps of fun on the 26th 

 street alleys Saturday night. The new 

 club met and formed two sides: 



Donohue Ill 130 140 M. Sampson. 126 122 100 



Hanft lis 122 125 Welse 133 176 119 



Donlan 125 130 144 V^allaee 98 125 100 



A. Youns 126 137 101 Rledlinger ..131 137 156 



Baker 129 128 120 W. Sampson. 121 118 150 



A prize will be given to the bowler 

 with the highest average rolled during 

 the month. J. I. D. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular monthly meetinsr of the 

 Florists' Club was held last Thursday 

 afternoon at 3 o'clock with President 

 Meiuhardt and all the other ofiicers in 

 their chairs. Fifteen were present, in- 

 cluding Mr. Flint Kennicott of Chicago, 

 who was a visitor. 



The exhibition committee reported 

 progress and that the members were 

 hard at work on the regular prize list 

 which will be out the latter part of the 

 present month. 



Mrs. M. M. Ayers and Mr. Rolst were 

 elected to membership by a full vote. 

 New applications were read from P. T. 

 Barnes of Shaw's Garden and A. G. 

 Gfreiner, ii cacti grower. 



The chairman appointed Frank M. El- 

 lis to collect the 20 per cent of the 

 World's Fair subscription, which must 

 be paid on or before the date of the next 

 regular meeting of the club. 



Mr. Kennicott of Chicago, spoke about 

 the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893 and 



told what a great help it was to the 

 florists of that city and that we should 

 push it hard as all Chicago was with us 

 in this great undertaking. Mr. K. also 

 told of his pleasant visits to St. Louis 

 in his younger days, some thirty years 

 ago. 



Mr. Max Herzog, who has just re- 

 turned from a trip abroad, gave us a 

 very interesting talk as to what he saw 

 while away. He brought back with him 

 a violet "stone and a new asparagus 

 which he will exhibit at the coming 

 show. 



The next meeting of the club will take 

 place a week earlier owing to the fact 

 that show week comes the same week of 

 the regular meeting. The meeting will 

 take place Thursday, November 7, at 3 

 o'clock. Mr. Emil Schray will read an 

 essay at this meeting. 



After the meeting the members ad- 

 journed to the Hotel Moser where a fine 

 spread had been prepared at Secretary 

 Schray's expense and which was heartily 

 enjoyed by all. 



The Market. 



Trade in the cut flower line has been 

 fair the past week and shows continual 

 signs of improvement. The weather has 

 become very cool and we have had a few 

 frosty nights. The rose crop shortened 

 up considerably, still plenty come in for 

 the demand. 



There is always an extra call for 

 choice stock, especially Beauties, the 

 week the great Veiled Prophet's hall 

 takes place and no doubt prices will go 

 up somewhat on all kinds of stock. Me- 

 teors, Maids, Kaiserins and Brides 

 brought as high as $5 and $6 per 100 

 the past week and from that down to 

 $2; Perles and Woottons sold at about 

 3 and 4 cents for the best. 



Carnations are coming in fine and 

 many of our home-growers are sending 

 in first class blooms of Daybreak, Flora 

 Hill and Scott which sell well at from 

 $1.50 to $2 per 100; the smaller ones 

 go at $1. 



A few liolets are seen, but are small 

 and pale, the weather being too dry for 

 them. Another few weeks will see them 

 in better shape and plenty in the mar- 

 ket. 



A few blooms of the early varieties of 

 chrysaathein-ams are coming in but they 

 are sma'l and there is very little sale 

 for them. Some fine cosmos is coming 

 in but is still somewhat scarce at 50 

 cents per 100. Valley and tuberose 

 stalks sold well the past week. Smilax 

 sells at S12.50. Maidenhair ferns and 

 asparagus have a good demand. 



Notes. 



Mr. Flint Kennicott of Kennicott 

 Bros. Co., Chicago, spent last Thursday 

 with us, calling on the trade and adding 

 new friends to liis already long list. 



Joe Rolker of New York, was again 

 with us. Joe is likely to drop in on us 

 any old time looking for orders in the 

 sujiply Hue. 



The St. Louis Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical Association opened its Forty- 

 first Annual Fair today (Monday, Oc- 

 tober 7) and is ofi'ering the usual 

 amount of premiums for plants, cut 

 flowers and designs. Quite a number of 

 local florists have entered and will com- 

 pete for the prizes. A full list will ap- 

 pear in the next issue of the Review. 



The Eden Floral Co., has advertised 

 its place for sale and will retire from 

 business, having made enough money off 

 the unfortunate girls they roped in to 



educate in the business. Several of the 

 young ladies say that they will horse- 

 whip this so-ciilled Mr. Eden some night 

 when he is on his way home. So you 

 may look for something sensational be- 

 fore the week is out. 



Ml. and Mrs. Carew Sanders returned 

 last Saturday from their summer trip 

 through the east, coming home by the 

 way of Buffalo and taking in all the 

 sights of the Pan-American. Both are 

 in the best of health. 



Mr. C. C. Sanders will have a fine lot 

 of show chrysanthemum plants this 

 jear, and in cut blooms of all kinds he 

 will be in it with the best of them. His 

 rose and carnatioi houses are also in fine 

 shape for the coming season. 



J. F. Wilcox, our friend from Council 

 Blufl's, Iowa, is sending a fine lot of 

 Beauties, Maids, Brides and Meteors to 

 this market, which find ready sale at 

 all times. 



Bowling. 



The Florists in their opening match 

 with the strong Westerns came out vic- 

 torious, winning all three games and 

 leading at the end with 299 pins. The 

 boys feel very much encouraged over 

 their victory. John Kunz, the high man, 

 was in his Detroit form, having got rid 

 of his sore finger, and barring his first 

 game certainly rolled well. Your cor- 

 respondent was right in it himself, miss- 

 ing only three spares in the three games; 

 the last game gave him four splits. 

 Kuehn also rolled well and will do 

 better. Ellison and Sturtz were worked 

 to death the night before, mth lots of 

 funeral work, to which Sturtz attrib- 

 uted their poor rolling. But as they are 

 two of our best they will surely do bet- 

 ter in the next match, which will be with 

 the Libertys on next Friday night, Oc- 

 tober 11, at 8:15 o'clock at the Cass ave- 

 nue,alleys. All florists are invited to be 

 present. The scores of Tuesday's match 

 are as follows: 



Florists. B. E. 1 2 3 Tot. Av. 



John Sturtz ....2 10 152 152 139 443 147 2-3 



A. T, Ellison.... 9 4 166 147 147 460 153 1-3 



J. W. Kunz 1 9 127 176 184 487 162 1-3 



C. A. Kuehn 2 8 168 161 155 484 1611-3 



J. J. Beneke.... 5 3 166 174 143 483 161 



19 34 779 810 768 2357 157 2-15 



B. E. 1 2 3 Tot. Av. 



Westerns 27 47 706 668 684 2058 139 3-15 



J. J. B. 



CLEVELAND. 



Club Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 held Sept. 23 the members nominated 

 for officers two weeks before were unani- 

 mously elected. Walker and McLean, 

 the enterprising florists of Youngstown, 

 were elected members of the club, as was 

 also C. G. Steyn, of this city. 



A Reception. 

 The reception tendered the Cleveland 

 florists by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gasser 

 Sept. 26 was well attended, about 150 

 florists and their families being present. 

 The host and hostess received in a tent 

 wliich was handsomely decorated with 

 palms and cut flowers. Adjacent to this 

 tent was another where a banquet was 

 served at 7 o'clock. Afterward small 

 tables were placed around and all who 

 wished to do so played cards, while on 

 the floor of the other tent a canvas was 

 stretched and dancing was indulged in 

 till a late hour. The principal features 

 cif the dancing were a Highland Fling 

 by Adam Graham and Gordon Gray to 

 the tune of "Coming Through the Rye," 



