The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



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Fleischman's New Store in Chicago. 



in each class, and as a sample 

 he says the premiums for best specimen 

 plant will be $35.00, $25.00 and $15.00. 

 The premium list is now being prepared 

 and will be issued shortly. In addition 

 to the regular list there promises to be 

 many special prizes. One already offered 

 is $100.00 for the best unnamed seed- 

 ling carnation shown, the winner to be 

 named McKinley. 



Mr. F. J. Taggart, Convention Hall, 

 Kansas City, Mo., is general director of 

 the exhibition and inquiries addressed 

 to him will receive prompt attention. 

 Mr. Thorpe_ is now visiting eastern 

 growers in the interest of the exhibi- 

 tion. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions. 



The twelfth of October was an in- 

 glorious ending of an otherwise fairly 

 good business week. Up to that day 

 everything but roses was inclined to be 

 a bit scarce for the amount of roofage 

 the city represents. Although prices 

 were not, high, hopes and spirits were 

 well up until the thermometer took an 

 upward turn, also with the disastrous 

 results of a flooded market and the pop- 

 ulace planning to be out in the balmy 

 air rather than staying indoors to look 

 at a sample of nature sent in by the 

 florist. It makes a difference, and was 

 the first day of the season to make the 

 pink growers wonder why they were ever 

 born into this vale of woe, while the 

 rose men wept aloud and the chrysan- 

 themum men began to blossom out all 

 around into several sizes of three or 

 four colors. Breakers dead ahead and 

 the warmer the weather the fiercer the 

 storm will be. 



Varioos Items. 



October 10 was the date set upon for 

 the marriage of James H. Delay, our 

 popular Beacon street florist, who be- 

 gan some five or six years ago over be- 

 hind the Public Garden and has pushed 

 his trade so assiduously that now he is 

 obliged to maintain a first-class estab- 

 lishment in every way. Jimmie has done 



well and we can only -wish his last move 

 to be his best one, and that it will re- 

 sult in increased happiness and prosper- 

 ity. This makes two young ladies who 

 have demonstrated unbelief in the old 

 saying that "Delays are dangerous" dur- 

 ing the past two or three years. "Al" 

 Huston, the vigorous and courteous rose 

 disseminator to William H. Elliott, also 

 comes in for the same thing in the same 

 degree for the same cause. He has 

 doubled up his joys, cares and responsi- 

 bilities lately. In just his case it is 

 imwise to wish his pathway strewn 

 with roses, being probably too much so 

 already, but we may breathe a desire 

 that his days may stretch out like a 50- 

 cent string of Asparagus plumosus. 



Tlie annual meeting of stockholders of 

 the Co-operative market for election of 

 oflicers and any other business was held 

 at the Quincy House Saturday evening, 

 October 12. I held the office of official 

 doorkeeper, filling the position with my 

 usual grace and dignity. It was em- 

 phatically a "smoke talk," with all ef- 

 fects of the "pipe of peace." Hannibal 

 Hamlin's old appellation of a "large and 

 respectable gathering" might be used in 

 connection mth the affair, but Judge 

 Dewey's recent famous decision has no 

 application whatever. Still I maintain 

 there are florists who would at times 

 make the judge doubt the soundness of 

 his own doctrine— that a man must be 

 "stupefied, overcome or frenzied" in or- 

 der to be drunk. 



After tossing around complimentary 

 nominations very generously the old 

 board of officials was promptly elected 

 on the first ballot in every case except 

 in regard to the vice-presidency, which 

 necessitated a second attempt. The list 

 stands: William Stickel, president ; Wil- 

 liam Nicholson, vice-president; George 

 Cartwright, treasurer and secretary, and 

 W. W. Edgar, Peter Fisher, E. Suter- 

 meister, L. H. Mann, E. N. Peirce and 

 John Walsh as additional directors. Of 

 course, this list could not be improved 

 upon and their willingness to serve an- 

 other year is proof of their loyalty to 

 the good of the market. None of the 

 positions has an emolument attached 

 except that of the treasurer. 



The question of annual banquet to 

 stall holders took up more time than it 

 uould to dispose of the real thing. It 

 liKiks as if they got the "question" and 

 I lie banquet Itself somewhat mixed, be- 

 « aise they "chewed" it over so much 

 I lid did not fully "digest" it after all, 

 lint hnally voted to "lay it on the 

 tibk — the question, not the banquet. 

 So unlcbs stall-holders behave pretty well 

 (111-, \ear we probably shall not get one. 

 '-'"me wanted one given to stall-holders 

 uid lady friends, and some to stall- 

 lioldeis alone, given by the corporation; 

 iithers wanted same at expense of the 

 jiartakers, and others want nothing of 

 the kind at all, and "who shall decide 

 \vhen the doctors (or directors) disa- 

 gree ?" 



A carefully considered revision of the 

 constitution and by-laws is under way, 

 which was taken up and put through 

 its first paces, but adjournment became 

 necessary before completion and the rel- 

 ative positions of the constitution, the 

 Hag, the banquet and the price of chrys- 

 antliemums in the procession is yet un- 

 decided. J. S. Manter. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business has been quite fair of late, 

 and with the cooler weather stock has 

 improved very much, particularly the rose 

 stock. Meteors, Brides, Maids and Gold- 

 en Gates are gaining in size and color; 

 Beauties are very fine and plenty of 

 them in all grades. Good stock in the 

 smaller grades is held at from $1 to $4 

 per 100; some select shipping blooms go 

 as high as $5; in 1,000 lots the price 

 falls far below these prices. In roses 

 the past week we may say there was a 

 glut, and more are coming into this 

 market just now than ever before. The 

 call for select Beauties the past week 

 was good, owing to the increased de- 

 mand for the Veiled Prophet's ball last 

 Tuesday. Still the florists about town 

 claim that the demand has fallen off 

 greatly from former years. 



Carnations are also quite plentiful and 

 are improving in size and color. Select 

 grades sell for $2, and from this price 

 down to $1 per 100. Some very fine 

 Flora Hills, Scotts and Daybreaks are 

 coming in now. The whites seem to 

 have the call. Violets are still scarce, 

 and the quality is not good enough to put 

 on the market. Valley remains at $4. 

 Cosmos is becoming more plentiful at 50 

 cents. The chrysanthemums are not 

 coming in quite as fast as was expected. 

 A few shipments of southern stock came 

 in the past week, and more are expect- 

 ed by the end of the present week. These 

 will, of course, depress prices on local 

 stock. The home grown stock is not 

 plentiful just now, but more will come 

 in before the week is out. These, with 

 the extra amount of other stock that is 

 coming in, will no doubt have a very de- 

 pressing effect on prices of all flowers. 

 All kinds of greens, such as smilax, adi- 

 antum and asparagus, are having a good 

 call. 



Notes. 

 The decorations at the Veiled Proph- 

 et's ball last Tuesday were very elabo- 

 rate and won the admiration of the large 

 crowd present. The Merchants' Ex- 

 change hall never looked better. Mr. Ed 

 Buechel, of the Eiessen Floral Company, 



