October 31, 1 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



683 



Group of Orchids by W. A. Manda at the New York show. 



I have, or any position connected with 

 a great exposition, must not expect that 

 it is all smooth sailing. There is sure 

 to be lots of little kinks and friction, 

 but the many kind words that have 

 been received and above all the blossoms 

 that have been the result of your work, 

 has far outweighed all unpleasantness, 

 and nothing but sunny memories of the 

 Pan-Am. will be our inheritance. 



These are the last notes, Mr. Editor, 

 that I will have the pleasure of writing 

 from this office and I have little time 

 just now, for breaking up is a serious 

 job and not half as pleasant as install- 

 ing. 



The chrysanthemum show with which 

 we wind up the final week has been a 

 decided success, and based on the only 

 principle that every flower show should 

 be, viz., cash premiums and competitive. 

 A list of the prize winners is enclosed. 

 The finest vase was fifty blooms of "Rob- 

 ert Halliday," the splendid yellow from 

 E. G. Hill & Co. John Rudy, gardener 

 to Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, of Elmira, 

 sent twelve blooms of a grand yellow 

 which he calls "Moon's Seedling." 



Grove P. Eawson helped us out finely. 

 His white "Egandale" is a beautiful 

 ■flower, but his great attraction was a 

 plaque about 8x0 feet. The ground- 

 work was green moss, on which was a 

 yellow vase in flowers and springing 

 ■from it a beautiful lot of bronze and 

 yellow flowers. The frame was bor- 

 dered with ivy leaves to the breadth of 

 a foot. On the ground on each side was 

 a beautiful vase of flbwers mixed with 

 branches of our northern deciduous^ hol- 

 ly. A cluster of incandescent lights 

 illuminated this picture finely at night, 

 and what gave it all the best of setting 

 was the large collection of palms of 

 Henry A. Dreer in the background. 



The local men came out in good form. 

 W. J. Palmer & Son, S. A. Anderson, 

 C. D. Zimmerman and W. Scott all 

 competing in several classes, and it paid 

 them for their trouble, and those that 

 did not join in have themselves to 

 blame, for there was money waiting for 

 them. 



Following are the awards: Fifty 

 blooms yellow, first, E. G. Hill & Co., 

 Richmond, Ind., with Robert Halliday; 

 second, Gunnar Teilmann, Marion, Ind., 

 with Monrovia. 



Fifty blooms pink, first, S. A. Ander- 

 son, Buflfalo, with John N. Shaw; twen- 

 ty-five blooms white, first, Gunnar Teil- 

 mann, with Evangeline; second. Grove 

 P. Rawson, Elmira, N. Y., with Egan- 

 dale. Twenty-five yellow, first, Gunnar 

 Teilmann, with Col. Appleton; second, 

 Charles Guenther, Hamburg, N. Y., with 

 Robert Halliday. Twenty-five pink, first, 

 W. J. Palmer & Son, Buffalo, with Vi- 

 viand-Morel; second. Grove P. Eawson, 

 with John N. Shaw. Vase of fifty 

 blooms arranged with autumn foliage, 

 first, William Scott, Buffalo. Vase of 

 twenty-five arranged with autumn foli- 

 age, first, Grove P. Rawson. Twelve 

 blooms, new variety, John B. Rudy, El- 

 mira, N. Y., with Moon's Seedling. 



Plateau, first, C. D. Zimmerman, Buf- 

 falo; second, William Scott. Basket, 

 first, S. A. Anderson, Buffalo; second, 

 William Scott. Wreath, first, C. D. 

 Zimmerman; second, William Scott. 

 General display, special prize. Grove P. 

 Rawson. W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Cut flowers came in in great quantities 

 the past week, and, although business is 

 not booming, quite a number of flowers 

 were disposed of at low prices. The mar- 

 ket is overstocked with roses of all kinds 

 and the common sorts of chrysanthe- 

 mums. Southern grown mums are sell- 

 ing very cheap, with sales slow; the 

 home grown stock, large blooms, brings 

 from $2 to $3 per dozen, and the sales 

 on them are reported as slow. Yellow 

 mums had the call last week, and not 

 enough in the market to supply the de- 

 mand. 



In roses Beauties are very fine, and 

 some extra long stemmed ones came to 

 this market the past week, which sold 

 at $3 per dozen, and from that down to 



00 cents, with more than enough to sup- 

 ply the demand. Brides, Maids, Me- 

 teors, Perles and other roses are fine, 

 but the demand is slow, and they can 

 be bought at low prices; $10 in 1,000 

 lots and $2 and $3 in smaller lots. 



Carnations are not so plentiful as 

 roses, and the demand is better. Our 

 shippers are now sending in some very 

 fine blooms of all kinds, for which they 

 obtain a fair price; $2 for first grades 

 and from $1.50 to $1 per 100 for sec- 

 onds. Henry Aue's new white, St. Louis, 

 brings $2.50 and is the best white in the 

 market. The other growers are sending 

 in good Scotts, Daybreaks and Flora 

 Hills. 



Violets are in fair demand, and quite 

 a lot of them are coming up from the 

 south. The home grown bring 35 cents, 

 while the southern are selling at 20 and 

 10 cents per 100. 



Some good valley is needed in this 

 market, and some good valley growers 

 would do well to make shipments to this 

 city, as the demand has been good for 

 these flowers the past week. 



In spite of the dull business last week 

 the wholesale men look pleasant and feel 

 sure that trade will be better soon. 

 World's Fair Notes. 

 A few thousand men are now steadily 

 at work in Forest Park clearing away 

 the underbrush and fine large trees on 

 the World's Fair site. By the end of 

 this week ground will be broken and 

 grading commenced on a large scale. Di- 

 rector of Works Taylor says that every- 

 thing is now in shape to begin active op- 

 erations on the grounds. The Agricul- 

 tural and Horticultural buildings will 

 be combined and will be the largest build- 

 ing of the exposition. The building 

 will be partly on the Tesson estate, which 

 belongs to Mrs. Tesson, mother of E. F. 

 Tesson, the well-known florist of our 

 city, whose large plant is on the prop- 

 erty. 



Visitors in Town. 

 Arnold Eingier, representing W. W. 

 Barnard & Co., Chicago, is in town look- 

 ing after his firm's interests. Arnold 

 looks well and his trip to Europe did him 

 lots of good. 



Henry Johann, of CoUinsville, 111., was 

 in town Saturday buying supplies. Mr. 

 Johann is sending some fine carnations 

 to this market. 



Mr. August Schuerman, of the Schuer- 

 man Floral Co., was hard at work all of 

 last week decorating the large coliseum 

 in the exposition bulding for the horse 

 show, which opens tonight (Monday). 

 Mr. Schuerman says the decorations are 

 finer this year than ever before, owing 

 to the fact that double the amount, or 

 nearly $2,000, was appropriated this year 

 for decorations. 



We saw in the last issue of the Review 

 a splendid picture of our friend Ed Win- 

 terson. It was an excellent move on 

 the part of the Chicago club to elect 

 him its president. He will, no doubt, 

 make bowlers out of the whole club, in- 

 cluding Edgar Sanders. The St. Louis 

 boys unite with me in congratulating 

 Mr. Winterson and the Chicago club. 

 Bowling. 

 The florists ran up against the real 

 thing Monday night and lost three 

 games to the strong Imperials. The 

 boys seemed to be all out of form. 

 They now have a lay off for ten days 

 before the next match game with the 



