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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



prices on stock: American Beauties, $4 

 to $25 per 100; Brides and Maids, $2 to 

 $4; Meteors. $2 to $5; carnations, 

 fancy, $1.50 to $2.50 per 100; ordinary, 

 $1 to $1.50; chrysanthemums, $4 to $20 

 per 100; valley, 4 cents; violets, 25 to 

 ;."> cents per 100; smilax, adiantum, as- 

 jiaragus and ferns at regular prices. 



Various Notes. 



For last Saturday the llorists in the 

 .Jabez Elliott market report the best 

 business since last Easter. Large quan- 

 tities of mums were sold and at fair 

 prices. 



One chrysanthemum was before the 

 committee Saturday. It was a ]&rge- 

 sized bronze, incurved variety, exhibited 

 by Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich. 

 Stem and foliage fair. Loosely built 

 flower, globular in shape. Good for ex- 

 hibition purposes only; cut October 25; 

 named Importation. 



November 9 is the date of the chrys- 

 anthemum show of the Cincinnati Flor- 

 ists' Society. Everything points to a 

 first-class meeting. 



Mr. W. A. Procter brought in some 

 Prosperity, the famous carnation, and 

 from the looks of it it deserves all the 

 praise it gets. With stems 24 inches, 

 strong and straight, and a 3-inch flower, 

 it looked fine. It was almost pure white 

 in color, just a faint showing of pink in 

 the center. This is doubtless due to the 

 hot sunshine. W. Jackson is the grower 

 of these blooms and their excellence 

 speaks well for the grower. 



The greenhouses of the Hoflfmeister 

 Floral Company were burglarized last 

 Thursday night and about 300 chrysan- 

 themum blooms were taken. 



Mr. Sidney Murphy and Miss Tuifort 

 were married last Wednesday at the 

 home of the bride at College Hill. 



M H Benzinger has bought out and 

 is running the Robert T>. Euttle green- 

 houses in Covington, Ky. 



C. J. 



ST. LOUIS. 



AUTUMN'S FLORAL TROPHIES. 



The tulip blooms In springtime. 



That brings chrysanthemums— 

 The nuffy-headed beauties 



That on their long stalks sway, 

 And velvet-like their petals 



In which the colors play. 



Brown, purple, pink, and yellow, 



Red, white, and loyal blue. 

 In every shade of color 



And every tint and hue. 

 They stand in floral splendor. 



All rivals far above. 

 For on them has been lavished 



The wealth of Nature's love. 



They lack the dew that glistens 

 "When morning sunshme glows; 



But whether massed or singly 

 They gleam In glory rare, 



The floral queens of beauty 



And proudly 



Before admiring throngs 

 As though they knew that tri 



Of praise to them belongs. 

 And there are exclamations 



Arrayed In colors bright. 



The tulips and the roses 



Are but a memory now; 

 We hail a later beauty. 



And at her shrine we bow. 

 For when all other flowers 



To age and cold succumb. 

 We joyfully are greeting 



The grand chrysanthemum. 



Pittsburgh Chr 



Newport, R. I. — Samuel Peck, for 

 many years gardener at Marietta villa, 

 died suddenly of heart disease Oct. 20. 



TheMarkeU 



Business did not improve any last 

 week; in fact it was dull, very dull. 

 The market was glutted with all kinds 

 of cut llowers, especially roses and 

 chrysanthemums. More beautiful 



weather than we have had the past 

 week would be difficult to imagine, and 

 this, of course, made trade dull and 

 caused the glut. Placards announcing 

 "Roses, 20 cents per doz." were numer- 

 ous the past week in the downtown store 

 windows. The fakirs were selling them 

 on the street corners at 10 cents per 

 dozen. 



Good first class roses, including short 

 American Beauties, were selling at the 

 wholesale houses at $5 per 1,000 and 

 were even hard to dispose of at that 

 price, many of them going to the waste 

 pile. The stock of roses that is coming 

 in now is very fine. Should the weather 

 turn cold and cloudy this week we will 

 have a different story to tell in the next 

 issue. 



Carnations are not so plentiful but 

 enough of them are coming in for the 

 demand. The price remains the same 

 as last week; the quality of the stock 

 is good, and the demand fair. 



In chrysanthemums the quality is 

 fine and plentv of them are now in the 

 market. The "best sellers the past week 

 were Robinson, Ivory, pink and white. 

 Some very fine Bonnaffon and Sunder- 

 bruch came in the past week, which 

 brought $3 per dozen for the best ; other 

 varieties being from $1 to $2 per dozen. 

 This week we expect to see some fine 

 Jerome Jones and Morels in the market. 

 Valley had very little call last week 

 and quite a lot of it went to waste, 

 from .$2 to $4 is the selling price. Vio- 

 lets have also felt the effect of the dull 

 market and from the looks of things 

 nobody in the trade was happy the past 

 week, except the street fakir. 

 Visitors. 

 Mr. S. S. Skidelsky of Philadelphia, 

 got in Saturday and is talking Nelson 

 carnations to the trade. Mr. S. re- 

 ports that never before did he sell so 

 many carnation plants as he has of the 

 Nelson. 



Mrs. M. S. Vesey, of Fort Wayne, 

 Ind., spent a few days with the trade 

 last week. Mrs. Vesey reports that she 

 will, as usual, make a large exhibit at 

 our annual show next week. 



Mr. C. W. Scott of Chicago, who spent 

 a week with the trade in this city, left 

 for home Saturday night. 



The Show. 



The prospects for the coming chrys- 

 anthemum show, which will open next 

 Wednesday morning, are very flatter- 

 ing. According to the rules everything 

 must be in place by 9 a. m. Wednesday, 

 November 13. Chairman Meinhardt says 

 that the hall will be open all day Tues- 

 day and that the exhibitors can have 

 all day to place their exhibits. The 

 management hopes for plenty of help 

 from the members of the club on Tues- 

 day so that everything will be in read- 

 iness for the opening on Wednesday 

 morning. 



Mr. George Schmidt of Edwardsville, 

 ni., who is well known among the trade 

 in St. Louis — better known as "Brother" 

 Schmidt — will be married next Tuesday, 

 Nov. 12, to Miss Lena Bayer. 



Bowling. 



The league team will not bowl again 

 until Thursday night, when they meet tho 

 strong Exchange team. The boys ex- 

 pect to be in better trim than they wero 

 last Monday and no doubt "will make a 

 better showing. The averages for the 

 last fifteen games are as follows: 



High 



N. G. B. E. Total. Ave. score. 



J. J. Beneke.... 15 12 20 2G50 178 231 



A. Y. Ellison... 15 18 19 2545 170 218 



C. A. Kuehn.... 15 14 42 2383 159 191 



John Sturtz 15 15 40 2306 154 184 



Will Adels 9 12 21 1386 154 182 



John Kunz 6 6 21 887 148 184 



The St. Louis Florists' Bowling Club 

 held a meeting at the Court House 

 bowling alley. President Kunz stated 

 that money "was needed and an assess- 

 ment of $1 was called for from each 

 member, payable by next Monday night. 

 After the meeting the members formed 

 two teams and rolled three games. The 

 rolling of Beneke, Sturtz, Ellison, Kuehn 

 and Kunz was good. Mr. S. S. Skidelsky 

 was present and helped to fill out one of 

 the teams. The scores of the evening 

 were as follows: 



League Team. .12 3 Total. Av. 



J. J. Beneke 215 193 171 679 ISS 



C. A. Kuehn 139 151 166 456 162 



John Kunz 208 135 142 485 161, 



J. Sturtz 189 173 178 540 180 



A. T. Ellison 166 166 188 620 17S 



917 818 845 2580 



Florists' Club. 1 2 3 Total. Av. 



C. C. Sanders 179 148 112 439 146 



F. M. Ellis 110 104 154 368 122 



John Toung 140 130 135 405 135 



Theo Miller 99 120 96 ■315 105 



S. S. Skidelsky 66 106 116 288 9S 



The Market. 



Last Sunday our warm fall weather 

 departed suddenly and we have been hav- 

 ing a taste of real winter. As a result 

 the heavy supply of roses has short- 

 ened up some, but there is still an abund- 

 ance for all demands. Roses are still $4 

 for the best. There is a lot of poor 

 stock in the market, and all sorts of 

 prices prevail, ranging down to as low 

 as 50 cents a hundred. There is a very 

 good shipping demand lor the best 

 grades and fancy Kaiserin, Carnot, etc., 

 reach up as high as $8. The best Lib- 

 erties bring $1.50 to $2 a dozen, and 

 from that range down to $3 and $4 a 

 hundred for the poorer qualities. Beau- 

 ties hold the same old range right along. 

 Good carnations keep at $1.50, with 

 fancy Lawsons, Bradts, etc., at $2 to $3, 

 and Peter Reinberg reports sales of 

 fancy Prosperity at $6 to $8. There 

 is still a lot of poor stock and we hear 

 of clean-up sales at as low as 40 cents 

 a hundred. 



Chrysanthemum prices are decidedly 

 below those of last year on the average, 

 probably about 20 per cent lower. Only 

 a few of the very fanciest will now bring 

 $3 a dozen and really fancy stock can 

 be had for $2, with excellent ones at 

 $1.50, very good blooms at $1, $5 and $6 

 per 100 for fair grade, and then come 

 quotations by the armful. 



We noted at one dealer's a lot of Bon- 

 naffons that would have graded near the 

 top but for damage to a few of the petals 

 in each bloom, that looked as though it 

 might have been the effect of frost or 

 damp. At a short distance they seemed 

 perfect, but on inspection by buyers 

 were rejected. But for this injury they 

 would have moved readily at $2 to $2.50, 



