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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



DECEMBER 7. 1S99. 



Beauties took the lead for Thanks- 

 giving day sales. This rose is always 

 in demand nowadays for all occasions. 

 Meteors are beginning to show that ob- 

 jectionable blue black color that makes 

 most ot this stock unsalable. Brides- 

 maids, too, are sadly oft color and 

 could hardly be used for pink roses. 

 Brides and Perles are somewhat im- 

 proved in quality. 



Carnations are very stiff now, fancy 

 stock brings $5, and $2 is the price for 

 fair common. Bulb stock is in fine 

 condition and is selling at the regular 

 price for this time of the year. Ro- 

 mans, vailev and paper whites all are 

 in good demand. Violets remain away 

 ur and Calitornias bring top prices and 

 the demand is in excess of supply. 

 Stevia sells in large bunches and has 

 a fair demand. 



Thanksgiving day trade was up to 

 the usual standard; the market was 

 well supplied with all kinds of flowers 

 and the demand great. Out in the West 

 End the florists claim that they were 

 busy all day Wednesday and half the 

 day Thursday. Take it all in all, the 

 day was about the same as last year, 

 only that stock was not so scarce last 

 year. Quite a few shipping orders had 

 to be turned down, owing to home or- 

 ders that were in ahead. The commis- 

 sion men have nothing to complain of 

 as they sold out clean early in the day 

 and at good, round figures. They have 

 one more day left this year to get a 

 whack at the poor retailers, and that 

 is Christmas. 



Notes. 



The exhibition committee wishes to 

 thank Mr. .Tames Gurney, Prof. Wm. 

 Trelease and Phil Gable for their val- 

 uable assistance at our late show. 

 Their beds of crotons and the new 

 ageratum Stella Gurney were very 

 pleasing to the eye of every florist, lo- 

 cal as well as the visitors. 



Max Herzog. out at Gratiot Station, 

 has all his houses looking in tip-top 

 shape and is cutting a lot of fine roses 

 and carnations every day, which have 

 first choice among the retailers. 



Charlie Wors, at one time one of our 

 leading commission men, is now selling 

 flowers on the street corners. 



J. W. Kunz. who, a few weeks ago, 

 opened a retail store at 504 Olive 

 street, is doing well and reports that 

 his business for Thanksgiving was 

 fine. 



Fred Foster, at Eighth and Olive 

 streets, has gone in the fruit business 

 in connection with his flower store and 

 makes a very pretty show in his two 

 large show windows. 



Misses llaug and Rudloft, florists, 

 about a year ago leased the green- 

 houses ot Mr. Klockenkemper, They 

 put the place in first class shape and 

 were cutting lots of fine carnations and 

 roses. Now Mr. Klockenkemper takes 

 the place from them on a snap judg- 

 ment. The boys here feel very bad 

 over the matter. 



Next Thursday, the 14th. the regu- 

 lar monthly meeting of the club will 

 be held and the members should not 

 fail to he present to hear the report 



of the exhibition committee and the 

 two essays. Also other important 

 matters which require the presence of 

 every member. 



Visitors in town: Mr. J. W. Canaga, 

 Shelbyville, 111. Mr. Canaga ate 

 Thanksgiving dinner in St. Louis with 

 his parents, who live here. 



Miss Nellie Croy, formerly with FVey 

 & Frey, Lincoln, Neb., is in the city. 



Bowling. 



The bowling match between the Ju- 

 niors and St. Louis Florists' Bowling 

 Club came off Monday night and re- 

 sulted in a clean victory for the older 

 club. The Juniors did well, consider- 

 ing that they are not quite six months 

 old. The older club did not roll with 

 all their best men. such as Beyer, San- 

 ders and Schray. After the match Mr. 

 Ellison said that the Juniors would be 

 ready for another match in February 

 for a prize to cost not less than $25. 



The match was rolled under the 

 rules of the National Florists' Bowling 

 Association. Beneke Was high man 

 for his side and Adels was high for the 

 Junior.s. The highest single score was 

 made by Beneke; F. C. Weber, sec- 

 ond. Adels also was high on single 

 score for his side. J. W. Kunz and A. 

 Y. Ellison were captains for their re- 

 spective sides. Everything was pleas- 

 ant and we had a good time. The 

 scores were as follows; 



FI^ORISTS' BOWLrNG CL,UB. 



12 3 Tot. Av. 



.1. J. Beneke 163 134 171 468 156 



C. A. Kuehn 153 W7 140 445 14S 



F. C. Weber 128 165 138 431 144 



.1. W. Kunz 14S 110 146 404 I3r. 



John Young 107 12S 127 362 121 



F. .T. Fillmore 112 111 92 315 105 



.TUNIOR FLORISTS' BOWLING CLUB. 



12 3 Tot. Av. 



William .\dels 153 132 133 418 126 



George Augermuller 133 113 114 360 120 



A. Y. Ellison 100 132 120 352 117 



James Luper 70 116 116 302 101 



Wm. Holtz 107 94 97 298 99 



F. H. Weber 88 91 97 276 92 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The scarcity of flowers continues and 

 prices are holding up generally . to 

 Thanksgiving rates. In white roses 

 the demand is not quite so brisk and 

 prices are not quite so stiff as on col- 

 ored sorts. In carnations the whites 

 seem to be in even better demand than 

 the colored ones. But there is ready 

 sale at good figures for everything. 



Chrysanthemums are practically 

 done for the season. While prices on 

 mums have at no time been extrava- 

 gantly high the average returns have 

 been very satisfactory and there have 

 been no gluts at any time. 



Violets dragged some last Thursday 

 and it looked as though some losses 

 would be made, hut demand braced up 

 on Friday and Saturday and took care 

 ot all in good shape. 



The great scarcity on Tuesday pre- 

 ceding Thanksgiving was eased some- 

 what by increased receipts on Wednes- 

 day, quite a number of growers hav- 

 ing made the same old mistake of hold- 



ing back till too late to catch the ship- 

 ping trade. As a result the city buyer 

 who held off till the last moment had 

 a little the best of it. 



All the commission men agree that 

 it is a bad mistake on the part ot the 

 grower to hold back stock at a holi- 

 day, and we notice that the growers 

 who have their own city salesrooms do 

 not do it. Experience has taught them 

 better. The man who gets his supply 

 in as regularly and evenly as possible 

 is the one who gets the best average 

 returns. 



Both ■wholesalers and local retailers 

 agree that the Thanksgiving day trade 

 was the best ever experienced. And a 

 very pleasant feature to the whole- 

 saler was the small number of com- 

 plaints from outside buyers. Stock 

 seems to have carried well. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. report that their 

 November business surprised them by 

 exceeding their December business of 

 last year. 



Club Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 last Friday evening there was an in- 

 teresting discussion on the benefits of 

 flower shows. It was opened by Mr. 

 Edgar Sanders in a short paper which 

 will appear in next week's issue. 

 Though the debate was entirely in fa- 

 vor of flower shows some very useful 

 points were brought out, not the least 

 of which was that should the shows be 

 discontinued in this city there would 

 undoubtedly be a glut and low prices 

 at the time instead of the brisk de- 

 mand and fancy figures that now pre- 

 vail during flower show week. 



Various Items. 



In a general way the majority feel 

 encouraged over the outlook for a good 

 holiday supply of flowers, but there 

 are some w-ho are doubtful and say 

 that the time is now so short that only 

 unusually favorable weather will bring 

 the crops along fast enough. 



Christmas greens and other goods 

 are moving freely. The supply of 

 green has swelled up remarkably of 

 late and there will surely be enough 

 for all. 



Bassett & Washburn report the larg- 

 est Thanksgiving trade in their experi- 

 ence and rejoice over the fact that not 

 a single complaint came from their 

 customers. 



Mr. Smith, of Smith & Fetters. 

 Cleveland, O.. was a visitor this week. 



McKellar & Winterson are display- 

 ing a fine stock of Cape flowers, im- 

 mortelles and other seasonable goods. 



Robert Kennicott Reilly. a nephew 

 of Flint Kennicott. died Nov. 24. 

 Though practicing law in this city he 

 was the Co. of R. E. Kennicott & Co., 

 of Carbondale. 



DIXON. ILL. 



Mrs. O. L. Baird died in Chicago 

 Nov. 23. She had been a great suf- 

 ferer for seven years. She left two 

 children, aged 6 and 10 years. , 



The remains were brought home to 

 this city for burial. 



