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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



DECEMP.KR 14. 1S99. 



than receive," but by far the greatest 

 number of our nominal Christians are 

 less removed from the hog. 



David, the Son of William. 



David J., the fifth son of William 

 Scott, has left home to worlv for Mr. 

 Robert Craig & Son, of Philadelphia. 

 We feel sure he will work hard, but we 

 are not so sure that he will awake in 

 time. "Read, mark, learn and inward- 

 ly digest." Some of us wish we had 

 made better use of our time when 

 young. Then we could have easier 

 times now. W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Business Conditions. 



So far this month the business with 

 retail florists has been satisfactory, 

 and w'ith the holidays close at hand, 

 we will have nothing to complain of. 

 Nearly all the florists are busy mak- 

 ing wreathing, wreaths, bells, stars, 

 and other holiday goods. 



The store fronts are beginning to 

 look Christmassy. A few of our large 

 department stores are this year 

 handling greens of all kinds. Union 

 Market is full of it, and by next week 

 the street fakir will be selling wreaths 

 and wreathing in place of flowers. 



Most of the growers seem to think 

 tliat they will have a large crop for 

 Christmas; of course much depends on 

 the weather. We sincerely hope the 

 growers will not think of pickling 

 their roses this year, as no doubt 

 they have learned better by this time. 

 It is different with carnations, vio- 

 lets and other flowers, which can be 

 kept back with perfect safety. 



Shipping trade was not up to the 

 average the past week. Quite a lot 

 of Christmas orders have been placed; 

 still, many of the retailers are hold- 

 ing off until they know something of 

 the prices likely to prevail. It is not 

 expected that very high prices will 

 rule, but no doubt they will advance 

 some-what the first part of the week. 

 Beauties are still scarce, and first 

 quality brings $4 per dozen. Some 

 extra fine Meteors sold as high as $5 

 to $7 per 100; Bridesmaids are rather 

 poor color and not good sellers; 

 Brides and Perles are in good de- 

 mand and the average price for these 

 is $5 per lOO. Violets are still scarce 

 and are kept at $1 tor Calif ornias; 

 small singles, .50 cents. In bulb stock, 

 good valley holds up to $1 and there 

 is quite a lot of it sold at $3. Romans 

 continue plenty and the supply is much 

 greater than the demand. The same 

 may be said of paper whites. Aspara- 

 gus seems to sell better than smilax 

 this season. 



Notes. 



Ellison & Tesson are making a fine 

 display at 625 Olive street of holiday 

 goods. Their front is very tastefully 

 decorated. 



Mr. Alex. Siegel, who recently open- 



ed a store at 720 Olive street, says the 

 location is good and that business is 

 better than ever before with him. 



Connon Floral Co., at Webster 

 Grove, are cutting some very fine 

 Beauties and other cut flowers. This 

 is their first year growing for the mar- 

 ket. 



The bowling club will do but lit- 

 tle, if any, bowling before the holi- 

 days, but after the busy time is over 

 we shall begin in earnest and perfect 

 ourselves for the gi'eat New York 

 contest, which, no doubt, will be the 

 grandest in the history of the S. A. F. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club rolled four games 

 on Monday night with six members 

 present, and some good scores were 

 made, Kunz being high man on the 

 night and Sanders high on single 

 score. The scores made were as fol- 

 lows: 



12 3 4 Tot. Av. 



.T. W. Kunz 162 161 139 175 637 159 



C. C. Sander.s 132 143 1S2 158 615 154 



Carl Beyer 149 125 133 170 677 144 



C. A. Kuehn 142 135 136 162 5^5 144 



Bmil Schray 131 101 131 153 516 129 



.I.ihn Young IM 123 134 131 4SS 122 



J. J. B. 



day morning of this week, destroyed 

 their chance to make a dollar for a 

 day or two at least, but as this hap- 

 pened too recently for me to know the 

 particulars we can only hope the dam- 

 age is no more. ; 



Our immaculate climatic conditions 

 still continue, each attempt at a storm 

 clearing away warmer and warmer. 

 Grass is green and flourishing and ex- 

 cept for the lack of flowers and leaves 

 on the trees one might think an ad- 

 vanced state of spring w-ere in vogue. 

 Those who remember former years ex- 

 pect a change some time between now 

 and April 1st. By the way. if we get 

 a cold snap before Christmas we shall 

 have a famine in flowers at that date, 

 perhaps. B. T. 



BOSTON. 



Some epigrammatist (not necessar- 

 ily in the profession) has said that 

 the presidential administration that 

 takes up the least room historically is 

 the best one. If that same rule works 

 upon the weekly record of floral Bos- 

 ton, last week was surely a good one 

 because one sentence very neatly tells 

 the whole story. 



The week started off with everything 

 scarce and high and flnished up in the 

 same shape, with the exception of car- 

 nations, which had forgotten to keep 

 shy and began to tumble in more plen- 

 tifully, so that the figure upon them 

 was crowded down. They have been 

 selling at from 1% to 3 cents for the 

 ordinary kinds and naturally a little 

 more for fancy l)reeds, while the peer- 

 less Lawson still retains its exclusive- 

 ness to a great extent, but I have seen 

 a few that did not come from the main 

 camp at Ellis, and they were whole- 

 saling at 8 to 10 cents each. There 

 has been a fair supply of other mate- 

 rial, too, and since the demand has 

 been so good it may be supposed wo 

 have got our winter form on and that 

 trade will continue on present lines 

 until after Easter at least. Kindly hope 

 so for us. 



News also scarce and coming high. 

 But E. M. Wood, with his well known 

 adaptability for keeping up with the 

 times, has laid at least the mental sills 

 for two rose houses, each seven hun- 

 dred feet long. One of them is intend- 

 ed to shelter the American Beauty and 

 the other shields the Liberty, so their 

 loyalty to the national colors cannot 

 be questioned. Ground is broken for 

 them and the job will lie handled with 

 accuracy and dispatch. 



A Are in the building containing the 

 Calder Co."s establishment, on Mon- 



PITTSBURG. 



Cut flower trade is good. Retailers 

 are all busy. Prices are good; stock 

 scarce, not enough to go around. Con- 

 siderable funeral work has been made 

 up lately. T. M. Ulam had several 

 large pieces, among them an express 

 car very tastily made up. 



A few chrysanthemums are still to 

 be had at a good price for fair flowers. 



A. W. Smith is well pleased with his 

 new location and roomy store. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Company 

 moved to a larger store room. No. 504 

 Liberty St., a central location, where 

 they will be more able to handle their 

 fast increasing trade. A full line of 

 florists' supplies are on hand now, 

 which is a convenience to their cus- 

 tomers. 



F. Burki, Bellevue. has been cutting 

 Harrisii for over a month. He reports 

 them comparatively free from disease 

 this year. He will have freesias be- 

 fore Christmas. Other growers will 

 have Harrisii to cut from now on. 



Stock of Ethel Crocker has been al- 

 ready received from E. G. Hill. This 

 new carnation and The Marquis have 

 been quite largely ordered by Pitts- 

 burg carnation growers. 



Asparagus plumosus and Sprengeri 

 seem to be quite plentiful here. The 

 Pittsburg Cut Flower Company are 

 handling a great deal of both. 



Murdock's Fifth avenue window is 

 always verv tastefully arranged. 



BEAR. 



EMPLOYEES. 



"Encourage your employees to study 

 and thoroughly master the details of 

 their work. It will make them more 

 valuable employees as well as better 

 men." This has been the advice of 

 all thinking employers. 



Now is a good time to act upon this 

 advice. Present your employee with 

 a copy of the Florists' Manual, by 

 William Scott. It is not only a hand- 

 some volume that makes an attractive 

 gift, but it contains the sort of mat- 

 ter that will make your employees 

 better workmen. You will benefit 

 yourself as well as showing your em- 

 ployee that you regard him as some- 

 thing more than a mere machine. 



