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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



DECEMBER 21, 1S99. 



carnations to send a few of their new 

 ones for inspection. 



President Ammann made a few re- 

 marlis, saying ttiat lie lioped in tlie 

 new year tile members would attend 

 the meetings oftener, which would 

 make the meetings more pleasant. The 

 city members, at least, should attend; 

 the members from Kirkwood, Belle- 

 ville and other suburban towns attend 

 more regularly than they do. 



This closed the last meeting of the 

 year of 1S99. The first meeting in the 

 new year will be held on Thursday 

 afternoon, January 11, at 3 o'clock. 

 Every florist in St. Louis and suburbs, 

 whether member or not. is invited. 

 The attraction will be our annual car- 

 nation exhibition and two essays on 

 carnation growing by prominent mem- 

 bers of the club. 



The Market. 



The market is uncertain and will be 

 all this week. Among the florists, the 

 wholesalers were not overloaded, but 

 had plenty for all demands, showing 

 that stock was not scarce; even some 

 roses and carnations went to the dump 

 pile. 



Beauties, first selection, were the 

 only roses that held up in price, sell- 

 ing from $3 to ?6 per dozen; Brides, 

 Meteors and Maids selling at $6 and $s 

 per 100 for first choice; Perles and 

 Woottons, $4 and $5, and from that 

 down to $3 for seconds. Carnations 

 are not so strong as they were. Good 

 stock can be had for $1 per 100; ?2 and 

 $2.50 Is the price for fancy stock. No 

 longiflorum in the market. A few 

 callas are coming in and sell at ?10. 

 Romans and paper whites are surely a. 

 glut and the best of stock is sold at 

 $2 and $10 in 1,000 lots. Valley is also 

 selling slowly. Violets are very scarce 

 and Calitornias bring $1 and $1.50 for 

 the best. Among the plants offered 

 for Christmas are cyclamen, azaleas, 

 poinsettias and begonias. They are in 

 the market now and in fine condition. 



Sales on holiday greens are more 

 than satisfactory and holiday goods of 

 all kinds are in great demand. Some 

 of the down-town florists claim that 

 the demand so far is better than last 

 year, and the business houses seem to 

 be decorating their fronts more this 

 year than ever before. With the West 

 Knd florists the sale for greens and 

 holly will not begin until this week, 

 and with lots of orders booked, the 

 outlook for a great Christmas trade is 

 very bright. 



A Euchre Partv. 



A very pleasant euchre party was 

 given On last Saturday night, Decem- 

 ber 16, by Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Weber 

 at their home, 4326 Olive street, to a 

 few of their friends in the trade. At 

 8:30 p. ni. five tables were filled with 

 players, and the play continued until 

 10:30 p. ni., when the winners were 

 announced. They proved to be Miss 

 Meinhardt, who won first ladles' prize; 

 Mrs. Kunz. second, and Mrs. Mein- 

 hardt, third. .Tohn Young' won the first 

 gentlemen's prize and Carl Beyer the 

 second. Mr. C. C. Sanders had the 

 good luck to win the booby prize, 



which caused much laughter. After 

 the distribution of the prizes we all sat 

 down to an elegant lunch. Among 

 those present were: Mr. and Mrs. 

 Fred Meinhardt and sister, Mr. and 

 Mrs. John Young, Mr. and Mrs. Carl 

 Beyer, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kunz, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kuehn, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Frank Fillmore, Mr. and Mrs. J. 

 J. Beneke. C. S. Sanders, Fred Weber, 

 Jr., F. H. Weber, and Herman Weber. 

 At 11 o'clock all went home and ex- 

 pressed themselves as having had a 

 good time. 



xVotes. 



Mr. John M. Hudson is again in the 

 business, at 615 Locust street, dealing 

 in all kinds of Christmas greens. You 

 can't lose him. 



C. Young & Sons Co. make a very 

 fine Christmas display in their large 

 show windows, using red lights, which 

 makes them look very attractive. Will 

 C. Young is now at the down-town 

 establishment and Harry and Jim are 

 running the greenhouses. 



Fred C. Weber, Charlie Connon. 

 Mrs. Ayers and other West End florists 

 make fine Christmas displays in their 

 stores and show houses. Most of them 

 use red lights, which show off the 

 goods to good advantage. 



J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



Christmas Notes. 



The weather continues to be very 

 mild and the prospects are there will 

 be plenty of stock this Christmas. 

 Prices promise to be very moderate 

 and everyone expects a good rush of 

 trade. Just now flowering plants rule 

 supreme; every store window is filled 

 with them, resplendent in high colored 

 baskets and ribbons. All are busy pre- 

 paring for the rush. Holly has turned 

 out somewhat better than we expected 

 and there is the usual quantity of all 

 manner of greens. 



It scarcely seems like Christmas. 

 Only for reminders in the way of holly 

 wreaths, mistletoe, piles of firs and 

 slashes of red ribbon, 'twould seem 

 more like the end of October. 



Some very fine samples of made up 

 work (that is, plant baskets) are dis- 

 played. There seems to be more care 

 paid to harmony in arrangement, ana 

 it looks as if it will not be the store- 

 keepers' fault if this Christmas is not 

 a record-breaker as far as sales are 

 concerned. Steps should be taken to 

 prevent the bottom being knocked out 

 of the cut flower market. This can only 

 be done on the basis of reasonable 

 prices, which can only result in bene- 

 fit to all. 



■Variouf Items. 



Perhaps some of our readers will 

 have noticed the amusing notices in 

 the daily papers anent a new carnation 

 on Broadway. You cannot blame any 

 man for advertising his business, but it 

 is to be hoped growers will look at 

 such things in a right light. 



Robert Jenkins. Jr.. who has been 

 secretary of the Westchester County 



Gardeners' Association since that soci- 

 ety was organized, will shortly leave 

 Rye, N. Y., to go into the real estate 

 business in Brooklyn, N. Y. 



At the Metropolitan Club, Tuesday 

 evening, J. W. Withers gave an inter- 

 esting talk on "Strawberries every day 

 in the year." 



The Tarrytown Horticultural Soci- 

 ety will have their first annual dinner 

 in the Vanderbilt building, Tarrytown, 

 December 2Sth. A jolly good time is as- 

 sured. 



The Bowling Club will not meet 

 again until the evening of January 2. 

 The scores tonight were: 



1. 2. 3. 4. 



L. Hafner 109 15S 115 12» 



A. Burns 135 139 141 147 



W. Siebreeht 139 129 151 138 



W. Stewart 102 128 167 123 



T. Lang- 153 162 IIS U7 



A. Shaw 125 97 133 110 



J. Donlan 132 139 144 155 



J. I. D. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



Frosts have made their appearance 

 and have left their mark on outside 

 chrysanthemums. Unless there are 

 heavy frosts the Chinese growers keep 

 bringing in these outside blooms until 

 well on in spring, but the stuff is al- 

 most worthless. Fancy inside blooms 

 are nearly gone. Domoto Bros., the 

 Japanese growers at Fruitvale, who 

 are the largest growers of fancy chr.vs- 

 anthemums for this market, have 

 made their last cut. 



American Beauties are scarce and 

 of poor quality. Prices range from $1 

 to $4 per dozen. Brides and Maids 

 are of better grades, and bring from 50 

 cents to $1 per dozen. Some nice poin- 

 settias are in the market. They come 

 from R. T. Whittlesey, Los Angeles, 

 and bring $7 to .$9 per 100 whole- 

 sale. Bradts, Flora Hills and Gold 

 Nuggets are selling at 35 cents, ana 

 Scotts and Portias at 15, 20, and 25 

 cents a dozen. Some nice pans of Ro- 

 man hyacinths are to be seen and 

 they sell well. Business is good and 

 prices will be better in a week or so. 



E. W. McLellan & Co., the Burlin- 

 game growers, have opened a whole- 

 sale store at 23 Union Square Ave. 

 They close at noon after Dec. C. 



"The Flower Basket," at 117 Grant 

 Ave., is empty once more. Mrs. E. 

 Fredericks, who has made several at- 

 tempts to open a store under the above 

 name, has failed, and the place is now 

 to let. 



James Stevenson had the decoration 

 of the Grand Opera House for the 

 Elks' Carnival Dec. 2, and it was one 

 of the finest ever done in this city. 

 Other years the work was done by the 

 cheaper Italian and Greek florists. 

 This year Mr. Stevenson was selected 

 and did the work so well that the 

 committee gave Mr. S. a vote of thanks 

 for his artistic arrangement. 



The stage, which is 75 feet deep, 

 was set with mountiun and forest 

 scenery and a lifg sized elk was placed 

 near a cliff as if coming down through 

 the valley in the mountains. Every 

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