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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JANl'ARY 11, 1900. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Trade Conditions. 



Business ttie past week has been 

 very quiet and the prices on stock con- 

 siderably lower. Receipts of flowers 

 of all kinds have been heavy. The 

 weather has been fine and warm, and 

 should it keep up, all kinds of flowers 

 will be a glut and prices low. 



The commission men are complain- 

 ing of having too much stuff left 

 over and that even the usual shipping 

 trade was lost sight of the past week. 

 The roses that are coming in now are 

 much better than those for the holi- 

 days, and no doubt will be from now 

 on. First choice Meteors, Brides, and 

 Maids are sold at $5 and $S; seconds, 

 $3 and ?4. Beauties are coming better 

 and quite a good shipment of them 

 came in, and some of them went to 

 waste; the choice ones sold well and 

 at fair prices. 



Carnations are very plentiful and 

 are selling slowly and at very low 

 prices. Good long fancy Jubilee, 

 Scott, Daybreak, and Flora Hill bring 

 $3; others sell all the way from $1 to 

 ?2 and $8 in 1,000 lots. Violets have 

 been picked very closely the past week 

 and consequently the supply was a lit- 

 tle short; still, enough came in to 

 supply the demand; ?1 per 100 for Cal- 

 ifornias; small singles are down to 25 

 cents. A few Harrisii are in and bring 

 |15. Callas, $10, and plenty of them. 

 Smilax and asparagus are plentiful, 

 but the demand light. 



Notes. 



Richard Frow, the Natural Bridge 

 Road florist, met with a very serious 

 accident a few weeks ago. He was 

 thrown from a street car. Dick, as 

 he is called by his friends, is getting 

 along nicely, but it will take a week 

 or two before he will be out. 



Visitors in town the past week were: 

 Mrs. W. J. Vesey, Fort Wayne, Ind., 

 and Arnold Ringier, of Chicago, who 

 passed through here on a flying trip 

 to Little Rock, Ark. Mr. E. W. Guy, 

 of Belleville, also spent a day with us. 



Frank Buckshadt. formerly in busi- 

 ness here, is now with Ellison & Tes- 

 son at their West End store. 



Joe North, at 915 Olive street, re- 

 ports plenty of funeral work, but other 

 orders are slow. Holiday trade good; 

 better than ever before. 



Charlie Kuehn, who a few weeks 

 ago had the misfortune to drop one of 

 the largest bowling balls on his foot, 

 has recovered and will be able to 

 bowl again on Monday night. He says 

 he will leave his crutches at home. 



Chas. Schoenle, on Washington ave- 

 nue, had several large decorations the 

 past week and a few more in sight 

 for this month. Orders for other kind 

 of work slow. Holiday business was 

 the best in years. 



Mrs. Pepper, on Easton avenue, and 

 Grimm & Gorly. on Cass avenue, also 

 report good business for the holidays, 

 but since that time the trade has been 

 rather slow. 



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Chrysanthemiiiii "Little Chris 



Kloomed hHIi us cotitlniiuusly 

 Irniti Marih iiiiin January. 



PInnt duurt, Houers small, 

 whlU'. 



Valuable as a pot plant, Tor 

 funeral work or cut sprays. 



Sold well at Easter and Deco- 

 ration Day. 



Cut back plants, with young 

 growth from bottom, from 

 4 and 5-iach pots. 25c and 

 35c each ; four and three 

 for $1.00. Plants from 2- 

 iiicli pots later. 



W.T. BELL & SONS 



FRANKLIN, PA. 



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The St. Louis Florists' Bowling Club 

 started the New Year by rolling three 

 games on Monday night. C. C. San- 

 ders made the first strike, Carl Beyer 

 the first spare, and Frank Fillmore the 

 first poodle. The rolling was not as 

 good as it should have been, but as 

 we intend to roll every Monday night 

 from now on, an improvement may be 

 looked for. The scores were as fol- 

 lows. 



1st. 2cl. 3(3. To. Av. 



C. A. Kuehn 19S 166 142 506 160 



J, W. Kunz 145 156 145 446 149 



C. Bever 115 169 131 415 13S 



F. C. Webfer 141 128 142 411 137 



J. J. Beneke 12S 135 14S 411 137 



C. C. Sanders 130 114 160 404 1.35 



Emil Schrav 125 129 119 :)73 124 



John Young: HO 134 244 122 



F. J. Fillmore 96 107 106 309 103 



J. J. B. 



BOSTON. 



The situation here is not worth talk- 

 ing about. Trade surely never was so 

 quiet at this time of year, consequent- 

 ly all our predictions for a good win- 

 ter are flat so far. There is no such 

 thing as a market price for anything 

 this morning (Jan. 8), and hardly has 

 been for a week. The difficulty is not 

 so much an oversupply as an under- 

 demand. 



The snow storm of my last chap- 

 ter proved a dainty affair of six or 

 eight inches, which has largely been 

 removed by sunny weather since. 



Minor changes in the retail estab- 

 lishments of the city are in vogue. 

 Mr. Phon, on Boylston street, closing 

 his doors; the Calder Floral Co. 

 moving a few numbers on the same 

 street; and Mrs. Rogers giving up her 

 old stand under the Adams House. 

 on Washington street, and looking for 

 a new location elsewhere. 



Better keep your eye on A. Roper's 

 new carnation, built on improved Day- 

 break lines. B. T. 



IF YOU HAVE any surplus stock 

 offer it in the Classified Plant Advs. in 

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