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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JANl'ARY IS, 1900. 



adiantum, asparagus and smilax is 

 good. 



Notes. 



We have a Scott, a name that is 

 well known and liked — one Robt. W. 

 G. Scott has a new place at Shreve and 

 Anderson avenues, and will grow for 

 the trade only. Mr. Scott attended our 

 carnation meeting and was introduced 

 to the members. All wished him well 

 in his new venture and hoped that 

 he would rise to the equal of his name- 

 sake at Buffalo. Mr. Scott reads only 

 The Review, as he likes that the best. 



Willie Sanders, who has for a long 

 time been with H. G. Berning, is now 

 with Chas. C. Connon, at 4228 Olive 

 street. Willie got his first schooling 

 with Mr. Connon some ten years ago. 



Meeting of the Shaw Garden Trustees. 



The annual meeting of the Board of 

 Trustees of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden was held January 10, 1900. 

 The annual report of the officers of 

 the board shows the financial affairs of 

 the trust to be in first class condition, 

 with an increase of $2,881.13 in the 

 rentals, over those of 1898. A still 

 larger revenue is anticipated during 

 the coming year. 



The application to sell certain resi- 

 dence property was granted the trus- 

 tees by the Supreme Court, on June 

 30, from a tract on Flora avenue and 

 one between Shaw and McKee. The 

 trustees expect to realize at least 

 $1,500,000. Additions amounting to 

 $3,017 have been made to the library, 

 and $4,938.50 to the herbarium. After 

 expending $33,147.90 upon the garden, 

 and paying for repairs, taxes, insur- 

 ance, office expenses, and bequests, a 

 surplus of $15,246.09 has been declared- 

 out of the year's receipts. 



The officers of the board are R. J. 

 Lockland, president; Henry Hitchcock, 

 vice-president; A. D. Cunningham, sec- 

 retary; professor William Trelease, di- 

 rector of the garden. The report of 

 Director Trelease, in charge of the gar- 

 den, shows that the collection of I'ving 

 plants now numbers 9,127. The rec- 

 ord of attendance shows that 54,429 

 persons visited the garden on week 

 days, 7,755 on the open Sunday in 

 June, and 8,837 on the open Sunday in 

 September, making a total of 71,021. 



J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The dark weather during the pa.st 

 week has greatly shortened the supply 

 of roses and prices are considerably 

 stiff er. At date $8 per 100 is not high 

 for good teas, and the best have 

 brought as high as $10. Beauties are 

 as scarce as ever. That "crop" is still 

 "coming." It looks now as though it 

 wouldn't arrive till along toward East- 

 er — certainly not if the present dark 

 weather continues. 



Carnations are in good supply. The 

 medium and extra grades go well, but 

 the poorest move slowly. We hear 



of sales of Choice Cranes, Americas 

 and Red Bradts at $6 per 100, though 

 $4 will probably be closer to the figure 

 on many lots. White Cloud, Mary 

 Wood and Mrs. Bradt move well at 

 $4. Good Joost, Triumph and Cerise 

 Queen bring $3; Hill, Daybreak and 

 Armazindy, $2. In mixture, good or- 

 dinary run from $1.50 to $2, while we 

 hear of sales of the poorest at $10 

 per 1,000. 



Carnation Meeting. 



The exhibition at the carnation 

 meeting of the Florists' Club, to be 

 held to-morrow (Friday) in room 204 

 Masonic Temple (second floor), prom- 

 ises to be an excellent one. Word has 

 been received from many introducers 

 of new varieties that they will send 

 flowers for exhibition, and the display 

 will be very interesting. 



The exhibition will be open all aft- 

 ernoon and evening, and the meeting 

 for discussion will be held in the ex- 

 hibition hall (instead of the regular 

 club room) at S p. m. 



Various Items. 



Peter Reinberg has arranged to 

 build a range of additional houses on 

 a new location a little west of his 

 main plant. There will be twelve 

 houses each 265x25. In this range he 

 will use the Garland iron gutter 

 throughout. The glass will be 16x24, 

 and he has placed an order with the 

 Henion & Hubbell Co. for several 

 boilers and 30,000 feet of 4-inch cast 

 iron pipe. 



E. C. Amling has his new ice box in 

 position, and in style it is in harmony 

 with the attractive surroundings. 



Mr. and Mrs. Bassett leave Saturday 

 by the Pennsylvania limited for New 

 York. 



The florists' bowling team played an- 

 other league game last Monday night. 

 The opposing team was from the 

 Woodlawn Club, and the "posies" were 

 planted firmly and securely in that 

 "lawn"— upside down. Three straight 

 games! The boys are wearing crape 

 now, and in mercy to them we with- 

 hold names and scores. 



Let Philadelphia beware. We have 

 some men here that can handle a gun. 

 When we can induce them to attend 

 a convention, both they and their guns 

 will give a good report of themselves. 

 There was a match last week at Bow- 

 raanville, with Peter Reinberg and 

 Billy Irvin on one side, and Henry 

 Zender and B. F. Weber on the other. 

 The shy and fleet winged clay pigeon 

 was the bird employed. Reinberg aud 

 Irvin won by five birds, and Peter 

 Reinberg hit 45 out of a possible 50, 

 which is good enough shooting to in- 

 terest Geo. Anderson and John Burton 

 of the Quaker City, if we are not mis- 

 taken. 



McKellar & Winterson have just re- 

 ceived two fresh carloads of sphagnum 

 moss. 



J. B. Deamud has been handling 

 quite a few orchids, and says that 

 there is an increasing sale for cypri- 

 pediums. One splendid quality of the 

 cypripedium is that if it don't go to- 



day, its smile is just as bright the 

 next day — or the next week. 



Flint Kennicott has been home nurs- 

 ing a case of rheumatism. 



Mr. Geo. Wittbold reports the larg- 

 est season's business in his long ex- 

 perience. 



Phil Hauswirth says Chauncey De- 

 pew is all right. During a recent visit 

 to Washington on some fraternal so- 

 ciety business, Phil did Chauncey the 

 honor to call on him, and after enjoy- 

 ing a sample of the genial Chauncev's 

 hospitality, he admits that he couldn't 

 have done it better himself. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The carcass of trade has given a kick 

 or two this past week, but not strong 

 enough to keep the spectre of rent 

 away from the retail dealer, or the 

 spook of the coal bill from haunting 

 the grower. Conditions are surely not 

 in line. Everything is altogether too 

 plentiful but red roses, which sell quite 

 readily at 4 to 8 cents for shorter- 

 legged Meteors and up to $2.50 per doz. 

 for the kind that wear stilts, with 

 Beauties and Liberties selling corre- 

 spondingly. 



The Liberty is in good reputation, 

 enough so that several will give it a 

 trial next year, but now no one seems 

 to have it but Wood's men and Welch 

 Brothers, who show a good line, to- 

 gether with their usual full list of first- 

 class stock. 



But carnations seem to have gone by 

 the mark of greatest quantity, have 

 moved up a bit in figure, and it is pre- 

 dicted will wholesale better next week. 



Notes. 



Salesman John Chapman falls on the 

 ice and breaks an ankle to give us an 

 item of news. As he is a loyal sympa- 

 thizer with the land of the uncertain 

 "H" in its Transvaal difficulties, per- 

 haps South African papers better copy. 



An agent for "Scott's Manual" has 

 left a copy at the Co-Operative Mar- 

 ket, where it may be seen by the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Walsh. It is not so large 

 a work as many expected, but size is 

 obsolete as a measure of value, and the 

 quality of Mr. Scott's pen is well 

 known. 



Geo. Seaverns, lately returned from 

 the Klondike, is showing his floral 

 friends a large number of first-class 

 photos taken by a comrade far north 

 of the Arctic circle. Besides being 

 very interesting, they are of course 

 highly instructive about that far away 

 home of the frost king. A feature of 

 them is that they prove the spruce-tree 

 growth of that region unsurpassed for 

 lumber by that of any other part of the 

 world. Tall, straight as an arrow, and 

 from one to two and a half feet in di- 

 ameter, according to Florist-miner 

 Seaverns. 



Mr. Arthur Kiddor, of Kidder Bros., 

 Lincoln, while loosening the cap from 

 a pipe full of steam, received the dis- 



