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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



APRII, 19. 1900. 



Similar birch eggs filled with flowers 

 and with sashes of ribbon tied around. 

 Many azaleas and lilies. 



Various Items. 



Chase, the florist, will be at 145 

 Twenty-second street after April 25. 



George Allen is now with the Ander- 

 son Floral Co. 



P. J. Hauswirth is now fairly well 

 settled in his new store and has in- 

 stalled a very handsome ice box lined 

 with white tiles and with a mirror in 

 the back of the part where the flowers 

 are stored, so when one looks in the 

 stock of flowers seems to be acres in 

 extent. 



To accommodate certain members 

 who were unable to bowl Wednesday 

 evening, the concluding set of games 

 to determine the membership of the 

 team to meet the St. Louis bowlers 

 will be played at Anson's Friday of 

 this week (20th inst). 



O. J. Friedman, the florist, has or- 

 ganized the Friedman Automobile Co. 



,Ias. McHutchison. representing Aug. 

 Rhotert, New York, was a recent vis- 

 itor. 



Charles ~W. Erne, for the last five 

 years with E. H. Hunt, has returned 

 to his home in Terre Haute. Ind., and 

 will probably remain there till next 

 fall. 



A regular meeting of the Florists' 

 Club will be held tomorrow (Friday) 

 evening. 



The match with the St. Louis bowl- 

 ers has been postponed, as owing to 

 illness some of their members were 

 unable to get away for the date orig- 

 inally selected. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Easter Trade. 



Easter trade was good all along the 

 line and fully up to the expectations 

 of the florists. The weather was most 

 favorable to flower buyers on Satur- 

 day, and although it rained Sunday it 

 was too late to do much damage, as 

 most of the orders were placed on Sat- 

 urday. Some of our leading florists 

 had to work half the night and some 

 all night getting their orders in shape 

 for early delivery Sunday morning. 

 as nearly everybody wants their orders 

 delivered by 9 o'clock. 



The majority of the down town flor- 

 ists had their windows handsomely 

 decorated. Kunz, Riessen, Ellison & 

 Tesson, Foster and North, all had their 

 large show windows decorated with 

 hydrangeas, Harrisii. azaleas, and ar- 

 auearias; also a fine assortment of cut 

 flowers, which made pretty displays. 

 Young's and Miss Badaracco were also 

 in line with nice displays in their win- 

 dows. In the West End, Weber. Wal- 

 bart, Ostertag, Ayers, Connon and Miss 

 Newman made good use of their show 

 windows by making handsome displays 

 of fine plants of all kinds and a large 

 assortment of cut flowers. 



The floral displays at the different 

 churches w-ere noteworthy and from 



the looks of the churches in the West 

 End an enormous amount of plants of 

 all descriptions were used. Lilies of 

 course predominated. Perhaps the best 

 decorated church was the First Pres- 

 byterian. The arrangement was sim- 

 ply grand; plants of all descriptions 

 were seen in every nook and corner, 

 and lilies were in profusion. The writer 

 has not yet learned who the florist was 

 that did the work. 



The plant trade did not present any 

 especially novel features, and fine, well 

 grown azaleas. Harrisii, spireas, and 

 Dutch bulbs, in pots and pans, sold 

 well, especially when trimmed with 

 crepe paper the same color of the flow- 

 ers. Daisies and palms were also good 

 sellers — in fact, some claim that the 

 plant trade was better this year than 

 last. Lilies sold particularly well, but 

 were very scarce and many more could 

 have been sold. 



The wholesalers were kept busy with 

 both shipping and local trade, and 

 from the number of orders they had. 

 Easter must have been better than last 

 year. All the stock that came in was 

 of good quality and prices a little high- 

 er than last year. 



Beauties were in great demand: not 

 half enough to go around, and brought 

 from $6 to $9 per dozen for first grade 

 stock; other grades from $2 to $4 per 

 dozen. Meteors and Brides were scarce 

 and Al stock sold as high as $10, while 

 other stock not so good brought $5 and 

 $6 per 100. Maids were more plenti- 

 ful and sold at the same price. Perles 

 also were scarce, selling at $5 and $6. 

 Most of the growers around here are 

 off crop. A great lot of fine carnations 

 came in on Saturday morning, but 

 none were left, as orders ahead cleaned 

 them up at once, and those with late 

 orders had to take rubbish that was 

 left. The price for the best fancy was 

 $5; others from $3 to $4. None sold 

 under $3, unless it was rubbish. 



An enormous lot of bulbous stock 

 came in. The stock varied a good 

 deal; still it was pretty well cleaned 

 \ip, although early prices were a lit- 

 tle high. Romans and paper whites, 

 $3 and $4; Dutch hyacinths. $4 to $6; 

 tulip, $4; valley, $4 and $5; callas, 

 $12.50; Harrisii. $15. 



Sweet peas sold at $1.50 to $2; vio- 

 lets were scarce and small, still Cali- 

 fornias sold at 50 cents per 100; smilax. 

 asparagus and adiantum sold well at 

 regular prices. All the above stock 

 was of unusually good quality and lit- 

 tle was heard of pickling this year. 



Various Items. 



J. F. Aniraann. of Edwardsville. Ill , 

 and E. W. Guy. of Belleville, were in 

 town buying Easter stock for home 

 trade. Both of these gentlemen have 

 booked themselves for the Chicago 

 trip with the bowling club. 



Henry Emundt, of Belleville, 111., is 

 a happy father. It's a girl. Henry 

 says he looked all through Scott's 

 Manual in regards to boys, but found 

 the information missing. 



Max Herzog just missed it for Easter. 

 His fine house of Beauties will be in 

 full crop next week. 



Luther Armstrong, who has been ill 

 for some time, is somewhat better, but 

 still unable to be out. 



T. W. Guy, one of the old timers 

 down at Kimmswick. is taking things 

 easy now, but comes to town occasion- 

 ally to call on his friends in the trade. 



What the St. Louis Florists Say About Their 

 Easter Trade. 



Mrs. M. M. Ayers: Business never 

 better than this Easter; worked all 

 night Friday and Saturday to fill our 

 orders: plants of all kinds sold well. 



Fred C. Weber was sick abed during 

 the Easter rush, but got through nice- 

 ly with exti-a help: sold out clean; 

 business big and prices good. 



Chas. Connon. Jr.: Cut flowers and 

 all kinds of plants sold well; best 

 Easter yet. 



Miss Newman V Business was first 

 class; best Easter we ever had; every- 

 thing sold well. 



Mary Ostertag: Business about the 

 same as last year. 



George Walbart: Sold out clean: 

 had to stop taking orders early Satur- 

 day morning; biggest Easter I ever 

 had. 



C. C. Sanders: Did a fine business: 

 Easter stock of plants all sold out; 

 cut flowers the same. 



Wm. Kalisch & Son: Had a fine 

 trade; much better than last year. 



Ellison & Tesson: Big business at 

 both stores; plants all sold out and 

 our own big cut sold clean early Sun- 

 day. 



Chas. E. Schoenle: Had all I could 

 do; business was fine; everything sold 

 well. 



John Kunz; For my first Easter in 

 business can't complain; sold all I 

 tad. 



Riessen Floral Co.: Had the biggest 

 Easter in years, with plenty of fune- 

 ral work with their Easter orders: 

 kept us up all Saturday night and all 

 day Sunday. 



Fred Foster: Much better than last 

 year; had a large stock on hand of 

 everything; any kind of a plant sold 

 well. 



North Floral Co.: Easter trade was 

 fine; had a cut of 2.000 carnations of 

 our own. which helped out a grext 

 deal; lilies sold well, but scarce. 



Ostertag Bros.: Business better, 

 prices better and stock better than any 

 Easter yet; plenty of weddings on 

 hand for this month; business is 

 booming with us. 



C. Young & Sons Co.: Had the best 

 Easter in years; had plenty of lilies 

 which sold well at big prices; cut flow 

 ers of all kinds; sold out clean. 



Miss Badaracco: Had a splendid 

 trade in both cut flowers and plants: 

 better than I expected. 



The South St. Louis florists, Schray, 

 Beyer, Fillmore, Meyer. Eggling. Dir- 

 mer and Hirle. Our Easter trade was 



