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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



APRIL 26, 1900. 



posed plan and held that it would cer- 

 tainly do no harm to try it, while the 

 chances w'ere good that a very mate- 

 rial saving might be made to all, pro- 

 viding a large combined order . oiild 

 be placed at one time under a .suitable 

 contract as regards delivery. He 

 thought that it ought to result in the 

 saving of an average of 10 to 15 cents 

 a ton. The subject was made '.he ^re- 

 cial order for the next meeting and it 

 was decided to invite all grov.'ers to 

 the meeting whether members of the 

 club or not. 



The Market. 



As the result of a falling off in de- 

 mand and an increase in the supply 

 there is at present an oversupply of 

 most everything and prices have eased 

 up considerably, especially on the 

 lower grades. The fakirs are out on 

 the streets in force. Roses have dete- 

 riorated in quality to a marked degree, 

 probably due to the changeable weath- 

 er we have been having, and carna- 

 tions have suffered, too. Shipping 

 trade holds up very well and this takes 

 care of most of the prime shipping 

 stock. Local demand has fallen off to 

 a very marked degree. 



Lots of good lilies are coming in 

 now, but they move slowly. Lily of 

 the valley is in good demand, but oth- 

 er bulbous stuff goes very slowly and 

 generally at a sacrifice. Smilax is in 

 exceptionally good demand. 



A vase of Mr. Witterstaetter's new 

 pink carnation Enquirer was noted at 

 Kennicott's. The flowers were im- 

 mense, of fine color and borne on ex- 

 ceptionally long, strong stems. It cer- 

 tainly is a splendid variety. 



Several shipments of cut flowers to 

 New Orleans were delayed several days 

 by washouts on the railways last week 

 and as a natural result the flowers 

 ■were worthless when received. The 

 shippers are now wondering whether 

 they will be able to collect from the 

 express companies. 



Variour Items. 



Walter Retzer & Co. have purchased 

 the greenhouses, stock and business of 

 Albert Fuch=. There is nearly lOO,- 

 000 feet of glass and the stock includes 

 150,000 palms of salable size, in addi- 

 tion to which there are about 100.000 

 palm seeds in the beds. The stock is 

 in excellent condition. Mr. Retzer is a 

 graduate of the Shaw Garden. St. 

 Louis, and for the past year has been 

 assistant to Superintendent Simonds, 

 of Graceland cemetery. He is a well 

 informed young man, of a genial dis- 

 position, and will be a decided addition 

 to the ranks. He became a member of 

 the Florists' Club at the last meeting. 

 Mr. E. R. Tauch is the foreman in 

 charge of the glass. 



Mr. Fuchs will retire from the busi- 

 ness and on June 11 will sail for Eu- 

 rope for an extended stay. 



The George Wittbold Co. have been 

 doing a very large business and now 

 have $7,000 worth of palms on the way 

 from Belgium to replenish their stock 

 of certain sizes that have been heavily 

 called for. 



Mr. C. J. Reardon took unto himself 

 a wife last Tuesday and has also taken 

 a position on the Harvey estate at 

 Geneva, Hi. 



The Washington grown hyacinths 

 are now in bloom at Lincoln Park and 

 Mr. Stromback invites members of the 

 craft to inspect them. They are in 

 the round bed at the northwest corner 

 of the main flower garden in front of 

 the conservatory. 



Bowling. 



The series of eight games to deter- 

 mine the membership of the team to 

 play the St. Louis boys when they pay 

 their promised visit was concluded 

 last Friday evening and below we print 

 the scores in full. The first six will 

 compose the team: 



123456:s Av. 



Asmus 17G 1C7 112 227 tt9 147 146 220 173 



G. StoUery 191 161 141 134 170 148 20S 177 160 



P. HtoUery 157 163 1S5 KC l.iS 170 147 232 1G4 



BuUuff 186 16S 227 169 120 169 151 131 163 



Winterson 145 155 118 ISO 1.52 177 168 17S Us 



Hauswlrth 123 170 ISS 170 151 133 133 145 153 



Degnan 191 116 144 119 134 173 164 138 151 



Hughes 168 141 170 124 124 119 168 15S 146 



Krelllins; 128 110 123 122 113 105 146 105 111) 



ST. LOUIS. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club held its regular 

 monthly meeting Thursday afternoon. 

 President Ammann called the meeting 

 to order with only ten members pres- 

 ent. As a rule the April meeting= 

 never were well attended, owing to 

 most of the growers being busy at 

 home with spring sales. About the 

 only important feature that came up 

 was in regard to holding a show this 

 year. The old committee made their 

 final report, showing that $320.19 was 

 on hand to pay prizes, and Treasurer 

 Sanders of the committee was in- 

 structed to pay out the above amount 

 at once, which will be done in the next 

 few days. The euchre committee was 

 discharged after making their final 

 report, which read that they cleared 

 $72.75, which amount was added to 

 the show fund. 



At this point the question came up. 

 "Shall we have a show this year?" 

 and it was finally settled that the club 

 would hold a show this fall, to last 

 only three days, to lie known as a 

 Flower and Fruit Show, and all horti- 

 cultural products will be included. Th'^ 

 club then elected a chairman and man- 

 ager and your correspondent was 

 again elected to fill that position for 

 the coming show. Mr. Fred H. Mein- 

 hardt was elected as vice chairman and 

 manager. The chairman then selected 

 his committee to act with him, which 

 are as follows: Fred C. Weber. C. C. 

 Sanders. Emil Schray, Carl Beyer, 

 .1. W. Kunz and Frank Fillmore. The 

 committee has full power to act and 

 make their report at the next meeting 

 of the club. 



The question box brought out quite 

 a discussion about grafting roses in- 

 duced by the article in the Review by 

 Mr. George M. Kellogg, of Pleasant 

 Hill. Mo. The arguments were very 



interesting and we are sorry more 

 were not in altendanct. No doubt the 

 question will again be brought up at 

 the next meeting. 



It was decided that the next meet- 

 ing will be a miscellaneous flower 

 show and prizes to the extent of $10 

 will be offered. A committee of three 

 was appointed to take charge of this 

 show and divide the prize money into 

 five parts. Any one wishing informa- 

 tion may write to E. W. Guy, Emil 

 Schray or F. J. Fillmore, who compose 

 the committee. This closed the meet- 

 ing, after which those present had a 

 good time at the expense of President 

 Ammann, who let the cat out of the 

 bag by telling us that he had been 

 elected akkrmau of the Second ward 

 in Edwardsville, 111., his home. Con- 

 gratulaticns are now in order. 



Various Items. 



The past week was a busy one among 

 the West End florists. The usual 

 after Easter weddings developed quite 

 lively and lots of stock of all kinds 

 was used. Although plenty of stock 

 has been coming in prices are still a 

 little high, but the way it's coming in 

 this (MondayJ morning prices will no 

 doubt drop a notch or two. 



Now that Easter is over the plant 

 men have more room and are crowd- 

 ing every inch of space with spring 

 stock and with plenty of orders on 

 hand for bedding they will have all 

 they can do for the next three weeks. 



The gentle April showers and warm 

 weather the past few days have start- 

 ed the trees into leaf and a few days 

 more we will have lilacs and other out- 

 door flowers on sale. 



The market florists report an excel- 

 lent trade in plants since Easter and 

 prices have kept up above those of 

 former years. The general verdict is 

 that trade in plants bids fair to exceed 

 former years and most growers have 

 made great preparations to meet the 

 demand. 



The seedsmen also have been having 

 a fine trade this spring and all report 

 a big business in their line. 



Visitors in town were Arnold Rin- 

 gier, representing W. W. Barnard & 

 Co., Chicago; A. S. Halstedt, E. W. 

 Guy and Henry Emundt, Belleville, 

 111.; F. .1. Ammann, Edwardsville, 111., 

 and F. W. Ude. Jr., Kirkwood. Mo. All 

 spent a day with us Thursday and at- 

 tended the club meeting in the after- 

 noon. 



Mr. Wm. Clamp, of Harper Place, 

 Webster Grove, will soon leave to 

 make his homo in England, his birth- 

 place. 



The decorations at the First Pres- 

 byterian church, of which I spoke in 

 the last issue of the Review, were 

 made by Mrs. M. M. Ayers, on Grand 

 avenue. Mrs. Ayers is to be congrat- 

 ulated on her fine work. 



Miss Newman, who has been ill for 

 the past week, is improvin.g and will 

 be back to business this week. 



Fred Weber is also improving and 

 expects to attend to business the lat- 

 ter part of the week. J. J. B. 



