MAY 1", i'.m. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



733 



evening and get the finish on their 

 training for the coming contest with 

 the St. Louis teiun, wliicli is to talie 

 place at Anson's on the llitli. Re- 

 served seats have lieoii arranged for 

 the spectators and Captain Winterson 

 says it will be a hot time. 



The Park and Outdoor Art Associa- 

 tion meets in the Art Institute, this 

 city. June 5, G and 7. 



The American Association of Nur- 

 serymen also meets in this I'ity next 

 month, at the Chicago Beach Hotel. 



Mr. G. H. I'ieser. secretary of Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co., is in poor health and 

 has gone to West Baden, Ind., tor a 

 two weeks' stay. 



BUFFALO. 



The principal feature at i)reser.l 

 writing is the huge sui)ply of tiowers. 

 They are coming in from every direc- 

 tion and in larger (piantities than can 

 he profitably consumed. We must ex- 

 pect that, and possil)ly no one is suf- 

 fering by the overliow, and the public 

 are getting some fine roses for the pop- 

 ular price of 5 cents. Good carnations 

 are not in such great supply. Violets 

 are done for the season, but in their 

 place we have an abundance of sweet 

 peas, and they are favorites with all. 

 A great many flowers are disposed of 

 just now and they need be, to keep 

 down the stock. 



How strange it is to hear of the 

 floods out west and 9 inches of rain- 

 fall in Colorado duiing April, lands 

 that want irrigating usually by May 1, 

 while we are actually parched; only a 

 few flakes of snow and scarcely rain 

 enough to lay the dust since the last 

 great snow slorm in March. Thou- 

 sands of acres of forest fires in the 

 nearby counties of Pennsylvania. 



Carnation planting is going on just 

 now. This is a long time after the 

 orthodo.x date for this most important 

 operation, but was as soon as we could 

 get at it this spring. 



W. J. Palmer & Sons have a l.'iOx^O 

 foot house of Liberty rose planted and 

 growing. This is wise and no doubt 

 will be a most excellent investment, 

 and could only be improved on by hav- 

 ing two instead of one. Tliose won- 

 derful flowers that W. ,1.. Sr., saw in 

 Toronto convinced him that Liberty 

 well grown is a wonder. 



That rural town of Corfu has been 

 shipping a lot of flowers of late and 

 has not done badly all winter. Old 

 John Briar Root Weigel has been run- 

 ning the houses of Mrs. Edwards this 

 winter and has done well. T. A. Webb 

 has given up roses entirely and has 

 five large houses of carnations and 

 four of lettuce. He thinks the latter 

 pays about as well as the flowers. Mr. 

 James Farnham has sold his house on 

 Railroad avenue and is building on 

 the main street, where he intends to 

 remove his glass and add to it. Mrs. 

 Tyrrell tells me she is better pleased 

 with this year's business than for sev- 

 eral past. The greatest cut of carna- 

 tions I ever saw at one time was in 

 the three long houses of Edward Gid- 



diiigs. I have a picture of his Day- 

 l)r( ak house, taken a few days before 

 Kaster, which will convince anyone 

 that Daybreak is not yet gone. It was 

 remarkable. 



At the east end of the village on a 

 12-acre lot Aleck Scott holds forth, and 

 his specialty is girl babies, but inci- 

 dentally he has four fine houses of 

 caruatious of many kinds, two of vio- 

 lets, aliout gone, and one bouse that is 

 a most pleasant i)lace to smoke a good 

 .')-cent cigar (that's enough to pay). 

 The red, almost pur))le, foliage of th" 

 Kaiserin Augusta roses that are plant- 

 ed in a solid bed. rested all winter ami 

 started April 1, will give you a feelin.g 

 of peace and contentment, and the 

 fumes of even a Dutch drummer's cigar 

 would seem like the Cuban weed. 



A country village is a dirty looking 

 place "just as snow goes down," but 

 Nature, in spite of man's vileness and 

 ignoraiu'e and laziness, steps in and 

 covers a multitude of .'-ins with her 

 grass and leaves and other Idessing.s. 

 Corfu would lie a pretty place if it were 

 not tor two unsightly spots. One is 

 the Union Hotel and the other is the 

 ruins of Mr. Gidding's old houses. 

 When he moved them last fall he made 

 three new out of five old ones, and tli.' 

 site they once occupied is now a dread- 

 ful sight. He forgot to clean up an.! 

 the ruins of a junk shop cannot be 

 worse to look at than the remnants of 

 a broken down greenhouse. W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The MarliKT. 



The glut is still with us and for the 

 last ten days stock of all kinds has 

 been coming in in large quantities, and 

 the warm weather has injured the 

 quality of the stock quite seriously. 

 Saturday. Dewey day, the stock sold 

 out quite clean, as nearly all florists 

 had something to do, and besides, 

 there has been i)lenty of funeral work 

 the past week, which helped to clean 

 up some of the white stuff. 



Really good selected stock held the 

 same figures as last week; the poorer 

 grades much lower, especially in large 

 lots. Outside of the work for the re- 

 ception of Admiral Dewey and funeral 

 work, there is not much doing, and 

 complaints of poor business are gen- 

 eral. Transient trade is almost monop- 

 olized by the fakirs. It has been a 

 long time since prices on carnations, 

 roses and other flowers have been so 

 low. Carnations and roses have suf- 

 fered most, as more of them have been 

 coming in than the market could con- 

 sume. Harrisii and callas are down 

 with the rest and are a greater glut 

 than ever before; almost any price 

 will buy them. Violets are all out. 

 Tulips and Dutch hyacinths are com- 

 ing in from the open ground, but there 

 is very little demand for them. Sweet 

 peas are coming in large quantities 

 and sell fairly well at 2.5 cents per 103. 



Various Items. 

 The flower beds and lawns at the 

 parks, and especially Forest Park, pre- 



sent at this time a most attractive ap- 

 pearance. Young Fred Pape, the su- 

 perintendent, deserves great praise for 

 the way he handles the work. 



Visitors: Mr. Denker of St. Charles, 

 .VIo.. and Il<'nry Johan of Collinsville. 

 Both re[!ort business good with them. 

 Our old friend Phil llauswirth, of Chi- 

 cago, is also in town attending the Red 

 Men's meeting at East St. Louis. 



Klessen Floral Co. had the honor of 

 furnishing the flowers for the Dewey 

 lian(|iu't at the Planters' Hotel. It was 

 quite a large affair and well handled. 

 'I'bey also furnished 1,0110 roses a day 

 lor the anniversary of Mermod-Jaccard 

 .lew(dry Co. They report big business 

 all of last week. 



A severe wind, rain and hail storm 

 swept our city Saturday night and 

 early Sunday murning. causing consid- 

 erable damage throughout the city and 

 county. It did little or no damage to 

 glass. The worst damage was done to 

 park and fruit trees. The damage is 

 estimated at $20.0(10 to orchards alone. 



J. J. B. 



OBITUARY. 



We regret to have to record the 

 death of Helen, youngest daughter of 

 Mr. and Mrs. .1. .1. Beneke, of St. Lou's, 

 on May \. aged 12 years and 9 months. 

 She had recovered from an attack of 

 diiditheria, but paralysis of the heart 

 followed and death resulted in spite of 

 everv effort made to save the young 

 life. ' 



.^t the funeral there were floral de- 

 signs from nearly every florist in St. 

 Louis, and the St. Louis Florists' Club 

 sent a large pillow with "Helen" let- 

 tered upon it. 



Mr. Beneke has a host of friends in 

 the trade and all are deeply grieved to 

 learn of his affliction. He has re- 

 quested us to express to his brother 

 florists his appreciation of the V.ind- 

 ness they have shown him in his hour 

 of sorrow. 



BOSTON. 



Floral news is pretty thin, and yet 

 there is much being done. All kinds 

 of flowers are coming in quite plenti- 

 fully and practically none going to 

 waste. Neither is there so heavy an 

 overflow of them upon the streets as 

 during one or two previous weeks. 

 Back Bay florists begin to complain of 

 a falling off in their business, proving 

 that summer is approaching. Well, 

 the almanac talks that way, too, but 

 the weather does not yet remind ns 

 of it. 



Prices have been steadier this week, 

 probably because salesmen are dis- 

 couraged in trying to obtain better. 

 American Beauties, in 3-foot lengths, 

 sell for $3 or $4 per dozen; 2-foot at 

 $2; 1-foot at fl. Jacks are getting 

 scarce. Meteors in fair supply at from 

 2 to 121/2 cents each; pink, white and 

 yellow, enough at from 1 cent on culls 

 to 12V2 cents for a very few extra. 

 Pinks, from 1 to 3 cents; violets get- 

 ting scarce; but a few very good ones, 



