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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



November 28. 1901. 



given at the Mercantile Club, Saturday 

 eveninij, December 7 at 7 o'clock. 



World's Fair. 



Mr. George E. Kessler, the landscape 

 architect for the World's Fair, arrived 

 in the city today from his home in Kan- 

 sas City, bringing with him plans of the 

 landscape effects for the World's Fail- 

 site. Director Taylor reports that De- 

 cember 20 will be ground-breaking day 

 with suitable ceremonies. 



Personal Items. 



John W. King, with Frank M. Ellis, 

 has been sick the past week and is not 

 able to attend to business, but from lat- 

 est reports he will be on deck for Thanks- 

 giving Day. 



ilr. James Gurney of Tower Grove 

 Park has returned from Kansas Cil!y, 

 where he acted as judge at the flower 

 show in that city. 



Henry Berning and wife, wlio attended 

 tlie Kansas City flower show, have re- 

 turned, much pleased with their trip. 



Herbert Heller of Xew Castle, Ind., 

 passed through St. Ixuiis Saturday night 

 on his way liome from the Ivansas City 

 show. Herbert, with a broad smile on 

 his face, reported eight prizes out of 

 eight entries. "They can't beat us." 



hereafter roll in all the match games. 

 All the boys are in great form now ex- 

 cept the captain who is still troubled 

 with a lame foot. 



Last Monday night the Florists beat 

 the Post Ofiice team two out of three 

 games. 



Thursday, Thanksgiving night, we roll 

 the great Bankers, who are looked upon 

 as the winners of the race. The scores 

 for last Monday night were as follows: 



Florists. B. E. 1 2 3 Total. Ave. 



J. J. Beneke.... 3 7 ISS 162 137 456 132 



C. A. Kuehn.... 2 S 211 163 ISO 594 184 2-3 



Carl Beyer 3 7 160 160 144 464 154 2-3 



John Sturtz 5 4 174 178 159 511 170 1-3 



A. y. Ellison... 5 4 191 125 168 484 161 1-3 



Totals 18 27 895 788 788 2471 164 11-15 



B. B. 1 2 3 Total. Ave. 

 Post Office 17 40 76S S44 6S9 2301 153 6-15 



Seven of the St. Louis Florists' Bowl- 

 ing Club rolled a few games last Mon- 

 day night. This rolling was only fair. 

 A few of the scores looked like this: 



12 3 4 5 Total. .\v. 



Ellison 179 122 150 202 179 832 166 



Kuehn 126 170 139 153 170 780 136 



Adels 133 133 160 167 149 742 14S 



Weber 172 130 142 131 — 575 144 



Tesson 90 IIS 121 127 — 456 114 



Miller 104 102 101 133 116 456 110 



Ellis 94 91 — — — 185 92 



F-ancourt 84 95 111 108 — 39S 95 



J. J. B. 



The First Prize Vase of 100 American Beauties at the Kansas City Show. 



Mr. Fancourt, representing Kift & Son, 

 Philadelphia, was a visitor the past week 

 and reports trade good. 



Mrs. JI. S. Vesey, of Fort Wayne, Ind., 

 was in St. Louis Sunday on her way 

 home from the Kansas City show, which 

 she says was the finest she ever saw. In 

 regard to prizes, she got her share of 

 the big ones. 



Bowling. 



The Florists are now working nicely 

 in the League contest, being second in 

 the race with 17 won and 7 lost, only 

 three games behind the leaders. Jlr. 

 Carl Beyer is again with us and will 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The shipping demand for Thanksgiv- 

 ing was decidedly strong and as the pre- 

 ceding week of dark weather had re- 

 duced the cut there was a greater scarc- 

 ity than anticipated, especially in ear- 

 nations and Beauties. Prices therefore 

 held well up to quotations "and all stock 

 was well cleaned up at these figures. 

 Chrysanthemums helped out consider- 

 ably and there were a good many in the 

 market, though not enough of white and 

 pink sorts. First class flowers brought 



$3 a dozen readily, which price has 

 not been easily obtained before since 

 the very early part of the season. At 

 the same time prices were hardly up to 

 those of the same time last year. 



Taken altogether conditions have been 

 very satisfactory with the single excep- 

 tion that more good stock could have 

 been sold if to be had. 



Up to Tuesday afternoon the local 

 retailers had bought little or nothing for 

 their Thanksgiving trade, and they were 

 evidently holding off waiting for a slump 

 at the last moment. 



Variotis Items. 



McKellar & Winterson find that orders 

 for holiday supplies are coining in earl- 

 ier than usual. They arc already work- 

 ing overtime on orders and the season 

 promises to break all records on these 

 goods. 



Wietor Bros, are much impressed 

 with Norway and believe it to be the 

 coming white carnation. Their opinion 

 of Prosjierity has also gone away up as 

 a result of their experience with it so 

 far this season. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co.. 

 says: "Please read the sign." Ask 

 Scott. 



The Geo. Wittbold Co. has purchased 

 'M acres of land at Edgebrook on the 

 St. Paul road and intends to soon erect 

 a range of glass on same. It will be 

 used to grow stock to feed their pres- 

 ent ))lace, at which room is now at a 

 |iicmium on account of their rapidly ex- 

 ] landing business. 



Tin- dark weather has considerably re- 

 durcd the cut of roses generally but 

 I'llcr Reinberg sees no diminution in 

 the cut of Liberty and Golden Gate. He 

 finds these two roses remarkably steady 

 lil<K)mers and that Liberty is almost if 

 not quite as prolific as Meteor on the 

 average with much less inclination to 

 crop. 



Fred C. Ottenbaeher, with the Poehl- 

 iiianii Bros. Co., at Morton Grove for the 

 last seven years, will be married Dec. 

 1.") to Miss Minnie Jones, of Niles. 



licorge Ilcinberg has placed an order 

 lor 1.000 boxes of glass and will soon 

 start to build a new block of houses cov- 

 ciing a space of 150x.300. This block 

 will be devoted to Beauties, Brides and 

 Maids. Otto Frese, manager of his city 

 salesroom, reports a phenomenal Thanks- 

 giving trade much ahead of former sea- 

 sons. 



John Schneider, of Kansas City, was 

 in town early this week buying stock for 

 Thank.sgiving. He made J. A. Budlong's 

 his headquarters as usual. 



Bert C. Coles, of Quiiicy, Mich., is in 

 the city visiting C. S. Stewart, with 

 Frank Garland. 



The bowlers "passed up" the usual 

 games Tuesday of this week on account 

 of its being .so near to Thanksgiving 

 and every one in the trade busy. 



George Collins, foreman for Peter 

 Reinberg, says that though their roses 

 are largely off crop now they expect to 

 have a large crop of Beauties for the 

 holidays. He has found it a very good 

 season for Beauties. 



John Walker, of Walker & McLean, 

 Youngstown, ()., was a welcome visitor 

 this week. He has a fine color, prob- 

 ably derived from the iron in the atmos- 

 phere of the thriving city of metal work- 

 ers from which he now hails. 



Larry Kelly, with .lohn Muno, has 

 been confined to his home bv illness and 

 it is said, is threatened with pneumonia. 



