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TheWeeidy Florists^ Review* 



December 12, 1901. 



beneath a greenhouse bench "in the days 

 of auld lang syne." 



The genial ilr. ilatthews we found 

 ■with a house or two of very fine chrys- 

 anthemums, but orchids i's what his 

 place is best known for. Two houses 

 have been pulled down and rebuilt the 

 past summer for the growing of cattle- 

 yas. Mr. Matthews had not cut but 

 few Cattleya labiata. He retards them 

 so as to have the bloom at the holidays 

 instead of their natural flowering time, 

 October. This can be done, but I think 

 at some expense to the vigor of the 

 plant and size and quality of bloom; 

 still a cattleya flower at Christmas 

 would be worth three times what it was 

 in October, when the magnificent labiata 

 is rather too plentiful. 



We were led to inspect an establish- 

 ment that was entirelv new to us, S. 

 Whitton & Son. We did not think as 

 many cyclamen were grown in western 

 and central New York as is to be seen 

 on this place. Many thousands of all 

 sizes ami some variations in quality, 

 but the larger part fine, healthy plant's. 

 This firm also grows tens of tiiousands 

 of young cinerarias and calceolarias. Of 

 course all these are not. used in Utica or 

 neighborhood, but go everywhere. 



Utica has more greenhouses to the 

 square mile than any^city of its size that 

 I am acquainted with, and to get around 

 them all would fake a week, but we vis- 

 ited -several others and saw several good 

 houses of carnations. 



Mr. Benedict's large range of houses 

 we never saw look better, and it is pleas- 

 ant to see a solid bed of old Niphetos 

 rose plants or bushes .t feet high, re- 

 sembling Vilmrnum Opiilis in the month 

 of June. Houses of Brides and Maids 

 were looking fine. Here is a house with 

 two 6-foot solid beds of carnations, beds 

 raised not one foot from the ground. 

 I never saw finer flowers : every variety 

 without exception was almost 'a fourth 

 larger than you see them on a raised 

 bench. How long that will last I don't 

 know, but I do know that I would not 

 want to be the one to tie or clean or 

 pick them. It is highly inconvenient and 

 you would either want to be an acrobat 

 or have a patent knuckle-jointed spine to 

 work among them with any comfort or 

 energy. Let them be a little nearer the 

 level of your nose, please, for me. 



And then it was time to show Peter 

 Crowe and Billy Matthews, experts as 

 they respectively are on adiantums and 

 odontoglossums, that in fhe presence of 

 a bowling expert (?) fhey can only 

 make three and five pins flie first bali. 

 W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The cut flower business since my last 

 report has been rather quiet, as it al- 

 ways is right after Thanksgiving. Cut 

 flowers are not overplentiful, at least 

 those grown in this vicinity. A few 

 cold days last week kept the fakir off 

 the streets and as stock is somewhat 

 high in price the chances are that he 

 will not be seen again until spring. Vio- 

 lets have been very scarce, requiring 

 some hustling to get enough to supply 

 the demand; prices remain unchanged. 

 Other kinds of stock, such as roses, car- 

 nations, bulb stuff and chrysanthemums, 

 are in good demand and of uniformly 

 excellent quality. We are all looking 

 forward now to a good Christmas busi- 

 ness. Holly and ground-pine wreathing 



have made their appearance and the 

 stores will soon put on their holiday at- 

 tire. The demand for this stuff is heavj' 

 and from reports will be very scarce and 

 high priced, and out of reach of the 

 street peddlers. 



The Christmas prices on cut stuff are 

 as yet unsettled and the wholesalers say 

 that they will not make any sudden ad- 

 vance in prices. 



Chrjsanthemums are about over and 

 only a few stragglers are now coming 

 in, which bring all the wav from $3 to 

 $15 per 100. 



The wholesale men claim that the de- 

 mand has been fairly good the past 

 week and that they are carrj'ing very 

 little stock over these days. The ship- 

 ping trade has also been very good and 

 quite a number of orders have already 

 lieen booked for Christmas. 



The Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



This society held a meeting last Thurs- 

 day at St. Joseph, Mo., and during its 

 session adopted the following resolu- 

 tions: 



Whereas. The Mtssouri State Horticultural 

 Society will be expected to take an active part 

 in the coming Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

 to be held In St. Louis In 1903, and 



Whereas, The time Is now at hand that steps 

 .should be taken looking to the matter of a 

 «S5mpIete and grand exhibition of the horticul- 

 tural products of our state on that occasion: 

 therefore be It 



Resolved. That the executive committee is 

 hereby instructed and empowered to take such 

 steps as will Id their opinion insure successful 

 lesults. 



The next meeting of the society will 

 be liold in Springfield, Mo. 



Notes. 



W. .1. i. M. S. \'esey. of Fort Wayne, 

 Ind., continue to send their large "cut 

 of flowers to this market, which they 

 find one of the best the year around. 

 Their stock is, as usual, of the best 

 quality. 



Frank M. Ellis has been sick for the 

 past few days with the grippe, but it is 

 expected will be around again this week. 



Shaw Banquet. 



The twclftli annual banquet to garden- 

 ers, florists and nurserymen took place 

 Saturday evening, Dec. 7, at S o'clock; 

 covers were laid for 300. Prof. William 

 Trelease, in his usual happy frame of 

 mind, acted as toastmaster. Among 

 those who responded to toasts were: Mr. 

 Taylor, late of the Pan-American Expo- 

 sition; Mr. Judson; Prof. Stevens, of 

 Carthage, Mo.; Judge Marshall, of Jo- 

 liet, III.; Paul F. Coste, of the St. Louis 

 school board. Norman J. Coleman and 

 Park Commisioner Eidgley also .sat at 

 the head table. Among" the florists who 

 were present were: Mr. Meinhardt, 

 president of the St. Louis Florists' Club ; 

 Fmil Schray. C. C. Sanders, George 

 Windier, F. J. Fillmore, Otto Koenig, 

 Max Herzog, Charles Juengel. Mr. 

 Fluneker, Dr. A. S. Halstcdt, E. W. Guv. 

 Robert F. Tesson ; Mr. McClurc. Prof. 

 Irish and R. J. Mohr, of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden; Albert Michel. Mr. 

 Gurney and Phil. Goebel, of Tower Grove 

 Park; Mr. Theo. Miller and J. J. Beneke. 



The tables were handsomely decorated 

 with flowers sent by Mr. Herrington, of 

 Madison, N. J. 



Bowling. 



The Florists on last Friday ran up 

 against a hard proposition when they 

 tackled the Enterprise Club on their own 

 alleys. On the Cass avenue alleys we 

 won the first by a small margin and lost 

 the next two. We are still in fourth 



place in the league race, with only three 

 games behind the leaders. The scores of 

 Fridaj' night were: 



Florists. B. E. 1 2 3 Total. .\vf. 



J. J. Beneke.... 5 4 164 164 191 519 173 



C. A. Kuehn... 5 10 137 130 149 416 13S 



J. Sturtz 5 166 201 191 55S 186 



C. Beyer 2 S 131 205 153 4S9 163 



A.. Y. Ellison... 1 10 155 136 168 459 133 



13 37 753 836 852 2441 162 11 -i;, 

 B. E. 1 2 3 Total. Ave. 

 Enterprize 11 27 737 870 904 2511 167 6-1.'; 



Here is how the members of the league 

 team stand in the race: 



No. games. Total. B. E. A\-e. 



A. Y. Ellison 30 5116 33 44 170 



J. J. Beneke 30 4958 32 56 icr, 



C. Beyer 9 1488 6 20 16.-, 



J. Sturtz..... 30 4933 27 71 164 



C. A. Kuehn 30 4828 30 75 161 



R. P. Tesson 4 629 1 12 157 



Will Adels 11 1685 15 27 ir.P. 



J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting. 



Monday night saw the largest meeting 

 of the Florists' Club held for some 

 years. It was election night and it was 

 eloquently apparent that the nominees 

 and their friends had been working most 

 vigorously. Never before was there such 

 interest taken in an election. The re- 

 sult was that although Walter F. Sheri- 

 dan was not on the slate made by the 

 nominating committee he was re-elected 

 president; Alex. Wallace, vice president: 

 John Young, secretary; Charles B. 

 Weathered, treasurer; .John Donaldson. 

 Lawrence Hafner and Paul Dailledouze, 

 trustees to serve two years. The de- 

 feated candidates in each case moved 

 to make the election unanimous. 



A. S. Burns, John Donaldson and S. 

 S. Butterfield were appointed a commit- 

 tee on resolutions to express the sympa- 

 thy of the club on the much lamented 

 death of Gabriel Dorval, son of Victor 

 Dorval, Woodside, L. I. The deceased 

 had been for some years in the employ 

 of Ernst Asmus at the New York Cut 

 Flower Company's, and was very pop- 

 ular with all. 



A. Herrington, .1. H. Troy, C. W. 

 Ward, F. L. Atkins, Wm. Plumb, John 

 N. May and W. H. Siebrecht were ap 

 pointed an exhibition committee to pre- 

 pare for the show in Madison Square 

 Garden next year. 



On motion of Mr. O'Mara it was de- 

 cided to have a "Beefsteak" dinner in 

 the club's rooms early in January, and 

 Julius Lang, John Young, C. B. Weath- 

 ered, L. Hafner and W. W. Burnham 

 were appointed to attend to the arrange- 

 ments. 



The awards committee awarded the 

 club's silver medal to a vase of the 

 new rose Mrs. Oliver Ames, exhibited 

 by John N. May, and a cultural certifi- 

 cafe to Arthur Herrington for vase of 

 Cypripedium insigne. 



A communication was read from the 

 Horticultural Society of New York in- 

 viting the members to attend a meeting 

 on Wednesday at which A. Herrington 

 will speak on the chrysanthemums of 

 1901. 



The entertainment committee as usual 

 did their full duty. 



Mr. Sheridan announced that the con- 

 tract with the Garden management for 

 ne.xt year's show had been closed and 

 that the outlook was very bright. 



Mr. Edwin Lonsdale was a most in- 

 terested visitor and after the meeting 

 adjourned there were many groups chat- 

 ting of memories ever green and thus 

 the night passed pleasantly away. 



