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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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beautiful Japanese costumes. The music 

 was delightful. Zim's band was cos- 

 tumed in iiowing robes from Japan and 

 a dreamy string quartette entertained 

 the company at the tea houses. 



Sixth, innovations. The fish pond and 

 the fish, and the Kansas City waltz. 

 The fish pond and the fish attracted as 

 much attention as the flowers; there was 

 not any time but what the banks of the 

 ]3ond were crowded thiee to six deep. 

 The pond was an irregular oval in shape, 

 occupying about 1,200 sipiare feet. In 

 the center was an island 15x51 feet, on 

 which were dwarf Japan pines and a few 

 pieces of rock, out of which glowed elec- 

 tric lights. The depth of the pond was 

 10 inches; the depth of water 12 to 

 14 inches; the number of the fish 2.500, 

 the varieties being of all the golden 

 carp section of all colors. The banks 

 of the pond were puddled clay; here and 

 there a group of Japanese plants and 

 the whole bank sodded with fine turf. 

 The water level was 12 inches above the 

 Hoor line of the building. For the best 

 waltz a premium of $100 was given. 

 There wore some two-score entries. The 

 winning waltz was played several times 

 during each session and brought quite a 

 number of visitors. 



Seventh, the different committees, of 

 which there were about a dozen, worked 

 together heart and ^oul and harmoni- 

 ously. It wouhl be well if such could 

 be said of all committees. 



Eighth, the way the show was con- 

 ducted. The show was conducted on 

 hard and fast business lines from the 

 beginning. It meant hard work for 

 those on wliom the heaviest burdens 

 fell, and it was worth all the trouble. 

 The plans were studied in all details as 

 far as possible two weeks befcnc the 

 commencement of the exhibition and ar- 

 langements made accordingly. Entries 

 were asked to be made one week previous 

 and the space in square feet lequired to 

 be given. This was .strictly carried out. 

 Tables were made of various lengths, 

 \iniformly three feet wide, some 14 

 inches high, some 18 inches and some 24 

 inches. These were all covered with 

 bright red cambric for the chrysanthe- 

 mums and green for the roses. Numer- 

 ous boxes, such as jire used for soap and 

 other groceries, were covered in red. 

 white and green cambric a couple of 

 days before the show to be used as 

 stands for various exhibits. Assistance 

 was given to all exhibitors so as to make 

 their work as easy as possible and the 

 "eneral welfare of all concerned was al- 

 ways considered. 



i believe I am safe in saying that 

 every exhibitor felt that justice had 

 been done to him and he had no reason 

 to regret he helped to make the Kan- 

 sas City flower show a success. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Xew Year's business was a great sur- 

 prise to the florists and many report 

 that they did btttcr this year than for 

 some time past, and that bright (lowers 

 were in brisk demand for this holiday. 

 Stock of all kinds was fairly plentiful 

 and somewhat lower in price than for 

 Christmas. 



The quality of the stock that is coming 

 in now is very good. As usual follow- 

 ing the holidays it is a little d\ill, but 

 from reports everybody seemed busy with 

 some kind of work, especially funeral 



work, which has been in great demand 

 the past week. A few large receptions 

 were also attended to. One of the larg- 

 est of the season was the Houser recep- 

 tion last Friday, the decorations for 

 which were arranged by Ellison & Tes- 

 son. This was a handsome affair and 

 much credit is due them. 



Our wholesale men claim that their 

 shi])|ung trade for the holidays was 

 much better than last year, and all 

 through the season they lurve been very 

 busy. 



Stock for the past week was of good 

 quality, but not overplentiful and prices 

 not so high. The weather is fine and 

 bright and should it continue so through- 

 out the week, stock of all kinds will be 

 plentiful and prices much lower. 



In roses, Beauties of the first grade 

 are scarce and are selling from 30 to 75 

 cents each, and from that down to .$1.50 

 per dozen at wholesale ; ileteors from 

 .$0 to $10; Brides and Jlaids. $3 to .$8; 

 Perles and Woottons, $3 to $G per hun- 

 dred. 



Carnations arc better in quality and 

 are in big demand. Seotts, Cranes, Day- 

 breaks and all whites bring from .$3 to 

 $4 per hundred. The supjily in these is 

 fairh' good. Violets are more plentiful 

 and Californias are now selling at $1 

 for the best, with demand good. 



Bulb stock is selling fairly well, ow- 

 ing to the demand for funeral work, 

 though plenty of it is left over after the 

 morning sales. Valley brings $3 and 

 $4; Romans, $2 and $3; paper whites, 

 same; callas, 15 cents each; Harrisii, 

 none in the market; freesias are now 

 coming in and go at $3 and $4 per 100. 

 All kinds of greens are in good supply. 



Various Notes. 



Arnold Ringicr spent tlie last day of 

 the old year in St. Louis looking after 

 the interests of W. W. Barnard & Co. 

 Arnold says that his firm did a great 

 business the past year and says, '"We 

 are the people.'' 



The St. Louis florists are in receipt of 

 the first catalogue issued by the Walter 

 ilott Seed & Bulb Co., nf Jamestown, 

 N. Y., which is very handsomely gotten 

 up. We all wish you well, Walter, in 

 your new enterprise. 



Miss Eosie Orata has opened a new 

 floral store at Lafayette and Jefferson 

 avenues and reports that trade was good 

 with her during the holidays. 



Mr. and Mrs. Carew Sanders will leave 

 this week for California to spend the 

 winter, 



K. J. ilobr, late of the Missouri Bo- 

 tanical CJarden, has taken a position 

 with the Plant Seed Co. and will have 

 charge of the plant department. 



Mr. F. Ries has left the employ of the 

 Plant Seed Co. and will soon start in 

 business for himself. 



Mr. E. \V. Guy of Belleville was in 

 town Monday, coming from St. Charles, 

 Mo., where iiis daughter is attending 

 school. Mr. Guy reports good trade in 

 Belleville during the holidays and says 

 cut flowers sold better than plants, 

 though some of the Belleville boys sold 

 quite a number of ]dants. He says that 

 Mr. Wm. Hucke has the finest house 

 of Lawson carnations he ever saw, and 

 says il looks like a wheat field. This 

 house will be ready for cutting in about 

 a week and should swamp the market 

 with Lawsons. 



Mr. Grossart of the same place had a 

 few large decorations of plants during 

 the recent holidays. Mr. Guy says all 



the Belleville florists are well pleased 

 with the business done. 



St. Louis Parks. 



!Mr. F. W. Pape. su|;erintendent of 

 ])iil)Hc parks, has the following to say 

 regM'ding the parks during the past 

 year: 



The parte department lias been compelled to 

 content itself with merely maintaining the 

 parks and public places in the last twelve 

 months on account of the lack of sufficient 

 appropriations: no real improvements have 

 been made, but every effort has been made to 

 keep up appearances with the limited means 

 on hand. We need a great many repairs. 

 Forest Park especially needs attention on ac- 

 count of the approach of the World's Fair. 



The St. Louis Bowling Club. 

 Still Bowling. 



We swore off bowling New Year's day. 



But New Year's day is gone; 

 We swore we wouldn't bowl again. 



But still we're bowling on. 



I^ast Thursday night we bowled the 

 Diets Stars and again suffered defeat. 

 Young Ellison was the star performer 

 of the night, rolling an average of 

 232 2-3 in three games. This is the rec- 

 ord of the league and will no doubt 

 stand to the end of the season. Sturtz 

 also rolled good games, but Beneke, 

 Kuehn and Beyer were out of form and 

 the scores will show how we lost the 

 two games: 



Florists: 12 3 Total. Av'ge. 



lieneke 160 ISO 129 469 156 1-3 



Kuehn 153 169 134 458 152 2-3 



Beyer 148 145 154 447 149 



Sturtz 18S 157 193 538 179 1-3 



Ellison 264 199 235 698 232 2-3 



915 S50 845 2610 174 



1 2 3 Total. Av'ge. 



Diets SIO S93 S4S 2.581 172 1-15 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



New Year's Trade. 



Xew Year's turned out to be a pretty 

 good day. No one expected it to be any- 

 thing like Christmas, but there was a 

 good demand for flowers. Our big social 

 event of the winter, the charity ball, was 

 held on Xew Year's night in the same 

 hall that the trade exhibit was held by 

 the S. A. F. last August, which several 

 florists will remember. It was finely 

 decorated, but more with flags and bunt- 

 ing than by the florist's art; still, the 

 stage was finely fixed up with palms and 

 I regret that I cannot give you the name 

 of the firm who was unfortunate enough 

 to receive the order. I am obliged to 

 say unfortunate because you are expected 

 to do it all for sweet charity's sake, with 

 faith that you are doing a good job and 

 hope that it will lead to more profitable 

 business in the future. But Alphonse 

 gave Gertrude a bunch of violets, and 

 J. Van Rensellaer Jones remembered Ara- 

 bella, and in a lower stratum of society 

 Jack felt awful kind towards Xellie, and 

 so it was all good for business. Besides 

 one or two large affairs the season has 

 been considered unusually gay. There 

 has, however, scarcely been any social 

 event calling for a very large use of 

 flowers and decorations, such as we have 

 known in the past. 



Flowers for City Fathers. 



When the aldermen and councilmen 

 took their seats yesterday morning sev- 

 eral of their desks were gay with bas- 

 kets and vases of flowers. One very pop- 

 ular citizen, Mr. Thomas Stoddart, on 

 taking his seat as a new councilman, 

 found among several fine floral tributes 



