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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 22. 1902. 



mencement exercises of the public 

 schools. In last Sunday's Record-Herald 

 appeared an interview Tvith Uncle John 

 Thorpe in which that veteran lover of 

 flowers emphatieallv expressed his dis- 

 approval of the act barring flowers from 

 the schools. 



The Ernst Wienhoeber Floral Co. has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $2.5,000. The incorporators are Ernst 

 Wienhoeber, Helena Wienhoeber, and 

 George W. Wienhoeber. 



Lilac and similar outdoor flowers are 

 still reaching the market in enormous 

 quantities. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The retail cut llmver trade the past 

 week has been in a condition of sum- 

 mer dullness, the glut of stock at the 

 wholesale houses of the previous week 

 continuing, but the amount of really 

 first-class stock is limited and hardly 

 sufficient to meet the demand, while 

 the second grade stuff makes up the 

 glut. The stock is extremely poor and 

 the hot weather of late has affected 

 roses in particular and Brides and 

 Maids are badly mildewed and with bad 

 foliage. Koses are hard to sell. Good 

 long Beauties are bringing now from 

 $2 to $3 per dozen. 8ome really good 

 stock came from Annnann 's the past 

 week. The first quality in smaller roses 

 is from $4 to $5 per 100; second stuff, 

 $1 and $2, much cheaper in 1,000 lots. 



Carnations are still with us in great 

 quantities and are sold very cheap. The 

 quality is not so good as it was and is 

 showing the effect of the hot weather. 

 Crocker and Hill are classed among the 

 best keepers; Daybreak varies greatly 

 in quality, still some have good color 

 yet. 



Out-door stuff is about over; tulips 

 and Narcissus poeticus are done for; 

 lilac, too, is over; same with out-door 

 valley; so paeonies and Cape Jasmine 

 are about the oniy salable out-door 

 stock in the market .iust now. Some 

 of our growers will soon begin throw- 

 ing out and transplanting and prices 

 are not likely to go uj) until then. 



The plant dealers generally report 

 trade in their line very good. All kinds 

 of plants are selling well, especially 

 moon vines and geraniums; of the for- 

 mer hardly enough of them are in the 

 market for the demand. 



Various Items. 



Soma of the retail tlorists got to- 

 gether last week to talk over a plan 

 of etfecting an organization to be called 

 "The Retail Florists' and Growers' 

 Association," the membership to be lim- 

 ited to legitimate retail florists and 

 growers only. This oi-ganization is to 

 be independent of the local florist club, 

 and by the time fall business starts up 

 the fakirs, cheap Johns and crajie 

 chasers will have a hard row to hoe in 

 St. Louis. The first meeting will be 

 called by the end of the month. 



Missouri's exhibits at the Pan-Amer- 

 ican Exposition won three hundred and 

 eleven medals. Mr. Chas. C. Bell, treas- 

 urer of the Missouri commission to the 

 exposition, says one first prize went to 

 Missouri strawberries and the other to 

 Missouri apples. Agriculture, horticul- 

 ture, mines and mining, dairy products, 

 education and forestry embraced Mis- 

 souri's exhibits. Three of the six ex- 

 hibits were awarded gold medals, five 



received silver medals and five won 

 bronze medals. Missouri's horticultural 

 exhibit won ten gold, six silver and 

 eighty-four bronze medals. Mr. Bell 

 states that the record made by Missouri 

 apples for their attractive appearance 

 and their commercial qualities was a rev- 

 elation to even the best-informed per- 

 sons. Mr. Bell also says that the 

 awards of the Charleston Exposition 

 will be made in about ten days. 



The Englemann Botanical Club held 

 its regular semi-monthly meeting on last 

 Monday evening. May 12, in the botan- 

 ical room of the high school. The work 

 of the club in the beautifying of St. 

 Louis was reviewed and new work 

 planned. Suggestions were made that 

 the children be instructed and encour- 

 aged to gather seeds from their plants 

 during the summer. To aid in this 

 woik some small pasteboard boxes will 

 be secured and distributed among those 

 who make application for them. Mr. 

 Chandler, of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, gave an interesting talk on 

 ' ' Commercial Fruit Culture. ' ' Mr. 

 Chandler spoke from practical experi- 

 ence. The seed committee reported that 

 over 65,000 packages of seeds had been 

 distributed among the school children. 

 Thfi tree planting committee have in 

 their hands printed instructions as to 

 tree planting. 



Bowlinj;. 



The bowlers met at Pabst's new alleys 

 on Sixth street, and will from now on 

 make these their home alleys. Arthur Elli- 

 son says he will accept Capt. Lang's 

 challenge, both to roll on their home 

 alleys five games and telegraph the 

 scores to the Florists' EEvaEw, and let 

 Mr. Grant decide who is the best bowler. 

 Each can have a space roller with him, 

 also a foul line judge. Now, Captain, 

 let 's hear from you and see if we can 't 

 arrange this match for the first week in 

 June. We will appoint our friend Shaw 

 to represent St. Louis and will go by 

 what he says. Mr. Lang can do the 

 same and appoint someone in St. Louis 

 to act for him in this mat<'h. 



The rolling Monday night was as fol- 

 lows : 



H. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Total. 



Ellison J76 187 183 546 



ncMir-ke 15 12« 179 2ilO 511 



MUliT 35 143 1G5 179 487 



WpbiT 35 139 IBC ](ic> 471 



Kills .35 131 160 166 457 



Kuehn 11 143 162 148 553 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



We have been weeding and watering 

 and frogging, and incidentally planting 

 out carnations in the rural districts for 

 the past three weeks, and our news of 

 Buffalo is imaginary or obtained at long 

 range. From all accounts, with the ex- 

 ception of a day or two occasionally, 

 business has been quite good. There is 

 not the usual surplus of flowers which 

 has been often visible at this time of 

 year. 



Washington Market is now a busy 

 place. There is really a great quantity 

 of plants sold there during May and 

 June. Mr. Weiss does a thriving busi- 

 ness the year round, and John Pickel- 

 nian keeps it going perennially, and doz- 

 ens of others. The only trouble with 

 the market is the price of their rents ; 

 $.50 to $100 a year is all they pay and 

 thousands of people go there expressly to 

 do their purchasing. It is really a better 

 opportunity to come in contact with and 

 show your wares to the public than a 



shop on our main streets, that pay front 

 one to five thousand ' a year. Markets 

 were instituted or evolved, I beUeve, 

 with the idea that they were necessary 

 as a means for the farmer or producer 

 to exchange his produce with the city re- 

 tailer, but things have entirely changed. 

 It is nothing now but a great retail con- 

 glomeration, and don't think for a mo- 

 ment that it's the poor or wage-earning 

 class only that will be found doing their 

 shopping in these markets ; not by any 

 means; it's the thrifty and penurior.s of 

 all classes. Mrs. Electric Light always 

 likes to buy her poultry of Mrs. Kachel 

 Pullett, and so she gets her plants aui? 

 flowers there, too, and Mrs. Natural Gas 

 knows there are no vegetables so fresh 

 as those of Catherine Auldkrout, and so' 

 gets her geraniums and hanging uaskets 

 of John, whose stall is next door. 



It would, in my opinion, be better for 

 the whole community if this retail busi- 

 ness was confined to storekeepers, who 

 could then better pay their rents and 

 help to build up many different parts of 

 the city. As for doing any chicken or 

 banana buying there myself, I would 

 rather spend a week assisting Mr. Car- 

 mody to put up his ventilating apparatus- 

 in the new wing which I understand has 

 just been added to Hades and for which 

 he has the contract. As it is mostly to- 

 accommodate Indiana people, it is just 

 that his meat saw should go there. 



The weather deserves a passing word. 

 After the 20th of April we scarcely ever 

 get a frost till about Decoration Day,, 

 and then only occasionally and very 

 slight. On the morning of the 9th and 

 10th we had four degrees of frost and 

 two degrees for the next two mornings. 

 Peaches, cherries, pears and early apples 

 were in full bloom, but how much harm 

 is done we don't know yet. I do know, 

 however, that 1,500 White Cloud carna- 

 tions planted on Thursday afternoon the 

 Sth, looked at noon next Saturday mora 

 like little bunches of straw than growing 

 plants, and some had a kink in their ver- 

 tebra that will plainly indicate where 

 they should be stopped. We have every 

 hope they will come out all right andjhis 

 is no reason why we should not mve 

 planted, even by the first of May, for then 

 they would have been better prepared 

 and we may never get again such a frost 

 in twenty years. 



Once more there has been perpetrated 

 in our park department and city an out- 

 rage. No milder word will fill the bill. 

 Ever since the lamented McMillan was 

 asked for his resignation the position of 

 superintendent of North Park and our 

 smaller parks, except South Park, where 

 Prof. .lohn F. Cowell presides over the- 

 Botanic Garden, has been filled by an 

 amiable gentleman who knew nothing 

 about park management in any form or 

 sense, but he had under him an able, all- 

 round park man. James Braik, and on 

 him devolved the care of our parks, bufi 

 for charity's sake the figurehead dia 

 very well. To remove him to give the* 

 position to an able park man, or to the 

 man who has really done the work with- 

 out the honor or emolument, would be 

 not only right but justice to the tax- 

 payers and would be in any but a polit- 

 ically ridden, machine bossed community. 



All who know the ability and worth of 

 Mr. Braik hoped fervently that if a" 

 change was to be made by the new board 

 that our beautiful parks would be freed 

 from cliques and favoritism but, no, alas, 

 one incompetent is dismissed and a worse 

 one put in his jilace. The new assistant 



