May 29. 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



East Front of Horticultural Building at Pan-American Exposition, with Statuary in Fortground. 



entertaining the members and nothing 

 will be left undone to make it pleasant 

 for aJl, and a great time is anticipated. 



A New Firm. 



Bentzeu & Eueter Floral Co., -who are 

 new to the florists of St. Louis, are put- 

 ting up two new houses, each 35x110 ft., 

 which are almost completed, at Marcus 

 and Margaretta avenues. They expect 

 to build quite a range to be ready at the 

 time of the World's Fair. St. Louis is 

 ripe for a big plant that will grow good 

 stock and plenty of it. Mr. Bentzen of 

 the Bentzen Commission Co., of St. Louis 

 reports that neither he nor his firm are 

 in any way connected with the above 

 firm. 



Notes. 



Mr. Smith, representing the Walter 

 Mott Seed and Bulb Co., reports a fine 

 trade. His trip west was a great suc- 

 cess. 



George M. Kellogg of Pleasant HiU, 

 Mo., was a visitor the past week. Mr. 

 K. is supplying this market with plenty 

 of fine stock. 



Mrs. Wm. Trelease, wife of Dr. Wm. 

 Trelease, of the Missouri Botannical 

 Garden, has been appointed a delegate 

 to the National Conference of Charities 

 and Corrections to be held at Detroit, 

 May 28 to June 3. 



Ellison & Tesson will, on June 1, 

 remove from 625 Olive street to 622 

 Locust street, corner of 7th. Mr. A. T. 

 Ellison, of the above firm, has a very 

 important engagement (matrimonial) 

 booked for the near future and he would 

 like to roll that match game with Cap- 

 tain Lang before the date for filling 

 the above engagement. 



Fred H. Weber has left the employ- 

 ment of his uncle, Fred C. Weber, and 

 leaves tonight (Tuesday) for Kansas 

 City, Mo., to take a position with George 



M. Kellogg in the wholesale and retail 

 department. Fred is a very clever young 

 man and Mr. Kellogg can congratulate 

 himself in securing this young man. We 

 wish him luck. 



Bowling. 



The attendance was very slim at the 

 bowling club Monday night and the fol- 

 loTving scores were made: 



H. 1 2 3 Total. 



Theo. Miller 35 171 140 192 603 



A. Y. Ellison 139 173 191 603 



John Sturtz 15 159 ISl 204 544 



J. J. Bencke 15 168 132 184 478 



F M. ElUs 35 ... 128 161 289 



J. J. B. 



THE PAN-AMERICAN. 



It is a little late for Pan-American 

 pictures, but it seemed to us that the 

 accompanying engraving from a photo- 

 graph of the east front of the Horticul- 

 tural Building should be placed on rec- 

 ord. It is especially interesting in that 

 it so clearly shows 'the superb statuary 

 that stood in and around the water 

 basin. 



In the center is a fountain composed 

 of various symbolical figures, surmount- 

 ed by the Goaaess of Light. It was as 

 fine "a piece of work as there was on the 

 grounds. To the right and left are seen 

 groups symbolizing various handicrafts. 



At the right in the foreground is a 

 group representing Flora in her chariot, 

 holding aloft a garland of flowers, while 

 across the basin, at the left in the pic- 

 ture is a group representing Pomona. 



The artists have here very cleverly 

 embodied the spirit of Horticulture and 

 we have pleasure in presenting a pic- 

 torial record of this artistic achieve- 

 ment. 



You have the best advertising paper 

 in the country. I sold all my plants in 

 two weeks by giving you my advertise- 

 ment.— J. L. Ei-LIOTT, Bethlehem, Pa. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



Trade Notes. 



This has been one of the best bed- 

 ding seasons in recent years. One week 

 before Decoration or Memorial Day and 

 95 pe,r cent of all the good bedding 

 plants are sold or ordered for future 

 planting. The weather has been fine 

 during the past four weeks and there 

 has been little fear of frost. Last year 

 there were no pseonies open by June 1st, 

 but this year only the latest varieties 

 will be in good condition at that time. 

 All other flowers will be plentiful, espe- 

 cially carnations, of which nearly all the 

 larger growers have an over supply just 

 at present. Perhaps the large cut of 

 pieonies has had some effect on the sale 

 of otter flowers and it is a good thing 

 that their season is short. Like the 

 chrysanthemum they carry everything 

 before them when they are in season, but 

 everybody is glad when they are gone 

 for another twelve-month. Eoses are 

 showing the effects of the hot weather 

 quite badly and but few really good roses 

 are seen. 



In bedding plants there is a decided 

 shortage of good geraniums and salvias, 

 although everybody had their usual sup- 

 ply and several had more than usual. 

 There seems to be a falling off in the 

 demand for trailing plants, people are 

 planting vases with only geraniums or 

 onlv cannas or salvias and no drooping 

 vines. This will not likely last, how- 

 ever, as there is certainly more beauty 

 in a vase well filled with vines and 

 plants than where the vines are left out. 

 By midsummer the vines are the only 

 pretty plants in a great many vases and 

 without them there will be many a 

 shabby looking vase around the city. ^ 



Kobt. McKean'd, who has been renting 

 the cut flower department from Hunt- 

 ington & Page since Jan. 1, has turned 



