June 5, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



41 



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View in Show House of Mr. Samuel Murray, Kansas City, at Easter. 



year. PEeonies proved the right thing 

 at the ri^lit moment, neariy 50,000 being 

 sold during the week. 



Edward Eeid sent out 75,000 carn.a- 

 tions in the three days, May 28 to 30. 

 An order for 600 special Brides and 

 -Maids received late on Saturday when 

 everything was cleaned up was satisfac- 

 torilly filled in a few hours by ringing 

 up his growers. 



M. Eice, now on a business trip 

 through Italy, Switzerland, Germany 

 and France, is expected home the lat- 

 ter part of this month. Mr. Eice has 

 experienced very cold weather with 

 snow at Genoa, an almost unknown 

 thing there in ]\Iay. 



William Yeager, of Norristown, has 

 had splendid results with carnations 

 this season. 



Joseph Heacock is in the midst of a 

 very ditiicult piece of work — the removal 

 of the wooden gutters between his houses, 

 which are being replaced with new ones 

 of the best cypress. 



Harry Bayersdorfer will sail for Eu- 

 rope on the Kaizer Wilhclm on June 

 17. He expects to be absent until Oc- 

 tober, in order to have time to secure a 

 comprehensive collection of the rarest 

 and best florists' requisites that the con- 

 tinent affords. Mrs. Bayersdorfer will 

 accompany him. 



Edwin Londsdale has planted three 

 bouses of the new rose, Ivory, 



Paul E, Klingsporn, with George M. 

 Moss, will sail for Europe on June 10. 



Lord & Burnhani Company have 

 erected twelve fine greenhouses for 

 James W. Paul, Jr., president of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, at 

 his place on the main line P. E. E. It 

 is understood that the contract price is 

 $25,000. Joseph Harley will have 

 charge of this fine place. This firm are 

 to be congratulated on securing the ser- 

 vices of D. T. Connor, who will act as 

 their local representative. Mr. Connor 

 is well qualifieil to fill this position, well 

 known and very popular in tJorists' cir- 

 cles. 



G. C. Watson has sent out an earn- 



est appeal on behalf of Secretary Stew- 

 art, urging the gardeners and florists of 

 this vicinity to join the S. A. F. O. H., 

 and support President Burton by at- 

 tending the Ashevi41e convention. 

 A fl.ving change — 



Just for a da.v. 

 Austin to Broad Street^- 



Pliil to Broadway. 

 The club meeting on Tuesday night 

 was addressed by G. C. Watson who 

 told of his trip to Boston. A smoker 

 followed. 



W. K. Harris, president of the Flor- 

 ists' Gun Club, won the special prize 

 for members only in the contest at Wis- 

 sinoming. The scores were remarkable 

 considering the weather conditions. Mr. 

 Harris scoring a total of 60, with a 

 handicap of 15. This was not the best 

 work of the day, as George Anderson, 

 with a handicap of 9 targets, scored a 

 total of 59, breaking 50 straight. This 

 is quite a record for Anderson, as it has 

 been several years since a straight score 

 of 50 targets has been made on the Flor- 

 ists' grounds in a club contest. 



Phil. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Decoration Day trade around this lo- 

 cality was the same as usual, very little 

 doing in the city, and only those who 

 were close to the cemetery gates had 

 plenty of customers and were kept quite 

 busy all day. Cut flowers of all kinds 

 suddenly became scarce and a great deal 

 of dried stuff was used by those who 

 had orders ahead and could not get 

 fresh flowers with which to make them 

 up. Such is the life of a florist in St. 

 Louis. 



The first part of the past week flowers 

 were still very plentiful and very cheap, 

 but the latter part of the week all kinds 

 of flowers became scarce and good prices 

 again prevailed for the few that came 

 in. The trade was running from one 

 wholesale house to another and all with 

 the same answer — "Notliing in yet." 

 Prices went up and anything that came 



in was sold at a good price. The whole- 

 salers claim that the sudden shortage 

 was caused by most of the shippers 

 using their stock at home. 



The few roses that are coming in 

 are very poor and bring from $3 to $5 

 per 100. Very few long Beauties are 

 in and $2 to $3 per dozen is the price 

 for them. 



A good supply of Candidum lilies is 

 in and are selling at from $4 to $8 

 per 100 stalks. Pteonies are all out and 

 there are plenty of Cape Jasmines in 

 the market at 75 cents per 100. The 

 wholesale commission men on Third 

 street are handling most of them just 

 now. 



Carnations are very much in demand ' 

 and almost anything good brought 2 

 cents Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 

 White had the greatest call, as plenty 

 of funeral work was in on those days. 

 Sweet peas are now in quite plentiful 

 at 50 cents per 100 for top prices, 

 while the bulk go at 25 and 35 cents. 

 Field daisies are sold at 35 cents per 

 100. A great deal of smilas was sold 

 for Decoration day work at $15 per 100 

 strings. The supply was plentiful and 

 the quality good. Galax leaves, too, 

 had a good call at the usual prices. 



Notes. 



Miss Theresa Badara<;co, of 1308 Olive 

 street, is making preparations for a two 

 months' trip to West Baden Springs. 

 She will also visit Chicago before re- 

 turning home. Miss Theresa has had a 

 most successful season. 



Miss Martha Herzog, daughter of Max 

 Herzog, was married last Thursday to 

 Mr. Ernest Hentscher. Mr. Hentscher 

 is in the employ of his father-in-law. 

 Both of the young people are happy at 

 the old homestead at Gratiot. We wish 

 them much luck and happiness. 



E. J. Mohr, of the Plant Seed Co., left 

 Saturday night on a trip South in the 

 interest of the house. Eudolph says he 

 will be back in time for the .Tune meet- 

 ing of the florist club, of which he is 

 one of the trustees. 



