June 26. 190i:. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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to $4 per 100. Good hardy ferns are 

 somewhat scarce and are in good demand, 

 also asparagus and galas leaves. 



Notes. 



The World 's Fair officials are nego- 

 tiating with Mrs. L. Tesson for 1,500 ft. 

 frontage of her property on the Skinner 

 road, which will be reserved for the Hor- 

 ticultural Palace and displays. Near it 

 will be the ten acres for the Government 's 

 experimental farm. 



Frederick W. Taylor, Chief of Horti- 

 culture for World's Fair, and J. W. 

 Schuette have returned from Milwaukee 

 where they attended the annual conven- 

 tion of nurserymen. Both are much 

 pleased with their trip. 



Visitors in town last Thursday were 

 F. W. Ude, Jr., W. Winter and A. Ber- 

 dan, of Kirkwood, J. W. Dunford of 

 Central and J. F. Ammann, of Edwards- 

 ville. All attended the club meeting at 

 Belleville. 



Mrs. John M. Hudson has gone to New 

 York to spend the summer with her 

 daughter, Mrs. L. Cores. 



Frank Fillmore, son of F. J. Fillmore, 

 who attends to nearly all the business 

 at his father's place, celebrated his 

 twenty-first birthday last week. His 

 mother presented him with an elegant 

 gold watch and chain. His grandfather, 

 Francis Fillmore, who is very proud of 

 his grandson, was present. 



Mrs. M. M. Ayres, the Grand avenue 

 florist, lost her two fine delivery wagons 

 by fire last week. The loss is estimated 

 at $600. Both horses were saved. 



The Beyer Bros, are very busy just 

 now remodeling and repainting their 

 plant. Carl reports that when through 

 with their work he will be with the boys 

 again every Monday night at the bowl- 

 ing alleys. 



Lost. John W. Kunz. Any informa- 

 tion regarding him will be cheerfully re- 

 ceived by his friends in the florist busi- 

 ness, who are anxious to know his where- 

 abouts. 



George Augermuller, bookkeeper for 

 C. A. Kuehn, is back at his post after 

 a week's illness. 



R. J. Mohr, of the Plant Seed Co., is 

 back from the South and reports a good 

 trade on his first trip out. 



Club Meeting. 



The June club meeting at Belleville 

 last Thursday was a great affair. The 

 meeting opened at 3 o 'clock in the Com- 

 mercial Club rooms with President Mein- 

 liardt in the chair and twenty-four mem- 

 bers present. Dr. A. S. Halstedt intro- 

 duced the Hon. John B. Hay, Mayor of 

 Belleville, who welcomed the St. Louis 

 florists and after a few appropriate re- 

 marks told the boys that the city was 

 theirs for the day and to come often. 

 The different committees reported and 

 were continued for nn.al reports at next 

 meeting. Fred S. Plant, of the Plant 

 Seed Co., was elected a member of the 

 club. The vacancy on the board of 

 trustees was filled by the election of Wil- 

 liam Adels. The trustees were requested 

 to make arrangements for the annual out- 

 ing to be held at Priester's Park, near 

 Belleville, the latter part of July. 



Mr. C. E. Fleming, of the L. & N. 

 E. E., was present and made a few re- 

 marks about Asheville and how to travel 

 the best and cheapest way. The fare 

 will be one fare for the round trip, which 

 is $20. J. J. Beneke was appointed by the 



chair to look after transportation to the 

 convention of the S. A. F. 



Mr. Carew Sanders gave a very inter- 

 esting talk on his trip to California, 

 which was listened to by the members 

 with close attention. The talk was main- 

 ly on what he saw in the way of plants, 

 flowers, trees and shrubs. 



A committee was appointed to see the 

 telephone people and have the wholesale 

 florists listed under a separate heading of 

 "Wholesale men". As it is now they are 

 listed under the same heading as the re- 

 tail florists, which simply reads ' ' Flor- 

 ists". The committee consists of Thomas 

 Miller, C. A. Kuehn, F. M. Ellis and J. J. 

 Beneke. 



Mr. J. W. Dunford extended an invita- 

 tion to the club to hold its July meeting 

 at their place, which was accepted; af- 

 ter which Mr. J. F. Ammann invited the 

 members to hold their August meeting at 

 Edwardsville, which was also accepted. 

 So the nomination of officers will take 

 place at Mr. Dunford 's place and the 

 election will be held at Edwardsville. As 

 these outside meetings always draw a 

 large attendance, a grand time is expec- 

 ted at each place. 



A question from the box read ' ' What 

 is a wholesale man who makes bridal 

 bouquets and takes the bread out of the 

 retailer's mouth?" The answer was that 

 he is a cannibal. 



The meeting then adjourned to the 

 bowling alleys below where a fine lunch 

 was spread and a few games were bowled 

 by all hands before the regular match 

 game with the Stars of Belleville. In 

 the All Hands game Max Herzog, our 

 heavy weight, broke up the game by his 

 long run of poodles. Windier, Winter, 

 Jablousky, Halstedt, Sr. and Halstedt, 

 Jr. all rolled fair games. After this the 

 match game started with the Belleville 

 Stars, of which Mr. E. W. Guy is a mem- 

 ber. We won the first game and lost the 

 next two. A return match will be played 

 Monday night on our alleys at St. Louis. 



The scores were as follows : 



Florists. 12 3 Total. 



Beneke 200 14S 146 494 



Kuehn 1.S4 161 163 460 



Meyer 216 126 163 503 



Sturtz 183 . 132 161 476 



EUlsoa 166 133 209 508 



899 700 844 2443 



.Stars 827 834 849 2530 



Bowling. 



The bowling club entertained the 

 Belleville Star bowling team Monday 

 night, and again after winning the open- 

 ing game lost the other two. Young 

 Meyer was in poor form and more or 

 less responsible for the loss of the sec- 

 ond game. The score was as follows: 



Florists. 12 3 Total. Ave. 



Beneke 16S 164 148 480 160 



Kuehn 189 147 152 488 162 2-3 



Meyer 116 113 139 368 122 2-3 



Sturtz 195 173 156 624 174 2-3 



Ellison 210 197 132 539 179 2-3 



S7S 794 719 2399 159 14-15 

 Stars 813 817 814 2444 162 4-15 



Those who did not fake part in the 

 match game rolled among themselves 

 with P. C. Weber again high man. this 

 gave Mr. Weber a good lead for the first 

 prize. The series will end next Mon- 

 day night. The scores were: 



No. 1 2 3 Total. 



F. C. Weber 35 179 174 167 520 



Tho. Miller 30 159 179 155 493 



Will Adels 35 ISO 142 148 470 



F. M. Ellis .35 119 174 150 443 



John Young 35 154 143 128 425 



J. J. B. 



ONCINNATL 



Trade has been highly satisfactory 

 from all points of view during the past 

 week. Th(i demand for stock has been 

 remarkably active; a shortening in the 

 supply has helped things wonderfully, 

 and prices had an upward tendency. A 

 spell of cool weather has also added its 

 influence and there is a marked improve- 

 ment in many kinds of stock. 



The retail stores, too, were doing a 

 good business and every morning there 

 is a rush at the commission houses that 

 sometimes resembles a bargain counter 

 at a dry goods store. The buyer is fast 

 recognizing the fact that the early bird 

 gets the fattest worm, and many florists 

 are waiting about the doors of the whole- 

 sale houses before the latter have opened 

 in the morning. 



All this has its effect on the market, 

 and generally ends in helping to fill the 

 purse of the grower. It goes without say- 

 ing that the wholesale man is also bene- 

 fited and I believe that the retaUer is 

 also, as when flowers are scarce business 

 is plentiful, and vice versa. 



The cool spell did wonders for the car- 

 nation and I doubt if there is another 

 market that is receiving a better grade 

 of carnation than Cincinnati is at pres- 

 ent. Although a week ago it looked as if 

 the carnation had seen its finish for this 

 season, a few cool days told another story, 

 and I do not doubt that the first of July 

 will see a Defter grade of them in this 

 market than ever before at that time. 

 White ones are scarce. Bed is holding out 

 very well as to color and size. Ordinary 

 grades in all colors bring 75 cents to $1 

 per 100; medium and fancy, $1.50 and 

 $2.00. 



Eoses, too, are doing nicely and any- 

 thing fit to sell is sold out clean and 

 quick. The demand for them is much 

 greater than the supply, so the price is 

 well sustained. There are great quanti- 

 fies of red roses, both Liberty and Me- 

 teor, to be had and this color is the only 

 one that you are sure of getting at all 

 times. Some very good Beauties are seen 

 at times and the best of them are first 

 class and bring $2.50 to $3 per doz., 

 other grades down to $1 per doz. The 

 very best Brides, Bridesmaids, Liberties, 

 etc., bring 5 to 6 cents, others 2 to 4 

 cents, and, owing to scarcity, these figures 

 are well sustained. 



In other stock. Sweet peas are very 

 slow sale and the majority go for 25 

 cents per 100, and many at less. A few 

 paeonies are still to be seen but they 

 meet slow sale. Although there is a very 

 good demand for longiflorum lilies there 

 are next to none to be had. It would pay 

 some large grower of this bulb to try this 

 market. 



Smilax is unusually fine and there is 

 enough to fill all orders at $12.50 to $15 

 per 100. Asparagus in strings and 

 bunches sells well at 50 cents each. East- 

 ern ferns are now in and bring $1.50 per 

 1,000. 



Notes. 



The first out-door meeting of the Cin- 

 cinnati Florists' Society will be held on 

 .Inly 10th, Thursday, at Chas. Pommert's 

 farm at Amelia, Ohio. Trains going 

 leave Carvel street station. East End, at 

 9:15 and 11:25 a. m. and returning leave 

 Amelia at 4 p. m. The majority of the 

 florists will take the 11:25 train. Every- 

 one is invited to be present. 



JNIr. J. T. Congers' loss by hail is 



