July 31, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



279 



A Group at the picnic of the St. Louis Florists' Club. 



(Photo by Oscar C. Kuehn, 



Frank Ellis and Charlie Kuehn locked 

 up and brought out their whole families 

 and had a good time. 



J. W. Dunford (our next president) 

 came all the way from Central with his 

 family. His next door neighbor, John 

 Steidle, with his family, was also seen 

 enjoying himself. 



K. W. Guy, Adolph Felir, Gus Grossart 

 and Henry Emundt, of Belleville, were on 

 hand, accompanied by their families. 

 They will never miss another picnic by 

 the club, so they say. 



Fred Weber and his family came early 

 and had a good time. Miss Dora Weber 

 and Charlie Britshoe came as their guests. 

 Fred, Jr., and Herman Weber came in 

 time to enjoy a pleasant evening. 



Eudolph Mohr had his mother and 

 sister come all the way from Omaha to 

 attend the picnic. 



Will Adels brought three ladies, and 

 between attending to his duty as trustee 

 and pleasing the ladies, had his hands 

 full. 



Otto Koenig came alone and looked 

 lost, but says he had a gocd time with 

 ■old acquaintances. 



ilax Herzog, Dick Frow, Frank Gutz- 

 man and Fred Gobel were talking over 

 old times. They were all accompanied 

 Ijy their wives. 



Mr. Pileher and his wife were the 

 ■only ones from Kirkwood. They en- 

 joyed the sports very much. 



Oscar Kuehn and Miss Bokern were 

 out for an afternoon's fun anct they 

 liad it. 



World's Fair Notes, 



The World 's Fair directors report that 

 the Horticultural Palace will be 1,000 

 feet long and 5,000 feet wide. The 

 building will be erected on the wooded 

 hill to the south of the Agricultural 

 Palace. The whole hillside where it 

 ■slopes down to the Agricultural Palace 

 will be treated in the highest form of 

 landscape art. South of the Horticul- 

 iural Palace and inunediately adjoining 



has been reserved for an extensive outside 

 horticultural display. 



The H. G. Berning baseball team, 

 made uji of employes and outside flor- 

 ists, will jilay a game with the B. F. Tes- 

 son ball team Sunday afternoon on the 

 latter 's grounds. There is considerable 

 betting on the result, and each team is 

 training hard for the battle. The result 

 will be given later. 



Bo'wling. 



At the bowling club only eiglit men 

 were on hand when the bowling started 

 and two teams were made up of four on 

 a side. Weber and Ellison were captains, 

 Ellison 's side winning two games out of 

 the three played. Kuehn, being in excel- 

 lent form, won the championship for 

 July from Weber by 28 pins. The fol- 

 lowing is the score: 



Ellison's Tm.lst. 2nd. Sri. Total. Ave. 



Kuehn 207 2(15 159 571 190 1-3 



Sanders 176 177 135 488 162 2-3 



Miller 149 162 183 494 164 2-3 



Ellison ..,.133 148 189 470 156 2-3 



Totals ...663 692 666 2023 168 7-12 



Weber's Tm. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Total. Ave. 



Weber 16J 177 153 490 163 1-3 



Sturtz 1.S3 164 182 529 176 1-3 



lieneUe 166 173 156 495 165 



Me.ver 162 171 165 498 166 



Totals ...731 685 656 2012 167 2-3 



This ended the July series, with Kuehn 

 as champion, with an average in twelve 

 games of 17(3 4-12; Weber, 174; Beneke, 

 167 8-12; Sturtz, 167 2-12; Meyer, 

 le.'? (i-12; Ellison. 160 8-12; Miller, 154. 



J. J, B. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions. 



This chapter could be made as short 

 as the famous one concerning the snakes 

 of Ireland, except that its reliability 

 might be more questioned, because there 

 is some little floral traffic here. But we 

 are handling all of it easily, but the 

 October-like weather keeps everything so 

 scarce that there is no waste of material. 



Kaiserins and new American Beauties 

 are coming in more freely than last week, 

 which keeps the rose question up to the 

 mark; sweet peas and pinks just about 

 hold their pace and asters are quite rap- 

 idly increasing, so that price upon the 

 latter is melting a bit. 



It is said, ' ' No one knows what a day 

 may bring forth," but almost any flor- 

 ist can make a broad guess as to what 

 a very few days of summer sunshine will 

 bring forth just now, especially in the 

 matter of sweet peas and asters. But as 

 yet there is hardly a sunny sign in this 

 the strangest of July months, 



Ne'ws and Rumors. 



There is the usual amount of summer 

 repairs going on, more noticeable at 

 Sutherland's than elsewhere, with the ex- 

 ception of Carbone's, already noted. W. 

 E. Doyle is occupying his new store on 

 Beacon street. 



Naturally there is much anxious com- 

 ment and inquiry concerning the coal sit- 

 uation. With ordinary success in grow- 

 ing there is none too much margin iu 

 growing the "smiles of nature" now, 

 and when the heavy coal bill looks in a 

 fair way to be doubled for the coming 

 winter, it is small wonder many glass 

 farmers look aghast. 



D. Iliffe, the popular pipefitter to the 

 Park street market, is rejuvenating Paul 

 Richwagen's, B. Montgomery's and Su- 

 termeister's heating aparatus and in- 

 stalling new boilers with his special fit- 

 tings for Thomas Capers. It is an ill 

 wind that blows nobody any good, and 

 what is chaff to the florist is wheat to 

 Piper Dan. 



Fellows Bros., of Hyde Park, Mass.. 

 and Bristol, N. H., have dissolved part- 

 nership, L. H., of Hyde Kai^, continuing 

 the business at that place and the 

 brother building two large new houses 

 at Saugus. 



J. Newman & Sous are also quite heav- 

 ily rebuilding at Winchester. 



The Brimstone Corners seem to be 



