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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 21. 1902 



OUR TITLE PAGE. 



It may bo of interest to our readers 

 to know that the young lady who posed 

 for the picture on our title page is a 

 daughter of Mr. J. Austin Shaw, New 

 York, whose stage name is Zana Austin, 

 and who was so popular a footlight 

 favorite in "The Burgomaster." 



Everybody in the trade knows Mr. 

 Shaw, but a comparative few knew that 

 he had three daughters on the stage. The 

 one who appears on our title page is the 

 youngest. 



Mr. Shaw, by the way, is the Eastern 

 representative of The Florists' Review 

 for New York and vicinity. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The cut flower business seems to have 

 but little life at present, and nearly all 

 report very little doing in anything ex- 

 cept a little funeral work now and then. 

 Good stock of all kinds is scarce. 



The roses that come in are soft and, 

 unless there is work on hand requiting 

 their immediate use, there is not much de- 

 mand for them. They sell for 2 and 3 

 cents, and only the select stock brings 4 

 cents. In Beauties some fair blooms 

 were seen the past week that brought 75 

 cents to $2 per dozen. 



Carnations are somewhat scarce, that 

 is, good stuff. Plenty of poor, short- 

 stemmed ones are in the market at 75 

 cents. Good blooms demand $1.50 per 

 100. 



Auratum lilies sell at 75 cents and $1 

 per dozen. Outdoor stuff, such as hy- 

 drangeas, gladioli, tuberoses and asters, 

 is plentiful and hard to sell, except 

 white asters, which always find a market 

 at $1 per 100. 



The outlook for better stock is very 

 promising. The young rose stock is in 

 very good condition. Carnations in the 

 fields and houses also look good. Violet 

 plants in most places are reported as 

 being very fine, owing to the recent good 

 rains. 



Qub Meeting. 



The club had another of those de- 

 lightful outdoor meetings, this time at 

 the home of Bro. J. F. Ammann, at Ed- 

 wardsville, 111. Twenty-nine florists 

 made the trip on the electric cars. Of 

 these, twenty were members of the club 

 and nine were visitors. The visitors 

 were Messrs. Gross, Pilcher and Berdan, 

 of Kirkwood, Mo.; E. W. Guy, J. Clark 

 and Joe Kaiser, of Belleville; F. B. Call, 

 of Central; Thos. Klockenkemper and 

 Mr. Frow, Jr., of St. Louis. 



Before the meeting was called to order 

 the craft inspected the new houses of 

 Mr. Ammann, which contain 25,000 feet 

 of glass. In the six houses are grown 2,000 

 Beauties, 1,500 Meteors, 1,000 Brides- 

 maids, 1,000 Brides and 1,000 Golden 

 Gates. Seven thousand carnations are 

 grown consisting of Lawson, White 

 Cloud, Crane, Flora Hill, Angel, Joost 

 and Morning Glory. The new ventilator 

 system, by Wolf, of Dayton, Ohio, is 

 very practical and was highly spoken of. 

 All the plants are in excellent shape and 

 great things are expected of them this 

 winter. Mr. C. A. Kuehn receives the 

 output. 



The meeting was then called to order 

 by President Meinhardt. After the regu- 

 lar order of business and reports of com- 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



mittees were finished the election of ofii- 

 cers took place. J. W. Dunford. the only 

 nominee for president, was elected by 

 acclamation to fill the chair for the com- 

 ing year. Mr. Dunford made a neat 

 speech for the good of the club. For 

 vice-president Geo. B. Windier, E. J. 

 Mohr and Henry Emundt were the noni- \ 

 inees. The first ballot resulted in a tie 

 between Windier and Mohr. The sec- 

 ond ballot elected Mr. Geo. B. Windier. 

 Emil Schray for secretary and J. .1. Be- 

 neke for treasurer were elected by accla- 

 mation, having no opposition. Wm. 

 Adels, F. M. Ellis, H. Berning, John 

 Steidle and C. J. Juengel were the nom- 

 inees for three trustees. Messrs. Steidle, 

 Ellis and Juengel were elected on the 

 first ballot. 



The secretary's report showed that 

 the average attendance during the year 

 was fifteen, the largest single attendance 

 w-as twenty-six and the smallest was 

 seven. The club started the year with 

 fifty active members and closed with 

 forty-nine. The treasurer's report 

 showed a balance in the treasury of 

 $31.12. Mr. F. B. Call made applica- 

 tion for membership. 



Chas. J. Juengel, state vice-president 

 of the S. A. F., was called upon and 

 made a few remarks regarding conven- 

 tion matters and hoped to see all the 

 brothers become members of the Society 

 of American Florists, especially as we 

 expect to bring the convention to St. 

 Louis in 1904, during the World's Fair. 



The Review was complimented and 

 given a vote of thanks for the excellent 

 photograph of Mr. Ammann, which was 

 distributed among the members as a sou- 

 venir during the meeting. 



After a long discussion on boilers and 

 greenhouse apparatus the meeting ad- 

 journed, after which the members sat 

 down to an elegant lunch on the lawn, 

 which was prepared by Mrs. Ammann, 

 assisted by her three young daughters. 



It was a most pleasant meeting and 

 the members are with me in extending 

 to Mr. and Mrs. Ammann a vote of 

 thanks for their very pleasant entertain- 

 ment, and Aug. 14th, 1902, will long be 

 remembered by those who made the trip. 



Convention Matters. 



This being convention week, by the 

 time this issue is in the hands of our 

 readers the craft will be enjoying them- 

 selves at Asheville. The delegation 

 from here is small and left Sunday night 

 at 9 o'clock over the B. & O. to Cincin- 

 nati to travel on the florists' special to 

 Asheville. Those who went were Mr. 

 and Mrs. P. C. Weber, son and daugh- 

 ter, G. B. Wiudler, John Connon, George 

 Waldbart; Mr. J. T. D. Fulmer and 

 daughter, of Des Moines, Iowa, and G. 

 M. Kellogg, Pleasant HUl, Mo. Mr. C. 

 C. Sanders left Monday morning over the 

 L. & N. We hope everybody will have 

 a. good time, and we are for Cincinnati 

 for the next convention and hope that 

 Philadelphia will win the bowling match. 



J. J. B. 



not easily disappointed. Asters, which 

 were our mainstay, are getting scarcer 

 and scarcer every day, and what few 

 are left are proving to be good feed for 

 the aster bug, which is making its ap- 

 pearance by the thousand and whole 

 fields are swept clean in a day's time. 

 Asters from the north are about due, 

 and their arrival will be hailed with joy 

 by the retailer, as there is scarcely any- 

 thing now with which to make a show. 



Carnations that are any way near good 

 are eagerly sought after, and as the sup- 



Business has been very quiet during 

 the past week, as much, perhaps, on ac- 

 count of the scarcity of good stock as 

 anything else. But at this period of 

 the year not much is expected, so we are 



Geo. B. Windier, Vice-President-elect of the 

 St. Louis Florists' Club. 



ply is very limited, many more could be 

 uisposed of to advantage, especially 

 white, which, if good, brings a very good 

 price. Field-grown stock is most plenti- 

 ful, but its quality is very poor, and it 

 is hard to move. 



More roses are to be seen than any- 

 thing else, but the majority of them are 

 small, short-stemmed stock and move 

 very slowly, except where they are used in 

 funeral work, now and then. 



The return of the Cincinnati ball team 

 from its eastern trip furnished occasion 

 for a little work. B. P. Critchell and 

 R. A. Kelly made a large piece some 8 

 ft. liigh and T. W. Hardesty also sent a 

 very large and handsome design, both 

 being emblematic of base ball. 



The first chrysanthemums of the sea- 

 son arrived in this city Aug. 12th from 

 Mrs. E. T. Grave, Richmond, Ind. They 

 were consigned to E. G. Gillett, whole- 

 sale florist. The variety was Lady 

 Fitzwygram, white, and though the 

 stems were short, the flowers were of fair 

 size, considering their earliness. They 

 brought .$1.00 per dozen. Several ship- 

 ments have arrived since that time, in- 

 cluding some yellow ones. As it is 

 rather unusual to have mums in so early, 

 they were quite a novelty. 



A' bunch of Graves' new carnation 

 President McKinley, which was sent to 

 this city during the past week, showed 

 up remarkably well. The flowers were 

 of good size, fair length of stem and of 

 a pleasing dark-pink color, which was 

 very brilliant under artificial light. 



