September 4, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



479 



Elk Design in a Floral Parade. 



looking the picture of health. He has 

 several good offers under consideration, 

 but nothing doing as yet. 



Club Meeting. 



Don't forget the regular monthly 

 meeting of the club next Thursday after- 

 noon in the Odd Fellows' building. A 

 large attendance is expected at this in- 

 teresting meeting. There is a surprise in 

 store for the members in the installation 

 ceremonies, coupled with the work of 

 Brother Barnes of the Missouri Botani- 

 cal Garden. Vice-President-elect Windier 

 and F. C. Weber will tell us all about 

 the Asheville convention, so don't forget 

 to be on hand or you will miss a treat. 



Of Interest to Bowlers. 



The florist bowlers will be divided this 

 season. Kuehn, Sturtz and Beneke have 

 signed with the Unicum team, Ellison and 

 Meyer with the Diel Stars and Clark and 

 Beyer with the Turners, all of whom 

 will play in the same league. The best 

 of the florists will still keep up the Flor- 

 ists' Club team and roll every Monday 

 night. It will be made up of F. C. Weber, 

 John Young, C. C. Sanders, Theo Miller, 

 F. M. Ellis, William Adels, E. F. Tesson 

 and George Windier. The league bowlers 

 will be on hand on off nights and roll 

 with them. From this bunch of bowlers 

 a team will be made up in the spring to 

 bowl at Milwaukee next August. We 

 will keep our rivals throughout the coun- 

 try posted from time to time on our 

 progress. J. J. B. 



ELK DESIGN IN FLORAL PARADE. 



One of the finest floats ever seen in any 

 floral parade was made up by the Wind- 

 miller Oo., of Mankato, Minn. It was 

 during the Elks' carnival in that city that 

 Pauline Windmiller conceived the idea of 

 entering in the floral parade, and a huge 

 elk about eight feet high made up of 

 asters, achillea and various other flowers 

 and mounted on a large platform wagon, 

 decorated with floliage plants, was made 

 up on short notice and surprised the resi- 

 dents by its attractiveness. It easily 

 captured first honors. The ribbons were 

 handled by Miss Windmiller, representing 

 Columbia, and she was kept exceedingly 

 busy acknowledging the showers of ap- 

 plause bestowed upon her. C. C. P. 



And now the daily papers are talking 

 of "The Chrysanthemum Trust." If the 

 dream will only materialize the reporters 

 will be forgiven. 



ONdNNATL 



The Fall Festival. 



The Cincinnati Fall Festival, which 

 will be held this year from September 

 15 to 27, inclusive, is offering $500 as 

 premiums for table decorations, design 

 work and cut flowers, to be shown during 

 the festival. There will be two special 

 days on which the prizes will be com- 

 peted for, and as tuey are very liberal 

 a good display may be looked forward to. 

 The dates of the floral exhibits will be 

 Thursday, September 18, and Thursday, 

 September 25. Several have already ex- 

 pressed their intention of competing. 



The Market. 



There has been a slight improvement 

 in the condition of our market during 

 the past week. Not only were there 

 more flowers of better quality, but there 

 was a better demand. Nearly every one 

 had a little funeral work. Labor day 

 helped things out a little, and many 

 short-stemmed roses were disposed of for 

 button-hole bouquets. An improvement 

 is also noticed in other quarters, and it 

 is now only a question of a few weeks 

 till fall trade will open up and we will 

 forget the dull times during summer. 



All grades of stock are showing a 

 marked improvement, and a few weeks 

 of cool weather is what is most needed 

 now. Eoses are improving nicely, but 

 the number of Al stock is as yet ver>- 

 limited. The price has not changed any, 

 but is still as quoted last week, and it is 

 not likely to change for some time. Beau- 

 ties are coming in increased numbers, 

 and are first-class stock. The best grade 

 reaches $1.50 to $2 per dozen, with 

 snorter-stemmed ones at 75 cents to $1. 

 These blooms are really very good for 

 this time of the year, and meet a very 

 good demand. Some first-class Kaiserins 

 are to be had, and sell well. Meteors and 

 Liberties arrive in quantities, and sell 

 slowly. There is very little demand for 

 that color in any kind of flower at pres- 

 ent, except Beauty. 



Carnations are also improving, but as 

 yet few are being cut from indoors. 

 Field-grown blooms are about the same 

 as they always are, and 50 cents per 100 

 is top figure for them. Indoor stock 

 reaches $1, and there is a good demand 

 for it. Carnation plants were unusually 

 good about here this fall, and a first- 

 class crop of flowers is being looked for- 

 ward to by all growers. 



Asters from the north are beginning to 

 arrive, and they are first-class stock; 

 $1.50 per 100 is obtained for them, and 

 they sell very well. There are some 

 gladioli also that go well at 2 to 3 cents. 

 There is plenty of smilax and Asparagus 

 plumosus, and there will be good sale for 

 this stock durin gthe next few weeks, 

 owing to many decorations. 



Items. 



The annual "Harvest Home" at Green 

 township, near this city, took place last 

 Thursday. There were four florists who 

 exhibited for the premiums offered. They 

 were J. T. Conger, George Murphy, Bob- 

 ert Murphy and E. Eeutenschoer. The 

 latter took all of the premiums offered. 



Visitors during the past week were: 

 E. J. Fancourt and Martin Keukauf, 

 Pliiladelphia, Pa., and Frank Snyder, 

 Gallipolis, O. 



C. J. Ohmer. 



ST. PAUL. 



Trade and Personal Notes. 



A careful review of August business 

 shows a nice increase in trade over last 

 year's figures. 



Instead of being the dull season, Aug- 

 ust has been quite a busy month. Every- 

 thing grown by the average florist has 

 sold well. Eoses have been scarce, not 

 enough to meet the demand, and a great 

 many blooms have been shipped in. Car- 

 nations seem unusually scarce and many 

 thousand blooms have been purchased by 

 the store men. There has been an 

 abundance of sweet peas which have 

 been in good demand. 



The convention at Asheville is now 

 a matter of the past, but it very vrisely 

 decided to meet at Milwaukee next year. 

 This is cheering news to the Twin City 

 florists, who should attend in goodly 

 numbers. 



P. H. Anderson, well and favorably 

 known to the florists in this city, has 

 purchased the Campbell greenhouses in 

 St. Cloud and will conduct the business 

 hereafter under the firm name of the 

 Anderson Floral Co. Next year he ex- 

 pects to move the houses onto his own 

 land and build several more in addition. 



Stock at the Warrendale greenhouses 

 is in fine condition and promises well 

 for another season. The roses here are 

 all grown on their own roots. Club root 

 is unknown, and roses on their own roots 

 are said to produce more blooms than 

 grafted ones. 



Chris Hansen haa returned from his 

 visit to the Canadian Northwest much in- 

 vigorated in health. 



N. C. Hansen has his new carnation 

 house nearly completed. 



E. F. Leinke has his new range on 

 Hague avenue about finished. His range 

 on University avenue has all been newly 

 painted. 



L. L. May & Co. have their new houses 

 about completed, except the glazing. 

 Four of the houses have been planted 

 to roses. Eeeent rains washed the foun- 

 dations of one of the benches away so 

 that it fell to the ground under its 

 heavy load, necessitating the replanting 

 of it. 



A. S. Swanson is rebuilding the con- 

 servatory in connection with his city 

 store. • 



H. W. Bunde, it is rumored, will en- 

 gage in the florist business some time this 

 month. 



