October 1G, 1002. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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ST, LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The week just passed was fair week 

 in our city, which brought in a lot of 

 strangers to see the sights, but this did 

 not help the florists much. For the 

 Veiled Prophefs ball on Tuesday night 

 the trade was about the same as last 

 year. Long Beauties seemed to have 

 the preference over all other ilowers worn 

 at the ball. Meteors and Liberties had 

 second call. The Merchants' Exchange 

 Hall, where the ball was held, was hand- 

 somely decorated as in former years, and 

 due credit must be given the Riessen 

 Floral Co. for the way they did the work. 



Trade in cut flower lines was very good 

 the past week, mostly funeral work. 

 The first part of the week stock was 

 scarce and nearly everything sold out 

 early, but the latter part of the week it 

 became more plentiful. Chrysanthe- 

 mxuns, such as Fitzwygrams, Glory of 

 the Pacific, Mine. Bergmann and a few 

 Sunderbruch, are coming in better each 

 day and are selling in the stores at $3 

 per dozen. 



In roses there was a full supply of 

 choice Meteors. Brides, Maids, Gates, 

 Carnots and Perles. Beauties in all 

 classes seem more plentiful. All of the 

 above are of good quality and very little 

 mildew is seen. 



Carnations, too. were more plentiful 

 and are coming in with longer stems. 

 Flora Hill. Scott and Crane are among 

 the best. The demand for them the past 

 week was great and hardly enough came 

 in to supply it. 



Violets are very much better in color 

 and size, and California is the only 

 variety in the market. Cosmos, out- 

 door-grown, are being offered in large 

 quantities and sell well. Valley sent to 

 this market by Gieorge & Allan, of Cin- 

 cinnati, is of very fine quality. 



The dealers report the cut flower trade 

 as being very satisfactory. 



The St. Louis Fair. 



At the forty-second annual fair, held 

 last week by the St. Louis Agricultural 

 and Mechanical Association, $500 was 

 offered in premiums for plants, cut 

 flowers and floral designs. The only ex- 

 hibitors were \V. M. Schray & Sons, 

 Ellison & Tesson and C. Young & Sons 

 Co. In the exhibition of plants Wm. 

 Schray & Sons captured $248 in prizes, 

 and C. Young & Sons Co. came in second 

 with .$140 in prizes. In the exhibition 

 of floral designs, cut flowers and table 

 decorations Ellison & Tesson came in for 

 $56, and C. Young & Sons Co. for the 

 same amount. The displays were not so 

 large as in former years. The warm day 

 had a bad effect on the cut flowers and 

 designs, which looked bad before the 

 judge made his rounds. The attendance 

 on big Thursday, the day of the floral 

 exhibit, was 50,000, and a goodly crowd 

 was in Floral Hall all day long. 



Visitors. 



Miss Alice Winans and Martha D. 

 Foote, of the Summit Greenhouses, Eu- 

 reka Springs, Ark., were visitors the 

 past week, attending the fair and calling 

 on the trade. 



A Check Swindler. 



Several South St. Louis florists were 

 victims of the fraudulent cheek scheme 

 the past week. At the Eggling Floral 

 Co.'s the swindler ordered a wreath for 

 $0.75 and tendered a check for $22.50. 



He departed after receiving $12.75 in 

 change. The Deimer Floral Co. had the 

 same experience, the swindler receiving 

 $10 in change for a worthless $10.50 

 check. And Miss Kose Arata, on La- 

 fayette avenue, is out $4.85 that she gave 

 in change for a $9.85 check. The swin- 

 dler is described as about thirty-five 

 ears old, tall and well dressed and 

 a fine talker. His dealings are with 

 the lady florists only. The police have a 

 good description of the fellow, and 

 should he be caught the ladies say they 

 will make it hot for him. 



Belleville Notes. 



Dr. A. S. Halstedt and E. W. Guy, 

 of Belleville, called on the trade the 

 past week. Dr. Halstedt has bought all 

 of Mr. Hucke's Lawson carnations and 

 contemplates leasing the Hucke place 

 for a number cf years to grow stock 

 for the trade. He reports that business 

 has been very satisfactory with him and 

 that he is now living in his newly fitted- 

 up home. 



Mr. Guy is cutting some fine mums. 

 Maids and Gates. He says that trade 

 so far this season has been very good 

 with him, having had all he could do. 

 Mr. Guy's father, an old-time florist of 

 Kimmswick, Mo., and now living on 

 his farm at St. James. Mo., is running 

 for probate judge on the Republican 

 ticket. 



Hail Storm. 



A hail and thunder storm visited St. 

 Louis and vicinity at 9:25 Tuesday 

 night. Hail stones of unusual size 

 played havoc with some of the florists. 

 Among those sustaining damages were 

 Chas. J. Juengel, Eggling Floral Co., 

 Michel Plant and Bulb Co., Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, Mrs. M. M. Ayers 

 and Mary Ostertag. It- is also reported 

 that most of the Kirkwood florists lost 

 more or less glass. Nearly all the large 

 establishments in the southern and west- 

 ern parts of the city escaped the storm 

 and the proprietors consider themselves 

 very lucky. J. J. B. 



C3NCINNATL 



The Market. 



Bad weather during the early part of 

 last week cut down the stock to such an 

 extent that there was scarcely anything 

 with which to fill orders. Several days 

 of sunshine has changed all of this and 

 there is now a plentiful supply of both 

 roses and csirnations. Trade also im- 

 proved with the advent of a better supply 

 and now it is all that could be desired. 



Chrysanthemums are now the flowers; 

 hundreds of them are coining in and the 

 demand for them is good. Twenty cents 

 is the top figure so far obtained for them 

 in this market, tlie variety being Lady 

 Harriet. Other mums coming in at pres- 

 ent are Merry Monarch, Willowbrook and 

 Polly Rose. Bergmann are mostly small 

 in size and sell as low as $4 per 100. 

 As yet there is no good yellow and a 

 good one is needed badly. Mrs. Robin- 

 son is beginning to be cut, but it is 

 scarcely ready. 



There were no seedling mums before 

 the chrysanthemum committee to be 

 passed upon on Saturday. 



The rose market is in good condition, 

 and prospects are that the quality of 

 stock will rapidly improve from now on. 

 Liberties are coming in in large quanti- 

 ties and the quality is much better. 

 Brides also are in better supply. From 



what little I see of the new rose Ivory, 

 it strikes me that it is going to make 

 goo<l. 



Carnations are improving in quality 

 and the supply is ample. 



Dahlias and cosmos are still in the 

 market in large qiuintities and sell well. 

 A few violets are to be had, but they 

 sell slowly. There is plenty of smilax 

 and asparagus. 



Meeting of the Florists' Society. 



The Cincinnati Florists' Society held 

 its regular meeting on last Saturday 

 evening. The principal business was 

 the chrysanthemum show that is to be 

 held in the club rooms on November 8. 

 The schedule is: Best vase miuns, 12 

 blooms each — white, pink, yellow — first 

 prize, each, $6 ; second, each, $4 ; third, 

 each, $3. Best vase 25 Bonnaffon, first, 

 $10; second, $8; third, $6. Best general 

 display, $10. 



Besides this there are the S. A. F. O. H. 

 medals, one silver and one bronze, of- 

 fered for a new and meritorious plant 

 or flower of American origin. The med- 

 als may be competed for at this and sub- 

 sequent shows, not less than twelve 

 blooms of any cut flowers to be staged in 

 competition. Medals will be awarded at 

 the March exhibition. The rules of the 

 Cincinnati Florists' Society will apply to 

 the above, which may be obtained by ad- 

 dressing the secretary, F. W. Ball. 



There was considerable talk of com- 

 bining our rose and carnation shows into 

 one big show, to be held early in March. 

 The majority of the members seemed 

 highly in favor of the plan. 



A vase of the new carnation. Enchant- 

 ress, was on exhibition during the meet- 

 ing. 



Notes. 



Mr. W. K. Partridge is about to erect 

 a range of six new houses. He intends 

 to build them during the winter, so as 

 to have them for early spring planting. 



H. D. Edwards has discontinued his 

 Vine street store and will devote his 

 entire time to his Newport, Ky., estab- 

 lishment, where he has worked up a good 

 paying business. 



George & Allan are greatly troubled 

 with grub w-orms. Their destructive 

 work is beginning to assume very serious 

 projKjrtions. their loss already amount- 

 ing to nearly $1,000 in Beauty and other 

 rose plants destroyed. It seems as if 

 they can find nothing that will destroy 

 these pests. 



R. A. Murphy is cutting some flue dah- 

 lias, many of them bedng as large as 

 chrysanthemums. 



William Murphy was in Chicago dur- 

 ing the past week. 



E. G. Gillett and J. A. Peterson were 

 in Dayton, Ohio, attending the Masonic 

 Conclave. 



Visitors were .J. J. Lampert, Xenia, 

 Ohio, and Herbert Heller, New Castle, 

 Ind. C. J. Ohmer, 



Olean, N. Y. — Dana R. Hcrron has 

 just completed two new houses. 



If you have anything to offer the 

 trade you are cordially invited to the 

 business banquet, to be spread in our 

 special Thanksgiving number, to be is- 

 sued Nov. 13. 



AiiEGHENT, Pa. — Messrs. G. and J. 

 W. Ludwig recently made for the funer- 

 al of a gentleman interested in the East 

 Liverpool potteries, a potter's kiln in 

 flowers, for which they received $150. 



