October 23, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



715 



House of Boston Ferns at the New Establishment of the Geo. Wittbold Co., 

 Edgebrook, Chicago. 



ciely lield its annual election of officers 

 October 11 at the Mission Opera House. 

 The officers elected are as follows: Presi- 

 dent. Hans Plath; vice president, Thomas 

 A. Monro; recording secretary, Charles 

 Mitchell: ~ financial secretary', Milton 

 Borkheim ; treasurer, Fred Elias; libra- 

 rian, Hugo H. Lilienthal; ushers, M. 

 Waddington and L. Mayer; trustee for 

 three year term, W. A. H. Krabbenhoft. 

 The society will give a complimentary 

 chrysanthemum show Saturday evening, 

 November 1, in the Mission Opera House. 

 All applications for space should be made 

 lo Thomas A. Monro, 1701 Oak street, 

 San Francisco. 



The florist clerks of San Francisco 

 have formed a union under the title of 

 the "San Francisco Plorists' Protective 

 Union," with headquarters at Pythian 

 Castle, 909 Market sti-eet, San Francisco. 

 The union has received its charter from 

 the Federation of Labor. It is about 

 time the clerks banded together for a 

 betterment of their condition in life; 

 $1.50 to $2 per day for a day's labor of 

 fourteen to fifteen hours seems to me 

 to be the rankest kind of slavery. It 

 may not be out of place to mention right 

 here that the street sweepers of San 

 Francisco are receiving $2.50 per day of 

 eight hours. I can't see where there is 

 much art in street sweeping unless it be 

 sweeping around the lamp posts. 



Mrs. L. Matrica, wife of Mr. V. Mat- 

 rica, the Powell street florist, committed 

 suicide on October 13 by drinking car- 

 bolic acid. J. N. 



ST, LOUIS. 



Florist Club Meeting. 



A very pleasant, interesting and well- 

 attended meeting of the St. Louis Flor- 

 ists' Club was held last Thursday after- 

 noon, October 16, in the Odd Fellows' 

 building. 



President Dunford was in the chair 

 and fourteen members were present when 

 the meeting was called to order at 3 

 o'clock. 



Mr. Jablonsky offered a resolution 

 changing the time of meeting from 3 to 



2 o'clock, which was read for the first 

 time. 



The trustees outlined the yearly pro- 

 gramme of essays. The members pro- 

 posed some changes in the programme, 

 which, after completion, will be given to 

 the press before the next meeting of the 

 club. 



It was proposed that at the next meet- 

 ing the club should hold its annual 

 chrysanthemum exhibition in the club 

 rooms. Ten dollars in prizes is offered 

 for the best three vases — $5 for the first, 

 $3 for the second and $2 for the third. 

 This is open for all. Any grower who 

 has anything new to offer in this line 

 would do well to send a few blooms for 

 exhibition. The date of the exhibition is 

 Thursday, November 13, at 3 o'clock 

 p. m. 



Tlie St. Louis Carnation Co. exhibited 

 a vase of well-grown new carnations, 

 among which were Governor Wolcott, 

 Dorothy, Higinbotham, Dorothy Whit- 

 ney, Roosevelt, Melba, Enquirer, Apollo, 

 Prosperity, Stella, Alba and Queen 

 Louise. They were very fine and at- 

 tracted much attention. A vase of the 

 new carnation. Enchantress, was much 

 admired. 



Dr. A. S. Halstedt showed a few well- 

 grown blooms of Queen of Edgely roses, 

 also a few American Beauties, illustrat- 

 ing that these roses can be grown suc- 

 cessfully in Belleville. Fred Amniann 

 and Otto Koenig were the judges. 



After reading the questions from the 

 box the meeting adjourned until Thurs- 

 day afternoon, November 13, at 3 o'clock. 



Retail Trade. 



Trade for the past week has been 

 good as far as funeral work is con- 

 cerned, but rather dull in other branches 

 and does not show any marked improve- 

 ment on the week previous. 



Chrysanthemums are coming in more 

 freely each day, and the prices on roses 

 and carnations have taken a drop. It 

 seems that everybody wants chrysanthe- 

 mums for his show windows and will 

 hardly look at roses and carnations, ex- 

 cept when he has an order for them. 



There are plenty of first-class roses I 



in the market just now, such as Brides, 

 Maids, Meteors, Gates, Perles and Woot- 

 tons, which are all of good quality, but 

 are selling slowly. Chrysanthemums are 

 also beginning to take a drop in prices 

 and are selling cheap in 100 lots. Car- 

 nations, too, are feeling the effects of 

 the mums. Plenty of them of fine qual- 

 ity are in the market, white and light 

 pink being the best sellers. 



The florists' windows are making a 

 great show of fine cosmos, which are a 

 great glut and many of them are dumped. 



Violets and valley had a good call 

 the past week. Should this warm, pleas- 

 ant weather continue the cut flower mar- 

 ket will suffer from the effects of it. 



As we will have no show this year 

 there is a plan on foot for a dozen or 

 more florists to make a trip to Chicago 

 and Kansas City during the shows at 

 those places. Mr. Ellis has the trip in 

 charge and anyone wishing to go can 

 make application to him. The trip will 

 be a pleasant one and all those who can 

 should go as a certain number of pas- 

 sengers are required in order to get low 

 rates. 



Mrs. Palagle Saucier, a descendant of 

 one of the oldest French families, died 

 last Thursday. She was the mother-in- 

 law of Alexander Waldbart, the florist. 

 The funeral services were held Sunday 

 at Mr. Waldbart's residence, 3542 Law- 

 ton avenue. Many beautiful floral of- 

 ferings were sent. 



Table Decorations. 



On Monday four florists competed for 

 prizes to be given for the best table 

 decorations, at Simmons Hardware Co.'s 

 retail store, using the company's china 

 and crystal ware. 



Ostertag Bros.' table was made up 

 with electrical effect and pink was the 

 prevailing color. 



Chas. L. Connon's table was called 

 the "Golden 'Wedding." Nothing but 

 yellow chrysanthemums were used. 



Ellison & Tesson's was made up most- 

 ly of orchids and crystal vases were used 

 to good effect. 



Mrs. M. M. Ayers used mostly roses 

 and orchids, with electrical effect, which 

 was much admired by the large crowd 

 in attendance. 



" World's Fair. 



Mrs. H. McCall Travis, of Kalama- 

 zoo, Mich., is in town to meet the 

 board of lady managers in regards to a 

 floral spectacle during the World's Fair. 

 Mrs. Travis has letters of recommenda- 

 tion from the presidents and officers of 

 the Pan-American, Charleston, Atlanta, 

 Nashville and California Expositions. 

 No expense of any kind to be incurred 

 by the exposition or board of lady man- 

 agers. The matter will be placed before 

 the board at its meeting, to be held on 

 November 17, at the residence of Miss 

 Helen Gould, in New York. J. J. B. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



The bright weather has swelled the 

 supply of stock, especially roses, which 

 at the present time are very near a 

 glut. There are more Beauties now 

 than at any time so far this season, 

 but even yet there are but few long- 

 stemmed ones, the majority being below 

 twenty inches in length. Brides and 

 Bridesmaids are still mostly confined to 

 the first and second classes, there being 



