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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Jaxlary -21. 1!104. 



of good ilarie Louise the buyers will 

 not be content with the pale variety; 

 but for that matter there are still plenty 

 of the eastern violets about. 



Bulb stock is shaiiug tlie depression 

 in the violet market. The overstock of 

 Paper Whites continues and there are 

 tales of some very low sales in quan- 

 tity, sales at prices which will not re- 

 pay the cost of the bulbs. Romans do 

 a little better. Daffodils sell fairly well, 

 but tulips do not seem to take hold. 

 Not many eallas are coming in and they 

 generally sell well. Easter lilies are seen 

 in most of the houses, but in most cases 

 the quality is poor and the sale slow. 

 Freesias are in. 



There is a good sale for green goods ; 

 nearly every shipping order calls for 

 something in this line. Sprays of As- 

 paragus phimosus seem to be the most 

 popular item, but strings are also going 

 well. Ferns are up to $2.50 per 1000. 



Club Meeting. 



On Saturday evening the Chicago 

 Florists' Club went proselyting to Rose 

 HUl. It was the tirst of the series of 

 meetings planned for the several sections 

 of the city and was successful in all its 

 features. The attendance was very 

 large and a considerable number of new 

 names were added to the raembershiii 

 roll. Paul Dailledouze, of Flatbush, 

 N. y., was a visitor and gave the club 

 the benefit of what he has seen in his 

 trips among the growers. As there are 

 few better posted men in the trade, what 

 he said of the new carnations should 

 make the evening a very profitable one 

 for many a grower present. 



Meetings of similar character will 

 shortly be held on the south side, at the 

 Drexel cafe, Thirty-ninth and Cottage 

 Grove avenue ; on the northwest side, 

 at Metropolitan hall, 856 North Cali- 

 fornia avenue, and on the west side, 

 dates to be announced later. The club 

 held its regular meeting last night at 

 Handel hall. It was the first allied 

 trades meeting and pipe, fittings, valves,' 

 glass, paints and putty were named for 

 discussion. 



Various Notes. 



Frank Garland will vacate his present 

 stand May 1. He has not yet decided 

 whether to go up stairs in the same 

 building or to rent a couple of tables 

 across the street. 



The rooted cutting specialists say 

 trade is opening rather slow. The novel- 

 ties are selling well, but it is reported 

 there is no rush for the varieties out of 

 the same seed pod as Enchantress. 



The craft regrets to bear of the death 

 of Hugh McMichael, of Wilmette, which 

 occurred last week, after a brief illness 

 with pneumonia. He was in the prime 

 of life and a good grower. For a 

 time he was foreman for Paul Kreis- 

 mann at the Morton Grove Greenhouses 

 and went from there to Weiland & Risch, 

 where he was foreman until he secured 

 the Nicholas Miller place of about 12,000 

 feet of glass at Wilmette. buying the 

 stock and making a very favorable lease 

 on the houses. He was doing well. In- 

 terment was at Rose Hill on Sundav. 

 Mrs. McMichael will not undertake to 

 continue the business longer than is 

 necessary to find a purchaser for the 

 stock and lease. 



J. A. Budlong is confined to his bed, 

 having a tough time with rheumatism. 

 It seems strange that one as vigoroiis 

 as he should be laid up with this disease. 



E. F. Winterson is getting in some 

 fine blooms of W. N. Rudd's Phyllis car- 

 nation and says his out of town buyers 

 prefer it to Enchantress as it is a much 

 better traveler. 



L. Coatsworth says coal is going down. 

 On Tuesday he bought five cars at 55 

 cents a ton less than he paiil for the 

 same grade last August. 



A. L. Randall has been having a 

 bad time this week with neuralgia in 

 his jaws. 



Mrs. A. L. Vaughan and little daugh- 

 ter expect to leave in a few days for 

 a visit with relatives at Collinston, La. 



O. P. Bassett and Mrs. Bassett are 

 at Hotel La Pintoresca, Pasadena, Cal. 



Some of the Greek sidt^waiK merchants 

 some time since applied for an injunc- 

 tion restraining the city from interfering 

 with them in the concluct of their busi- 

 ness on the streets. On January 14 

 the Appellate court affirmed the Circuit 

 court decree upholding the citv 's author-' 



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ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The florists' trafle has now entered 

 upon the regular social season, but from 

 the reports of the ditt'ereut retailers the 

 season will not be a lively one, as the 

 orders booked aheael are not for the 

 usual elaborate affairs of a year ago. 

 This kind of work should be quite plen- 

 tiful from now until Lent sets in. 



The ciit flower trade during the past 

 week showed very little improvement. 

 Transient trade is very quiet, but fun- 

 eral work seems plentiful and white are 

 about the only flowers in demand at the 

 wholesale houses. The weather is still 

 fine with us, with ple>nty of sunshine to 

 make cut flowers of all kinds plentiful. 

 Violets and carnations especially have 

 suffered by the slow demand. Roses 

 are not over-plentiful, especially white. 

 Plenty of Bridesmaids are to be had. 

 Good long Beauties are very scarce in 

 this market, but we are fairly well sup- 

 plied with short stock. Small Meteor 

 and Liberty are also plentiful. 



Bulb stock is still over-crowding the 

 market, Romans and Paper Whites. Val- 

 ley, too, is moving slowly. Callas are 

 more plentiful, with Harrisii lilies still 

 absent. Tulips and freesias are coming 

 along slowly. Shipping trade in cut 

 flowers is slow at the wholesale houses, 

 but supplies and wire work are in good 

 demand. 



Florets' Club Meeting. 



The Florists' (Jkil> held another of 

 those large and enthusiastic meetings 

 last Thursday afternooon, in the Odd 

 Fellows' building. The large attend- 

 ance was attracted by the exhibition of 

 new carnations, essays and other impor- 

 tant matters. 



The Chicago Carnation Co., of .loUet, 

 III., staged a large and beautiful vase 

 of their new scarlet carnation. Crusa- 

 der, which attracted a great deal of at- 

 tention. F. M. Ellis showed a number 

 of varieties from Thompson, of Joliet. 

 C. A. Kuehn staged a large vase of In- 

 dianapolis from Baur & Smith. These 

 received a great deal of attention from 

 the carnation growers present. 



The meeting opened at 2 p. m. with 

 all of the oiBcers present except Vice- 

 president Winter, who was in Chicago 

 at the time. Three applications for 

 membership were receiveil. They were 



from Hugo Gross and John R. Stein- 

 icke, of Kirkwood, and E. Rotenhoefer. 

 of St. Louis. Two members were elect- 

 ed to membership, F. W. Brueuig anel 

 Henry Felter. With these the member- 

 ship is now seventy and only thirty more 

 are needed to make up the hundred. 

 F. C. W'eber was elected a trustee: The 

 trustees were instructed to prepare an 

 entertainment next month for the mem- 

 bers and their families. Messrs. Am- 

 mann, Fillmore and Koenig were ap- 

 I)ointed a committee to draw up resolu- 

 tions on the death of Mrs. Herzog. 



Walter Gilles, of the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Garden, read an essay on ferns, 

 which was well received by the members 

 and was given a vote of thanks. The 

 etiscussion on propagating roses, lead by 

 F. J. Fillmore, was very interesting. 

 Those who participated in the discussion 

 were Messrs. Ammann, Dunford ane] 

 Guy, who did not agree with Mr. Fill- 

 more in using blooming wood for cut- 

 tings, holding out for the blind wood. 



The president appointed Messrs. 

 Steidle, Ude and Ounford to make a re- 

 port on the carnations on exhibition, 

 which was as follows: Aelonis, very fine 

 red ; Harry Fenn, improvement on Roose- 

 velt ; Enchantress, very fine; Nelson 

 Fisher, good carnation, better stem than 

 Mrs. Lawson; Gov. Wolcott, best white 

 seen ; Hanna Hobart, good, large flow- 

 ers, weak stem; Crusader, very fine 

 blooms, with long stems ; Indianapolis, 

 very fine pink, large flowers with good, 

 long stems. 



The next meeting of the club, Feb- 

 ruary 11, will be our annual carnation 

 meeting. Prizes of .$5, .$.3 and $2 are 

 offered for the best v; -c^ of carnations, 

 competition open only t ) local growers. 

 Growers of n^w carnations are requested 

 to make exldbits for the benefit of our 

 carnation growers. At this meeting F. 

 .1. Fillmore will read an essay on "Car- 

 nation Growing." and E, W. Guy, of 

 Belleville, will lead a discussion on pro- 

 pagating carnations. 



Various Notes. 



W'. S. Lemar, late keeper of Forest 

 park, one of the best men for a place 

 of that kind, is now heael of the land- 

 scape department at the World 's Fair 

 grounds. 



He^nry Johann, of Colliusville; J. F. 

 Ammann, of Edwardsville ; E. W. Guy 

 and A. G. Fehr. of Belleville, 111.; A. 

 .Tablonsky, of Wellston, ilo. ; ' J. W. 

 Dunford, of Clayton; John Steidle, of 

 Central; W. J. Pilcher and F. W. Ude, 

 •Ir., of Kirkwood, were the out-of-town 

 members who atteueled the club meeting 

 last Thursday afternoon. 



The Mtasic Hall, Coliseum and east 

 nave in the Exposition building have 

 been engaged by the committee in which 

 to hold the next meeting and trade ex- 

 hibition of the Societv of American 

 Florists, August 16 to" 19, 1904, sub- 

 ject to the approval of the executive 

 committee, which meets here in March. 

 The committee which will have charge 

 of entertaining the executive conmiittee 

 is hard at work perfecting arrange- 

 ments. 



A committee composed of F. C. Weber, 

 Otto Koenig, F. ,T. Ammann, Fred Mein- 

 hardt, Theo. Miller, Emil Schray and 

 .1. J. Beneke will meet this week Thurs- 

 day at Mr. Weber's store to confer with 

 J. H. Haelkinson, superintendent of flor- 

 iculture, World 's Fair, in regard to 

 flower shows to he held at the fair 



