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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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prolonged his stay in the city among hit 

 brother wholesalers for several days. 



At the rose night of the New York 

 Florists ' Club, March 14, Eobert Simp- 

 son, of Clifton, N. J., will read a paper 

 and all the prominent rose growers of 

 the east have already signified their in- 

 tention of exhibiting and many from the 

 west are expected. 



The club dinner on Saturday evening 

 promises well. Mr. Sheridan announces 

 that a good attendance is already as- 

 sured and orders for tickets are coming 

 in daily, many of them from the neigh- 

 boring cities. It is expected that nearly 

 100 will attend. President Traendly will 

 be toastmaster. 



The Millang brothers, Charles, Frank, 

 Joe and Gus, on Sunday celebrated the 

 seventieth birthday of their mother, at 

 her residence in Bayside. The old lady 

 is hale and hearty and greatly enjoyed 

 the family reunion and the gifts with 

 which the boys were ladeu. On Febru- 

 ary 15, eighteen years ago, Frank Mil- 

 lang, Sr., died, the father of this har- 

 monious quartette, himself a florist of 

 many years' experience and the son of a 

 Belgian florist. The Millang boys en- 

 joy the good will of everybody in the 

 trade and are themselves good examples 

 of harmony and unselfishness, of whom 

 their honored mother is justly proud. 



The prize bowling contest on Monday 

 evening was a thriller and proved a most 

 successful departure from the beaten 

 track. So much so that monthly prize 

 contests have been decided upon. The 

 second game of the evening was chosen 

 as the test of nerve and skill and re- 

 sulted as follows: 



Gibbs 191 Silver cigar cutter. 



Haffiier 168 Box cigars. 



Siebreclit 156 Homemade wienerworsts. 



Guttman 125 Pair of vases. 



Mansfield 120 Six silli neckties. 



Sbaw 116 Handsome stein. 



Bennett Ill Fane.v cane. 



Butterfield 106 Bottle champagne. 



Nugent 92 Bottie Wilson Whisliej'. 



Traendly 89 Bottie Nervine. 



Lenlier 73 Bottie brandy. 



By a Strange coincidence the bowlers 

 whose scores show the need of stimulants 

 chose them. An excellent dinner fol- 

 lowed the evening's sport and many vis- 

 itors arrived before the games were over. 

 The best scores for the evening follow, 

 not including the prize contest: 



Guttman 113 139 



Traendiy 132 lliS 



Gibbs 116 lis 152 



Smith 147 135 146 



Young 117 192 118 



Mansfield 138 167 142 173 



Sampson 122 122 91 130 



Nugent 69 90 108 141 



Hatfncr 134 171 114 



Bennett 162 106 137 123 



Lcnlier .' 43 67 66 97 



Slebrecht 148 151 138 133 



Butterfleid 147 158 137 121 



Shaw 147 151 138 133 



J. Austin Shaw. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The condition of the cut flower market 

 is not very satisfactory to the retail 

 trade at the present time. Prices seem 

 to go up and down every other day. The 

 same can be said of stock; one day there 

 is plenty and the next hardly enough to 

 fill orders. The demand was very brisk 

 the latter part of the week. There was 

 an extra call for St. Valentine's day. 

 which seems to have come to be one of 

 the florists' busy days, as most of the re- 

 tailers were busy sending out boxes of 

 cut flowers for valentines. The greatest 

 call was for violets and the wholesale 

 men slipped up the price to 75 cents and 



$1 per 100. It is claimed that some 

 40,000 violets were disposed of on last 

 Saturday and about as many more on 

 Sunday. All of these were California, of 

 the finest quality, as double violets have 

 very little call in this market. Roses, 

 which it was thought a week ago would 

 be more plentiful, are again very scarce 

 and a great many orders could not be 

 filled on Saturday. Brides are selling at 

 from $6 to $12 per 100 and Maids from 

 $5 to $10 per 100. Liberty and Meteor 

 run from $4 to $10 per' 100. Good 

 Beauties seem out of the question in this 

 market, with shorts and medium grades 

 only in limited quantity. 



Carnations are quite plentiful, with r 

 good demand for the best stock. The 

 past week our wholesalers sent out some 

 very fancy stock of White Cloud, Law- 

 son, Prosperity, Enchantress, Triumph 

 and Estelle. Prices on these ranged from 

 $3 to $5 per 100, a few common sorts go- 

 ing at $2. Any white sells well. Smi- 

 lax, asparagus, adiantum and bronze 

 galas are in good demand, with no ad- 

 vance in price. 



The wholesale houses are still well 

 stocked up with bulb stuff. Roman hya- 

 cinths, Paper "Whites and lilv of the val- 

 ley are in abundance. Tulips seem to 

 sell well of late. Harrisii are still lim- 

 ited as to quantity. Callas are more 

 plentiful. Freesias are a drug. Dutch 

 hyacinths are not over-plentiful and sell 

 well. As to prices they remain as last 

 reported. 



Club Meeting;. 



On last Thursday afternoon the Flor- 

 ists ' Club held the best attended and 

 most interesting meeting in its history, 

 it being our annual carnation meeting. 

 The exhibits of carnation blooms were 

 large and fine. From the outside came a 

 large vase from R. Witterstaetter, Cin- 

 cinnati, of the Cardinal, a beautiful red. 

 BauT & Smith, of Indianapolis, sent a 

 magnificent bunch of Indianapolis. Cor- 

 ner & Sons Co., of La Fayette, sent the 

 Belle and Lady Bountiful. The Chicago 

 Carnation Company, of JoUet, staged the 

 grand Crusader, Fiancee, Harlowarden 

 and Dorothy Whitney. The Thompson 

 Company also showed several varieties. 

 All of the above made a beautiful dis- 

 play and all were staged in the east end of 

 the hall. The local exhibits were staged 

 in the west end. J. F. Ammann showed 

 a vase of White Cloud and Queen Louise ; 

 F. W. LTde, Enchantress and Prosperitv; 

 John Steidle, Harlowarden and En- 

 chantress; St. Louis Carnation Company, 

 White Cloud ; A. Jablonsky, Peru, and 

 Frank Fillmore a vase of well grown 

 mixed varieties. Visitors at the meeting 

 were James Hartshorne and J. D. Thomp- 

 son, of Joliet; George M. Kellogg, of 

 Pleasant Hill, and Martin Eeukauf, of 

 Philadelphia. 



The meeting opened at 2 o 'clock and 

 the attendance reached forty by 3 p. m. 

 Three new members were elected, Mr. 

 Rotenhoefer, Hugo Gross and John 

 Steinecke. These gentlemen are request- 

 ed to attend the next meeting of the 

 club. F. W. Maas, of the St. Louis Seed 

 Co., made application for membership. 

 James Gurney, of Tower Grove Park, 

 was made an honorary member of the 

 club. 



The judges appointed by the president 

 on the local exhibits were J. D. Thomp- 

 son, F. C. Weber and Theo. Miller; on 

 out-of-town exhibits, John Steidle, Wm. 

 Winter and A. Jablonsky. On home 

 grown stock results were as follows: 

 John Steidle, first; F. W. Tide, Jr., sec- 



ond, and A. Jablonsky, third. The re- 

 port on exhibition stock was as follows: 

 The Cardinal, very fine red, large flow- 

 ers with long stiff stems; The BeUe and 

 Lady Bountiful, very fine, large flowers, 

 very good white; ludianapoUs, best pink 

 yet seen; Chicago Carnation Co., Fiancee 

 and Crusader attracted a great deal of 

 attention and were voted the best of their 

 kind; Harlowarden and Dorothy Whit- 

 ney also came in for their share of praise 

 from the judges. The Thompson ex- 

 hibits came in for their share of com- 

 ment, being fine blooms. 



Frank Fillmore 's essay on ' ' Carna- 

 tion Growing ' ' was very interesting and 

 the essayist was frequently applauded 

 during the reading. E. W. . Guy next 

 led a discussion on propagating carna- 

 tions. Mr. Guy showed from a plant how 

 they used to make cuttings years ago 

 and how they are made at the present 

 time. This brought out a long discus- 

 sion between Messrs. Hartshorne and 

 Thompson, of Joliet, and Messrs. Dun- 

 ford, i"111more and Guy, of St. Louis. 

 This really was one of the features of 

 the meeting. J. ■ F. Ammann next gave 

 a very interesting reading of his trip 

 through Indiana and Chicago, in which 

 ha paid a high compliment to all those 

 they visited and told of the fun he had 

 at the expense of his friend Jablonsky. 

 The next meeting of the club will be 

 held March 3, at 2 o 'clock. At this 

 meeting J. H. Hadkinson will read an 

 essay on ' ' Landscape Gardening at the 

 World's Fair," and Henry Emmons will 

 lead a discussion on propagating gerani- 

 ums. 



The entertainment and ball which will 

 be given by the Florists ' Club will take 

 place Friday night, February 19. This 

 promises to be one of the finest affairs 

 ever given by the club. The hall will be 

 handsomely decorated with plants and 

 wild smUax. A fine band of music has 

 been engaged for the occasion. The en- 

 tertainment will be furnished by local 

 talent from the club members. Ice 

 cream, coffee and cake will be served. 

 The committee reports that a large num- 

 ber of tickets have already been dis- 

 posed of. 



Committee Meeting. 



The arrangement committee met at 

 Weber's store last Friday night and 

 completed the arrangements for the en- 

 tertainment of the executive committee, 

 which meets here March 5. The banquet 

 will be held at the Missouri Athletic 

 Club on Saturday night, March 5. On 

 Sunday a troUey ride to the World's 

 Fair grounds to be entertained by 

 Messrs. Taylor and Hadkinson, of the 

 horticultural department. Monday will 

 be spent in the selection of the meeting 

 and exhibition hall and a general call 

 on the trade and perhaps a bowling 

 game before train time. 



The AVorld's Fair flower show commit- 

 tee met the same night and made out 

 its lists and the dates on which certain 

 cut flowers and plants will be exhibited. 

 It was also decided that the club would 

 hold its annual flower show in Novem- 

 ber in the Horticultural building, with 

 the usual prizes, including the Shaw 

 premiums. The prizes will be large and 

 will no doubt attract all of the largest 

 growers in the country. 



Various Notes. 



We have been favored with a great 

 many visitors the past week. Among 

 them were B. W. Greenlaw, representing 

 N. F. McCarthy, of Boston; B. Eschner, 



