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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March IT, 1904. 



Bulbous stock will be plentiful. There is 

 a noticeable increase in what might be 

 called the centralization of Easter plant 

 sales. Peunock, Niesscu, Eeid and the 

 Flower Market are all offering choice 

 plants, which should prove a great con- 

 venience to the buyers. 



Various Items. 



The American Bose Society will hold 

 its annual meeting on Tuesday, Wednes- 

 day and Thursday of next week at Hor- 

 ticultural Hall, in connection with the 

 State Society's spiing show. It is hoped 

 that Messrs. Anderson, Andre, Beavis. 

 Burton, Campbell, Farenwald, Heacock, 

 Knorr, JJortensen, Myers & Samtman, 

 Palmer, Weiss and our other noted rose 

 growers will uphold the local honor 

 against all comers. The Florists' Club 

 will give a banquet on Wednesday even- 

 ing in honor of the Rose Society. 



The department stoies continue to do a 

 surprising amount of decorating. The 

 Wm. Graham Company embellished Blum 

 Bi'os. ' store last week, while Hugh Gra- 

 ham made fine displays at Girabel 's and 

 Lit 's, both of which were in evidence this 

 week. 



The Germantown Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its March meeting last Mon- 

 day evening. There was a nice display 

 of blooming plants in great variety. Al- 

 bert Woltemate showed Spanish iris, quite 

 an Easter raiity. W. P. Peacock, of 

 Atco, N. J., the essayist of the evening, 

 was unable to be present. His paper on 

 dahlias arrived .iust at the nick of time 

 l)y special delivery. It was a clever ar- 

 ticle, well read by the secretary and re- 

 ceived a hearty vote of thanks from the 

 society. A number of questions asked 

 will be forwarded to the essayist. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 held a business meeting on Tuesday even- 

 ing to arrange details for the show next 

 week. 



The note in this column referring to 

 the J. Wolff Moore Co. 's dinner decora- 

 tions, should have read .1. Wolff Moore. 

 The business is carried on individually 

 and not by a company. 



Paul Berkowitz, of H.' Bayersdorfer & 

 Co.,, returned on Monday from a verv 

 successful business trip. 



Wm. J. Muth, of C. F. Edgar & Co.. 

 has just returned from a trip up the 

 state. This tirm is much encouraged by 

 their March business. 



Berger Bros, are receiving fine carna- 

 tions from Davis Brothers, of Bloomsr 

 burg. Their scarlet variety. Crisis, is 

 verv effective. 



B. Eschner, of M. Bice & Co., is back 

 again from his second trip, with which 

 ho was much pleased. 



Edward Eeid has lisrhted his basement 

 throughout with electricity. The new rose 

 cellar shows to great advantage under th^ 

 bright light. 



Hugh Graham has a fine stock of aza- 

 leas in all sizes. Phil. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



Trade has been ver.y quiet the past 

 week in all lines except funeral work, 

 which seems plentiful. There is noth- 

 ing of special importance going on in the 

 social section. Milder weather enlivens 

 the outlook for spring trade. The plants- 

 men, landscape gardeners and nurserymen 

 are preparing for a very busy season in 

 their lines and many of them report 

 plenty of orders ahead. During the past 



week a great influx of fakirs was noticed. 

 They came from all parts of the coun- 

 try, no doubt drawn here by the near 

 approach of the opening of the World 's 

 Fair. All the downtown corners are 

 lined with them, selling violets and car- 

 nations. This is not much to the liking 

 of the downtown storemen, who are up 

 in arms. A committee called on the 

 mayor to see what could oe done in order 

 to stop this great nuisance and he has 

 promised to look into the matter at once. 

 The beautiful bright and balmy days 

 we have been having of late will be very 

 conducive in getting the blooming plants 

 in fine shape for the Easter trade. ~ This 

 stock at the present time promises to be 

 fine, especially that of Schray, Beyer, 

 Fillmore and Windier in the south end 

 and Young, Sanders, Felter and Jablon- 

 sky in the west end. These gentlemen have 

 a reputation for having fine blooming 

 plants for Easter trade. 



In cut flowers, stock of all kind is very 

 plentiful and prices on all gi-ades are 

 down. The market has never been better 

 supplied as to quality and variety. We 

 see today (Monday) a fine lot of Har- 

 risii, tulips, Dutch hyacinths, lily of the 

 valley, California violets, roses and car- 

 nations. All three wholesale houses are 

 stocked up for all demands, at prices in 

 reach of everybody. Shipping trade is 

 good. 



American Beauties with long stems are 

 somewhat limited as yet, with the price 

 ranging from $3 to .$5 per dozen. For 

 the others the price is according to the 

 length of the stem. Brides and Maids 

 are of fine quality, with the select in good 

 demand at from $6 to $8 per 100. Other 

 grades sell slowly at $2 to $3 per 100. 

 The same may be said of Meteor, Liberty 

 and Golden Gate. Perles are soft, with 

 very little call. Carnations are increas- 

 ing in quantity. Common sorts bring 

 $1..50 to $2. First quality are $3 and 

 fancies run $4 per 100. Qualitv is of 

 the best, with fine long stems to suit any 

 buyer. In bulb stock Harrisii have taken 

 a drop to 15 cents, with the market fair- 

 ly well supplied with good, clean stock. 

 Callas are also plentiful and so are tulips, 

 Romans, valley, freesias, daffodils and 

 Paper Whites. These go at prices to 

 suit the buyer of large lots. California 

 violets and sweet peas are altogether too 

 many for the demand and are sold very 

 cheap in order to make room. Smilax is 

 in big demand but very scarce, at prices 

 ranging from 15 to 20 cents per string; 

 $2.50 and $3 per 1,000 is asked for com- 

 mon ferns. 



Various Notes. 

 The S. A. F. executive committee which 

 met here a week ago selected Music Hall 

 for the meeting place and the east nave 

 for the trades' display. Both of these 

 are in the Exposition Building at Thir- 

 teenth and Olive streets, which President 

 Breitmeyer says is second to none for the 

 purpose. During the meeting the local 

 club recommended Charles A. Kuehn, 

 whose portrait appeared in our last issue, 

 as superintendent of the trades display. 

 The gentleman was duly confirmed. Mr. 

 Kuehn has already received a number of 

 applications for space and it would be 

 well for those who intend to make dis- 

 plays to communicate with him at once. 

 His address is 1122 Pine street. Mr. 

 Kuehn is at present hard at work making 

 a plan of the floor space in the hall. 

 This will be ready in about ten days 

 and will be sent to exhibitors. Another 

 good move of the executive board was the 

 reappointment of Phil Hauswirth to 



supervise the bowling contest and Eob- 

 ert F. Tesson the shooting. A great many 

 prizes for both of these contests have 

 already been promised. With the assist- 

 ance of Carl Beyer, the local chairman 

 on sports, these contests will be in good 

 hands. 



The St. Clair Floral Co., of Belleville, 

 111., through its president, Dr. A. S. 

 Halstedt, send your correspondent a few 

 blooms of a new red seedling carnation, 

 a cross between Crane and Bon Homme 

 Bichard. It certainly looks good and 

 has the habit of the latter in stem and 

 calyx, which speaks well for it. Mr. 

 Halstedt says he will exhibit a number of 

 blooms at the next club meeting. 



Charlie Kuehn and Otto Koenig visited 

 Max Herzog last Sumlay. They found 

 Brother Max getting along nicely, but 

 not yet able to leave the house. 



Miss Tillie Meinhardt, who attended 

 the carnation meeting at Detroit, in com- 

 pany with Mrs. M. S. Vesey, of Fort 

 Wayne, Ind., and afterwards stopped a 

 week with Mrs. Vesey, returned home 

 much pleased with her trip. 



The death of Walter Kreitling, at 

 Chicago, was a great shock to his many 

 friends in St. Louis, who are with me 

 in extending to his family our heartfelt 

 sympathy. 



Beports from the family of Carew 

 Sanders, who had a severe surgical opera- 

 tion performed two weeks ago, is on the 

 road to recovery, to the gratification of 

 his many friends in the trade. 



Nie. Himmer, out at Meramee High- 

 lands, is making preparations for build- 

 ing four new greenhouses this spring. 

 Each will be 2.5x100. Nic is sending in a 

 fine lot of violets, both single ami double. 

 A new floral establishment is to be 

 opened this week by J. W. Dunford, 

 president of the St. Louis Carnation 

 Co., of Clayton. The store will be lo- 

 cated at Broadway and Franklin avenue, 

 in Johnson 's drug store. It will be in 

 charge of Miss Jennie Bepeto, who just 

 left her cousin. Miss Badaracco, at 1308 

 Olive street. 



John Steidle, of Clayton, left Sunday 

 night in company with Fred C. Weber, 

 for West Baden. Ind., to be gone about 

 ten days. 



Bowlins. 



Next Monday night the Florists' Club 

 team, composed of C. A. Kuehn, A. Y. 

 Ellison, Carl Beyer, Theo. Miller and J. 

 J. Beneke, will bowl a match game with 

 E. W. Guy's Belleville team, at Wor- 

 den 's alleys. The return match is booked 

 for the Sunday after Easter at Belle- 

 ville. 



The Florists' Bowling Club's two 

 teams rolled a match of five games on 

 Monday night. Some extra fine work 

 was done, as the following scores will 

 show: 



Team Xo. 1. 1st. 2<i. 3d. 4tli. 3th. T'l. 



.1 J. Beneke 227 ISl 174 2.W 194 inOG 



Tlieo. Miller 1S4 170 172 146 131 Sn.3 



W-m Adels 186 147 149 142 129 733 



F. M. Ellis 160 166 162 ISl 169 S.38 



Totals 737 664 657 699 623 3380 



Team No. 2. 1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5th. T'l. 



r A. Kuehn 178 134 146 224 176 8.58 



A Y. Ellison 179 171 162 196 148 856 



F H. Meinhardt.. 170 123 166 157 156 772 



O. R. Beneke. ....156 161 122 137 143 719 



Totals .683 589 596 714 623 3205 



J. J. B. 



Arthur Cowee, of Berlin, N. Y., has 

 a handsomely illustrated article on the 

 gladiolus in the March issue of Country 

 Life in America. 



