April 28, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists'^ Review. 



1211 



made a phenonenal record with its lilies 

 this season and its fancy dwarf Japan- 

 ese productions are a part of the decora- 

 tion of all the leading retail establish- 

 ments. 



Bowling. 



The attendance at Monday evening 's 

 game was inexcusably light, the warm 

 weather and the evening both making 

 the enthusiasm scarce. A change to .» 

 more generally desirable and convenient 

 evening seems a necessity. Some of the 

 faithful show marked improvement in 

 the averages, however, as the following 

 scores demnostrate: 



Roehis 125 



Traendly 1S4 164 



Craw 100 149 161 



-Guttman 121 131 134 134 153 



Gibbs 116 126 129 131 135 157 



Frank 153 155 155 156 160 1&4 



Shaw 125 130 143 159 170 171 



Jami-s 147 148 155 159 168 191 



J. Austin Shaw. 



DENVER. 



Current Topics of Interest. 



Business among the retailers has been 

 quite satisfactory. The cut flower trade 

 has kept up remarkably well consider- 

 ing the absence from our city of many 

 of our best entertainers. Carnations, as 

 usual at this time of year, are quite 

 abundant and a few varieties of roses 

 are also in excess of the demand. All 

 spring flowers are rather scarce; espe- 

 cially so are shrubs, which generally fill 

 up a vacancy at this time of year. The 

 recent frosts have been very detrimental 

 to lilacs and the crop for this spring 

 will be almost a total failure'. Conse- 

 quently Mr. Valentine, of the Park 

 Floral Co., is importing this popular 

 flower from California and those already 

 arrived have come through in pretty 

 good condition, some of the varieties 

 retaining their fragrance. Judicious 

 cutting and careful packing would in- 

 sure more satisfactory results from 

 uuiny of the California products in t 

 floral line. 



The past season has been so satis- 

 factory that several additions are now 

 under way with the gi'owers. Davis Bros, 

 are adding to their carnation houses. 

 Fred Hall is increasing his rose plant 

 and the Park Floral Co. is building a 

 range of carnation houses for summer 

 use. These are of the simplest con- 

 struction and will be' covered with light 

 muslin through the hot summer months. 

 The carnations now in the houses will 

 be transferred to them and will in every 

 respect get a field cultivation. This sys- 

 tem has been practiced heretofore on 

 American Beauties, with very satisfac- 

 tory results. The transparency of the 

 muslin admits enough light and the par- 

 tial shade creates a longer stem growth 

 and a better color in blossom, two de- 

 fects impossible to overcome in the open 

 ground in this climate. The transfer- 

 ring of the carnations at this time of 

 the year enables them to plant up th 

 houses at an early date, which insures 

 more satisfactory results in September 

 than from those lifted from the field. 



Old-fashioned flower gardens are com- 

 ing into vogue here. Shrubs and peren- 

 nials have been in good demand this 

 spring and an annual increase in the 

 call for this stock is looked for here- 

 after. Many of our natives do very -well 

 under cultivation. 



The! Park Floral Co. has propagated 

 several thousand Begonia Gloire de Lor- 

 raine and is now shipping them east. 



Albert E. MaufT, of Harmon, is a 

 candidate for alderman of his ward and, 

 although his constituency is in the mi 

 nority, relies upon his popularity to 

 gratify his aspirations. 



The members of the Scott Floral Co. 

 are eontemplatng a little recreation in 

 the near future; Scott will visit St. 

 Louis in May and Reynolds will go to 

 California in June. Both have over- 

 worked since they started into business 

 last December. 



John Ferris, who has been growing 

 carnations for the Colfax Avenue Floi-al 

 Co. for the past ten years, is to become 

 a fruit grower in the future, but thinks 

 he will not be able to pick all the 

 strawberries himself, so consequently is 

 going to take into partnership one of 

 the gentler sex. Great Divide. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The conditions of the market have 

 changed but little from those of the 

 previous week. The weather had a great 

 deal to do with trade. The early part of 

 the past week we had a snow storm, 

 which interfered greatly with the land- 

 scape work about town and at the 

 World's Fair grounds. A few weddings 

 in the west end and considerable funeral 

 work among the down-town florists is 

 about all that can be" reported this week. 



The opening of the great World's Fatr 

 on Saturday should make trade in cut 

 flowers lively. Prominent men from all 

 parts of the world will take part in the 

 opening exercises, and quite a numb'^r 

 of orders for this occasion have been 

 reported. The great concourse of people 

 that the opening will attract should be 

 of much benefit to our trade, at lea.st 

 until the real hot weather sets in. 



The consignments at the wholesale 

 houses the past week were quite heavy, 

 and prices a trifle easier on first-class 

 stock. Carnations arc greatly in excess 

 of demand, with extra fine quality going 

 at $.3, good firsts $2 and $2..50, and com- 

 mon at $1.50 per hundred. The prices 

 run considerably less in thousand lots. 

 White and Lawson seem to have the 

 best call. The rose stock is abundant 

 at present, also of fine quality, with the 

 prices somewhat unsettled; 6 cents buys 

 some very fine stock. Fancy Beauties sell 

 at from $3 to $4 per dozen. These are 

 Urnited, the lesser grades being more 

 plentiful, with a good demand. Sweet 

 peas arp coming in more plentifully with 

 a good demand at 25 and 50 cents per 

 hundred. Lilacs are expected from the 

 south this week. The first of these, 

 when they arrive in good condition, gen- 

 erally sell well. Bulb stock is overcrowd- 

 ing the market, and it is impossible to 

 qoute it at any regular figure. Paper 

 Whites, Romans, tulips. Von Sions and 

 jonciuils are most plentiful, and a lot 

 of these have to be dumped for want of 

 room. Harrisii and calla lilies are also 

 equal to all demands. 



Plant dealers at LTnion Market report 

 a fair business the past week. With 

 warmer weather the bedding plant trade 

 will be at its height by next week, an.l 

 peddlers will again be seen in the resi- 

 dence districts, with planting going on in 

 all parts of the city. Seedsmen, too, are 

 having a busy time of it just now. 



Various Notes. 



Superintendent Perry, at the World's 

 Fair grounds, reports that comparativelv 

 little of the landscape work remains +o 



be done, and that the remaining work 

 can be easily accomplished by the end of 

 this week for the opening of the fair. 

 There are now some four hundred land- 

 scape gardeners at work on the grounds, 

 which number will be increased to 600 

 for this week. 



Prof, and Mrs. William Trelease were 

 at home Sunday, April 24, to meet the 

 members of the St. Louis Cactus Society. 



Charles Juengel reports that during the 

 heavy snow storm of last week forty 

 reet of one of his greenhouses fell under 

 the weight of the snow, causing considera- 

 i)le damage' to bedding stock. 



Henry Ostertag reports a good trade 

 in wedding decorations and funeral work 

 the past week. 



The Riessen Floral Co. is kept busy 

 with hotel decorations. They have quite 

 a number of orders for receptions for 

 this week. Mrs. Buechel and a number of 

 girls are always busy with some kind of 

 work. 



Phil Goebel, of Tower Grove park, has 

 a fine lot of plants ready for planting 

 out, which will begin early in May. This 

 park is one of the brigntest spots in our 

 city. The head of the park, James Gur- 

 ney. and his able assistant, Phil Goebel, 

 will make this park the most attractive 

 in the city for World's Fair visitors. 

 Tliis park does not come under the juris- 

 diction of the city park department- 



George Heimgartner, who came here 

 with Mr. Karlstrom, of Hartford, Conn., 

 to complete the landscape work fur their 

 state building, was sent to the Emer- 

 gency City hospital, and was declared in- 

 sane by the superintendent and Dr. R. L. 

 Moore. The latter was sent by your 

 correspondent, who was notified of the 

 young man 's condition by Theodore 

 Wirth, superintendent of parks at Hart- 

 ford, Conn. The young man will b^ 

 given every attention until some of his 

 people arrive and take charge of him. 



Bowling. 



The five high average men of the 

 Florists ' Bowling Club played a return 

 match with the strong Rosedale team on 

 the Palace alleys last Friday night. 

 Charles Kuehn was in grana form, with 

 Theo. Miller second. The score below 

 will tell our rivals how good we bowled 

 by winning two of the three games: 



Florists. 1st 2nd 3rd T'l. Ay. 



Bcoieke 1.36 183 201 620 173 



Miller 162 ISO 193 525 175 



B.'jcr 133 156 158 447 149 



KMcbn 172 221 156 549 183 



Rllison 143 159 212 614 171 



Totals 746 899 920 2565 17t 



Rnsodales 830 865 826 2521 168 



The two teams of the Florists' Clui) 

 met again on the Palace alleys Mcuday 

 night. Following are the scores: 



Team No. 1 1st. 23. 3d. T'l. 



Beneke 180 188 217 B85 



Miner 144 149 171 464 



Weber 127 174 156 457 



.Meinhardt 127 116 150 393 



Bettingen 150 155 155 464 



Totals 728 782 849 2363 



Team No. 2. 1st. 2d. 3d. T'l. 



Kuehn 149 170 158 477 



Bej-er 176 172 172 620 



O. U. Beneke 122 112 120 354 



Ellis 123 152 135 410 



Gerlach 93 136 129 358 



Totals 663 742 714 2119 



J. J. B. 



Mt. Holly, N. J. — Conrad Beyer will 

 build a greenhouse at his place on Green 

 street. 



Eaton Rapids, Mich. — Mary La Fever 

 has a good, growing business in the 

 florists' line. 



