May 5, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



1263 



The Late John Young. 



heart, while attending tlie performance 

 at the Olympic theater with liis wife 

 and daughter. He was taken suddenly 

 ill after the first act and was taken 

 home in a carriage and died an hour 

 later. Mr. Young was a member of the 

 S. A. F., the St. Louis Florists' Club 

 and the Florists' Bowling Club. The 

 funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, 

 from the late residence, 4536 Forest 

 Park boulevard. He leaves a wife and 

 four children, four brothers and two 

 sisters and a countless number of friends 

 in the trade to mourn his loss. Beau- 

 tiful floral designs were sent by the 

 Florists' Club and the Bowling Club and 

 many others from friends. Nearly all 

 the members of the Florists' Club were 

 in attendance. The pall bearers were 

 liis four brothers, Fred C. Weber and 

 J". J. Beneke. The interment took place 

 in the family lot in Bellefontaine Ceme- 

 tery. 



The last look at the face of our friend, 



Whose glance has lost its beam. 

 His brow was cold as the marble stone. 



And the world a passing: dream; 

 The last press of his kind hand. 



A look at the closing eye. 

 Yield that his heart must understand 



A long, a last good-bye. 



Various Notes. 



James Hartshorne, of the Chicago 

 Carnation Co.. Joliet, 111., arrived Sun- 

 day morning with a big lot of cut ear- 

 nations for show in the Horticulture 

 building at the World's Fair grounds. 



George M. Kellogg, of Pleasant Hill, 

 Mo., was a visitor the past week, at- 

 tending the opening of the World's 

 Fair. Mr. Kellogg has made applica- 

 tion for membership in our local club. 



Walter Gillis has resigned his scholar- 

 ship at Shaw's Garden and is now em- 

 ployed at the World's Fair grounds. It 

 will be the duty of the local club to 

 appoint his successor at its next meet- 

 ing, on May 12. Young Mr. Roper, now 

 at the garden, has made application for 

 the place. 



Tlie next meeting of the Florists" 

 Club will be held next Thursday after- 

 noon. May 12, at 2 o'clock. Some very 

 important business is to be transacted 



and a large attendance is hoped for. 

 Two discussions will be lead, by J. F. 

 Ammann and F. W. Ude, Jr. Their 

 subjects are "Replanting Rose Stock" 

 and "Growing of Violets,'' which will be 

 interesting to all the members. 



J. A. Evans, of Richmond, Ind.. spent 

 Sunday in St. Louis. 



The Missouri Botanic Garden received 

 a thousand-dollar importation of orchids 

 last week. They Iiave now the second 

 largest collection in the world. 



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

 busily engaged in the Horticulture build- 

 ing, attending to his display. 



.James Young will, from now on, fill 

 the place left vacant by his late brother 

 at the store, at 1406 Olive street. James 

 is a fine fellow and should make a splen- 

 d id manager. 



Charlie Young and his wife left last 

 Monday night for a three months' trip 

 to the Pacific coast. 



.John Steidle, of Clayton, made a fine 

 exhibition of cut carnations in the Hor- 

 ticulture building on Monday. Tliose 

 staged were Estelle, Prosperity, T. W. 

 Lawson, Harlowarden, Gov. Wolcott and 

 Enchantress. Several others have madi' 

 entries, but failed to show. James 

 Hartshorne. of the Chicaco Carnation 

 Co.. was in the building, but his carna- 

 tions failed to arrive. J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The week past was full of clouds and 

 storms, business slumped steadily and 

 some sad clearing out of flowers of every 

 kind took place before the wholesalers 

 shut up shop on Saturday night. In 

 quantities the buyer's offer was final. 

 It would be a shame to quote the fall of 

 some of the good things. Violets made 

 their final exit in disgrace, 10 cents to 

 2o cents per hundred for the best in 

 the market, which was an ungrateful but 

 apparently universal way of speeding the 

 parting guest. 



Notwithstanding the flood of April 

 weddings crowded into the last few days 

 of the vernal month, the general market 



felt none of the exhilaration of the 

 young folks and refused to enthuse. So- 

 ciety seems to be devoted to dinners 

 without number and May opens with 

 weddings at wholesale. But all these in- 

 fluences do not cause a ripple on the 

 placid sea of abundant supply of flowers 

 of every kind. Orchids and valley remain 

 firm. Lilies are abundant; 4 cents is a 

 fair average price for the best of them. 

 Carnations were especially "knocked" 

 last week, until on Saturday any price 

 was welcome. I saw 600 assorted give 

 up their happy home for a $2 bill. Roses 

 shared in the general retrograde. They 

 had as bad a day on Saturday as the 

 Russians on the Yalu. Beauties sur- 

 rendered at 12 and 15 cents. The finest 

 Brides and Maids yielded at 6 cents 

 down for the best of them. It is im- 

 possible to make arbitrary prices, there- 

 fore, in the official list and while those 

 given are accurate on the day of quota- 

 tion, which is necessarily Monday of 

 each week, there is abundant time before 

 Saturday arrives for some mighty strik- 

 ing changes. This should not "be for- 

 gotten when criticisms are made on quo- 

 tations of the early days of any week. 

 The market is a thing of a day and not 

 a week and floriculture lias not yet ad- 

 vanced to the necessity of a daily,'though 

 this may be the case before the pioneers 

 of cut flower wholesaledom are gathered 

 in. The present week opens warm, 

 sunny, springy, with values normal. 



Spring is Here. 



The parks are an inspiring vision after 

 the long and dreary winter. Sunday was 

 an ideal spring opening by Madame Na- 

 ture, more beautiful and far-reaching even 

 than Bro. Beneke's wonderful Fair, which 

 has just arrived in such a blaze of glory. 

 I,^ater on when the S. A. F. invades the 

 Ivory City, we hope to rejoice in its 

 .grandeur and realize its horticultural 

 triimiphs. But now in our very midst 

 we have an exhibition that displays the 

 magic touch of the Infinite and reaches 

 every heart, while its beauties are as free 

 as the air and its inspiration awakens 

 all humanity to a new existence. Never 

 seemed the grass so green, the early 

 flowering forsythea so golden and the 

 burning bush so brilliant as now, while 

 "all the trees on all the hills open their 

 thousand leaves." So while "blessings 

 brighten as they take their flight;" bless- 

 ings are infinitely welcome when long 

 delayed. Now the work of a month 

 must be accomplished in a week and the 

 plantings of the seedsmen and the nur- 

 serymen rushed day and night, if ordi- 

 narily practical results are to be accom- 

 plished. 



Various Notes. 



•John P.. Nugent, .Jr.. journeyed to 

 Madison last week and bowled with the 

 Morris County Gardeners' Society, of 

 which he is a member. With unassum- 

 ing modestv he quotes only the scores 

 made by the balance of the bowlers and 

 seems to think the,v could give the New 

 York Club a run for their money. 



President Siehrecht, of the New Yorks. 

 has been too busy buying mansions lately 

 to bowl, and his purchase of the Lock- 

 wood estate near his Astoria residence is 

 considered a splendid business invest- 

 ment. All his friends congratulate him 

 on this evidence of his prosperity. He 

 certainly made a ten strike and ou?ht 

 to give a good account of himself at St. 

 JjOuis. 



The suppl,v men have European trips 



