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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 30, 1903. 



The latter are nicely litted up with ad- 

 justable shelves. The box was made by 

 the Thaek.ua Refrigi ratoi I •-. and pre- 

 sents a vi-i \ iinpo-ing appiaiauc r. \\ itli 

 this improvement the firm have aboul 

 completed their home preparations for 

 the coming campaign. 

 0. & G. J.. IVim.k are beginning to 



their large place al Lansdowne. 



The Flowei Market was able to so- 

 cure some cattleyas, quite a rarity at 



A CANNA EXHIBITION. 



The Florists' Club of Philadelphia is 

 to hold an exhibition of eannas in con- 

 nection with its August meeting, and 

 the committee in charge of the exhibits 

 invite all who have new and meritorious 

 eannas to forward them prepaid by ex- 

 press in care of David Rust, Horticul- 

 tural Hall. Broad street, Philadelphia, 

 Pa., to reach destination not later than 

 Tuesday afternoon, August 1. when they 

 will receive careful and proper atten- 

 tion. Edwin Lonsdale, Sec'y. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 

 Business conditions remain unchanged. 

 There is -till a fair demand for good 

 stock, which is hard to obtain in this 

 market at present. There seems to be 

 plenty of poor stock in roses and carna- 

 tions." The best of the roses are Liberty 

 and Kaiserin. Brides and Bridesmaids, 

 as a rule, are very poor. A few fairly 

 good Beauties from young stock are seen. 

 Carnations are of poor quality, and un- 

 less fancy they meet with slow demand. 

 Whites are an exception, as they are re 

 quired for funeral work and any grade 

 ean be used for this when stock is scarce. 

 Asters are improving in quality and 

 quantity. The best call is for the large 

 Semple" white. Good purple and pink 

 are also in some demand. Tuberose and 

 gladiolus stalks are selling well for win- 

 dow decorations. Sweet peas arc over. 

 The greens market is in a healthy state. 

 and plenty of everything that is needed. 



Florists' Picnic. 



The St. Louis florists had a most en- 

 joyable time last Thursday at their pic- 

 nic held in Priester's Park. The weather 

 eould not have been better and 150 flor- 

 ists including their families, enjoyed a 

 most pleasant day. all acclaiming this 

 year's picnic the best the club has yet 

 given. Our suburban member- were well 

 represented with their families, as were 

 also the wholesalers. 



The Jubilee singers, who have always 

 furnished one of the ait i jet inns at our 

 outings, again entertained the members 

 with sinyitig and made delightful music 

 for the dancing, which was kept up until 

 10 o'clock. The arrangement committee, 

 consisting of John Steidel. Charles Juen- 

 gel and F. M. Ellis, assisted by Fred 

 Ainmann. F. C. Weber, J. W. Dunford 

 and J. J. Beneke, had everything in read- 

 iness for the games at 2 o'clock. The 

 first event was a 50-yard race for little 

 girls, for which there were twelve en- 



tries. Alma Ainmann was the winner 

 and the prize a handsome pearl neck- 

 lace. No. 2 was a 75-yard race for boys 

 under 14 years. Five young florists en- 

 tered for "this race, the winner being 

 Julius Beneke, Jr., and the prize a hand- 

 some pocket knife. No. 3 was a 50-yard 

 race for young ladies. There were ten 

 -i ntri and .Miss L. Meinhardt won the 

 six linen handkerchiefs. Young Sabher 

 won the 100-yard dash, the prize being 

 a gold watch charm. The fifth event was 

 a hopping race of 25 yards for married 

 ladies, nine ladies taking part. Mrs. F. 

 M. Ellis won by five yards, the prize 

 being a fine table ornament. In the 25- 

 yard jumping race for married men, ten 

 taking part, Mr. Sehadegger, of Kirk- 

 wood, proved the best jumper and won a 

 silver-mounted cane. Little Jessie San- 

 ders won a fine fan for being the fastesi 

 eater in the eating contest for little 

 girls, six taking part. ( >. K. Sanders 

 and C. Curndet won the three-legged race, 

 each receiving a pair of suspenders. Six 

 little fellows entered a walking match 

 for boys under 10 years. A. Steidel was 

 first, winning a hammock. Charlie Kuehn, 

 Jr.. was second and Wilfret Beneke 

 third. 



\e\t came the event of the day, the 

 tug of war by two teams captained by 

 Fred Ammann and Ma\ Herzog, referees 

 F. C. Weber and John Steidel. After a 

 hard pull of some twenty minutes I ap 

 tain Ammann's side won with the fol- 

 lowing florists: W. J. Pileher, J. W. 

 Dunford, A. Sehadegger. J. J. Beneke, 

 E. W. Guv. C. J. Juengel and II. Cross. 



came next. 1 

 Meinhardt, ma 

 Mrs. Menke v 

 Mrs. F. C. \V. 



by Miss M. 

 five frames. 



itli 47 and 

 th 46. The 



prize was a fine silk umbrella. Twenty- 

 four ladies took part in the bowling, in 

 the gentlemen's bowling match. Dr. A. 

 S. Halstedt was high man. making 102 

 in five franies: E. W. Guy, second, !>7 , 

 and \V. J. Pihher. third. 81. The prize 

 was a fine florist's knife. The wanner of 

 this match will be at Milwaukee, so look 

 out for him. The bowling matches were 

 in charge of Fred C. Weber. All the 

 events passed off pleasantly and every- 

 body was well pleased with the results. 

 After supper each enjoyed himself at his 

 favorite pastime — fishing, bowling, boat- 

 ing, shooting or dancing. At 10 o'clock 

 nearly everybody left for home and all 

 expressed themselves as having had a 

 good time. Let us hope that we may 

 all meet again next year. 



Various Notes. 



Pat Qtiinii and F. J. Fillmore had 

 quite a talk on old times a t the picnic. 

 They were joined by your correspondent 

 and F. C. Weber, all products of Jor- 

 dan's in those good old days oi Is;:;. 



Fied i Weber left Saturday for 

 French Lick Springs, to be gone ten .lavs 



for hi alth. Fred will return in time 



to go with the St. Louis delegation to 

 Milwaukee. 



Fred Ostertag was married in Belle- 

 wile last week. Dr. A. S. Halstedt and 

 sister Maty witnessed the ceremony. This 

 is Fred's second venture and we wish 

 him luck. 



Fred Foster had a painful operation 

 performed last week from which he is 

 much improved and will be able to be 

 about soon. 



It has been decided by the transporta- 

 tion committee that the St. Louis dele- 



gation to Milwaukee will leave here on 

 Sunday night. August. Hi, over the Wa- 

 bash special and arrive in Chicago Mon- 

 day mo, nine. The round trip to Mil- 

 waukee will be $13.40, with stop-over 

 at t hicago coming and going. 



Mr. Juengel is very busy now round- 

 ing up new members for the S. A. F. and 

 getting the names of those who are go- 

 ing to attend the convention. He now 

 has thirtj one names on his list, but will 

 not -top at that. Anyone wdio has not 

 ye1 sent in his name and wants to take 

 advantage oi the low rate and the club's 



s, Lai ear should send his name to Mr. 



Juengel be! the nexi meeting of the 



held at Mr. Jablonsky's place at Wells- 

 ton. At this i ting the election of offi- 

 cers will be held and the final arrange- 

 ments for the Milwaukei trip will be 

 made. Convention matters will lie the 

 topic of the meeting. Mr. Jablonsky is 

 making big preparation- to entertain the 

 brothers and look- for the largest at- 

 tendance on record. Quite a number of 

 new applications will be filed as a result 



Carl Beyer left this week for a ten 

 days' trip down the Tennessee river. Carl 

 will return in time to make the Milwau- 

 kee trip, as he is one of our crack bowl- 

 ers and we need him on the team. The 

 boy- have about put the finishing work 

 in order, so the chances are that both 

 Carl and Robert will be with us. 



Our suburban members who will at- 

 tend the convention are Mr. and Mrs. J. 

 W. Dunford, Mr. and Mrs. John Steidel. 

 K. \V. Guy, Fred Ainmann. Dr. Halstedt. 

 Adolph Fein and Max Herzog. and a few 

 others may be added to this list by next 



Bowling. - 

 The extremely hot night last Monday 

 kept, many of the bowlers away, Fred 

 Webei and Carl Beyer being out of the 

 city. Charlie Kuehn had to quit bowling 

 after the first game, owing to a very sore 

 finger on his bowling hand. The scores 

 were as follows: 



Beneke 



las 



590 1ST 



42 167 477 159 



131 451 150 



156 442 147 



... 322 161 



... 2I>5 102 



C. II Kuehn 164 164 164 



The loaded ball question was discussed 

 by some of the bow lei- and it was de- 

 cided not to use am loaded ball at Mil- 

 waukee and it is hoped that the Na- 

 tional Florist-' Howling Association will 

 not allow other club- to use them. We 

 would like to hear from other clubs on 

 the loaded ball question, and especially 

 from the different captains. 



J. J. B.. 



NEW YORK. 

 Convention Matters. 

 i onvention talk is heard on all sides 

 now that the great annual festivity is 

 only three weeks away. It is a pleasure 

 to realize that we shall see old friends 

 again and combine business with the 

 be-t kind of recreation. These yearly in- 

 spiral i ins become more and more attrac- 

 ts as their number increase-, and with 

 hardly an exception the memory of them 

 is a delight. The desire for Pullman ac- 

 commodation is sufficient to assure the 

 use of a special and those who intend 

 occupying a lower berth cannot send in 

 their names t puicklj to Walter Sher- 

 idan. For the "summer widowers," the 

 old bachelors and the fellows who don't 

 take their wives along, an upper berth 



