Jult 23, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



317 



be Portland, Oregon, with its exposition 



and its wonderful possibilities that will 

 appeal to us, and a $50 round trip fare 

 would insure a large attendance. No 

 one now regrets the trip to Asheville. 

 great as was the opposition developed 

 when the result of the vote was realized. 

 "Famous City" folks won't be caught 

 napping again. We all look ahead a 

 year to our conventions and plan for 

 them if we can. no matter where thev 

 are. This Milwaukee gathering will be 

 a surprise to many. Its trade exhibit 

 will certainly be "the best ever." The 

 hotels are up to date and convenient to 

 exhibition hall, and the majority of 

 them most reasonable in their rates. The 

 fare from New York, including special 

 sleeper all the way through and return, 

 will cost a lot under $40 by the West 

 Shore, which has been made the official 

 route, and which is making special ar- 

 rangements for its patrons on this occa- 

 sion, including a practical chaperone 

 who knows his business. 



Preparations are going on quietly by 

 the leading bowlers, under the coaching 

 of Messrs. Lang and Traendly, which as- 

 sures the city a creditable representa- 

 tion at Milwaukee. The average 

 strength of the members has been so 

 well demonstrated in the past that reg- 

 ular practice for the event is not deemed 

 necessary. 



Visitors. 



Among the visitors during the past 

 week were W. L. Rock and wife, of Kan- 

 sas City; Julius Neidnagel, Jr., of Ev- 

 ansville, Ind.; J. K. Farquhar, of Bos- 

 ton ; H. H. ("iron", the Canadian gladiolus 

 king, and J. L. Dillon, of Bloomsburg, 

 Pa. J. Austin Shaw. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



There has not been much change in the 

 market conditions since last report, either 

 as regards the quality and supply of 

 stock or the demand. We have had sev- 

 eral good rains during the past week, 

 which should do a world of good to out- 

 door stock. Funeral work has been quite 

 plentiful all over town, but aside from 

 this, business is reported as very dull. 



Some fairly good stock in roses is in, 

 Kaiserin and Meteor being in the best 

 condition. Brides and Maids are the poor- 

 est, as is usual at this time of the year. 

 Beauties from the newly planted stock 

 are in, with short stems, though fair 

 flowers. There are enough carnations in 

 to supply the demand ; quality only fair. 

 White sell the best. Sweet peas are about 

 over. Very few are coming in and the 

 stems are short. Asters are not yet over- 

 plentiful and are not any too good in 

 quality. White and purple sell the best, 

 at $1.50 per 100 for the choice. Gladioli 

 are beginning to be more plentiful and 

 will soon be seen in large quantities. The 

 market is stocked with plenty of greens, 

 such as smilax, asparagus, fancy ferns 

 and galax. at the usual market prices. 



Various Notes. 

 At Tower Grove Park they have a new, 

 seedling nymphaea, James Gurney, whose 

 parents are N. O'Marana and N. Frank 

 Trelease. It has large bronze leaves, more 

 fringed than its parents, and large, beau- 

 tiful pink flowers. Anyone who sees it 

 can forget all the other varieties. Phil 

 Gobel, who has charge of the pond, and 

 James Gurney, the head of the park, arc- 

 very proud of their new find. Tower 



Grove Park is also the home of the grand 

 new salvia, St. Louis, and the beautiful 

 Stella Gurney ageratum. The park is 

 looking better than ever. Mr. Gurney 

 laid it out in 1863 and has been at its 

 head ever since. He planted every tree in 

 the park but three. If able, he will be at 

 the convention next month to meet his 

 many friends. 



Everybody is talking picnic to-day 

 (Monday), and if the weather is fine a 

 record breaking crowd will be present 

 Thursday at Priester's l'ark. The prizes 

 are costly and beautiful. Among the 

 prizes are a beautiful pearl necklace for 

 the little girls' race, an elegant gold 

 watch charm, set with a diamond for the 

 single men's race, a fine ornament for 

 the married ladies' race, and a silk um- 

 brella for the ladies' bowling match. 

 These are the best prizes. By the time 

 this issue is out the St. Louis florists 

 will be having a good time. 



State Vice-President Charles Juengel, 

 who has the transportation matter in 

 hand, has not yet decided by which road 

 the St. Louis contingent will travel to 

 Milwaukee. The rate, he says, will be 

 $13.40 for the round trip. This is the 

 very best that can be had, all the roads 

 having the same rate, and it is simply a 

 matter of choice as to roads. Mr. Juen- 

 gel says it cannot be definitely stated as 

 to how many will go until the next meet- 

 ing of the club. His list to date is twen- 

 ty-five, including five or six ladies, but 

 the chances are that we will send in the 

 neighborhood of thirty or thirty-five. The 

 present arrangement is for the St. Louis 

 party to leave Sunday noon, arrive in 

 Chicago at 7:30 p. m., spend Monday 

 with our friends in that city and travel 

 to Milwaukee on their special. 



Mr. and Mrs. Carew Sanders did not go 

 on their western trip last week, as was 

 stated, owing to the sudden sickness of 

 Mrs. Sanders, but will start just as soon 

 as Mrs. Sanders is able to travel. 



F. C. Weber has been sick the past 

 week and not able to attend to business. 

 Fred will take a short trip to the Springs 

 this week. He never misses a conven- 

 tion and hopes to attend this year. 



Charles Richter, aged 92, and the old- 

 est florist in St. Louis, who is now living 

 out on old Morgan Ford road, is very 

 sick and his physicians report the chances 

 for his recovery as very slim. Mr. Rich- 

 ter has been on the retired list for 

 the past thirty years. 



Bowling. 



The bowling club rolled its usual prac- 

 tice games on Monday night. Carl Beyer 

 and Will Adels were not able to roll, 

 owing to late business. Some good 

 scores were made. The new set of pins 

 made it hard to get strikes. Kuehn was 

 iiigh for three games and Beneke for 

 single game. The convention team, after 

 next week, will have an extra night for 

 practice. ( The score: 



Player— 1st. 2d. 3d. T'l. Av. 



Kuehn 177 1S7 10S 532 177 



Beoeke 213 184 150 527 176 



Slurtz. 16» 187 171 527 176 



Milli-r 147 118 155 420 140 



Kills 118 143 157 41S 139 



Weber. Jr 141 114 143 308 133 



Young 102 122 140 364 121 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 

 The Market. 



As is the case in other cities, accord- 

 ing to reports, sweet peas have been 

 very much overdone, and the weather 

 being favorable to their continuous 

 growth, there are still plenty. Gladioli 



are mm on the market and asters have 

 been "for the past two weeks, so there 

 are plenty of cheap flowers. Roses, ex- 

 cept Kaiserin, are a poor lot, and carna- 

 tions have collapsed the past two weeks. 

 There should be more of the hybrid per- 

 petual roses grown — a good, large plant- 

 ing of Baroness Kothschild, Ulrich Brun- 

 ner, Paul Neyron, Magna Charta, Ga- 

 briel Luizet and half a dozen others 

 but more particularly Ulrich Brunner — 

 and with attention to disbudding and 

 good cultivation you could have stems 

 two feet long of these beautiful flowers, 

 only you must be up by 5 o'clock in the 

 morning to cut them before King Sol's 

 shining face has burst open their petals. 

 Business is no quieter than we expect. 

 The passing awayi of old and young 

 friends is the cause of the heaviest part 

 of the business. 



Convention Matters. 

 As I did not send you any word last 

 week, it's rather old news that our club 

 had a rather well attended meeting. 

 There was more than the usual interest 

 shown in the Milwaukee convention. 

 The route and the railroad to travel by 

 was left to a committee of which Wil- 

 liam F. Kasting is chairman. When it 

 comes to dealing with passenger agents 

 it takes lots of nerve and diplomacy and 

 our Billy is blessed with both. There is 

 no doubt that we shall have a bowling 

 team at the city that Schlitz made fa- 

 mous, and Capt. Braik will select his 

 team. We are to have a picnic before 

 the convention to work up enthusiasm. 

 Mr. Keitsch and his committee have full 

 power to select the spot, but the prevail- 

 ing sentiment was that we have had 

 enough of Grand Island for a few years. 

 I trust the same good crowd will turn 

 out that we saw last year. Now, boys, 

 go to the convention. Very few of you 

 travel. Travel is a great educator, if 

 not the greatest. Suppose you spend 

 your little savings on this trip, you 

 will gain ten times the amount in your 

 knowledge of the great country in which 

 we live. It will widen your horoscope 

 and you will be able to say for years 

 afterward, "Yes, I know Milwaukee; it's 

 a great town. I almost fancied I was 

 in Berlin without the kaiser and the 

 military." The sidewalks are rather 

 high above the streets, but after you 

 have been an hour in the company of 

 Mr. Whitnall your perceptibility of 

 grades and levels will have vanished, and 

 not until you have been steadied up by 

 the conservative influence of Mr. Poll- 

 worth will you return to any criticism. 

 I feel a sort of something that says Mil- 

 waukee will have a great convention. 

 There are hundreds of fine men in the 

 great states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Il- 

 linois and Iowa who will be glad to see 

 and welcome the men from the east and 

 west. I have no patience with those 

 men who will tell you they were off on 

 a fishing excursion that week, and al- 

 most as bad are those who say they were 

 too busy. And then again, don't say 

 that a convention is of no use to you, 

 that a few "run it." You have just as 

 much opportunity to be one of the "run- 

 ners" as anyone else. Its fraternal and 

 social features are doubtless the most 

 important and enjoyable to the great 

 majority, and no harm if it is, but in- 

 side that it is an organization that has 

 done much to advance our profession 

 and guard our interests and it is our 

 duty to be loyal to this glorious and 

 good society of the S. A. F. & O. H. 



