The Weekly Florists' Review, 



49 



dewed leaves, which hurts the sale of 

 them very much. 



The "cemetery florists," those across 

 the way from the cemeteries, did a big 

 business in cut flowers and plants. 

 Koeuig and Meinhardt had all they 

 eouiu do and they have scarcely any- 

 thing left for bedding use. The smal- 

 ler ones in that locality are in the same 

 way. 



Some of our florists have booked or- 

 ders for a number of June weddings, 

 which will keep them busy the next two 

 weeks. Several of these weddings, I 

 hear, will be very elaborate affairs and 

 should use up large quantities of choice 

 stock. 



Beauties are still in good demand, but 

 extra fine stock is not coming in now. 

 They are small and somewhat off color. 

 Brides, Maids, Meteors, Carnots and 

 Gates are somewhat limited in quantity 

 at present and have also advanced a 

 little in price. Carnations are still 

 fine. They, too, became scarce just 

 when they were needed the most. Prices 

 also advanced on these to $2 and $3 per 

 100. A week ago it was "take your 

 pick at a cent," but to-day you must 

 take what you can get at double the 

 price. Sweet peas sold well at 75 cents 

 per 100. They are fine and quite plenti- 

 ful. On Friday and Saturday the com- 

 mission men sold out clean on these. 

 Peonies are about over and only a few 

 came in for Decoration day sales. Cape 

 jasmine was offered by the commission 

 men on Third street at 50 and 60 cents 

 per case. These were used a great deal 

 in funeral work. Plenty of fine smilax 

 is in now, but ferns are very scarce in 

 this market. 



Notes. 



J. F. Amniann and family, of Edwards- 

 ville. spent a very pleasant Sunday af- 

 ternoon in St. Louis calling on friends. 

 Fred reports that trade this spring has 

 been very good with him in both cut 

 flowers and plants. He has recovered 

 his health, and says that he will be 

 at the next club meeting without fail. 



Mrs. Miller and Miss Miller, wife and 

 daughter of Theo. Miller, on Euclid and 

 Delmar avenues, will leave Tuesday for 

 New York, whence they take a steamer 

 for a summer trip to Europe. This 

 trip is for the benefit of Miss Miller's 

 health, which has been impaired for 

 some time. 



The National Saengerfest, which will 

 be held in our city, commencing June 18, 

 should be of some benefit to our florists. 

 Ed Buechel, of the Riessen Floral Co., 

 has charge of the floral part of it. 



Beyer Bros, last week decorated the 

 German Savings Bank in a most beau- 

 tiful manner, the occasion being the fif- 

 tieth anniversary of its business career. 

 Thousands of red carnations were used 

 in the cut flower work. The effect was 

 much admired by all who saw it. 



Qub Meeting. 

 On next Thursday, June 11. at 2 

 o'clock, the meeting of the club will be 

 held. President Dunford, who is him- 

 self again, would like to see a large at- 

 tendance at this meeting, which will be 

 a very important one. The final ar- 

 rangements for the annual outing in 

 July and for outdoor meetings will be 

 made. Two essays will be read, one by 

 J. E. Fillmore and the other by George 

 Windier. S. A. F. matters will also 

 be discussed and -a transportation com- 

 mittee appointed. The growers having 

 finished planting and the retailers and 



commission men not being so busy, the 

 largest meeting of the year is expected. 



The following card will be used by 

 some of the St. Louis boys at Milwaukee 

 this summer : 



Now, dear Sir and Brother, please don't laugh, 

 I'.ut li.>ii.-r nie with your pieture and uuto^riipli. 

 Are your S. A. F. features known? 

 I'm from Missouri, and must be shown. 

 Kitidlv favnr me. exrhance, and aeeept mine 

 In the spirit "f friendship and auld lang syne. 

 tlur lu-<. tliers. whom you have all met before, 

 luvii.- >..ii to our city in nineteen four. 



Eight members of the bowling club 

 rolled three games on Monday night. 

 None of the old timers who were re- 

 quested to come were on hand, and the 

 chances are that St. Louis will not be 

 represented by a team in the convention 

 bowling contest unless they show up on 

 next Monday night. The scores of 

 Monday night were as follows: 



Player. 1st. 2d. 3d. Total 



Kuelm 169 157 141 461 



H.-nek.) -"M 129 121 452 



Young ISO 130 141 451 



Adels 127 133 179 439 



F. C. Weber 133 123 153 409 



Kills 14S 141 128 417 



Miller 106 139 124 369 



Fred Weber 105 123 228 



J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The last week of May developed a 

 chilly and gloomy spell of weather and 

 the usual advance in volume of trade 

 for Decoration day was far below the 

 average. Apart from a fair shipping 

 trade, the local output did not come at 

 all near general expectation. Even 

 the holidays share in the general de- 

 pression. The driest two months ever 

 known in the east may have had some- 

 thing to do with this. Hardly a drop 

 of rain since March is the record. It is 

 a blue outlook for the vegetable grow- 

 ers and the vegetarians. 



Various Items. 



The palm auction of David Clarke's 

 Sons, at Elliott's, on Wednesday was 

 largely attended and excellent prices 

 were realized for the splendid stock dis- 

 posed of. 



Julius Roehrs leaves June 11 for his 

 annual European tour. His importa- 

 tion of bay trees, phoenix and Cattleya 

 Triana? is" an immense one and ship- 

 ments are being made all over the coun- 

 try. 



The 250th anniversary of the city's 

 birth last week was loyally celebrated, 

 but the display, unfortunately, was con- 

 fined almost exclusively to bunting, the 

 florist being called upon to a very lim- 

 ited extent. 



Building operations are in progress 

 in all directions within fifty miles of 

 New York, and the season, in this re- 

 spect, promises to be one of the best in 

 a decade. 



Among June weddings that will in- 

 terest florists generally will be that of 

 the popular representative of the F. P. 

 Pierson Company, of Tarrytown, John 

 P. Fotheringham. The supply of bach- 

 elors at Asheville will be considerably 

 thinned before the next convention. 



Beaulieu, the pansy specialist, of 

 Woodhaven. met with a severe accident 

 a few days ago. his hand being badly 

 burned, but the pansies, dahlias and 

 onions still continue business at the old 

 stand. 



June 1 found the Coogan building 

 inaugurating a new and very commend- 

 able early closing movement — 3 p. m. 

 daily. It is to be regretted that these 

 hours cannot be made po;-ible of uni- 



versal adoption by the wholesale trade 

 until September 1. 



The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, 

 of Madison, N. J., died last week at 

 the age of 19, of typhoid fever. Mr. 

 Holmes is an extensive rose grower, and 

 has the sincere sympathy of his breth- 

 ren in his severe affliction. 



The shipments of peonies are already 

 enormous. Good stock, named varietio-. 

 is coming in from The Cottage Gardens. 

 A. N. Pierson, of Cromwell, and Valen- 

 tine Zuber, of Flatbush. The best has 

 commanded as high as $8 per 100. al- 

 though average stock can be had in 

 quantities at from $2 to $3. 



F. D. Spicer, of Riedel & Co.. shows 

 evidence of the approach of summer, if 

 not of June wedding considerations. 



Dunne & Co. are very busy with rus- 

 tic work at present and have an abun- 

 dance of orders booked for June. 



Siebrecht & Son have begun the work 

 of removal at Thirty-seventh street, 

 their greenhouses having already been 

 taken away. Fortunately their Arcade 

 store will be ample accommodation for 

 the dull season. They had the Anson 

 Stokes wedding at Noroton, Conn., last 

 week, one of the largest of the year, and 

 had charge of the decoration of Madison 

 Square Garden on Sunday night for 

 Duss's great festival, "Venice in Amer- 

 ica." 



The Florists' Club will hold its last 

 meeting until September on Monday 

 evening next. It will be peony night 

 and a fine exhibit is anticipated. The 

 meeting will be one of especial im- 

 portance, as final arrangements will be 

 made both as to the club's outing. July 

 1. and the trip of the New York con- 

 tino-ent to the convention at Milwaukee. 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



As was expected, stock of all kinds 

 was scarce for Decoration day. The ex- 

 tremely hot weather of the past few 

 weeks 'had opened most of the buds in 

 sight, so the stock left was not only 

 poor in quality but soft and in some 

 cases almost unsalable. Notwithstand- 

 ing this, a tremendous business was 

 done and great quantities of the out- 

 door and cheap flowers were disposed 

 of. Peonies were in good demand and 

 a large number of them that had been 

 placed in cold storage were in fine shape 

 and sold at good figures. Roses sold 

 very well, but owing to the very poor 

 quality the price was not very high. 

 The supply of American Beauties was 

 large and all sold. Some extra fine 

 stocks in white, purple and pink sold 

 well. They were grown by George 

 Bayer, of Toledo, E. G. Gillett handling 

 the stock. 



At the present time flowers of all 

 kinds are about as scarce as we ever 

 saw them, and. as might be expected, 

 there is a big demand. Prices are rap- 

 idly moving upward for stock that is 

 any way near good, and the top has not 

 been reached yet. Beauties are espe- 

 cially in demand and not half enough 

 are coming in. In qualify Golden Gate 

 and Ivorv are far ahead of Bride and 

 Maid. Meteor and Liberty are fair 

 but the majority of them are short 

 stemmed. If possible, carnations are 

 more scarce than roses, and the quality 

 is not much better. Some varieties are 

 holding up well, especially Genevieve 

 Lord. Flora Hill. Dorothy and even 



