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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



July 9, 1903. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The condition of the nil llowcr mar- 

 ke1 has changed greatly since the last 

 report. Business with the store men is 

 verj dull) funeral work being about all 

 iliat is going on. and all the florists 

 had i l . • n i \ ol time to spend the glorious 

 Fourth of July, most of them closing 

 their stores half a daw Cut flowers of 

 all kind- have been very plentiful dur- 

 ing the pasl week, with the exception of 

 He. nun-. The shortage of long Beauties 

 was particularly noticeable and only a 

 few short ones were in. Other roses, 

 such as Bride, Bridesmaid and Kaiserin, 

 were in excess of the demand and of 

 fairly good quality. Golden Gate and 



Carnot were also g 1. and Meteor and 



Liberty were exceptionally good for the 

 season. Some good Perle were also in, 

 but were too soft to sell well. 



Carnations were in fair supply, a 

 great many of them field grown. The 

 demand for these is always good for the 

 best stock. Fancies were scarce. There 

 were a great mam pink carnations in the 

 market the pasl week. Home grown 

 stock has the call these warm days and 

 a great deal of the shipped stuff has 

 to be dumped, as it does not keep any 

 length of time. Sweet peas are still 

 in heavy supply and are not moving 

 fast since the end of the school closing 

 and wedding season. The quality is 

 still very good, but stems are shorter. 

 The few hot days of the past week 

 made them suffer somewhat More white 

 are sold than any other color, as they are 

 extensively used in funeral work. There 

 are also some good white asters in the 

 market, but they are not overplentiful. 

 Colored stock of these is yet scarce. 

 Some good valley is in the market. 

 which has a fairly good call. The best 

 of this stock comes from A. Berdan. 

 of Kirkwood. Mo. The market is filled 

 with out-door stuff, which sells slowly 

 and at very cheap prices to fill up show 

 windows. Fine Asparagus plumosus 

 and Sprengeri sell well and can be had 

 in extra fine quality. 



Notes. 



Local growers are now very busy 

 planting their houses, some having al- 

 ready finished this work. From the 

 report there will be no lack of Beau- 

 ties and other roses the coming sea- 

 son. The same can be said of carna- 

 tions. A great many of the best new 

 varieties will be grown by our local 

 growers, especially our brothers in Ed- 

 wardsville, Belleville and Kirkwood. 



Mr. Simpkins, of Denver, Col., brother- 

 in-law to Phil Scott, was in town last 

 week and called on the trade with Phil's 

 compliments. 



The committees in charge of the picnic 

 have everything in readiness for the 

 outing. The invitations have all been 



mailed, and should any havi been 



overlooked he should let it 'be known 

 to one of the committee, who will attend 

 to the matter at once. 



Andrew Meyer, Jr., the newly ap- 

 pointed park superintendent, reports 

 that he is 28 years old instead of 23, 

 as stated in the lasi issue of the Re- 

 view. Mr. Meyer took hold of bis new 

 office July 1, with plenty of work before 

 him. 



Mrs. Frank M. Ellis and her two 

 daughters left St. Louis last, week for 

 ■ visit to friend- in the western part 

 of Missouri, in the mountain-. Frank 



is taking a trip among the growers 

 through Illinois and will pay a visit to 

 the Chicago boys for a few days. 



H. M. Schisler and B. P. Corneli, of 

 the Schisler-Corneli Seed Co., have re- 

 turned from Atlantic City, where they 

 attended the annual meeting of the 

 American Seed Trade Association. They 

 report a great time, and are pleased 

 that the "association has selected St. 

 Louis as its next meeting place. 



In response to an invitation of Wil- 

 liam Winter, the Florists' Club will hold 

 its June meeting this week Thursday 

 in Kirkwood. This meeting will be a 

 very important one for the members, 

 ami a big attendance is expected. Talks 

 on the coming S. A. F. convention and 

 the annual outing will be in order, and 

 the nomination of officers will take 

 place. 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



The bottom dropped out at the end of 

 last week, just as it was expected to do. 

 and the Fourth, for which we had a 

 lovely day, was a floral holiday — the 

 only day out of the 365 yvhen a "florist 

 can say that he is sure he won't be want- 

 ed. I did hear on my wav down town 

 on Friday afternoon that BUI or Bob or 

 Hairy was going to keep open, and "if 

 they do, of course we will have to." I 

 trust better sense prevailed, and that it 

 was a close-up all day. There are none 

 too many holidays, anyway, for the 

 florists, scarcely one. Six o'clock closing 

 began on the first. Most of the down- 

 town stores had more or less patriotic 

 emblems in their decorations last week. 

 W. J. Palmer & Son had a well-construct- 

 ed field gun, about an eight-pounder. It 

 was made of red and white carnations, 

 and attracted lots of kids to the window, 

 but it was not half so pretty or pleasing 

 as their fine window uptown, filled with 

 splendid cibotiums. The much-abused 

 stars and stripes satisfied other retail- 

 ers. S. A. Anderson has had a splendid 

 lot of gloxinias in his window for a 

 week past, and his head man, Mr. Adams, 

 says they go well. They ought to, for, as 

 I have often said, they are the very best 

 of house plants. Jos. Rebstock is get- 

 ting along well and will soon be out. 



We were rather surprised to see 

 Michael Bloy again so soon. He is man- 

 ager of the Lyman establishment near 

 Cleveland. He reports trade good, work 

 well advanced and prospects very bright. 

 In fact, he was in the best of spirits, 

 and when "Mike" is enthusiastic he is 

 hard to beat. 



Harrv lialslov. who lets vou know about 

 the Detroit Flower Pot Co., floated into 

 town la-t week and made his usual pro- 



tern round holt. 

 4-inch this spri 

 much. The bt 

 thinner in the a 



to the sides, wh 

 the pot. slight] 

 There are. I beli 



We tried 500 



ke them very 

 made slightly 

 i hi claj 'I i .i « n 

 the bottom of 

 lg or cupped, 

 listinct advan- 



tage- 111 the pat tei n over the old. 

 Stn ngth is one. Next, plants are much 

 easier to knock out of one of these pots, 

 as there i- no sharp ingle for the roots 

 to hold to. And. thirdly, in large sizes, 

 say 5, 6 or 7-inch, the drainage must be 

 perfect. Harry is all right this time. 

 The club is 'to meet on Friday of this 



week. Picnic, convention and bowling 

 team are the uppermost subjects. I hope 

 we do have a bowling team and let the 

 world see once again how mightily we 

 can trundle the sphere, as we used to do. 

 It is not necessary to practice all the 

 year around; you get stale and weary. 

 If you are a scientific bowler, one or 

 two practice games in the year is plenty. 

 There is good reason to believe that 

 the old houses, corner of Main and High. 

 now occupied by Louis II. Rebstock, will 

 shortly be torn down, and in their place 

 a tine In id; -tore and office and three or 

 four up-to-date houses will be built. The 

 location i- grand, and Louis' ability is 

 also grand, and when he gets the new 

 place complete and tunning, why look 



PITTSBURG. 



Business is holding up very well. 

 The condition of stock is only ordinary, 

 and the wholesalers are receiving more 

 flowers than they know what to do with. 

 Carnations were offered as low as $5 

 per 1,000 last Saturday morning. Roses 

 also sell cheap. Sweet peas are plenti- 

 ful and the quality is very fine. 



Charles Koenig. Pittsburg's largest 

 bulb forcer, has sold out his entire plant 

 to Patrick Maier, who will continue on 

 the same lines, consigning his entire out- 

 put to the Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. 



Harry Graves, formerly with Ran- 

 dolph & McClements, leaves soon for 

 Beloit. Ohio, to take charge of his new 

 range of carnation houses. 



H. L. Blind & Brother are growing 

 several houses of Boston ferns which 

 look fine. Hoo-Hoo. 



TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 

 At the June meeting of the Tarry- 

 town Horticultural Society, the secre- 

 tary was instructed to invite Win. Tur- 

 ner, of Oceanic. X. J., to act as judge 

 at the November exhibition. John Nel- 

 son, of North Tarrytown, was elected 

 to membership. David McFarlane was 

 awarded the prize, a silk umbrella,, for 

 the best display of cut flowers of per- 

 ennials. Charles Vanderbilt offered a 

 cash prize of $5, which will be given for 

 the largest, chrysanthemum bloom at the 

 fall show. The discussion on perennials 

 was participated in by President Mc- 

 Farlane. Stephan and Joseph Bradley, 

 F. R. Pierson and Mr. Moody. 



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