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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



ST. LOUIS. 



r quality. Bride; 

 re in in. .st de- 

 Lttle ofE in color 

 llheads. When 

 re of little use 

 k. Perle is jrel too 

 The best price for 



Trade showed signs of improvement the 

 past week, although some complain that 

 business is still very dull. The whole 



the first grade. Of the see I grade 



there is mure than the demand calls for. 



to route in. and are of t 

 Carnot and Kaiserin 

 maiel. Bridesmaid is i 

 in, l Meteor mostly I 



in this c lition they 



for any kind of work. 



soft to sell well 

 good roses the past week was $5 to $6, 

 but the bulk of the Block went from $2 

 to $3 per 100. Beauties are as yet lim- 

 ited iu supply, but the demand is g I 



ami barely en, nigh come in to supply the 

 demand; $2 i- the price for the best. 

 \i; growers about here have about fin- 

 isheil planting their carnations, and from 

 reports from some of them the new 

 varieties are Joint; splendidly. The 



1,1 is are improving greatly and they 



are not so scarce as last week. Good, 

 long -tem- now bring $1, while for shorts 

 50 and 7.". cents per 100 is considered a 

 big price. Asters are beginning to give 

 out, and very little good house-grown 

 stock is in the market today. Some 

 fairly good shipped in stock is Belling 

 well. 



It won 't be long until chrysanthemums 

 will be with us again. Some of our 

 chrysanthemum growers around here have 



excellent plants. A visit to a few of 

 these places disclosed the fact that most 

 of them will be right in it again this 

 season. Valley continues good in this 

 market, but the demand is somewhat 

 slow. Moii' of it i- being Bhipped out 

 than sold locally. Armstrong's Ever- 

 blooming tuberose stalks are in abun- 

 dance, and most of them come from 

 Kirkwood, the home of the originator. 

 These are sold very cheap in big lots. 

 Gladioli have very little sale, with plenty 

 of them in the market. All outdoor stock 

 is looking better, with plenty of it, and 

 no demand. Hydrangea paniculata is 

 seen in good form at several of the deal- 

 er^' and -lis well. Nothing special in 

 gre< • a this week. Plenty of everything 

 in th. market at the usual price. 



Various Notes. 



S. S. Skidelsky, of Philadelphia, was 

 in town last week, selling almost every- 

 thing a florist uses. 



Some of that 3,000 pounds of happi- 

 ness which our friend, J. Austin Shaw, 

 referred to in last week's issue, was 

 with us last week in the shape of Arnold 

 Eingier. who looks after the interests of 

 W. W. Barnard & Co., of Chicago. 

 Arnold left for the south Sunday night. 



John Young and family returned Sat- 

 urday from a four weeks' stay at At- 

 lantic City, X. J. This much needed rest 

 did John a great deal of good, and he 

 is ready for a big season's business. 



J. L. Irwin, who has charge of the 

 Philippine Island exhibit at the World's 

 Fair, is in town with 3,000 orchid plants 

 and some 200 palms. Mr. Irwin is look- 

 ing for a suitable place here to house 

 the plants during the winter. 



The Michel Plant and Bulb Co., Septem- 

 ber 8, held an auction sale of surplus 

 stock, consisting of ferns, begonias and 

 pot roses. 



A visit to the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den last week found Prof. William Tre- 



lease returned from his vacation trip and 

 looking ever a stack of correspondence 

 which accumulated during his absence. 

 When informed by your correspondent 

 that the S. A. F. would meet with us 

 ii, ,i ii :n- the professor was very much 

 pleased and said he and the directors of 

 the garden would do all in their pow<" 

 to help entertain the visitors during their 

 stay. Everybody was busy in the garden 

 shaping up "things to receive the big Sun- 

 day crowd, the second of this year. 



A visit was also paid to Tower Grove 

 park, adjoining the garden, and found 

 our dear old friend, James Gurney, and 

 his head gardener, Phil Goebel, at the lily 



I Is. Both were very much pleased 



that the convention will be held here 

 next year. Mr. Gurney, especially, is de- 

 lighted with the prospect of seeing many 

 nl Ins old friends who are members of 

 the S. A. F. The large houses in the 

 park are being put in shape to receive all 

 the outdoor plants of this beautiful park, 

 and, as Mr. Goebel says, there is plenty 

 of work ahead from now until frost sets 

 in. 



Some of the flower beds and young 

 trees in City Hall park are in very bad 

 condition at the present time, and should 

 be looked after. The park commissioner 

 or his superintendent should place com- 

 petent men in charge. Experience and 

 not politics should be put in force in 

 the park department. The great con- 

 course of people that the World's Fair 

 wili attract next year, together with the 

 visit of the Society of American Flor- 

 ists, should see the parks in the best 

 possible shape. It's up to Park Com- 

 missioner Aull and his superintendent, 

 Andrew Meyer, Jr., to make a reputation 

 as to their ability to handle the great 

 parks of our city. 



The second open Sunday of this year 

 at Shaw 's Garden took place September 

 0. The day was most beautiful, and 

 some 20,000 persons visited the garden 

 during the day. Everything about the 

 garden looks fine and is in apple-pie or- 

 der. 



Bowling. 



The bowling club on Monday night 

 rolled the regular weekly games, in which 

 Charlie Kuehn again showed fine form, 

 making an average of 220. Carl Beyer 

 was second and Beneke third. 



Player— 1st. 2d. 3d. Av. 



C. A. Kuehn 188 24:s 219 220 



curl Beyer 14'.> 211 ll'.t 170 



J. J. Beneke 162 ISO 165 169 



Will. A.lels 152 160 ISO 164 



•I'll.-,.. Miller 171 146 162 160 



Fred Weber, Jr 14s 135 154 146 



Fred Milnhurdt 126 123 107 119 



J. J. B. 



BOSTON. 



Business is better but cannot be printed 

 in large capitals just yet. Good material 

 is not so plentiful and these two condi- 

 tions affect prices a bit, but not too 

 heavily. Roses continue much too plenti- 

 ful, but carnations are really quite 

 scarce. Very few first class asters are 

 seen, but bushels of poor ones. 



Edward O'Brien, the Cambridgeport 

 florist, died very suddenly last week. He 

 was t.eling as usual and arose at the or- 

 dinary hour that morning, but was found 

 dead ' in the bath room a few minutes 

 later. 



As a result of the tearing down of a 

 business block on Washington street, 

 many firms are moving and Mrs. N. F. 

 Sutherland, the Paddock Florist, sells her 

 lease at a good figure, and for the time 



call 



being salesmen have one 

 make. 



Has Elliott's invincible ball team met 

 a Waterloo? G. W. Hilliard 's men at 

 Exeter, N. H., have been developing 

 much muscle in the erection of a new 

 greenhouse, much agility in cftmteing .rose 

 bushes to clip off superfluous buds and 

 much endurance waiting for a rise in 

 fall business. So they went over to Mad- 

 bury a week or so ago and rubbed the 

 baseball situation there right into the 

 mud to the tune of 14 to 2. 



J. S. Mantek. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 

 The past week was one of considerable 



activity for this time of year. All of the 

 retail florists are busy with large funeral 

 orders. There is a good deal more of 

 first-class stock on the market, the few 

 cool days of last week working wonders, 

 especially with roses. Outdoor stock is 

 in a bad way now, first from lack of 

 rain, and second, the aster bug has de- 

 scended upon many promising fields. In 

 several cases the asters were a total loss. 

 Home-grown gladioli are poor, owing to 

 the lack of water. The northern asters 

 and gladioli are now in their prime. 

 Some Al stock is being handled by the 

 wholesale houses, and prices are good. 

 At the present time the market is well 

 cleaned up of all grades of asters, and 

 more could be used to advantage. 



Carnations continue scarce. Those 

 from indoors are improving rapidly and 

 what few are to be had sell readily. Wm. 

 Rodgers is cutting some fine Flora Hill 

 from old plants, also some Seotts almost 

 as good as those cut in winter. Roses 

 are still in large supply, especially short- 

 stemmed roses. American Beauties are 

 the best thing the market affords, good 

 color and substance, stems ranging from 

 six to thirty inches. They sell at $1 a 

 foot per dozen, and more could easily be 

 disposed of. 



Various Notes. 



Allen Drake is receiving the congratu- 

 lations of his many friends. It's a boy. 

 and I must not fail to add that Grandpa 

 is also doing nicely. 



Not all florists are machinists, but if 

 you want a job with Fred Gear you must 

 be one. Last week he made a floral ma- 

 chine planer. It was full-size and when 

 you take into consideration the uirticultv 

 "of such a job it was a very creditable 

 piece of work. 



Cards are at hand announcing the wed- 

 ding of Miss Lucy Hardy Swan to W. 

 Weber, at Oakland", Md., September 12. 



J. T. Conger has returned from Tiffin, 

 O., where he attended a National Union 

 convention. 



The Fall Festival is now on in full 

 blast, and the city is crowded with strang- 

 ers. Chas. W. Crouch was the first flor- 

 ist ti. arrive. In speaking of his plant 

 at Knoxville, Tenn., he says that pros- 

 pects were never better. 



George & Allan have one of the finest 

 houses of mums I have ever seen. Tho 

 variety is Estelle, the new early white. 

 They stand about three feet high at pres- 

 ent, and are as even as if they had been 

 trimmed with shears. C. J. Ohmer. 



Iowa Falls, Ia. — Miss Jennie Smock 

 has built greenhouses on the south side 

 and W. H. Speers has put up glass on 

 his truck farm north of town. Each will 

 grow cut flowers and plants. 



