The Weekly Florists' Review. 



923 



Eugene Bernbeimer is receiving some 

 nice mignonette. 



Wm. J. Baker is handling some fine 

 Ivory, as well as good Maidenhair fern. 



C. A. Dunn & Co. are pushing things 

 at a lively rate and handling lots of 

 valley and adiantum. 



A special meeting of the stockhold- 

 ers of the Flower Market has been called 

 for Tuesday, November 3, at 1 p. m., at 

 the Market to decide, first, whether the 

 beginning of the fiscal year shall be 

 changed from October 1 to July 1; sec- 

 ond, whether the clause limiting each 

 stockholder to titty shares shall be abol- 

 ished. All stockholders who are unable 

 to be present are requested to send their 

 proxies with instructions as to how they 

 wish to vote. A two-thirds vote of the 

 stock is necessary to carry each amend- 

 ment. 



Bowling. 



The following is an account of the 

 deciding game between the Growers and 

 Dealers, furnished by Walter N. Yates: 



The Dealers win the deciding contest. 

 The other contests between the Dealers 

 and Growers were close and exciting, but 

 the deciding match was heartrending — to 

 the Growers. As in the second contest, 

 the Growers won the first two games 

 with a good margin and were in the 

 lead an even 100 pins when the third 

 game started. This lead was held until 

 the beginning of the eighth frame, when 

 the calamity occurred. When the wreck 

 was cleared away the Dealers were two 

 pins ahead, thus winning the final and 

 deciding match by making up over 100 

 pins in the last three frames. Bather 

 exciting? Well, just ask the boys ! The 

 following are the scores: 



Growers. 1st. 2d. "d. Total. 



Yates US 172 ir>2 472 



Westcott Is2 150 167 499 



Harris 193 1T0 146 507 



Ad('l'l,.WT '.'.' .'.'.'.' l.-.i 184 152 4S7 



T.. I:.ls 821 827 76S 2416 



Dealers. 1st. 2d. 3d. Total. 



Rift lis 135 151 434 



Gibson 171 140 17G 490 



Falck 131 170 153 454 



Connor 125 169 200 494 



Moss 1S8 168 190 546 



Totals 766 v 7S2 S70 241S 



BHIL. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business conditions were somewhat 

 better the past week, owing largely to 

 several important weddings'. An in- 

 creased demand for funeral work was 

 also noted, but trade in cut flowers is 

 slow in opening up. The weather con- 

 tinues warm during the day, with coo] 

 nights. The wholesale market is still 

 stocked with plenty of everything. The 

 cut of chrysanthemums is increasing and 

 the blooms are of fair quality. Cooler 

 weather is wanted to improve the 'mum 

 market. As to quality, some good Yel- 

 low Queen and Col. Appleton sold at $3 

 per dozen. Glory of Pacific and Berg- 

 mann are not selling so well. Other 

 varieties are slow in making their ap- 

 pearance. Mrs. Robinson and Ivory are 

 promised for this week. 



American Beauties are in good de- 

 mand and are pretty well cleaned up 

 every day ; $3 per dozen is the top price 

 for the fancies, which are still limited, 

 but there seems to be plenty of the other 

 grades, which sell according to length of 

 stem. In smaller roses Brides and 

 Bridesmaids are over-plentiful, but very 



few are what can be called fancy stock. 

 These sell at $2.50 in hundred lots. A 

 few choice Meteors and Carnots bring 

 $6 per 100. Perles, Golden Gates and 

 Ivory bring $4 and $5 for the best and 

 cheaper in big lots. The rose market, 

 of course, is suffering from the increas- 

 ing supply of chrysanthemums. Fancy 

 stock in carnations is very short at the 

 present time and the top price is $2 per 

 100. Of the good common stock there is 

 enough for the demand. This stock is 

 good in flower, but very short in stem; 



$1 to $1.50 is what these bring. G 1 



Daybreak is scarce and very much wanted. 

 Violets are selling at from 25 to 35 

 cents in small lots. They are looking 

 very much better and are coming with 

 very fine, long stems and good color. The 

 demand is good a1 the retail stores. Lily 

 of the valley has met with good sales 

 the past Meek, owing to many weddings; 

 $4 and $5 per 100 is asked for the best 

 and $3 for some poor stuff. Cosmos is 

 about over, as is all other outdoor stock. 

 Romans and Paper Whites' are expected 

 soon; in fact, a few are in now. Callas, 

 too, are beginning to show up. 



Various Notes. 



August Selniermnn, of the Schuerman 

 Floral Co., will begin this week decorat- 

 ing the large coliseum in the Exposition 

 building, for the horse show which opens 

 next week. The decorations, Mr. Schuer- 

 man says, will be handsomer than ever 

 and on a much larger scale. 



Will Adels has left the employ of Mrs. 

 M. M. Ayers and reports that he will 

 open a place of his own at Salisbury and 

 Blair avenue, North St. Louis. 



George Ostertag, who is with his sis- 

 ter Mary, on Grand avenue, reports a 

 1 msy week, with party work. A ' ' violet 

 partv, " which used up some 500 bunches 

 of violets, was a big affair. 



Mrs. Newman, at (due street and 

 Spring avenue, makes a line show in her 

 large window, with a choice lot of 

 cut flowers and plants. Miss Armstrong, 

 who is with Mrs. Newman, reports busi- 

 ness very satisfactory. 



The Reissen Floral Co. reports a great 

 deal of funeral work the past week, with 

 several largo weddings booked for next 

 month. 



Henry Lohrens, of the Park Floral 

 Co., received last week a big lot of palms 

 from Joseph Heaeoek. They came in 

 good condition and Henry says trade has 

 opened up nicely on them. 



Miss Bosa Arata reports that business 

 in her section is very good. Miss Rosa 

 keeps a choice lot of cut flowers and 

 plants in her place at Lafayette and 

 Jefferson avenues. 



C. Young & Sons Co., on Olive street, 

 are kept very busy in their bulb depart- 

 ment, in which they have a big shipping 

 trade. James Arata. at this place, has 

 fully recovered from his sore hands, 

 caused by poisoning this summer, Jim 

 says, by handling balsams. 



S. Silverstone, of the St. Louis Palm 

 & Floral Co.. says that trade is picking 

 up, with all kinds of work in both fresh 

 ami artificial flowers. 



The Engelmann Botanical Club will 

 hold its meeting this week ,-ii the i ! ( utral 

 High School. P. W. Taylor, of the de- 

 partmenl of agriculture and horticulture 

 at the World's Fair, will give the address 

 of the evening. 



Bowling. 



Below will be found the totals and 

 averages of the games played by the 



different members of the club since the 

 last convention, 24 games having been 

 rolled : 



High- 



Plaj-er. Gi -. Total. Ave. est. 



C. A. Kuehn 21 .197,-. 1S9 243 



i .Ml r.c.MT 24 42si; 17S 259 



I .1 IM.-Uc 21 :lt!S2 17r. 218 



I'll-.. .Miller ..24 ln4t 164 214 



Will AdelS 12 1SS3 156 197 



I i W.l.cr 15 2192 146 195 



I W I ; His is 2709 145 191 



•liilm Vi.iiiil' 12 11121 135 168 



F. J. Meiiilcirilt 24 :;i4r. 131 163 



In il. he WVIi.t 15 1958 131 158 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



Current Comment. 



You might pronounce business as fairly 

 good and promising to be considerably 

 better, and everybody is getting a share 

 of it. The last rose of summer has dis- 

 appeared and her lovely companions are 

 gone, so the salvia and dahlia and alas, 

 the cosmos said, " I '11 not leave you 

 alone, I'll go, too." When there is 

 nothing in the garden and fields but the 

 sear and yellow leaf, and little flakes of 

 snow find a resting place in your eye, 

 our 'mums and roses and carnations seem 

 to take on a much enhanced value, not 

 alone a money value, but they inspire ad- 

 miration, fondness, love and perhaps 

 veneration, and now we are in it again 

 for the next seven months or until the 

 "Daffe down dille" unfolds her golden 

 petals in the spring. The above is rather 

 an attenuated way of saying that we 

 have had a killing frost. 



Joseph H. Rebstoek has had a few 

 fasliionableweddingsof late and Joseph's 

 recently fractured leg is so far pro- 

 gressed toward its normal condition that 

 he was able to boss the job. That most 

 enterprising and energetic young lady, 

 Miss Rachel Rebstoek, has also had some 

 huge decorations. Rachel is a hustler, if 

 it's gallanl to apply such a phrase to a 

 member of that slight majority of the 

 world's population, which makes it worth 

 while for the other slight minority to ex- 

 ist at all. 



Byrne & Slattery are busy seeming 

 materia] for two aristocratic weddings 

 that come off the first days of next 

 month. 



We went round the corner a few days 

 ago and found John Pickleman at home 

 in his fine store on West Chippewa street. 

 This is a much frequented street, the out- 

 let from the fashionable west side to our 

 Main street, where Mrs. Leathersole 

 drives down to do her shopping. John, 

 you have a fine store, and ought to thrive 

 immensely, which no doubt you will. 



Mr. Arthur Beyer keeps up a most at- 

 tractive window at W. J. Palmer's up- 

 town store; never two days alike, best 

 kind of ••adv." Arthur was not edu- 

 cated "Not Yauak," but he gets there 

 i -nine. Mr. rainier sticks to the 

 old stand, where there is always a steady 

 flow of business. 



There is hot rivalry between S. A. An- 

 derson and J. H. Rebstock over cyclamen. 

 A few plants are to be competed for and 

 the loser pays for a supper for the two 

 judges and the two principals. The bet- 

 ting is 11 to 8 in favor of Anderson, with 

 plenty of takers of the odds. 



I had the pleasure to call very re- 

 cently on that really wonderful gardener, 

 Charlie Sandiford, at the J. J. Albright 

 place. It is only a miniature place in 

 size, but it is a little bower of beauty. 

 ia tt leva labiata a sheet of bloom, but 

 it was the 'mums we went to see, and 

 they are indeed well done. Many new 



