Decembek 2. 1897. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



21 



W. E. L^'nch finds demand and supply 

 about equal, with a tendency to some- 

 what lower prices. He displays some 

 very good stock. 



The next Meeting of the Florists' Club 

 will be liehl Thursday evening, December 

 9th. The committee has arranged a very 

 attractive program for this meeting and a 

 large attendance is anticipated. 



Francis Ludlow, well known to all in 

 the trade as one of the old time gardeners 

 in Chicago, died last week of pneumonia 

 after a short illness, aged 64 years. Mr. 

 Ludlow was born Dec. 31, 1S33. near 

 Derby, England. He learned his trade 

 there and came to this country in 1863, 

 settling in Chicago. He was for a time 

 with the late Samuel Brooks, the pioneer 

 florist of this city, and was, later, for 

 several years, gardener for E- B. McCagg. 

 Afterwards he was for many years fore- 

 man for Edgar Sanders and married Mr. 

 Sanders' eldest daughter in 1S71. At this 

 time he started in business for himself, 

 but soon merged his business with that 

 of the firm of Miller & Hunt, which be- 

 came the firm of Miller, Hunt & Ludlow. 

 After this partnership was dissolved bv 

 limitation, he conducted greenhouses for 

 a while at Naper\'ille, Illinois, and for the 

 past 16 years he has l)een one of the staff 

 of gardeners at the Lincoln Park green- 

 houses. Mr. Ludlow has always been a 

 faithful, honest, hard working man in all 

 his varied positions and made many 

 friends. He leaves a widow, one son and 

 three daughters. 



Burglars recently paid A G. Prince & 

 Co. a visit but were frightened away be- 

 fore securing anything of much value. 



ST. LOUIS. 



For Thanksgiving day we had rain all 

 day and it made things bad for the florist, 

 but in spite of the rain, trade was fair. 

 This is the universal verdict by wholesale 

 and retail dealers. It helped to stiffen up 

 prices somewhat. The wholesalers claim 

 they did a better business than last year, 

 but the retailers did not do so well. 



The supply of stock, and particularly 

 in roses and carnations, was good. In 

 quality they were up to the average. 

 American Beauties averaged fairly good 

 in quality and quantity and were in brisk 

 demand at top prices. First quality sold 

 at )f4.oo per dozen and the shorter 

 stemmed ones brought from I1.ootoj3.oo 

 at whcjlesale. The average price for 

 other roses, such as Kaiserin, Carnot, 

 Bride, Meteor, Bridesmaid, Perle, and 

 La France, was from J4.00 to ;f6-00. 

 Some extra fine blooms brought as high 

 as Jty.oo. Red roses were short in sup- 

 ply, and Woottons had to take the place 

 of Meteors in some cases. 



Of carnations the supply was about 

 equal to the demand except in good red, 

 and of course the demand was heaviest 

 for them. The price for the best stock 

 was I2.50 and fe.oo; short, common 

 stock sold at $2.00. Scotts and Day- 

 breaks seem most plentiful. The bulbous 

 stock is coming in more freely just now. 

 Narcissus (paper white) are coming in 

 in fine shape and were quite plentiful for 

 Thanksgiving day trade; price, $4.00. 

 Romans are not so plentiful yet; the few 



that do come in are fine and brought 

 f4.oo. Valley also held its own at ^4.00. 

 We have not seen any Harrisii in this 

 market yet. Violets were also plentiful, 

 Californias having the call at f 1.50 per 

 100; for the best double, |i.oo; small 

 single (home grown), 40 cents; Southern, 

 25 cents. The commission men sold out 

 clean on them, except a few Southern 

 left. Stevia, of which there is always a 

 good supply in season, sold at 25 and 50 

 cents a bunch. Mignonette was very fine 

 and brought |2.oo and I3.00. 



Some good chrysanthemums were also 

 to be had. The varieties now on the 

 market are Major Bonnaffon, L. Cannin,g, 

 H. Balsley, Ivory, Maud Dean, and H. 

 W. Rienian. Prices range from 50 cents 

 to I2.00 per dozen, but the majority are 

 selling at from 75 cents to #1.50 per dozen. 

 Smilax sold at I12.50 and JliS-OO per 100 

 strings. 



House plants are selling better, and 

 from now on until after the holidays there 

 should be a good demand for this class 

 of plants. 



The street fakir as well as the store 

 fakir had a hard time to get stock for 

 their class of trade for Thanksgiving day, 

 and onh- one or two were seen on the 

 streets. 



The Diemer Floral Company has opened 

 a floral establishment at 1631 South 

 Broadway. E. K. Diemer and A. J. 

 Falkenhainer comprise the firm. 



Mayor Ziegenheim on Friday morning 

 last planted the first tree in the new City 

 Hall Park. The tree is a soft maple. 

 The mayor said, after the planting: "I 

 never had a tree die which I planted, yet. 

 That tree will grow and flourish like 

 St. Louis." 



\V. G. Bunde, representing Vaughan's 

 Seed Store, Chicago, is in the city for a 

 few days. This is Mr. Bunde's first visit 

 to St. Louis. 



C. \V. Wors has moved from 313 North 

 Lefiingwell avenue to 2740 Olive street. 

 The store was formerly occupied by the 

 Connon Floral Company. Charlie claims 

 that he had to move to larger quarters as 

 his business is growing. He also reports 

 that he will have an opening in about a 

 week with cigars and refreshments and 

 that the trade will be invited. 



Charles A. Kuehn is enlarging his store, 

 having built out to the alley, giving him 

 about fifty feet more. He will also have 

 the upper floor for wire work. Charlie 

 is now doing a large business in cut flow- 

 ers, wire work, and supplies. 



The Mound City Cut Flower Company 

 are al,so contemplating the enlargement 

 of their already large store and getting 

 in a full line of supplies. 



The above three wholesale houses are 

 all doing a large business and are supply- 

 ing all the best trade. 



At a meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee of the late chyrsanthemum show, 

 held Saturday night, it was decided not 

 to hold the special meeting of the club, 

 as the following Thursday would be the 

 regular monthly meeting of the club. 

 This would give the committee a week's 

 more time to collect up, so at that meet- 

 ing on Thursday, December 9th, the full 

 report will be read by the committee. 

 Every member of the club is requested 

 to be present, as business of great im- 



portance will come up for the full mem- 

 bership to act upon. 



Mrs. Wni. Ellison, of Ellison & Tesson, 

 returned last week after a two weeks' trip 

 ea.st attending the flower shows. Mrs. E. 

 reports that she benefited greatlv and 

 had a delightful trip going and coming. 



The Bowling Club rolled the usual three 

 games Monday night. The cold weather 

 iiuist have kept some of the memljers at 

 home as only a few put in their appear- 

 ance. In the three games rolled, Beneke 

 was high man with 5,83, J. Kunz second 

 with 463, and Kuehn third with 459. 

 The highest single scores were made by 

 BeneUe, 230 and 231 ; Kuehn i,S2, John 

 Voung 1 ,So, and Kunz 1 77. Next Monday 

 night the Club will roll for two large tur- 

 keys, one for the best three games and 

 one for the highest single score. All 

 members are requested to attend this roll 

 without fail. j, j g 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



Not much can be said about the trade 

 in this vicinity so far this season. There 

 are spurts of good business, decorations 

 for receptions and an occasional good 

 wedding helping the florists out. It seems 

 the "Upper Ten" are spending money 

 more freely than last season, but the 

 middle classes are very conser\-alive. ' 



Among the first-class decorations this 

 season might be mentioned the annual 

 Flower Mission fair for which Berter- 

 niann had the job. The decorations from 

 the chrysanthenmm show were left partly 

 in place. Besides this a big lot of laurel 

 and galax lea\-es were used. Arches, 

 fences and gateways made the scene a 

 very rich one and it was the talk of the 

 city for some days. 



Another choice decoration was a recep- 

 tion at the residence of Allen \V. Fletcher. 

 An original panel and fretwork of wild 

 smilax, asparagus, delicate artificial col- 

 ored morning glories. Beauties, chrysan- 

 themums and other flowers were used in 

 profusion. 



Thanksgiving day trade was spoiled by- 

 two wet, rainy days. All day Thursday 

 it rained without stopping, making it 

 unpleasant to be on the street. The Pub- 

 lic Market people report a verv slow- 

 trade on plants; in cut flowers a little 

 better but altogether very unsatisfactory 

 as compared with last year. 



Prices on chrysanthennims have kept 

 up well but the supply is running short, 

 in one way a blessing and then again they 

 are fine when plenty flowers are needed 

 and some showy efi^ects are to be made. 

 The white and good pink have been 

 extremely fine this season and were in 

 good demand; no oversupply was noticed 

 in these colors; in yellows, however, too 

 many were in the market. American 

 Beauties are selling extremely well, so are 

 Meteors. Carnations have been scarce 

 for several weeks; scarlets are especially 

 hard to get. There are many planted 

 and ver\- likely later in the season there 

 will be an overabundance. Violets that 

 are coming in are not very fine but all 

 sell in a way; they must be arranged and 

 made as inviting as possible. A few Har- 

 risii lilies can be seen here and there, 

 but as long as fine white chrysanthemums 



