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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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City Hall Flower Market, 15 Province Street, 9 Chapman Place, Welch Bros. Proprietors, Boston, Mass. 

 The largest market for sale of flowers in New England. 



hard and should be given credit for the 

 way they conducted the show and not 

 have slurs cast upon them. One nlember 

 will have to give a good account of him- 

 self at the next meeting of the club which 

 will he held on Thursday afternoon, 

 January 13, at 3 p. M. 



Market Overstocked — Prices. 



The cut flower trade as usual at this 

 time of year is dull and the market is 

 stocked up with all kinds of flowers, 

 especially roses, which are a glut just 

 now, with prices away down. Good roses 

 can be bought at from Jit.50 to $3.00, 

 extra fancy. I4.00 and #5.00. Choice 

 Beauties are not over plentiful and bring 

 from J25 to I35. Carnations are still 

 bringing from $2 to J3 per 100, and are 

 not overplentiful just now. Harrisii are 

 held at from $15 to |iS, callas $S to f 10, 

 valley I4, and Romans and paper whites 

 still at $4. Violets, Californias, bring 

 $1.50; single, homegrown, 35 cents, south- 

 ern, 25 cents, and doubles 75 cents to 

 $1.00. Chrj-santhemums are about over 

 and only a few can be seen here and 

 there. 



Evidences of Christinas. 



Christmas greens are greatly in evi- 

 dence all over town, the large stores 

 and all the floral establishments being 

 liberally decorated. The outlook for a 



good Christmas trade is very promising 

 this year. The orders for holiday greens 

 are more than satisfactor}- and I think 

 the demand for holly will be in keeping 

 with previous years. 



Personal Notes. 



Mr.Julius Koenig Jr. ,has just completed 

 a new house. 10x100. Mr. Koenig is cut- 

 ting some very fine carnations and roses. 



Mr. Fred. Ostertag, late of St. Louis, 

 but now of Indianapolis, paid us a visit 

 last week. Fred says he feels homesick. 



Chicago Bowling Club's Visit. 



The Chicago Florists' Bowling Club, 

 accompanied by quite a number of the 

 craft of Chicago, paid a return visit to 

 this citj- December 12. It was a decided 

 event in local trade circles, and the St. 

 Louis bowlers did their best to make the 

 visit one that would be long remembered 

 by the Chicago brethren. Although the 

 visitors lost the match it was no disgrace, 

 as they all rolled a good average game. 



The party included Messrs, G. L. Grant, 

 of the Florists' Review, J. S. Wilson, 

 Phil. J. Hauswirth, John Zeck, Ed. Win- 

 terson, Walter Kreitling, J. B. Deamud, 

 Aug. Lange, G. StoUery, and J. C. 

 Vaughan. They arrived over the Wa- 

 bash R. R. on time, all decorated with 

 Stollery Bros', new carnation Argyle. 



The)- were met by a committee of the St. 

 Louis club, and taken to Hotel Rozier. 

 After a good breakfast a visit was made 

 to all the wholesale houses, and to Fred 

 Weber's, Reissen F'loral Co., C. Young & 

 Sons, George Waltart, Ellison & Tesson, 

 and others that were most conveniently 

 reached. 



Promptly at 12.30 the Grand regulation 

 alleys were reached where the bowling 

 was to be done. After a little practice 

 the match game began. A lunch was 

 served on a table at the side of the alleys, 

 with plenty of refreshments, coffee and 

 cigars. A large crowd witnessed the 

 games. Among the local craft present 

 were John Young, Ed. Burchel, C. W. 

 Wors, F. C. Weber, George Waldbart, 

 C. C. Sanders, Dr. Halstedt. Dr. Helwig, 

 Will Young, Chas Young, F. J. Fillmore, 

 R. F. Tesson, Jos. Dickman, R. G. 

 Beneke, Frank Ellis, and a host of others 

 not connected with the trade. William 

 Young and J. B. Deamud acted as scor- 

 ers. 



Five games were played, and St. Louis 

 won by 3S2 pins, having a total of 4,334 

 against 3,952 by Chicago. Tlie best five 

 games were rolled by John Zeck, of Chi- 

 cago, 830; C. Beyer was second with S14. 

 The highest single score was rolled by 

 C. Beyer, of St. Louis, 192; John Zeck, 

 second, with 187, and Chas. Kuehn, third 

 with 186. 



