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The Weekly Florists* Review, 



jANiAin 2(1. 1898. 



house, there being no side benches at all. 

 They are planted mostly with Bride and 

 Bridesmaid, with a house each of Meteor 

 and Perle, these two latter houses being 

 the only ones upon the ordinary raised 

 benches. 



The stock looked fine throughout, 

 although the houses of Bride and Brides- 

 maid surpassed the others in appearance, 

 having an abundance of clean, healthy 

 foliage and carrying a good lot of bud 

 and bloom that, notwithstanding the bad 

 weather and the fact that the crop was 

 ali:iost off, were very good in stem and 

 size. Contrary to a theory that is still 

 very popular in many quarters, that 

 roses should be replaced annualh- with 

 young stock the old plants here were 

 preferred. They threw more flowers, of 

 better size, color and stem than the 

 blooms from the younger houses, and in 

 addition got into productive condition 

 much earlier in the .season than did 

 young stock. It should, however, be 

 understood that the old stock was trans- 

 planted into fresh soil iluring the sum- 

 mer and not run through a series of 

 years in the same old earth, with only 

 top dressing and manure watering to 

 supply lacking elements in the soil. 



The carnation hou.ses were looking 

 well, although Scott here, as usual else- 

 where, is considered the best variety for 

 general good qualities. Your corre- 

 spondent was .shown a batch of valley, 

 part of which was in condition to cut be- 

 fore New Years, which would average 

 ninetv per cent, of good salable stock. 

 This is rather unusual for pips of the 

 past fall's importation, and speaks well 

 for the qualit}- and handling of them. 



Nemo. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club held its regular 

 meeting Thursday afternoon at 3 p. m. 

 with President Halstedt in the chair and 

 thirty members present. This is the 

 largest gathering of members that the 

 club has had for a long time. After read- 

 ing the minutes of last meeting, the ex- 

 hibition committee made its report stat- 

 ing that all special prizes would be paid 

 in full and the club prize would be paid 

 at the rate of sevent}'-five per cent. As a 

 few special prizes are yet uncollected the 

 committee could not make its final re- 

 port until next meeting. 



Balloting for new members was next in 

 order. The first candidate was Mr. An- 

 drew Meyer, Jr. , who was elected by an 

 unanimous vote. The next candidate 

 was Mr. Fred. Foster, manager of the 

 Krebs Floral Co. Mr. Foster's applica- 

 tion was rejected b)' a vote of nineteen to 

 seven. New applications for membership 

 were made by Wni. E. Jordan, Fred. 

 Meinhart and Fred. Billings. They were 

 read for the first time. Mr. W. C. Young 

 and R. F\ Tesson were appointed as a 

 committee to change the constitrution 

 and by-laws of the club. 



A communication was then read from 

 Jos. R. F'reeman, president of the Com- 

 mercial Florists' Club of Washington, D. 

 C, asking the club to take action with 

 them in condemning the free distribution 



of cut flowers and seeds by the govern- 

 ment. It was adopted by an unanimous 

 vote and the chair appointed Messrs. 

 Tesson, Will Young and E. Schray to 

 draw up resolutions condemning the 

 practice. 



The committee on smoker was then ap- 

 pointed as follows: J. J. Beneke, Frank 

 J. Fillmore and Will C. Young. The 

 smoker and entertainment will be gotten 

 up by subscription among the members 

 of the club. An)- member wishing to 

 subscribe can do so by addressing the 

 chairman, or the secretary of the club. 



Showr Questions. 



The next order of business was the 

 questions. Messrs. Guy, Fillmore, Trillow, 

 Beneke and Young answered their ques- 

 tions to the entire satisfaction of the club. 

 Messrs. Amniann and Steidle were not 

 present and Messrs. Meyer and Tesson 

 w-ere not ready, so the chair requested 

 these four members to be ready with their 

 questions for next meeting. 



Mr. Young's question as to "when and 

 how shall we begin preparations for our 

 next chrysanthemum show" brought out 

 quite a discussion, especially his remarks 

 on appointing a committee to run the 

 show from beginning to end. Mr. 

 Young's idea %vas for the club to elect a 

 manager, he to act as chairman of the ex- 

 ecutive connnittee, and to select six 

 members to act with him as the executive 

 committee, each one of these six to 

 select three members and act as a com- 

 mittee, he to act as chairman of the six 

 conmiittees, which will have their own 

 work to do after meeting with their own 

 committees each week, the six chairmen 

 to meet with the chairman and manager 

 and report what they are doing or what 

 they have done. The club decided this a 

 good plan and started in at once to electa 

 manager-chairman. Mr. W. C. Young and 

 J. J. Beneke were nominated, and after 

 counting the ballots Mr. Beneke was 

 elected manager-chairman of the next 

 chrysanthemum show. 



The club has decided to hold its annual 

 carnation meeting on Thursday, March 

 10 at 3 p. m. 



Exhibition. 



Richard Witterstaetter, of Sedamsville, 

 Ohio, exhibited through Air. C. A. Kuehn, 

 a vase of his new white carnation, Eve- 

 lina, which was given a certificate of 

 merit at our late show. Those shown at 

 the meeting were very fine, some thought 

 even surpassing those exhibited at the 

 show. The c!ub thanked Mr. W. for the 

 display. 



An Invitation to Belleville. 



Just before the meeting adjourned the 

 Belleville brethren, better known as the 

 "Big Five Belleville I'lorist Club," 

 through their secretary, Mr. Trillow, 

 invited all the members of the club to 

 Belleville next Tuesday to spend the day 

 with them. The invitation was accepted 

 and about twenty members will go. 



Trade Conditions. 



Business the past w-eek was still very 

 quiet. Large decorations are unknown 

 and the floral arrangements at most of 

 the socials are very small. Stock in 



some lines is rather scarce at present, 

 particularly first quality roses. Good 

 Beauties which bring I3 and $4 per dozen 

 are scarce. Brides, Meteors and Brides- 

 maids are worth from $4 to f6 a hundred, 

 second quality $2 and #3. Perles and 

 Woottons bring *3 and J4. The latter part 

 of the week there was an increased de- 

 mand for white roses owing to some e.x- 

 tra funeral orders. Carnations have been 

 very plentiful, some being very fine, and 

 i-un from f.2 to I3 for the best, some extra 

 fancy bringing J4. Portia and Jubilee 

 are the onlv good red seen in any quan- 

 tity. 



Bulbous stuff is moving verj- slowly. 

 Romans are plentiful at $2 and there are 

 plenty of paper whites which go for 

 about the same as Romans. The demand 

 tor valley is slow and it is not extra good. 

 Harrisii and callas sell well and are not 

 over plentiful at J12.50 per 100. Violets 

 have also been plentiful but seem to hold 

 their own. Californias go at I1.50, com- 

 mon single 15 and 25 cents. Smilax ap- 

 pears to be selling a little better than it 

 did, owing to the scarcity of ferns for a 

 few days. 



Various Items. 



Frank Ellis, manager of the Mound 

 City Cut Flower Co., is very sick with 

 pneumonia, but from last report is im- 

 proving and expects to be out again by 

 the latter part of the week. 



Burt Van Simon, formerly with Cross- 

 man Bros., seedsmen, of Rochester, N. 

 Y., is now with the Plant Seed Co., of 

 this city. 



Wm. Blanking is in the cit}' looking 

 after the interests of Crossman Bros., 

 seedsmen, Rochester, N. Y. 



Frank Fillmore and Emil Schray paid 

 a visit to Max. Herzog at Gratiot Station 

 and report that Max is in very good shape 

 to grow good stock and that his plants 

 for spring trade are lookinj; at their best. 



Wm. Lingenbrink, of 22 Olive street, 

 who is going to the gold fields the latter 

 part of this month, sold out his establish- 

 ment to Mrs. Marten, on Monday, 

 Jaimary 17. 



Bowling Notes. 



The Bowling Club rolled its regular 

 three games Monday night at Cocked 

 Hat and the usual ten were in attend- 

 ance. C. Beyer rolled high in the three 

 games, with 156; high single score, 52. J. 

 W. Kunz was second with 141; high single 

 score, 48; Beneke, third, with 131; high 

 single score, 41. Lookout for next Mon- 

 day night and don't forget to be on hand. 



J- J- B. 



NEW BEDFORD. 



Annual Meeting of Gardeners and Florist 

 Club. 



The Gardeners' and Florist Club of 

 New Bedford held its annual meeting last 

 Monday' evening. The annual report was 

 interesting as it .showed an increase finan- 

 cially over the past season. It showed 

 the full progress for the year and outlined 

 work for the future. The report of 

 Treasurer Waite was very encouraging, 



