FEBRUARY 10, 1S9S. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



471 



Mr. J. H. Diinlop returned home last 

 week. He reports great success with 

 his new rose Lady Dorothea i sport 

 from Sunset). It certainly is very 

 pretty, as seen growing, and I should 

 think sure to be popular. E. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Trade Conditions. 



Trade for the week just past was 

 good with some of the florists, while 

 others claim it was dull. Still flowers 

 are scarce and for two weeks past 

 really first class stock has been short. 

 Commission men report a great many 

 shipping orders, but can't fill them as 

 the home trade is taking nearly all the 

 flowers that are coming in Just now, 

 with the e.xception of bulbous stock 

 and violets, which are very plentiful 

 and sale on them slow. The ground 

 hog saw his shadow last Wednesday, 

 and the chances are we will have six 

 weeks of bad weather before us, and 

 stock will remain scarce. 



Prices —Stock. 



Prices are still at the top notch. 

 Good first class Beauties are out of the 

 tiuestion in this market just now, but 

 a good many short stemmed ones are 

 coming in and sell at from $5 to $10 

 per 100. Brides, Bridesmaids and Mete- 

 ors are selling from $8 to $10 for the 

 best; Perles and Woottous $4 and $5, 

 seconds $2. Carnations are about the 

 same as last week, not over plentiful 

 and are selling well at $2 and $4 per 

 hundred. Henry Aue and F. W. Ude, 

 Sr.. are at present sending in the best. 

 Bulbous stock is plentiful. Romans 

 sell at $1.50 and $3; paper whites, 

 same: daffodils, $4; tulips going slow 

 at $2; valley, good, $4; Harrisii, $12.50; 

 callas $10; freesia. $1.50 to $3. 



A great many orchids are being used 

 now and will soon become standard 

 stock in this market. Violets are still 

 a glut. A gre;it many of them come 

 from the south and the home grown 

 ones have to stand back, as the south- 

 ern are sold so much cheaper. The 

 public don't seem to care just so they 

 are cheap. Smilax is plentiful and is 

 selling very slowly at $10 per 100 

 strings. 



Club Smoker. 



After the club meeting Thursday of 

 this week the club will hold its an- 

 nual smoker at the Mercantile club 

 rooms. The committee, composed of 

 Messrs. Beneke, Young and Fillmore, 

 has made all the arrangements to have 

 a good time. There will be plenty to 

 eat, drink and smoke and also lots of 

 singing and funny sayings. 



Mr. J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, 

 has been specially engaged to sing all 

 the latest songs. Mr. C. W. Wors will 

 sing his new song, "The Wandering 

 Jew; or. Who Stole the Ham." Messrs. 

 Kuehn, Weber, Schray and the Ude 

 brothers will give a Cakewalk. Frank 

 Fillmore, by special request, will sing 



"Annie Laurie." Ed Buechel and Al 

 Bauer will do a song and dance. Dr. 

 Halstedt, E. W. Guy, A. Feher and 

 Henry Emmons, of Belleville, will sing 

 as a quartette. Max Herzog will give 

 his famous Dutch specialty with wood- 

 en shoes, and many others will also 

 contribute a few selections. 



Mr. Carew Sanders returned hopie 

 la'st week after spending a tew weeks 

 in Florida. 



The executive committee met again 

 last Saturday night and worked on the 

 preliminary list for this year's show. 

 The list will be out by March 1. 



Personals. 



Frank Ellis, manager of the Mound 

 City Cut F'lower Co.. who has been sick 

 for the last three weeks, is out again 

 looking as good as ever and ready for 

 work. 



J. S. Wilson, with J. C. 'Vaughan, 

 Chicago, is in town. Jim came to St. 

 Louis to see his brother Alex and 

 Charles off for the gold fields. Johnnie 

 Connon, a cousin of the Wilson boys. 

 and Wm. Lingenbrink, went with the 

 party. They left Thursday night last. 

 Good luck to you, boys. 



E. W. Guy, of Belleville, and Chas. 

 Kuehn spent a day last week with the 

 Ude brothers at Kirkwood. They re- 

 port that they found everything in 

 good shape and stock looking at its 

 best. The Kirkwood boys are getting 

 the bowling fever now, as they say 

 they are going to build an alley of their 

 own. 



A firm under the name of Etoile & 

 Co., 921 Olive street, with Fred Foster 

 as manager, has opened up a floral es- 

 tablishment. The card reads that they 

 have branches in London, Paris and 

 Algiers. 



Bo-wling Notes. 



The Bowling Club on Monday night 

 rolled its usual three games of tenpins 

 after a rest of four weeks. Capt. Wil- 

 son, of the Chicago Bowling Club, who 

 is in town, rolled with the boys and 

 made 494 in three games. Among the 

 club rollers Beneke was high man in 

 the three games with 5S8, single high 

 score 24(>; C. A. Kuehn second with 

 500, single score 221; and E. Schray 

 third with 532, single score 192. Next 

 Monday night Mr. Finlayson will be- 

 come a member of the club. J. J. B. 



CINCINNATI. 



Cincinnati Florist Society. 



A special meeting of the Cincinnati 

 Florist Society was held on Saturday 

 evening, Feb. 5th. with a good attend- 

 ance. President Witterstaetter in his 

 opening remarks, stated that the meet- 

 ing had been called for the purpose of 

 making final arrangements to attend 

 the convention of the American Carna- 

 tion Society at Chicago, and that he 

 hoped every one who could possibly 

 spare the time would join in the pro- 



posed trip. Mr. E. G. Gillett was ap- 

 pointed a committee of one to secure 

 cheap transportation. Our party will 

 leave here on Feb. 16th at 8:45 p. m. 

 over the C. H. & D. railroad. All 

 those from neighboring towns wishing 

 to join the party can secure particulars 

 by writing the secretary of the society, 

 Mr. Albert Sunderbrucb was instructed 

 to correspond with the manager of the 

 exhibition and secure space for the 

 Cincinnati exhibit. Thus far about 

 twelve have signified their intention of 

 going, and it is to be hoped that this 

 number will be increased. Mr. J. M. 

 Gasser, of Cleveland, was present at 

 the meeting. 



The weather during the past week 

 has been the best we have experienced 

 for some time. The bright sunshine 

 has given new life to the poor plants 

 and instead of a good crop of black 

 spot we will soon have a more profita- 

 ble product in the way of roses. Roses 

 and carnations show a slight improve- 

 ment, both in quantity and quality, al- 

 though the supply of the former is still 

 somewhat limited. The prices on all 

 stock remain about the same as quoted 

 last week. 



The past few weeks has proved that 

 Messrs. George & Allen can produce 

 roses just when they are wanted as 

 well as bulbous stock. The commission 

 men have had to depend almost en- 

 tirely upon this firm for their supply 

 since Christmas. 



Henry Schwarz is quite busy getting, 

 his houses in shape after the storm. 



G. Brunner's Sons continue to bring 

 in the best Marie Louise violets, 

 grown in this vicinity. 



Alfred Knopf, of Columbus, 0., was 

 a caller last week. B. 



BALTIMORE. 



Stock Scarce. 



It was indeed a limited supply of 

 stuff that found its way to our com- 

 mission houses this week; owing chief- 

 ly to an unusually cold spell, which 

 for our climate could be termed a veri- 

 table blizzard. 



Decorations. 



Entertainments have been numerous, 

 but the cold weather (having driven 

 pedestrians off the streets) greatly af- 

 fected the transient trade. In the store 

 windows can be seen quantities of 

 bulbous stuff, such as tulips, narcissus, 

 Duch hyacinths, jonquil, etc., with a 

 lot of the usual flowering stuff, among 

 which the genistas and acacias are new 

 arrivals. 



The writer recently had the pleasure 

 of seeing a very tasty and unique after- 

 noon tea decoration of palms and 

 blooming stuff. Besides the usual mir- 

 ror and corner effects a special feature 

 of the work was a high bank of palms, 

 ferns, azaleas and lilacs, interspersed 

 with Harrisii lilies and swainsona, 

 forming a semicircle through the door- 

 way from the parlor to the hall. 



