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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



APRIL. 7, 1898. 



Mr. Thomas Summerville of Bunker 

 Hill. Ills., was a visitor last week. Mr. 

 Summerville's visit here was to buy a 

 large lot of violets, but as they are 

 very scarce he left without placing an 

 order. 



Mr. Chas. Richards, who is Charlie 

 Wors' right bower, is going to get 

 married after Easter. I believe Efflb 

 is her front name but Charlie is very 

 careful not to make known her other 

 name. 



The exhibition committee has fixed 

 the dates for the next chrysanthemum 

 show to be held at the Coliseum on 

 Nov. 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19. The pre- 

 liminary list is now in the hands of 

 the printer and will be out by next 

 week in time for the next meeting of 

 the club. 



On last Friday night. April 1, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Francis Fillmore, Sr., cele- 

 Itrated their golden wedding at the 

 home of their son Frank, on Nebras- 

 ka avenue. A large gathering was pres- 

 ent. Among the florists seen were 

 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kunz, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Fred C. Weber, Mr. and Mrs. C. 

 A. Kuehn. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beyer, 

 Mr. and Mrs. J. .1. Beneke and Emil 

 Schray. 



The Bowling Club presented the 

 aged groom with a handsome gold 

 headed cane and the aged bride with 

 a gold headed umbrella as a token of 

 friendship for their son Frank'. A 

 great number of presents were dis- 

 played by their friends. The house was 

 handsomely decorated with plants, 

 smilax and cut flowers. All the ladies 

 wore old gold ribbons and the gentle- 

 men Perle roses. After an elegant 

 supper dancing was in order and near- 

 ly all the guests stayed until the small 

 hours in the morning. Mr. Fillmore 

 is at present employed in Tower 

 Grove Park with Prof. Gurney. 



The bad weather on Monday night 

 kept most of the bowlers at home, and 

 only four out of the regular ten 

 braved the wind and rain. C. A. 

 Kuehn made 593: Beneke. 558: Kunz. 

 555. and Helwig, 475. The high single 

 score was by Beneke. 233; Kuehn. 213. 

 and Kunz, 199. We hope for better 

 weather for next Monday night. This 

 being Easter Monday, we will have a 

 few prizes for which to roll. They 

 will be donated by the proprietor of 

 the alleys. J. J. B. 



Editor Florists' Review: At the 

 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary 

 of my wedding, announced in your last 

 issue, Mr. Beneke, your St. Louis cor- 

 respondent, on behalf of the Florists' 

 Club, presented me with a beautiful 

 cane and my wife with a handsomely 

 finished silk umbrella. The presenta- 

 tion was so unexpected that I failed to 

 find words to express the feelings of 

 myself and wife at the time, and with 

 your permission I will take this op- 

 portunity to express more fully to the 

 donors the deep appreciation by Mrs. 

 Fillmore and myself of the kind re- 

 membrance. F. FILLMORE. 



BALTIMORE. 



Easter Outlook, 



F^'om the present outlook good stuff 

 at Easter will be somewhat scarce. Al- 

 ready there is a deficit in the supply of 

 several popular lines of stuff; while 

 at no time the past week has the pro- 

 duction been above the demand. True, 

 the dull and rainy weather is largely 

 responsible, yet the present prospects 

 for a change of barometer are very 

 poor. At the Florists' Exchange. 

 Easter orders are both numerous and 

 heavy, but the manager sees little 

 chance of taking care of them all in 

 full. Violets are getting poorer every 

 day, and there will be few on the 9th 

 that will command a fancy price. Car- 

 nations have also received a setback, 

 although the quality still remains 

 quite up to the standard. 



Bulbous stuff and flowering plants 

 are exceptionally fine this season, and 

 everyone seems quite comfortably sup- 

 plied. Notwithstanding the diseased 

 bulbs there are plent.v of fine specimen 

 plants and flowers of Harrisii to be 

 seen. The retailers are now experienc- 

 ing a slight depression of trade which 

 is generally a good omen for a big 

 rush Easter. 



Club Notes. 



At the last regular meeting of the 

 Gardeners' Club, March 28, our newly 

 elected president, Mr, B. A. Seidewitz, 

 occupied the chair and announced the 

 following members of the executive 

 committee of the club to serve the en- 

 suing year: Messrs. Wm. Feast. Fred- 

 erick Burger. Robert Graham. N. F". 

 Flitton and Hy Fischer. 



Resolutions expressing the club's re- 

 grets at the recent death of Mr. Chas. 

 Hamilton were adopted and ordered 

 placed upon the minutes of the club, 

 and a copy sent to the family of the 

 deceased. In Mr. Hamilton the club 

 lost a very valuable and most zeal- 

 ous member and one of its original 

 founders. 



Fischer & Ekas exhibited two very 

 fine carnation seedlings. One the 

 shade of Daybreak, striped with red, 

 the other a rare shade of crimson. 

 Mr, Geo. S. Kalb. Jr., of Catonsville, 

 was elected a member. Mr. Frederick 

 Bauer, of Govanstown, was instructed 

 by the president to prepare a paper 

 for next meeting, on "The LUilization 

 of Greenhouse Space." At a later 

 date Mr. N. F. Flitton was asked to 

 read an essay upon a very important 

 question. "Is There a Future for the 

 Private Gardener?" 



Various Items. 



Last week Mr. M. Rice, of Phila- 

 delphia, paid us another visit. From 

 the size of his order book trade must 

 be particularly brisk in his line. 

 Messrs. Ernest Ashley and Paul Ber- 

 kowitz, also of Philadelphia, and 



Lloyd G. Blick. of Norfolk, were with 

 us this week. 



Mr. John Weidey. a well known 

 fiorist, formerly of Waverly, is about 

 to leave for the Klondike. Mr. Weidey 

 was once an active worker in the 

 Gardeners' Club, having several times 

 served in an official capacity. 



Mr. W. J. Halliday has recently 

 given his store front a new coat of 

 lavender paint. Samuel Feast & Sons' 

 store has also received a new coat of 

 grey and white. 



Mr. Robert Paterson, of Madison 

 street, has been confined to his home 

 again by illness. C. F. F. 



PITTSBURG. 



Increase in Business. 



Business for the past week has been 

 on a steady increase, funeral work 

 prevailing. Everybody seems to be sat- 

 isfied with the amount of advance or- 

 ders placed for Easter. Judging by the 

 amount of Harrisii grown in this vi- 

 cinity the prices will be about the 

 same as last year, in spite of the large 

 amount of diseased bulbs. A shortage 

 in crop of carnations and roses will 

 be noticed. 



Extraordinary Funeral Work. 



Some extraordinary funeral work 

 was made up for Lieutenant Friend 

 W. Jenkins, a citizen of Allegheny, 

 Pa., who lost his life while serving 

 uis country on board the U. S. battle- 

 ship "Maine." 



The tribute of the Allegheny post- 

 office employees was much admired. 

 It embodied the cap, collar and sleeve 

 insignia of a lieutenant on a panel 7 

 feet high. It was crowned with a vic- 

 tory wreath of sweet bay leaved. A 

 Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes 

 were draped about it. Carnations, 

 Beauties and Harrisii were the flowers 

 used. Langhans & Co., Allegheny, 

 made up this piece. 



A floral model of the "Maine" was 

 the offering from classmates of the de- 

 ceased who were with him in the class 

 of 1883 at the Western University. 

 The base was of ivy leaves and white 

 roses and from this rose the hull of 

 pink carnations to lhe.;lwater line, 

 above which the flowers were white, 

 the masts, yard arms and guns of 

 purple. On the forward port side the 

 explosion was typified by a mass of 

 red sprays. On the prow the national 

 banner and the Union Jack completed 

 the emblem. It was about four feet 

 long. Gustav Ludwig, of the Allegheny 

 market, was the artist. 



The Pittsburg Naval Reserves pre- 

 sented a fioral representation of a lieu- 

 tenant's shoulder strap. The design 

 was six feet high and composed of blue 

 and yellow immortelles, lilies and 

 Beauties. The outline was of yellow, 

 at each end a white bar, denoting the 

 rank of the lieutenant and in the cen- 

 ter a fouled anchor. This was made up 

 by Elliott & Ulam. 



