JIAY l:i. IMIX. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



949 



Siebrecht & Son showed an excellent 

 collection; noticeable were Doronicam 

 plantagennm excelsum. the pretty Car- 

 ds japonica and Cercis canaiiens.s. 

 and a collection of Japanese maples. 



J. Lewis Childs also showed a com- 

 prehensive collection. Conspicuous 

 were Daphne Cnorum, Solanum Wend- 

 landii and the saxifraga or Megasea 

 cord i folia. 



J. G. Aitken, Bayonne, N. J., and W. 

 Turner. Tarrytown. also exhiliited nice 

 collections. 



During the afternoon session Samuel 

 Henshaw, of the new Botanic Garden, 

 gave an interesting talk on hardy 

 flowering shrubs and the evening ses- 

 sion was devoted to a lecture on Colo- 

 rado plant life by Mr. Cornelius Van 

 Brunt, which was beautifully illus- 

 trated b.y stereopticon views, photo- 

 graphed by himself. 



Notes. 



J. H. Small & Sons have enlarged 

 their store and have taken in the one 

 adjacent. During the summer exten- 

 sive alterations will be made so that it 

 will compare with any of the finest in 

 the city by next winter. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club meeting last 

 Thursday was not well attended, as 

 this is the busy season for the grow- 

 ers. Only about 1.") members attended, 

 including the officers. The meeting 

 spened promptly at ;> p. m. with Presi- 

 dent Halstedt and all the officers at 

 their stations. 



The chairman of the exhibition re- 

 ported that everything was progress- 

 ing favorably and that the special 

 prizes for the show to date amounted 

 to $1.8(Mi. The indications are that the 

 club will have the largest and best 

 show ever held. 



The committee on revising the con- 

 stitution and by-laws must report at 

 the next regular meeting of the club, if 

 not a new committee will be appointed. 



After a lengthy discussion in regard 

 to the next S. A. F. meeting at Omaha 

 the president appointed every member 

 of the club a committee of one to see 

 the different florists about town and 

 endeavor to have them go with us, re- 

 porting at the next meeting the names 

 of those who intend going. 



Messrs. F. W. Ude, Jr., and Frank 

 Fillmore brought carnations and roses 

 for exhibition. The meeting adjourned 

 until June 9 at .'! p. m. 



Cut Flower Situation. 



The situation in the cut flower mar- 

 ket is about the same as last week. On 

 Monday stock came in sparingly and 

 we began to think the glut would sub- 

 side awhile, but the next day and 

 during the remainder of the week 

 roses and carnations came in more 

 freely each day. 



Prices can not be quoted just now 

 as all kinds of flowers are plentiful, 

 the wholesaler selling them at almo.st 



any price to save them from the dump 

 pile. 



Botinic Garden Banquet. 



The ninth annual banquet of the 

 trustees of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den was held last night at the St. 

 Nicholas Hotel. There were seventy 

 covers and guests from abroad were 

 present; provision in the will of the 

 late Henry Shaw permits the trustees 

 to invite literary, and scientific men. 

 also friends and patrons of the nat- 

 ural sciences. The rooms and tables 

 were beautifully decorated for the oc- 

 casion. 



During the festivities addresses were 

 delivered by several of the distinguish- 

 ed guests. First was a tribute to the 

 memory of him who founded the in- 

 stitution, "Services of Henry Shaw," 

 by Chancellor F. H. Snow, of the Uni- 

 versity of Kansas; "Relation of the 

 Ministry to the Tillers of the Soil," 

 Right Rev. L. Coleman, Bishop of Del- 

 aware: "Garden of Science and Scien- 

 tific Gardening," Prof. Conway Mac- 

 Millan, of the University of Minnesota. 



Bishop Coleman, on last Sunday, 

 preached the flower sermon at Christ 

 Church Cathedral upon the "Goodness 

 of God as Shown in the Vegetable 

 Kingdom," as provided for in the will 

 of the late Henry Shaw. 



Notes. 



Considerable planting has been done 

 this spring in our parks. Supt. Pape 

 has pushed the work along so that the 

 parks are nearly all in fine shape and 

 attract the attention of all our visit 

 ors. 



Lloyd Vaughan, of Vaughan, Mc- 

 Kellar & Winterson, Chicago, is in 

 town looking the picture of health. He 

 reports business in his line better than 

 ever. Mr. Vaughan is en route for 

 West Baden Springs to look up some 

 of his friends. 



Ludolf Bauman, representing Frank 

 Netschert, Chicago, spent a few days 

 among the trade last week. 



T. H. Brown, of Durant & Brown, 

 Alvin, Texas, has been with us for a 

 week. They are sending to this mar- 

 ket a large lot of cape jasmines, of 

 which they have 10 acres in Texas. 



Charlie Wors reports that he is hav- 

 ing excellent trade and even now with 

 the great glut, some days he sells out 

 clean. 



Arnold Ringier, representing W. W. 

 Barnard & Co., Chicago, arrived this 

 morning (Tuesday) from the west. 

 Mr. Ringier reports trade good. 



The bowling club celebrated the fif- 

 ty-first birthday of Fred C. Weber, 

 Monday night, with refreshments and 

 bowling four games of cocked hat. 

 Mr. A. L. Vaughan, of Chicago, was a 

 visitor. Kuehn rolled high, lliS; Hel- 

 wig second, IIU, and Fillmore third, 

 im. The highest single score was by 

 A. L. Vaughan, 47. J. J. B. 



TRY AN ADV. in the Review it you 

 have any surplus stock to sell to the 

 trade. 



KRAFT'S PLANT TONIC. 



Some months ago a preparation 

 called "Kraft's Plant Tonic" was called 

 to the attention of Mr. C. J. Strom- 

 back, head-gardener at Lincoln Park, 

 Chicago, and he was requested to try it. 

 The claims for the article were so 

 broad that he had but little faith in it 

 and was with difficulty induced to de- 

 vote time to the experiments. He fin- 

 ally did so. however, and has been 

 amazed by the results. He is convinced 

 tliat Mr. Kraft has discovered a really 

 remarkable insecticide. He has given 

 the following letter to the manufact- 

 urers: 



Chicago. April 25. 189S. 

 Kiaft Plant Tonic Co.. Rockford. 111. 



licntlrmen:— I wish to inform you that l"oi- 

 Hic pa.'it three months I have given your piant 

 tonic a thorough test on dilTerent kindp of 

 plants, infested with Aphis of various spe- 

 cies. I find its process in killing insects, is. 

 slow, but effectual and perfectly harmless to 

 plants when used carefully. For hard shelled 

 Scale on Palms and Sword Ferns. I used one- 

 half solution and half water with satisfactory 

 results. I used it on Orchids for the li.ttle 

 ^^'hite Scale, so well known amdng Orchid 

 <.:rowers: two ounces of solution to a quart of 

 water applied with a sponge, killed the Scale 

 in about forty-eight hours without hurting a 

 leaf. 



The little brown Mite that attacks the Har- 

 risii Lily Bulbs and which makes such a 

 wholesale slaughter among these beautiful 

 plants. I find one-half solution, half water, 

 poured into the bulbs kills the insects in 

 about ten hours, without any danger to the, 

 j)lants. 



To kill Mealy Bugs, the solution is best ap- 

 tdied with a spray so that you can pierce the 

 dry web that encases the bugs; half a pint of 

 solution to one gallon of water is what I 

 titled with success on Coleus and other diflCer- 

 ent plants. 



To destroy worms in pot plants, also Wire 

 Worm, I used half a pint solution to one gal- 

 lon of water which killed the worm in about 

 twenty-four hours without injury to the 

 plants. 



Gentlemen, 1 am perfectly satisfied with 

 \-our preparation and I wish it every success. 

 A. J. SMITH, Ass't Gardener. 



The statement as above set down by my 

 assistant, A. J. Smith, is correct, as I have 

 lieen watching the progress of the experiments 

 with Mr. Kraft's Plant Tonic with interest. 

 We have been experimenting with the same 

 and I shall after this have the same on hand 

 in our place. 



Congratulating you in your success to get 

 some remedy to help us in our troubles to 

 destroy our pests. I remain. 



Yours Respectfully. 

 C. J. STROME.\CK. Head Gardener. 



BALTIMORE. 



Trade Unsettled. 



Trade for the past few weeks has 

 been in a very unsettled condition, and 

 at present writing there is little or no 

 outlook for its improvement. Tran- 

 sient trade and funeral work are at 

 present about all our retailers have to 

 depend on, as decorations are very 

 scarce and weddings this month are a 

 curiosity. Stock is plentiful, though 

 not quite up to the standard in quality 

 on account of unfavorable weather 

 conditions. 



The department stores are making a 

 bold strike in bedding stuff. In our 

 daily papers are seen fiaring advertise- 

 ments offering dazzling bargains in 

 geraniums, coleus, ttc, at "one-third" 

 the prices usually asked by the legiti- 

 mate trade. 



To the uninitiated such startling in- 

 ducements as "two, three and five 

 cents per plant" are sufficient guaran- 



