NOVKMBEK 27, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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voice, and he gets mad, too, if you con- 

 tradict him. 



Some of our distant friends may ask: 

 Does it pay to send tiowers to your club? 

 Yes, 3'ou are teaching us. broadening our 

 knowledge and helping your fellow- 

 men. And, sub rosa, let me tell you, 

 orders have since been sent to our con- 

 tributors for every variety of chrysan- 

 themum shown here; and apart from 

 plants, telegrams were sent to Maryland 

 for pompon cut flowers. 



Four new members were admitted. The 

 next meeting will be held Tuesday even- 

 ing. Dec. 2. and the subject for con.sider- 

 ation, Christma.s greens, plants, flowers 

 and materials used at Christmas. 



P. A. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



At this writing the retail, as well as 

 the wholesale florists are making great 

 preparations for .supplying the Thanks- 

 giving trade on Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day. The past week the cut flower trade 

 was not very encouraging for this time 

 of the year, although the advance orders 

 for Thanksgiving day have been very 

 good. Outside of this, however, trade 

 has been unquestionably dull. 



Although the weather up to a few 

 days ago has been summer-like, it has 

 been very cloudy, which has shortened 

 stock in roses very much and they 

 are really scarce today. The same may 

 be said of carnations and violets. Prices 

 have advanced 2 and 4 cents on roses, 

 1 and 2 cents on carnations, and violets 

 are almost double what they were last 

 week. 



Chrysanthemums are still the leading 

 flower when good blooms can be ob- 

 tained. The wholesalers say that good 

 roses of all kinds are going to be scarce 

 this week, as nearly all their shippers 

 are off' crop. But there will be a good 

 supply of carnations, violets, Eomans, 

 valley, paper whites and stevia. Nearly 

 all the stock in the market at present 

 is of good quality and brings a fair 

 price. Smilax, galax leaves and aspar- 

 agus were in good demand the past week. 



House of Carried Over Liberties at Peter Reinberg's, Chicago. Replanted July 15. 

 Photographed Oct. J4. 



The Florists' Club Meeting. 



The November meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Club, held last Thursday afternoon, 

 was well attended and was one of the 

 most interesting meetings of the year. 



Twenty members were present when 

 President Dunford called the meeting 

 to order at 3 o'clock, with all the offi- 

 cers in their places except Vice Presi- 

 dent Windier. 



The resolution to change the hour of 

 the meetings from 3 to 2 p. m. was 

 read for the second time. After the 

 regular order of business was disposed 

 of the members inspected the chrysan- 

 themum blooms sent in by Nathan 

 Smith & Son. of Adrian, Mich. They 

 showed the following varieties: Kan- 

 sas City Star, a light pink: Mrs. J. J. 

 Mitchell, crimson; Ethelyn, light pink; 

 Intensity, dark red; Mrs. F. J. Tag- 

 gart, dark yellow; F. J. Taggart, light 

 yellow; Edgar Sanders, bronze; H. W. 

 i?u(kbee, large yellow; Harry Fenn, 



House of Bridesmaids at Peter Reinberg's, Chicago. Benched June 10. 

 Photographed Oct. J 4. 



bronze; Minnie Bailey, pink, and Polar 

 Queen, large white. The judges, John 

 Steidle, Chas. Juengel and J. F. Am- 

 mann, voted them all good seedlings. 



The visitors at the meeting were S. S. 

 Skidelsky, of Philadelphia and F. W. 

 Maas, of the Plant Seed Co. The two 

 essays which were to have been read 

 by Messrs. Halstedt and Mohr will be 

 read at the next meeting of the club in 

 addition to those which were assigned 

 for the December meeting. 



President Dunford called on the mem 

 bers who visited Chicago for a few re- 

 marks on what they saw. Mr. Jablon- 

 .sky was called first. He read a paper 

 about two yards long, which was very 

 interesting and funny, and in which he 

 told the St. Louis growers to get the 

 moss ofif their backs and follow in the 

 footsteps of their Chicago brothers. 



Otto Koenig gave a very interesting 

 talk on what he saw of the Louisville 

 cemeteries while on a recent visit to 

 that place. 



Mr. Frank Weber was the next speak- 

 er and talked from a retailer's stand- 

 point, which was very interesting to the 

 store men. 



Mr. .J. P. Ammann spoke on what he 

 saw at the show and the large estab- 

 lishments around Chicago. He also re- 

 lated some of the funny stories told by 

 little Foley at the banquet. 



J. .1. Beneke spoke on Chicago hospi- 

 tality and wound up his remarks by 

 asking the chair to appoint a committee 

 of three with full power to act and in- 

 vite the Chicago and Milwaukee flor- 

 ists to visit St. Louis after the holi- 

 days. The committee appointed consists 

 of J. J. Beneke, Otto Koenig and J. F. 

 Ammann. 



Mr. S. S. Skidelsky gave a few min- 

 utes' interesting talk on the new things 

 he has seen in carnation plants. The 

 n;eeting then adjourned until Thursday 

 afternoon, December 11, 1902. 



The Shaw Banquet 



The thirteenth annual banquet to gar- 

 deners, florists and nurserymen of St. 

 Louis and vicinity, provided for in the 

 v/ill of Henry Shaw, was held in the 

 Mercantile Club rooms Wednesday 

 night, November 19. Prof. H. C. Irish, 



