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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



January 15, 1903. 



The St. Louis ri(»-ists' club has ex- 

 tended an invitation to the Chicago and 

 Milwaukee Florists' clubs "to spend a 

 pleasant day at the World's Fair City" 

 sometime during the present month. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Cut Flower Trade. 



The cut flower trade in this city is 

 nothing to brag of, and when you find a 

 florist who is busy it is with funeral 

 work. White flowers have been in good 

 demand all the week. 



On Saturday night a hea\'y snow 

 storm set in, which continued until Sun- 

 day noon. Tlie weather is cold and 

 coal scarce and high, and the growers 

 who are not well supplied with coal are 

 likely to suffer. 



Stock is not overplentiful and the 

 prices remain high. Eonuins, always 

 plentiful at this time of the year, are 

 surprisingly scarce and only a few come 

 in. Narcissus, too, seems scarce of 

 late. Carnations are quite plentiful and 

 of fine quality. Lawson, Joost and Crane 

 are in high color; so is Daybreak. 

 ^Vliite is the best seller just now. In 

 Bride and Maid roses, none too many 

 are coming in to supply the demand. 

 Good Beauties are always in demand 

 and not many are in the market. Vio- 

 lets have a big demand and sell at sight 

 at top prices. 



Qub Meeting. 



Tile first niectiiiL,' of the Florists' 

 Club in tlie new year was held at the 

 Odd Fellows Hall last Thursday after- 

 noon at 2 o'clock. The meeting was 

 poorly attended, only ten being present 

 to wish each other a happy and pros- 

 perous Xew Year. 



It was decided at this meeting that 

 the next meeting in February would be 

 our annual Carnation meeting. A prize 

 of $10 is offered for the best vase of 

 fifty or more carnations to be judged by 

 quality only. Tlie prizes are $5, $3 and 

 $2. "These are for local growers only. 

 A prize of $5 is offered for the best vase 

 of carnations of the introduction of 

 190.3, open for all. Tliis meeting will 

 take place llnirsday, February 12, at 2 

 o'clock. 



'Mr. F. W. Taylor, chief of Agriculture 

 and Horticulture of the World's Fair, 

 and J. II. Hadkinson, head gardener 

 of the World's Fair, were elected hon- 

 orary members of the club. 



A letter was read from Mayor Hal- 

 stedt, of Belleville, regretting that he 

 was imable to entertain the memljers at 

 this meeting, but promised to do so at 

 an early date. He also regretted being 

 iinable to attend this meeting for rea- 

 sons of very pressing engagements with 

 city matters. 



Tlie entertainment committee reported 

 that the entertainment, the programme 

 of which appears in these notes, would 

 take place Saturday night, at 8 o'clock, 

 in our meeting hall in Odd Fellows 

 building, and that the invitations will 

 be sent out one week in advance. 



Ml-. F. B. Call, of the St. Louis Car- 

 nation Co.. read an es.say on "Steam 

 Heating." whicii was very instructive to 

 the members. The essay will appear in 

 the Review next week. 



The essay for the February meeting 

 is "Growing Carnations — Advantages of 

 Early Planting." by William Winter, 

 of Kirkwood, Mo. This essay alone 

 should bring out a large attendance, as 



j\Ir. Winter is one of our most success- 

 ful growers. 



After some very interesting discus- 

 sions on questions from the question box 

 the meeting adjourned until Thursday 

 afternoon. February 12, at 2 o'clock. 



Programme of the Entertainment. 



PAET I. 

 Address of Welcome. .President Dunford 

 Piano Solo (March) . . .Miss Lulu Beneke 



Comic Song Frank J. Fillmore 



Mandolin Solo F. B. Call 



The Yorkshire Man in London.... 



Carew Sanders 



Piano Solo Mrs. J. W. Dunford 



The Irish Immigrant 



Francis Fillmore, Sr. 



Piano Solo Miss Laura Sanders 



Negro Songs and Funny Sayings 



(black face) J. J. Beneke 



Song, selected F. M. Ellis 



Comic Song, Dutch and Irish |. 



J. F. Ammann 



PART II. 

 Refreshments and dancing. 



Notes. 



Frederick W. Ta>-lor. chief of the Ag- 

 ricultural Department of World's Fair, 

 has had the title of Chief of Horticulture 

 conferred on him by the executive com- 

 mittee. Mr. Taylor therefore becomes 

 chief of two departments. 



Mr. Baumann. of Richter &. Baumann, 

 of Chicago, was in to«Ti selling sup]ilics. 



Mr. Rudolph .1. Mohr has left the 

 Michel Plant and Bulb Co. Mr. IMohr 

 will leave the city the latter part of this 

 month to take charge of a place below 

 Crystal City, Mo., which belongs to J. 

 K. Kavanaugh. who will build a range 

 of houses to pri'ow cut flowers for the 

 St. Tvoiiis market. Mr. Mohr will have 

 full charge of the place. 



Mr. K. W. Guy. of Belleville, was in 

 town the past week and reports that he 

 had a narrow escape from blood poison- 

 ing. He ran iho point of .a lead pen- 

 lil into his arm. hut is now out of 

 danger. 



Air. F. M. Ellis, wife of Frank Kllis. 

 the wholesale florist, is very ill and 

 Frank is very much afraid that an oper- 

 ation will have to be performed, which 

 we hope will not be necessarv. 



J. ,T. v.. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



There is not nearly enough stock to 

 (ill the orders. Tea roses are especially 

 scarce. Business has improved consid- 

 erably. There is great social activity. 

 President .Tames W. Paul, of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society, gave a bril- 

 liant ball on Friday of last week, which 

 was elaborately decorated. This has been 

 followed by a number of affairs, both 

 large and small, which have kept the 

 market in a lively state up to the pres- 

 ent time. Tliere is every reason to be- 

 lieve that the season will be a rushing 

 one until Lent comes in six weeks. 



The Street. 



Every newspaper man knows that his 

 most reliable information comes from the 

 leading men in business who talk to him 

 freely on matters of general interest. 

 Tliese talks are the pleasantest part of 

 a newspaper man's work. Tlie feeling 

 that be is being trusted, that what to 

 publish and what to omit is left to his 



judgment, is very gratifying. Every 

 newspaper man also knows that the ru- 

 mors in the air or on the street are gen- 

 erally unreliable and must be taken with 

 a grain, sometimes with a whole spoon- 

 ful, of salt. Yet the street frequently 

 has things straight. Here is an exam- 

 ple: 



William Munro has taken the green- 

 houses of James Anderson, of Garretts- 

 ford, near Landsdowne, Pa., and will 

 take possession on his return from Scot- 

 land, where he has gone to visit his fam- 

 ily. Mr. Munro's first appearance in this 

 city was about six years ago, when he 

 succeeded P. H. Meehan as foreman for 

 Myers & Samtman, at Chestnut Hill. 

 Under his management this firm won the 

 Beauty prizes in this city and in New 

 York and kept up their reputation for 

 high-grade stock. Some years ago Mr. 

 Munro went to Lansdowne, taking charge 

 of the greenhouses of J. Henry Bartram. 

 The next jear he succeeded W. A. Leon- 

 ard as foreman for Robert Scott & Son, 

 Sharon Hill, where he remained until the 

 end of last month. Mr. Alexander B. 

 Scott placed the utmost confidence in 

 Mr. Munro's ability. His many friends 

 wish him success in his new venture. 



The Carnation Smoker. 



A few hasty and imperfect lines on the 

 January meeting of the Florists' Club ap- 

 peared in this column last week. It was 

 one of the most instructive and delight- 

 ful atTairs tliat the club has ever given. 

 The carnation exhibit was very fine. As 

 Eugene Dailledouze put it, "We are going 

 to have some carnations before long." 

 When compared with the varieties of ten 

 years ago, every sort was a marvel. The 

 general feeling seemed to be that the 

 time had come when these fancy soi-ts are 

 a necessity that people will pay, and 

 pay well, to secure. Following is a full 

 list of the exhibitors and names of va- 

 rieties shown. 



Chicago Carnation (3o., Joliet, 111. — • 

 Marshall Field, a striped variety simi- 

 lar to !Mrs. Bradt; Harlowarden, crim- 

 son ; Mrs. H. N. Higinbotham, Daybreak 

 pink. 



S. J. Renter, Westerly. R. I.— Lillian 

 Pond, fine white. 



Isaac Passmore, West Chester, Pa. — 

 Seedling No. 3, a fine large white, 3 

 inches in diameter. 



Dailledouze Bros., Flatbush, N. Y. — 

 White Bradt, 31 inches in diameter; No. 

 144, white, 4 inches in diameter; and two 

 flowers of a seedling in it.s third year. 4* 

 inches in diameter; No. 138, a seedling 

 white, third year, very large fringed 

 white. G flowers; vase of Fragrance, 2J 

 to 3 inches, fine pink, very sweet. 



J. D. Thompson Carnation Co., Joliet, 

 III. — Enchantress, light pink; Nelson 

 Fisher, cerise pink ; Mrs. M. A. Patten, 

 pure white ground, striped with pink; 

 Governor Wolcott, pure white. 



Little South Floral Co., South Natick, 

 Mass. — The Queen, a very fine white va- 

 riety. 3 inches, staged by Leo Niessen. 



Robert Craig & Son — The scarlet 

 Adonis. 21 to 3 inches. 



E. A. Nelson, Indianapolis, Ind. — A 

 fine vase of Mrs. E. A. Nelson, a rich 

 pink. 



E. T. Grave. Richmond. Ind. — Presi- 

 dent McKinley, in good form, cerise pink, 

 3 inches. 



Wm. Murphy. Cincinnati, O.— Mur- 

 nhy's White. 2i to 3 inches, said to be a 

 free bloomer. 



Wm. G. Saltford. Poughkeepsie. N. Y. 

 — Fair Harvard. 3 inches, violet crimson. 



