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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1089 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



We cannot report any improvement in 

 the cut flower m;u-kot for the past week, 

 as it still remains inactive. It is greatly 

 overstocked in every line, and it is verj' 

 difficult to move the surplus. It is only 

 by a hea\'j' cut in prices that the retailer 

 can be induced to buy in quantities, Even 

 the street venders say there is little or 

 no business, and the low prices are no 

 temptation to them to buy in large quan- 

 tities. There were several heavy funer- 

 al orders the pa.st week, which helped 

 the market somewhat. 



Roses are still very mucli overstocked 

 and the quality keeps up much hettei- 

 than usual. The stock generally conies 

 in somewhat mildewed at this time of the 

 year, but as yet very little of it is to bo 

 seen. Beauties of e.xtra good quality are 

 keeping up fine. Brides are in goodform 

 and Kaiserins are improving. These, 

 with Maids, Meteors, Perles and Gates. 

 are most plentiful. Prices can hardlv 

 be quoted on them, being graded accord- 

 ing to the quantity bought. A dozen will 

 cost 4 cents each; 25, 3 cents; 100, 2 

 cents, and 1,000, 1 cent. 



Carnations continue to move very slow- 

 ly. They are fine in quality and larne 

 in supply, with the price as low as .$.5 

 per 1,000, and .$! in 100 lots. Tlie whole- 

 salers are still dumping plenty of Ihom, 

 Sweet peas are now almost a glut and 

 thousands are coming in every morning 

 in all colors. The best are still up in 

 price, but poor stuff cannot be sold at 

 any price. 



A good Decoration day trade is looked 

 for. Inquiries have alread'' been made 

 in regard to prices, but same are not ex- 

 pected to advance much if the supply 

 keeps up as it has. The prospects are 

 for a big supply at very low prices. 



Club Meeting. 



There were only a handful of niPT>->bnv« 

 in attendance at the May meeting of the 

 chib. President Dunford was reported 

 sick and unable to attend, Ex-President 

 Fillmore opened the meeting at 3 o'clock. 

 The different committees reported and 

 were continued. The trustees were in- 

 structed to arrange for the annual picnic 

 some time in July and make a report 

 at the next meeting in June. Xo essays 

 were read. Jlr. Fillmore was down for 

 an essay, but was excused until the June 

 meeting, William Davies, formerly with 

 the E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., was 

 a visitor and gave us an interesting talk. 

 Mr. Davies is now an attorney and a 

 resident of our city. Tlie subject of 

 flowers is still interesting to him, and he 

 was made an honorary member of the 

 club, Vice-President Windier is down 

 for an essay for the June meeting on 

 "Peonies and Irises for Cut Flowers; 

 how to increase stock and care for them." 

 Tlie meeting will be called a "sweet pea 

 meeeting." The members who grow sweet 

 peas are requested to bring whatever 

 they can to make an attractive display. 

 After a little social talk about our busi- 

 ness the meeting adjourned until June 

 11, at the usual place. 



Notes. 

 The weather is just right for planting 

 out and the plant'smen are very busy at 

 the present time, with a great many 

 orders ahead. More planting is being 

 done in the West End than ever before, 

 and especially in the neighborhood of 



the World's Fair grounds, where the 

 trafiic is big. 



Martin Reukauf, of Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., Philadelphia, was in town booking 

 Decoration <lay orders. Martin is from 

 Missouri now and you have got to show 

 him. 



J, \y. Dunford, of the St, Louis Car- 



New Store of C. C. PoUworth Co. 

 Milwaukee, Wis. 



nation Company, is sick at his home 

 in Clayton. From last reports he is im- 

 proving. 



Fred Ainmann, of E<lwardsville. is 

 laid up with a sprained back, caused 

 bv ovcrlifting, 

 " William Jordon reports that he will 

 build two new houses this summer, to 

 take the place of the old ones which 

 are now being torn down. 



W. J. Pilcher, of Kirkwood, has moved 

 his faniilv to tha 15erdan place, which 

 Mr. Pilcher bought a few weeks ago, 

 "Pilch," as ho is best known, will re- 

 model the place and build a few new 

 houses this summer. 



Out at the World's Fair ground^ tlie 

 landscape department is busily at work. 

 Work is planned to show a succe.ssinn "f 

 lawns. "The slopes are lioing sodded and 

 the level areas sown with blue grass. 

 Wni. Mchl is in charge of the 'Te.-.son 

 greenlioiises. which are now being iiseil 

 by the landscape department for plants 

 and shrubs. J. J. B, 



A PROGRESSIVE CONCERN. 



J lie C, C, Polhvorth Company, Mil- 

 waukee, is in its new store, 4,04 City 

 Hall Square, this week, A view of the 

 front of the establishment ia given in 

 the accompanying illustration. The lower 

 floor is given to the cut flower depart- 

 ment and a sample room for the supplies 

 which are carried on the upper floors. 

 The ofliees are on the second floor and 

 above is the factory for wire work. Tlie 

 basement is given to bulbs and similar 

 lines. The store is thoroughly nifulern 

 in all its appointments. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Drought. 



The lovely weather continues. It has 

 Ijein a perfect month of May, the tein- 

 jiciature moderate, the air fresh and the 

 skies clear and bright, but the weather 

 dry as the proverbial bone. Farmers 

 cannot plow, the seed in the soil doe* 

 not come up, the hay crop promising to 

 be a failure for the second successive 

 year, and gardening operations are 

 hargely suspended, except where soil and 

 conditions are exceptionally favorable. 



The Market. 



Trade eoiitimic- fairly active. There 

 are many social, entertainments, public 

 and private, and the demand for this 

 purpose and for funeral work keeps all 

 tlie stores at least comparatively busy. 

 Stock is in pretty large supply. At 

 times one color or variety is short, but 

 by some substitutions all demands are 

 met by more than an ample provision. 

 Roses continue in fairly good shape, and 

 the same is true of carnations, due, 

 doubtless, to the absence so far of 

 burning, torrid heat, which the middle 

 of May so often brings. Valley i« over, 

 and the out-door shrubs are abundant. 



The commenc<»ment season is about to 

 begin, which makes some business all 

 around. Also many June weddings are 

 in prospect. After these, languor and 

 midsummer dullness. 



Notes. 



Edward Holden. long head gardener 

 for Mrs. Robert Garrett (now Mrs. Dr. 

 .Jacobs), and famous for his skill in 

 forcing fruits and vegetables, will go 

 into business on his own account, hav- 

 ing secured a place near Mount de 

 Sales. 



.■\lexandcr Scott, manager of the Flor- 

 ists' Exchange, the clearing-house here 

 for growers and buyers of cut flowers, 

 has been much indisposed for the past 

 two weeks, but his friends hope to sec 

 him soon fully recovered. .\s is known 

 generally, he is the brother of your Buf- 

 falo coVrespondent, much resembling 

 him, in phvsical traits, at least, 



Hans Sc'huler, son of Mrs, Schuler- 

 Tliomas, the well-knovm and successful 

 florist on Saratoga street, is gaining 

 new laurels and greater reputation in 

 Europe as a sculptor, his work showing 

 true genius. 



Of all inelnncholy failures to meet 

 popular favor in this quarter, the Sun- 



