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The Florists' Review 



1A0«CST 17, 1916. 



growing Beraiuda grass and vegetables. 

 They are under the guidance of Walter 

 Young, secretary of the C. Young & 

 Sons Co. He has full charge of all gar- 

 den work. 



The greenhouse establishments of 

 Charles Beyer, Wm. Schray & Sons and 

 John Held, in the south end, show a 

 spleudid stock of young chrysanthemum 

 plants, which should make fine plants 

 in season. 



Mr. and Mrs, RoUa Hammer, of 

 Fred C. Weber's, are spending a few 

 weeks of their vacation in the western 

 part of Missouri. They will be joined 

 this week by Mr, and Mrs. L. Ochs and 

 Mr. and Mrs, K. Bremer, all well known 

 in the trade. 



August Hummert, of the St. Louis 

 Seed Co., accompanied by his family, 

 left August 14 for Houston, to attend 

 the S, A, F. meeting. Frank X. Gorly 

 and Mrs, Gorly left a week ago for the 

 same place. 



The Lady Florists' Home Circle was 

 entertained August 10 at the home of 

 Mrs. Otto G. Koenig and spent a pleas- 

 ant afternoon. Mrs. John L. Koenig 

 will entertain the circle next month. 



John S. Carter, head of the Nicotine 

 Mfg. Co., who is chairman of the as- 

 sociate membership committee, says his 

 promise will be made good with at least 

 500 associate members before the next 

 meeting of the Florists ' Club. 



Dan Cupid has been hanging around 

 the Ayres Floral Co. place, as Fred 

 Strohmeyer has announced his engage- 

 ment to Miss Ella Weber, the marriage 

 to take place August 31. They will 

 take a honeymoon trip north for a few 

 weeks. 



The Chicago delegation to the S. A. 

 F. convention at Houston, Tex., arrived 

 at St. Louis Monday morning, August 

 14. The party was met at the station 

 by a delegation of the St. iLouis Flo- 

 rists' Club and entertained at a break- 

 fast at Harvey's. The party started 

 on its journey at 9.05. 



I am glad to report that Fred C. 

 Weber, Sr., who returned from Chi- 

 cago quite ill recently, is up and around 

 again. Mrs. Weber also has recovered 

 from a recent illness. J. J. B. 



The local daily papers said last week: 

 "It has become known that John T. 

 Milliken, millionaire chemical manu- 

 facturer and former oil magnate, is 

 the largest stockholder in the St. Louis 

 Wholesale Cut Flower Co., a new con- 

 cern, for whose occupancy a building is 

 nearing completion at 1410 Pine street. 

 He will be represented by his secretary, 

 Frank P. Maid, who is secretary and 

 treasurer of the flower company. At 

 his beautiful country home at Crescent, 

 Mo,, there are greenhouses with approxi- 

 mately 100,000 feet of glass roof, de- 

 voted entirely to roses. These flowers 

 will be sold through the new company, 

 which will have its formal opening 

 September 5. Other varieties of flowers 

 will be obtained from other sources, 

 Milliken 's interest in flowers being al- 

 most entirely confined to roses. The 

 president of the new concern is David 

 Geddis, former manager of the floral 

 section of a local department store, 

 and the vice-president is J. J. Beneke, 

 who was in the flower business at 1216 

 Olive street for forty years prior to 

 his retirement April 15 last to join 

 the new company. The new concern will 

 make a total of six wholesale flower 

 establishments on Pine between Thir- 

 teenth and Fifteenth streets." 



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