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The Rorists^ Review 



NOVEMBIH 24, 1921 



George Wienhoeber, labeled inconspicu- 

 ously, "Grown by Illinois Plant Co.," 

 which is the Batavia greenhouse enter- 

 prise of A. Henderson, in direct charge 

 of Tom Conlon. 



Here 's an interesting little story from 

 the Herald-Examiner of November 17: 

 ' ' Three gypsy women entered the 

 Weiland-Risch flower store yesterday. 

 'Outside,' said Edward Schultz, an em- 

 ployee, 'I don't want my fortune told.' 

 As the trio departed one of them said, 

 'Something tells me you're going to 

 lose something.' A moment later 

 Schultz reached for his wallet, which 

 had contained $40. It was gone. So 

 were the gypsies." 



Fred Lautenschlager got up from a 

 sick bed to carry his large part in last 

 week's show and returned to it after the 

 affair was over. He was worn out and 

 suffering from a heavy cold. The show 

 proved to be ahead of expectations, 

 largely as a result of Mr. Lauten- 

 schlager 's labors. 



C. G. James, of Hornell, N. Y., was 

 here last week for the show and re- 

 mained several days as the guest of 

 friends on North Hermitage avenue. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The wholesale cut flower market last 

 week showed little improvement over 

 the week previous. Although brisk busi- 

 ness was reported by the leading retail- 

 ers, the demand was not large enough to 

 consume daily receipts of any season- 

 able stock. A few days' warm spell 

 had much to do with the greatly in- 

 creased receipts from the local growers. 

 From reports of some of our wholesalers, 

 there is going to be a general clean-up 

 of stock all Thanksgiving week. Chrys- 

 anthemums promise to be in splendid 

 shape; the retailers look forward to rec- 

 ord-breaking business. 



The quality of the stock arriving is 

 fine. The stock brings fair prices. This 

 has been an exceptionally good season 

 with mums of all varieties. A great 

 quantity of Chadwick arrived the last 

 /" few days and sold well. The great bulk 

 \^ the Bonnaffon cut is late this season. 

 This variety seldom goes to waste. There 

 are many other varieties coming in; 

 among them are Eager, Chieftain, Betsy 

 Ross, Enguehard and Mrs. Seidewitz. 

 Pink and yellow pompons are much in 

 favor. A few splendid show blooms of 

 Golden Wedding were noticed the end 

 of last week. 



There are large shipments of extra 

 good quality in all varieties of roses 

 coming in, but demand always is light in 

 mum season and prices hardly hold up 

 to quotations at present. Carnations 

 arc not in ovcrsupply, as the demand at 

 present is not heavy. It is well that the 

 crop will not be on until next month. 

 Paper Whites arc arriving and the few 

 clean up each day. Violets sold well all 

 Inst week at 75 cents per hundred, but 

 the price went up to $1 the last 

 of the week. Calendulas, valley, sweet 

 peas, orchids, snapdragons and stevia 

 clean up daily. All fancy greens had a 

 heavy demand, also bronze galax, leu- 

 cothoe sprays and white smilax. 



Retail Florists' Association. 



The Retail Florists' Association held 

 its monthly meeting Monday, November 

 14, in the liall at Grand avenue and Pine 

 street. The attendance was large when 

 President Theodore Miller opened the 

 meeting. After the reading of the min- 

 utes of the previous meeting by Sccre- 



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