JCHB 18, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



The next meeting will be held July 9, 

 when the new officers will be nominated. 



Various Notes. 



The County Growers' Association will 

 hold its first picnic in Studt's grove at 

 Creve Cceur, June 30. All members, 

 with their families and friends, are ex- 

 pected to attend and spend a pleasant 



day. 



Ernest Strehle was acting park com- 

 missioner last week in the absence of 

 Park Commissioner Davis, who was in 

 Kansas City, Mo., attending the golf 

 matches. 



The members of the club who have 

 neglected to send in their acceptances 

 to the twenty-eighth anniversary ban- 

 quet should do so at once, as it takes 

 place June 24 at 7:30 p. m. in the Floral 

 room of the Jefferson hotel. Arrange- 

 ments are all complete foi" this event. 



Messrs. Windier, Ossick and Connon, 

 trustees of the Florists' Club, say the 

 picnic will again be held at Bomona 

 park, July 23. Anyone wishing to do- 

 nate a special prize should notify one 

 of these gentlemen at once. Sugges- 

 tions for any new feature to make the 

 day interesting are always welcome. 



Ludwig Zimmer, the Biddle market 

 florist, says that he will not make his 

 ususal trip to Germany this year and 

 that his vacation days will be spent on 

 this side of the big pond. 



Fred Ammann's talk on the Sunday 

 closing question was interesting. He 

 said that from the talk of some of tne 

 members on this question, the drawback 

 was the possibility of the other fellow 

 not closing. Why .should each one worry 

 about the other fellow? If each one 

 closes his own place, the other fellow 

 will soon follow. He urged all present 

 to sign the petition to close their shops 

 on Sundays. 



Starting June 15, retailers will have 

 to do their buying before 5 p. m. on 

 week-days and before noon on Satur- 

 days and Sundays, as all the five whole- 

 sale markets will be closed after these 

 hours until September 15. 



Henry Emunds, of Belleville, says he 

 has had a great sale of his new Canna 

 Queen Helen so far this season. Mr. 

 Emunds kept close to home last week, 

 with all his teeth drawn, and only made 

 daily visits to the dentist. 



Pierre Schnider, manager of the range 

 of the Oakland Floral Co., at Kirk- 

 wood, had another successful season in 

 carnations and sweet peas. This stock 

 is always much looked for in this mar- 

 ket. Some extensive improvements are 

 contemplated for this establishment this 

 summer. 



Mr. Stork paid his first visit at the 

 home of Oliver K. Sanders recently and 

 left a fine baby girl. Grandpa Sanders 

 and Oliver were all smiles when telling 

 of the visit. 



Our nurserymen will suffer a great 

 deal this season. The long continued 

 dry weather has killed off a great deal 

 of young nursery stock and if we do 

 not have a good soaking rain soon, the 

 loss will run into several thousand 

 dollars. 



A big heading in the daily papers 

 last week, "No flowers at school exer- 

 cises," no doubt kept many prospective 

 buyers of flowers for school graduates 

 from sending them and proved an in- 

 justice to florists, who pay heavy school 

 taxes. 



W. E. Ogle, Gust. Grossart -and 

 Matthew Schoenenberger, of Belleville, 

 111.; Geo. Madson, of Alton; J. F. 



Ammann, of Edwardsville; Edwin Den- 

 ker, of St. Charles, and John Connon, 

 of Webster, spent June 11 in this city 

 and attended the club meeting in the 

 afternoon. 



The St. Louis Seed Co. gave its em- 

 ployees an outing June 14. A special 

 car provided by the company took the 

 entire force and the heads of the com- 

 pany to Waterloo, 111. The weather 

 was right for an event of this kind and 

 a pleasant day was spent. Vice-presi- 

 dent August Hummert had charge of 

 the outing. Games of all kinds, with 

 prizes, took place in the afternoon. The 

 following were the prize-winners: 

 Ladies' egg race. Miss Bremer; men's 

 race, S. Pan tier; time walking match, 

 T. Ripple; young ladies' race, Ida 

 Crain; married ladies' race, Mrs. Nix- 

 son; boys' race, F. Henselmeyer and F. 

 Hummjeri; men 's shot-put, H. Roth; 

 ladies' ball throwing, Mrs. Blase; hop, 

 step and jump, S. Pantler; boys' race, 

 Jeff Pantler. The tug of war was won 

 by a team composed of Messrs. Blase, 

 Pantler, Meier, Nixen, Roth and Hen- 

 selmeyer. A ball game between the 

 salesmen and the shipping department 

 followed, which was won by the sales- 

 nj^n by a score of 6 to 4. The outing 

 was a grand success and will be made 

 an annual affair. J. J. B. 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



The Market. 



Stock in general is still in heavy sup- 

 ply, although it is expected that there 

 will be a decrease shortly. In spite of 

 the large supply, however, it is difficult 

 to take care of all orders satisfactorily, 

 as the quality of the stock has not been 

 as good as it should be, owing to the 

 extremely hot weather that has pre- 

 vailed for some days. Carnations are 

 'still coming in heavily; their quality 

 is steadily improving and the stock is 

 being cleaned up fairly well, although 

 wholesalers have a large supply on hand 

 continually. Roses are not as plentiful 

 as they have been for the last week or 

 so, and as the demand is heavier and 

 the quality excellent, they are cleaning 

 up well. 



Peonies, grown in this vicinity, are 

 coming in more heavily all the time, 

 despite the storm which swept this lo- 

 cality May 31 and did great damage 

 to this crop. The peonies are extra fine 

 and have a ready sale. Sweet peas are 

 still in demand and the stock received 

 is good. There are plenty of them to go 

 around, but no great surplus, and prices 

 are holding up pretty well for this 

 time of year. There is an abundance of 

 lilies of fine quality. The cut is being 

 moved fairly well considering the large 

 supply. Gladioli have not as yet come 

 into the market to any great extent, 

 but those that arrive are good. Beauties 

 are received in limited quantities and 

 are fine for this time of year. 



Various Notes. 



Walter Halliday, with the C. C. Poll- 

 worth Co., was presented with a bounc- 

 ing nine-pound boy, June 8. Mr. Halli- 

 day is highly elated and says that the 

 little chap will be one of the leaders in 

 the future bowling team of the Mil- 

 waukee florists. 



Miss Edith Webster, of J. M, Fox & 

 Son, was taken seriously ill June 4. 

 She had a hemorrhage while in the store 

 and was removed to her home imme- 

 diately. She is still confined to bed and 



is in an extremely weak condition, but 

 it is reported that she is improving, 

 although she will not be able to resume 

 her duties for some time. 



P. H. Holton celebrated his fourteenth 

 wedding anniversary at Okauchee Lake, 

 June 30. The celebration was a triple 

 affair, as it is understood that two other 

 guests and their wives were married on 

 the same day of the year. An elaborate 

 entertainment was provided and was 

 thoroughly enjoyed by all. Mr. Holton 

 was in Chicago June 11, where he 

 visited relatives staying in that city at 

 the time. He also attended the peony 

 showT 



Gust Rusch & Co. have purchased a 

 new Ford car, which they will use for 

 delivery purposes in place of the one 

 which they now have. 



J. M. "Sox & Son had the decorations 

 for several large funerals last week and 

 they report that business in general has 

 been excellent at their place. 



TI. J. S. 



TOLEDO, O. 



The Market. 



There has been a terrific glut of all 

 kinds of cut flowers during the last 

 week, due to the great heat. Retailers 

 have had no difficulty in buying all the 

 flowers they could use on practically 

 their own terms. With this advantage, 

 they reaped a harvest, because last week 

 was an exceedingly busy week. Several 

 prominent men died, funeral work was 

 abundant, social functions were numer- 

 ous, commencements and graduations 

 created a large call for cut flowers and 

 bouquets, and June weddings have been 

 frequent. June is responding nobly in 

 a business way, and retailers here are 

 quite cheerful these days. Friday a 

 cool wave arrived, which helped consid- 

 erably in checking the supply. The 

 chances are that the rest of this month 

 will see the demand just about keeping 

 up with the supply. Carnations have 

 not been good of late, and Qven the old, 

 reliable sweet peas are shorter-stemmed 

 than usual. Roses are plentiful and of 

 fair quality. Peonies have not been 

 as high-grade this season as is custom- 

 ary, but this has been laid to the hot 

 weather. Sweet williams are now ar- 

 riving in large quantities. Gladioli are 

 fine. 



Club Meeting. 



The last meeting of the Florists' Club 

 was held Tuesday evening, June 9, at 

 the home of George Bayer, on Fulton 

 street. It was one of the best meetings 

 held recently, and Mr. Bayer sustained 

 his reputation for hospitality, proving 

 himself a royal entertainer. A large 

 number of members were in attendance. 

 The most important step taken was the 

 launching of a movement to close all 

 florists' shops at noon Sundays and 

 eventually, when the public has been 

 educated to this step, to close all day. 

 Toledo has been in the throes of an 

 early closing campaign for some time. 

 Retail storekeepers are agitating early 

 closing Saturday nights, and grocers and 

 butchers are fighting to have their 

 places closed all day Sundays. The 

 employing florists decided by an over- 

 whelming majority to jump into the 

 band wagon of their own free will. The 

 publicity man of the club was instructed 

 to see all the florists and urge them to 

 join in this beneficent movement to 

 give employees and themselves a well- 



