



no 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Juino 9, 1904. 



per 100 in small lots. Good peas can be 

 bought for $3.50 per 1000. A few Har- 

 risii and callas were still to be had the 

 past week. Plenty of greens of all 

 kinds except long asparagus strings. 

 Prices remain as usual for this stock. 



Various Notes. 



Visitors in town the past week were J. 

 Steckler, C. E. Panter, president and sec- 

 retary respectively of the Louisiana 

 State Horticultural Society; A. Kerlec, 

 seedsman of New Orleans, La.; Herbert 

 Heller and wife of New Castle, Ind.; 

 Harry Balsley, Detroit, Mich.; Hunter 

 Hough, Paducah, Ky.; George M. Kel- 

 logg, of Pleasant Hill, Mo. 



At the dedication of the Indiana build- 

 ing at the World 'p Fair the place was 

 handsomely decorated with 5,000 Ameri- 

 can Beauties furnished by Heller Bros., 

 of, New Castle, Ind. Herbert Heller was 

 here in person to supervise the decora- 

 tions. 



The Missouri building at the World's 

 Fair was also dedicated the past week. 

 The flowers used in this building were 

 furnished by George M. Kellogg, of 

 Pleasant Hill. The decorations consist- 

 ed of roses, carnations and peonies. 



Ostertag Bros, furnished the decora- 

 tions at the Kearns mansion for the re- 

 ception in honor of Miss Roosevelt last 

 Thursday. They, also decorated the Cat- 

 lin mansion last week for a similar affair. 



The Ellison Floral Co. furnished 600 

 American Beauties for a reception given 

 at the Japanese building last week. 



Otto Koenig, of the Koenig Floral Co., 

 and treasurer of the Florists' Club, was 

 kicked by his horse the past week, which 

 will keep him indoors for several days. 



At the committeemen's meeting the 

 past week in the Exposition building a 

 great deal was done regarding conven- 

 tion work. Henry Ostertag, chairman of 

 the decorating committee, has his plans 

 for decorating both halls. Frank M. 

 Ellis, chairman of the hotel committee, 

 reported quite a lot of applications for 

 hotel accommodations. Supt. Kuehn and 

 his assistant, Fred Meinhardt, report 

 plenty of applications for space. Otto 

 Koenig could not be present owing to 

 sickness. Carl Beyer, K. F. Tesson and 

 F. C. Weber failed to report. J. J. 

 Beneke, who has charge of the souvenir 

 book, reported a great deal of space 

 taken. J. F. Ammann of the reception 

 committee, reported progress. The com- 

 mittee will meet again this week Thurs- 

 day in the Exposition building at 2 

 o'clock and every Thursday hereafter 

 until convention time. 



The first Sunday opening of the year 

 of Missouri Botanic Garden, better 

 known as Shaw's Garden, was June 5. 

 The largest attendance that ever gathered 

 at this famous place was recorded. It 

 was estimated that no less than 26,000 

 persons entered the gates between the 

 hours of 2 and 7 p. m. The greatest at- 

 tractions were the cactus and orchid col- 

 lections. The orchid collection alone 

 consists of no less than 1,200 species and 

 is under the care of E. G. McClure. 

 Prof. Trelease, Prof. Irish and a host 

 of students, who acted as guides, were 

 very attentive and especially so to the 

 ladies. The flower beds in the garden 

 also attracted a great deal of attention 

 from the visitors. 



Will Craig, of the firm of Robert 

 Craig & Son, Philadelphia, is spending a 

 few days in St. Louis selling palms and 

 taking in the sights of the World's Fair. 



Bowling. 



Team No. 1. Ist 2nd 3rd T'l 



Beneke 169 127 166 532 



Miller 172 192 180 644 



Ellison 178 189 140 607 



Weber 146 154 136 436 



Gerluch 106 135 95 336 



Totals 771 



Team No. 2. Ist 2nd 3rd 



Kuehn 157 138 178 



Beneke, Jr 154 165 160 



Beyer 144 141 123 



Ellis 114 158 129 



Meinhardt 106 121 135 



Totals 675 



Ladles. Ist 2nd 



Mrs. Miller 145 156 



Miss B. Meinhardt 115 78 



Miss E. Meinhardt «9 '77', 



Mrs. r. M. BlUs 70 78 



Mrs. F. C. Weber 75 54 



MlsB T. Meinhardt 80 74 



Mifis U Keinhardt. . . 75 104 



Mrs. C. Beyei*: 128 123 



867 717 2,355 



T'l 

 471 

 469 

 408 

 891 

 362 



711 716 2,091 



3rd 

 124 



94 



131 



. 70 



60 



83 

 168 

 123 



J. J. B. 



T'l 

 426 

 287 

 277 

 218 

 196 

 237 

 337 

 874 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The usual drop in prices followed 

 Memorial day, but for several days there 

 was no great surplus, owing to cool, 

 cloudy weather. ITie market is rather 

 dull at present, but weddings and class 

 graduations will tend to bring it up 

 during the balance of the month. Beau- 

 ties hold at from $4 to $12 per 100, 

 Brides and Bridesmaids from $4 to $G. 

 Carnations are in heavy supply at from 

 $1 to $2, a few fancies selling higher. 

 Single peonies have b*n plentiful the 

 last few days and double varieties are 

 now coming in freely. They sell quite 

 well, pink and white shades going best. 

 A good many nymphseas are now seen 

 in the windows, while bunches of her- 

 baceous flowers, such as oriental poppies, 

 German iris, etc., are noticed. Some 

 salpiglossis is seen in one or two stores. 



Rhododendron Exhibition. 



The aimual rhododendron show was 

 held on June 4 and 5 and, contrary to 

 expectations, proved to be a remarkably 

 good one. While rhododendrons have 

 been seen more numerously, there was 

 a fine show of these considering the 

 damage done to the plants and flower 

 buds the past winter. For twelve 

 trusses of unquestioned hardiness Wm. 

 Thatcher, gardener to Mrs. J. L. Gard- 

 ner, won with the following varieties: 

 Sherwoodense, Schiller, Everestianum, 

 roseum graudiflorum, speculatum, Carac- 

 tacus, purpureum elegans, Generic, al- 

 bum elegans, roseum pictum, delicatis- 

 simum and Blandianum. The same ex- 

 hibitor won for six trusses. T. D. Hat- 

 field, gardener to Walter Hunne^ell, 

 won for twelve and six trusses of ten- 

 der varieties. The same exhibitor was 

 awarded a silver medal for a display 

 of several hundred bottles of hardy and 

 tender varieties. W. C. Winter had a 

 nice lot of named varieties. 



For hardy azaleas Wm. Thatcher and 

 T. C. Thurlow took the prizes with fine 

 displays. There was the fineist display 

 of German iris seen for years. For 

 thirty-six vases T. C. Thurlow, H. C. 

 Merriam and W. Whitman, M. Sullivan, 

 gardener, won. The varieties Her Maj- 

 esty, from F. J. Rea, a beautiful pink, 

 and' Madonna alba, from H. C. Mer- 

 riam, refceived honorable mention. Wm. 

 Thatcher had the best display of single 

 and double pyrethrums and also in the 

 class for display of cut branches of 

 ornamental trees and shrubs, showing 

 120 varieties. W. A. Riggs, gardener 



to E. A. Clarke, and Warreli Heustis 

 were second and third, each showing 

 over 100 varieties. There was keen 

 competition for thirty varieties of na- 

 tive plants, the prizes going to Mrs. 

 Arthur Clarke, Mrs. A. S. Colbourri, 

 the Misses Doran, Miss A. E. Shattuck 

 and Miss K. Buitta. 



Thfere were numerous miscellaneous 

 displays. R. & J. Farquhar & Co. filled 

 the center of the lecture hall with a 

 splendid group of palms, rhodode;ndrons 

 (including some fine Cunningham's 

 white) azaleas, coniferse, Nephrolepis 

 Piersoni etc. T. D, Hatfield had a 

 group of rhododendrons in pots, com- 

 prising fine plants of Lady Gray Eger- 

 ton and delicatissimum, also a fine lot 

 of Calla Elliottiana, plants two years 

 old from seed. 



Lager & Hurrell had a nice group of 

 orchids, comprising Lselia tenebrosa, Cat- 

 tleya Mendelli, I^lia purpurata, Den- 

 drobium transparens, and other season- 

 able varieties. E. J. Mitton, J. Law- 

 son, gardener, received a cultural cer- 

 tificate for a finely flowered pan of the 

 rather difficult Lfelia majalis and E. O. 

 Orpet, gardener to E. V. R, Thayer, a 

 similar award for some superb Odonto- 

 glossum crispum, the plants being all 

 grown in pure fern fibre, leaf-mold cul- 

 ture having been tried and abandoned. 

 These are the finest spikes seen in Bos- 

 ton for years. 



Harvard Botanic (Jardens had a fine 

 group, with Clerodendron Balfouri as a 

 center piete, numerous fuchsias includ- 

 ing the graceful F. gracilis. Asparagus 

 Sprengeri, etc. Mr. Cameron also staged 

 a magnificent lot of hardy perennials, 

 filling sixty feet of table, which was 

 the star feature of the show. J. B. 

 Shurtleff had a collection of twenty- 

 three varieties of aquilegias, B. P. Ware 

 a table of Moutan peonies, Mrs. E. M. 

 Gill and Mrs. J. B. Lawrence nice gen- 

 eral displays, C. W. Parker and others 

 Iris Gcrmanica. There was a find dis- 

 play of seasonable vegetables. 



The annual peony show occurs on 

 June 11. There will undoubtedly be a 

 grand show, as peonies never lookefd so 

 well as at present. In addition to the 

 regular money prizes, medals are offered 

 by Kelway & Son, of Langport, Eng- 

 land. The rose and strawberry show oc- 

 curs on Junei 21 and 22 and promises 

 to be much above the average. 



The Boston Park System. 



Never has the extensive Boston park 

 system looked better than at present. 

 The copious rains have given a luxu- 

 riance and richness to the foliage better 

 than we remember to have seen before. 

 It is necessary to spend a whole day 

 on the thirty miles of driveways and 

 seventy miles of pathways contained in 

 the 2,500 acres comprising the Metropol- 

 itan park system. Superintendent Pet- 

 tigrew has just completed an extensive 

 block of stables, store rooms, carpen- 

 ters', blacksmiths' and other shops, en- 

 gine houses, etc., and is grading and 

 planting around the same. 



The growth being made by the oaks, 

 lindens, ginkgos, elms and other trees 

 planted by the thousands by Mr. Petti- 

 grew during the last seven years is re- 

 markable and his development of the 

 park system commands the admiration 

 of everyone who can appreciate the im- 

 mense work he has done here and also 

 can see at a glance that all his planning 

 is not merely for present effect but for 

 the benefit of future generations. In- 

 teresting as the system now is, it Avill 



