JULY 14. 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



347 



ALWAYS 'Wt^'ic^ 



With supplies of the best stock the market 

 affords at this season of the year. Your 

 orders will receive as careful attention as ever. 



All Cut Flowers in Season. 



SBNO US 

 YOUR ORDERS. 



E. C. AM LING, 



Tlio Iiar^ast, Best Sqnlpp«d and Moat Oentntllj located 

 Wliol«Mil« Cut Plower Kons« In Ohloaffo. 



32-34-36 Randolph St., C\%i€^S%itt\ III 



iMfl Oi«t««ce letophoMS 1978 ami 1977 Cmitral. V>Mll\/«« J| V^ Ml|« 



Per dos. 



80-86-iiiob stem 18.00 



a4-lncb stem 2.60 



ao-lnch stem 2.00 



15-incb stem 1.60 



12-incta Btem 100 



Staortstem SOto .76 



Per 100 



Brides and MaidB |S.00to $5.00 



Meteors and Gates 8.00to 6.00 



Liberty j 4.00to 8.00 



KalseriD 4.00to 8.00 



Oamatlons l.OOto 160 



large and fancy.. .. 2.00 



Peonies per doz., 86c to 76c 



Valley 4.00to 6.00 



Marffuerites 60to .76 



Sweet Peas 26 to .60 



Oallas. per doz $1 00 to $1.26 



Auratom lilies, doz. 81.25 to S1.60 

 Longiflorums. doz., $1.00 to $1.60 

 Asparagus, per string, 40 to 60c. 



Asparagos Sprengeri 8.00 to 6.00 



Ferns per 1000, $1.00 .15 



Galax per 1000, $1.26.... .16 



Adiantom 76to 1.00 



Smilax per doz., $1.50. . . 



SalMeet to ekaam wttkaat aattce. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business since the Fourth has been 

 very slow among the retailers. The 

 weather has not been any. too good dur- 

 ing the week just past, almost every 

 day heavy showers, which made the 

 nights cold. The democratic convention 

 did not bring the expected increase in 

 trade, though some of the down-town 

 florists haa quite a few orders at the 

 different hotels where headquarters were 

 established. From now on the retailers 

 will be buying lightly and Boston ferns 

 apd palms are the only window displays 

 seen. 



At the wholesale houses plenty of 

 stock is to be had, but not of the first 

 qu&lity, especially so in roses and carna- 

 tions. Of the roses, American Beauties 

 are none too good, color very pale, but 

 the best sell for $2 per dozen, shorts 

 from $4 to $6 per 100. In smaller rosea, 

 Ivory looks the best for while, at $6 

 per 100 for choice. Maids, too, are oflf 

 color now. Liberty and Meteor are plen- 

 tiful and so are Bride, Golden Gate and 

 Kaiserin. These range in price from $3 

 to .$5 per 100. Some extra fine valley is 

 to be had at $2.50 per 100. 



Carnations are very small and fancy 

 Slock is liard to get. Colored stock is 

 very poor, white l^ing much better. The 

 Lawsons that come in are especially of 

 poor quality. The average price is $1.-50 

 per 100, but a few extras bring $2. 



The biggest overstock in the market 

 is sweet peas. These are sold very cheap 

 in big lots and they come in by the 

 thousands. A few good asters are in but 

 not enough to go around. Outdoor stock 

 is very plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



The growers are still busy benchinj; 

 chrysanthemums and replanting rose 

 houses. They report that the rainy 

 weather has interfered greatly with their 

 outdoor work. Quite a lot of building 

 is going on in Kirkwood, Webster Grove, 

 Old Orchard and in the southern part of 

 the city and all want to be through with 

 their work by convention time. 



William F. Kasting, who has been with 

 \is all of the last week attending the dem- 

 ocratic convention, left Saturday night 

 for Chicago. While here he visited 

 some of his old friends whom he knew 

 twelvp years ago when "Billy" worked 



for The Jordan Floral Company. He 

 also visited the World's Fair and the 

 Pike. He claims he had better luck than 

 his Chicago friends, Phil Hauswirth and 

 George Asmus, who were here a week 

 previous. Mr. Kasting predicts a great 

 convention next month and says that Buf- 

 falo will be on hand as big as ever. The 

 Kasting cup, which he will present to the 

 Florists' Bowling Association, will be 

 the finest ever competed for by the flor- 

 ists' bowling teams. 



A. L. Vaughan, wife and daughter 

 spent Friday in St. Louis at the exposi- 

 tion. Mr. Vaughan had a few moments 

 to spare to call on friends. They were 

 on their way back to Chicago to live, 

 after spending six months in the south. 



Paul Neuman, who has charge of the 

 Holy Name cemetery at Buffalo, is tak- 

 ing in the fair and visiting the different 

 cemeteries about the city. 



A. Berdan is sending to this market 

 the very best of lily of the valley, which 

 is handled by Frank Ellis.. The other 

 Kirkwood florists are sending in thou- 

 sands of sweet peas. Those of Pilcher, 

 the Tides, Gross and Winter are very 

 fine. John Connon, of Webster Grove, is 

 also sending in some good carnations and 

 sweet peas. 



Superintendent Kuehn reports that a 

 great deal of space is taken for the trade 

 display and as the convention is only 

 five weeks away those who contemplate 

 making an exhibit should make applica- 

 tion for space at once, so as not to de- 

 lay matters at the last moment. The 

 souvenir book is now in the hands of the 

 printer and will be ready for distribu- 

 tion by August 1. This will be one of 

 the handsomest books ever gotten out. 

 Messrs. Koenig, Ammann, Weber, Beyer, 

 Tesson and Ostertag, the other chairmen 

 of committees, are all hard at work to 

 make the convention a grand success. 



At the World's Fair the horticultural 

 features are now at their best. The 

 floral clock is attracting great crowds 

 of people daily. There are plants of new 

 varieties of cannas to be seen, also ev- 

 erything that is new in the plant line. 

 As to heat, we have it as cool as any 

 city during the month of August. Come 

 next month and be convinced. 



Bowling. 



Team No. 1 was badly beaten Monday 

 night, principally through 'the grand 



bowling of Charles Kuehn, he averaging 



211 per game. 



Team No. 1. 1st 2d 3d T'l 



Beneke 161 137 148 446 



Ellison 124 165 162 461 



Miller 156 155 125 436 



.Nteinhardt 136 138 128 402 



Ed. Gerlach 71 96 112 270 



Totals 637 691 678 2,018 



Team No. 2. Ist 2d 3d T'l 



Kuebn 167 210 257 634 



Beyer 187 140 128 40B 



Beneke, Jr 137 163 156 466 



Weber 151 122 128 390 



Weber, Jr 122 106 122 850 



Totals ...714 741 780 2,244 



C. C. Sanders and Theo. Miller left 

 Tuesday night to spend a few days in 

 Chicago, on business and pleasure. 



J. J. B. 



NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 



We are all getting ready and, cleaning 

 up for next season's business. Bnsi* 

 ncss is very quiet at the present time. 

 Good cut flowers of all kinds are scarce. 

 Peckham is cutting some fine gladioli 

 and sweet peas. All the florists report 

 the best season on bedding plants they 

 ever had. W. G. Kroeber is busy build- 

 ing his new greenhouse. 



The Florists' Club is to have an out- 

 ing on Friday, July 22, and a ^reat time 

 is expected. It was voted to invite the 

 florists who are not members to join 

 the party and help to make the outing 

 a great success. This is the club's first 

 attempt to have an outing, and we all 

 hope to make it a really good time. 

 Friends of the club have put up a purse 

 of $25 for a baseball game between ihe 

 store men and greenhouse men. E. H. 

 Chamberlain is manager and captain of 

 the store team, and Edw. Blum of the 

 greenhouse team. The greenhouse men 

 say they are going to put the st^jre team 

 out of business to square themselves for 

 the knocks they have had to take the 

 past season for the poor stuff they have 

 brought in for the store men to tnW. 

 There is also to be a fat men's race for 

 a box of cigars, and a hurdle race, be- 

 tween the clerks of W. P. Peiree ano E. 

 H. Chamberlain. A. B. HathaAvay las 

 challenged any of the members to climb 

 a greased pole, but as yet no one has 

 accepted. ' C. 



JOLIET, III. — ^A preliminary schedule 

 has been issued for the November flower 

 show. Copies may be had by address- 

 ing the Joliet Improvement Association. 



