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September 1, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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use up. All they bring is $2 per 100. 

 Good long smilax and asparagus are plen- 

 tiful. 



Various Notes. 



Most of the S. A, F. delegates have 

 now left the city for home. Harry Pap- 

 worth, of New Orleans, and A. H. Lang- 

 jahr and wife, of New York, left Satur- 

 day. Eobert Craig, of Philadelphia, and 

 a few others are still holding out, taking 

 In all the sights at the World's Fair 

 before returning home. 



Chas. C. Young has returned from At- 

 lantic City, N. J., where he spent two 

 weeks during his vacation. 



Kobert and Carl Beyer have had a busy 

 week of it, arranging Lemp's park for 

 the annual gathering of the St. Louis 

 Schwabenverein, which opened Sunday. 

 The decorations, including the large col- 

 umn of vegetables in different shapes, 

 was a sight well worth seeing. 



The general entertainment committee 

 met at Frank Ellis' store on Thursday of 

 last week to settle all bills for the con- 

 vention. Treasurer Koenig was on hand 

 with his checkbook and a full report can 

 be made at the next regular meeting of 

 the club. 



Charlie Kuehn has laid in an extra fine 

 lot of supplies of all kinds, especially in 

 the basket line. 



Frank Ellis is receiving daily a fine 

 lot of asters and lily of the valley, which 

 are selling well. 



Henry Ostertag had twenty-two auto- 

 mobiles to decorate on Saturday for the 

 floral parade at the World's Fair. 



The Florists ' Club meeting next Thurs- 

 day afternoon, September 8, is of great 

 importance to all the members. A full 

 report is expected from all the chairmen 

 of the convention committees, also the su- 

 perintendent of traae display. The pres- 

 ident has appointed ex-Presidents Am- 

 mann and Dunford to take charge of the 

 installation ceremonies for the new oflS- 

 cers. President-elect Juengel has a big 

 surprise in store for the members when 

 he takes his seat. He will be ably assist- 

 ed this year by Vice-President Pilcher, 

 Treasurer Meinhardt and the new trus- 

 tees, Messrs. Weber, Guy and Miller. 

 The only old officer holding office is Sec- 

 retary Schray. 



The display of McCray florists' refrig- 

 erators by the Standard Scale & Fixture 

 Co., their representatives here, were the 

 only ice boxes on exhibition in the trade 

 display. They report a number of or- 

 ders taken during the convention. 



The reason our convention was such a 

 great success is that we had the Lord 

 with us. in fact two of them. J. P. Lord, 

 of Lord & Bumham, and L. P. Lord, the 

 paper box man, from Minnesota. 



From August 27 to September 7 there 

 will be a special display of asters in the 

 Horticulture building at the World's 

 Fair. There are seven classes and from 

 the entries the exhibition promises to be 

 large. Superintendent Hadkinson is also 

 receiving entries for the dahlia exhibition, 

 which opens September 17 and closes Sep- 

 tember 27. Entries for these close Sep- 

 tember 14. 



Bowling. 



It was decided by the bowlers to play 

 a series of twenty games for the silver 

 water pitcher which the team won in the 

 convention tournament. Every man who 

 enters must roll at least sixteen games 

 to qualify. The first series will be rolled 

 September 5. Two teams rolled a friendly 

 match last Monday, with scores as fol- 

 lows: 



The market does not improve as yet 

 and the general opinion is that the first 

 signs of returning life need not be antici- 

 pated before the first of October. In the 

 meantime everything is being put in 

 ship-shape for the revival. Stores are 

 being repaired anu lepainted. New fronts 

 are going in and a general air of enter- 

 prise is perceptible everywhere. Outdoor 

 stock shows evidence of the clearer 

 weather and is very abundant. Glodioli 

 seem to hold well at 50 cents per 100. 

 Asters have declined in value and dahlias 

 are apparently unlimited in quantity and 

 beauty. 



Various Notes. 



Business enterprise in the wholesale 

 line shows no retrograde movement. The 

 march, like that of Japan, goes forward. 

 Twenty-eighth street gives further evi- 

 dence of youthful vigor. The Youngs 

 are more and more in evidence. John 

 Young, Young & Nugent and Thos. 

 Young, Jr., now see the quartette of 

 wholesalers completed by the opening of 

 the store of A. L. Young & Co., at 54 

 West Twenty-eighth street. This must 

 be "a name to conjure with." 



President Traendly was so pleased with 

 St. Louis that he brought a souvenir back 

 with him in the shape of a case of hay 

 fever, the dark colored air of the Fair 

 city being a little too shady for the lungs 

 of the average New Yorker. Traendly 

 & Schenck are handling some^ grand 

 Chatenay and Golden Gate this week. 



Young & Nugent are busy completing 

 their new front and will have one of the 

 best stores in the street when all the im- 

 provements aie finished. Arthur Dacre, 

 of this house, leaves next Monday for a 

 two weeks' vacation at Moose Head 

 Lake, Me. 



J. K. Allen will be home on Thursday 

 of this week and Miss Reilly, the faith- 

 ful bookkeeper and manager during his 

 absence in Europe, will start on a well 

 earned holiday on Saturday. Her out- 

 ing will include a week in the Adiron- 

 dacks and possibly a visit to the World's 

 Fair. 



Mrs. Charles Smith, of Woodside, left 

 for her old home in Scotland on Satur- 

 day, by the Lucania, contemplating a 

 six months' visit amid the scenes of her 

 childhood. 



The new greenhouses of the Hinodc 

 Florist Co., at Whitcstone, are nearly 

 completed and their size and facilities 

 will be a surprise to visitors, as well as 

 the quaint Japanese plants which are to 

 be seen there the year around in innu- 

 merable quantity and great variety. 



Chas. Lenker is building at Freeport. 



John Scott is much elated with the suc- 

 cess and reception of Scottii at the con- 

 vention. 



Aithur Boddington was more than 

 pleased with the practical cordiality of 



his reception at the S. A. F. convention. 

 Occupying the same store in which he 

 began business, and with many of the old 

 familiar faces abound him, it is hard to 

 realize he ever left it. 



Patrick O 'Mara returned Monday from 

 his mountain outing in the Berkshire hills 

 with his sister and cousins, where he 

 spent the week succeeding the conven- 

 tion. He shows, with commendable 

 pride, the "spare" piize won in the St. 

 Louis bowling contest and is enthusiastic 

 as to the founding of a New York club 

 early in the fall that can supply material 

 for first honors in the tournament next 

 year at Washington. Evidently he 

 thinks it will be the early birds who will 

 drink from the silver cup in 1905. 



Elliott was reshipping his first consign- 

 ment of 100 cases of Holland bulbs on 

 Monday. His auctions begin September 

 15, with a general line of palms, bulbs, 

 etc. 



Stumpp & Walter Co. leport a con- 

 stant increase in business. A fine stock 

 of freesia bulbs are much in demand and 

 going fast. 



H. H. Berger & Co. report the arrival 

 of their Dutch bulbs in splendid condi- 

 tion, hyacinths and tulips being of bet- 

 ter quality than in several years. They 

 are so busy they are working nights. 

 Their consignment of kentia seeds will 

 arrive the last of October. 



Mr. Wittpen, of McHutchison & Co., 

 arrived in New York Monday on the 

 Kaiser Wilhelm. 



Cleary's horticultural hall opens 

 Thursday, September 8, and thereafter 

 every Tuesday and Friday the auctions 

 continue. The first week in October Mr. 

 Cleary conducts the sale at Robert Craig 

 & Son's, in Philadelphia. September 15 

 the auction of Charles Bird's nursery 

 stock at Arlington, N. J., begins. 



Dr. Britton, of the New York Botani- 

 cal Garden, is enjoying a month's tour 

 in the Bahamas. 



G)nvention Reflections. 



The last of the eastern invaders has 

 returned from the wild and woolly west 

 and the geneial opinion still seems to be, 

 there is only one New York. But the 

 acknowledgment of a delightful visit to 

 the great Fair city, the convention and 

 the exposition is universal. Everybody 

 has only good things to say of the grand 

 hospitality of the St. Louis florists, the 

 faithful and earnest devotion shown by 

 all to the best interests of the visiting 

 brethren and sisters, and the wonderful 

 skill and unanimity of the St. Louis la- 

 dies of the St. Louis club in their ex- 

 cellent management of every detail en- 

 trusted to their care. 



For high class exhibits, unfailing in- 

 terest and commendable harmony the 

 convention of 1904 goes on record as 

 one of the lifetime memories. To those 

 who remained over to enjoy the Fair, 

 the heat and the cyclones, there were ex- 

 periences never to be forgotten. That 

 any florist within a thousand miles of 

 St. Louis missed the convention is a mys- 

 tery to those who attended. More and 

 more these yearly conventions demon- 

 strate their value as reunions, cementers 

 of friendships, fraternal love feasts with- 

 out which the S. A. F. would disinte- 

 grate. Exhibits, sports, receptions, es- 

 says upon subjects of universal interest 

 and a disposition to do the things that 

 make for the greatest good to the great- 

 est number; these are the foundations 

 of the continuance of the society, so dear 

 to all of us. Long may it prosper. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



