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The Weekly Florists^ Review 



Sbptembeb 15, 1904. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



Trade in general was not active the 

 past week, slow in everything except 

 funeral work. Some were very busy 

 with large designs. Labor day did not 

 bring much, nor did the opening of the 

 public schools. Transient trade has be- 

 gun with the down-town retailers and 

 the general revival of business is looked 

 for soon. Stock seems to be improving 

 every day, especially during the few cool 

 days, but most of the retailers are very 

 conservative regarding their purchases. 



Roses are very plentiful, though a cer- 

 tain proportion at short-stemnied stock 

 is in the market. It is usually very 

 good in flower. Prices on choice Brides, 

 Maids, Meteors and Perles are from $4 

 to $5 per 100. Short stock is sold very 

 cheap, in 1,000 lots as low as $8. First- 

 class carnations are still short in supply, 

 although plenty of field-grown stock is 

 in the market. Short-stemmed stock 

 with good flowers and long-stemmed stock 

 with poor flowers are hard to dispose 

 of. All they, bring is about .$1 per 100. 

 A few of the best bring $1.50 to $2. 

 Good valley is hard to sell in this mar- 

 ket just now. AiSters are still abun- 

 dant and good stock can be bought for 

 $1 per 100. Extra large whice and pur- 

 ple bring $2. 



Thousands of. gladioli are being 

 brought over from Sie Cowee farm near 

 Belleville and sold to the west end hotels 

 cheaper than the retail florists can buy 

 tLem. The flowers are being used for 

 table decorations. This is not much to 

 the liking of the west end florists, who 

 claim it hurts their trade. To some ex- 

 tent the flowers bring 3 cents a stalk 

 at wholesale houses. Tuberose stalks are 

 very plentiful at 2 cents. Clematis pani- 

 culata sells well for funeral work. Some 

 cosmos is in but not in sufficient quantity 

 to go around. In the line of greens, 

 adiantum has some demand. 



Qub Meeting. 



September 8 the club held its first 

 meeting since the convention, also the 

 most enthusiastic held this year. When 

 the president called for order thirty mem- 

 bers were present. All committee re- 

 ports impressed the members favorably, 

 especially that of C. A. Kuehn, who was 

 superintendent of the trade display dur- 

 ing the convention. Two new applica- 

 tions for membership were made, by W. 

 A. Chalfant, of Springfield, Mo., and 

 Andrew Olsen, of St. Louis. This makes 

 the necessary two to make up 100 mem- 

 bers, which was promised before the new 

 president was installed. 



The installation of the new officers 

 took place. Messrs. Ammann and Weber 

 were the installing officers. With a few 

 well chosen rfemarks, Mr. Juengel took 

 the chair. Then Vice-President Pilcher, 

 Secretary Schray, Treasurer Meinhardt 

 and the trustees, Messrs. Weber, Miller 

 and Guy, were duly installed. 



The question of a flower show at the 

 World's Fair in the Horticulture build- 

 ing was turned down and the club will 

 not have anything to do with the proposi- 

 tion. There was quite a lively tilt over 

 some questions from the box, after which 

 the meeting adjourned. 



Mr. Juengel notified the members that 

 a supper was awaiting them at the 

 Michalob restaurant, at which nearly all 

 the members sat down to a flue spread. 



After supper speeches were made by J. 

 F. Ammann, Theo. Miller, 13. W. Guy, 

 C. A. Juengel and ex-President Beneke. 

 The next meeting will be held Thursday 

 afteriioon, October 13. 



Various Notes. 



H. J. Venn, of 'Canton, 111., called last 

 week, as did James Colbert, of Bossville, 

 lU. 



Charlie Ford, of Philadelphia, got in 

 Saturday to take in the fair, not having 

 had time during the convention. 



Mr. and Mrs. Phil Hauswirth, of Chi- 

 cago, spent Friday and Saturday in St. 

 Louis on their way to St. Joseph to at- 

 tend the Ked Men's convention. 



J. F. Windt reports trade very good 

 since he completed his new show house, 

 which is very attractive. 



H. Weber & Sons, at Gardenville, Mo., 

 report a large amount of orders to fill 

 for fall delivery in nursery stock. 



A. Jablonsky, at Wellston, has almost 

 completed his new range of houses, which 

 will be used for growing carnations for 

 the trade. 



•John Steidle in the same neighborhood 

 is also in good shape for the coming 

 season, with fine carnation plants. His 

 violets, too, are looking fine. 



J. W. Dunford, also a close neighbor 

 to the above two, is making great prep- 

 arations for the winter season. The car- 

 nations and violets grown here are much 

 looked after by the local trade. 



Bowling. 

 The bowling for the silver water 

 pitcher is becoming very interesting. 

 Eddie Gerlach now leads, with Frank 

 Ellis second and Ellison third. The fol- 

 lowing scores were made Monday night: 



Player. He. Ist 2d 3d T'l 



C. A. Knehn 8 186 204 160 660 



Ed: Gerlach 45 ISa 161 202 633 



Meinhardt 25 165 168 178 611 



ElUson S 179 169 161 600 



O. B. Beneke 20 176 138 190 604 



ElUa 20 20O 160 136 496 



F. O. Weber 20 129 170 168 467 



Beneke S 166 152 147 466 



Miller S 131 128 168 428 



Beyer S 164 161 ... 306 



J. J. B. 



Credit to AH. 

 Much praise has been bestowed on the 

 management of Forest park from vari- 

 ous sources on account of vast improve- 

 ments in the condition of the park this 

 year. While it is an undeniable fact 

 that each and every man connected with 

 the park has done his best to beautify the 

 same, credit should be placed where it 

 belongs. Robert Aull is park commis- 

 sioner. Andrew Meyer, Jr., general su- 

 perintendent of public parks, is the 

 guiding spirit. John Ratchford as keep- 

 er, George Ostertag as overseer, and 

 John Moritz, as general gardener, are in- 

 trusted with the fulfillment of all park 

 duties. George Ostestao. 



NOETH Adams, Mass. — A. H. Darling 

 is planning the erection of an additional 

 house. 



LoDA, Iiiii. — The Loda Greenhouses are 

 erecting 6,000 square feet of glass, up- 

 to-date in every respect. 



ITlkhart, Ind. — Sarah S. Seele, daugh- 

 ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Seele, died 

 September 7, aged 20 years. Mr. Seele 

 is gardener to Hon. C. G. Conn. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. — Emilio Ruotolo, of 

 246 Mott street, New York, is building 

 four greenhouses, 17x72, one 10x78, of- 

 fice, etc., on Sixty-ninth street, near 

 Twentieth avenue. 



BUFFALO. 



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* . r^' ^ QatfexA Comment. ^ 



There is . n0 w-eat event w«^hy of 

 special mention. No prominent member 

 of society of late has "kicked the buck- 

 et" but lots of good souls have" "shuf- 

 fled off this mortal coil," which has 

 helped along general business. I believe 

 the man who first said * ' mortal coil ' ' was 

 William of Avon. What faith, what mar- 

 velous philosophy, for the age (the 

 fifteenth century) in which he lived. 

 Skeptics and free thinkers believe that 

 this avoirdupois is all there is of life, 

 but Shakespeare believed that the corp- 

 oral body was a coil or medium for the 

 soul to rise upwards and bnwards. If 

 we all had the intellect of the immortal 

 bard we could not look up and admire 

 him so. Things are, as I have had be- 

 fore the pleasure to remark, just ex- 

 actly right and if they are not, who is 

 going to do itf 



Mr. Jeffords, of Corfu, sold out his 

 three houses and one acre of land to Le 

 Roy Adams: ' Mr. Adams has been rent- 

 ing the greenhouses of Mrs. Tyrell and 

 was so successful that he was able to 

 buy out Mr. Jeffords. Mr. Jeffords 

 thinks of bu3dng ten acres in the neigh- 

 borhood of Medina, near Ontario's shore, 

 and erecting a small but model plant. 



Mrs. L. Bantam Ostrich, of Richville, 

 Genesee county, the famous aster grower, 

 lost her favorite tame crow last week. She 

 regrets this exceedingly, as she believes 

 that Pompey (the crow) picked off a 

 good many bugs. 



Mr. Ficuslarger Vodskii, lately from 

 Poland, has purchased two acres of land 

 on the eastern border of the city and 

 will erect several thousand feet of glass. 

 His specialties will be rubbers, but he 

 does not expect a brisk market for them 

 until sloppy weather begins. 



Seriously, there is nothing very impor- 

 tant to say. Anderson has his much im- 

 proved store about finished and it's a 

 beauty. 



The William Scott Co. embellished the 

 club house at the Kenilworth race track 

 for the fall meeting and in addition to 

 the moderate price charged, it inclilded 

 a daily pass. "You just ought to see 

 the six boys and the old man fuss over 

 that pass. For the land's sake won't 

 you ever get sense t Child, you ain't no 

 man 1 * ' — Mrs.* S. 



Lewis H. Neubeck has a splendid lot 

 of Begonia Lorraine and Louie 's place is 

 always most attractive. He is on the 

 road, that is his place is, to the General 

 Hospital and as most everybody nowa- 

 days has to go to the hospital to have 

 his vermiform appendix cut out, and as 

 all you can send a patient newly out of 

 the anesthetics is flowers, why, Louis does 

 well. So large is his business in this 

 specialty that he has ready-made what 

 he calls his vermiform bouquet. It is in 

 the form of a pork sausage and of all 

 sizes to suit ages and any flavor you 

 choose. 



At Toronto. 



As usual with pleasure and gratitude 

 we journeyed to the beautiful city above 

 mentioned to pass our opinion on the 

 cut flowers and designs at Canada 's great 

 fair. How great will best be judged when 

 it is known that Monday, September 5, 

 there were 130,000 people in the 

 grounds. We were listening to the band 

 of the Forty-second Black Watch High- 



