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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



September 29, 1904. 



All interested in the formation of the 

 Mew York Florists' Bowling Club are 

 requested to meet October 7 at the bowl- 

 ing alleys, Twenty-third street, near 

 Sixth avenue, and at 7:30 so that officers 

 may be elected and all preliminaries com- 

 pleted before the evening's bowling. An 

 evening will be selected satisfactory to 

 the majority and matches arranged with 

 neighboring clubs, so that a greater in- 

 terest may be developed. 



Two members of the New York Flor- 

 ists' Club passed away last week, J. B. 

 Hyatt, of Winfield, L. I., and John 

 Kickert, of Weehawken, N. J. Mr. 

 Hyatt was formerly a member of the 

 firm of T. B. Hyatt & Son, nurserymen, 

 and Mr. Rickert a prominent grower 

 whose early death is mourned by a large 

 circle of relatives and friends. The sym- 

 pathies of the trade are extended to the 

 bereaved families. 



L. J. Kreshover tells some very in- 

 teresting experiences of his European 

 trip, especially those of Paris and the 

 Tyrolean Alps. His knowledge of French 

 and German made the journey one of 

 perfect delight. Many novelties for the 

 supply trade will attest the combination 

 of business with pleasure. He met Wm. 

 Burns, the florist of Sixth avenue, in 

 Switzerland unexpectedly and their mu- 

 tual delight as foreign travelers can be 

 imagined. 



Mr. Burnham, at Bloomingdale 's, has 

 one of the finest retail florists' stores in 

 the city and greenhouse facilities on the 

 roof that more than double his former 

 capacity. Eeception rooms, decorations 

 and the best plants in the market will 

 give him encouragement to develop an 

 immense business as compared with any 

 other department store. The maintain- 

 ing of right prices under his management 

 has commended him to the good will of 

 the legitimate florists and demonstrated 

 the possibility of conducting the work, 

 even where department store methods in 

 all other lines prevail, so as not to make 

 this special department a menace to the 

 retail florist. 



The dahlia and canna exhibit at the 

 rooms of the New York Florists' Club 

 October 10 should maintain the interest 

 in these special nights, which, under the 

 presidency of Mr. Traendly, have added 

 so largely to the attendance and made it 

 a record year to date. 



The Mineola Fair last week was the 

 greatest Long Island has ever seen. The 

 fruit and flower exhibits have never been 

 equaled there. John Lewis Childs' great 

 pyramid of palms, ferns and decorative 

 plants called for special commendation. 

 An attendance of over 100,000 for the 

 week attests the popularity of the ex- 

 hibition. J. Austin Shaw. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The cut flower season is opening fast 

 and the general opinion among the store 

 men is that trade is expanding steadily 

 and confidence increases. The lower 

 temperature stimulates the demand for 

 work of all kinds in the florists' line. 

 While there is no great amount of busi- 

 ness to report, a marked improvement 

 for the past two weeks is noticed. Quite 

 a number of social events came the 

 past week, including early fall weddings 

 and fall openings in the large down- 

 town stores, adding very much to the 



demand for cut flowers and decorative 

 plants. 



Saturday we had quite a heavy rain, 

 which was very much needed by the 

 growers, who report that nearly every- 

 thing is housed and they are working 

 on boilers and heating apparatus, so as 

 to be ready for the first cold snap, as 

 frost is predicted for this week. The 

 plant trade is picking up and there is 

 a good call for kentias and other palms, 

 also Boston ferns. Of the latter, Mr. 

 Felter, on Lexington avenue, has some 

 of the finest seen in a long time. 



Stock at the commission houses is of 

 fair quality, but first-class material 

 rather scarce and plenty of the second 

 grade at cheap prices. In roses, first- 

 class American Beauties are very scarce 

 at $3 per dozen, shorts from 75 cents 

 to $1.50 per dozen, culls $3 and $4 per 

 100. Bride, Maid, Carnot, Meteor and 

 Kaiserin run $4, $5 and $6 per 100 for 

 the best, $2 and $3 for seconds. The 

 house-grown carnations are still short in 

 stem, with fair flowers. Bisr lots of 

 JVIrs. Fisher from the field were in last 

 week. Outdoor stock brings 50 and 75 

 cents per 100, house-grown from $1 to 

 $2 per 100. The demand is very large 

 just now. 



Violets made their appearance the 

 past week. They are, of course, small 

 and shriveled and hardly good enousrh 

 for counter sales. The wholesalers de- 

 manded 25 and 35 cents j>er 100. with 

 slow sales. Good valley had some de- 

 mand last week, owing to several large 

 wedding.^. The stock is of good quality, 

 at $3 and $4 per 100. Quite a lot of 

 tuberose spikes came in on Saturday, 

 Avhich sold clean at $4 per 100. Asters, 

 hydrangeas and gladioli are over and 

 only a few of these come in. Cosmos 

 has not yet come in quantity. Adian- 

 tum is scarce. Other greens are plenti- 

 ful. 



Various Notes. 



C. Young & Sons Co. report business 

 very good, especially in shipping orders, 

 which were quite heavy recently. 



Beyer Bros, are busy potting up their 

 chrysanthemums from the field. They 

 expect to have a fine lot of market 

 plants this year, also single-stemmed 

 plants. 



C. C. Sanders is also very busy with 

 his chrysanthemum plants, of which he 

 wnll have a fine lot in both cut blooms 

 and plants. Other stock at his place is 

 looking at its best. 



The trustees of the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Garden gave their fifteenth annual 

 banquet on Thursday night at the Buck- 

 ingham Club, which brought together 

 one of the most distinguished bodies of 

 scientists ever assembled in this coim- 

 try. The banquet is provided for in the 

 will of the late Henry Shaw. This 

 banquet is generally held early in 

 spring, but on account of so many dis- 

 tinguished men attending the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Arts and Science? at 

 the World's Fair, it was postponed un- 

 til they all arrived. The giiests num- 

 bered nearly 200. Winfield S. Chaplin. 

 Chancellor of Washington University, 

 officiated as toastmaster. A number of 

 informal speeches were made during the 

 evening. 



Theo. Miller and young Mr. Kalish 

 acted as judges during the four days of 

 registration last week. Theo. will now 

 be knoM'n as Judge Miller. His place 

 is stocked up with a nice lot of plants 



of all kinds and business is steadily 

 improving in cut flowers. 



The Riessen Floral Co. has been very 

 busy of late with theatre work, also 

 decorations. They expect again to fur- 

 nish the decorations for the Veiled 

 Prophet's ball, which will be held next 

 week Tuesday at the Merchants' Ex- 

 change. The decorations are usually 

 very large and attractive. 



Frank M. Ellis is giving his place a 

 fresh coat of paint and is making big 

 preparations for the fall trade, which is 

 now upon us. He repoilts excellent 

 trade, both shipping and local. 



At C. A. Kuehn's a fine line of sup- 

 plies can be seen. Mr. Kuehn has a 

 large lot of consignors who will have a 

 fine lot of cut blooms for this season. 

 He reports trade good in all lines, wire 

 work, supplies and cut stock. 



Henry Berning has laid in an extra 

 supply of florists' goods of all kinds. 

 Stock at this place is also very plenti- 

 ful and trade good in all its branches. 

 Mr. Berning is looking for a big trade 

 this winter. 



Theo. Miller left Sundav night for a 

 fhort trip to Chicago and Fort Wayne, 

 Ind., on both business and pleasure. 



Robert Beyer, Geo. Windier, J. J. 

 Beneke, Theo. Miller, J. Kalish and Emil 

 Schray will all serve as judges at the 

 coming fall election. 



Bowline. 



The bowling season has opened and 

 the florists will again be in the game 

 every Monday night. A. Y. Ellison will 

 this year roll with the Rosedales and 

 Kuehn and Beneke with the Jewelers. 

 Carl Beyer will again roll with the 

 Western Bowling Club. 



Tbe florists are still rolling for the 



silver cup, which will end next Monday 



night. "Those who have handicaps are 



all in the lead. The following are 



scores up to date for the prize: 



Name. No. games. Total. Averagp. 



O. R. Beneke 6 10.32 172 



Ed. GerlBcli 9 15.3.'> 171 



F. C. Weber 9 1524 169 



F. M. Ellis 9 1610 IftS 



A. Y. Ellison 9 1490 166 



F. H. Melnhardt 9 1443 16<i 



J. J. Beneke 9 1440 160 



0. A. Kuehn 9 1403 1,56 



Theo. Miller 6 817 136 



Carl Beyer 5 715 143 



Only seven members rolled Monday 

 night. O. R. Beneko still leads. The fol- 

 lowing scores were made: 



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



Carl Beyer . . . . S 144 219 175 53S 



O. R. Beneke. .20 171 209 157 537 



C. A. Kuehn S 169 190 180 639 



Ed Gerlach 45 203 130 184 517 



F. H. Melnhardt. 25 173 177 152 602 



F. M. Ellis 20 163 170 157 490 



.7. J. Beneke S 170 145 170 485 



J. J. B. 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Magazine. 



The way to grow good pentstemons. 

 with huge spikes, massive bells, and 

 abundance of foliage, is to make a se- 

 lection of varieties, seedlings, if good 

 enough (but they never are from an 

 ordinary packet of seed), insert the cut- 

 tings at the right time, root them prop- 

 erly, encourage them to grow freely 

 away in spring, and never allow a check. 

 Stunted plants cannot produce bells two 

 and a half inches in diameter, and yet 

 these are the kind of blooms I aim at, 

 and produce. 



Am WELi, pleased with the Review, 

 particularly with Mr. Scott's notes. — 

 H. HuEBNER) Groton, Mass, 



