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The Weekly Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 6, 1904. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market* 



The weather the past week was very 

 warm and the cut flower business dragged 

 somewhat. Complaints were general that 

 the trade was not what it was the week 

 previous, during the cold snap which we 

 had at that time. Saturday, opened the 

 fourth quarter of the year with brighter 

 prospects, and with cooler weather, which 

 the florists hope will remain with us 

 and make the last quarter of 1904 a 

 profitable one. Out in the west end a 

 number of florists have booked orders 

 for receptions, weddings and dinners for 

 this month. The Veiled Prophet's ball 

 Tuesday night made the demand for 

 choice flowers great, as it always does. 

 American Beauties had the call, with Me- 

 teor and Liberty next choice. 



The market has plenty of everything, 

 especially roses of the white and pink 

 varieties. Red rosea are somewhat scarce. 

 Perle had a great call on Saturday and 

 Sunday, owing to a golden jubilee of one 

 of the largest churches in the city. Choice 

 stock in the smaller Toses brings about 

 $6 to $8 per 100. Fancy Beauties are 

 quoted at $4 per dozen. Prices will be 

 somewhat higher this week owing to the 

 big demand for the sociaL affairs on for 

 this week. 



Many growers are sending in extra 

 fine blooms of Boston Market, Wolcott, 

 Joost and Enchantress. Most of these 

 bring $3, others from $1.50 to $2 per 

 100. Prospects for large quantities of 

 carnations of all kinds are very good. 



Cosmos is very fine and there is plenty 

 of it at 50 cents per 100. The warm days 

 of last week did the violets no good, as 

 they are still small and shriveled. The 

 price is 25 to 50 cents per 100. Lily 

 of the valley is fine, with fair demand 

 at $3 and $4 per 100. Tuberose stalks 

 are still coming in, but not in as large 

 lots as they have. Large lots ot 

 dahlias are in and sell cheap. White 

 and yellow sell the best and all they 

 bring is $2 per 100. All other outdooip 

 stock is over. Smilax is selling well at 

 15 cents per string. Asparagus Spren- 

 geri has a big call, also adiantum. 



Various Notes. 



We had with us last week J. E. Killen, 

 representing Wm. Bennie, of Toronto; 

 Judge Vesey, of Fort Wayne, Ind., and 

 Mr. an* Mrs. A. C. Canfield, of Spring- 

 field, 111. 



Young Mr. Peterson, son of J. A. 

 Peterson, of Cincinnati, is here selling 

 Pandanus Veitchii and Begonia Gloire 

 de Lorraine for Christmas delivery. 



Theodore Miller returned home Thurs- 

 day from his trip to Chicago, Fort 

 Wayne, New Castle and Joliet. He re- 

 ports royal treatment at all places vis- 

 ited. 



C. Young & Sons Co. the past week 

 sold $700 worth of orchids to the Em- 

 peror of China. The shipment will be 

 made this week. They are all being 

 packed in glass cases. 



The Ellison Floral Co. has had a busy 

 week. The decoration of the Dakota 

 building at the World's Fair was most 

 noteworthy. 



Tuesday was horticultural day at the 

 World's Fair and it was a grand affair. 

 The building was tastefully decorated 

 by Mr. Ussic, who is Mr. Hadkinson's 

 right hand man. Mr. Cowee's gladiolus 

 exhibit is still the attraction there. From 

 October 22 to 31 a special exhibition of 



chrysanthemum blooms will take place. 

 There are twelve classes to be shown. The 

 entries must be in the hands of Superin- 

 tendent Hadkinson not later than October 

 19. Quite a few entries are already in 

 and Mr. Hadkinson expects a large dis- 

 play on each of the ten days of the ex- 

 hibition. 



Henry Ostertag has a few large decora- 

 tions on for this week. Two of the larg- 

 est will be at Faust's on Tuesday night 

 and the Jefferson hotel on Thursday 

 night. 



The Beyers are decorating the Missouri 

 building for Missouri day, which takes 

 place next Tuesday. Other buildings, too, 

 are being decorated for the occasion by 

 this firm. 



The New York building at the World 's 

 Fair was beautifully decorated for Gov. 

 Odell 's grand ball, which took place Tues- 

 day night, and conflicted with the annual 

 Veiled Prophet's ball. 



Saturday, October 8, will be Chicago 

 day at the World's Fair and the florists 

 here hope for a large attendance of the 

 craft from that city to spend a day with 

 us. No doubt the Illinois building will 

 be handsomely decorated for the occa- 

 sion. 



The Florists ' Clul> members should not 

 forget to attend the meeting next Thurs- 

 day afternoon at 2 o'clo<£. President 

 Juengel has some very important bus- 

 iness to present. All convention com- 

 mittees are expected to make their final 

 reports. In point of membership and 

 finances the club has never been in better 

 condition and the members should rec- 

 ognize the fact and attend the meetings 

 regularly. The new oflScers are out to 

 m^e a record for themselves and the 

 regulars are in line to help them. The 

 trustees will have their list of essays 

 ready for the coming season. The trus- 

 tees of the club are Fred C. Weber, E. 

 W. Guy and Theodore Miller. 



C. Young & Sons Co. decorated the big 

 hall of the Merchants' Exchange for the 

 Veiled Prophet's ball. The decorations 

 exceeded all former efforts in this line. 

 Grand electrical effects were employed 

 and carloads of plants and wild smilax 

 were used. 



Bowling. 



The handicap series for the silver 



pitcher ended Monday night, O. R. Bene- 



ke winning with an average of 180, 



followed by F. C. Weber, with 168. The 



first four are all handicap men. The 



scores of the series are as follows: 



Player. He. Gm. T'l At. 



O. R. Beneke 20 12 2168 l80 



F. C. Weber 20 12 2026 168 



F. M. Ellis 20 15 2570 167 



Ed. Gerlach 45 15 2807 167 



A. Y. Ellison S 9 1490 166 



C. A. Kuehn S 15 2440 162 



F. H. Melnhardt 25 15 2440 162 



J. J. Beneke S 15 2430 162 



Carl Beyer S 10 1531 163 



Theo. Miller S 9 1271 141 



The Ladies' Bowling Club started its 

 season Monday afternoon at the St. 

 Louis Bowling Association alleys, where 

 they will meet every Thursday after- 

 noon during the season and every 

 month a theater party after the meet- 

 ing. A few games were rolled: 



Player. lat 2d 3d 4th T' 



Mrs. F. H. Melnhardt. 123 90 lOS 122 443 



MlBS T. Melnhardt 72 76 82 107 836 



Mrs. Bentzen 46 75 18 ... 169 



Miss I.. Melnhardt 76 106 68 87 336 



Miss B. Melnhardt 137 92 02 91 412 



Mrs. F. C. Weber 76 88 70 64 298 



Miss M. Scbnell 91 118 74 ... 288 



Mrs. J. J. Beneke 97 72 169 



Mrs. Steldel 60 60 



V. u. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Monday was the busiest day this mar- 

 ket has seen in many months and con- 

 ditions are materially better than they 

 were, all along the line. All the coun- 

 try buyers have been heard from regu- 

 larly for several weeks and now their 

 requirements have assumed considerable 

 size. St. Louis has been a very heavy 

 buyer in the last four or five days and 

 Detroit and Pittsburg have wanted 

 Beauties and choice roses. City trade 

 is also quite large, several large wed- 

 dings and funerals making a call for 

 much choice stock. 



The hot days last week had the ef- 

 fect of bringing on a big cut and a re- 

 turn to frosty temperatures on Sunday 

 caused an even swifter shortening up, so 

 that, with the heaviest demand of the sea- 

 son Monday and the following days found 

 a place in waiting for all good stock. 

 Long Beauties were particularly in de- 

 mand. Not all small roses are yet free 

 from mild9w nor have they all sufficient 

 stem to serve all purposes — ^but they all 

 found buyers. Chatenay is very abund- 

 ant but makes a handsome funeral 

 wreath, with adiantum, and is largely 

 used. 



The aster is gone and the carnation 

 has fallen heir to its following. There 

 are large receipts of good average qual- 

 ity. Regular requirements have used up 

 all the better grades and the 1000-lot 

 orders, for fall openings, special sales, 

 etc., have cleaned up the "our selec- 

 tion" grade of fair prices. 



Chrysanthemums are increasing in 

 numbers but, as demand is strong, qual- 

 ity is not improving very fast; most of 

 them are served quite rare. Violets are 

 not selling well although qualities are 

 good, considering the early date, and 

 prices reasonable. A few shipments from 

 the Hudson river district have already 

 reached this market. 



Cosmos is fine and a good seller at 

 three bunches for a dollar. Dahlias are 

 better than heretofore, and selling bet- 

 ter also, although not at high prices. 

 "Green goods" are in active demand. 

 Ferns have beg^n to go up in price. 



Variotis Notes. 



The George Wittbold Co. has its 

 decorative stock busily employed down 

 town, this week. They have big deco- 

 rations up at Field's, Stevens', the Hub 

 and Mandel's and other smaller jobs else- 

 where. At Field's they used 500 strings 

 of asparagus. Amling furnished it. 



W. J. Smyth had a busy day Tuesday, 

 with two large weddings and the Par- 

 melee funeral, for which he had a large 

 church decoration. For these obsequies 

 the notices read, "please omit flowers," 

 so that the trade in general got nothing 

 from it. 



Hugo Schroeter, of Detroit, was in 

 town Saturday, buying stock to be ship- 

 ped Monday for a big store opening. 

 He wanted a large lot of material, prin- 

 cipally long Beauties. £[e was here just 

 a year ago on the same errand and it 

 is worth recording that the Beauties 

 that were charged at $2.50 last year cost 

 him $3 a dozen this time. He said 

 stock looked good all around the mar- 

 ket. 



During the week E. E. Pieser, at Ken- 

 nicott's, has been showing sample 

 blooms of a seedling carnation raised by 

 a son of F. Stielow, at Niles Center. It 

 is cerise pink, large and fringed and 

 everyone thinks well of it. 



