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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEB 27, 1904. 



YOU are the JUDGE. If YOU are Looking for 



Chrysanthemums ! 



Or Other Flowers You can get wh^t 



You want at 



E. H. HINT, 



--76- 



Wabash Ave., 



Chicago, 



Mention The Review when you write. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Eeports in the cut flower trade are 

 becoming more encouraging each week. 

 Some pretty good-sized orders were made 

 up last week for weddings, receptions, 

 dinners and funerale. Over-the-counter 

 sales are as yet somewhat slow with the 

 uptown florists, although downtown they 

 are reported as fair. The windows of all 

 the stores are now mostly filled with 

 chrysanthemums, which are coming in 

 very freely and in consequence are low- 

 ering the prices of roses and carnations, 

 particularly roses. Nearly all flowers, 

 except carnations, have taken a decided 

 drop. The quality of the mums is very 

 good but prices realized are somewhat 

 lower than those of preceding seasons. 

 Extra high grade bring $3 per dozen. 

 Very good blooms can b^ bought for $15 

 per hundred. Polly Rose and Robinson 

 are best in white, with Bergmann next. 

 Some good Yellow Queens and Glory of 

 Pacific are seen today. There is a scar- 

 city of good pink so far this season. 



Roses, on the whole, are of very good 

 quality and plenty of them for the de- 

 mand. Extra fine stock is being bought 

 at from $4 to $5 per hundred; first and 

 second grades run $2 and $3. Bride 

 and Maid are most plentiful, and short 

 Beauties. Extra good Meteor and Lib- 

 erty are a little scarce. 



Carnations, too, are quite plentiful 

 and are holding up in price, $2.50 being 

 asked for fancy and 75 cents to $2 for 

 good stock, $1 for common. The best 

 pink is Lawson, though still with short 

 stems. Joost has good stems. Boston 

 Market, Hill and Wolcott are best in 

 white. Estelle is the only good red 

 just now. Enchantress is in big de- 

 mand when fancy. The violets are much 

 better in size and color with the cool 

 weather. The past week sales on them 

 were much better, 35 to 50 cents per 

 hundred being asked for the best. 



The season for cosmos, dahlias, tube- 

 roses and other outdoor flowers is about 

 ended. In greens the market is well 

 stocked. 



Variotis Notes. 



Visitors the past week were A. C. Can- 

 field and Mrs. Canfield, Springfield, 111.; 

 MrB. M. S. Vesey, Fort Wayne, Ind.; 

 W. H. Dreer, Philadelphia; P. J. Haus- 

 wirth and J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, and 

 Elmer D. Smith, Adrian, Mich. The 



latter three were down to arrange for 

 the World's Fair flower show next 

 month. 



H. F. Burt, of Taunton, Mass., has a 

 grand display of dahlias in the Horti- 

 culture building at the World's Fair. 

 Mr. Burt, who is here in person, says 

 that these roots were planted July 12 

 to 15 and this is the result. There are 

 nearly 100 varieties on exhibition and a 

 great attraction. 



The table" decorations in the china de- 

 partment of the Simmons Hardware Co. 

 drew many ladies Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day of last week. Ostertag Bros.' table 

 was for a stag affair, with gold fish pond 

 in the center and vase of pink pond lilies. 

 The corner of the room was decorated 

 with oak leaves which made a pretty ef- 

 fect. Miss M. S. Newman displayed good 

 taste in green and white with electrical 

 effects, using white orchids for the cen- 

 ter, very pleasing to the eye. C. Young 

 & Sons' and Mrs. Ellison's tables were 

 also much admired. Both were made 

 up of pink orchids and lily of the val- 

 ley. The tables all came in for their 

 share of praise from the large crowds 

 that passed in and out during the two 

 days that they were on exhibition. Each 

 visitor was furnished with a slip to cast 

 a vote for which he considered the best 

 table, with the result that Ostertag won 

 first prize. Miss Newman second. Young 

 & Sons third and Ellison Floral Co. 

 fourth. 



On Thursday night a number of flor- 

 ists, nurserymen and seedsmen met at 

 F. M. Ellis' place to discuss the World's 

 Fair flower show with the executive com- 

 mittee of the association, who were here 

 for a day making arrangements regard- 

 ing the great show with the World's 

 Fair officials. Everything is satisfac- 

 torily arranged, so as to go ahead with 

 the plans that were laid out in Chicago. 

 A fund of $600 was guaranteed by those 

 present. A committee was appointed to 

 co-operate with the national committee, 

 as follows: J. J. Beneke, Frank M. 

 Ellis and Fred H. Meinhardt. A spe- 

 cial meeting of the Florists' Club was 

 held Saturday night. It was decided to 

 abandon the proposed chrysanthemum 

 exhibition in the club rooms November 

 10, owing to the big show. Additional 

 subscriptions to the guarantee fund were 

 made, bringing the local total above 

 $1,000. The work of the association 

 was endorsed and the members will do 



Adiantum 

 Cuneatum, 



From 2-inch pots, fine, healthy 

 plants, ready for a shift. 



$3.00 per hundred, 

 $25.00 per thousand. 



Just ready to plant ont 

 for cutting tills winter. 



The Geo. 

 Wittbold Co. 



1667 -less 



Bnoklngham Place, 



CHICAGO. 



Mention The Review when yog wrtfe. 



all in their power to make the show a 

 grand success. The next meeting of the 

 local club will be held Thursday after- 

 noon, November 10, and all visitors here 

 for the big show are invited to attend 

 the afternoon meeting, J. J. B. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



Business is showing considerable im- 

 provement, not that the aggregate sales 

 foot up any higher, but the demand is 

 much heavier and in many cases can not 

 be met. Were it not for that fact sales 

 would be much larger. What caused the 

 increased demand it is hard to tell, but 

 it is likely due to the colder weather 

 which we are now having. Still there 

 has been no killing frost and outdoor 

 flowers are still nicely in bloom. Sev- 

 eral large funerals have also helped the 

 market greatly. 



There is a good supply of roses of al- 

 most all kinds, but the best of this stock 

 is quickly bought up. Beauties are in 

 very good demand, with prices advancing. 

 All kinds of roses are of better quality 

 and consequently bring better returns. 

 Carnations are plentiful one day and 

 scarce the next, with the demand fairly 

 good. Mums are not quite so plentifuL 



