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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOYBMBBB 17, 1004. 



American Beauties 



We have a fine crop of long: stem American 

 Beauties on for Thankssivinsf. Can supply 

 lar s:e orders on short notice* 



Fancy Roses and Fancy Girnations CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



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WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



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Mention The Review when yon write. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



Business the past week was extremely 



Siiiet, at least until Thursday; stock 

 eaned up fairly well the last of the 

 week. Mums were a glut and many 

 were sold at disgraceftS prices in order 

 to move them at all. No doubt some 

 of the commission men will blush when 

 tbey mail reports to growers. 



A Large Decoration. 



The event of the week was the Dar- 

 lington wedding. A. M. Murdoch had 

 this and made old Trinity church a vis- 

 ion of beauty. On each side of the 

 chancel were groups of palms and white 

 chrysanthemums, while in the chancel 

 proper were white mums and cattlevas 

 tied and looped with pale blue ribbon. 

 On the altar were bunches of lilies. Just 

 below the capitals of the pillars were 

 clusters of white mums tied with broad 

 blue ribbon and the pillars partly hid- 

 den with sprays of asparagus. The gal- 

 leries bore festoons of smilax and as- 

 paragus fastened with ribbon. At the 

 end of each pew in the center aisle was 

 the same arrangement of smilax and 

 narrow ribbon, while every fourth pew 

 bore a cluster of cattleyas. At tno Dar- 

 lington home the decorations wero not- 

 able. In the drawing room was an arch 

 of orchids. The mantels were banked 

 with cattleyas and Farleyense. The 

 library was done in American Beauties. 

 The hallway to the fourth floor was done 

 in yellow mum& The pink rose, Tom 

 Pield, was used in the lower dining room 

 and red roses in the upper. The bridal 

 table had a great dome of cattleyas and 

 Farleyense and directly beneath was a 

 large centerpiece of Bride roses, valley 

 and white orchids. The bridal bouquet 

 was of white orchids showered with den- 

 drobium blooms. The maid of honor 

 carried a bunch of vandas. The brides- 

 maids carried bouquets of cattleyas, the 

 flower girls carried baskets of valley. The 

 bouquets were not the regular shower 

 bouquets, but a beautiful and somewhat 

 similar effect produced with ribbons. 

 The whole decoration was much out of 

 the ordinary. 



Various Notes. 



L. I, Neff has a bench the length of 

 one of his houses in roseum lily which 

 is just coming in, and he expects to cut 

 for the next six weeks. They will come 

 ia handy when the mums are out of 

 the road. 



Jim Higgins was in a B. & O. \\Teck 



last week. The worst he got was a good 

 shaking up. Hoo-Hoo. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The florists' business during the past 

 week was fairly good. Winter weather 

 has arrived and made stock of all kinds 

 look much better and the wholesale 

 market much less crowded. Prices have 

 gone lip a little on carnations and roses. 

 Social work among the upper class is 

 still lacking, though up-town florists who 

 cater to this trade say that not until 

 the World's Fair closes will society en- 

 tertain home friends. Carnations are 

 not so good as one would like them to 

 be. Of the real first-class flowers the 

 percentage is as yet very small and, as 

 these are the only ones in demand, the 

 market may be called short in supply. 

 The price for fair stock is $3 per hun- 

 dred, $2 and $1.50 for the others. 



The rose stock is somewhat better in 

 quality and supply. Extra fancy are 

 $8 per hundred in Liberty, Carnot and 

 Meteor. No. 1 bring $6 and seconds are 

 sold at $2 to $3. Fancy American 

 Beauties are not so many at $4 per 

 dozen, but mediums are now $2 to $2.50, 

 shorts $6 to $8 per hundred. 



Chrysanthemums are still plentiful. 

 Extra fancy sell well at $3 per dozen, 

 second choice $1.50 to $2 per dozen, 

 small white and pink Ivory bringing $4 

 to $5 per hundred. It is said that chry- 

 santhemums will not average in price as 

 much as last season. 



Violets have advanced within the past 

 few days to 60 cents per hundred. The 

 cold weather has brought them better 

 color and longer stems and from now 

 on they will occupy their proper posi- 

 tion in the market. Lily of the valley 

 continues in good supply. Bomans and 

 Paper Whites demand $4 per hundred, 

 stock extra good. 



Everything points to a big demand for 

 Thanksgiving day and from reports stock 

 will be somewhat scarce with advanced 



prices. 



Various Notes. 



The World's Fair Flower Associa- 

 tion's big show the past week in the 

 Horticulture building was a great suc- 

 cess. The first two days the paid ad- 

 mission averaged over 6,000. Wednes- 

 day and Thursday the bad weather kept 

 many away and the attendance fell away 

 below the mark. Friday the crowd was 

 fairly large, but Saturday it was enor- 

 mous and Manager Hauswirth was all 

 smiles. President Breitmeyer, E. G. Hill, 



J. F. Ammann and James Hartshome 

 lent great assistance at the door on Sat- 

 urday, as the crowd was too large for 

 any two men to handle. The show did 

 a great deal of good to the local trade 

 and will no doubt be of g^eat benefit tp 

 the Florists' Club when it holds its an- 

 nual show next year. 



Martin Eeukauf, of Bayersdorf er *8, 

 and B. Esehner, of Rice & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, took in the big show and both 

 report a profitable stay in the city. 



The new white begonia, Tumf ord Hall, 

 exhibited by J. A. Peterson, of Cincin- 

 nati, was a decided novelty and is cer- 

 tainly of great commercial value. 



Belle Miller and her sister, of "Spring- 

 field, 111., spent Friday at the show look- 

 ing up new varieties in roses, carna- 

 tions and chrysanthemums. Miss MiUer 

 is sending to this market daily some ex- 

 tra fine stock which is handled by 

 Frank Ellis. 



Judge and Mrs. Vesey, of Fort Wayne, 

 were at the show and took many prizes 

 with their fine stock. It is handled in 

 this market by Charles Kuehn. 



Ostertag Bros, bought all of the Sie- 

 brecht & Son's exhibit in the conserva- 

 tory of the Horticulture building, which 

 was one of the largest exhibits in plants 

 at the World's Fair. Leo Ostertag made 

 the sale the past week during the flower 

 show. 



The meeting of the St. Louia Flor- 

 ists' Club on Thursday afternoon in the 

 Horticulture bmlding was not so well 

 attended as expected. No business of 

 any importance was transacted. This 

 was aU left over until the December 

 meeting. After the regular routine busi- 

 ness was disposed of they adjourned to 

 F. W. Taylor's oflSce where a meeting 

 of the visiting florists was held, Pjro? 

 Wm. Trelease presiding. 



George B. Windier, one of the prom- 

 inent members of the Florists' Club, is 

 to be married on Tuesday, November 22, 

 to Miss Anna Margaret May. The mem- 

 bers of the club I know are with me in 

 congratulating Miss May on her choice, 

 as no member of our craft has more 

 friends than George Windier. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Windier will be at home to their 

 friends on Thursdays after January 1, 

 at 4059 De Lore avenue. 



Wm. Kalisch, of the firm of Wm. 

 Kalisch & Sons, Delmar and Taylor ave- 

 nues, was painfully hurt on Saturday by 

 the street cars, which ran into his wagon 

 on his way to the World's Fair. From 

 reports of his son Monday morning, his 

 father ia resting easy, but it wifl be 

 two weeks before he will be able to at- 

 tend to business. j, j, g^ 



