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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



December 8, 1904. 



tions. The market is well cleaned up on 

 them. 



J. D. Thompson says he already has 

 over 30,000 carnation cuttings in the 

 sand. 



StoUery Bros, will have a goodly 

 number of azaleas and considerable bulb- 

 ous stock in pans for Christmas. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers are having their regular 

 weekly contests and the attendance each 

 Tuesday evening, at Thompson's alleys, 

 is very large. 



Following are the scores made Tues- 

 day evening, December 6: 



Wlntersons. 1st 2d 3d 



Scott 163 152 142 



Pruner 118 132 ... 



Hagge 151 138 135 



Wlnterson 129 95 124 



Stevens 148 192 187 



Totals 709 709 587 



Lambros. Ist 2d 3d 



Lambros 168 146 146 



Huebner 131 118 152 



Benekos 135 158 166 



Matlas 117 93 108 



Venson 194 J^ 245 



Totals T745 641 807 



HauBwlrths. Ist 2d 3d 



P J. Hauswlrth 120 178 135 



KreltUntr 187 125 113 



Klunder . . 113 137 121 



Balluff ^ _192 138 



Totals 589 632 607 



Asmua. Ist 2d 3d 



Bergman 159 1.S6 131 



Pasternlck 137 135 117 



Buxton 130 129 128 



Asmua ._^3 _W9 _1^ 



Totals 619 559 544 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Only fair business can be reported 

 since Thanksgiving, but the cold weather 

 and approaching holidays should stimu- 

 late the retail trade greatly the next 

 few weeks. The supply of stock at the 

 commission houses has improved greatly 

 and there is plenty of first class mate- 

 rial to fill any size order without much 

 trouble. The weather has been some- 

 what cold and cloudy since the closing 

 of the World 's Fair. On that day, Fran- 

 cis day, a number of large orders were 

 filled. President Francis received a large 

 number of great bunches of American 

 Beauties from friends in the different 

 departments. Every comer of his office 

 was filled with flowers. This marked 

 the closing of the great Louisiana Pur- 

 chase Exposition, which did a great deal 

 of good for all the local florists. 



Holly and ground pine wreathing 

 have made their appearance. A great 

 many store fronts are putting on a holi- 

 day attire this early. Many orders are 

 in for wreathing and holly and a heavy 

 demand for both is expected from now 

 on. Our wholesalers report a heavy de- 

 mand for paper bells this year. 



On looking over the stock at the whole- 

 sale markets Monday morning, I find a 

 fine supply of Bride, Maid, Perle, Meteor, 

 Liberty, Camot and Gate, which have 

 come down in price a little since Thanks- 

 giving. Beauties in the long fancy 

 grades are not over-plentiful. Mediums 

 and shorts are rather plentiful and de- 

 mand good. Carnations are extra fine 

 and have a heavy demand in all grades. 

 Enchantress, Lawson and Wolcott have 

 first call, with Nelson, Joost and White 

 Cloud next. The whites have been in big 

 demand the past week, with a good deal 

 of colored stock left over after morning 

 «ales. Romans, Paper Whites and val- 



ley are moving saltisfactorily, with plen- 

 ty for the demand. Violets are also sell- 

 ing well, Califomias much better than 

 doubles. Prices on these are a great 

 deal lower than last week. A few good 

 sweet peas are in the market at $1 per 

 hundred, but hardly enough to create a 

 demand. A great deal of smilax was 

 used up last week. Other greens had 

 equally as good a demand. Fine adian- 

 tum and Asparagus plumosus and Spren- 

 geri are in the market enough for all 

 demands. :^ >>., ..""« , _. 



Variotts Notes. 



Charles Kuehn is having a big run on 

 Christmas supplies from outside the city. 

 Shipping orders for cut flowers are also 

 large. The big wire department up- 

 stairs is busy with designs of all kinds. 



Frank Ellis reports some large shipping 

 orders the past week, both cut flowers 

 and supplies. His Thanksgiving busi- 

 ness was above expectations. His con- 

 signors are supplying some extra fancy 

 stock these days. 



At Henry Berning's a good shipping 

 trade is reported in all lines. He has 

 laid in a large stock for the holidays in 

 supplies. "Billy" Winters and the 

 Udes stock from Kirkwood are good 

 sellers at this place. 



Frank Fillmore reports trade good 

 with him, especially in funeral work, with 

 which they have been very busy of late. 

 His carnation and rose houses are sup- 

 plying all the stock used this fall. 



Wm. Schray & Sons are al*o having a 

 big run on funeral work of late and 

 report good Thanksgiving trade. 



Wm. E'dlefson, of Milwaukee, was 

 down the past week to attend the clos- 

 ing of the World's Fair. 



Fred Ammann, of Edwardsville, 111., 

 was a visitor the past week. He reports 

 stock at his place in fine condition and 

 home trade good during Thanksgiving. 



J. J. B. 



ELMIRA, N. Y. 



The sensation in local business circles 

 during the past week was the announce- 

 ment that Wm. Algie, president of the 

 United States Cut Flower Co., had re- 

 signed his position. It has been known 

 for some time that there was friction 

 among the oflScers of the company, owing 

 to differences of opinion in matters of 

 management and policy. Meetings of the 

 directorate have been frequent of late 

 and finally culminated in the purchase 

 by the stockholders of the stock held. by 

 Mr. Algie and his retirement from con- 

 trol of this large plant. 



W. B. Compton, United States mar- 

 shal and one of the largest stockholders, 

 has succeeded to the presidency and Sey- 

 mour Lowman, city chamberlain, has 

 been elected to fill the vacancy in the 

 directorate caused by Mr. Compton 'a ad- 

 vancement. The business will be con- 

 ducted with some changes of policy, but 

 will be upon the same sound financial 

 basis as heretofore. E. 



We are sending a dollar for the renew- 

 al of our subsaiption to the Review, 

 which has proven very satisfactory to 

 us; we shall give you all the advertising 

 we have to do in the future. — Weber 

 Bros. Ironton, O. 



"I ooxJLD not possibly do without the 

 Bevhew; when I fail to get it of a week 

 I am completely lost." — ^J. E. Farrant, 

 Newport, Vt. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Conditions have changed since the last 

 report. The supply of cut flowers has 

 decreased with the advent of real win- 

 ter, while the demand has increased, the 

 social season being well under way. The 

 city shops are just as busy as they can 

 be, while from outside cities come heavy 

 orders. The opening of congress on Mon- 

 day took great quantities of all kinds of 

 stock to Washington. To Baltimore went 

 large shipments of valley. Beauties and 

 other flne flowers for the first german, 

 which opens their social season. Prices 

 have stiffened a little, with indications 

 that the^y may go higher. Choice stock of 

 all kinds sells much better than the poorer 

 grades. Gardenias and cattleyas continue 

 very scarce. Carnations are improving in 

 quality and sell well, as does valley. 

 Greens of all kinds are in demand. 



Roslyn. 



Edward Towill, whose fine Liberties at- 

 tracted favorable comment at the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society's fall 

 show, has nine greenhouses near Boslyn. 

 Five are devoted to Liberties, three to 

 Beauties and one is a propagating house. 

 The Liberties are chiefly grown in a 

 range of Dietsch pattern short even-span, 

 open between, in which Lord & Burnham 

 Co. furnished material for three new 

 houses to be added to one old one. The 

 fifth house is low, with two beds and one 

 walk. 



The Liberties are full of vigor, throw- 

 ing up heavy ground canes. They are all 

 planted in solid beds without drainage. 

 Two of these beds are filled with young 

 plants. All the others are two-year-old 

 stock transplanted last summer. All show 

 remarkable vigor. The improvement in 

 Liberty growing has been very rapid. A 

 few years ago ground shoots came in 

 June with Mr. Asmus; now Mr. Towill 

 has them in November. 



The Beauties look well. They have 

 been producing heavily. It is planned to 

 leave them in the solid beds the second 

 year, this being their first season. The 

 cut of this place is distributed by Samuel 

 S. Pennock. 



Germantown. 



William Berger is one of the pioneer 

 florists of Germantown. He started in a 

 small way when Louis C. Baumann and 

 Woltemate Bros, were the leading florists 

 of that suburb. Since then Mr. Berger 

 has worked steadily on, through good luck 

 and bad luck, until today he has a nice 

 range of glass back of his home on Queen 

 street and a flne store and show in the 

 center of the shopping district, where his 

 son carries on a large business. It has 

 taken lots of pluck and hard work to ac- 

 complish these results. For a long time 

 the greenhouses did not pay enough and 

 jobbing gardening was an important fea- 

 ture of the work. When the store was 

 started, in a very small way, the odds and 

 ends needed were at first a serious draw- 

 back. Gradually these obstacles were 

 overcome and now the greenhouses and 

 store support about a dozen men. 



Mr. Berger has two houses of carna- 

 tions, both in excellent shape. One is 

 filled with Mrs. Lawson, the other with 

 Enchantress and a few Boston Market. 

 The Enchantress are all bearing freely. 

 One lot, the finest, was planted in the 

 bench in .Tune and grown indoors all 

 summer. The next was planted from 4- 



