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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



January 19, 1905. 



FANCY WHITE LILAC, - 



$1.50 per doz. 



WE HSNDLE THE VERY FINEST 



HUDSON RIVER VIOLETS.=VERY LARGE. 



CARNATIONS— A fine assortment of fancy stock. ROSES— Extra 

 fine, especially in Brides and Maids. A FULL LINE OF CUT FLOWERS. 



a: L. RANDALL CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



21 Randolph St., 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Mention The RtTlew whwi yog write. 



John Turnbull returned Tuesday from 

 a trip into the northwest for E. H. 

 Hunt. He reports good business in that 

 locality. 



Vaughan & Sperry are steadily add- 

 ing to their list of shippers and devel- 

 oping their shipping trade. 



A. L. Randall Ck). reports the special 

 Hudson River violets, 100 in a bunch, 

 cleaning up promptly, but a very poor 

 market for lower grades. 



E. C. Amling says the crop of bou- 

 vardia is pretty well at an end. It 

 has been popular both for table work 

 and for use in designs, but much of it 

 would have brought more money if 

 longer stemmed. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The trade outlook is satisfactory, 

 despite several handicaps, especially the 

 weather of the past week, which made 

 walking not a very pleasant task and 

 transient trade out of the question. 

 About the only business done was over 

 the telephone. Those who had plant dec- 

 orations found it a difficult matter. 

 Floral arrangements at most of the so- 

 cial aflFairs were small. A great deal 

 of funeral work has been reported the 

 past week, which made white flowers in 

 ffreat demand, while colored stock was 

 m abundance at the wholesale housee. A 

 few shipments came in frozen and were, 

 of course, useless. 



Quite a lot of long Beauties are in the 

 market, greatly reduced in price. This 

 stock was bought on Saturday for $3 

 per dozen, showing that the demand 

 was elow. Beauties at $1 to $2 per 

 dozen sold much better. Fancy stock 

 in other roses had a fair sale, while 

 lower grades went begging. Colored 

 carnations are in oversupply, but whites 

 were bought up each morning. The 

 price was down to $2 and $3 per hun- 

 dred the past week. 



Bulbous stock is moving very slowly 

 and the supply is greatly in excess of 

 the demand. Callas and Harrisii are 

 coming in more freely; so are freesias 

 and Romans. Paper WSiites and valley 

 are almost a glut at the present time. 

 Violets are becoming very plentiful and 

 are not selling clean by any means. The 

 call for greens is reported slow. 



Some extra fine Lorraine begonias, 

 azaleas, cyclamens and other blooming 

 plants are seen in the windows of the 

 west end florists, on which sales were 

 reported slow the past week. 



Qub Meeting. 



The Florists* Club held its regular 

 meeting last Thursday afternoon. Presi- 

 dent Juengel, having recovered from his 

 recent illness, occupied the chair. Twenty 

 members were present. The committee 

 on transportation to Chicago reported 

 a rate of $10 for the round trip and that 

 all members going should report to the 

 chairman, J. J. Beneke, by January 20. 

 so that all the members can go in a body, 

 as a special sleeper will be assigned to 

 tlu-m by the Wabaeh. 



The club declined to accept Robert 

 Scott's resignation. Delinquent mem- 

 bers were given one more month to pay 

 or be dropped from the roll. On a mo- 

 tion the chair appointed as a commit- 

 tee to revise the constitution and by- 

 laws, Messrs. Koenig, Schray and Mein- 

 hardt. The advisability of holding a 

 flower show next fall was referred to 

 the trustees, who are to make a report 

 by next meeting. 



A. Jablonsky made a motion to build 

 a club house for meetings and exhibi- 

 tions, with bowling alleys in the base- 

 ment. A committee of three was ap- 

 pointed to look into the matter, as fol- 

 lows: A. Jablonsky, Fred Ammann and 

 John Steidle. 



The next meeting of the club will be 

 our annual carnation meeting. This will 

 be in charge of Messrs. Beneke, Schray 

 and Meinhardt. Fifty dollars in prizes 

 will be given. All carnation grower* 

 are invited to compete. This meeting 

 will take place Thursday afternoon, 

 February 9, at 2 o'clock. 



Various Notes. 



John Hanzel has opened a flower 

 store at Taylor avenue and Olive street. 

 Mr. Hanzel was formerly employed by 

 Alex. Waldbart. He is making a fine 

 show of Begonia Gloire de Lorraine in 

 his window this week. 



Frank M. Ellis and John Burk were 

 on a hunting trip in the Ozark moun- 

 tains the past week. They claim that 

 a carload of fine rabbits will follow this 

 week. Any of the local florists who 

 want a rabbit dinner should make appli- 

 cation to Mr. Ellis. Fred Foster and 

 Alex. Siegel were to have gone with the 

 party, but the cold weather scared them 

 oflF. 



Chief F. W. Taylor and Superintend- 

 ent J. H. Hadkinson are still in harness 

 at the World's Fair and report that 

 they will be for several months. The 

 Palace of Horticulture is now in the 

 hands of the wreckers and will by the 

 end of the week be a thing of the past. 



Mr. Ussing, who was Mr. Hadkinson's. 

 right hand man during the season of 

 the World's Fair, is now in the employ 

 of Fred C. Weber. 



The Ellison Floral Co. is moving this 

 week, just across the street from the 

 old location, to a much larger place, 

 with three large show windows, giving 

 them the much needed room. 



A New Florists' Qub. 

 An invitation haa been sent to the 

 different growers in and around St. 

 Louis to join a new organization to 

 which growers only are to be admitted 

 to membership. A meeting has been 

 called for this week Thursday, January 

 19, in Louisiana Hall. The notice sent 

 out is signed by K H. Michel, F. W. 

 Ude, Jr., William Winter and E. Eg- 

 geling, Jr. J. J. B. 



SWEET PEAS. 



Will you kindly give me information 

 on the following questions through your 

 columns t At what time should sweet 

 pea seed, variety Mont Blanc, be sown 

 in solid beds in a greenhouse iu order to 

 have the bulk of the crop for next Easter, 

 April 23 f How far apart in the row 

 and how deep should the seed be sown? 

 Please state the best temperature for 

 them, night and day. My compost is 

 one year old and consists of four parts 

 rotted sod and one part cow manure. 

 Will it be necessary to feed them in ad- 

 dition to this at any time? 



W. B. S. 



This query has been sadly neglectecT, 

 yet if the desired information has not 

 been obtained elsewhere, there is no time 

 lost. Sow the seed about the last of this 

 month. Two inches deep is enough, or 

 ■you can sow a few seeds in 3-inch pots 

 and transfer to the bed when the plants 

 are a few inches high. The rows should 

 be eighteen inches to two feet apart and 

 run north and south. Two plants may 

 be allowed to each string. That is 

 plenty thick enough, and the strings 

 eight inches apart. Keep that strong 

 growth which starts from the base of 

 plants, and the lateral growths, pinched 

 off or it will everwhelm the original vine, 

 which is to give the flower. The night 

 temperature should be from 45 to 48 de- 

 grees. Your compost needs no replen- 

 ishing. It is amply rich enough ; neither 

 need you feed with liquid manure. 



W. S. 



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