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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 6, 1905. 



During July and August 



the best stock will be the cheapest stock to buy. We can give it to you in Roses, Cama- 

 tionst Lilies, etc. Extra care in selecting and packing has made our summer business large, i 



CANDIDUM LILIES 



now on hand, put up 50 in a bunch, at $1.00 per bunch. No cheaper flower in the market 

 for funeral work. 



Our store closes at 6 p. m. daring July and August. 



A. L. RANDALL CO., 19 Randolph St, CHICAGO 



Blpntlon The Rerlew when you write. 



ter, said to be a florist at Highland Park. 

 He is not expected to recover. 



John Zech has been taking advantage 

 of the lull this week for a few day's 

 fishing. 



One of the week's visitors is Edward 

 Aschmann, son of Godfrey Aschmann, 

 the widely known Philadelphia plants- 

 man. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Considering the season, trade in the 

 florists' line has been fairly good the 

 past week and about the only com- 

 plaint we have to make just now is 

 of the quality of stock that is coming 

 in. Funeral work is about all that is 

 going on among the local retailers, but 

 it kept some of us rather busy the past 

 week. The supply of roses seems to 

 have shortened still further. Fancy 

 grades in these are hard to obtain. A 

 few good long Beauties are still obtain- 

 able. Short stock is plentiful. There 

 are very few fancy carnations in the 

 market, which command $2 per hun- 

 dred. Clean-up sales at a few cents be- 

 low the regular market prices are quite 

 frequent of late, leaving nothing over 

 for afternoon trade. The recent heavy 

 rains have spoiled a great many sweet 

 peas and other outdoor stock. 



Interviewing several of the leading 

 retailers the past week, they report the 

 season as a whole very satisfactory 

 from their standpoint. Some of the 

 growers, though, are not so well satis- 

 fied with the prices they received for 

 their consignments. The wholesalers 

 say that good stock, which came in 

 good shape, always brought good fig- 

 ures during the season. 



Various Notes. 



The trustees of the Florists' Club are 

 working hard to make the annual pic- 

 nic a big success. The place has not 

 yet been selected. Several places are 

 under consideration. The date and 

 place will be announced at the club 

 meeting next Thursday afternoon. 



Some of the members of the bowling 

 club are bowling twice a week now, so 

 as to be in first-class trim for the 

 Washington tournament. As it looks 

 now some of our best bowlers will not 

 be able to make the trip, so the make- 

 up of the team, as it looks at the pres- 

 ent time, will be C. A. Kuehn, F. C. 

 Weber, Theo. Millfer, Fred H. Mein- 



hardt and J. J. Beneke, with Henry 

 Lohrenz as extra man. 



Friends of Messrs. Weber and Miller 

 have received letters that both arrived 

 safely in Germany and are enjoying 

 the best of health. Both are looking 

 forward to meeting a large delegation 

 at Washington in August. 



The Growers' Club held a special 

 meeting at the Michel Co. 's office on 

 last Wednesday night with a fair at- 

 tendance. 



Mr. and Mrs. William Ellison and 

 their daughter left last week to spend 

 the summer at the northern lakes. 



The Eden Floral Co., at Eighteenth 

 and Olive streets, has closed up and 

 sold the fixtures. 



Mr. Hibbert, of the Hibbert Floral 

 Co., De Soto, Mo., paid us a visit on 

 Monday and bowled with the boys in 

 the evening. J. J. B. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



Summer is here, with all it fneans to 

 the retailers. Everything has that July 

 look we all know so well. The help in 

 the stores are taking vacations and those 

 who are left do not seem to have very 

 much to do. Stock is in the usual sum- 

 mer condition. Maids and Brides show 

 the heat, but Kaiserins and Beauties are 

 good, so that it is not necessary to turn 

 down any orders. Lilies have become 

 quite scarce in this market; good ones 

 are bringing $15 per hundred. 



Various Notes. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. is hand- 

 ling some very fine Beauties, Kaiserins 

 and valley and says that, while the re- 

 tailers complain of nothing to do, they 

 find trade very good for the time of 

 the year. 



The Pittsburg Florists' Exchange was 

 compelled to vacate its store in a hurry 

 last Saturday. In excavating for a new 

 building next to them the foundation of 

 their building, which was a very old 

 one, was weakened, and the building 

 inspector ordered them out. Fortunately 

 there Avas a vacant store directly oppo- 

 site, into which they moved, and are 

 now ready for business as usual. 



Ben Elliott, who went to California, is 

 established in the feed and fuel busi- 

 ness in Los Angeles. His many friends 

 wish him success. 



The Botanical Society of Western 

 Pennsylvania has taken to the woods with 

 the botanists from New York, Philadel- 



phia and Washington. The meeting and 

 start were at Ohio Pyle on July 5. 



Cltih Outing. 



The prospects are that the outing July 

 12 will be the be3t attended in the his- 

 tory of the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club. The boat leaves the foot of Mar- 

 ket street at 8:30 a. m. Everybody is 

 going. The program includes twenty-six 

 "events," principally races, but in- 

 cluding a tug of war, baseball game, 

 etc. There are prizes enough so that 

 every one should get some sort of a sou- 

 venir, ranging from ladies' handker- 

 chiefs to registering thermometers and 

 including two watches. The donors are 

 Fred Burki, E. C. Ludwig, Fred Euch, 

 John Bader, Christ Eieger, G. Ludwig, 

 Jos. Jones, The Pittsburg Florists' Ex- 

 change, H. L. Blind & Bro., J. W. Lud- 

 wig, W. C. Beckert, The Pittsburg Cut 

 Flower Co., T. P. Langhans, Dimling 

 Bros., Bernard Gloeck, Breitenstein & 

 Flemm, W. A. Clarke, L. I. Nefif, Geddis 

 & Blind Bros., H. C. Buechler, E. Zieger, 

 H. Bayersdorfer & Co., P. S. Kandolph 

 &-Co. and others. The judges are to be 

 H. L. Blind and T. P. Langhans. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The last week of June in the whole- 

 sale market was the best one of the 

 month and up to Saturday prices were 

 quite generally satisfactory. The clos- 

 ing of the schools on Friday was clearly 

 demonstrated by a dull Saturday and 

 no little grumbling could be heard at 

 the advent of the two months of ex- 

 pected but unwelcome summer depres- 

 sion. There will be little else to report 

 as to market conditions from now until 

 September. 



Koses and carnations all last week 

 were strong and the demand excellent. 

 There was little to complain of. Orchids 

 hold steadily at 75 cents for the best 

 Cattleya gigas, of which variety Mc- 

 Manus carries a grand stock. 



Various Notes. 



Young & Nugent have retained their 

 front window space for palm display, 

 over their store on the ground floor, and 

 Phil Kessler opened Monday of this 

 week his wholesale place in the center 

 of the room, his ice-box being in place. 

 Mr. Nugent 's private office is in the 

 rear and is handsomely fitted up for the 

 house warming. 



