JULY 13, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



407 



rows alleys, which are new, having been 

 completed only a month ago. Lunch will 

 be served there by a well known caterer. 



The shooting will take place on the 

 well known grounds of Eobert Cook. He 

 being one of those jolly good fellows, 

 will take care of the team and see that' 

 none will fall into temptation. 



On Friday the visitors will take a trip 

 to the United States capitol and thence 

 to the Congressional library, without a 

 doubt the finest building of its kind in 

 the world. After spending two hours 

 there lunch will be served. 



Chairman J. E. Freeman expects to 

 get the souvenir book into the printer's 

 hands by the first of August. Superin- 

 tendent Cook has very little exhibition 

 space left to sell. 



Captain Ernest and his team are 

 rather slow, but promise to get together 

 more often after this. 



Chairman Gude is letting no grass 

 grow under his feet. He is here, there 

 and everywhere, with Vice-president 

 Freeman, pushing things along. They 

 both claim a big success for the S. A. F. 

 convention. "We number now sixty mem- 

 bers. F. H. K. 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



The month of June proved to be a 

 good one from a business standpoint. 

 There were many weddings, social func- 

 tions and commencedients. Not many 

 were of large magnitude, but enough of 

 medium caliber to uphold the trade. July 

 has started out well and all hope it will 

 continue so. Stock is shortening up con- 

 siderably and quality is at a premium. 

 Brides and Maids are becoming practi- 

 cally invisible, while Kaiserin and Me- 

 teor are exceptionally fine from local 

 growers. Carnations are out of the run- 

 ning altogether, being decidedly poor of 

 color and deficient in substance. There 

 is surely a good opportunity for some 

 wideawake florist to make a hit on sum- 

 mer blooming carnations. Sweet peas 

 wore never better than this year, fine 

 color and long stems. Shasta daisies, 

 coreopsis, gypsophila, gaillardia and 

 other hardy perennials are in abundance 

 and used with good effect in window dec- 

 orations. The price of good stock holds 

 up well. Fine Kaiserins brought $8 per 

 hundred last week, Meteor from $3 to 

 $6, tea roses $2 to $5, Beauties $1 to 

 $2.50 a dozen, carnations $1 to $2 per 

 hundred and sweet peas 25 to 50 cents. 



Various Notes. 



Again Cleveland lost one of her illus- 

 trious men in the death of Secretary 

 John Hay. He was a noble man and the 

 world 's best diplomat. The call for flow- 

 ers was not extraordinarily large, al- 

 though the principal retailers had some 

 fine work. The price of some designs 

 ran above $100 and the artist was called 

 upon to do his best. The Gasser Co. had 

 a large share of the work, taking care 

 of some foreign orders from Japan, Mex- 

 ico and elsewhere, also the family work. 

 Smith & Fetters decorated the Chamber 

 of Commerce, where the body lay in 

 state, and also made many designs for 

 prominent people. Miss Eadie was very 

 busy with design work. C. M. Wagner 

 made up several handsome designs for 

 this occasion. 



Isaac Kennedy, of West Park, is cut- 

 ting extra fine sweet peas and Shasta 

 daisies. His Eamblers are a beautiful 

 sight. 



Merkel Bros., Mentor, O., are still 

 sending some good carnations and sweet 

 peas to Mr. Wagner. 



M. F. Harrison, of Collins & Harrison, 

 is now managing the Ohio Floral Co. 



L. C. Hecock, of Elyria; W. H. Jones, 

 of Loraine, O., also Fred Staley, of Lo- 

 rain, report the best business on record 

 for June. The latter has a magnificent 

 plant, newly built last year. 



Frank Smith was visiting relatives in 

 Buffalo for a few days and is now so- 

 journing in Detroit. 



L. Greif, president of the Ohio Floral 

 Co., is at Buffalo with the B. P. O. E. 



At the club meeting July 10 a com- 

 mittee, consisting of A. L. Brown, C. 

 Schmidt and B. Hart was appointed to 

 find a suitable picnic grounds and re- 

 port at the next meeting. There was a 

 very large attendance at the meeting. 

 About twelve members anticipate going 

 to the convention. Forest City. 



DENVER. 



The Market. 



Holiday influences and irregular weath- 

 er had a tendency to curtail the market 

 the past week. The regular summer 

 business is now on and somewhat erratic. 

 Stock is still plentiful, although a great- 

 er part of it is not select. Brides and 

 Maids, although small, are of fair qual- 

 ity. Chatenay is perhaps the best of any 

 of them. Carnations are still plentiful, 

 though smaller in size than recently anS 

 still quite good. The new stock of Amer- 

 ican Beauties is commencing to come in 

 and is of fine flower, though not yet of 

 long stem. Sweet peas are arriving in 

 unlimited numbers, some of the stock be- 

 ing of inferior quality and being sold for 

 20 cents per hundred, with a likelihood 

 of the values going still lower. The 

 Shasta daisy is quite abundant and of 

 good quality. Other outdoor garden 

 flowers are seen but not in large num- 

 bers. 



Various Notes. 



The Park Floral Co. gave its employees 

 the annual picnic on July 4, going to 

 Eiverview, up Platte Canon, where a fine 

 pavilion held tables spread for about 

 seventy-five people. With Cavalla's or- 

 chestra to discourse fine music for danc- 

 ing, with prizes for athletic sports, also 

 for the finest collection of wild flowers, 

 made a very enjoy.ible day. President 

 J. A. Valentine acted as toastmaster and 

 delivered the principal address of the 

 day. All the employees voted it one 

 of the most enjoyable picnics yet given. 



D. S. Grimes, the pioneer florist, whose 

 illness we noted in our last communica- 

 tion, died at his home on June 28, the 

 funeral taking place on Friday, June 30. 



Mrs. J. A. Valentine and Miss G. E. 

 Page, secretary of the Park Floral Co., 

 left for a trip to Califorjiia last week, 

 expecting to be gone several weeks. 



B. E. Gillis, of the Park Floral Co., 

 and one of our expert bowlers, whose 

 average was 107 in the league, took the 

 prize given by the La Court alleys for 

 high game last week, rolling 214. 



E. S. K. 



Tewksbury, Mass. — E. Winkler is 

 preparing to put up an even-span house 

 30x100 for carnations. 



SPRiNcriELD, III. — Earl Metz, who for 

 several years has been with J. C. Murray 

 at Peoria, will come here to enter the 

 employ of Miss Belle Miller. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Midsummer trade conditions are fully 

 up to the general averages among the re- 

 tailers and wholesalers. The weather is 

 all that we can wish for. Copious rains, 

 with a delightful cool spell since July 4, 

 have made our city an ideal summer re- 

 sort. 



Cut stock is not any too plentiful. 

 Fancy Bride, Maid and Kaiserin are sell- 

 ing well, and so are Beauties, Liberty 

 and Meteor. Some Perles are in, but 

 too soft to sell well. Carnations are in 

 fair supply. A great many of them are 

 field grown. The demand for these is 

 always good for the best stock. Sweet 

 peas are still coming in heavily. These 

 are not moving as fast as they should at 

 the low price at which they sell. The 

 quality is still very good, but stems are 

 very short. More white are being used, 

 as funeral work is about all the florists 

 depend on these days. Lily of the val- 

 ley is good in supply, with fair demand. 



The marktt is filled up with all kinds 

 of outdoor stuff, which sells slowly and 

 at cheap prices, being used only for win- 

 dow display. Gladioli are coming in 

 more plentifully now and seem to sell 

 well. Fine Asparagus plumosus is in, 

 with good demand. 



Viarious Notes. 



The trustees of the Florists' Club have 

 selected Moellenbrock 's grove at Horse 

 Shoe lake, on the east side, for the out- 

 ing. This is a new place for the mem- 

 bers and it is said that it is one of the 

 best appointed places that could be 

 found. On the grounds will be fine fish- 

 ing, boating, bowling, dancing, plenty 

 of music and lots of room for all kinds 

 of games. The arangements are all com- 

 plete for one of the best outings the club 

 has ever had. The date is next Thursday 

 afternoon, July 20. Those going in the 

 morning will be at North Market street 

 ferry at 8 o 'clock. The afternoon time of 

 departure is set for 1 p. m. at the same 

 place. Cards with instructions will be 

 sent to all florists. We hope that all em- 

 ployers will give their employees a day off 

 to attend this outing. As usual, all the 

 wholesale houses will close at noon. 



The flower show committee met last 

 week at Weber's store to work on the 

 premium list and other important mat- 

 ters. 



S. S. Skidelsky, the man who sells 

 everything in the florists' line, is calling 

 on the trade this week. Mr. Skidelsky 

 says from what he hears that the S. A. F. 

 attendance will be large at Washington. 



The committee charged with making ar- 

 rangements for attending the S. A. F, 

 convention at Washington next month 

 has about completed satisfactory terms 

 with the B. & O. to Cincinnati, and from 

 there to travel with the Cincinnati, Louis- 

 ville, Indianapolis and possibly Chicago 

 delegations on to Washington. This would 

 surely assure pleasant company all the 

 way. 



Last week the Miciiel Plant and Bulb 

 Co. held an auction of miscellaneous 

 plants at their place on Magnolia ave- 

 nue. Quite a lot of stock was dis- 

 posed of. 



The Alps Floral Co. has opened for 

 business at the Tyrolean Alps at the 

 W^orld's Fair grounds. Henry C. Oster- 

 tag, of Ostertag Bros., is one of the 

 promoters of this enterprise. He reports 



