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The Weddy Florists' Review. 



July 27, 1005. 



Henry Lohrenz is building a handsome 

 new show house and store near his old 

 place, which will be furnished by Sep- 

 tember 1. He says the boys can look 

 for a house-warming. 



Fred Alves, at Angermueller 's, will 

 take tl week's vacation and be back in 

 time to let Mr. Angermueller off to at- 

 tend the S. A. F. convention. 



Emil Schray is building a row of flats 

 near his place, one of which will be occu- 

 pied by himself, but the first occupants 

 of the flats will be "Fillmore's twins." 



Fred Meinhardt is still very busy with 

 cemetery work. He says he will have to 

 catch up with the work so he will not 

 miss the convention. 



Miss T. Badaracco will leave soon to 

 spend a month at "West Baden Springs, 

 Ind. 



W. A. Chalfant, of Springfield, Mo,, 

 was in town Friday. Mr. Chalfant left 

 the same night for Chicago and from 

 there he will go north to spend a month 

 on a much needed vacation. He is a 

 member of the St. Louis Florists* Club 

 and called on several of the members. 



In conversation with some of the S. A. 

 F. members in St. Louis, they seem to 

 favor St. Paul and Minneapolis for the 

 next meeting place of the society. If 

 the brothers from that place are willing, 

 r am sure that they could rely on the 

 west to help them land the prize. We 

 hear of a little jealous feeling because 

 St. Paul was mentioned in the Bible and 

 Minneapolis was not but this can be 

 overcome when the society meets in 1906. 

 Let's hear from the twins on the sub- 

 ject. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers had a cool night on Mon- 

 day and the result was as follows: 



Player. ist 2d 3d 4th T'l 



R. Meinhardt 161 130 163 167 621 



J. J. Beneke 141 159 164 148 612 



C. A. Kuehii 1C6 165 168 107 606 



F. Meinhardt 141 153 135 170 599 



H. Lohrenz 109 151 131 152 543 



Ed Gerlach 148 96 156 110 516 



F. M. EUls 136 115 120 136 5o7 



J. J. B. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market. 



It was 105 in the shade! Need any- 

 thing more be said as to the market 

 of last week? New York was not only 

 the biggest but the hottest city in 

 America during the last thirteen days, 

 ending on Friday, when the crest of the 

 hot wave was submerged and we began 

 to breathe again. Deaths and prostra- 

 tions were many, but we hear of no ca- 

 lamity in the trade and now the reac- 

 tion is letting us all sit up and take 

 notice again. Saturday and Monday 

 the temperature was most seasonable 

 and life again became worth living. 



Shipments of stock are scarce and 

 quality of goods received mostly second 

 and third class. What few Brides, 

 Maids and Beauties of good quality 

 reach the market are snapped up quick- 

 ly. There seems to be no surplus of 

 anything this week. Even sweet peas 

 were of some account on Monday and 

 some good ones touched $1 a dozen 

 bunches. There were few carnations of 

 any kind offered and even gladioli 

 were not over abundant. As we pre- 

 dicted in our last, the bottom was 

 touched a w^eek ago. The market will 

 drag for a few weeks and then the 

 new life will be infused into everything 

 and we will forget there ever was a 

 flood. 



At last lilies have shortened up and 

 their value has increased. They have 

 held on this year with wonderful tena- 

 city. Water lilies are now abundant. 

 The retail windows make a specialty 

 of them, with artificial ponds and 

 fountains. AsTers are gathering their 

 forces daily for the expected invas- 

 ion. It will be another Port Arthur 

 when they come. There can only be 

 one result, a complete surrender. 



Various Notes. 



The announcement of the generosity 

 of the president of our Florists' Club 

 in providing lemonade for all comers 

 during the hot spell raised the price 

 of lemons on Twenty-eighth street per- 

 ceptibly. The celebration of the ad- 

 vent of a son and heir may have beet 

 a factor in the liquidation. 



The prospect for a large attendance 

 from New York at the convention bright- 

 ens daily. Already nearly fifty have 

 signified their intention of going and 

 dozens are not heard from who will be 

 sure to go. I predict a crowd of 150 

 from New York and vicinity. A spe- 

 cial train is now assured. Great prep- 

 arations are being made for a gala oc- 



We were cleaned out of young 

 Mums in a hurry by our adv. 



It seemed as though everybody 

 in the land wanted some of 

 them. "Wc had to turn away 

 many orders. 



BAUR & SMITH. 



Indianapolis, 

 July 25. 



casion. Noon, Monday, August 14, is 

 the prospective hour for leaving and ar- 

 rangements for stop-overs at Baltimore 

 and Philadelphia on the return are a 

 certainty. Secretary Young would be 

 glad to have all who intend to go send 

 him notice at once. The commissary de- 

 partment is in able hands. Mr. Nugent 

 is a liberal host. There will be an abun- 

 dance of good things for the inner man. 



The president of the S. A. F. was 

 in the city on Sunday and Monday on 

 his way to Boston. 



Mr. and Mrs. Crouch, of Knoxville, 

 Tenn., sailed from New York for Eng- 

 land Saturday, July 15. 



J. II. Troy, of the Rosary, leaves for 

 his annual European trip the last of Au- 

 gust. 



W. H. Hughes, with A. ,T. Bodding- 

 ton, is enjoying his holiday in the Cats- 

 kills. David A. Dean, with the same 

 house, son of Jas. Dean, is summering 

 with the old folks at home, at Freeport, 

 L. I. Dr. Bunyon has just returned 

 from a fishing trip and the three busy 

 B's, Boddington, Begbie and Bunyard, 



were up to their eyes in the meshes of a 

 new catalogue and in pansy seed ship- 

 ments when I called. 



Miss Forne, of the New York Cut 

 Flower Co., leaves this week for her home 

 and annual vacation in Canada. 



William Ford, of Fora Bros., has had 

 two delightful weeks at Lynn, Mass., and 

 Michael Ford is getting a new coat of tan 

 at Atlantic City. 



Saltford has completed the repaper- 

 ing and painting of his store and J. 

 K. Allen is making everything look like 

 new at his headquarters on Twenty- 

 eighth street. 



Some fear has been expressed that the 

 bulky exhibits from this vicinity are 

 going to crowd the space at Washington 

 to overflowing. It does look as if there 

 would be nothing to spare when the last 

 one of the displays arrives there. 



The New York Bowling Club having 

 dissolved, the men to represent the me- 

 tropolis will doubtless be chosen on the 

 train and the team will be selected on its 

 merits. Next year, doubtless, the New 

 York Club will have its own bowling fa- 

 cilities and a team in which every mem- 

 ber will have an interest. 



Everything indicates a great season 

 at Newport, Already the dinner en- 

 gagements keep the New York branches 

 busy. Everyone reports a multiplicity of 

 bookings and the shipments of good 

 flowers, especially Beauties and orchids, 

 grow daily. The orchid supply was 

 about depleted on Saturday, 



A visit to the home of the Telegraph 

 geranium, at Poughkeepsie, last week was 

 enjoyable. In the 100 degrees in the 

 shade temperature I found Thos. De Voy 

 & Son busy preparing for the big storm 

 coming over from the Catskills and 

 breaking the back of the heat wave that 

 even up here in the mountains had be- 

 come unendurable. The firm has seven 

 houses, over 15,000 square feet altogether, 

 devoted to violets, tomatoes and Tele- 

 graph geraniums in rotation, excelling in 

 the quality of each and making all en- 

 couragingly profitable. Three houses of 

 tomatoes were especially fine and com- 

 manded the highest value in the local 

 market. The violets are all handled by 

 John Young and are of extra quality. 

 Three houses are devoted to the grand 

 cerise bedding geranium. Telegraph. 

 Over 50,000 plants in 2;^-inch and 3- 

 inch pots have been handled and the stock 

 is well depleted. Florists will be able 

 to note its splendid color and bedding 

 qualities at the government grounds at 

 Washington. It will stand any ordinary 

 experience, is strong and robust, remark- 

 ably brilliant in color and already won- 

 derfully popular. J, Austin Shaw, 



PLATYCODONS. 



We enclose a leaf and flower from a 

 plant of which we do not know the 

 name. Will you please enlighten us I 

 A. T. B. 



The leaf and flower are from one of 

 the platycodons, which are members ol 

 the campanulaceae family. The variet}' 

 most frequently seen is P. grandiflorum. 

 also called Campanula grandiflora and 

 Wahlenbergia grandiflora. The commoi' 

 names are balloon flower and Japanese 

 bell flower. The color varies from pure 

 white to purplish blue. In Massachu- 

 setts the plant grows two feet high ir 

 good soil. There is a dwarfer and rather 

 better form named P, Mariesi, of more 

 recent introduction; it rarely exceeds 

 one foot in height. W. N. C. 



