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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 10, 1905. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Since my last report the cut flower 

 trade has not improved very much. There 

 was quite a lot of funeral work the past 

 week, which helped the local trade 

 greatly, and the wholesalers were re- 

 lieved of some of tht" c;irplus in white 

 flowers, which ^ave been, and are, very 

 plentiful. Everything in the market is 

 going at extremely low prices. Asters 

 are arriving in great quantities. The 

 very choicest bring fair prices, but the 

 bulk of them are sold in 1,000 lots as 

 low as $2.50. Gladioli are a great glut 

 and are not moving at any price. Light 

 colors only are selling. Other colors are 

 generally dumped. The same may be said 

 of tuberose spikes. All the commission 

 men are loaded down with them. The 

 great bulk of them are of the Armstrong 

 ever-blooming variety. The doubles are 

 not nearly so plentiful. 



Fancy carnations are out of the ques- 

 tion at present. There are plenty of 

 shorts in the market. The best quality 

 seem to be white. In roses there is a 

 good supply of all kinds and of very 

 good quality, with clean foliage. Kais- 

 erins are especially fine, also Ivory. 

 Cochet roses, white and pink, are more 

 than enough for the demand. Lily of 

 the valley, too, is quite plentiful. All 

 outdoor stock is in great abundance, 

 with a very light demand. In * ' greens ' ' 

 the market has everything that is needed 

 just now. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. A. C. Canfleld, of Springfield, 111., 

 was a visitor the past week, calling on 

 the trade. 



Charles Young, of C. Young & Sons 

 Co., left last week for the east to be 

 gone six weeks. Wm. C. Young, of the 

 same firm, in company with his oldest 

 son, leaves this week for an eastern trip, 

 including Washington during the con- 

 vention week. 



Robert J. "Windier has opened his new 

 store on Grand avenue. He reports con- 

 siderable funeral work since opening. 



Henry Lohrenz's new place on Park 

 avenue will be opened this week. The 

 place looks very attractive. 



On South Broadway, Florists Heile, 

 Kohrs and Diemer are having a flower 

 war to see who can sell the cheapest, 

 being one block apart. 



Mrs. Fred Foster and family are en- 

 joying the cool weather up north. Mr. 

 Foster will join them next week. He 

 will also make the Washington trip. 



Vincent Gorley, of Grimm & Gorley, 

 reports summer trade good both at 517 

 Olive street and Fifteenth and Cass ave- 

 nue. Their new ice-box at the Olive 

 street store is a beauty. 



The new store of Frank Fillmore & 

 Son, on Meramec street, is handsomely 

 furnished. The location is good and the 

 fall trade there should be fine. 



The new firm of Pilcher & Burrows, 

 brokers in florists' supplies, reports that 

 it has orders for a number of greenhouses 

 and boilers, also for supplies of all kinds. 



There is quite a lot of building and 

 improvement going on among the Kirk- 

 wood florists, and they are becoming 

 quite numerous in that suburb. 



The Eggeling Floral Co. had a big run 

 of funeral work the past week. The com- 

 pany is making extensive improvements 

 for the opening of the fall Reason. 



Cbas. C. Fleckenstein and John M. 



Hudson, formerly wholesale florists in 

 this city, were callers recently. Both are 

 doing well, but in other lines of business. 



Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ellison are still 

 among the northern lakes and are not 

 expected home until September 1. This 

 will keep Arthur Ellison away from the 

 convention and the bowling club is very 

 much weakened. 



At one of our large funerals recently 

 the number of cards handed in soliciting 

 orders for flowers shows that crape 

 pullers are becoming quite numerous 

 about town again. 



St Louis to Washington. 



The St. Louis delegatinr has decided to 

 travel by way of Detroit, there to join the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit delega- 

 tions on a special train to Washington. 

 Our delegation will leave Sunday night, 

 August 13, via Wabash. In this party, 

 as it looks today, will be F. H. Mein- 

 hardt and wife, C. A. Kuehn and wife, 

 F. M. Ellis and wife, John Steidel and 

 wife, J. J. Beneke and wife, W. J. Pil- 

 cher, H. Lohrenz, Max Rotter, George 

 Angermueller, A. S. Halstead, V. Gorley, 

 George Waldbart, John Connor, Mr. 

 Denecker and R. F. Tesson. Perhaps one 

 or two others will fall in line at the club 

 meeting Thursday of this week. The 

 above delegation will be joined at Wash- 

 ington by the Misses Meinhardt, Theo. 

 Miller, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Weber and 

 daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Kalisch, Chas. 

 and WiU Young, who are already in the 

 east. J. J. B. 



NEWPORT. R. L 



The Sununer Business. 



Our retailers are now right in the 

 midst of their best season of the whole 

 year. Of course in a city like Newport 

 there is a good floral business the year 

 through, but it remains for the summer 

 season to bring the rush of orders for 

 luncheon, dinner, ball and in fact every 

 possible form of decoration for the enter- 

 tainments of the fashionable society 

 people, of all the larger cities of the 

 United States, who congregate here for 

 the Newport season. The summer resi- 

 dents begin to come early in June, 

 but it is July before they are all here; 

 from then until after the horse show, in 

 September, summer gayeties of every con- 

 ceivable kind fill in the hours of both 

 day and night, and as no entertainment 

 here, however small, is ever planned with- 

 out the florist, you can readily see how 

 important to the craft is this summer 

 business. 



Every succeeding year our florists 

 make more elaborate plans for this sum- 

 mer trade. Everything possible in sea- 

 sonable stock is grown in enormous quan- 

 tities, as when stock is needed for a 

 large entertainment, say where $1,000 

 or more has been allotted for the flowers, 

 immense amounts are used up even for 

 one decoration, especially when outside 

 of roses the bulk of all flowers at this 

 season are outdoor grown and do not 

 figure into money very fast. Sweet peas, 

 snapdragon, hollyhocks, gladioli, lilies, 

 lily of the valley, carnations, orchids. 

 Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, pop- 

 pies and in fact everything fit for cut- 

 ting that blooms between June and Sep- 

 tember are grown in blocks. Of course 

 roses and dahlias are grown and used in 

 enormous lots. Golden Glow, Coreopsis 

 lanceolata, sunflowers, and all such 

 stock works in splendidly for filling in 



on a large decoration where halls, piaz- 

 zas, etc., are to be made presentable. 



Sweet peas have had a great run, and 

 while they have sold low, the market has 

 kept fairly well cleaned up. The going 

 price has been 25 cents a hundred whole- 

 sale, and 50 cents a hundred retail. 



Our one great standby in the summer 

 is the American Beauty rose and they 

 have been coming especially good lately, 

 the best go to customers at $6 a dozen. 

 Orchids have been in short supply, good 

 blooms of Cattleya gigas bringing $1.50 

 each if obtainable. Lily of the valley is 

 in good supply and much used; the best 

 brings $2.50 per bunch of twenty-five 

 flowers. Auratum and speciosum lilies 

 bring $3 and $2 per dozen respectively. 

 Hollyhocks are offered in spikes for $5 

 a dozen and are of superb quality. There 

 is a good supply of green stuff of all 

 kinds. 



Horticultural Society. 



The Newport Horticultural Society 

 has just closed ^rhaps the most success- 

 ful year in its history, as there never has 

 been a time when more interest has been 

 manifested in its work, not only by its 

 members but the public. Another matter 

 that has brought the society into greater 

 prominence, has been the decision of the 

 members to hold the larger flower shows 

 in the Newport Casino, which is the 

 society center. The June show so held 

 was a great success artistically and also 

 financially and certainly brought the 

 owners of our estates and their gardeners 

 more closely in touch. Once let it be- 

 come the thing for society to patronize 

 our exhibitions and success for our shows 

 is assured. 



Various Notes. 



For years our gardeners have devoted 

 much time and care to the cultivation of 

 hybrid tea roses, as they need roses of 

 this class for the many house decorations 

 they are constantly making. The new 

 hybrid tea, Frau Karl Druschki, has 

 proved itself perfectly hardy here and a 

 perpetual bloomer. The fiowers are large, 

 perfectly formed, and open well. In color 

 it is snow-white, with shell-shaped petals. 

 The plant is strong and very vigorous; 

 it is pronounced here by all who have 

 seen it as an ideal white rose. Paul Vol- 

 quardson, gardener to Mrs. William G. 

 Weld, has been especially successful with 

 it. 



How true it is that the great beauty 

 and easy cultivation of many of our 

 hardy herbaceous perennials are very lit- 

 tle appreciated. All the campanulas are 

 of the easiest growth, and when taken 

 care of make elegant, showy plants. A 

 group of these bellflowers which was most 

 attractive was shown at the recent exhi- 

 bition by William G. Postings, gardener 

 to Hon. Winthrop Chanler. 



If nothing in the way of a severe storm 

 occurs there will next month be one of 

 the grandest lots of dahlias in bloom 

 ever seen here since the dahlia craze has 

 taken possession of us all. The im- 

 proved cactus types are mostly grown, 

 although all kinds are well represented. 

 There is also much interest in growing 

 seedlings. Zero. 



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Pierre, S. D. — Enoe & Barney feeF 

 well pleased with the way business iS 

 opening for them. The field is a good 

 one and the use of plants and flowers is 

 constantly increasing. They contemplate 

 an early addition to their glass area. 



