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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Adodst 31, l«0§. 



Peony Roots 



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Wc have for sale a quantity of Peony Roots of 

 a white variety such as we have found by long 

 experience to be the best for growing for cut 

 flowers for market. If you want the right 

 thing to groWt write us about these* : : : : 



On wire work we can discount our own 

 or any otiier list. Get our prices. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS 

 40-42-44 Randolph Street, CHICAGO. 



PRICE LIST 



BXOAV BSAUarzCS- Per doz. 



Lonr ". UM 



Fair length $2.00 to 8.00 



Per UM 



Brides I8.M to 15.00 



Bridesmaids S.OOto 5.00 



Liberty 8.00to 7.00 



Kalserin S.OOto 7.00 



Golden Gate 8.«eto 5.00 



Oarnations i.00to 1.50 



Asters Mto 100 



Gladioli, common 1.60 



UEbtcolors S.OOto t.OO 



Auratom Lilies... doz., 91.00-^1.50 



Valley, our specialty, best ' 4 00 



Daisies 1.00 



Smilax per dos., $1.60 M.OO 



Adiantum .75 



Sprengeri 2.00feo 4.00 



Asparagus, .per string, 25c to 50c 



Galax 11.00 to f 1.60 per 1000 J5 



Common Ferns per 1000, tl.60 .M 



■nl^ect to ohMiy* withomt m»tlo«. 

 Paoklnff and delivery at eost. 



■ehla^er is on the road for them and is 

 now in the east. 



Fred Dietsch, Louis Wittbold and D. 

 D. English returned from the conven- 

 tion on the morning of August 23. At 

 South Chicago the engine of their train 

 went into a ditch and they received 

 quite a shaking-up. 



Chas. M. Balluff is now at Oshkosh, 

 Wis. 



There have been a number of return- 

 ing conventionites and others in town 

 this week. J. A. Valentine and B. 8. 

 Gillis passed through last Friday. Mr. 

 Valentine will proceed to the Pacific 

 coast, where he will meet Mrs. Valen- 

 tine and go to the Portland ezpositioii. 

 Other visitors were M. Stauch, foreman 

 for J. F. Wilcox, Council Bluffs, and 

 Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Smith, of Ashland, 

 Wis.; Mr. Karsten, of Chattanooga, re- 

 turning from the Pacific coast; Wm. F. 

 Gude, Washington, D. C, en route to Col- 

 orado. Mr. Gude received many congrat- 

 ulations on the success of the convention. 



Weiland & Bisch are cutting some 

 very good Brides, stems two feet long. 

 They say that Killarney has caught on, 

 the retailers placing orders days in ad- 

 vance. 



Miss Nell M. Sisler, of E. H. Hunt's, 

 has returned from a two weeks' trip 

 to the Yellowstone. J. Q. A. Tumbull, 

 one of Hunt's road force, has been in 

 court to recover a valuable collie re- 

 cently stolen from him and was suc- 

 cessful. Wm. Abrahamson, long in the 

 store, is just back from his first trip 

 for Hunt and brought some nice orders. 



The Growers' Market has been nicely 

 repapered and repainted and put in 

 shape for the new season. John Kruch- 

 ten has rented three stands at the mar- 

 ket and will sell the cut of his father 

 and others. 



J. A. Budlong's Maids continue of ex- 

 ceptional color in spite of the several 

 very hot days the past week. 



On August 29 fire destroyed the build- 

 ing at South Chicago in which the store 

 of M. Tredup was located. 



The market is full of the Benthey 

 aster. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The Wm. Don- 

 aldson Co. is building another green- 

 house at Park avenue and Thirty-fifth 

 street 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Back in dear old St. Louis, after 

 spending ten days in and around Wash- 

 ington, the convention city, we find all 

 the cut flower trade in about the same 

 condition aa when we left it. Trade is 

 very duU, with only funeral work to de- 

 pend upon. In a visit to the wholesale 

 houses we find that stock is still quite 

 plentiful and of fair quality, with prices 

 about as we left them. Among rosea we 

 find good lots of Kaiserin and Meteor, 

 which sell welL Brides and Maids are 

 yet small in flower and stem. These sell 

 well to work up in funeral designs. 

 There are fairly good Beauties, of which 

 the medium length stems sell the best. 

 Fancy long are always in demand. Car- 

 nations are very poor in all varieties and 

 show the effects of the hot weather. The 

 bulk of them are from the field. 



Valley is very good, but slow in de- 

 mand. Auratum lilies, tuberose stalks, 

 hydrangeas and gladioli are still abun- 

 dant; so are asters, but they sell bet- 

 ter, especially the white, which clean up 

 pretty well each day of late. 



In speaking to some of our local grow- 

 ers they say that it will be but a short 

 time when better quality of stock vnll be 

 in the market. The young rose and car- 

 nation stock has made a fine growth and 

 is promising well for first-class early 

 blooms and everyone hopes that they 

 will be in before the chrysanthemums, 

 which always put other stock on the 

 shelf for the time being. Chrysanthe- 

 mum plants, too, are in the best of 

 shape, and, from the looks of things, 

 some fine blooms will be cut here this 

 faU. 



Various Notes. 



Now that the twenty-^st annual con- 

 vention of the Society of American Flo- 

 rists has passed into history, and most 

 of the local tradesmen have returned, I 

 know that they are with me in express- 

 ing our thanks to the Washington 

 brothers for the royal time we had while 

 in their city, not forgetting the brothers 

 from Baltimore and Philadelphia. The 

 bowlers, too, are loud in their praise as 

 to the bowling management. We did 

 not do well as a team, but bagged the 



three highest games ever bowled in an 

 S. A. F. tournament. The single high 

 score of 240, by Deacon Harris, of Phil- 

 adelphia^ at St. Louis, in 1893, still 

 stands as a record. Philadelphia first, 

 Detroit last, but then Brothers Breit- 

 meyer and Sullivan can content them- 

 selves by the old saying, "It's all right 

 to be on top, but it's the bottom dollar 

 that counts." Chicago's vest-pocket 

 prize looked good to the boys, 

 but then Brother Altick promises us fine 

 alleys next year at Dayton, and we will 

 all meet again for a good time, when 

 we all hope for better luck. 



The many St. Louis friends of Presi- 

 dent-elect Wm. F. Kasting are much 

 pleased vnth his election to the highest 

 honors that can be bestowed on any 

 member of our society. "Billy," as he 

 is better known, was formerly a resi- 

 dent of our city, back in the eighties, 

 and we all know that he will make good 

 anything he undertakes. Through his 

 efforts we can safely look forward to a 

 large attendance at Dayton next year. 

 The bowlers, too, will be well looked 

 after, as "Billy" is president of that 

 body as well. 



The next meeting of the Florists' Club 

 will be held on Thursday afternoon, Sep- 

 tember 14. This meeting will take place 

 at J. H. Weber & Sons' nursery in Gar- 

 denville. All members, with their la- 

 dies, are invited to attend. Some very 

 important matters will come up. One of 

 the features will be the installation of 

 the newly elected officers, for which elab- 

 orate preparations have been made. 

 Short talks from the convention dele- 

 gates wiU also be heard. 



On Saturday a runaway horse dashed 

 into the store of Mrs. M. M. Ayers, on 

 Grand avenue, demolishing the plate 

 glass windows and a numl^ of valua- 

 ble planta 



Charlie Kuehn, with Mrs. Kuehn and 

 two children, is in Detroit, visiting the 

 old folks. 



J. W. Pilcher, of Pilcher & Burrows, 

 florists' supply brokers, St. Louis, is 

 spending a week in New York (Sty in 

 the interest of his firm. This was Mr. 

 Pilcher 's first convention away from 

 home, and the good business licks he put 

 in while at Washington make him say 

 he will never miss one from now on. 



