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The Weekly Flcttists^ Review* 



September 21, 1005. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



The revival of trade has not yet 

 reached this city, although the floristf, 

 as well as those in all other lines of 

 business are preparing for great activity 

 in fall trade. The past week trade was 

 somewhat better but not enough to call 

 us busy. The quality of the flowers 

 coming to this market averages rather 

 inferior. Some of the rose stock is 

 badly mildewed and asters are making 

 their last run. Oarnations are very 

 poor, be they from the field or indoor 

 grown. 



Early cosmos has begun to arrive but 

 only in small lots. Chrysanthemums are 

 also showing up in small lots of white, 

 the first bringing $2.50 per dozen. Val- 

 < ley is having a better call, as quite a few 

 fall weddings are reported to take place 

 this week. Outdoor stock has the ap- 

 pearance of autumn, and gladioli, hy- 

 drangeas and Clematis paniculata will 

 soon be things of the past for this 

 season. 



Carnation growers say that about 

 two-thirds of the carnations are already 

 housed and that the plants are uniform- 

 ly fine and great crops are expected from 

 them this winter. 



Qub Meeting. 



The club meeting September 14, held 

 at H. J. Weber & Sons' nursery, was at- 

 tended by forty-five members, many ac- 

 compaui^:d by their ladies. The Messrs. 

 Weber were in waiting with conveyances 

 to be taken to the place of meeting. On 

 arriving at their beautiful home we were 

 taken in hand by the old gentleman, H. 

 J. Weber, assisted by his sons, Frank A., 

 W. T., W. A. and G. A. Weber, and 

 shown through their large place, where 

 thousands of fruit and ornamental trees, 

 evergreens, shrubs and hardy roses can 

 be seen. The greenhouse men were 

 greatly interested in the two new houses 

 just built, each being 20x148, for roses. 

 The houses were built by Thompson and 

 are fitted out with a large Florence 

 boiler. 



The ladies in the meantime were well 

 taken care of by Mrs. Weber and the 

 Misses Weber. Among the ladies pres- 

 ent were Mesdames Juengel, Schray, 

 Meinhardt, Beyer, Miller, Weber, San- 

 ders, Pilcher, Beneke, Koenig, Berning, 

 Fillmore, Ude, Jr., Klockenkemper, Stei- 

 del. Windier, Jablonsky, Fehr, Guy, 

 Emunds, Angermueller, Misses Maggie 

 and Linnie Meinhardt, Watson, Brunig 

 and Klockenkemper. 



The meeting opened at 3 p. m. in the 

 big packing shed, "which was especially 

 decorated for the occasion. F. C. Weber 

 stated that good progress is being made 

 and that the success of the fall show 

 is assured. He wantetl it understood that 

 no one man is running this show, but 

 the committee together is in charge. The 

 building committee was discharged. The 

 secretary then read a letter from J. F. 

 Windt in regard to "crape pulling." 

 After a big discussion the chair ap- 

 pointed a committee of three, consisting 

 of Messrs. Windt, Beyer and Fillmore, 

 to draw up resolutions for the daily pa- 

 pers to see if we cannot get rid of this 

 element which is now overrunning the 

 city. 



The next in order was the installation. 

 The chair appointed J. J. Beneke as in- 

 stallation officer, who called the newly 

 elected officers before him and read to 



each officer his duty. President Ammann 

 read his address and assumed the duties 

 of his office. All the retiring officers 

 were tendered a vote of thanks for their 

 work of the past year. H. J. Weber 

 was made an honorary member of the 

 club. Eefreshments were then served. 

 Everyone voted it to be one of the best 

 meetings we ever had. 



Variouf Notes. 



Mr. Burrows, of Pilcher & Burrows, 

 florists' brokers, has returned after a 

 ten days' business trip. The firm's busi- 

 ness is increasing each week. 



George M. Kellogg, of Pleasant Hill, 

 Mo., spent a few days in the city on 

 business. 



Theo. Miller and Fred C. Weber have 

 invited the members of the club on Sep- 

 tember 27 from 2 to 5 p. m., for an 

 entertainment at Mr. Miller's place, 

 4832 Delraar avenue. This is in return 

 to the boys for the entertainment given 

 Messrs. Miller and Weber before leaving 

 and upon returning from Europe. A 

 good time is expected. 



Carew Sanders, who was reported 

 very sick some time back, is on the road 

 to recovery, but not yet able to leave 

 the house. 



Our suburban members attend the 



NOTE 



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 TO HEAR PROM YOU. 



meetings of the club more regularly than 

 most of the city members, as shown by 

 the last meeting of the club. There 

 were present J. F. Ammann, of Ed- 

 wardsville; E. W. Guy, Henry Emunds, 

 Adolph Fehr, of Belleville; Henry 

 Johann, of Collinsville; John Connon, of 

 Webster Groves; F. W. Ude, Jr., W. J. 

 Pilcher, Wm. Winter, of Kirkwood; 

 James W. Dunford, of Clayton; John 

 Steidel, Mr. Braun and A. Jablonsky, 

 of Central, Mo. 



The Growers' Club will meet this 

 week, W^ednesday afternoon, at F. W. 

 Ude's place in Kirkwood. The next 

 regular meeting of the club will be held 

 October 18, in Belleville, on invitation 

 of its president. Dr. A. S. Halstead. 



The store recently vacated by George 

 Wagner, 4651 Maryland avenue, is 

 again open under the name of Michel, 

 with Harry Rieman as manager. 



The official photographer, Rude 

 Windt, took several pictures at the last 

 club meeting, one each of the officers, 

 ladies and the members. 



George Waldbart is making a great 

 show of outdoor flowers grown at his 

 place in Clayton. The dahlias are espe- 

 cially fine varieties. He says business 

 has been very good of late. 



Bowling. 



Eight bowlers rolled three games on 

 Monday night and some good scores were 

 made: 



Team No. 1. Ist 2d 3d T'l 



Beneke 153 180 223 56tt 



Miller 141 171 130 4«2 



Gerlach 110 141 109 30) 



Lohrenz 173 142 118 433 



Totals 587 634 580 1811 



Team No. 2. Ist 2d 3d Tl 



Kuehu 168 141 156 465 



Meinhardt 172 153 203 538 



Beyer 163 165 146 474 



Pilcher 161 129 112 402 



Totals 



.664 688 617 1879 



J. J. B. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



The Market. 



A spurt of funeral work the past week, 

 combined with renewed activity in out- 

 side shipping, has kept the grower busy 

 and in a measure broke the summer 

 quietness. From now on business is ex- 

 pected to be brisk. 



Carnations are scarce and short- 

 stemmed, but cool nights will soon length- 

 en them. Roses are mostly poor, al- 

 though there are a few that can lay claim 

 to being good. Liilies have been seen at 

 the stores all summer and have met with 

 a ready sale, some cold-storage gigan- 

 teums, also rubrum and speeiosum. As- 

 ters are a glut. Violet stock looks fine, 

 and promises a very productive crop. 



Various Notes. 



Blanksma Bros, are building a new 

 house for cucumbers and lettuce. 



Crabb & Hunter have installed a large 

 Morehead trap at their Lake greenhouses, 

 and are finishing an office 20x38. It will 

 be lighted with both gas and electricity. 



Henry Smith is kept busy these days, 

 looking after his 150 acres of fruit, to 

 say nothing of the greenhouse business. 

 •Freyling & Mendals have given up 

 their down-town store, believing they can 

 sell all their flowers at their greenhouses, 

 and rumor has it that Chas. Chadwick 

 will in the near future follow suit. Mr. 

 Chadwick is doing without a foreman 

 now. His stock is looking fine. 



Wm. Cunningham reports trade begin- 

 ning to pick up. 



A club meeting will be called in the 

 near future. A movement is on foot to 

 have the meetings held at the residences 

 of the members, as in times past such 

 meetings were always well attended and 

 productive of the best results. 



The West Michigan State Fair opened 

 September 19. Bruins Slot & Sons, the 

 Grand Rapids Floral Co., Crabb & Hunt- 

 er and Henry Smith are the floral exhibi- 

 tors. 



It is rumored that James Hancock 

 will open a commission store in Detroit. 



G. F. C. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Geo. E. Kessler, 

 the landscape artist who planned the 

 flower show arrangement scheme, has 

 gone to New York and will sail for Eu- 

 rope in a few days, to be absent until 

 after the November exhibition. 



Athens, O. — Simon Brouwer did not 

 find the output of 3,000 feet of glass 

 sufficient for the demand and has erected 

 another house 15x80 feet. 



