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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Septembeb 28, 1005. 



Killarney and Richmond 



Wc grow these two superb new varieties in large quantities and are now 

 ready to offer a fine cut of them. KILLARNEY is in a class by itself, a 

 rose that sells on sight. RICHIVIOND can^t be beat as a red rose — frag- 

 rance, color and keeping quality are right there. 



Our Brides, Maids, Liberties, Beauties, etc., are now in fine 

 shape. We can furnish them in quantity and of very fine quality. Carna- 

 tions in both new and standard sorts. Everytiiing in season at 

 lowest maricef rates. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. 



35 Randolph St., Chicago 



MpntJon The ReTlcw when you write. 



opinion of California is not, up to the 

 present at least, as pronounced as that 

 of his w. p. f., or, pardon the poor joke, 

 as that of G. L. Grant. 



I might write for hours of Mr, "Wint- 

 zer's instructive talk of what he 

 showed David and Jonathan. Suffice it 

 to say that the latter left convinced 

 that for simple, every-day bedding, 

 Brandywine, scarlet, bronze foliage, and 

 Buttercup, yellow, green foliage, are 

 hard to beat. The former is medium, 

 the latter dwarf. Phil. 



(To be continued.) 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



The temperature the past week acted 

 something like the business, one day up 

 in the nineties, the next day near the 

 frost line. Business is improving, but 

 only in a small way. Local demand is 

 for the better quality of stock. The 

 cooler weather has also encouraged the 

 retailers to carry much larger stocks 

 than for some months back. 



The call for light-colored material was 

 quite lively the past week and the mar- 

 ket was cleaned up pretty well, except 

 in roses, of which there are more than 

 the demand calls for. Brides and Maids 

 are small and more or less mildewed. In 

 red roses Meteor is good. First quality 

 Beauties sell readily, but are scarce. 

 Plenty of short and medium are to be 

 had. 



Carnations are improving every day. 

 Good white sell well, also Lawson and 

 Enchantress. The latter variety will be 

 grown this season in large quantities 

 by our local growers. Very little out- 

 door stock is coming in. Cosmos is slow 

 in making its appearance this season. 

 Some very fine dahlias are to be had, 

 also single tuberoses. More chrysanthe- 

 mums are expected next week. All 

 "greens" are plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



E. J. Fancourt, representing Pennock, 

 of Philadelphia, has been in town selling 

 ribbons. 



E. W. Guy, A. G. Fehr and Henry 

 Emunds, of Belleville, who were over the 



past week, report trade fairly good with 

 them in the cut flower line. 



Beyer Bros, have received their im- 

 portation of bulbs and are busy potting 

 some 20,000 for the holiday trade. 



Fred Weber, Jr., has returned from 

 his eastern trip. The store has just re- 

 ceived a fine lot of palms for the fall 

 trade. The large conservatory is very 

 attractive. . 



Henry Felter, on Lexington avenue, 

 will have a fine lot of pot chrysanthe- 

 mums for the local trade. 



George Windier is in great shape for 

 the fall trade, having several hundred 

 extra fine chrysanthemum plants. 



George Waldbart has imported a fine 

 stock of arecas, k(ntias and other deco- 

 rative stock. The past week he was 

 showing as a novelty, night blooming 

 cereus, which attracted a great deal of 

 attention. 



Mrs. M. M. Ayers has her big show 

 house full of extra fine decorative plants. 

 She reports trade very good. 



The Ellison Floral Co. had several 

 large funeral designs the past week for 

 Banker Parson's funeral. 



C. A. Kuehn has been handling some 

 auperb dahlias, also a fine lot of Rich- 

 mond rose and the first white chrysanthe- 

 mums this season. 



Frank M. Ellis is handling a fine lot 

 of Carnot and Kaiserin roses from Miss 

 Belle Miller, of Springfield, also extra 

 fine valley from A. Berdan. 



George Angermueller is receiving a 

 fine lot of first-class roses and a big lot 

 of good outdoor stock. 



Henry Berning received the first con- 

 signment of California violets. Extra 

 good carnations were also seen at his 

 place. 



Theo. Miller's show house is very at- 

 tractive, with a fine lot of palms and 

 other decorative stock. Mr. Miller also 

 has a big trade in fall bulbs. 



Mr. Giger, of New London, Conn., has 

 taken a position with Grim & Gorley as 

 design maker. Mr. Gorley reports that 

 they have given up their down-town 

 branch on Olive street. 



The committee in charge of the flower 

 show held a meeting last week to dispose 

 of some of the details connected with the 

 exhibition. The meeting was attended 



by ail the members, and Messrs. Weber^ 

 Guy, Miller and Meinhardt say that this 

 exhibition will be the best the St. Louis 

 club has ever held. The program will 

 soon be in the hands of the printer. 

 The club members to a man are pulling 

 hard for its success since the report and 

 statement of Chairman Weber at the 

 last club meeting. 



The committee of the Florists' Club 

 to stop ' ' crape pulling, ' ' which is com- 

 posed of J. F. Windt, Carl Beyer and F. 

 J. Fillmore, held a meeting the past 

 week. This committee is doing good 

 work. 



Bowling. 



Carl Beyer was on last Monday elected 

 captain of the team which represent* 

 the club in the Palace league. A. Y. 

 Ellison was elected representative of the 

 club to the league meetings. The club 

 has seven members, Carl Beyer, C. A, 

 Kuehn, Robert Meinhardt, A. Y. Ellison^ 

 J. J. Beneke, Theo. Miller and H. Lohr- 

 enz. This team rolled its first match 

 last week, pitted against the champion 

 Hyde Parks, and made a good showing^ 

 losing the odd game. Capt. Beyer wa» 

 high with 542, Beneke 525, Kuehn 513, 

 Ellison 505 and Meinhardt 478. The 

 games were as follows: 



Name. B E 1 2 3 



Florists 18 20 871 868 824 



Hyde Parks... 24 20 818 906 861 



J. J. 



Total. 

 2.56S 

 2.584 



B. 



NEWPORT, R. L 



The Season's Business. 



It would seem to be the opinion of 

 the craft that the season just closing 

 has been about a fair average one, a 

 great deal better than the past two years 

 and yet disappointing in view of what it 

 bid fair to be at its opening in July, 

 which was very active indeed. An extra 

 good season here always means a goodly 

 number of the largest entertainments, 

 that use up immense quantities of stock 

 and run into the thousands of dollars, 

 but the functions for the most part have 

 been small as regards the floral decora- 

 tions, although there have really been a 

 great number of them. After Labor day 

 we always feel that the beginning of the 

 season's end has come, although of late 



