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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



NovEMBBa 2, 1905. 



NEPHROLEPIS PIERSONI 



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Grand stock, in all sizes. Very popular in New York and all the Urs:e cities* 



UNPRECEDENTED SALE OE LARGE SPECIMENS 



Prices from 75c each ; $9.00 per doz.; $50.00 per lOO, up to $2.00, 

 $3.00, $5.00 and $7.50 each. Salisf action Guaranteed. 



F, R. PIERSON CO., TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 



Mention The Reylew when yoa write. 



ST. LOUIS. 



TheMaHut 



Business the past week was not very 

 encouraging. The sharp change in the 

 weather should have a beneficial effect. 

 Cut stock, that has been arriving in quan- 

 tities more than the market could handle, 

 has shortened up considerably. The call 

 for carnations is especially good and 

 this stock cleans up almost every day 

 at advanced prices. White, with En- 

 chantress and Lawson, sell best. 



Beauties are selling better than they 

 were, with extra fancy limited. Shorts 

 are plentiful. Brides and Maids have 

 shortened up, Richmond and Meteor are 

 plentiful, also Perle. Carnot is fine, but 

 scarce. All of the above have advanced 

 slightly in price. « 



Extra fine valley sells well at $4. Vio- 

 lets are good in color and stems, though 

 hardly enough are in to supply the de- 

 mand. Chrysanthemums are still going 

 off easily and nearly everything wanted 

 in this line is now obtainable. There is 

 no glut, although the big prices for 

 choice blooms of previous years do not 

 materialize. There was quite a lot of 

 shipping among the wholesalers last 

 week. 



Various Notes. 



The Simmons Hardware Co. will hold 

 a free chrysanthemum show in its china 

 department this week. They have in- 

 vited the florists of the city to show 

 not less than five plants for prizes of 

 $75 for first and $50 for second, the 

 decision to be left to popular vote by 

 the visitors. 



Ed. Honlihan killed himself on Tues- 

 day of last week at his home, 3632 Evans 

 avenue. He was well known in the trade 

 but was out of employment. He was an 

 inveterate smoker of cigarettes. 



J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, is 

 sending in some extra fine blooms of 

 Bichmond, also a good cut of fine Chate- 

 nay. 



Mary Gorley, wife of Vincent Gorley, 

 has instituted divorce proceedings the 

 past week. 



Julius Koenig and Otto Brunig, at 

 Berning's, are fast becoming expert 



bowlers. They intend to join the florist 

 bowlers on Monday nights. 



The employees of Citj Hall park are 

 busy planting some 50,000 tulip bulbs 

 in the big beds just vacated by the sum- 

 mer plants. 



Eobert Meinhardt, who recently opened 

 a store at Sarah and Suburban streets, 

 has taken John S. Dierkes, who was for- 

 merly with Grimm & Gorley, into part- 

 nership. The firm will be known as Mein- 

 hardt & Dierkes. They make a great 

 team. 



C. Young & Sons Co. have had a busy 

 week. Among their work was the event 

 of the social season, the ScuUen-Wade 

 wedding. The church and residence were 

 beautifully decorated. The bride carried 

 a large buncn of white orchids. The 

 Wade residence, where the reception was 

 held, was elaborately decorated in pink 

 and white, with many fine plants. 



The posters for the flower show are out 

 and in the windows of the florists. They 

 are small but neat and very attractive. 

 The committee has distributed some 10,- 

 000 postal cards among the retail florists, 

 announcing tho date of the show. Theo. 

 Miller, who is auditor of the show, re- 

 ports everything favorable. The club's 

 special prize for 100 American Beauties 

 should bring out a big competition, the 

 first prize being $100, second $75 an.l 

 third $50. This will be the feature on 

 Friday, the third day of the show. 



Henry Lohrenz has his new show 

 house well stocked with extra fine decora- 

 tive plants. Henry reports trade good 

 since opening the new place. 



The Florists' League bowlers had no 

 trouble in defeating champion Martin 

 Kern's team on last week. Two of the 

 three games played Capt. Beyer was not 

 able to roll and H. Lohrenz took his 

 place. Bobert Meinhardt made 607 in 

 the three games, Beneke, 537; Kuehn, 

 499; Ellison, 485, and Lohrenz, 429. 



J. J. B. 



Ironton, Ohio. — A. C. Ullrich & Son 

 have been holding a very successful 

 sale of Boston ferns, stock which they 

 did not have room to carry through 

 the winter. Cheap prices brought 

 many buyers who had never before 

 visited the greenhouses. 



PIPING THREE HOUSES. 



I want to heat three houses, built 

 without partitions, with hot water to 52 

 degrees when it is 20 degrees below 

 zero outdoors. One house is 17x85, twelve 

 feet to the ridge, side wall seven feet 

 half wood and half glass. The west end' 

 is protected for four feet and the east 

 end entirely so. Two houses are each 

 14x85, eleven feet to the ridge, the north 

 side wood to the gutter, ends the same 

 as the other house. The heater is to be 

 located in a pit one foot below the 

 level of the houses. How many lineal 

 feet of 1%-inch pipe will be required 

 and how would it beet be located! 



J. H. S. 



The largest house, 17x85, should have 

 a 2% -inch flow pipe supplying ten 1%- 

 inch retuAis distributed under the 

 benches. Each of the houses 14x85 

 should have a 2-inch supply flowing into 

 eight 1%-inch returns. If a pressure 

 system is used elevate the expansion tank 

 twdve to fifteen feet above the highest 

 point in the system. If these houses are 

 on the ridge and furrow plan, with no 

 side walls except the outside ones, the 

 center house wiU require slightly less 

 piping than that above specified. 



L. c. a 



PACIFIC COAST. 



CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANTS. 



I had the pleasure during the past 

 week of inspecting a garden that was 

 truly typical of California. Everything 

 planted in it, from the sidewalk to the 

 back yard fence, was a native of this 

 state and from the lowest border to the 

 many splendid specimen trees on various 

 parts of the grounds, all were iB«tigen- 

 ous to the soil. It was hardly possible to 

 believe that we have so many valuable 

 ornamental trees and shrubs and the 

 fact that there was nothing in the 

 garden except what grows wild in differ- 

 ent parts of this state made it doubly 

 interesting. On the sidewalks were 

 planted alternating Juglans Californica 

 and Castanopsis chrysophylla, the latter 



