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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



NOVEMBSB 9, 1906. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



Colder weather has helped the retail 

 trade, though some say that the dull 

 feeling contiues with them. The whole- 

 salers have been busy with both local 

 and shipping trade all of the past week, 

 with hardly anything left over except 

 roses, which are not selling so well just 

 now, owing to the fact that chrysanthe- 

 mums have the call with the flower- 

 loving people. Of these the fancy grades 

 seem late, as very few can be seen at the 

 wholesale houses and growers say that 

 these wUl not make their appearance un- 

 til next week, just too late for our 

 show and just right for the Kansas City 

 show. 



On a trip through the wholesale houses 

 Monday morning fine lots of roses were 

 seen, which included American Beauties 

 in all grades. In mums we see some 

 nice stock. Demand is good, with prices 

 somewhat less than in former years. 

 Carnations are selling clean almost every 

 day and quality is good, especially with 

 Enchantress, Mrs. Lawson and Wolcott. 

 Prices have gone up on fancies. Violets 

 show good color and stem. There are 

 not any too many in the market for the 

 demand. 



In greens smilax is overstocked, as the 

 demand is slow. Others are plentiful. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club held its regular 

 meeting November 2 in the new meeting 

 hall at Grand and Shenandoah avenues. 

 President Ammann opened the meeting 

 at 2 p. m. There were twenty-five mem- 

 bers present, a very slim attendance for 

 the occasion and the importance of the 

 meeting. 



W. E. Burrows, W. J. Walther, R. J. 

 Windier, Henry Braun and Martin Mal- 

 len were elected to membership and W. 

 H. Kruse proposed. The treasurer's re- 

 port showed a decided shrinkage from 

 last report. The crape pulling matter 

 was dropped. 



There was quite a discussion of steri- 

 lized soil for carnations, which was very 

 interesting to carnation and rose grow- 

 ers. In this discussion President Am- 

 mann and Vice-President Steidle took 

 the leading parts. After this the meet- 

 ing adjourned and the flower show guar- 

 antors held a meeting and perfected ar- 

 rangements to entertain any and all visi- 

 tors during the flower show this week. 

 The trustees, Carl Beyer, F. W. Weber 

 and F. J. Fillmore, assisted by Frank M. 

 Ellis and Prof. H. C. Irish, were appoint- 

 ed by the chair to act as a committee 

 to entertain visitors. The next meeting 

 of the club, in the same hall, is on 

 Thursday afternoon, December 14. 



Variotu Notes. 



By the time this issue of the Review 

 is in the hands of our readers the flower 

 show will be in full operation. At this 

 writing the committee is hard at work 

 at the hall to be ready for the opening 

 on Wednesday morning. A full report 

 of the exhibition will appear in the next 

 issue. 



Julius Sehray, of Wm. Schray & Sons, 

 will this month lead to the altar one of 

 the belles of South St. Louis. The happy 

 young lady is Miss Josie Schmitt. The 

 new residence, which is about finished, 

 across the way from the greenhouses will 

 be their home. 



J. W. Pilcher and his partner, Mr. 

 Burrows, left Monday for Chicago, to 



spend a few days at the flower show, 

 returning Thursday to attend the home 

 show, from here to leave again Monday 

 for Kansas City and later in the week 

 will be at the Indianapolis show. 



Miss Perle Fulmer, of Des Moines, 

 la., spent Saturday and Sunday with 

 her brother Carl, who is at present liv- 

 ing in our city. 



G. C. Sanders, J. H. Weber & Sons, 

 Emil Rotenhofer and the Star Nurseries 

 all report a good fall trade, both local 

 and shipping. 



The chrysanthemum show of the Sim- 

 mons Hardware Co. brought into compe- 

 tition four well known florists and all 

 made creditable displays. Ellison Floral 

 Co. 's display was all cut blooms. C. C. 

 Sanders made a design of white bloom- 

 ing plants, in the shape of the company 's 

 trade mark, the Keen Kutter, which was 

 very pretty. Wm. Kalisch & Sons 

 showed some very fine plants and cut 

 blooms with fancy ribbons, making in 

 all a very attractive display. Grimm & 

 Gorley had a group of mixed plants and 

 some cut stock. H. G. Loyet made a 

 small display in which he used gold fish. 

 The company announced on Saturday 

 night that Ellison Floral Co. got first, 

 Kalisch & Sons second and Loyet third 

 premium. The amounts were $75, $50 

 and $25. 



Miss M. S. Newman reports that she 

 had the house decorations for the big 

 Wade-Scullin wedding a week ago, also 

 the big Spencer wedding the next day. 

 This is a correction from the last issue. 

 Young's only having the church decora- 

 tions for the Wade-Scullin wedding. 



Bowling. 



The florists' league team had an easy 

 time of it on Thursday night. They won 

 all three games from the Reliance. This 

 ended the first series of twenty-one 

 games and the boys are in the fourth 

 place, only two games behind the lead- 

 ers, with whom they opened a second 

 series on Tuesday night. Below is the 

 standing of the florists. 



Player. Oaraes. Total. Av. 



Ellison 21 3,.540 169 



Melnhardt 21 .3.538 160 



Keypr 15 . 2,523 160 



Kuehn 21 .3,471 165 



Boneke 21 3,468 165 



Ix)liretiz 6 898 150 



Averajfe per fcame. 836; average per man. 166; 

 hifrb single game (luring the series. Melnhardt, 

 226; high throe games, Melnhardt, GOT; high 

 single game, 012. 



J. J. B. 



Wedding Decorations. 



"This Cometh," according to ye let- 

 ter heade, "frome ye Flower Shoppe 

 kept at 3720 Olive street, in ye Bigge 

 Citie of St. Louis, Mo." 



I write to ask you to correct an error 

 in the St. Louis items of November 2. 

 The house decorations and bridal flowers 

 used at the Wade-Scullin wedding were 

 supplied by me. Over 500 chrysanthe- 

 mums, with Asparagus plumosus, were 

 used, beside palms and foliage plants. 

 On the table I^a Detroit roses, lily of 

 the valley and Farleyense ferns were 

 used. One of the chief features of the 

 wedding, which occurred in the morning, 

 was the bunches of La Detroit roses hav- 

 ing holders fashioned from pink velvet 

 ribbon which matched the broadcloth 

 gowns of the attendants. The bride car- 

 ried white orchids and lily of the valley, 

 with a similar holder of white velvet 

 ribbon. 



The Spencer-Scott nuptials on the day 

 following the Wade-Scullin wedding, 

 w^re.also executed by me. The residence 

 was elaborately decorated, each room be- 



ing distinctive. In the reception hall 

 and the billiard room large white chrys- 

 anthemums were used in abundance^ in 

 the library delicate pink tones prevailed, 

 with smilax and croton foliage. The 

 music room, where the ceremony took 

 place, as also the drawing room, was a 

 bower of asparagus and Carnot roses. 

 The prie-dieu, which was designed for 

 this occasion, was trimmed with the same 

 flowers. In the dining room light pink 

 orchids, with lily of the valley, were 

 used. The bride carried her white or- 

 chids in a queenly style; her sisters act- 

 ing as bridesmaids carried pink roses. 

 It is said this was by far the most select 

 assembly so far this season. 



M. S. Newman. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Business has been very gratifying the 

 past week, funeral work drawing heavi- 

 est on the market, while weddings are 

 also doing their share. Good roses, as 

 always, are in good demand, good 

 Brides and Maids being quite scarce, 

 selling at from $6 to $8 per hundred. 

 Carnations are remarkably scarce, par- 

 ticularly good white and Enchantress, 

 th^ best ranging from $2.50 to $3 per 

 hundred. Chrysanthemums are finding 

 a ready sale. Pink seems rather scarce, 

 while yellows are almost too plentiful. 

 Violets are commencing to come in, but 

 not in such large quantities as in former 

 years, this being particularly noticeable 

 in the Mount Clemens shipments. Both 

 single and double varieties are bringing 

 50 to 75 cents per hundred. The sea- 

 son has hardly begun for this popular 

 flower. Cosmos seems quite scarce, -es- 

 pecially white. 



The Ooting. 



To begin with, the weather man pre- 

 sented the boys with a fine day. Pres- 

 ent from Toledo were George Bayer, L. 

 N. Peck, E. A. Kuhnke, Willis Hon- 

 berger, H. A, Mills, A. Witterstaetter, 

 T. Ritter, O. Krueger, W. T. Philipps, 

 John Barrow, * John Gratopp, Annie 

 Suder, J. Nauman and August Philipps 

 and wife. We had a special car for 

 Mount Clemens. The first stop was made 

 at J. F. Sullivan's. On arriving at the 

 Bath City several hay wagons took the 

 crowd of about sixty-five people to Breit- 

 meyer's. Here a fine lunch was served. 

 Breitmeyer's rose houses are in fine 

 shape, their Beauties, La Detroit and 

 Richmond especially good. Mums were 

 just in their glory. The two varieties 

 introduced in 1904, Majestic and Adelia, 

 showed up in fine shape. Carnations 

 were also fine, especially Enchantress; 

 the other. White Lawson, planted from 

 4-inch pots. 



At Robert Klagge's everything was 

 in splendid shape. He has a new white 

 carnation, a very good yielder. Mr. 

 Klagge, formerly the "violet king," 

 grows but very few violets now. 



At A. L. Stevens' the carnations were 

 very good, but violets are not as good 

 as he used to grow them; it is the old 

 story. 



As it is quite a jaunt from here to 

 James Taylor's, the hay-motors were 

 put in use. Taylor's coffee and dough- 

 nuts are unequaled, and his roses, carna- 

 tions and mums are not behind. Violets 

 have been given up. 



A. Otis says the other fellows can 

 grow red spider, thrips, scale, mealy- 



