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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



May 31, 1906. 



Peonies. Valley 



and all seasonable Cut Flowers of best quality in large supply. 

 D8SK6tS and Commencements KlDDOIlS 



Florists^ Supplies of every kind. Send us your mail 

 orders, get the right goods and save money. 



A. L Randall Co. RANboVptfsT. Chicago 



L. D. PHONKS-Cut Flower Dept., 1490 and 1494 Central; Florists* Supply Dept., 5614 Central. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



bizarres and bybloemens in varietj-. All 

 these tulips, if planted in a somewhat 

 shady border, are fine for May 30. The 

 calceolaria and coreopsis succeed admir- 

 ably in a cold house. 



W. N. Craig. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The wholesale market remains weak. 

 There is plenty of stock, much more 

 than could be disposed of last week. 

 The retailers nearly all complain of slow 

 trade. A few good funeral orders 

 helped out, although transient trade 

 seems to have almost disappeared. Cheap 

 sales among the down-town florists have 

 become quite a business, with carnations 

 and roses at 15 cents per dozen. In 

 about two weeks the season will be over, 

 with June weddings and school com- 

 mencements, and all we will have to de- 

 pend upon will be funeral work, which 

 seems also slow during the summer 

 months. 



The stock seen at the commission 

 houses is of very good quality. Koses 

 are keeping up in quality fairly well, 

 with prices too low for the stock offered. 

 Carnations, too, are holding up good in 

 supply and quality. Last week these 

 were only bringing $1.50 per hundred 

 for fancy stock in Enchantress, Craig 

 and Fisher. 



Decoration day hardly makes much 

 difference in price, as only the cheapest 

 outdoor stock sells on that day. Sweet 

 peas are not overplentiful, owing to the 

 very dry season. 



Variotis Notes. 



A. Dietsch, of the A. Dietsch Co., 

 Chicago, spent a day in the city last 

 week, in company with W. C. Smith and 

 A. C. Burrows, who showed him the city 

 by gas light. 



Harry Ellison is now with the Ellison 

 Floral Co., at Grand and Olive streets. 

 He recently was married. 



Frank M. Ellis will return June 15 

 from Panama, where he has been since 

 February 1. 



A. Jablonsky has offered his old place 

 at Wellston for sale. It consists of six 

 houses. Mr. Jablonsky 's new place at 

 Central is in fine shape, under the man- 

 agement of Henry Braun. 



W. C. Burrows, of the late firm of 



THE Florists* Supply House of America 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



50, 52, 54 and 56 No. 4fh St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Commencement and 

 Wedding Baskets.... 



rWlE have a splendid assortment of novel and staple 

 ill baskets in every style suitable for the school and 

 college graduate, for bride or bridesmaid and flower girl. 

 We can fill your orders on short notice; satisfaction guar- 

 anteed. Did you see our cuts last week in the Review ? 

 That Adjustable Plant Stand is a good thing. TRY IT. 



Fo'jtrRoirvases Poinpeian Toneware 



Mention The Eevlew when you write. 



Filcher & Burrows, has opened oflBces in 

 the Lincoln Trust building, being now 

 in the real estate brokerage business. 



Henry Emmons, of Belleville, was a 

 caller last week. He says his outdoor 

 stock is in fine shape, as his fine well 

 supplied him with plenty of water dur- 

 ing the dry spell. 



Frank Weber, of H. J. Weber & Sons, 

 nurserymen, expects a big delegation 

 from here to attend the convention of 

 the American Association of Nursery- 

 men at Dallas, Tex., June 13 to 15. 



Henry Ostertag reports a busy week 

 with funeral work and has a few good 

 wedding orders ahead for June. 



Fred Ammann, of Edwardsville, was 

 in the city last week. He hopes for a 

 big attendance at the June meeting of 

 the Florists' Club, and any one wanting 

 to know how to grow sweet peas, also 

 smilax, should not fail to hear the dis- 

 cussions of Messrs. Winter and Aul at 

 this meeting. 



The west end florists report an excep- 



tionally busy week with funeral work. 

 Among them are Geo. Waldbart, Mrs. 

 Ayers, F. C. Weber, Miss Newman and 



others. 



A. G. Greiner, the cactus grower, re- 

 ceived a car-load of new cactus plants 

 from Mexico the past week. Mr. 

 Greiner has worked up a fine shipping 

 trade. 



The league bowling season ends next 

 week. The florists' team is not well up 

 this season. They were beaten last week 

 in their match with the Kerns. Kuehn 

 was in good form and rolled high. He 

 was followed by Ellison, Schreifer, 

 Lohrenz and Beneke. j_ j^ g^ 



Grand Forks, N. D. — Work has been 

 started on E. O. Lovell's new green- 

 house. 



Peru, Ind. — Wm. G. Miller has bought 

 out F. B. Tinker and will take posses- 

 sion of the place on June 1. 



