May 10, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



)789 



CIT FLOWERS 

 DECORATION DAY 



Send for our price list of seasonable stock 

 for Memorial Day. It may interest you. 



THE GASSER COMPANY 



Wholesale Growers Choice Cut Tlowers 



Euclid Avenue, 



CLEVELAND 



retailers boasted as to how cheap lie 

 bought the morning's supply, and to ver- 

 ify his statement showed his bill, which 

 was as follows: "1,000 assorted roses, 

 $7.50; 1,000 carnations, $5; fifty callas, 

 $1." All the above was first-class stock. 

 The wholesalers are almost forced to 

 these prices to dispose of the stock to 

 make room for new shipments. Outdoor 

 stock is also beginning to crowd the mar- 

 ket, such as lilac, valley, jonquils. Cape 

 jasmine from Texas will come in next 

 week. 



The plantsmon were never so busy as 

 now. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. Abrahamson, representing E. 11. 

 Hunt, Chicago, spent a few days here 

 last week. 



L. Cella, of East St. Louis, died last 

 week. He was a brother-in-law to Chas. 

 Fleckinstein, who was formerly in the 

 ■wholesale business here. Mr. Cella was 

 well known among the trade, coming 

 over almost daily to buy stock. He 

 leaves a wife and two children, who have 

 the sympathy of the trade. 



Adolph Fehr, of Belleville, called last 

 week. Mr. Fehr reports that all the 

 Belleville florists had a big Easter trade 

 and are now kept busy /with plant trade. 



Fred H. Meinhardt is very busy at 

 present attending to cemetery work, of 

 which he has the largest trade in that 

 section. He has very little time to at- 

 tend to the duties to which President 

 Kas^ing has just assigned him, but he 

 is a hustler and will make up for lost 

 time early in June. A better state vice- 

 president could not have been had. 



One of C. Young & Sons Co. 's large 

 show windows was broken last week by 



dynamiting the old cable tracks in front 

 of the store. The damage was $1250, 

 which was paid by the railroad company. 



Ernest Strehle, a gardener at Forest 

 park, was appointed overseer at the park 

 to fill the vacancy caused by the appoint- 

 ment of George Ostertag as superin- 

 tendent of parks. Michael Eatchford 

 will be retained as keeper of the park. 



The Junior School of Horticulture 

 opened its grounds on Wednesday of 

 last week at 4142 Shaw avenue, with Al- 

 len Stevens as instructor. .Three hun- 

 dred enthusiastic children attended the 

 opening and each was assigned a plot of 

 ground 2x10 feet. By the end of the 

 month Mr. Stevens says more than 700 

 children will be in attendance. 



C. C. Sanders says he never was so 

 busy as this year with nursery stock and 

 bedding plants. The big force is kept 

 busy from morning until night. Cut 

 flowers are plentiful, but trade is drag- 

 ging in this line. 



The St. Louis Palm Co. is moving this 

 week to its new location at 1010 Olive 

 street, which is much larger than the 

 old stand. 



W. E. Burrows, who spent a few week.s 

 at his old home in Peoria, 111., returned 

 Monday. 



W. C. Smith will leave this week for 

 a trip to his old home in Milwaukee. 

 He will visit Detroit, Chicago and other 

 points in the interest of his growing 

 business. 



The trustees of the Missouri Botanic 

 Garden gave the sixteenth annual Shaw 

 banquet at the Southern hotel last Satur- 

 day evening. Covers were laid for 140, 

 the decorations being roses and aspara- 

 gus. The menu card bore a picture of 

 the late Henry Shaw, who provided in 



his will for this annual meeting. W. S. 

 Chaplin, chancellor of Washington Uni- 

 versity, was toast-master. The speakers 

 were Prof. Andrew F. West, Princeton 

 University; Prof. F. W. Kelsey, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan; Prof. W. G. Hall, 

 University of Chicago; Prof. K. M. Jesse 

 and Prof. W. G. Manley, both of the 

 University of Missouri. 



The florist bowlers rolled two matches 

 the past week and came out second best 

 in both, although the boys rolled some 

 extra big scores. The league season will 

 end this month, when the boys will coni- 

 nienoe to make preparations for the Day- 

 ton convention. J. J. B. 



DELAWARE, OHIO. 



A brief message received by J. H. Cun- 

 ningham, May 1, stated his son, Hal 

 Cunningham, died very suddenly at Los 

 Angeles, Cal. No mention of the cause 

 or time of his death was made. 



About four years ago Mr. Cunningham 

 left Delaware and sought the mild cli- 

 mate of southern California in the hope 

 of improving his health. He suffered 

 with rheumatism and his spine was af- 

 fected. He improved rapidly, and his 

 sudden death, occurring at a time when 

 he was supposed to be in good health, 

 was a shock to his many friends in 

 Delaware. 



Mr. Cunningham was assistant cashier 

 in the Delaware National Bank and he 

 resigned that position shortly before his 

 departure for California. Several years 

 ago he married Miss Clo Van Trump of 

 this city, who survives him. 



lie was a member of Hiram Lodge 

 F. & A. M., B. P. O. E. and the Dela- 

 ware Club. 



