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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



November 15, lOOG. 



ST.LOUIS. 



The Market 



The market was much overloaded with 

 almost everything last week and prices 

 were on the downward path. The com- 

 plaints of slow business were general. 



The abundance of chrysanthemums has 

 at last forced the prices down on almost 

 ••vcrything, and mums themselves have 

 dropped in price. Extra fine stock goes 

 at $2, while Eatons run to $3 per dozen. 

 Roses were slaughtered, selling for $5 to 

 $10 per thousand. The extra select still 

 hang on to $5 per hundred. 



Carnations were too many for the de- 

 mand for the first time this season. One 

 wholesaler remarked : ' ' The glut is on, 

 the demand slow, so we have got to let 

 them go for whatever they bring. ' ' 



Violets are not overplentiful, but meet 

 witli slow sale. lixtra fine liJy of the 

 valley is scarce. A few Paper Whites 

 were in last week. They sold well at $4. 

 Callas are coming in. Smilax is plenti- 

 ful, as are other greens except adian- 

 tum. 



Qub Meeting. 



The club held its regular meeting jSIo- 

 veraber 8. The attendance was large, 

 attracted by the chrysanthemum blooms 

 on exhibition. Himmer Bros, showed 

 fine blooms of Major Bonnaffon, (!ol. Ap- 

 pleton and Timothy Eaton. The Bent- 

 zen Floral Co. staged Alice Byron, Mrs. 

 Buckbee, Mrs. Perrin and A. J. Balfour. 

 James W. Dunford showed Col. Apple- 

 ton, Dr. Enguehard, Timothy P'aton and 

 Florence Vaughan. The last named were 

 fine blooms. Edwin Denker, of St. 

 Charles, showed a fine vase of Yellow 

 Eaton. Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, 

 Mich., sent a bunch of new varieties, 

 among which Sunburst and Theodore 

 Roosevelt were much admired. 



The meeting opened at three o 'clock, 

 with President Irish in the chair and all 

 the other officers present. The amend- 

 ment to the by-laws was adopted by a 

 full vote. State Vice-President William 

 C. Young stated that he could secure bet- 

 ter rates to the S. A. F. convention by 

 applying for them early in December, 

 and thought that a delegation of at least 

 forty would attend next year. The trus- 

 tess were instructed to find a new meet- 

 ing hall more centrally located. 



The president appointed W. C. Young, 

 H. G. Pring and P. Gicbel as judges, 

 who made the following report: Twelve 

 white, Himmer Bros, first, on Eaton ; J. 

 W. Dunford second, also on Eaton; 

 Bentzen Floral Co. third, on Alice By- 

 ron. Twelve yellow, Himmer Bros, first, 

 with Bonnaffon, and second with Apple- 

 ton;, J. W. Dunford third, with Apple- 

 ton. Twelve pink, Bentzen Floral Co. 

 first, with A. J. Balfour, and second, 

 with Mrs. Perrin; J. W. Dunford third, 

 with Dr. Enguehard. The judges com- 

 mended Nathan Smith & Son's blooms, 

 which were not for competition, espe- 

 cially Sunburst and Theodore Roosevelt. 



The question then came up regarding 

 a big show for next year. After discus- 

 sion a vote was taken and it was decided 

 to hold such a show and to raise a fund 

 of $10,000. A committee, to consist of 

 Frank A. Weber, A. J. Bentzen and W. 

 C. Smith, was appointed to raise this 

 fund. 



The talk of F. A. Weber on "Does It 

 Pay to Advertise?" put the members all 

 in good humor. 



Gustave Eggeling, of the Eggeling 

 Floral Co., made application for mem- 

 bership. 



W. C. Smith auctioned off the prize- 

 winning blooms, which brought big 

 prices. . • ,; 



Various Notes. 



J. J. Kierns, representing H. A. Dreer, 

 Philadelphia, is here this week. 



H. C. Irish and W. C. Smith left 

 for Chicago after the club meeting last 

 week. They have returned and report a 

 great show. Charles Kuehn, Vincent 

 Gorley, Frank M. Ellis and George Wind- 

 ier also were visitors at the Chicago 

 show. 



Henry Ostertag is taking a great in- 

 terest in next year's show and says he 

 has already nearly $1,000 subscribed to 

 the guarantee fund. 



Frank Vennemann, at Kirkwood, is 

 having fine success with his violets and 

 carnations this year. 



Keeper Ratchgood, of Forest park, 

 had a great deal of trouble with fires in 

 the park last week. George Ostertag, the 

 superintendent of parks, spent last week 

 in Chicago on both pleasure and busi- 

 ness. 



In a marked copy of a Butte, Mont., 

 paper sent by a friend we read an arti- 

 cle describing a wedding decoration. 

 There was a misplaced comma which 

 made it read like this : * ' The chande- 

 liers were hung with smilax and hand- 

 somely dressed women, anu men passing 

 under looked up with interest." 



The free chrysanthemum show at 

 Shaw's Garden opened Monday in a 

 large tent. The crowd came early, and 

 all during the day the garden was 

 crowded. J. J. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



J^'lower show week was an exceedingly 

 dull one in the wholesale cut flower mar- 

 ket. The shipping demand was not act- 

 ive, and the local buying was largely of 

 select stock required by the retailers for 

 their Coliseum displays. This week 

 opened with wintry weather of such dis- 

 agreeable character that city demand was 

 reduced to stock for decorations ordered 

 in advance. There was no transient 

 trade the first few days of this week. 

 Shipping demand, however, showed much 

 better. 



For the last week the market has ap- 

 proached closer to a glut than at any 

 time this season. The chrysanthemum 

 crops are at the top. Growers are not 

 cutting nearly as much as they could, for 

 the market has all that it can consume. 

 Roses are in abundant supply and of 

 splendid quality. Beauties are not quite 

 as plentiful as they were, but crops are 

 just coming on in the other varieties. 

 Red roses are selling well. 



For the first time this season there was 

 a waste of carnations last week. The 

 sudden increase in supply, together with 

 exceptionally light demand, left carna- 

 tions to go to sleep on wholesalers 

 hands. This week the supply is some- 

 what reduced by dark weather, and val- 

 ues are more stable, but it appears that 

 there will be no shortage in carnations 

 from this time on. 



New York violets are in good supply 

 and selling well. The quality of many 

 of the shipments is superb, although the 

 growers have not yet found any way of 

 shipping the fragrance. Home-grown 

 singles are in light supply. 



Calla lilies now have come to the relief 

 of Harrisii and the price on the latter 

 is lower. A few Paper White are avail- 

 able, the advance guard of the great 



army of bulbous stock which soon will 

 be on the march, and continue in review 

 until after Easter. Valley has been 

 marked up a little in price because c; 

 short supplies. 



The indoor greens are not in large de- 

 mand. There is a fair call xor wild smi- 

 lax, and boxwood is in heavy demand.* 

 Practically every one is using this green 

 this year, and it no doubt is hurting the 

 sale of bunched indoor stock. . , . 



Thanksgiving. 



There is every prospect that there will 

 be abundant supplies in all lines for 

 Thanksgiving. The high price of carna- 

 tions is likely to divert the orders to 

 other items so that there will be enough 

 for all requirements. At any rate he is 

 an exceedingly unwise grower who holds 

 back stock. There are sure to be good 

 prices for a whole week before the holi- 

 day and it may be set down as unques- 

 tionable that suppliies will be so great 

 that pickled stock will have mighty little 

 chance of a sale for Thanksgiving. 

 Don't hold back. Market your stock as 

 ready and you will get the best average. 



Various Notes. 



On Monday Joseph Ziska completed 

 the purchase of the Weiland and other 

 interests and is now the owner of all the 

 capital stock of the Chicago Rose Co. 

 The corporation will be dissolved but the 

 business continued under the same name, 

 Mr. Ziska giving his attention to the 

 wire work end, and his son, John, look- 

 ing after the cut fiowers. The plant at 

 Libertyville is said to be in first-class 

 shape. 



E. C. Amling had the first Paper 

 Whites of the season one day last week. 



C. W. McKellar congratulates him- 

 self that his table of orchids was about 

 the finest little exhibit at the show last 

 week. From the number of orchids used 

 by the retailers and the interest taken 

 by the crowd it was easy to see that 

 popular appreciation of the orchid is 

 developing rapidly. 



It will be recalled that A. R. Batsch 

 signed a warrant for the arrest of a 

 Mrs. Griffith, who was charged with ob- 

 taining money under false pretenses 

 through an advertising scheme. The 

 woman was discharged as innocent, and 

 now threatens suit for damages. 



L. Coatsworth and his family returned 

 from Canada November 8. 



P. J. Hauswirth again is a grand- 

 father, his daughter, who resides with 

 him, having welcomed a little girl No- 

 vember 3. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is growing no 

 Liberty this year. August Poehlmann 

 says that Liberty stops blooming just 

 when red roses begin to be in demand, 

 but that Richmond begins to give its 

 best cut just when the flowers are 

 wanted. 



Calvert & Son, at Lake Forest, are 

 sending the E. F. Winterson Co. some 

 fine cosmos grown under glass. 



Peter Reinberg has placed an order 

 for 5,000 cuttings of Rose-pink En- 

 chantress. 



Scheiden & Schoos are showing blooms 

 of the fine red seedling carnation at 

 their stand in the market. 



The large number of eastern growers 

 who were in Chicago last week said that 

 Chicago is unapproached by the east so 

 far as roses and carnations are con- 

 cerned, but that the eastern markets 

 have better chrysanthemums. 



Peter Reinberg 's team ran away on 

 Wabash avenue last Saturday and 



