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JUNB 13, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



IS 



more than the usual interest in the 

 American Beauty nowadays, Mrs. Mill- 

 . ang having just presented him with a 

 handsome little daughter. 



The early closing movement on the 

 second floor of the Coogan building, 

 which includes all the firms doing busi- 

 ness there, Avas inaugurated June 1 and 

 from now until September 1 the doors 

 close at 3 p. m. There seems to be no 

 good reason why this hour should not 

 be generally adopted by the wholesalers 

 and many of the leading firms have al- 

 ready announced their intention of doing 

 so. The amount of business done by all 

 the wholesale cut flower men in the 

 afternoons during the hot months is not 

 sufficient to require keeping open. The 

 retailers can easily supply all their needs 

 before noon. 



Michael Ford, of Ford Bros., has been 

 serv'ing his country in jury duty lately, 

 and this week A. J. Guttman has taken 

 up the "white man's burden." 



A new firm in the wire design and 

 florists' supply business opened June 1, 

 at 466 Sixth avenue near Twenty-eighth 

 street. It consists of Messrs. Steffens 

 and Hansgen, with the title of Steffens 

 & Co. Mr. Steflfens was for years with 

 the big German house of Karl Brugh- 

 hans, of Hamburg, and Mr. Hansgen has 

 been for sixteen years in the service of 

 Reed k Keller. There seems to be an 

 abundance of room' and opportunity for 

 competent new men in every branch of 

 the trade, while the old and established 

 houses go rignt on adding every year to 

 the volume of their business. 



The death of Julius Kretschmar, re- 

 ported in this week's obituary column, is 

 deeply regretted in this city, where Mr. 

 Kretschmar was widely known and high- 

 ly respected. 



The exhibition of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York takes place this 

 week Wednesday and Thursday at Bronx 

 parK. A large delegation from the New 

 York Florists' Club will attend. 



June 25 to 27 the twenty-fifth annual 

 convention of the American Seed Trade 

 Association will be held in this city. 

 ^Preparation has been made to give the 

 seedsmen a royal reception. 



Many nurserymen from this vicinity 

 have gone to Detroit to attend the an- 

 nual convention of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Nurserymen there. No season 

 to compare with this in its advantage 

 to nurser/men has ever been known in 

 this country. Shipments are going on 

 daily and the end is not yet, while the 

 business here is only in its infancy and 

 growing so rapidly that it is impossible 

 to meet the greatly increased demand. 



John Krai good-naturedly denies that 

 he has been ill with water on the brain; 

 he says that it was malaria, which isn't 

 on the brain, and that the attack was 

 light. 



Sigmnnd Geller left for Europe June 

 12, to be away until August 7. He will 

 visit Germany, France and his old home 

 in Austria and return by wav of Italy, 

 with many novelties for the winter 

 season. 



Some twenty new violet houses are go- 

 ing up in the Rhinebeek section and all 

 the old ones will be doing business next 

 fall at the old stand. There is some talk 

 of black-rot and damage to the plants, 

 but no serious injury is feared. 



John Birnie and Joseph Manda have 

 been on the sick list. 



Walter Mott and family left June 12 

 for Sharon, Pa., where Mr. Mott will 

 form a partnership with Mr. O'Brien 



and take an interest in both the growing 

 and retailing departments of the busi- 



J. Austin Shaw. 



ness. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



In making up the market report for 

 the last week, I found the wholesalers 

 again had an oversupply of roses and 

 carnations. Outside of a few weddings, 

 which were confined to the uptown flo- 

 rists, some early school commencements 

 were about all that was going on. Fu- 

 neral work was not so heavy as usual 

 last week. The last week of the social 

 season should be lively, with school work 

 and weddings. Mrs. Ayers will furnish 

 both the Central and the McKinley high 

 schools with plant decorations; George 

 Waldbart will supply the bouquets. 



The Whiildin Bowling Trophy, 



(See page 22). 



Both are large jobs. After this week, 

 of course, we expect business to go into 

 summer quietness as usual. 



There was much difference in prices 

 of cut stock comparing the week preced- 

 ing Decoration day, when stock was 

 scarce, with last week, when everything 

 was plentiful and demand slow. Extra 

 fancy stock is hard to obtain, in any 

 quantity, but firsts and seconds in roses 

 and carnations have been more than 

 could be disposed of unless job-lot prices 

 prevailed. Jacq roses are now coming 

 in from outdoors; also sweet peas, field 

 daisies and cornflowers. The growers 

 will soon empty their houses of last sea- 

 son 's stock and then we can look for a 

 little scarcity for a while. Then some 



of us can take vacations and wonder 

 what next season will bring forth. 



Various Notes. 



E. W. Guy, of Belleville, was here 

 June 6 to visit his uncle, W. E. Guy, 

 They will assist Mrs. Guy in settling 

 the estate of the late T. W. Guy. 



Robert Beyer, who seldom comes 

 downtown, called last week and, with a 

 few friends, tried his hand at bowling. 

 I won't mention the score, as Robert is 

 not as young as he used to be. 



President H, C. Irish, of the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club, was at Lansing, Mich., 

 May 31. 



Charles Wors has the cut flower priv- 

 ilege at ,the Delmar and West End 

 Heights summer gardens. He says busi- 

 ness is slow as yet, owing to the small 

 attendance these cool nights. 



It has been rumored that the whole- 

 salers will get together and close their 

 places during the months of July and 

 August at 5 p. m. and at noon on Sat- 

 urdays. 



Chairman Smith, of the club 's trus- 

 tees, announces that the annual picnic 

 will be held at Romona park, Thursday, 

 July 25. The trustees met at Beyer's 

 June 8. 



The report in last week's issue that 

 Arthur Ellison is again with the Ellison 

 Floral Co. was a mistake. He helped 

 them out on several large weddings they 

 had during the week and in this way 

 the report was current that he was 

 again with the old folks. 



C. A. Kuehn has been receiving a big 

 lot of fine Spanish iris. There was a 

 good sale for the lighter shades. 



Young & Sons Co. reports that this 

 was one of the best years in the seed and 

 plant department, which is still keeping 

 busy. The floral department will be 

 busy this month, with wedding decora- 

 tions and school work. 



The Tesson tract, adjoining Forest 

 park, on which the old Tesson green- 

 iiouses stood, was sold" last week for 

 $250,000. The deal was completed by 

 Robert F. Tesson, who represented his 

 mother. They retain ten acres. 



George E. Kessler, landscape gar- 

 dener, reports that the liouisiana Pur- 

 chase Exposition Co. will in sixty days 

 turn over to the city that portion of 

 Forest park used for the exposition, 

 fully, restored for park use. 



%. Kehnnann, who was secretary of 

 the St. Louis Florists' Club in 1889, 

 then connected with the F]|leray Floral 

 Co., was a caller last week. Mr. Kehr- 

 mann expects to attend the club's twen- 

 tieth anniversary celebration June 29 

 and talk over old times with the mem- 

 bers. Luther Armstrong, the first sec- 

 retary of the club, also will be present. 

 Among the other florists who were pres- 

 ent at the first meeting of the club, June 

 2S, 1887, and who will attend this cel- 

 ebration are James S. Wilson, Wm. El- 

 li.son, Chas. Juengel, E. \V. Guy, R. 

 Frow and Alexander Waldbart. The 

 others who attended the first meeting 

 were J. M. Jortlan, Chas. Connon, Henry 

 Michel, Wm. Schray and Julius Koenig, 

 who are now numbered among the dead. 

 The above list were the charter mem- 

 bers of the St. Louis Florists' Cjub, 

 known at that time as the St. Louis 

 Florists' Exchange. J. J. B. 



Wyomissing, Pa.— George W. Beears 

 has bought five lots in this town and 

 will at once erect greenhouses. 



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