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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 4, 1907, 



GOOD STOCK, 

 ALL COLORS. 



PEONIES 



Lilies, Valley, Sweet Peas, Greens, 

 Roses and Carnations. 



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formed twenty years ago. After this the 

 band played and the members sang. 



The next speakers called on were ex- 

 President Fillmore, ex-Pr^ident Kunz, 

 ex-President Guy and ex-President San- 

 ders. Each spoke of his experiences while 

 he occupied the chair. More music, songs 

 and funny sayings followed. Ex-Presi- 

 dent Ammann, who served the club two 

 terms as president, then spoke. Mr. Am- 

 mann, being an able spesier, during his 

 well pointed remarks made the members 

 sit up and take notice. 



The next speakers called were J. S. 

 Wilson, Frank Weber, S. Kehrmann, W. 

 C. Young and Henry Lohrenz. This 

 ended the speaking. Then came the fun. 

 When the chairman called for songs and 

 stories from the different members, 

 those from Charlie Schoenle, F. Fillmore, 

 Sr., Frank Fillmore, Jr., and Fred Am- 

 mann were well received. As the hour 

 was growing late, W. C. Smith stated 

 that there was still plenty of refresh- 

 ments and cigars on hand. A vote was 

 taken that this was one of the most 

 enjoyable aflfairs ever given by the club. 



Various Notes. 



We had quite a number of visitors last 

 week. Among them were J. S. Wilson, 

 Western Springs, 111.; J. E. O'Neil, of 

 Chicago; Mrs. A. C. Canfield, of Spring- 

 field, 111., and A. M. Augspurger, of D. 

 U. Augspurger & Sons, Peoria, 111. All 

 except Mrs. Canfield attended the club's 

 smoker Saturday night. 



W. J. Pilcher, of Kirkwood, is kept 

 busy building his new. houses, but found 

 time to come in last week to treat the 

 boys with cigars on his birthday. 



Miss Alice Scott, of C. Young & Sons 

 Co., left last week for Atlantic City, N. 

 J., to spend six weeks and to enjoy a 

 much needed rest. Miss Scott will be 

 at Philadelphia for convention week. 



W. C. Smith and Frank Weber had to 

 do all the hustling this week for the 

 club's smoker, as Carl Beyer, the other 

 trustee, is laid up at home with a 

 sprained foot, which he got in a jump- 

 ing match at a picnic June 23. This 

 prevented him from attending the smoker 

 on Saturday night, and he was greatly 

 missed. 



W. C. Young, state vice-president of 

 the S. A. F., reports a new railroad rate, 

 a fifteen-day trip for the convention and 

 Jamestown Exposition at $25 for the 

 round trip over the Vandalia railroad. 

 This rate will no doubt be voted O. K. 

 by the club members at the next meeting. 



Frank and Edward Sanders, of the 

 Sanders Nursery baseball team, have ar- 



Welcome to the Elks 



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|E cordially invite the Florists who will visit 

 Philadelphia to attend the Convention 

 of the Benevolent and Protective Order 

 of Elks, to make our building their headquarters 

 while they are in this city. 



We are centrally located, a little over one block 

 from the Lodge. We shall be decorated in your 

 honor. Come to us. Bring your family to us, 

 meet your friends here. Have your mail sent 

 here. We want you to feel at home in the city 

 of Brotherly Love. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



ranged a match game with the Bentzen 

 Floral Co. team, of which John Bentzen 

 is captain, to be played at the club's 

 picnic this month. The team is made 

 up of youngsters under 14 years of age. 

 A fine prize will be hung up for this 

 game by the trustees. 



A. Li. Barnett, of Reed & Keller, New 

 York, is a caller this week. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club will hold 

 its July meeting Thursday, July 11, in 

 the Burlington building. This is one of 

 the most important meetings of the year. 

 The nomination of officers for the ensu- 

 ing year, the annual outing and S. A. 

 F. matters will come up. The presi- 

 dent requests all the members to attend. 

 The trustees are instructed to make an 

 effort to make this the best attended 

 meeting of the year. J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



To add to the summer dullness now so 

 completely established, the wholesale 

 florist is confronted with two strikes, 

 either one of which would be sufficient to 

 give the trade an attack of paralysis. 

 One important city department, the 



aristocracy of labor known as the garbage 

 collectors, want more money or less hours. 

 Imagine the conditions on the streets 

 where the wholesale flower merchants 

 mostly congregate. On Saturday some of 

 them were paying $4 a load, and over, to 

 private teamsters to cart the discard 

 away. Every wholesaler was clogged with 

 the accumulations. An epidemic is 

 threatened if the strike continues. To 

 add to the general alarm, the icemen 

 have struck and the wholesalers are hav- 

 ing trouble in getting a supply of ice for 

 the cool rooms. 



There has been no change in prices 

 from a week ago, because they are on 

 rock bottom and low enough for the most 

 unreasonable buyers, and the buyers are 

 now the autocrats; their say is law. 

 Beauties have held well during the week 

 and prices for selected stock have even 

 improved a little. But in no other de- 

 partment of the cut flower industry has 

 there been an advance, and with society 

 away, European travel lessening, the 

 commencements over and the schools all 

 closed, we may as well accept the inevita- 

 ble for July and August and make the 

 best of it. 



The peonies are about over. Most of 



