August 22, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



45 



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Ficus Paodorata and Nephrolepis Amerpohlii 



Both were Sensations and divided honors at the Philadelphia Convention 



Philadelphia Lace Fern 



nCUIPAHDUBATA, 2>ift... $36.00 per doz. 



8(t 4S00per<loz. 



6ft 60.00 per doi. 



" " larxer plants $7 60 and S)0 00 each 



' " " braDChed plants IS, $6, $7.50 and $10 eacb 



MXPH. AmBPOHLII, 2-iD. pots $25/0 per 100: $200 00 per 1000 



4- Id. pot8..$1.00 each; $10.00 per doz.: $75.00 per lOJO 



6-iD. pots $• 50 each: $i500perdoi. 



6-iD. pot* 200eacb; 20.00 per doz. 



8-iD., $3.00 each. lO-in., $5.00 eacb. 



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ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The cut flower trade of the last week 

 was fairly good so far as funeral work 

 was. concerned. Other work has been 

 very scarce. Most of the retailers are 

 busy repainting their stores and making 

 preparations for the fall trade, which 

 we expect to open September 1. 



The greenhouse men are kept busy fin- 

 ishing up their new houses and housing 

 carnations. Much building has been go- 

 ing on in and around here and it is esti- 

 mated that nearly 200,000 feet of new 

 glass has been added this summer. At 

 the wholesale houses there are plenty of 

 asters of all kinds, which are selling 

 fairly well, but the consignments are 

 very heavy at present, many more than 

 the demand calls for. The same may be 

 said of gladiolus spikes. Tuberose stalks 

 are now coming in and are cleaning up 

 well. Roses, too, are coming in better, 

 but still with short stems. The best of 

 these have a good call. First-class Amer- 

 ican Beauties are still very scarce, but 

 fairly good blooms of short stems are 

 coming in. Smilax is having an excep- 

 tionally good demand, with plenty of 

 good strings in the market. Everything 

 •else in greens is plentiful. 



The Apple Growen' G>ngress. 



The meeting of the Apple Growers' 

 Congress in this city last week, at the 

 Southern hotel, was a great success so- 

 cially and in attendance. President H. 

 M. Dunlop opened the meeting at 10 a. 

 m. Tuesday morning. 



Among those who addressed the meet- 

 ing were Professors M. B. White and 

 Wm. Scott, pathologists of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture; W. H. Taylor, 

 pomologist in the same department; G. 

 W. Smith, of Albion, N. Y.; James A. 

 West, assistant state entomologisit of 

 Illinois; !». A. Goodman, president of 

 the American Pomological Society, Kan- 

 sas City, Mo.; Senator J. P. Logan, of 

 Siloam Springs, Ark.; C. A. Javitz, of 

 Guelph, Ont.; George T. Tippin, secre- 

 tary of the Missouri Horticultural So- 

 ciety; Prof. R. Hicks, of St. Louis, Mo., 

 and S. Cyrus Miller, Haydenville, Mass. 



The meeting was closed with an ad- 

 dress by Norman J. Colman. The elec- 

 tion of officers resulted as follows : Pres- 

 ident, H. M. Dunlop, of Savoy, 111.; sec- 

 retary, T. C. Wilson, of Hannibal, Mo.; 

 vice-president, Ex-Judge W. R. Wilkin- 

 son, of St. Louis. For the next meeting 

 place St. Louis was again selected. In 

 the evening the delegates were the guests 

 of the directors of the Missouri Botan- 



ical Garden at a banquet at the South- 

 ern hotel. 



The Shaw Banquet. 



The eighteenth annual banquet given 

 by the directors of the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Garden, provided for in the will of 

 Henry Shaw, to gardeners, florists and 

 nurserymen, took place at the Southern 

 hotel on Wednesday night, August 14, 

 at 7 o'clock. Covers for 150 were laid 

 and the tables were nicely decorated with 

 asters in all colors, made up in ring 

 shape. 



Prof. Wm. Trelease, director of the 

 garden, was toastmaster and toasts were 

 responded to by H. M. Dunlop, president 

 of the Apple Growers' Congress; W. C. 

 Young, president-elect of the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club; Park Commissioner Phil- 

 ip C. Scanlan, who claims he received his 

 first training in the nursery ; Walter Ret- 

 zer, of the St. Louis Seed Co.; Norman 

 J. Colman; Prof. M. B. Waite, of the 

 Department of Agriculture; L. A. Good- 

 man, president of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, and J. C. Vaughan, of 

 Chicago, chairman of the National Coun- 

 cil of Horticulture. Besides the above- 

 mentioned and the delegates of the Ap- 

 ple Growers' Congress, the following 

 members of the St. Louis Florists' Club 

 were present: Carl Beyer, F. J. Fill- 

 more, W. C. Smith, Emil Schray, John 



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