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The Weddy Florists' Review. 



Jandabt 9. 1908. 



L F. Wl NTERSON CO 



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day were cut between Christinas and 

 New Year's. 



New Year's is the birthday anniver- 

 sary of E. E. Pieser, of the Kennicott 

 Bros. Co., and this year it was celebrated 

 in an unusual manner at the Pieser resi- 

 dence, opposite Jackson park. At three 

 o'clock in the morning they were routed 

 out by fire in a lower apartment. It was 

 more than three hours before they could 

 get back into their rooms, and then Mrs. 

 Pieser gave a New Year's breakfast for 

 the firemen. 



C. W. McKellar says the orchid mar- 

 ket is just a little slow, especially for 

 cypripediums, which are abundant, but 

 that the call for gardenias is excellent. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. says that it 

 is getting a great many calls for "the 

 bright red carnation," which means De- 

 fiance. Mr. Winterson says that for 

 Christmas they made shipments of this 

 variety to Denver, to Butte, Mont., and 

 to Pensacola, Fla., and have had good 

 reports of it in each case, the Pensacola 

 customer ordering again January 6. 



Miss Gunterberg says she is more than 

 pleased with her business in 1907. For 

 Thanksgiving she did double the busi- 

 ness of the year before and for Christ- 

 mas three times as much as for the week 

 of Christmas, 1906. 



Anton Then contemplates another trip 

 south. 



The Florists' Club will hold its an- 

 nual election of officers this evening, 

 January 9, and a large attendance is ex- 

 pected. 



E. C. Amling says that at the rate 

 things now are going he hopes to dupli- 

 cate last season's success with sweet 

 peas. His growers are providing some 



fancy, long-stemmed peas that are all 

 put on orders as soon as received, only 

 the short stuff going on the counter. 



H. Bayersdorfer and Mrs. Bayers- 

 dorfer, of Philadelphia, were in the city 

 this week on the way to Streator, 111., 

 where they will attend a wedding. In- 

 cidentally, Mr. Bayersdorfer is calling 

 on a few customers. 



Phil Cbupp, at J. A. Budlong's, says 

 he is well pleased with the way the ship- 

 ping demand has continued since Christ- 

 mas. 



Vaughan & Sperry have Will Timme 

 on the road, picking up consignments 

 among the growers and gelling the grow- 

 ers fertilizers. 



The visit to Weiland and Risch sel- 

 dom fails to find all hands grading 

 Killarney. 



Zech & Mann say that shipping trade 

 has been better than the local demand 

 since the first of the year. 



The funeral of Dr. Nicholas Senn, one 

 of the world's famous surgeons, Janu- 

 ary 5, made a large call for flowers. 



Visitors: H. M. Burt and S. W. Cog- 

 gan, of the firm of Burt & Coggan, Bat- 

 tle Creek, Mich.; Robert Miller, East 

 Brookfield, Mass. 



George J. Ball, well known as a grower 

 at Berteau and Oakley avenues, was 

 married New Year's day at Rock Island, 

 111. His bride was Miss Anna Kruse, a 

 teacher in the Chicago public schools, 

 whose home was at Ilock Island. They 

 are now at home to their friends at 2427 

 North Robey street. 



I AM very well satisfied with the Re- 

 view and should hate to be without it. 

 — H. W. Collins, Boylestown, Pa. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



We had a fairly prosperous week fol- 

 lowing New Year's and the weather is 

 still fine. There was considerable activ- 

 ity among the uptown florists, in social 

 work, including weddings, receptions, 

 parties, dinners and a good bit of funeral 

 work. The downtown retailers, too, re- 

 port a fairly good week in the sale of 

 cut flowers and funeral designs. Prices 

 on cut stock at the wholesale houses de- 

 creased considerably and the supply has 

 greatly increased. The demand has kept 

 up well, but is not strong enough to ab- 

 sorb the supply. Shipping trade, too, 

 has continued quite strong. 



In roses. Beauties of the long, fancy 

 grade are abundant. The medium grades, 

 though plentiful, are mostly deformed 

 blooms. Of the other varieties the qual- 

 ity has kept up, and supplies are more 

 than the demand calls for. 



Carnations are of the best quality and 

 the supply is large, with prices half what 

 they were at Christmas. Violets, too, 

 have suffered in price. Plenty of extra 

 fine Californias are now to be had at 

 40 cents and 50 cents per hundred. Bulb- 

 ous stock is plentiful. 



In greens, smilax and bronze galax 

 have a good call. Asparagus and adian- 

 tum also sell well. 



Various Notes. 



A. Augspurger, of Peoria, 111., has 

 been in the city, 



Ostertag Bros, had the New Year's 

 decorations at the Marquette hotel and 

 Faust's cafe. Both jobs were large and 



