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Jdlt 16, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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they need it. Trade among them is 

 light and funeral work in the forenoon 

 is about all the business that is to be 

 had. Prices on stock are low. Extra 

 fancy carnations are out of the ques- 

 tion. Enchantress is about the best that 

 comes in. Fair lots of Beauties are 

 coming in. In other roses, Richmond 

 and Carnot are about the best; Bride 

 and Maid are too soft. 



Asters are scarce as yet, but will be 

 along soon in abundance. Sweet peas 

 are better in color and longer in stem. 

 Some extra good valley is to be had, and 

 plenty of gladioli. 



Qub Meeting. 



The monthly meeting of the Florists' 

 Club, which took place July 9, was well 

 attended, the number present being twen- 

 ty-five. The meeting opened promptly 

 at 2:30, with President W. C. Young 

 in the chair and all officers present. 

 Chairman Schoenle, for the trustees, re- 

 ported everything in readiness for the 

 club 's picnic at Normandy park, Wednes- 

 day, July 15. State Vice-President John 

 Steidle, of the S. A. F., reported on 

 transportation, naming the two lines from 

 here to Niagara Falls, the Big Four and 

 Wabash, the rates on both being the 

 same, $21.40 for round trip, and berths 

 $4 each way. On vote, it was decided 

 that the vice-president should arrange 

 with the Big Four for the trip, to leave 

 St. Louis Monday, August 17, at 1 

 p. m. on the Knickerbocker special, which 

 will arrive at the Falls at 8:43 a. m. the 

 next morning. If enough go a special 

 car will be set apart for the florists. 



The following officers were placed in 

 nomination for next year: President, 

 W. C. Young and Walter Retzer; vice- 

 president, Henry Emmons, G. Anger- 

 mueller and Edwin Denker; secretary, 

 A. J. Bentzen; treasurer, F. H. Weber 

 and J. J, Beneke ; trustees, J. F. ' Am- 

 mann, C. Beyer, Charles Fulgraf and 

 George Frow. 



The next meeting will take place Au- 

 gust 13, at 2 o'clock, when the annual 

 election of officers will occur. President 

 Young and the trustees will make special 

 efforts to have the largest attendance 

 of the year present. 



Varioui Notes. 



Henry Russe, formerly in business here, 

 is now located at Lebanon, Mo., where 

 he is putting up several new green- 

 houses. His friends in the trade here 

 wish him success. 



William Hurley, private gardener for 

 William K. Bixby, reports that he will 

 leave the place September 1. Mr. Bix- 

 by 's is the only private place in St. 

 Louis. 



City Forester Andrew Meyer, Jr., has 

 asked for a special appropriation of 

 $5,000 in order to take better care of 

 the trees throughout the city. The city 

 has now nearly 150 miles of trees which 

 come under his supervision. 



A. S, Halstead, E. W. Guy and Henry 

 Emmons, of Belleville ; J. F. Ammann, of 

 Edwardsville ; Edwin Denker, of St. 

 Charles, and John Steidle, of Central, 

 spent Thursday in the city and all at- 

 tended the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 in the afternoon. 



The annual Henry Shaw banquet to 

 florists, nurserymen and gardeners will 

 take place next month, the week of the 

 Apple Growers' Congress. 



John Kalish and bride and Will Os- 

 seck and bride have returned from their 

 honeymoon trips. 



George Waldbart is cutting a great 



many outdoor flowers, such as gladioli, 

 asters and sweet peas, from his large 

 country place in Clayton, which came 

 in handy for the large amount of funer- 

 al work last week. 



Phil Giebel, head of the Compton Hill 

 Reservoir park, says that they will start 

 this week to oil all the driveways in 

 his park. This is one of the prettiest 

 spots in the southern part of the city, 

 and the fine work of Mr. Giebel in the 

 bedding and care of the place is seen 

 at once by those who know. 



John Burke and Henry Ostertag paid a 

 visit to the Belleville florists Saturday, 

 July 11, and enjoyed a pleasant day. 

 They say the whole craft from there will 

 attend the Florists' Club's picnic this 

 week Wednesday. 



C. A. Kuehn, Henry Berning, W. C. 

 Smith and George Angermueller donated 

 prizes valued at $5 for the outing; the 

 St. Louis Seed Co., a bird and cage; the 

 correspondent, a year's subscription to 

 the Review for the best bowler among 

 the growers. Mrs. Schoenle and Mrs. 

 Carl Beyer also donated prizes for ladies, 

 and Harry Balsley donated a box of 

 cigars. Many other prizes also are of- 

 fered. 



Fred Alves, manager at Angermuel- 

 ler 's, will this week start on a ten days' 

 vacation, Al. Gunz having returned. 



O. K. Sanders, son of C. C. Sanders, 

 who is with the Big Four railroad, says 

 he will see to it that all the»florists who 

 attend the S. A. F. convention will re- 

 ceive the best of care going and coming. 



R. J. Windier and Conrad Bergster- 

 man, on South Grand avenue, have been 

 quite busy of late, working up a great 

 deal of funeral work in large designs. 



Two employees of A. J. Bentzen were 

 badly injured by an explosion of lime 

 last week, at the Bentzen place on Mar- 

 cus avenue. Both eyes of Eli Mioux were 

 badly burned; the other, Larry Balsty, 

 had both arms and face burned. The 

 lime exploded when it came in contact 

 with the water. Both are improving, 

 though Mr. Mioux will lose the sight of 

 one of his eyes. 



The St. Louis Horticultural Society has 

 issued the preliminary list of premiums 

 for the fall show. Chairman Sanders, 

 of the executive committee, says the show 

 will be larger than last year and hopes 

 for a financial success. 



L. Baumann, of Chicago, was a visitor 

 last week. J. J. B. 



KANSAS QTY. 



The Market 



Good stock is scarce. Roses are small 

 and a great many thousands find their 

 way to the rubbish pile. Sweet peas are 

 poor and scarce. Carnations are small 

 as buttons and of poor quality. Asters 

 are good, but as yet are not plentiful. 

 The plants in the field are looking excep- 

 tionally well and the prospect for good 

 asters in the future is fine. Gladioli are 

 fine and they find a ready sale at 4 cents 

 wholesale. There are no dahlias yet, but 

 the bushes look promising. Carnation 

 plants in the fields look exceedingly well. 

 The rainy weather during the spring gave 

 them a good start and they were never 

 better at this time of the year. 



Some of the growers are commencing 

 this week to clean up their houses and 

 will soon put in the new plants. The 

 low prices of last winter have caused 

 some to be discouraged and they will not 

 plant so many this year. We hope that 

 better prices will prevail next winter. 

 There have been quite a number of bulb 



orders cut down and some will force very 

 few, as last winter's overproduction was 

 too much for them and the loss was quite 

 heavy to some growers. 



Variooi Notes. 



R. S. Brown & Son are busy finishing 

 planting mums. Their ferns are looking 

 fine. They have planted large quantities 

 of white araaryllis or spider Ulies and 

 they find ready sale for the cut blooms, 

 which are made mostly into funeral 

 sprays and look well when made up by 

 one that knows how. R. S. Brown seems 

 to be as well as ever, from the way that 

 he hustles around. He never travels 

 much, as he is always too busy at home, 

 and that is one reason why he has done 

 so well. 



John Schneider, the old pioneer florist 

 of Kansas City, returned to this city re- 

 cently after a two years' absence. He 

 likes this city best of all, though he has 

 been out west through Washington, Utah, 

 Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and Oregon. 

 He also made a trip to Europe, being 

 there two months visiting his old home, 

 where he met his brother, whom he had 

 not seen for forty-five years. He is now 

 showing some beautiful pictures of that 

 country. He has one eye open on a loca- 

 tion for a cut flower store, which he will 

 open this fall. 



D. Freudenthal is now taking it easy. 

 We understand that he has closed one of 

 his cut flower stores for the summer. One 

 store is all he wants to take care of dur- 

 ing the hot weather. 



George M. Kellogg is at Battle Creek, 

 Mich., at the sanitarium, for his health, 

 but he is not improving very rapidly. We 

 wish him a speedy recovery. 



W. H. Humfeld, who has had poor 

 health since last December, is not im- 

 proving very rapidly, and, to make mat- 

 ters worse, he had his right foot severely 

 bruised by a horse stepping on it. He 

 has been confined to his home the last 

 week. 



The window decoration of the W. L. 

 Rock Flower Co. attracted a great deal 

 of favorable attention Sunday. A large 

 vase of tritoma spikes was the main fea- 

 ture. 



The Alpha Floral Co. has installed the 

 latest and most up-to-date cash register. 

 There are separate money drawers for 

 nine clerks. It not only registers the 

 time and the amount of sale, but con- 

 tains many other new devices too numer- 

 ous to remember. We are told that it 

 cost $985. We believe that if everybody 

 in this world were honest there would not 

 be any use for such expensive machines, 

 but we also think that any clerk wishing 

 to share some of the profits could do so 

 in spite of such costly machines. The 

 show window, as usual, is full of cut 

 flowers. 



S. B. Ayers, of Independence, Mo., has 

 two greenhouses of about 2,000 feet of 

 glass and ten acres of good soil. He 

 grows quite a lot of outdoor flowers, such 

 as asters, sweet peas and peonies. He 

 was quite successful last winter in grow- 

 ing sweet peas and he will devote more 

 space to them this fall. He is still quite 

 young and, the way he is going at it, he 

 will make a florist that will be heard 

 from in the future. 



A. Thornhill, of Rosedale, Kan., can 

 be seen each week at the city market. He 

 often says that he is going to quit and 

 take it easier, but he is like some more 

 of us; as long as there is $100 in sight 

 he is going to get his share of it, so he 

 toils. 



Lawrence Schwager still holds the fort 

 at Thirteenth street and Grand avenue. 



