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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 13, 1908. 



to have a floral float. It will be an 

 original design, and he invites all in this 

 vicinity to come out and get ideas for 

 Pittsburg's big demonstration. 



Hoo-Hdo. 



The Guardian Trust Co., trustee in 

 bankruptcy of the estate of Lincoln I. 

 Nefif, will offer the Neff greenhouse at 

 Cheswick for sale at auction, Tuesday, 

 August 18. 



GRAND RAPIDS. 



The damage done by the hot spell is 

 serious. Carnation plapts on heavy soil 

 have suffered, particularly by red spider, 

 but from now on they will' grow fast. 

 Business is dull, nothing doing except oc- 

 casional funeral work. All are planting 

 carnations, and hurrying th* work along 

 as fast as possible. Asters are in, but 

 of poor quality as yet. Those grown in- 

 side are fine and are practically all the 

 flowers there are now, as carnations are 

 over. Of course, there are plenty of 

 lilies to be had. 



At the Soldiers' Home they are making 

 cement benches, very similar to those at' 

 Wittbold's, all in one piece, but thick- 

 er and heavier than the Chicago bench. 

 Charles Bowdich, the florist in charge, 

 intends to put in at least two benches 

 of the Wittbold pattern, to see which 

 is the most desirable. 



The Grand Rapids Floral Co. has just 

 completed a 70-foot brick chimney, in- 

 side dimensions about three feet square. 



There is some talk of going to the 

 convention, but at present it looks like 

 about six strong. G. F. C. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



Reports regarding the flower market 

 for the week of August 3 to 8 are not 

 encouraging in either wholesale or retail 

 circles. The flower receipts were large 

 enough, but little of the stock could be 

 classed as first grade, especially of roses 

 and carnations. Quite a lot of extra 

 good white and pink Cochet are coming 

 in, which sell well, also good asters, fine 

 valley and a few fairly good carnations. 

 There are large quantities of tuberose 

 stalks of the single variety. 



The retail trade has suffered some- 

 what by the hot weather during the week 

 and nothing much was worked up except 

 for funerals. 



Various Notes. 



W. J. Pileher, of Kirkwood, left Sun- 

 day night for a week's visit to Chicago, 

 where lie has many friends in the trade. 



J. F. Ammann was one of the speakers 

 at the Shaw banquet August 12. His 

 topic was "The Florist" and he repre- 

 sented the St. Louis Florists ' Club at the 

 speakers' table. 



The Plant Seed Co., now located at 802 

 North Main, has one of the most com- 

 plete seed establishments in the city, do- 

 ing a strictly wholesale business. Fred 

 Plant, known to all seedsmen, is head of 

 the firm. They had a most excellent 

 season. 



A. J. Bentzen, head of the Bentzen 

 Floral Co., says that the two men who 

 were recently hurt by a lime explosion 

 have recovered and are at work again. 

 They have a fine field of carnations, 

 which they expect to house the latter part 

 of the month. Their retail store on 

 North Grand avenue is doing a nice sum- 

 mer business. 



A call at the St. Louis Seed Co. found 



A SNAP IN 



BOXES 



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I HIS lot of boxes mutt be disposed of. "We 

 marked them down to they will move last, 

 and as long at they last you can have them 

 at these prices. 



We will print your card on the flower boxes 

 on orders of 1000 and over, free of charge, but if 

 you can save us the trouble of printing them, we 

 will allow IG;^ cash discount from these pri^ and 

 you can take as many ai you like. You need 

 boxes in your business every day, so take advan- 

 tage of making money by buying now. 



C. G. PoHworth Co. 



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 Number., 



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 August 20 



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will contain a full report of the Niagara Falls Convention of the 8. A. F,, 

 and in other features will be fully up to the previous special issues of this 

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I wish to state that we received many more orders from our advertisement in the 

 Review than we were able to fill, receivinir orders from New Yorlt. Minnesota, Illinois. 

 Ohio, Colorado and several other states. We were sold out a few days after the first 

 insertion.— Geo. M. Kellogg, Pleasant Hill. Mo. 



things running as usual and Walter 

 Retzer in his usual happy frame of 

 mind. He says everything will soon be 

 on a sound basis. 



Mrs. Max L. Pelletier, who runs a re- 

 tail store at 1903 South Twelfth street, 

 says she has been blessed with a great 

 deal of funeral work of late, which helps 

 out greatly during the summer months. 



Mrs. Margaret Castens, mother of 

 Mrs. C. Smith, Wm. Edlefsen, of Mil 

 waukee, and Louis Edlefsen, of Los An- 

 geles, Cal., and grandmother of W. C. 

 Smith and Mrs. H. V. Hunkel, of Mil- 

 waukee, died Thursday, August 6, at 



5 p. m., aged 94 years. The funeral 

 took place Saturday from the residence 

 of her daughter, Mrs. C. Smith, 1716 

 North Grand avenue. A great many in 

 the trade were in attendance and ex- 

 tended their sympathy, an^ many beauti- 

 ful floral designs were seen. 



C. Young & Sons Co. will soon have to 

 have a new set of young ladies in the 

 cut flower department, as Cupid's dart 

 has pierced three hearts. Among them 

 are Miss Clara Holtzmann, who is to 

 marry Otto Brnning. manager at H. G. 

 Berning's; Miss Adle Dammann, whom 

 Henry Bettengin will lead to the altar 





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