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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



JOLY 8, 1909. 



FOLDIN0 FU 

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Factory Sale 



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tion of Xurseryiiien, was with us last 

 week, attending the meeting of the Mis- 

 souri State Board of Horticulture, of 

 which he is president. Mr. Stark says 

 the mail vote will surely result in the 

 selection of St. Louis for the next meet- 

 ing place of the nurserymen. 



Ludwig Zimmer, the Biddle market 

 florist, sailed Saturday, July 3, from New 

 York for Hamburg, where he will spend 

 the summer. 



Fred Meinhardt, state vice-president, 

 is out with a circular urging the local 

 florists to become life members of the 

 S. A. F., to which some have responded. 



Robert J. Windier has been cutting 

 a fine lot of longiflorum lilies from his 

 place in South St. Louis. C. A. Kuehn 

 disposed of nearly 1,000 of them. 



W. J. Pilcher, of Kirkwood, was 

 around as usual last week, treating the 

 boys to good cigars on his thirty-seventh 

 birthday. 



Henry Emunds, of Belleville, is cut- 

 ting this early a nice lot of everbloom- 

 ing tuberose stalks. He will soon be cut- 

 ting them by the thousands. Gladioli, 

 too, will be plentiful with him. 



Nearly all of the retail stores closed 

 half a day July 4, as well as the whole- 

 salers. This is one holiday when the 

 florist is not busy. 



C. W. Wors says cut flower trade at 

 the summer gardens is dull these hot 

 days and he is out picking ferns for the 

 local trade. 



Fred Ammann, of Edwardsville, was 

 with us last week. He is busy planting 

 and says he had one of the best busi- 

 ness seasons in his experience. 



George Windier has a new pipe cas- 

 ing device for holding up concrete 

 benches, on which his many friends in 

 the trade congratulated him as being a 

 good thing. 



George Waldbart is cutting a fine lot 

 of Shasta daisies and sweet peas from 

 his Clayton place. He will also cut con- 

 siderable outdoor stock during the sum- 

 mer. 



The trustees of the club have appoint- 

 ed Messrs. Pilcher, Fillmore and Beneke 

 on the reception committee at the Flo- 

 rists' Club's picnic, July 21. This is 



the thirtl term for them on this com- 

 mittee. 



C. Young & Sons Co. made attractive 

 window displays last week of fine potted 

 longiflorum lilies. Blooming plants are 

 still selling well with them. 



The trustees of the Florists' Club 

 met at Smith's Tuesday, July 6, and 

 completed all matters pertaining to the 

 picnic and made a full report at the 

 club meeting Thursday, July 8. The 

 souvenir program is full of good adver- 

 tising and will more than pay all ex- 

 penses of the picnic. All prizes have 

 been donated. J. J. B. 



Emile G. Popp, foreman of the land- 

 scape department of the Michel Plant & 

 Bulb Co., has severed his relations with 

 that firm, to take charge of a government 

 position about August 18. Mr. Popp is 

 one of the boys of the old school, having 

 been under such men as James McKay 

 and Chas. F. Evans, of Philadelphia; 

 John Thorpe, of Chicago, and James J. 

 Hill, of St. Paul, and for fourteen years 

 he was gardener in the public parks of 

 this city. He was the first gardener and 

 park keeper at Washington Square and 

 worked under the Democratic as well as 

 the Bepublican administration. His 

 father, Wm. Popp, was for years con- 

 nected with city affairs as a civil en- 

 gineer and landscape architect. Mr. 

 Popp recently made a trip to Scotland, 

 England, Ireland and Germany, and the 

 horticultural books which he brought 

 back with him are certainly worth see- 

 ing, as the old Scotch gardeners gave 

 him books from Edinburgh, Dundee and 

 Glasgow. R. C. Y. 



ERIE, PA. 



Business is quieting down as the hot 

 weather approaches. 



E. H. Blind, of Blind Bros., Pitts- 

 burg, was in the city over the Fourth. 



Mr. and Mrs. T. Kinsman, of Buffalo, 

 are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. 

 Baur. 



Dr. Harry Clawson and family, of 

 Warren, Pa., are the guests of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Henrv Xiemever. B. P. 



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NEV YORK. 



The Market 



Beautiful, cool weather followed the 

 hot spell and should have lifte<l prices, 

 but the three holidays, the poor quality 

 of most of the arrivals and the general 

 summertime lassitude have combined to 

 keep values down to about the same aver- 

 age prices as those of a week ago. 

 There seems little prospect of much en- 

 couragement for growers, unless the com- 

 ing scarcity should have its legitimate 

 effect and develop an increased demand. 

 Nothing out of the ordinary occurs to 

 add to the business enthusiasm, and the 

 majority seem to philosophically accept 

 the inevitable and are giving their at- 

 tention to putting their wholesale^. and 

 ictail stores in order, or have already 



