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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febuuarv 17, 1910. 



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The cut flower business among the re- 

 tailers last week was good, considering 

 that Lent is now upon us. There was 

 hardly any social work going on, but 

 from the sales at the wholesale houses 

 to the retailers, business must have been 

 good all over the city. The west end 

 florists say they did well with blooming 

 plants and cut flowers. Monday, Feb- 

 ruary 14, the trade was buying heavily 

 in violets for St. Valentine orders, and 

 it is estimated that over 200,000 Cali- 

 fornia violets were received at the four 

 wholesale houses. The bulk of them, 

 from Kirkw^ood, averaged $3 per thou- 

 sand. 



Eoses are coming in more freely and 

 before another week they will again be 

 plentiful in all varieties. Carnations are 

 a glut and a great many went to waste 

 last week, as the demand is not strong 

 enough to dispose of all that come in, 

 even at cheap prices. All bulbous stock 

 is in plenty, especially callas and Paper 

 Whites. Other stock cleaned up fairly 

 well all week. In greens everything the 

 trade needs can be had. 



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The Florists' Club held its regular 

 Sionthly meeting Tliursday afternoon, 

 February 10, at 2 o'clock, with twenty- 

 five members in attendance and Presi- 

 dent George B. Windier in the chair. 

 The subject of C. De Wever's paper, on 

 ' ' Advertising Through the Florists ' 

 Club," was reported on, which afforded 

 a great discussion by A. S. Halstead, 

 Mr. Young, E. W. Guy, J. F. Ammann, 

 Mr. Sanders and t . J. Fillmore. On 

 motion, three more were added to the 

 committee, Messrs. Young, Guy and 

 Smith, to report at the March meeting, 

 when the matter will have its final hear- 

 ing and bo disposed of. Henry AVentzel 

 and Charles D. Hecht, growers in St. 

 Louis county, were elected to member- 

 ship. J. A. Peterson, of Cincinnati, O., 

 sent a plant of his new begonia, Gloire 

 de Cincinnati, for exhibition, which was 

 much admired. The chairman appointed 

 a committee to pass on it. They re- 

 ported that the new begonia, Gloire de 

 Cincinnati, is a grand variety and a 

 great improvement on existing varieties 

 of the same type. They also voted it a 

 certificate of merit from the club. The 

 (Committee consisted of F. J. Fillmore, C. 

 Bergstermann and G. W. Grossart. E. 

 W. Guy and Fred Ammann extended the 

 members an invitation to attend the an- 

 nual conyention of the Illinois Florists' 

 Association, February 15 and J6, at 

 Champaign-Urbana, 111., and a number 

 of those present accepted. W. C. Smith 



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gave an interesting talk on "The 

 Troubles of a Wholesaler," and many 

 interesting features were discussed, 

 which greatly interested the growers and 

 retailers. The suburban members pres- 

 ent at the meeting were: Fred" Ammann, 

 E. nV. Guy, G. W. Grossart, A. S. Hal- 

 stead, Edwin Denker, F. Vennemann, 

 John Connon, H. Wentzel, Ad. Ahner, 

 W. A. Rowe and C. De Wever. These 

 members take great interest in the club 

 meetings and are regular attendants. If 

 our city members would only do the 

 same, what grand meetings the club 

 could hold each month! 



The next meeting of the club will 

 take place March 10. A special pro- 

 gram is being arranged by the president 

 for this meeting. 



Various Notea. 



E. H. Eiehl, of Alton. 111., called on 

 the trade last week and attended the 

 Florists' Club meeting Thursday after- 

 noon. 



James J. Karins, representing H. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia, and B. Eschner, of 

 M. Eice & Co., Philadelphia, were call- 

 ers on the trade last week. Both gentle- 

 men reported splendid business, before 

 leaving for other fields. 



Prof. William Trelease, director of th(> 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, has been 

 placed on the committee of six to ar 

 range a plan of work to beautify St. 

 Louis and try to make St. Ijouis the 

 Paris of America. 



Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Leach, of Taylor 

 ville, 111., spent a few days calling or 

 friends in the trade. They also visitc' 

 the wholesale district to purchase su]' 

 plies. 



The park department will order In 

 tween 50,000 and 100,000 California pn 

 vet plants from various nurseries thi 

 year, as the blizzard which struck thi 

 city early in January and covered tli 

 branches with a coating of ice had 

 ruinous effect on trees, shrubbery an 

 particularly California privets. Mar 

 beautiful hedges in the fine residem 

 district have been killed. Close to 

 million privet plants will be used tlr 

 year. 



Rufus J. Lackland, for the la-^: 

 twenty years president of the board <^' 

 trustees of the Missouri Botanical Ga 

 den, has resigned his oflSce and membc 

 ship on the board. Mr. Lackland is t)0 

 years old and was a personal friend of 

 the late Henry Shaw. In his resignation 

 Mr. Lackland stated that the infirmiti'S 



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