JOLI 27, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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north and had a fine time touring in hia 

 Ford runabout. 



Fred Breitmeyer is sending in some 

 fine Beauties. 



Bobert Klagee, of Mt. Clemens, comes 

 down to see the boys once in a while 

 in his new Buick auto. 



J. E. Carey has a fine house of asters 

 and also some excellent Killarneys. 



A. Van Beversluys, of Mt. Clemens, 

 who recently bought out Tony Ottes, 

 has been sending some fine peas to this 

 market. 



The buildings occupied for many 

 years by the Bemb Floral Co., at 153 

 Bates street, are being demolished to 

 make way for a fine modern retail es- 

 tablishment. Mr. Pochelon. the pro- 

 prietor, expects to be back m the new 

 place about Christmas. At present he 

 is carrying on his business at 48 Cadil- 

 lac square. He recently had a notable 

 decoration for a banquet of the Ford 

 auto people. 



Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Fetters recently 

 spent a week near Carsonville, Mich. 



Peter F. Beuss, of Schroeter 's, is tak- 

 ing a well earned rest on a farm near 

 Bad Axe., Mich. 



Albert Stahelin, of Bedford, Mich., is 

 erecting four new carnation houses, 

 each 35x173. In buUding these houses, 

 Mr. Stahelin is carrying out an idea 

 of his own, on which a patent has been 

 applied for. The houses will be entirely 

 of iron construction, the material being 

 supplied by the G. M. Garland Co., Des 

 Flaines, 111. The novel feature is that 

 the houses will be so constructed as to 

 be movable. The whole framework will 

 be suppdrted on rollers running on rail- 

 road tracks. Mr. Stahelin 's idea is to 

 plant the carnations right into the solid 

 beds and, when the time comes, just 

 roll the houses over the beds. Each 

 house will be complete, with steam 

 pipes, ventilators, etc., so that all that 

 will Ije necessary when they, are rolled 

 into position is to couple up the steam 

 pipes to the mains. ., , 



Monday, July 31, the florists of De- 

 troit and vicinity will be the guests of 

 the Michigan Cut Flower Exchange at 

 an outing to Peche Island., ;^.^he re- 

 tailers have been requested to close 

 their stores at noon Monday, thereby 

 enabling their employees to accept this 

 invitation. Everyone is invited to at- 

 tend, from the babies to the grand- 

 parents. 



Work on Breitmeyer 's new store is 

 progressing nicely, and Mr. Breitmeyer 

 expects it will be ready for occupancy 

 by October 1. The Mack avenue estab- 

 lishment is being entirely overhauled 

 and a new palm house is being con- 

 structed, twelve feet high at the gut- 

 ters. 



S. S. Skidelsky was here last week. 

 Schroeter 's men are busy putting into 

 place a new boiler in the rear section 

 of houses. H. S. 



W. DESMOND. 



One of the well, known figures in the 

 trade at the Twin Cities is W. Desmond, 

 who for eight years has been connected 

 with the florists' department of the L. 

 S. Donaldson Co., the largest depart- 

 ment store in Minneapolis. Mr. Des- 

 mond was born and brought up in Chi- 

 cago and he has the western push and 

 enterprise. His first position with the 

 Donaldson concern, which for many 

 years has done an extremely large busi- 

 ness in cut flowers and plants, was as 

 an assistant in the greenhouses. Later 



'W. Desmond. 



he went into the store and in the 

 course of time became manager of the 

 buying and selling end of the business. 

 June 1 he received the appointment of 

 general manager of the florists' depart- 

 ment, so that the greenhouses now also 

 come under his direction. The glass 

 area is nearly 65,000 square feet, de- 

 voted to a general line of stock, prin- 

 cipally in the pot plant line. The Don- 

 aldson Co. is one of the largest buyers 

 of cut flowers in the Chicago market. 

 . A. M. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business last week was fairly good 

 with some of the store men, while oth- 

 ers say that trade was quiet all the 

 week. Funeral work is about all the 

 business that is coming in at present. 

 The wholesale market, too, is dull, as 

 little extra good stock is coming in and 

 prices are holding up on the poor 

 grades. Eoses are anything but first- 

 class and anything good sells quickly. 

 The same may be said of carnations. 



All outdoor stock is suffering for 

 want of rain. Gladioli are fairly good, 

 but with tops badly burned; however, 

 they sell well. Asters are now being 

 cut from local fields, but are small. 

 Tuberose stalks are beginning to come 

 in. These, too> will be scarce, unless 

 relief comes from a good, heavy rain. 

 The few light showers last week did 

 not help much. Kirkwood, Clayton and 

 Olivette are furnishing the bulk of the 

 gladioli that are helping out the re- 

 tailers this summer. Augusta, America 

 and Mrs. Francis King are the best 

 sellers and bring top prices. 



Smilax has been in good demand, but 



the market has little Just now. Most 

 of our local growers are preparing to 

 house their carnations quickly. They 

 say there will be a scarcity of field 

 grown plants this season. 



The Florists' Picnic. 



The social event of the year among 

 the florists, namely, the florists' picnic, 

 took place last week at Bamona park, 

 a beautiful spot in St. Louis county. 

 The attendance was not quite as large 

 as in former years, although nearly 400 

 came to enjoy the day's outing and be 

 among friends in the trade. No doubt 

 many were kept away owing to the 

 dark and cloudy morning, but the 

 clearing weather at noon brought out 

 the large crowd in the afternoon. The 

 reception committee, Messrs. Pileher, 

 Fillmore and Beneke, was on hand to 

 receive them at the gate. 



At 2 o'clock Messrs. Windier, Gums 

 and Patton started the games, all of 

 which had large entries. Tlie winners 

 were as follows: 



Walking piatch; 300 yards, for growers only — 

 John M. Connon. 



Young ladles' race — Miss Anna Blshoff. 



Girls' race; under 16 years — Lizzie Lowe. 



Boys' race; under 12 years — Wheeler Detgen. 



Ball throwing contest — Albert Gums. 



Ladles' ball throwing contest — Mrs. Faerber. 



Men's race; oyer 50 years — J. J. Beneke. 



Young men's race — Oliver Sanders. 



Married ladies' egg and spoon race — Mrs. Oscar 

 ICuehn. 



Hop, step and Jump; for young men — Albert 

 Gums. 



Tug of war; for men, wholesalers, retailers 

 and growers — Rope broke and contest declared a 

 draw. 



The baseball game was declared off, 

 owing to the fact that the retail team 

 was not complete. The wholesalers, 

 however, were out in full force. The 

 game will be played sometime next 

 month at one of the big ball parks. 



The prize waltz took place at 8 



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