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TheWeckly Florists' Review. 



Fbbbdabt 8, 1912. 



of fine tulips in all colors last week. 

 The white and light pink cleaned up, 

 • but the other colors dragged. Mr. 

 Angermueller says he never saw a time 

 when roses were so scarce as this year. 



The Engelmann Botanical Club will 

 hold its regular monthly meeting next 

 Monday night at the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Gardens. Secretary Pring has a 

 fine program mapped out, which should 

 attract the members. 



Fred Ammann, of Edwardsville, made 

 his regular weekly visit Monday, Feb- 

 ruary 5. He reports that his trip to 

 Chicago last week was a pleasant one. 



The W. C. Smith Wholesale Floral 

 Co. gave its annual stag party to its 

 St. Louis county growers at the store 

 Saturday evening, February 3. Owing 

 to the extreme cold the attendance was 

 greatly reduced; nevertheless some 

 twenty-five braved the blasts and spent 

 an enjoyable evening. There was plenty 

 • to eat, drink and smoke, good music 

 and singing, also a moving picture 

 show. J. J. B. 



OINOINNATI. 



The Gateway to the South. 



The market, while in essentially the 

 same shape as at the time of last writ- 

 ing, still is easing nicely in some lines. 

 With one or two exceptions, the call 

 steadily takes up everything really 

 worth while and some nearly worth 

 while. Monday's close showed a little 

 stock still on hand. The local demand 

 is fair and shipping business good. 



Last week the weather showed signs 

 of opening up nicely. Saturday, how- 

 ever, brought a heavy snow and the 

 thermometer dropped from the freezing 

 point, which it held late in the after- 

 noon, to as low as from 6 to 10 degrees' 

 below zero before daylight Sunday 

 morning. During this sudden drop a 

 few incoming shipments were frozen, 

 but fortunately these contained few of 

 the flowers that are real factors in the 

 market now. 



Judging from expressions by the 

 wholesalers, there will be a goodly sup- 

 ply of flowers of all kinds appropriate 

 for St. Valentine's day. The sweet 

 peas are in good supply, and the offer- 

 ings of double violets will be heavy. 

 Lily of the valley, orchids and single 

 violets are all in good supply, and the 

 same is true of red roses and red car- 

 nations. 



The rose offerings remain about the 

 same as a week ago. In proportion to 

 the average daily cut, the supply of 

 Richmond is the best. 



The carnation offerings are increas- 

 ing in quantity and are holding up a 

 fair average in quality. All the good 

 ones are selling up nicely. 



The increase in the offerings of bulb- 

 ous stock is large and includes the en- 

 tire range of stock seasonable at this 

 time of the year. Easter lilies and 

 callas continue in short supply. 



In green goods there are large offer- 

 ings of Asparagus plumosus and Aspar- 

 agus Sprengeri. This stock is nearly 

 all fine and long. The business in this 

 and other allied lines has been fairly 

 good. 



Various Notes. 



Club meeting Monday night, Febru- 

 ary 12, at the club rooms. 



C. E. Critchell was the first local 

 wholesaler to offer Narcissus poeticus 

 this season. 



Mr. and Mrs. P. J. dinger are enter- 



taining at their home Mr. Olinger's 

 brother-in-law and his wife, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Fred Funk, of Emerado, N. D. 



The Lake Shore Ferneries, of Florida, 

 have been shipping some excellent As- 

 paragus plumosus to the Cincinnati Cut 

 Flower Exchange. 



The stork stopped at Ed. Schumann 's 

 house last week and left a baby daugh- 

 ter. 



New Castle florists are sending excel- 

 lent sweet peas into the market. The 

 cuts from Peter Weiland and F. Ben- 

 they & Co. are good and getting better 

 every day. 



Nic Weber, Jr., was appointed super- 

 intendent of the flower market by E. G. 

 Gillett, one of the trustees of the mar- 

 ket house. 



Judging from the promptness with 

 which Arthur Becker, the buyer for the 

 Avondale Floral Bazaar, reaches Third 

 avenue each morning and the way he 

 hustles around when there, his firm is 

 doing a rushing business. 



The wife of J. L. Dille, the Greens- 

 burg, Ind., florist, died last week. 



Visitor: E. J. Fancourt, of the S. S. 

 Pennock-Meehan Co. C. H. H. 



OMAHA. 



Paul B. Floth, 3102 Burt street, has 

 effected a settlement with the Omaha 

 Gas Co., following the destruction of 

 thousands of plants b^ illuminating gas 

 that permeated his greenhouses from a 

 break in the street gas main. The main 

 was ruptured when the thermometer 

 stood below zero three weeks ago, the 

 fumes working their way through the 

 ground to the greenhouses. 



Thousands of the plants were de- 

 stroyed, and the probability that many 

 more were affected caused Mr. Floth to 

 clear his greenhouses entirely and put 

 in a complete new stock. The break 

 in the main was found with difficulty 

 and repaired by the gas company. The 

 consideration in settlement is not made 

 known. 



STBRA.TOB, TLL. 



On visiting the Hill Floral Co., the 

 writer found everything in first-class 

 condition, under the watchful eye of 

 our friend F. R. Thornton, manager for 

 the company. They grow 2.000 Beacon, 

 3,000 White Enchantress,' 2,000 En- 

 chantress, 1,000 Rose-pink Enchantress 

 1,000 C. W. Ward and 500 Gloriosa. Mr. 

 Thornton is well pleased with C. W. 

 Ward and Gloriosa and says they are 

 making good. The firm devotes one 

 house to roses, growing My Maryland, 

 Bride and Richmond. The rest of the 

 space is used for sweet peas, violets 

 and other stock. The range consists 

 of seven houses, containing 18,000 

 square feet of glass. A. F. L. 



YONKEES, N. T. 



On Monday, January 29, the gar- 

 deners employed at Greystone, Samuel 

 Untermyer's estate, and those em- 

 ployed by W. B. Thompson, combined 

 to give a dance and social evening at 

 McCann's hall, on North Broadway. 

 Many ex-employees were invited and 

 over 100 persons were present. 



Following Bob Johnson's speech on 

 behalf of the hosts. Floor Manager Mc- 

 Queenie announced the first dance. 

 Songs were admirably rendered by Mrs. 

 H. M. Blanche and Messrs. A. Crombie 

 and T. Mercer, at intervals during the 



evening. With a pause for refresh- 

 ments, dancing was continued into the 

 "wee, sma' hours." There were Scot- 

 tish dances to the accompaniment of 

 Highland piping, rendered by Sam 

 Campbell. 



The committee is to be congratulated 

 on a program that was admirably con- 

 ceived and carried out. 



CHICAGO CLUB MEETING. 



There was an attendance of seventy- 

 five at the meeting of the Florists' 

 Club February 1, when P. J. Foley took 

 the chair as president. 



A letter was read from Secretary 

 John Young, of the S. A..F., giving the 

 club official notice of the action of the 

 directors at Detroit as published in The 

 Review for January 25. It was voted 

 to recommend Fred Lautenschlager as 

 local manager of the trades display in 

 August, but the action was reconsidered 

 as being, perhaps, premature, and the 

 secretary was instructed to correspond 

 with Secretary Young to see what is 

 wanted along this line. 



The reports of Secretary A. T. Pyfer 

 and Treasurer E. F. Winterson showed 

 a balance of $1,135.32. 



H. N. Bruns, for the trustees, re- 

 ported auditing the books for the last 

 two years, finding the showing correct 

 as follows: 



RECEIPTS. 



Bal. Jan. 31, 1910 $1,066.76 



Feb. 1, 1810, to Jan. 31, 1911 1,578.48 



Feb. 1, 1911, to Jan. 4, 1912 1,036.72 



Total 13,681.96 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Feb. 1, 1910, to Jan. 31, 1911 $1,578.09 



Feb. 1, 1911, to Jan. 4, 1912 968.55 



Total $2,546.64 



Balance $1,135.32 



F. W. Tredup was elected to mem- 

 bership. Applications were received 

 from J. F. Potocka, 176 North Mich- 

 igan avenue; Paul M. Bryant, 131 

 North Wabash avenue; John Schriver, 

 Twenty-sixth street and Western ave- 

 nue; C. F. McCormick, 143 North Wa- 

 bash avenue, and Sam Seligman, New 

 York. 



President Foley appointed the fol- 

 lowing standing committees: 



Sports — AUie Zech, Frank Ayers, Otto 

 Goerisch. 



Transportation — Andrew Benson, H. 

 B. Howard, H. E. Philpott. 



Good of the club — Guy French, A. C. 

 Kohlbrand, Ed Enders. 



C. L. Washburn, president, and J. F. 

 Ammann, of Edwardsville, secretary of 

 the Illinois State Florists' Association, 

 were present and spoke for the conven- 

 tion and exhibition of that organiza- 

 tion, to be held at Joliet March 5 and 

 6. The club invited the florists of the 

 state to visit Chicago the following day 

 and attend the club meeting to be held 

 March 7. 



J. H. Burdett, secretary of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of Chicago, described 

 the plans for the spring show to open 

 March 12, and asked the club's cooper- 

 ation. 



John A. Then exhibited seedling car- 

 nation No. 41, which was scored eighty 

 points by a committee consisting of C. 

 W. Johnson, Guy French and E. A. 

 Wood. Charles J. Bond, of Naperville, 

 exhibited some thirty splendid blooms 

 of Cattleya Trianae, now in full crop 

 with him, which received the thanks of 

 the club. Next day they were on dis- 

 play at the salesroom of the A. L. Ran- 

 dall Co. 



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