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The Florists* Review 



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ance and fell off, spraining both his 

 wrists severely and bruising his face. 

 However, last reports are that he is 

 doing nicely and. will be back on the 

 job again in a few weeks. A. C. K. 



ST. Loxns. 



The Southwestern Market. 



The cut flower market was active 

 last week. There was an immense 

 quantity of cut stock, including every- 

 thing in season, at all the local whole- 

 sale markets. On some days the sup- 

 ply was so large that not nearly half 

 the consignments could be disposed of. 

 The trade was looking for light col- 

 ored stock all the week, owing to some 

 heavy funeral orders. March 16 there 

 was a heavy demand for white carna- 

 tions, which were transformed into 

 green ones for St. Patrick's day. Green 

 seemed to be the principal window 

 decoration among florists all over the 

 city. There is a large supply of col- 

 ored carnations and these have been 

 selling at low prices, although white 

 stock brought $4 per hundred. Boses, 

 too, have been abundant, with Killar- 

 neys as the bulk of the supply. The 

 supply of violets and sweet peas was 

 so large as to keep the wholesalers in 

 hot water all the week; the prices 

 dropped to about $2 per thousand for 

 violets and $3 per thousand for peas. 

 There was. also more valley than the 

 demand called for. Easter lilies sold 

 well. In bulbous stock, such as Paper 

 Whites, tulips and jonquils, the supply 

 was heavy. Asparagus was scarce all 

 the week and common ferns are up to 

 $3 per thousand. A good call for ga- 

 lax was noted. 



Club Meeting. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club held an 

 interesting meeting March 12 in Odd 

 Fellows' hall. The meeting was at- 

 tended by twenty-five members, with 

 President Pilcher in the chair. The 

 different committees made their 

 monthly reports. The question of hold- 

 ing a fall flower show then came up 

 for discussion, and a motion was made 

 that inasmuch as the local florists have 

 shown so little interest in regard to 

 holding a flower show, the matter be 

 dropped as far as the club is concerned. 

 The holding of a spring flower show in 

 1915 will be taken up sometime in the 

 fall. 



As the St. Louis pageant commit- 

 tee had failed to recognize the club's 

 committee at any of the meetings or 

 at any time except when financial aid 

 was wanted, the club voted to with- 

 draw its committee and support. 



Adolph Jaenicke favored the meet- 

 ing with one hour of interesting talk 

 on "City Gardens." At the con- 

 clusion of his address he also answered 

 many questions put to him by the mem- 

 bers. A vote of thanks was extended 

 to him. 



Treasurer Smith made the members 

 happy when he announced the balance 

 in the treasury. For the first time the 

 question box, always interesting, was 

 empty. The date of the next meeting 

 is- April 9. 



Various Notes. 



Fred Lautenschlager, representing 

 Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago, called on 

 the greenhouse men last week and Sam- 

 uel Seligman, representing Wertheimer 

 Bros., New York, did the same among 

 the retailers. Both speak well of busi- 



ness in their lines. Mr. Lautenschlager 

 reports having sold three large boilers, 

 one each to Charles Meier, Henry 

 Meier and A. S. Cerny, who have green- 

 houses in St. Louis' county. 



W. A. Eowe, of Kirkwood, spent a 

 few days in Chicago last week, look- 

 ing up materials to be used in build- 

 ing his new range, on which work will 

 begin early this spring. 



W. C. Smith, J. F. Ammann, M. F. 

 Widmer, E. W. Guy and Adolph Fehr 

 were the club members who attended 

 the recent meeting of the Illinois 

 Florists' Association at Danville, 111. 

 They reported a fine time. 



The board of education created a new 

 office, that of supervisor of city school 

 gardens, the first of the year, and to 

 this office they appointed Prof. H. C. 

 Irish, who took hold of the position 

 March 1. Prof. Irish spent most of the 

 winter at Ames College, Ames, la., as 



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instructor in botany. Local members 

 of the trade were much pleased to hear 

 of his appointment. 



Paddy Patton, of Smith's, has gained 

 so much fame of late among the local 

 trade that he is writing a new poem 

 entitled "Fame and Fortune Are but 

 the Ashes of Roses," which he expects 

 to read at the Florists' Club next meet- 

 ing and which he says is sure to bring 

 out a large attendance. 



C. E. De Wever, of Clayton, Mo., 

 who grows thousands of pot roses and 

 gladioli in season, has a fine house of 

 crimson rambler and Tausendschon 

 roses, which will be right for the 

 Easter trade. 



The Lady Florists' Home Circle held 

 its meeting at the home of Mrs. Theo. 

 Miller, March 11, with a full attend- 

 ance. A pleasant afternoon was spent. 

 The next meeting will take place one 

 week ahead of the regular time, April 

 1. This meeting will be held at the 

 home of Mrs. J. J. Beneke. 



Philip Goebel is now head of the 

 parks which come under the supervis- 

 ion of the city water department, hav- 

 ing succeeded Aug. Kunz, January 1. 

 Mr. Goebel 's many friends in the trade 

 were much pleased when the announce- 

 ment was made. 



Vandevoort's department store had 

 its spring opening last week. The 

 pretty floral decorations were executed 



by workmen in their floral department, 

 under the direction of David Geddes, 

 the manager. 



"Billy" Craig, of Robert Craig Co., 

 Philadelphia, called on the trade last 

 week, in the interest of his firm. 



James Young, head of C. Young & 

 Sons Co., says their seed and cut flower 

 departments put in a busy week. Their 

 mail orders were quite heavy. 



W. J. Pilcher, F. Vennemann, George 

 Madsen, Pierre Schneider, W. E. Ogle, 

 Gust. Grossart and John Connon were 

 the suburban members who attended 

 the club meeting last week. 



Pierre Schneider, manager of the 

 Oakland Floral Co., at Oakland, says 

 he will be just right with a fine lot 

 of fancy Butterfly sweet peas for 

 Easter and the cut will be heavy. 



H. Young & Son, at 4651 Maryland 

 avenue, have a pretty display of bloom- 

 ing plants in their show house. Mr. 

 Young says cut flower work has been 

 slow since Lent set in, but blooming 

 plants sell well. 



Joe Witek's new store, at Euclid 

 and McPherson avenues, looks bright 

 and pretty. He is noted for artistic 

 window displays and they attract a 

 great deal of attention. 



Green carnations formed the prin- 

 cipal window displays in the downtown 

 stores March 16. 



The St. Louis Seed Co. has estab- 

 lished new quarters at 704 North Broad- 

 way. The officers of the company say 

 their loss is heavy, mostly by water, 

 as all preparations had been made for 

 the spring business. Their loss was not 

 only in seeds, but also in birds, chick- 

 ens and goldfish, of which they car- 

 ried a large stock. Their insurance 

 will not cover the loss. As soon as 

 the fire adjusters fix the damage, they 

 expect to resume business at the old 

 stand. J. J. B. 



OBITUABY. 



Paul Volciuardsoii. 



Paul Volquardson, a well known gar- 

 dener at Newport, R. I., died March 9, 

 after an illness of about eight months. 

 For sixteen years he was gardener for 

 Mrs. William F. Weld, at her summer 

 residence on Bellevue avenue. A prom- 

 inent member of the Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society, he had been in reoent 

 years a leading exhibitor in the shows, 

 being especially successful in growing 

 sweet peas. He was born in Germany, 

 fifty-six years ago. He leaves a widow, 

 one son and one daughter. 



W. Collins. 



W. Collins, store manager for How- 

 ard & Smith, of Los Angeles, Cal., died 

 March 5, of lung trouble. He had 

 been failing for a considerable time 

 and his death was not unexpected. Pre- 

 vious to working for Howard & Smith 

 he was with T. Wright for a number of 

 years and before that with Morris 

 Goldenson. He was an excellent florist 

 and his work was always characterized 

 by good taste. He had few relatives 

 in the west, as most of his people live 

 around New York, but during the last 

 weeks of his life he was studiously at- 

 tended by his employers, who did every- 

 thing possible to alleviate his suffering. 

 He was about 44 years of age. 



H. R. R. 



MoNTQOMEBY on Grafted Roses, sent 

 by The Review for 25 cents. 



