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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Septbmbeb 21, 1911. 



The C. C. Pollworth Co. is looking 

 eagerly forward to the time when the 

 new quarters will be completed, which 

 is only a matter of a few days now. 



Holton & Hunkel Co. is cutting a large 

 crop of American Beauties and Killar- 

 neys at its Brown Deer place. 



The fall openings of the various large 

 dry goods and department stores within 

 the next fortnight are again creating a 

 demand for decorative plants, and some 

 orders have already been booked. 



E. O. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



There was a slight improvement in 

 the market last week. The weather in 

 the daytime has been hot during the 

 whole week, but the nights are cooler 

 and the cut of the young stock is con- 

 siderably better in quality, especially 

 carnations. A great many more carna- 

 tions are coming in. The supply of 

 asters has decreased and they are now 

 seen only in limited quantities. Dahlias 

 are plentiful, but the demand only calls 

 for the best. The week was noted for 

 the large supply of single tuberose 

 stalks, with the price down to $1.50 per 

 hundred stalks. 



Eoses are looking fine; the greatest 

 supply is in white and pink Cochets. 

 There were also good consignments of 

 Killarneys, Eichmonds and Marylands. 

 Lilies are cleaning up well; so, also, is 

 lily of the valley. A few yellow mums 

 are coming in, but not many as yet. 

 There are quite a few fall opening 

 decorations this week, which will keep 

 those who handle this branch busy. 

 The retailers are looking forward to 

 cooler weather to steady up the trade. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club held an interesting 

 monthly meeting September 14, in the 

 meeting rooms, with twenty-five mem- 

 bers present. This meeting was known 

 as the installation meeting. President 

 Connon started the proceedings at 2 

 p. m. The auditing committee reported 

 that the books of the secretary and 

 treasurer were correct. 



Communications were read from the 

 Chicago Florists' Club, inviting the 

 members to Chicago to attend the Chi- 

 cago club's twenty-fifth anniversary. 

 The invitation was accepted and 

 Messrs. Smith, Geddes, Halstead and 

 Beneke were appointed a committee on 

 arrangements for the trip. 



The matter of appointing a commit- 

 tee to assist the Eetail Florists' As- 

 sociation in passing its bill, now before 

 the House of Delegates, was laid over 

 until the October meeting. 



The committees on the applications 

 of Eobert Winkler and Mathew Schoen- 

 berger reported favorably and they were 

 elected to membership. Applications 

 for membership were presented by 

 Charles Young, of St. Louis; J. E. Mul- 

 doon, of Kirkwood, Mo., and George 

 Madsen, of Alton, 111. 



In the order of new business the in- 

 stallation of ofiicers took place. Presi- 

 dent-elect Eobert J. Windier had not 

 yet returned from his bridal trip. Vice- 

 President-elect F. Vennemann was duly 

 installed and relieved President Con- 

 non of the chair. Then followed the 

 installation of Secretary Beneke, 

 Treasurer Smith and Trustee Frank 

 Weber, and the new officers proceeded 

 with the meeting. 



The question box brought out a good 



discussion of several important ques- 

 tions. 



The next meeting of the club takes 

 place on Thursday afternoon, October 

 12, and the new officers hope for a 

 large attendance. 



Various Notes. 



Messrs. Smith, Geddes, Halstead and 

 Beneke will have charge of the Florists' 

 Club's trip to Chicago October 5. Any 

 members of the club wishing to make 

 the trip should send in their names to 

 any member of the committee. 



C. C. Sanders is spending a week at 

 West Baden Springs. A few days' rest 

 at the springs should do him much 

 good. 



The Ayers Floral Co., George Wald- 

 bart and the Metropolitan Floral Co. 

 put in a busy week. The bulk of the 

 work was large funeral designs. 



The C. Young & Sons Co. has pre- 

 pared plans for one of the finest flower 

 establishments in the west end. They 

 will at once put up a building facing 

 Waterman avenue, using 100 feet of 

 frontage, with the store, thirty feet 

 wide, in the center, and plant show 

 houses on each side, each thirty-five 

 feet wide. When completed, Mr. Young 

 says, it will be one of the most attrac- 

 tive establishments in the country. The 

 downtown store, at Fourteenth and 

 Olive streets, will be retained. 



The heavy rain and wind storms of 

 Friday, September 15, did considerable 

 damage to fine trees in the parks. J. 

 Shields, on North Florrissant avenue, 

 suffered a loss of nearly $2,000 in his 

 greenhouse plant. The show house of 

 the Eggeling Floral Co., in the rear of 

 the store, was also damaged. 



William Hartshorne, gardener at the 

 state prison, Joliet, 111., spent Saturday 

 and Sunday, September 16 and 17, vis- 

 iting friends in the trade here. Mr. 

 Hartshorne 's last visit here was during 

 the world's fair year. 



Belleville, 111., celebrated Belleville 

 day September 15, in which all the 

 florists of that city took part. 



Otto Sander, who has an up-to-date 

 flower shop in the Century building, has 

 made many impr^ements in his store 

 this summer, which make the place 

 quite attractive. 



All the Kirkwood growers have near- 

 ly completed the housing of their car- 

 nations and violets. They expect to 

 have large crops of carnations, but 

 violets will not be such a glut this sea- 

 son, as the plants suffered greatly from 

 the dry, hot summer. There will also 

 be a large cut of sweet peas. A lot of 

 new glass was added at Kirkwood this 

 summer and this should make the con- 

 signments large this season. 



Among the visitors last week were 

 Paul Berkowitz, of Bayersdorfer & Co., 

 Philadelphia; Arnold Eingier, of W. W. 

 Barnard Co., Chicago, and Julius Dilloff, 

 of Schloss Bros., New York. 



Charles Young, of the C. Young & 

 Sons Co., spent last week at Harrisburg, 

 Pa., arranging with the McFarland 

 Publicity Service for an elaborate 

 spring catalogue. J. J. B. 



Detroit, Mich. — The contract for the 

 new store and conservatory of L. Bemb 

 Floral Co., Albert Pochelon, proprietor, 

 has been let to Bartholomaei & Son at 

 $18,000. 



North Easton, Mass. — The new green- 

 house of F. Lothrop Ames, on his 

 Washington street estate, is being 

 stocked under the direction of Henry 

 Eaton, who has charge of the house. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The last week has given us the cold- 

 est weather so far experienced this sea- 

 son. Killing frosts occurred Septem- 

 ber 13 to 15 over quite a wide area, 

 which is an exceptionally early date for 

 New England. While asters and other 

 outdoor flowers were considerably 

 damaged and in some cases ruined, 

 there is still an adequate supply ar- 

 riving. Prices show some improve- 

 ment from a week ago, 50 cents per 

 hundred being now about bottom price. 

 The quality at present is excellent. 

 Gladioli are much reduced in number 

 and sweet peas are practically out of 

 the market for the present. Some 

 growers will have flowers from under 

 glass in October, there now being few 

 days in the year when sweet peas are 

 not procurable. 



Eoses are improving in quality. The 

 colder weather suited them, and the 

 prices are a shade higher. Beauties are 

 good and sell well. So do Mrs Ward, 

 Lady Hillingdon, the two Killarneys 

 and Prince de Bulgarie. Carnations 

 are still limited in number, but each 

 week sees more growers starting to send 

 them in. Lilies are temporarily in short 

 supply. Valley is in good supply. Gold- 

 en Glow still has the field practically to 

 itself among mums, but a few whites 

 are seen. Cattleyas are scarce, but a 

 few labiata have appeared. Tuberoses 

 from outdoors are plentiful, but the call 

 for them is light, as it also is for 

 cosmos, gypsophila and other outdoor 

 flowers. Dahlias are not sold much in 

 the markets here; this year they are 

 largely a failure. A few violets are 

 due to arrive this week. There is no 

 great change in the demand for green 

 supplies. 



Club Meeting. 



The first fall meeting of the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club, September 

 19, attracted an attendance of 150 mem- 

 bers. Eesolutions were presented and 

 adopted for two deceased members, F. 

 E. Mathieson and John F. Flood. The 

 annual picnic report was read and ap- 

 proved. Prof. E. A. White, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, was pres- 

 ent and spoke on the desirability of a 

 closer alliance between the club and the 

 floricultural department of the college, 

 in order to advance its interests and 

 improve its value, and a committee, con- 

 sisting of J. K. M. L. Farquhar, 

 Thomas Eoland, Eobert Cameron, Peter 

 Fisher, J. A. Pettigrew, Eber Holmes 

 and Wm. Sim, was appointed to act for 

 the club in the matter. Thanks were 

 voted to the Baltimore boys for con- 

 vention courtesies. 



Eight new members were admitted. 

 Vacation experiences included European 

 travel notes by T. J. Gray, Thomas 

 Pegler and J. W. Collins, but these were 

 cut short to allow members to join the 

 Vegetable Growers' Association of 

 America, which was then in session at 

 horticultural hall. Nearly all the mem- 

 bers accepted the invitation of the V. 

 G. A. and heard interesting lectures 

 from David Lumsden, Durham, N. C, 

 on "French and English Systems of 

 Vegetable Forcing," and from Paul 

 Work, Ithaca, N. Y., a stereopticon lec- 

 ture on marketing. 



Exhibits at the club meeting included 

 Lorraine begonias and cyclamens, from 

 W. W. Edgar Co., and Viola cornuta 

 purpurea, from E. & J. Farquhar & Co., 

 the latter receiving a report of merit. 



