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The Florists' Review 



Dec'kubkk o, 101:;. 



cut off and potted up. The latter 

 method gives much the better results, 

 but the tops will not root as quickly 

 now as they will in spring and summer. 



W. H. T. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Southwestern Market. 



During the week ending Saturday, 

 November ;50, the volume of business 

 done by the wholesalers, growers and 

 retailers was unusually large, accord- 

 ing to all reports. There were a large 

 number of weddings, receptions, din- 

 ners and an unusual quantity of 

 funeral work. The wholesale market 

 was in high glee all the week. There 

 was plenty of stock and it all cleaned 

 up pretty well at good i)rices. Improve- 

 ment in quality also was noted. 



Chrysanthemum blooms are on the 

 down grade and the market Monday, 

 December 2, was so shy on stock that 

 it looks as though all our local growers 

 are cut out. Koses are coming along 

 finely and the market is daily supplied 

 with good consignments in all grades 

 and varieties. Carnations, too, are 

 coming good, with long stems and ex- 

 cellent flowers. These have been 

 rather scarce of late. Prices are up 

 on the fancy grades; $5 to $6 per hun- 

 dred is being asked for extra select. 



There are several who have taken up 

 growing valley for this market and 

 it can be had in large lots, of good 

 quality. Violets are in great demand, 

 but not enough are coming in and 

 prices are up to $1 per hundred for 

 choice. Lilies are plentiful and had a 

 splendid demand all last week, with 

 prices from $10 to $1.1 per hundred. 

 Adiantum, asparagus, galax, leucothoe 



The Windier Wholesale Floral Co. 

 says - its first Thanksgiving business 

 was more than was expected. A new 

 Ford delivery car came in handy. 



George Schriefer, head of the cut 

 flower department at C'. A. Kuehn 's, 

 says business was excellent all week, 

 with the supply equal to the demand. 



The Riessen Floral Co., Grimm & 

 Gorly and Alex Siegel, downtown re- 

 tailers, say they had big business all 

 through the week. Ever^hing sold 

 well. 



♦Along Grand avenue the retail flo- 

 rists all report a great Thanksgiving 

 business. Up north Bentzen, Mul- 

 lanphy and Tower; at Grand and Olive, 

 Waldbart, Myers and the Metropoli- 

 tan; south, Windier, Eggeling, Berg- 

 stermann and Beyer had better business 

 than last vear. In the west end New- 

 man, F. H.' Weber, F. C. Weber, Ellison, 

 Kalisch, Sander, Foster and Sanders 

 all say it was a great Thanksgiving. 

 Reports from florists in the south and 

 north ends say that this year was an 

 improvement over last year. 



Various Notes.' 



Marie Richerson, formerly with Otto 

 Sander, is now in the employ of Grimm 

 & Gorly, at their Washington avenue 

 store. 



The chicken show at the Coliseum 

 last week had charms for a number of 

 florists. Among them were W. J. Pil- 

 cher, W. C. Smith, Frank Weber and 

 others. 



The marriage license office had a 

 busy week. The 124 licenses issued 

 November «27 must have brought con- 

 siderable business to the florists, as 

 all report quite a lot of wedding work 

 for last week. 



Francis Fillmore, Sr., 87 years old, 



Hauling Ferns from the Green Mountains to the Bailroad. 



and wild smilax sold well. The market 

 is well supplied with all these greens. 



Thanksgiving Business. 



Henry Berning says the demand and 

 prices were good, with carnations 

 short. 



W. C. Smith Wholesale Floral Co. 

 says business was away ahead of last 

 year. The demand for violets, both 

 local and shipping, exceeded the supply. 



Geo. H. Angermueller cleaned up 

 early. He had a fine supply of Easter 

 lilies and orchids. The demand was 

 better than last year. 



who fell last week and broke his leg, 

 is now resting easy at St. Mary's hos- 

 pital. Mr. Fillmore is one of our oldest 

 florists and father of F. J. Fillmore. 



F. H. Weber reports he will furnish 

 the decorations for the largest social 

 event of the year at the St. Louis Club. 

 A number of orange trees are being 

 brought up from Florida to be used in 

 the decorations. 



The St. Louis Florists ' Club will hold 

 its last meeting of the year next Thurs- 

 day afternoon, December 12. The 

 meeting will be feature^l by the pres- 

 ence of President Richard Vincent, of 



the S. A. F. The trustees have com- 

 pleted all arrangements to entertain 

 Mr. Vincent and the members on this 

 occasion. W. C. Smith and Charles 

 Young have been appointed as body- 

 guards for Mr. Vincent during his 

 stay. Special notices are being sent 

 to all members for this meeting. 



John J. Wunderli, of the Alexander 

 Floral Co., at Clayton, surprised his 

 many friends when he was married last 

 week to Miss Anna Urban. Mr. Wun- 

 derli calls it an elopement to get even 

 with his son and daughter, who both 

 eloped recently and got married. 



Max Herzog's place in the south end 

 is in splendid shape. He has a fine 

 house of poinsettias in pots and pans 

 for his own use for the Christmas 

 trade. 



Invitations are out for the twenty- 

 third annual banquet to gardeners, flo- 

 rists and nurserymen, provided for in 

 the will of Henry Shaw, at the Wasih- 

 ington hotel' at 7 p. m. December 13. 

 at which President Richard Vincent. 

 Jr., of the Society of American Flo- 

 rists, will give an illustrated lecture 

 on the London flower show. 



Visitors: M. Reukauf, of Bayers- 

 dorfer & Co., Philadelphia; Frank 

 AlcCabe, of A. L. Randajl Co., Chicago. 

 ' " J. J. B. 



FLORICULTURE AT LINCOLN. 



One of the Hlinoi* cities in which 

 the florists are prospering is Lincoln, 

 where there is a first-class local retail 

 business and an excellent opportunity 

 for a wholesale plant business, of 

 which full advantage has been taken. 

 The accompanying illustrations show, 

 one of them, the range of greenhouses 

 of Gullett & Sons, and the other the 

 interior of one of the houses of cycla- 

 mens. Cyclamens are a leading spe- 

 cialty, but a complete line of popular 

 flowering plants is grown for each of 

 the holidays, with a large line of bed- 

 ding stock following for spring sales. 



A FEW FERNS. 



How many hardy cut ferns does the 

 florists' trade of the United States con- 

 sume in a year? It is a question which 

 has been put to a number of those en- 

 gaged in the fern business, but none of 

 them appears to have any information 

 on the subject. That it runs into hun- 

 dreds of millions there can be no doubt. 



Prior to the last dozen years prac- 

 tically all the ferns used in the trade 

 were gathered in Berkshire county, Mas- 

 sachusetts, but the demand has in- 

 creased so rapidly that the dealers in 

 the eastern section have been obliged 

 to open new fields, and the south and 

 Michigan, and now Wisconsin, are con- 

 tributing to the supply. A large part of 

 the eastern ferns now come from New 

 York state and from Vermont. What 

 has at first seemed like an inexhaustible 

 supply has lasted only a few seasons, 

 and each year it becomes necessary to 

 go farther away from the railroads. In 

 the beginning the pickers operated 

 wherever they could find the ferns, but 

 nowadays, at least in the eastern dis- 

 tricts, it is necessary for the pickers to 

 pay real money to the owner of the 

 land for the privilege of picking the 

 native ferns. It has become extremely 

 difficult to buy territory near the rail- 

 roads and the ferns' must be hauled a 

 long distance by team. The shippers go 

 into the country for their ferns, get 

 them teamed to the railroad and ship 

 to some convenient cold storage point, 



