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The Florists' Review 



June 26, 1918. 



officials of the Coliseum company. The 

 proceedings of this meeting will be re- 

 ported at the next club meeting. 



George Angermueller, W. C. Smith, 

 D. Bova, A. Meyer, Jr., Alex Siegel 

 and Harry Schlechter took a day oflf 

 last week, fishing at Spanish lake. 

 The trip was made in a big automobile. 

 The catch was not large, but they spent 

 a pleasant day. 



Jules Bourdet, head of the Bourdet 

 Floral Co., contemplates a trip to 

 France this summer. Mr. Bourdet came 

 here in charge of the"^oral display of 

 the French exhibit during the world's 

 fair in 1904^ and has made his home 

 he!re ever since and carries on a suc- 

 cessful business. 



Albert Scheidegger,-^ of Kirkwood, 

 stepped last week on ) a rusty nail, 

 which caused him a lot or trouble. Paul 

 Scheider, of Clayton, also came in con- 

 tact with a rusty nail with his left 

 hand and was thus kept from work for 

 a few days. Both are on the mend, ac- 

 cording to the latest reports. 



It is almost assured that the He No 

 tea garden will be built in Auburndale 

 park. William Boucjbe, the local land- 

 scape architect, is th# originator of this 

 famous garden, having built it in the 

 exposition building some years back. 

 Only the consent of Martin Gellette & 

 Sons, owners of the He No tea of Balti- 

 more, is necessary to complete tne 

 plans. 



W. J. Pilcher, of Kirkwood, who has 

 a large field of gladioli, is happy over 

 the fact that he has installed the Skin- 

 ner system of irrigation, as the long 

 dry spell would surely have killed the 

 crop. 



J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, on a 

 recent visit contracted for twenty-five 

 reservations for a boat trip up the 

 river for his southern Hlinois party 

 who will attend the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion at Minneapolis. Mr. Ammann is 

 state vice-president of the S. A. F. for 

 southern Illinois. The prospects are 

 good for the St. Louis party joining 

 him in this trip. 



Herman Gross, son of Gus Gross, the 

 Kirkwood grower, was elected marshal 

 of North Glendale, Kirkwood, last 

 week. Young Gross is a splendidly 

 built man and should make a good 

 official. 



Henry Meyer, one of our many Kirk- 

 wood growers, is sporting a new Ford 

 car to bring in his products to the cut 

 flower market. A majority of the 

 county growers now own cars. They 

 say two hours is saved each morning 

 coming and going. 



The Retail Florists' Association held 

 a special meeting on Mon(jay night, 

 June 23, at Anschuetz garden. Magno- 

 lia and Grand avenues. Business of 

 special importance was transacted. The 

 meeting was well attended. 



"Billy" Smith says he is going to 

 take up aeroplaning, as the autos are 

 becoming too slow for him. He is go- 

 ing to make Paddy Patton his pilot. 

 Paddy says, if he does, he can see 

 where he and the boss are going to fall 

 out over something. 



There is considerable building of new 

 greenhouses to be started soon among 

 the Kirkwood florists. Anton Bros, will 

 build three, 27x140; Oscar May one, 

 40x125; W. A. Rowe two, 34x125. 



John Bubach, representing Schloss 



Bros., New York, and E. C. Pruner, of 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago, were 



callers last week. 



. J. F. Ammann has invited the Flo- 



rists ' Club to hold its July meeting at 

 his place in Edwardsville. The officers 

 have accepted the invitation. 



The St. Louis County Plant and 

 Flower Growers' Association will hold 

 its regular monthly meeting July 2, in 

 Niesen's hall, Woodlawn avenue and 

 Manchester road, at 8 o'clock. Presi- 

 dent Vennemann has appointed W. J. 

 Pilcher and William Winter as the pub- 

 licity committee. Secretary Joseph 

 Deutschmann says a large attendance 

 is assured. 



Miss Matilda Meinhardt invited the 





The Becord Carnation Stem. 



members of the Lady Florists' Home 

 Circle to spend Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day of this week at her cottage at 

 Chautauqua. J- J B- 



Grimm & Gorly have leased the sec- 

 ond floor above their store at 706 

 Washington avenue for six and one- 

 half years at an annual rental of $600. 

 In 1910 the company had a small store 

 on Cass avenue and paid $25 a month 

 rent. The increase in the business com- 

 pelled the addition of another floor to 

 the present space. 



THE BECOSD STEM. 



One day in May John Michelsen, of 

 the E. C. Amling Co., Chicago, visited 

 Richmond, Ind., and was shown, at the 

 establishment of the E. G. Hill Co., a 

 shoot on a plant of Carnation Gloriosa 

 that had gone far above others on the 

 bench without having set a bud. There 

 was so much talk about it that when 

 the flower had developed the Hill peo- 

 ple made a special box to contain the 

 extended stem and shipped the flower to 

 Chicago, where Mr. Michelsen had it 

 photographed. The illustration shows 

 the box quite nicely, but the stem was 

 so long and thin that it would not show 

 up strongly except for the rule that 

 was placed beside it. From this it can 

 be seen that the flower w^s on a 

 straight stem of ordinary strength but 

 ninety inches long. It is a freak and 

 nothing more, but it probably sets the 

 record for carnation stems. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Danbiiry, Conn. — E. E. Mathewson 

 has awarded a contract to Lord & Bum- 

 ham Co., New York, for the erection 

 of another greenhouse at 63 North 

 street. The new house will be 40x200 

 feet and of iron frame construction on 

 a concrete foundation. 



The Market. 



Last week the weather was of the 

 kind that burns up everything under 

 glass, but it brought the much-needed 

 rain and we are now enjoying delight- 

 ful weather. The plantsmen are about 

 through for this season and there seems 

 to be a feeling that the season was not 

 as good as in the last few years. The 

 small trade was as good and possibly 

 better, but those who do big planting 

 have not done much of anything. One 

 grower says he finds that many of those 

 who have failed to do the usual amount 

 of large planting are men who are most 

 interested in the retention of the pres- 

 ent tariff and they feel disposed to re- 

 duce expenses until they see the results 

 of tariff reductions. 



Among the wholesale cut flower deal- 

 ers trade has been fairly good. There 

 has been a steady demand for stock and 

 the volume of business has been heavy, 

 but the prices on much of the stock 

 were just what the buyers wanted to 

 pay and there were huge quantities of 

 stock left, to be disposed of by way of 

 the garbage man. It is conceded that 

 the flowers in general, and roses in par- 

 ticular, are the finest that were ever of- 

 fered in June and the decorators had 

 as fine roses for their June weddings as 

 they get at any season of the year. 

 Beauties have been "punk," but there 

 are plenty of them and the wholesalers 

 are satisfied with business. 



Retail people who have weddings to 

 attend to are exceedingly busy. The 

 counter trade was dull during the ex- 

 tremely hot weather, but, all things con- 

 sidered, it was fair June business. The 

 really active people were the fakers, 

 the fellows who buy a wagon load for 

 almost nothing and sell it — nobody 

 knows where. They have been a bless- 

 ing during the last month, getting stock 

 out of sight and distributing it, as they 

 generally do, among people who ordi- 

 narily are not flower buyers. 



Various Notes. 



The wholesale houses wiU close at 5 

 p. m. every day during the »«mmer. 



John Walker, of Youngstown, O., 

 stopped over on his way home from the 

 east. He says there has been a good 

 season's trade in Youngstown. 



A. W. Smith, Jr., and W. A. Clark 

 spent last Wednesday in Wheeling, 

 W. Va., acting as judges of the floral 



