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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1898. 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



The cut flower trade has been some- 

 what better for the past week, funeral 

 work predominating. Good stock is 

 scarce. Roses are improving. Carna- 

 tions are fair. Asters are about the 

 same. Some good Mary Semple are 

 coming in (Semple's Pink). Japa^ lil- 

 ies are still in demand with a good 

 crop. They are about the best flower 

 to be had and are used extensively for 

 funeral work; $1.50 per dozen is the 

 price quoted. There is a good demand 

 for Beauties, selling from $2 to 4 per 

 dozen. Other roses retail from $1 to 

 $1.50 per dozen. Good carnations bring 

 30 cents; average stock, 25 cents. Tube- 

 roses sell at any price. The street fa- 

 kirs have quite a stock of them. 



Among the Growers. 



Mr. D. Livingston, of Crawford road, 

 has put up five new houses, making 

 quite an improvement at his place. Mr. 

 Livingston has had such success in 

 the past year with sweet peas that he 

 will devote his largest house to this 

 flower. He expects to have them in 

 by October 1, and start cutting by the 

 middle of February. He had an excep- 

 tionally good crop the second week in 

 March this year. 



J. M. Gasser will have his seventh 

 new house finished by September 3 at 

 his Lakewood place. These houses, 

 eight in number, seven 23x165 and one 

 65x210, are used for growing roses. In 

 addition to a general line of standard 

 sorts he will also devote some space 

 to his new Cleveland rose. This is a 

 good one, somewhat resembling Car- 

 not, but more double and of a finer 

 tint. He can cut more Cleveland than 

 Carnot on same number of plants. 



He also has a large palm house at 

 the same place. Next week he will 

 commence to put up two more at his 

 Rocky River farm, one a violet house. 

 He has twenty houses at Rocky River, 

 which gives him 150.000 feet of glass. 



The carnations grown this season 

 will be for white — Lizzie McGowan, 

 White Daybreak, Flora Hill, Evelina 

 and White Cloud; pink — Scott, Victor, 

 McBurney and his pink seedling: for 

 scarlet — Outcast, Jubilee and Queen of 

 the West; yellow — Mayor Pingree, 

 Buttercup, Eldorado and Gold Nugget; 

 the latter he claims is the coming yel- 

 low. 



Mr. Ed Fetters, of Smith & Fetters, 

 has gone east. He will buy a stock of 

 palms and ferns for the greenhouse 

 which they intend to build in the rear 

 of their store, the plans for which are 

 about complete. This will add greatly 

 to their store and make it convenient 

 for filling ferneries. 



Notes. 



Miss Minnie Binder, of J. M. Gasser, 

 attended the convention at Omaha. 

 She must have had a good time, judg- 

 ing from her letters. She likes the 

 west very much, so much so that she 

 has not yet returned. 



Mr. Fred Blacker is spending a week 

 at Columbus, 0. 



Miss Vida McCullough will leave 

 September 10 for two weeks' stay in 

 New York. 



Mr. C. Betscher, of Canal Dover, was 

 in town. Also Mr. Linn, of McEIroy & 

 Linn. New Philadelphia. 



It is with regret that we announce 

 the death of Mr. Jenkins, of Ravenna. 

 His family has the sympathy of the 

 florists of Cleveland. 



President William McKinley is in 

 the city for the week. Consequently 

 there has been a demand for choice 

 stock. Owing to the illness of Mrs. 

 McKinley, the dinner party arranged 

 by Mrs. M. A. Hanna. which promised 

 to be an elaborate affair, was called 

 off. 0. A. C. 0. 



AMONG BOSTON GROWERS. 



Geo. Cartwright's. 



At Dedham, we called on our old 

 friend, George Cartwright, and found 

 his stock in fine condition, in fact, he 

 had the finest lot of carnations we have 

 seen this season. His principal house, 

 one he built a year ago, l<><)x20, is de- 

 voted entirely to carnations, and he is 

 a firm believer that to improve quali- 

 ty and to keep repair expenses down to 

 a minimum, solid beds are preferable 

 to benches, and his success la.st year 

 more than convinced him that he was 

 right. This house will contain about 

 4,.5iKl plants, of which Scott will be the 

 principal variety, with the balance di- 

 vided between Flora Hill and Welles- 

 ley. He has also a fine lot of Freedom 



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