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The Weekly Florists* Review^ 



SEPTEMBER 8, 1898. 



ST. PAUL, MINN. 



A slight improvement is noticeable 

 in the bulk of sales, which will be 

 largely increased with the cooler 

 weather of next month. Roses are in 

 fair supply, with the demand equal to 

 or exceeding the cut. Carnations are 

 in good demand, with the supply in- 

 adequate to the trade requirements. 

 Sweet peas, gladioli and other outside 

 stock is in fair supply and limited de- 

 mand. Asters are a total failure and 

 no first class ones can be obtained. 



The visitors to Omaha have all re- 

 turned and all report an enjoyable 

 time and are full of praise for Brother 

 Wilcox and wife and all others who 

 so kindly contributed to the pleasure. 



On our return trip the writer 

 stopped off at Des Moines and was 

 surprised and pleased at the wonder- 

 ful evidence of thrift and prosperity 

 in Iowa's metropolis and capital. W. 

 L. Morris has a fine large store in the 

 best location in the city. His place is 

 one of the neatest and best we have 

 seen in the west, while the genial 

 smile and cordial greeting of the pro- 

 prietor cannot help being trade win- 

 ners. At his range of houses contain- 

 ing 30,000 square feet of glass we were 

 met by his foreman, Mr. Newell, and 

 shown about. His roses and mums are 

 in fine shape, full of promise for a 

 good crop later. Asparagus Sprengerii 

 and umbrella plants were very much 

 in evidence and are, as I was informed, 

 very good sellers with them. 



Our recent callers were J. E. Killen, 

 representing C. H. Joosten; W. P. 

 Dreer, Mr. Miller, of Boston, and W. 

 H. Elliott, of Brighton, Mass. 



X. Y. Z. 



DUTY ON PALM LEAVES. ^^ 



By a decision of the XJ. S. General 

 Appraisers at New York, under date 

 of Aug. 25, "palm leaves, either paint- 

 ed, dyed, or subjected to some solution 

 designed to preserve them from the 

 decomposing action of the air" are 

 held "not free under either paragraph 

 552 or 617 of the tariff act of 1897, but 

 dutiable at the rate of 30 per cent, ad 

 valorem under paragraph 449, act of 

 1897." 



The importers claimed free entry 

 under paragraph 552, which places on 

 the free list "palm leaf in its natural 

 state, not colored, dyed, or otherwise 

 advanced or manufactured" and under 

 paragraph 617 as "vegetable substance, 

 crude or unmanufactured, not other- 

 wise provided for." The protests were 

 overruled and the collector's decisions 

 were affirmed. 



THE YOUNGEST PRESIDENT. 



In speaking of President-elect Rudd 

 in last week's issue, we intended to 

 refer to him as "one of the youngest" 

 men ever selected to act as the chief 

 executive of our national society, and 

 not as "the youngest." President 

 Gude is. we believe, an even younger 

 man than President-elect Rudd. 



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