The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



9; 



DES MOINES, IOWA. 



Various Notes. 



Trade is not brisk by any means. The 

 spring planting is about over and still 

 there are plants on the benches. We 

 walked into a store last week and saw 

 2i-in geraniums, tall, lean and lankj', 

 by the hundred, in bloom, marked: 

 "Your choice, 5 cents." We thouglit, 

 "Well, they are not worth more, but 

 why raise such stuff and annoy the other 

 fellow who raises i;ood goods." 



We called at Mar^haH- llie other day 

 and found liiin a- lni-\ as ever. His 

 field carnation- an- l.i, 11,111:4 line, espe- 

 cially when uuc cun.,idcis the backward 

 spring. Since my call at ilr. Marshall's 

 I learn that he has taken a well earned 

 rest at Lake Okibaji, where he hauled 

 in a 3-t-inch pike. Now this isn't a lish 

 story. 



I saw in your last issue that you had 

 information from Des Moines that the 

 Park Board had appropriated $12,000 

 for trees and shrubbery. I am gardener 

 in one of the parks and our club presi- 

 dent, Lambert, is custodian of the other. 

 and we have seen nothing of them. I 

 think if your informant had left olV 

 about three naughts from the right hand 

 side of the figure he would have been 

 nearer correct. 



Our parks are looking very well this 

 spring. One noticeable feature of bed- 

 ding at Union Park is a calendar of al- 

 ternantheras, which marks the flight of 

 time and attracts attention and brings 

 comments from the visitors. One com- 

 ment recently heard from one of the 

 park hands was that "it was all riglit, 

 but it would be better if the gardener 

 would only move it ahead three or four 

 davs, so that pay day would come 

 .«ooner." J. T. D. F. 



JOHN EVANS GETS IT. 



Mr. Challenge Ventilator Evans, of 

 Richmond, Ind., will soon be sent to the 

 new United States prison at Atlanta, 

 Ga. This will no doubt be sad news to 

 his many friends among the florists, and 

 we liasten to add that he will be re- 

 leased as soon as he has put in 100 of 

 his ventilating machines which have 

 been purchased by the government 

 through Messrs. Griffiths, Wells & Grif- 

 fiths, the Chicago contractors. It ap- 

 pears that a fine finish caxinot be put 

 upon specimen transgressors of the law, 

 without good ventilation, and that's 

 where John comes in — but he don't 

 stav in. 



DuuuQUE, Ia. — A. L. Glaser, who 

 bought out Nicholas Mettel last Febru- 

 arj-, will rebuild one house 10x6.5 and 

 will build three new houses 20x8.5. Also 

 a glass entrance and show place 20.X.35. 

 This will give him a total of over 12,000 

 feet of glass. The new houses are for 

 cut flowers. Mr. Glaser reports business 

 excellent this spring. Had a big trade 

 for Decoration Day. Mr. Mettel has re- 

 tired from the business entirely. 



TitE annual flower festival of the city 

 of Cologne on the Rhine three years 

 ago has developed into an important 

 event. A young lady relative of the 

 immortal Goethe has been chosen flower 

 queen. The festival is a feast of flowers 

 and poetry. The prizes to the writers 

 of the best verses are elaborate floral ar- 

 rangements. 



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CLOSED OUT ALL STOCK. 



A few words in regard to your classi- 

 fied advs. Last year, late in the season, 

 we had a surplus stock of some considera- 

 ble thousands of asters on hand, and had 

 about concluded the season was over, but 

 your classified advs. coming to our no- 

 tice, although we are rather conservative 

 in regard to new things, we concluded to 

 try them, as the rates were so reasonable 

 that there could not be but a small loss 

 if we received no returns. The effect 

 was that we closed out all the stock and 

 returned some cash to customers whose 

 orders we could not fill. — A. & G. Ros- 

 BACH, Pemberton, N. J., June 11, 1900. 



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