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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Septemhek id, 1901. 



POTS. 



Catalogues and price lists furnished on 

 '"a. n. Hews & Co.. North Cambridge, Mass. 



Standard Flower Pots, ir your greenhouses 

 are within 600 miles of the Capital write us; 

 we can save you money. W. H. Ernest, 28th 

 and M Sts.. N. K.. Washington. P. C. 



The Whllldln Pottery Co.. incoj porated, man- 

 ufacturers of flower pots, Philadelphia. Long 

 Islan d City, N. Y.. Jersey City. N. J. 



Flower Pots. Before buying write us for 

 prices. Geo. Keller & Son. 361-363 Herndon St. 

 (near Wrlghtwond Ave.). Chicago. 



Red Star 

 ket. Kelle 

 town, Pa. 



213-223 Pearl St., Norrls- 



RIBBONS 



le sample card, showing our line of rib- 

 made efpeclallv for the florist trade, wll 

 ilpd to anyone upon application. Samuel 

 inock. 1C12-161S Ludlow St., Philadelphia, 



RUSTIC WORK. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



20 per cent. Prices, single bale. Tlic.; 10 bale 

 lots. J5.50. Send for sample bale. Z. K. 

 Jewett & Co., Sparta, Wis. 



STAKES. 



Order: 



ollclted: car loads 

 only; fall shipments. 6 to 8 ft.. $2.50 and 6 to 

 10 ft. lengths, $2.75 per 1.000, delivered at New 

 York. Other points proportional. Order at 

 once and get seasoned cane. W. J. Price, 

 Mo und City. 111. ^ 



TIN FOIL. 



Tin Foil Plain. Fancy, printed and mount- 

 ed Manufactured by The Conley Foil Com- 

 pany. 521 to 541 West 25th St.. New York. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Model Extens 



DO NOT TIE Ul 

 you have read our 

 Llttlefleld, W 



circular on wire. H. F. 



WIRE WORK. 



C A Kuehn. 1122 Plne-st.. St. I,ouls. Mo., 

 manufacturer of the Patent Wire Clamp 

 Floral Designs. A full line of supplies always 



East 21st St.. New York. 



Reed & Kelle 



FLOODED WITH ORDERS. 



For poodness sake take my adv. out of 

 the Review. Am floodfd with orders. 

 The balance due me will take up later. 



Dover, N. H. C L. Howe. 



A Visit to Mimico. 



I would like some other representa- 

 tive than myself to write the beginninj,' 

 of my notes "this week. We played crick- 

 et and WK won. Played at Mimico Asy- 

 lum grounds, picked teams represented 



former \\"ii I'.v |iiliii- u|i :i >.( I M 



runs, a-aui.-t, llic 7G ol Uic latter. The 

 teams were composed of: 1, Lightfoot; 

 2, Goodier; 3, Cook; 4, Jennings; 5, 

 Muston; 6, C. Woods; 7, Porter; 8, F. 

 Brown; 9, W. Brown; 10, Sheppard; 11, 

 George Manton, Capt. 



Second Team: 1, Durham; 2, Ban- 

 non ; 3, W'hittaker ; 4, Tidy; 5, Jackson ; 

 6, Grice; 7, Twiner; 8, Woods; 0, 

 Ailles; 10, Subton; 11, T. Manton, Capt. 

 Scorer, George Mills. 



Taking a stroll about the grounds be- 

 fore the game began we were very 

 pleased to note some of the particularly 

 tine beds of plants and were agreeably 

 surprised to find that they compared 

 more than favorably with anything of 

 their kind seen in Toronto. The outside 

 stafl' is to be congratulated on their ex- 

 cellent taste in their arrangement of 

 beds, some very striking effects being 

 obtained in the placing, shape and com- 

 position of many of them. Among the 

 many (all are really worthy of note) we 

 noticed: 



A beautiful bed of Mme. Bruanti, that 

 splendid pink geranium, also one bed of 

 each of S. A. ' Nutt ( red ) , La Favorite 

 (white), Mme. Thibaut (pink)._ Salvia 

 "Resplendent" was used in conjunction 

 with the Golden Bedder coleus to good 

 advantage, while some really tine beds of 

 light variegated coleus were edged by 

 dark red coleus (VersehatTeltii). 



There is to be a commission house in 

 Toronto at last, to be run and managed 

 by James Sinclair. We hope he meets 

 with success, as his position as Dunlop's 

 shipper and his fair dealing while en- 

 gaged in that capacity is fresh in the 

 minds of all the growers and retailers in 

 this country. I hope to give a little 

 fuller detailed account of his establish- 

 ment at a later date. 



The Market. 



The wet weather of the last week has 

 near!}' ruined our outside stock and, 

 as the roses and carnations are very 

 poor, we feel the need of cut stuff. Roses 

 range from $1 to $6, while carnations 

 are poor at 50 cents to $1.50 per hun- 

 dred. Some splendid dahlias are shown 

 in some of the florists' windows. 



A few American Beauties, from Law- 

 rence, of Mimico, have decked the win- 

 dows of Tidy this week, while Dunlop 

 (whose crop has not as yet shown itself) 

 has had an occasional jar. 



Variotis Notes. 



Wm. Jay is building a plant house 

 close to the street in front of his pres- 

 ent greenhouses, which will make a de- 

 cided improvement in his establishment. 



Trade has not as yet climbed to its 

 firm legs; we hardly look for a great 

 deal until the mums start, as society 

 does not seem over anxious to begin its 

 season until the cooler evenings are as- 

 sured. 



A few theater parties have helped 

 break the monotonv of the centrally lo- 

 cated retailers, while the outsiders have, 

 with the exception of a little funeral 



work, been compelled to sit on their 

 haunches and look in the glass for com- 

 panionship. C. W. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



Trade is very quiet, broken occasion- 

 ally by funeral and shipping orders. 

 Some days everything saleable is cleaned 

 lip. then another quiet spell follows. 

 rill' only scarce article is carnations; 

 Miy lew are being cut and the demand 

 cveeeds the light supply. Asters are 

 plentiful, poor, and move slowly. Sweet 

 peas are over. The. weather has been 

 dull and rainy, with a frost in sight. 



Henry Smiili i^ liuiMiiiL' a carnation 

 house, 27lK_;(. ir.i. With the exception 

 of this hou-i, III 111 \ li;is all his carna- 

 tions housed. .Su lia.s Chadwick, to the 

 tune of 60,000 plants. It is very cool 

 here nights, necessitating steady night 

 firing for roses and tender stuff. 



Recent visitors: B. Eschner, of M. 

 Rice & Co., a representative of Lion & 

 Wertheimer, New York; E. G. Gillet, 

 Cincinnati; E. E. Pieser, Chicago, and 

 L. Collins, Toledo. They all admit that 

 this city should be called "Violetville." 

 G. F. C. 



ENGLISH FLOWER SHOWS, 



At the recent annua! floral and mu- 

 sical fete in Shrewsbury, England, the 

 total gate receipts for the two days 

 amounted to $10,350, as against $16,260 

 in 1899, which was the previous high 

 water mark. 



If American floral exhibitions could 

 enjoy such a paid attendance they could 

 surely be made profitable. But it should 

 not be overlooked that this fete was 

 something more than an exhibition of 

 flowers. In the report, which occupies 

 over eight long column? of the Welling- 

 ton Journal and Shrewsbury Ne-rs of 

 August 24 last, we note that though the 

 list of awards fill nearly four columns 

 and two and a half columns are devoted 

 to descriptions of the exhibits, donors of 

 prizes, etc., more than half a column is 

 devoted to descriptions of the dresses 

 worn by the ladies, and over a column to 

 ".stage performances," "the horse leap- 

 ing," "the balloon ascents," "the fire- 

 works," and similar attractions. 



BUTTONHOLE BOUQUET HOLDER. 



We have received some samples of 

 Olney's buttonhole bouquet holder from 

 the Geo. R. Olney Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, St. Louis, Mo. It is certainly far 

 superior to a pin for holding a bouton- 

 niere in place, and if offered at a mod- 

 erate price there will no doubt be a 

 good demand for them. 



WATEntTOWN, N. Y. — Greene & Under- 

 bill have opened a down-town store with 

 new cases, counters, glass refrigerator 

 and complete up-to-date furnishings. 

 Heretofore all their retail business has 

 been done at the greenhouses. They have 

 also added three large new greenhoii«es 

 to their plant, and will this winter be in 

 better shape than ever to take care of 

 their wholesale plant trade. 



Mitchell, S. D.— The Daily Repub- 

 lican of Aug. 31 prints a good half tone 

 vie%v of the greenhouses and nurserv of 

 Mr. E. C. Newbury. There are 10.000 

 square feet of glass and eight acres of 

 nursery. 



