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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



45 



View in the Store of Mr. C. A. Samuelsoa, Chicago. 



CLEVELAND. 



Thanksgiving Trade. 

 Thanksgiving Day is over and the 

 florists so far as I have been able to 

 learn are very well satisfied. Prices on 

 carnations and roses ruled a little higher 

 but nnims remained about the same al- 

 though the quality was not quite so good. 

 But for the fact that Wednesday was a 

 most miserable day the demand would 

 have been much larger; as it was car- 

 nations were vciy scarce. 



Annual Opening of Smith & Fetters. 



One of the very pleasant events of last 

 week was the fourth annual opening of 

 Smith &. Fetters, and their beautiful 

 store was handsomely decorated. Al- 

 though a comparatively new firm, by 

 their push and energy and exquisite 

 taste in decorating they have forged 

 ahead and are now acknowledged to be 

 in the front rank as floral artists. Their 

 window was very tastefully decorated 

 with Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, violets 

 and lily of the valley and Adiantum 

 Farleyense. 



They had two table decorations. One 

 was in Meteor roses and orchids, with 

 lily of the valley; the other was rather 

 novel, being a large head of Savoy 

 cabbage trimmed with yellow mums and 

 croton leaves. The tables were rear- 

 ranged each day. 



On one side of the store they have a 

 large mantel which extends up to the 

 ceiling. This they had decorated with 

 American Beauties and white Jerome 

 Jones mums, Lorraine begonias, crotons 

 with ferns and palms. On each side 

 stood a very large cathedral candle and 

 Easter lilies. 



They made a specialty of birch bark 

 and Porto Rican matting in their win- 

 dow decorations. 



Each visitor was presented with a 

 beautiful calendar for 1902. 



A Visit to H. A. Hart's. 

 A visit to II. A. Hart's found every- 

 thing in first class order. He has some 

 tine primroses just right for Christmas 

 and his cyclamen cannot be beat for 

 young plants; they are now showing bud 

 and bloom. The lilies here are also in 

 good shape and will be all right for 

 Easter. Sir. Hart is quite an expert on 

 forcing hydrangeas and always has a 

 large quantity in bloom just at the right 

 time. The carnations are looking fine 

 and give promise of plenty of flowers 

 for the holidays. He is short on whites 

 but that seems to be the general com- 

 plaint here. Mr. Hart complains about 

 the azaleas he received being badly 

 mixed and not the varieties he ordered. 

 This seems to be a trick with some of 

 the growers. They seem to be short 

 on some varieties and the.v fill their or- 

 ders with anything they have. 



A Visit to Glenville, O. 



A. Schmitt of Glenville has his houses 

 in fine shape now. having remodeled 

 some of them. The stock is fine. He 

 has three houses of carnations that are 

 in the pink of condition and give promise 

 of a good crop for the holidays. He has 

 a great many Boston ferns, well-grown 

 specimens in all sizes. Mr. Schmitt 

 says there is not the demand for them 

 this year that there has been but hopes 

 to dispose of them before Christmas. His 

 mums are about all gone now. and he is 

 sorry; wishes he had a house of late 

 ones just coming in; thinks they would 



pay well. There are others of the same 

 opinion, but it is too late now. The 

 j)rospects here are for a scarcity of 

 ilowers from now till Christmas. 



/ Tenep. 



TORONTO. 



The Market. 



Cut flowers have been very scarce for 

 tlie last ten days and we are getting a 

 taste of our mid-winter scarcities in 

 advance. 



It really seems too bad that it is 

 necessary for all of the growers to be 

 off crop at one and the same time, but 

 as we are willing to forgive and forget 

 any inconvenience caused now, if they 

 promise us plenty at Christmas time, 

 they need take very little notice of the 

 storeman's railings as we are lightning 

 artists at change of tone when neces- 

 sary. 



Mums are still fairly free with the ex- 

 ception of white, particularly small 

 stuff being scarce. Carnations are still 

 in greater demand than the supply and 

 roses — well, there arc not many of them 

 being thrown on the market and the 

 growers do not hesitate to slip a bull- 

 nose or two in the count with stock 

 whose company they should never keep. 

 Violets are still being sought after and 

 valley is not plentiful. A few nice pa- 

 per whites are putting in their appear- 

 ance. 



Various Notes. 

 A visit to Mr. Hollis found him busy 

 at his new location, building and get- 

 ting his boilers in shape. He hag been 

 considerably handicapped by the dilator- 



