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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



January 2, 1902. 



ST. PAUL. 



Christmas is over and everybody, 

 buyer and seller, is onlv too glad it is. 

 We, the florists of St. Paul, are all sat- 

 isfied. Business was first-rate; every- 

 thing went. "Everything .sold," was the 

 unison watchword to-day. Roses came 

 in just enough to cover demands; could 

 have sold many more carnations could 

 they have been obtained. The very cold 

 spell just before Christmas checked the 

 flowering stock considerably, but ever 

 since the weather has been "just lovelv." 



The retailers, with Holm & Olson 'on 

 top, are merely plundered out. The 

 above mentioned firm sold a tremendous 

 lot of cut flowers and plants, and their 

 •smiles ne.xt day almost extended from 

 one ear to the other. 



L. L. May & Co. had the finest stock of 

 cut flowers and plants they ever had. all 

 out of their own greenhouses, and grown 

 by the most careful foreman, Frank Gus- 

 tavson. 



Charles Vogt. who has a reputation 

 for well made holly wreaths and greens, 

 did a fine business. So did his brother 

 August, the St. Anthony Hill florist, 

 whose line is fancy cut flowers, such as 

 Beauties and swell carnations. 



The Ramalcy Floral Exchange, which 

 deals extensively in Christmas trees, is 

 out a few dollars because (hat .stuff was 

 so plentiful. There is enough left over 

 to cover the Mississippi river for miles. 

 Potted plants of certain varieties didn't 

 sell well; especially Begonia Gloire de 

 Lorraine, primroses, Harrisiis, etc. Aza- 

 leas, poinsettias and violets sold fine, 

 and good palms and Bostons went like 

 wild-fire. Birch bark boats, canoes, logs, 

 etc., being a novelty in this town, sold 

 readily. Quite a few cut mums were 

 brought in. C. Bussjaeger had a couple 

 of hundred to show which were mostly 

 Yanoma, a good late white. Murdoch 

 and Charity in pink. All the yellow 

 kinds left were overdue and rotten. 



All the boys are very active again 

 getting ready for Easter, and hurry up 

 with your lilies and hydrangeas, gentle- 

 men; hardly three months' time is al- 

 lowed by the calendar this year. 



Wishing you, ilister Editor, and all 

 the boys a Happy New Year and suc- 

 cessful business all around. I am 



Yours truly, C. Bussjaeger. 



BERLIN, ONT. 



The holiday trade in this town was 

 considerably larger tlian in former years, 

 and would have been nuicli larger but for 

 the scarcity of carnations — the popular 

 flower; all were sold at 75 cents (60 

 cents was the highest price obtainable 

 formerly) but the supply gave out 

 early on Tuesday. Roses" sold at $2.25 

 to $3 and were in fair demand, stocks 

 being cleaned up by night. Several or- 

 ders for funeral designs had to be re- 

 fused on Tuesday for want of material. 

 Violets sold at 40 cents and 45 cents. 

 Roman hyacinths, 50 cents : valley, 75 

 cents. Not much money in these prices, 

 as the trade in a town of this size is com- 

 paratively small, and wholesale prices 

 were sky high. 



Plant trade altogether very good. Bos- 

 ton ferns had a great run; palms, fair; 

 cyclamen, good; azaleas, very few. 



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