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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



April 10. 1902. 



Leo NieSSen. Wholesale 



N. W. Cor. I3tli and Filbert Sts., PHILADELPHIA.PA. ... MOfiSt 



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Pink Shades Mixed 1.25 12.00 



White and Light Shadi's 1.75 15.00 



KANSAS CITY. MO. 



The grand rusli is o\ cr with, anJ after 

 making a tour of the retail stores and 

 interviewing the proprietors, ever3-body 

 is apparently well satisfied with their 

 Easter trade. Judging from the enor- 

 mous sale of plants a year ago Easter 

 preparations were made this year to sup- 

 ply a greater demand. We must not fail 

 to give the grower due credit, as all 

 blooming plants with the exception of 

 some lilies which were a trifle small and 

 diseased were brought into flower at the 

 right time and in good selling condition. 



On Thursday, the 27th. the public had 

 an opportunity to view the finest Easter 

 display ever seen in Kansas City. The 

 lily again proved its popularity and sold 

 best. Saturday evening there were no 

 good plants left unsold. 



In cut flowers there was plenty for all 

 purposes witli the exception of American 

 Beauties. Home grown stock was ex- 

 ce.jient and none had been in the pickle. 

 Carnations retailed at from 75 cents to 

 $1.50 per doz. ; roses from $1 to $3 per 

 doz. ; Beauties from $3 to 1.5 per doz.; 

 violets, $2 per hundred. Bulbous stock 

 had to be pushed hard even at 60 cents 

 per doz. 



Sam Murray and his able assistants 

 had more business than they could at- 

 tend to. We noticed among his large 

 collection of plants some fine rhododen- 

 drons and metrosideros, which took well 

 with his patrons. 



The Eoek-Heite Co., who built green- 

 houses here last summer, grew enough 

 plants to fill Mr. Rock's large Walnut 

 street store and a good-sized annex. Both 

 places were most artistically arranged 

 and not overdone with frills and ribbons. 



Arthur Newell, at Twelfth and Balti- 

 more, says he bought more heavily than 

 a year ago, and sold out clean. He 

 caters to a good out-of-town trade, which 

 is increasin'g every year. 



In choice cut flowers none were 

 better supplied than Albert Barbe, and 

 all of his own production. The Golden 

 Gate rose and some of the latest varie- 

 ties of carnations which have done so 

 well with him were in full crop for the 

 Easter trade. 



While material was plentiful and re- 

 turns averaged as good as a year ago, 

 yet we would have been able to report a 

 large increase had the weather been 

 pleasant and if the department stores 

 had not cut loose. On Saturday it 

 snowed heavily all day and during the 

 night the mercury dropped below the 



freezing point. Sunday was cold and 

 the wind blew a regular March gale. 



The department stores advertised many 

 thousands of cheap flowers and did an 

 immense business. Carnations were of- 

 fered at 25 cents per doz., and valley at 

 the same jirice. One florist remarked that 

 these cheap sales dc} not aflfeet the local 

 trade, but the ma.)ority take a different 

 view of it. 



One leading house announced the giv- 

 ing away of so many flowers as an Eas- 

 ter offering for every $1 purchase of 

 dry goods, and we learned from a relia- 

 ble Source that they bought $400 worth. 



H. J. U. 



OLD TIME CARNATIONS. 



I read witli interest tlie paper l)y ilr. 

 A. F. J. Baur on the national carnation 

 exhibition, and having just picked up an 

 early ' ' American Flower Garden Direct- 

 ory, " by Robert Buist, noted especially 

 the reference to size and stems of carna- 

 tions "ten" years ago. How about 

 "seventy" years ago? Buist speaks of 

 them that far back with three-inch flowers 

 and strong, straight stems thirty and 

 forty inches high. Did the ancients out- 

 grow us in carnations, I am wondering? 

 M. A. W'hitty. 



Richmond, Va. 



OCEANIC, N. J. 



The fifth annual ball of the Monmouth 

 County Horticultural Society was given 

 Friday evening. April 4. in Red Men's 

 Hall, Oceanic, X. J. Eighty-two couples 

 were in the grand march and the upper 

 "twenty-five" of Oceanic and surround-, 

 ings were represented. The boys had a 

 grand old time as usual and when Home 

 Sweet Home was played the sun was ris- 

 ing in tue east, and even then the boys 

 found it hard to part. B. 



We have received from Mr. G. F. 

 Plowman, Iron Mountain, Jlich., blooms 

 of a pelargonium sport that occurred 

 with him and it seems like a very desir- 

 able acquisition. The individual flowers 

 are of good size, semi-double, and a very 

 bright and pleasing combination of 

 white and carmine. 



Columbia. S. C— The Becker Co. is 

 starting in business here and has some 

 nice landscape work to do. They are 

 building a greenhouse 26x80 which will 

 be finished by the time spring trade 

 opens. 



George M. IVIoss 



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 tions, Violets. Daisies, Sweet Peas 

 and Iiilies. 



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