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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



November 6, 1902. 



houses IGxlOO feet, which are planted to 

 carnations and a general line of bedding 

 stock. His plants are looking fine and 

 he is beginning to cut quite a goodly 

 number each day. He grows most of 

 the leading varieties of carnations, but 

 none of the fancy sorts. 



Keiper & Powles, on Stryker avenue, 

 have five houses, containing about 5,000 

 square feet of glass. In addition to this 

 they have several hundred hotbed sash 

 eniployod in the business. Their spe- 

 cialty is asters, which are grown in 

 large quantities to supply the local deal- 

 ers. Many of them are grown in frames, 

 being .sown late so as to be at their 

 prime during the early fall months, 

 when most outside stock is gone. 



Sweet peas are grown quite largely in 

 the winter and large quantities of" ge- 

 raniums are propagated for sprin" bed- 

 ding purposes. By specializing this 

 firm has built up a very good and pros- 

 perous business. 



Tlie chrysanthemum show under the 

 auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the 

 Northwestern Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, will be held in the Armory, Novem- 



stock made them sell out fast and at 

 good prices. 



All Souls' day created quite a demand 

 for stock, but mostly of a cheap grade. 

 Small mums, and cheap ro.ses and car- 

 nations went as fast as they came in. 

 Ivory chrysanthemums proved to be the 

 winners, and were disposed of by the 

 thousands. They sold from 4 to 8 cents 

 each. This mum is certainly a favorite, 

 and one of the best paj'ing ones in the 

 market. Some very fine Bonnaffon were 

 in and sold from 10 to 20 cents each. 



On Saturday afternoon and evening, 

 the Jabez Elliott Flower Market was a 

 mass of bloom of all kinds, and it looked 

 as if there would be great quantities left 

 after the da3''s business was over; but 

 it was not so as the demand was great 

 and the day proved to be one of the 

 best in the history of the market. 



Roses and carnations are scarce, but 

 the bright weather we are having will 

 soon remedy this. The quality of stock 

 is improving, and an advance in price 

 is bound to occur all along the line, 

 very soon. 



Great quantities of mums were 



Peter Reinberg's First Prize Vase of one hundred American Beauties at lii. t'^msis City Show. 



her 10, 11 and 12. Quite a number of the 

 florists have made entries for the occa- 

 sion and a nice show will no doubt be 

 had. Frank Berry, of Stillwater, as- 

 sisted by two ladies, will be judges of 

 cut flowers. O. A. Nordquis't. of St. 

 Paul, Thos. Hall, of Minneapolis, and 

 Prof. Green, of the State Experimental 

 Farm, have been appointed judges of 

 P'^^nts. X. Y. Z. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



The cold weather, for which we have 

 been looking, made its appearance the 

 first of last week, and had the desired 

 efl'ect of immediately shortening the 

 supply and improving the quality of all 

 kinds of stock. Mums arrived in large 

 quantities, but the shortness of other 



shipped by local wholesale houses to 

 New Orleans, and this outside demand 

 helped to relieve the market of its sur- 

 plus stock. 



Nathan Smith & Son, of Adrian, 

 Mich., had chrysanthemum No. 35 before 

 the committee Saturday. It was of a 

 very light shade of pink. The flower 

 was built on the Queen order, but had a 

 very long neck. 



Next Saturday, November 8, will be 

 the next regular meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Society, also the annual chiysanthe- 

 mum show. The date appears to be 

 well chosen and a fine exhibit is looked 

 forward to. The list of prizes offered 

 published in these columns some three 

 weeks ago, are very good and worth 

 competing for. Many local growers 

 have already expressed their intention 

 of entering and some out-of-town grow- 

 ers are expetced to make entries. 



Geo. Meyers, of the Avondale Flower 

 Co., had a wedding decoration the past 

 week, which was a credit to his ability 

 as a florist. In the church he used se- 

 lected Col. D. Appleton mum.s, bank- 

 ing theia on the altar, and about the 

 front of the church. The effect created 

 by these massive mums was superb, and 

 the decoration as a whole, was one of 

 the best seen in the city for some time. 



During the past week, H. D. Ed- 

 wards, the leading florist of Newport, 

 Ky., was taken very suddenly with ner- 

 vous prostration. Luckily, it did not 

 prove to be as serious as at first thought, 

 and he is now able to be about. 



Al. Forder had the misfortune to run 

 a needle into his foot. Tlie doctors 

 have not been able to locate it, and 

 an operation will undoubtedly be nec- 

 essary. 



Visitors were: Paul Berkowitz, of 

 Philadelphia, Pa., and H. P. Smith, of 

 Piqua, Ohio. C. J. Ohmek. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



The large receipts of all kinds of 

 flowers continued the past week, and 

 up to this writing plenty of all kinds 

 of stock can be had. The commission 

 and wholesale houses report business 

 very good, but prices low on medium and 

 cheaper grades; the choicest grades re- 

 main the best sellers. This applies to 

 everything coming in. 



In roses. Maids are slightly "off 

 crop," but enough for all orders. Brides 

 are now on, and some very choice stock 

 can be had. Beauties are not much in 

 demand. 



Carnations are plentiful, and the 

 quality is much better. Among the 

 fancy varieties worthy of mention are: 

 Lawson, Crocker. Marquis and Doro- 

 thy. These are exceptionally fine for so 

 early in the season. All white varie- 

 ties in the better grades still remain 

 scarce. 



Chrysanthemums are very abundant, 

 the medium-sized ones selling the best. 

 Culls are not salable at any figure. 



Quantities of California violets are 

 now arriving from the Lancaster dis- 

 trict. The Cut Flower Co. is handling 

 most of them. 



Charles Koenig, of Milvale, is cutting 

 some very good Lawson and Dorothy 

 carnations. His stock looks very prom- 

 ising for a large crop for Thanksgi^dng. 



J. K. Fottieringham, representing F. 

 E. Pierson Co., of Scarboro, N. Y., was 

 with us last week. He is booking heavy 

 orders for his new fern, Nephrolepis 

 Piersoni. 



Paul Berkowitz, of H. Bayersdorfer 

 & Co., of Philadelphia, was in this city 

 last week, calling on the trade. He re- 

 ports a hea\y demand for Christmas 

 novelties. 



Arthur Langhans, of Wheeling, was a 

 visitor the past week. 



Arthur Hall, of A. W. Smith's, is at 

 his home laid up with typhoid fever. 

 We hope for his speedy recovery. 



Tlie chrysanthemum shows at Schen- 

 ley Park, and West Park, Allegheny, 

 are in fine condition, and many out-of- 

 town visitors are inspecting them. Su- 

 perintendent Hamilton, of the Alle- 

 gheny Parks, sent out a squad of park 

 police early the other morning to ar- 

 rest the early pedestrians who violated 

 a park ordinance by making short cuts 

 across the grass. Fifteen arrests were 



