December 3, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



67 



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The Market. 



Thanksgiving brought out a very 

 good trade for the wholesale houses. 

 There was all kinds of stock, even car- 

 nations coming in much larger quanti- 

 ties than was anticipated. But the ma- 

 jority of the retailers say that business 

 was not what it might have been. 

 There was not much call for high grade 

 stock. Medium mums and ordinary 

 roses and carnations sold best. The 

 flower market was loaded with cheap 

 flowers of all kinds and the general re- 

 port is that trade was poor. 



Since Thanksgiving the demand has 

 dropped off a great deal and business 

 is only fair. Chrysanthemums of all 

 kinds are scarce, as many growers nave 

 cut out their entire stock and others 

 have but a few late ones left. Carna- 

 tions are scarce and prices rule high. 

 Roses are about equal to the uemand. 

 American Beauties are plentiful. Vio- 

 lets have been doing fine all this sea- 

 son, but now the demand for them is 

 light. There is a good demand for val- 

 ley and some fin© stock is to be had. 

 A few narcissi are seen now and then 

 and they sell readily at $4 per 100. 



Notes. 



Chas. Jones, of the Walnut Hills 

 Floral Bazaar, had the most elaboi.1,9 

 wedding decoration that has been seen 

 in this city for many years. White 

 chrysanthemums were the main flowers 

 used, with great quantities of wild 

 smilax and many large decorative 

 plants. 



Ben George is raising some whiskers 

 in true English style. Ben is an Enp'- 

 lishman by birth and now, for the first 

 time, he is showing his ability to culti- 

 vate the aistinctly English facial 

 adornment. 



Theo. Boek was a visitor and ap- 

 peared none the worse for his illness 

 following the Indianapolis show. 



The next show to be given by the 

 Florists' Society will be devoted al- 



most exclusivelv to roses and will be 

 held Saturday, ' February 18. Besides 

 the regular premium list, the silver and 

 bronze medals of the S. A. F. will also 

 be competed for. C. J. Ohmer. 



DES MOINES, lA. ^ 



Jottings About Town. 



We took a ten minute layoff the 

 other day at J. F. Marshall's and found 

 aim and his men staking and tying up 

 carnations and, incidentally, disbud- 

 ding. i±is stock is looking good, some 

 fine Lawson, good Crane and splendid 

 McGowan. He still holds to old Lizzie 

 because he can take more dollars from 

 the same amount of space than witii 

 anything he has found yet. And when 

 other growers who have thrown it out 

 see his, they say: "I would throw out 

 some of my Wbite Cloud and Hill and 

 put in MoGowan if I could grow them 

 as you do." He also has some re- 

 markably fine seedlings now in their 

 second and third year. 



We next stopped at Julius Ledig's, 

 about one and one-half miles farther 

 west. Here we found him, as usual, 

 doing two men's work. His stock is 

 looking well for the time planted. He 

 moved his houses from the flooded .dis- 

 trict the past summer and has a much 

 better location now. He has three 

 houses, I think, 16x100, 18x100 and 

 20x100. 



We then ealleid at a new florist's store 

 at Seventh and Locust streets, where 

 Miss Lillian Anderson is prepared to 

 furnish cut flowers and floral emblems. 

 We wish her success. 



Then we dropped in at the green- 

 houses owned by A. Anderson, at 

 Twenty-second and University avenue. 

 He has leased his place to a couple of 

 young men. The firm name is Lindgren 

 & Lund. The boys are practical men 

 and their roses show it. Here we saw 

 some fine Bride, Ivory and Maid. Their 

 chrysanthemums were extra fine and we 

 saw some Merry Christmas that are 

 good. They are carrying a general as- 

 sprtment of stock, besides a house of 

 roses and one of carnations. Their 

 palm house is looking good and ferns 

 also, including Piersoni and Anna Fos- 

 ter. They are building another house 

 15x116. 



We next stopped at Charles Brandt- 

 man's. He has his new place looking 

 well. His stock is in splendid condi- 

 tion. He grows an assortment of stock, 

 also Bride, Golden Gate, Maid and 

 Wootton roses and has planted quite a 

 lot of bulbous stock. Charles is cer- 

 tainly improving his opportunities. 



We had expected to call on John 

 Lambert, and have him go with us to 

 town and have a game at the bowling 

 allej', but our ten minutes were up. 

 J. T. D. F. 



OMAHA. 



The trade for Thanksgiving week 

 was all we could ask. The mums were 

 cleaned out — and at good prices. Other 

 stock is also first-class, roses particu- 

 larly having made a wonderful im- 

 provement in the past two weeks. So- 

 cial activity indicates a continuation of 

 brisk trade and with fair weather there 

 will be no halt from this section. 



The branch store of A. Donaghue 

 will be ready for occuiiancy this week. 



B. 



