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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



December 3, 1903. 



GRAND RAPIDS. 



The Market. 



Thanksgiving was notable in some re- 

 spects. A week in advance of the day 

 itself prices stiffened, enough flowers 

 could hardly be obtained to supply re- 

 tail trade and a steady, heavy shipping 

 demand, that was better than last year. 

 The Saturday preceding shippers bought 

 up what stock was available at home, and 

 one firm is known to have had nearly 

 1,500 carnations shipped in from Chicago 

 and had not a scrap left at night. The 

 market is now as active as could be de- 

 sired. 



Eoses are about equal to the demand 

 but carnations are scarce, especially red, 

 white being the easiest to obtain. Ameri- 

 ican Beauties are scarce. 



Chrysanthemums are about over and 

 we heave a sigh of relief and make a 

 memorandum of the varieties we must 

 grow for next season. Violets are good 

 and in fair supply. As a whole, business 

 was about the same in volume as last 

 year. Prices as follows : Kosfes, $1 to 

 $1.50 per doz. ; A. B.'s, $2 to $4 per doz. ; 

 carnations, 50 to 75 cents per doz. Some 

 of the small greenhouses were retailing 

 carnations at 35 cents. The weather was 

 moderately cold and fine and retail trade 

 in harmony with it. 



Notes. 



Smith Bros, have sold their green- 

 houses at John Ball Park to a Mr. 

 Tuinisma, an employe of the Standard 

 Oil Co. here; he has engaged his brother 

 to run it. 



Eecent visitor: Mr. Esehner, of M. 

 Bice & Co.. PhUadelphia. 



G. F. C. 



WILLIAMSPORT, PA. — D. E. Gorman has 

 been visiting at New York and Philadel- 

 phia. 



Manchester, O. — George E. McNeil, 

 florist and vegetable plant grower, has 

 sold his stock of plants to W. V. Cooley. 



DAHLIAS 



25 leading varieties, all under name, guaran- 

 teed true, including the best sorts in cultivation. 

 such as Clifford W. Bruton. A. D. Livoni, Nym- 

 phaea. Lemon Giant. Fern Leaf Beauty, Snow 

 Clad. White Swan. Frank Smith, etc. 



We offer HEAVT FIEZ.D CliXrUPS, 

 JUST AS DUG-, 85.00 per hundred; 

 $45.00 per tlioasand. 



THE DINGEE & CONARD CO. 



WEST GBOVE, FA. 



Mention the Review when yon write. 



WK MUST HAVE ROOM. 



Donlile Alyssum 3-ln.. S2.50 per 100. Hy- 

 drangeas, field-erowii. 8 to 12 flowering shoots. 

 $15.00 per 100. Jerusalem Cherries, dwarf, 

 bushy, well berried. 6-in. pots. $2.25 per doz. 600 

 Wm. Scott Carnation Flant«, from field, make 

 me an offer for the lot: or $;i 50 per 100. Boston 

 Ferns, verv busby. 5 in. pots, $2.50 perdoz.; <;-in.. 

 $».00 per doz. English Ivy, fleld-g-rown, $1.00 

 per lob. Violets, field-grown, lar^e plants. Cali- 

 fornia $4.00; Campbell K.OOper 100. Cash please. 



Converse Greenhouses, Webster, Mass. 



Mention the Review when you write. 



CiNESE PRIMROSES! 



in bud and bloom, 4-in. $6.00 per lOO. 

 Prlmnla Obconica— In bloom, 4-in,, $6.00 

 per 100; 3-m., $3.00 per 100; i%-m.. $2.00 per 100. 

 300 lor $.5 00. Cinerarias— 2^-in., $2 00 per 100. 

 SOO for S5.0O; 3-in.. $3.00 per 100. Asparaffns 

 Sprengeri — J-in., $6.00 per 100. 



C. >^HITTON, City St., Itica, N. Y. 



MentloD Rerlew when 700 write. 



HIGH GRAHAM 



FLORIST..,. 



104 S. I3th Street, PhUddelphid 



Write £or Quotatioiis on all Choice Plants. 



Mention the Review when ynii write. 



BOSTON AND PIERSONI FERNS. 



We are tlie largest growers in the West of these fine pot plants, and have an extra fine stock 

 for the Holiday trade. Can give them to you in any size, 2%, 3 1. 5. 6, 7, 8 and 10-inch. Nothing 

 that you handle makes as much money for you as this stools. 



To close ont — 10.000 2-iuch Spren^eri at a very low price. Fine Cinerarias, Primula 

 and Obconica. Oeraniums. cuttings and 2M-iDcb stock in red. white, pink and salmon. 



Cuttings of Mrs. Fisher Carnations 

 for summer blooming now ready Write 



GEO. A. KUHL, Pekin, III. 



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100,000 SMALL FERNS. 



PRIMROSES. 



Best commercial varieties, in 2H-incb 

 pots, $3.00 per 100 ; $25.00 per 1000. 



NEPHROIiEPIS PIEBSONI, strong plants '2%-mch pots. $3.00 per doz.; $2200 per 100 

 NEPHROI.EPIS ANNA FOSTEB, strong plants, 2!.^-inch pots, 75c perdoz.; $6.00 per 100 



OBCOiriCA GBAiroiFI.OBA, AI.BA, 

 ROSEA, FIMBRIATA, SJ.OO per 100; $25.00 per 1000 

 Cash. 



OECHSLIN BROS., 1688 W. Madison St., Chicago. 



MeDtlon the Review when yon write. 



JOSEPH HEACOCK, 



WYNCOTE, PA. 



Grower of 



Areca Lutescens, Kentia Belmoreana 



and Kentia Forsteriana, 



Price list for the askiut?. 



JOHN SCOTT, 



Keep 8t. Srvenbonses, Brooklyn, N. T. 

 Headquarters 



.for 



Bostons 



Fine " FIEBSOITI " in 3H-inch pots. 



The Cottage Gardens' Collection of Cannas. 

 Grand stock. Send for particulars. 



pdar^ 



oniums 



BOOTED CUTTINGS. 



15 varieties, all named, $2.25 per 100, prepaid. 

 Cash with order. Write — 



S. D. BRANT, - CLAY CENTER, KAN. 



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^ Verbenas 



60 FINEST VARIETIES. 

 Perfectly Healthy. Free from Rust. 



Rooted Cuttings, 60c per 100; $5.00 per 1000 

 Plants S2.50per 100 ; $20.00 per 1000. 



Our list is the choice of millions of seedlings. 



Sent* for Cie^tij^r. 



J. L DILLON, Bloomsburg, Pa. 



peacock's 



••••Dahlias 



For plants or bulbs ad-lress 



W. P. PEACOCK, 



Dahlia Specialist. ATCO. N. J^ 



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