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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



333 



RETAIL FLORISTS. 



CCONTINUED.) 



WM. scon, 



Main and Balcom Sts. 



Buffalo, S. Y. 



LI ly rrc" FioHst, 218 eth st. 

 • ■• IlLrr, PITTSBURG, PA. 



Personal attention g^lven to out-of-town 

 orders tor delivery In Pittsburg and vicinity 



S. B. Stewart, 



o. 16th street, OMAHA, NEB. 



U. J. VIRGIN, 



NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



K38 

 uanal Street, 



FOLEY'S FLORAL FOTOGRAPHS 



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 13x 11 , containing 24 different funer- 

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The Anna Foster Fern 



VERY LOW PRICES. URGE STOCK. 



Oat from bench for 6-in.. $35.00 per 100. Beauti- 

 fnl plants in pots, 6-in. $4.00. 6-in. $9.00, 7-in. 

 $16.00, 8-iQ. $24.00, 9-in. $36.00 perdoz.; 10-in. $4.00, 

 12-in. $5.00 each. 



BOSTON FERNS. 



Very full, large plants, cut from bench, $50.00 per 

 100. Also in any quantity at $25.00 per 100. 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus. 



3-in., $8.00 per 100. SPBESaEKI-S-in. $5.00 

 per 100. Just right for pans. 

 Kentla Palms. Ficns. 



L. H. FOSTER. 



45 King Street, DORCHESTER, MASS. 



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CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



VV. Atlee Burpee & Co., Pliihulelplua, 

 seeds; Henry A. Dreer, Philadeljiliia, 

 xeeds; R. Vincent, .Jr. & Son, White 

 .Marsh, Md., hardy jionipon chrysanthe- 

 mums ; W, Wells &• <'o., Reilhill, Surrey. 

 England, chrysantlnMniiins; F. Bartehles 

 k Co., Lawrence, Kan., seeds; Moore & 

 Simon, Philadelphia, seeds. 



Waukesha, Wis. — A. B. Butehard is 

 about again after a .two weeks' illness. 



Ottawa, Kans. — H. B. Lester reports 

 holiday trade in cut flojyers as very good, 

 .•ilso in holly and wreaths, but other 

 Christmas goods went slow. 



Hinsdale, Mass. — It is reported tluit 

 ferns in cold storage are not keeping 

 well and the dealers are raising their 

 [)riees and cutting orders. 



Evergreen, Ala. — E. A. Beaven, of 

 Caldwell the Woodsman Co., says busi- 

 ness this winter has lieen tine, more wild 

 smilax having been u.sed than in any 

 f)revious season. 



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It is a complete 

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 commercial flori- 

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PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



Xew Year's created no special demand 

 for stock in this market. The only no- 

 ticeable call was for violets. Last week 

 we experienced consideralile disagreeable 

 and very cold weather which had a bad 

 effect on business, the supply of stock 

 exceeding the demaud, Roses and car- 

 nations are steadily increasing and 

 prices are weakening. Maids and Brides 

 continue to improve in quality and some 

 of the best blooms are being sold at 

 $1^ per 100. Medium and smaller roses 

 are very plentiful and fine flowers with 

 poor stems were offered as low as $3 

 per 100. American Beauties sell slowly 

 at $5 to ."tiG per dozen for the very best. 



Carnations are holding their own. En- 

 chantress and Prosperity are the high 

 priced Tdooms and frequeutly touch $10 

 per 100. Lawson, Hector and White 

 Cloud are \ery jdentiful and are offered 

 as low as ^^ tier 100. Scott, .Toosf. and 

 Flora Hill arc offered at .$3. Split and 

 inferior stock has no v;ilue and is diffi- 

 cult to move at any price. 



White lilac, sweet peas, mignonette, 

 valley. Paper White narcissi, and Romans 

 are more than plentiful. In all bulbous 

 stock a superabundance exists, and quan- 

 tities of it are left unsold. 



Various Items. 



The Pittsburg Rose and Carnation Co., 

 at Bakerstown. and .1. L. Wvland, F. H. 

 Westhoff, A. Lorch & Co., 'and Charles 

 Hoffman, located at DeHaven, are all 

 ))roducing some very elegant carnations. 

 These growers all increased their glass 

 last summer and are growing the newer 

 varieties. 



Among the few growers in this sec- 

 tion who are fortunate enough to have 



their own natural gas fuel are the Pitts- 

 burg Rose and Carnation Co., at Bakers- 

 town, and .1. L. Wyland. The rest of us 

 are now paying S cents to 12 cents per 

 bushel (76 pounds) for coal. Does this 

 not make it quite necessary that good 

 prices should lie maintained throughout 

 the season? 



Blind Brothers, at West View, are 

 cutting a limited quantity of cattleyas. 

 They have a nice collection of orchids 

 and so far have been quite successful 

 with them. The demand for orchids 

 here is large, and your correspondent 

 ventures to say that the grower who will 

 invest in and grow the eonunercial sorts 

 of orchids in quantity will find it a 

 paying investment. 



The Washington Floral Co. is shipjiing 

 in some extra fine Golden Gate roses. 



Theo. Beckert is now cutting a fine 

 lot of ijink and white sweet peas. 



The Cut Flower Company sustained a 

 loss of .$150 of shipping boxes in the 

 recent fire of a big storage house in this 

 city. 



Almost all the growers and retail flor- 

 ists of this vicinity say they have ex- 

 perienced a prosperous year. The whole- 

 salers and commission men report good 

 business, but poor collections. 



A very interesting )necting of the Flor- 

 ists ' Club was planned for Tuesday 

 night, .January .5. The subject was 

 "Roses." The following parts were 

 assigned to its memliers: "Best Re- 

 tailing Roses and Why, ' ' by Gustav 

 Ludwig; "Best Shipping Roses and How 

 to Pack Them." by T. P. Langhans; 

 "New Roses; Wliat About Them," by 

 Fred Burki; "Pot-grown Roses, and 

 How to Grow Them," by ,T. W. Jones; 

 "Roses for Private Cultivation," by 

 David Eraser ; ' ' Kicks about Roses, ' ' 

 David Geddis. Hoo-Hoo. 



