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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Inch is now being discarded by 

 most growers. Lawsons are about fin- 

 ished, as they cannot -land 

 Red carnations also are about out oi 

 tho market for the same reason. Estelle 

 in best ot all. 

 Kain has made havoc with the sweet 



During the past week there were sev- 

 eral severe storms, including wind and 

 some hail. At times it looked as if 

 there would be considerable 

 Very little glass was broken, but con- 



siderable 



Vi-itul : 

 Kv. 



Victor Thorn is, oi Augusta, 

 C. J. Ohmer. 



Decoration Day. 



\ coupli oi showers have refreshed 

 the thirsty earth, slightly but not 

 enough. What a pity we can't share 

 with stricken Kansas. If things were 

 arranged to suit, insignificant man. it 

 would be so; but we must take it "has 

 it comes and be 'appy," and be thank- 

 ful that Lake Erie does not overflow 

 with a 20-foof tidal wave. 



Decoration day seems to lose none 

 of its patriotic observance. .More ami 

 mine is it a national holiday, and we 

 have the Spanish war veteran- to take 

 the place of the many real veterans who 

 have gone before. The corner -tune of 

 an immense new armory was laid, at 

 which 30.000 attended: 21.000 went to 

 see Toronto and Buffalo play ball in 

 the afternoon: thousands more at- 



tended the •• 

 the cemetery 

 then >.,. 

 through the 



quet 



part 



the 



A. II. 



lear ones. 



what I hear, the demand "for 

 flowers of all qualities was never sur- 



iti.l the supply was none too 

 plentiful. Outside valley, lilacs and 

 snowballs were about gene, and our 

 home-grown peonies were not in, so in- 

 door flowers had largely to supply (lie 

 demand-. Many plant- for ecineteiy 

 use were sold. Our fashionable ( ountry 



Id a horse show, and half a 

 dozen little parties wen- giving break- 

 fasts, luncheons and dinner- to the 

 guests With all this, the hundreds of 



tendenf Braik nevei begins to plant out 



until the first week in dune and the 

 -.,- untouched. Never did I see 

 80,000 bedding plant- in more perfect 

 order or of greater excellence. It 

 would make a thousand market ped- 

 dlers uater at the mouth. No more 

 , i it, nii.-.i 1 u-e of the houses and frames 

 issibl] be made. In man; part- 

 . t the iiiunieipal government- of all our 

 '. line: and e\t ra vaganee i- the 

 .:.... oi the day. "It's the people'- 

 money, what matter-:'' Ward heelers 

 and semi-bums till the offices, so it is 

 lcfrc-hing to -ee one part of "in City 

 government, even if it i- only an orna- 

 mental part, run with careful econoim 

 and ability. And if all public utili 

 ties could be run on the -ame principle- 

 there could not be a breath of opposi- 

 tion to every city's owning 

 1 



niii" all its 



111.- idea 

 porary sayii 

 Palmer mm 

 of ball, wh: 

 job." 1 know thi 



id nin- 

 onopolies. 

 Bison in a contem- 

 "Scott, Anderson or 



,\*.,\ to see ■' game 

 ■n-ii'iK looking up a 

 habits and tastes of 

 tnose lend working men very well and 

 it i- a -lander. Nothing would induce 

 Mr. Palmer to leave his -tore but a 



ing of the Society of Natural 



Sciences. As the races at Fori Erie 

 arc not on. nor yet a national conven- 

 tion ,,f Sunday school teachers, Mr. 

 Anderson would stick closelj to his 

 desk. And as for the other man. he 

 has within a week planted 11,000 young 

 -hrul>s. -20.000 carnation-, disbudded an 

 i peonies. pruned another 

 aire of large shrubs and done many 

 other chores, mostly all with his own 

 hands, mouth and pen. W S. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



rases promisei 



for Dee 



some large 

 "Oh, yes, I must have them filled by 

 Decoration day," kept the bosses think- 

 ing and many a workman on the jump. 



It "a change i- as % 1 as a rest 



some fellow once said, we had plenty 

 of it. 



The hot and sunny month 

 has told on the tea roses and they are 

 ,,. ,,i that midsummer quality 

 when you must look for beautj 



i e i observe size. There 



has been a g 1 lot of long Beauties 



cut at. Corfu the past two week-, which 

 has helped out. Carnations also are 

 getting tired, but with plenty of shade 

 and lot - must be kept 

 going until the end of the month, for 

 they are no drug, as thev often have 

 been in Mav and dune. Kai-erin. Car- 

 net and ( , diet r are fine now. 



stuff for summer. White 

 Cochei i- a beauty, but not as invalu- 

 able as the pink varietj because we 

 have the glorious Kaiserin. 

 Various Notes. 

 I was around at the North Park 

 greenhouses a few days ago. Superin- 



Decoration Day. 



This has been a great Decoration day 



for some and a rather poor one for 



others All the wholesalers and the 



o did a big business, but those 



at the cenieteric- did not get the big 

 rush they usually have on this day. A 

 gloomy day, with heavy -le uci- and a 

 heavy drop in temperature, kept the 

 people at home, hoping for a fine day 

 on Sunday, which, however, 

 much better, and many a grave went 

 on, lee, .rated this Memorial day. 



There were plenty of flowers to la- 

 had in most lines. In spite of the pranks 

 oi the weather man. the peonies were 

 iii-t right and great quantities were 

 s , 1,1 of "the; outdoor Bowers there 

 was also a good supply. Roses are 

 badly mildewed and the hot weather 

 early in Mav knocked the size and sen 

 era! quality out of them, of caniaiion- 

 there were thousands ten day- ago, but 

 l,v the middle of last week there were 

 not manv first-class one-. Baur & 

 Smith's Ethel I rocker are -till up to 

 ci, i quality and sell readily. 



\ll the plant- n are well satisfied 



with the -ca-on'- Mi-iii,--. all reporting 

 a heavy call f, r bedding stock, with 

 i, rice- fully up to the usual mark. There 

 has been a decided - arcitj i I eei no 

 urns, as the first rush took out all those 

 in l,h < in and the cloudj weather of the 

 last two week- kept the buds from 

 i onsequent h there i- much 



to be done vet. 



l;| hi, ne I- ci in Stock, and it beat- them 

 all. 



John llartje has a white carnation 

 that i- grand, and when it is to be had 

 no ot lei - n 1 apply. 



]'• see fine peonies you should visit 

 \1, II,, --elm, in. He has varieties by the 

 hundred, and many of them are grand. 



E. A. Nelson reports a great bedding 

 season, having had to buy large quanti- 

 ties of geraniums. 



I In Smith & Young Co. has a house 

 ,,, | ara , | and I.., France that i- bring- 



i n o in _ 1 return-. It wa- re-ted dur- 



ino earlj « inter and started up in time 

 f or a , rop for Easter. Their violets 

 „,.,,. orand and profitable and now they 

 have -excial bed- planted 1,, sweet pea-. 



On vln\ 27 we had quite a little fright 

 from hail. The hail -tone- were of good 

 size, but not numerous enough to smash 

 much glass, and no serious damage is 



report,-,!. A. B. 



MILWAUKEE. 



The Market. 

 Decoration daj busin urpasses al- 

 most am of the oilier holiday- during 

 the year when it comes to consumption 

 Of stock. While price- do not -oar as 

 high a- at Faster ,,i ( hri-tma-. -till 

 the average returns are fully as good, 

 I,,, ,,,11- and ordinary stock bring a 

 price and would be practically worthless 

 at other times. Locally the demand was 

 not mix heavy, but the shipping busi- 

 ,,,-- wa- bcvoiid precedent. There was 

 little n anything, left for last-minute 

 order-. The 'eld weather somewhat cur- 

 tailed the -upplv and affected out-door 

 stock mostly. Carnation- sold at $2 to 



s:; ,„., inn, mil, - choice -lock going 



a notch higher. Roses went at from $2 

 to $6 per 100, according to grade. Pe- 

 o„ic- brought from To cent- to $1 pel- 

 dozen. Longiflorum lilies brought *1 

 ,,, si .,,, per dozen. Valley, which was 

 plentiful, wenl at $1 to $1.50 per 100. 

 , ape ia-mines wee scarce and some 

 which came on the market almost too 



late were cleared up at $2 per 





100. 

 There was plenty of lilac, snowballs and 

 sweet iH-a- to go around. Good common 

 ferns were scarce, fancy going at 40 

 ,.,.„,- and daggei at :I0 cents per 100. _ 



Cold and continued wet weather is 

 ,!,. | :M ,„,, outdoor planting. Hie sale 

 of .bedding -tock is fully up to previous 

 .,„-,„,- x, ill, .in i.,eiea-ed call for dark 

 ,,.,, .„,„„,„,„- ot the S. A. Nutt type. 

 Heavj rains and high wind have some- 

 what damaged carnation plants in the 

 field in -ome localities around here. 



Incog. 



Notes. 

 ,,, ... Smith had the finest 

 ,, , | peas ever seen in this citt 

 ,iiet\ i- a -election of their ow 



lot of 



The 



i from 



Texas will find his query with re- 

 gard to palm foliage answered in the 

 issue of April 23, page ''1 I 



Des Moines, Ia.— The I, wa Seed I om- 



,,;,„v ,ia- begun work on a range oi four- 

 teen new plain houses. Sixteen were 

 built last year. 



Gai.kna. III.— Hen Vandervate has 

 ,„,.,, ,i, ing a thriving business in bed- 

 ,li„._, p ] ,nt-. visiting manj nearby tonus 

 to do planting. 



CHICOPEE Falls. Mass.— Decoration 

 ,l.n trade wa- heavy, and here, as else- 

 where the call for carnations exceeded 

 the -upplv. Stock shipped in went to 



sleep oil the Wa\- 



SECAUCUS, Jf. I "'o Ciiiiidinallll is 



adding a hi use 24x150 S, Jacobs & 



Son- furnished the material foi 



ni „ p |, n ,. „„„ approximating 20.000 



square feet of glass. 



