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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Ukcember 30, 1.S9T 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



A Visit Among the Craft. 



Before entering Wiegand & Son's store 

 one is struck particularly by their artistic 

 window. The back and side opening to 

 the store are glass and were draped with 

 laurel, the top and other side were coni- 

 pletelv covered with same. On the floor, 

 biding the vases and pots that held the 

 cut flowers and plants, was lycopodium. 

 In the center of window was a medium 

 si/e, though excellent specimen, of Aran- 

 caria excelsa, on each side of which was 

 a fine plant of stevia. In front of these 

 were vases of carnations and Begonia incar- 

 nata, and the foreground of lycopodium. 

 On the side, covered with laurel, was a 

 Ivre of bright scarlet inmiortelles, tied 

 with broad ribbon of same shade. 



Their store and greenhouses are in 

 excellent condition. This firm grows a 

 verv large quantity of palms. Above the 

 .store they have a room with billiard 

 table, punching bag and several other 

 devices for amusement. This room is 

 for the use of the members of the firm, 

 tlie employes and visitors, and Mr. 

 Wiegand assures us they have excellent 

 times. 



.\t Garfield Park, where Mr, Robert 

 McKeand presides, everything is in excel- 

 lent shape, bedding plants in perfect 

 health and great quantities. They also 

 grow some carnations, but sell nothing 

 from these houses Mr. McKeand has 

 some excellent seedling cannas of the 

 Crozy strain. One is a very dark red 

 with imijiense truss that evidently has 

 Bouvier for one parent. .Another is a 

 verv pleasing yellow with minute specks 

 of red. There are several others, but the 

 most striking of all is a very dwarf one 

 that has a broad band of clear yellow on 

 margin, and red, underlaid with yellow, 

 in center. It is remarkably attractive, 

 very hard to describe, and must be seen 

 to be appreciated. The individual flowers 

 of all these cannas are very large 

 ~ Mr, Heidenreich has the finest lot of 

 azaleas we have seen this year, which 

 are in nearlv full bloom and will be just 

 right for Christmas. 



i-- Mr. Hartje grows mostly carnations, 

 but has one house of good roses. In two 

 of the carnation houses he has beds of 

 mushrooms that are doing very well. A 

 bench of Jubilee at this place struck me 

 as particularly fine. 



pMr. H. \V. Rieman has the best Beau- 

 ties around this city. He does a retail 

 trade and reports business very good. Mr. 

 Rieman will grow a number of palms 

 next vear. 



Wlien we called on Mr. John Rieman 

 he was exceedingly busy with funeral 

 w'ork, and the designs he was making 

 were certainly artistic and beautiful. His 

 store is well located and is kept in perfect 

 order. 



The florists here think there will be ten 

 or a dozen at the meeting of the Carna- 

 tion Societv. N. H. G. 



PONTIAC, III. — The mother of Mr. \V. 

 J. Miller, the florist, died recently after 

 nearly ten months' sickness, at his home. 

 Mr. Miller will have the sympathy of his 

 friends in the trade. 



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