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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Uecembeu 30, 1897 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 



Offickks: Pres.. VVm. F. Gude, Wasliinston. 

 D. C: vice-pres.. A. DoniiKhue. Omaha. Neb.; 

 sea'y Wm. J. Stewart, fiT BiomHelJ St., Bos- 

 ion. Mass.; treas.. H. B. Beatty, Oil City, Pa. 

 Tlie fourteenth annual convention Till be held 

 at Omaha, Neb.. Aug. 16. 17 and 18, 18iin, 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



iiKi'ii EKs; Pies.. \V. N. Kudd. i\Ii. Green- 

 wood. 111.; vice-pres, Fred Dorn>r. .Ir.. Lafay- 

 ette, Ind. ; secy Aliiert M. Herr, Lancaster. Pa. 

 The next annual convention vvill be lield at 

 Chicago, February 17 and 18. isiis. For informa- 

 tion about p o^jr.un aid the annual exhibition 

 address the secretary. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 



AMERICA. 



Officehs; Pres., E. A. Wood, West N'ewion. 

 Mass.; secy. Elmer D. .Smith. Adrian. Mich. 

 The next annual meeting \\ill be held at 

 Omaha. Neb., August. 1898. 



DES MOINES. 



Holiday Trade Not Up to Former Years. 



Christinas trade in this localit}' was not 

 so satisfactory as in former years, owing 

 to a lack of home-grown stock. As a re- 

 sult much of the cut blooms that were 

 disposed of wereshippeil goods and prices 

 were high —tea roses, $2 to I3 per dozen; 

 carnations, 75 cents to |i; Romans and 

 paper whites, 60 cents to 75 cents. In 

 fact, many regular customers would not 

 invest in cut flowers, but purchased other 

 articles, palms, ferns, and blooming 

 plants being especially called for. Then 

 our local papers assisted in frightening 

 the people in this manner: 



Don't Buy Your Best Girl Roses Unless You 



Have a Mint of Money and Have 



No Use for It. 



It's very proper and all that to buy your best 

 girl roses" for Christmas, but don't do it unless 

 you have money to burn but are shy on 

 matches. Just at present it's easier to get rid 

 of any surplus accumulations by buying flowers, 

 especiilly roses, than in any other w;iy. Just 

 ordinary every-day roses that usually bring 

 about $i a dozen hive attained the value of .j^^.dU 

 per dozen, while real nice ones cannot be ob- 

 tain d for less than $3 to !M and are mighty 

 scarce at those figures American Beauty 

 roses, which are the favorites of most girl.-j, 

 come at $18 per dozen with fancy ones bringing 

 $■-0 and l'24. The wholesale price yesterday was 

 $100 per hundred, and they could not be bought 

 for that to-day. The florists report that there 

 is an unusu;illy heavy demand and they are 

 utt'Tly unable to till their orders Carnations, 

 which" the dealers are glad to dispose of at 

 ordinary times at thirty-live cents a dozen, 

 have gone up to the dollar mark and may be 

 even higher before night. In fact most ofthe 

 florists have sold out about all they have, so it 

 doesn't make any difference, anyhow. 



However, some report an increase in 

 sales of twenty per cent.; others twenty- 

 five per cent, advance in prices; still others 

 twenty per cent, decrease in sales. The 

 writer had twenty-five per cent, increase 

 in sales with prices the same as last year. 

 Holly and green were in poor demand as 

 these could be purchased at notion stores, 

 meat markets, coal offices and restaurants. 



The growers are now laying plans for 

 propa;<ating their carnations and the 

 question arises what kinds will be best 

 for this special locality? J. T. D. F. 



DREER'S SPECIAL OFFER 



....Of.— 



PLANTS FOR FORCING 



XiIItACS We uH. r a line lot of ^irunt: pot- 

 yrown plants, well ripened up and well set 

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 ilnz, : *.'.() 110 p.-r huudreil. 



METBOSIDEBOS FI.OBIBUNDA~ 



(iioillr Urnsiii. Fiuf shaped plants with 



l.,[s ui h:i,ls. 



STANDARD SHAPED on stems '20 inches 



hij-di uith I:.' iiieh eroans. $1.50 each. 

 BUSH SHAPED— iiiee round erowns 12 in. 



in diameter^'f l.inf t-nrh. 



ACACIA ABMATA A riue lot of plants 



in 7 inrh pui-. -,'4 iiii-hrs hiyh. !fl..M) each. 



BOB ONI A ELATIOB -Good shaped 

 plants in 6-ineh pots, about '2i) inches high. 

 Tf) cents each. 



For a full line of Seasonable £tock i' - 

 s,^ether with all the lending' Novelties of 

 the Season s**e our New Quartti ly Trad-- 

 List i^S'i'-d f;irly in January. 



I HENRY A. DREER, Philadelphia, Pa. s 



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25 N. Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Importers and Manufacturers of 



FLORISTS' SIPPLIES 



FORCING! 



Spifdea Astilboides Floribunda. 

 Spira>a Multiflora Compacta . . 



.*(i.tlO pel- 100 

 (1.(10 i)ci- 10ft 



Orders entered now for .Sprinf^ delivery tor 

 H, P. Boses, Clematis. Magfnolias, 

 Tree Roses. Hardy Azaleas, etc. 



Hraneh of the liorlieultiiral 

 H(;sk..op, Holhiud. 



L. C. BOBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. 



CHEHP FOR caSH 



100 Cinerarias. "Dreer's Prize."' 2yo-inch 



pots, strong $3.(Ht 



100 Begonia IticarnaLa, best winter bloomer, 



2-inch pots 2.50 



100 Begonias, mixed, very large, from 4-inch 



and n-inch pots n.OO 



100 Begonias, mixed. 2H-inch pots 2.00 



100 Geraniums, "■Bryant's," strong, 2-incli 



pots 3.00 



100 Geraniums, "J. A. Nult," strong, 2-inch 



pots 3.00 



oO Asparagus Plumnsus. 2-inch pots, at .x' each. 



A. RASMUSSEN, New Albany, Ind. 



One sale makes two other sales. 

 A trial of our apparatus will make 

 you a customer for all the appara- 

 tus you may ever need. We want 

 you to give it that trial — the appa- 

 ratus will do the rest. Quaker City 

 Machine Co., Richmond, Ind. 



100.000 PALMS. 



BECOIMIAS 



At Half Price to Close Out. All Extra Fine Plants. 



Thnrstonii, 3'i-ineU doz., 40c.; J3.00 per lOO 



Thurstonii, 2Vj-inch doz., 30c.; JS.nO per lOO 



A. Guttata, 3i4-ineh doz.. 40c. ; J3.00per 100 



Fea.sti. and four other kinds, 40c per dozen; 

 •13.00 per 100. 



A. J. BALDWIN, - Newark, Ohio. 



