December IS. iwyj. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



153 



A Corner in the Store of the Butte Floral Co., Butte, Mont., during their 

 Chrysanthemum Show. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



From the disagreeable rainy and dark 

 ueatlier of the past week, we are now 

 experiencing a spell of freezing tempera- 

 ture. Witli all this, business was good. 

 The demand for fine stock was brisk and 

 a general cleaning up on it occurred 

 every day. The inferior grades of 

 loses and carnations were slow sale ana 

 wuld be bought at your own price. 



Roses are in fair supply', with quite a 

 few specials and extras in Maids and 

 Hrides. These sold at a good figure; 

 as high as $18 per 100 was obtained. 

 WJiite carnations are scarce. Beauties 

 ;ire plentiful enough and the quality 

 line. 



Lilies have been rather scarce, just a 

 few lots coming in now and then, but 

 they are now arriving in better supply, 

 Burki, Blind and Koenig sending the 

 most of them. Mignonette, California 

 violets and good Liberty roses are also 

 .scarce. Paper white narcissus are a glut 

 and are oflered in quantities at $15 and 

 $20 per 1,000. Roman hyacinths and 

 lily of the valley are good sellers. In 

 xrcen goods Sprengeri and bunched plu- 

 niosus are scarce. 



The increased express rate on cut 

 llowers, which is now one and one-fialf 

 merchandise rate, is causing a howl 

 among the fiorists. During an interview 

 held with Mr. Langhans of the Cut 

 Flower Co., he said that the only remedy 

 he could offer would l>e to be reasonable 

 with the express companies, but insist 

 on prompt delivery, giving them a suffi- 

 cient time to make delivery, and if this 

 is not done insist on a merchandise rate. 



Mr. Burki speaks very encouragingly 

 as to a fair supply of" Maids, Brides, 

 Beauties and carnations for Christmas 

 from his Bakerstown place. 



All the florists' shops are assuming a 

 Christmas attire. Many pretty novelties 

 are shown. Jlrs. Williams has a very 

 attractive window : also A. W. Smith 

 and Randolph & McClements. The last 

 mentioned firm is displaying some very 

 fine poinsettias. 



John Baldinger, of T. M. Ulam & Co., 

 has returned from his eastern trip. 



Martin Reukauf. representing H. Bay- 

 oisdorfer & Co., was in town. Martin 

 reports business good. He said that he 

 just stopped oflf here to get a little 

 smoke on his clothes, that's all. He got 

 the smoke and a nice bunch of orders. 



G. L. Huscroft, of Steubenville, Ohio, 

 is confined at his home with typhoid 

 fever. 



Visitors: Arthur Langhans, of Wheel- 

 ing, and George Schomer, of Connells- 

 vifle. Pa. 



One million bushels of coal (bitumin- 

 ous ) left our harbor for the south last 

 Saturday, and on Sunday ten millions 

 more went out. Brother Florist, this 

 is only a small shipment; it was all the 

 river stage would allow, at this rise. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



Seed Trade News. 



PiiiLAHKLPHiA. — A. Emmerich, repre- 

 senting \'ilmorin-Andrieux & Co., was a 

 recent caller. There is an unusually 

 early inquiry for early peas from both 

 planters and dealers. Stocks of both 

 are evidently low. Delivery estima,tes 

 on Nebraska vine seed crops are being 

 still lowered by the growers. Western 

 onion sets have been offered in this 

 market very freely of late. The stock 

 of yellows seems to be large, while 

 whites are short. 



BiUTTLEBORO, Vt. — Carl S. Hopkins 

 says: "It is not generally known that 

 Vermont is quite a large seed producing 

 state. Grand Isle county, surrounded 

 on all sides by Lake Champlain, pro- 

 duces some of the finest peas and beans 

 for the seed trade that are found any- 

 where, and from that section and all 

 along the eastern shore of the lake thous- 

 ands of bushels are annually shipped to 

 the large wholesale dealers. All through 

 the northern part barley and buckwheat 

 are very cKtensively gro\^^l for seed 

 purposes. Vermont grown barley has 

 become the standard all through the 

 east. From one end of the state to the 

 other potatoes are grown for seed and 

 arc shipped in large and small quanti- 

 ties all over the east and south and 



are conceded by authorities to be the 

 equal of those grown anywhere else in 

 tlie world. Beet, sweet corn and some 

 other seeds are grown in certain sections 

 in a small way. There seems to be a 

 hardiness and thrift imparted from the 

 stony soil to each tree, plant and shrub 

 that is transferred to the seeds them- 

 selves, and is very noticeable in a blight 

 and drought resisting crop." 



The catalogue of the Iowa Seed Co., 

 DesMoines, la., will this year be some- 

 what larger than ever before, owing to 

 their devoting more space to ornamental 

 plants. They have this year erected 

 sixteen new gi-eenhouses and are expect- 

 ing to devote twelve acres exclusively 

 to growing flower seeds, bulbs and plants 

 on a new place purchased by Mr. Chas. 

 X. Page last spring. This is in addi- 

 tion to stock grown on their farm. 



LixcoLN, Neb. — ^The Griswold Seed 

 Co. is moving its wholesale department 

 into the new seed house. The building 

 if- equipped with up-to-date machinery 

 for cleaning and milling grass, field and 

 garden seeds, but especially seed corn. 

 Tliey are fortunate in being located just 

 out of the "frost belt." They have or- 

 ders booked already for more than 20,- 

 000 bushels of seed corn. 



II.^KRISBUHG, Pa. — The Holmes Seed 

 Co. expects to move into its fine new 

 four-story building at 9 Noi-th Market 

 Square .fanuary 1st, where it will have 

 much UKue commodious quarters and 

 ■rreatcr facilities than heretofore. H. 

 L. Holmes is vice-president and general 

 manager of the companj'. 



Richmond, Va. — The Diggs & Beadlea 

 Co, has beon incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $.30,000, to deal in seeds, etc. 

 .Albert C. Diggs is president. .John R. 

 Beadles is vice president and A. Percy 

 Diggs is secretary. 



XoTWiTHSTANDiNG the prospect of a 

 medium to short crop of Chinese lilies, 

 these bulbs will be sold on a closer mar- 

 gin next season than in former years, 

 owing to very keen competition among 

 the leading Chinese exporters. 



St. Louis. — The Plant Seed Co. have 

 moved their retail department to 615 

 N. Fourth street. Tliey still retain the 

 two buildings at 814 and 816 X. Fourth 

 street for their office and wholesale de- 

 partment. 



The Cox Seed Co., San Francisco, has 

 issued a finely printed pamphlet contain- 

 ing a series of views of crops on their 

 seed farms, buildings, harvesting and 

 cleaning seeds, etc. 



Indianapolis. — The Union Trust Co. 

 was appointed receiver of the Vail Seed 

 Co.. on the suit of Helen C. Vail against 

 her brother, S. J. Vail. 



Pendleton, Ore. — The Pendleton Seed 

 Separator Co. has been incorporated to 

 manufacture and sell agi-icultural im- 

 plements. 



Reports from Bermuda growers pre- 

 dict lower prices on all sizes of Harrisii 

 lily bulbs for next season. 



Several large shipments to South Af- 

 rica have recently been made by Ameri- 

 can seedsmen. 



The first shipment of .Japanese fern 

 balls is due in Chicago about December 

 26th to 28th. 



