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HORTICULTURE 



December 27, 1919 



THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS 

 IN WASHINGTON. 



In spite of the thermometer being 

 around the zero mark and flowers 

 freezing, business kept up to standard. 

 Prices were high — American Beauty 

 roses from $9.00 to $18.00 per dozen; 

 roses such as Mock, Richmond, Colum- 

 bia, Premier, Russell, Killarney Queen, 

 Killarney, Brilliant, I'ink Killarney, 

 Hoosier Beauty, Hadley, Ophelia are 

 25 to 75c. each; carnations are eight, 

 ten and twelve cents; calendulas, 

 $4.00 and $5.00 per hundred; poinset- 

 tias, $35.00 to $75.00 per hundred; 

 Calla Lilies, $3.00 and $4.00 per dozen; 

 sweet peas, $5.00 and $6.00 per hun- 

 dred; Stevia, extra fine at $4.00 per 

 hundred. 



There were quantities of blooming 

 plants, but not enough to go around. 

 Cyclamen sold from $2.00 to $4.00 at 

 wholesale; poinsettia pans from $2.00 

 to $6.00 per pan, wholesale; begonias, 

 $1.50 to $6.00 each; primroses, 50c. to 

 $1.00; araucarias, extra fine, at $4.00 

 and $5.00 each. 



Gude Bros. Co. have been exception- 

 ally busy the past week with some 

 very fine dinners, weddings and debu- 

 tante parties, as have many of the 

 other florists around the city. 



The feature of the week was "Say 

 It with Flowers," sung by Vernon 

 Stiles at Keith's Theatre. This waa 

 3ung at matinee and in the evening. 

 This was most effectively done by 

 throwing flowers to the audience while 

 singing "Say It with Flowers," and 

 also having the ushers distribute 

 flowers to the patrons of the theatre. 

 Every day about a thousand flowers 

 were used in this way, which was 

 quite a drain on the Washington flor- 

 ists, but it was surely worth the price. 



Gude Bros, are installing at the 

 northeast plant under one of their 

 large boilers a water grate culm-burn- 

 ing apparatus at a cost of nearly 

 $3,000 for one boiler. If this apparatus 

 does what it is said to do it will save 

 quite a good many thousand dollars 

 per annum. 



Mr. W. P. Gude is still serving the 

 grand jury and was agreeably sur- 

 prised at the adjournment on the Fri- 

 day before Christmas when the jurors 

 presented him with a magnificent 

 token in the shape of a gold pen knife. 

 This is very highly appreciated by Mr. 

 Gude. 



Recent visitors have been J. W. 

 Grandy, Norfolk. Va.; Elliot W. Mor- 

 ris, manager W. J. Newton Co., Nor- 

 folk. Va.; Robert Pyle, West Grove, 

 Pa.; Paul Berkowitz, Philadelphia. 

 Pa.: J. W. Snyder and G. H. Ganger- 

 baum. Cumberland, Md., and G. S. 

 Gouldman, Fredericksburg, Va. 



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