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The J 91 6 Addition to the Violet and Sweet Pea Establishment of Henry H, Gcils, Itasca, III. 



QEILS GROWS. 



Henry H. Geils, of Itasca, 111., has 

 recently added four houses of American 

 Greenhouse Mfg, Co. construction to 

 his range. Two are 20x100 and two are 

 28x100. Mr. Geils has heretofore spe- 

 cialized in violets, but to the growing 

 of these he has this year added sweet 

 peas. 



SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 



The Market. 



The usual summer dullness is practi- 

 cally over with, and the demand, as 

 well as the supply, is turning back and 

 starting to climb the ladder. The unu- 

 sually cool nights thgt prevailed during 

 the latter part of August, which still 

 are prevalent, were, of course, of great 

 value to the trade, of incalculable bene- 

 fit to both the grower and the retailer. 



Roses now are coming in fast, and the 

 length of stems, the foliage and the 

 buds are fine. The quality is extra 

 good and the prospects for plenty of 

 first-class roses this season are encour- 

 aging. Ophelia leads in popularity, fol- 

 lowed by Shawyer, Hoosier Beauty and 

 Helen Taft. The demand for American 

 Beauty roses is heavy, while the 

 supply is exceedingly short. The tea 

 roses are only assorted into two grades, 

 namely, select shorts and select medi- 

 ums, selling at $4 and $6 per hundred, 

 in all varieties. Long-distance ship- 

 ments are being resumed and the stock 

 is arriving in excellent condition. 



Most of the carnation plants have 

 been brought in from the fields and 

 benched, and a few of the shorter- 

 stemmed blooms are appearing in the 

 market. In the spring the plants were 

 brought to the ground with a heavy 

 frost and the growers feared the mar- 

 ket would suffer, but the plants re- 

 vived, and the result is stroug, stocky 

 plants. 



Gladioli have moved well and the 

 price has been good, but there are few 

 in the market now. Outdoor sweet peas 

 are about done for, only a few short- 

 stemmed ones being available. Asters 

 are plentiful and some are of good qual- 

 ity and meet a good demand. A few 

 early chrysanthemums are in the mar- 

 ket, but they are not easily disposed 

 of on account of the competition of 

 fine asters, which may be had much 

 more cheaply. 



Potted Whitmani, Roosevelt and Bos- 

 ton ferns, together with Sprengeri, plu- 

 mosus and Chatelaine begonias, move 

 well. Cut Easter lilies and rubrum 

 lilies are in fair demand. 



Various Notes. 



George K. Uno, who formerly was 

 with Domoto Bros., of San Francisco, 

 now is with the Willis-Horrie Floral Co., 

 as head florist and decorator. 



Walter T. Gray has taken J. J. John- 

 son into partnership. They are grow- 

 ing a general line of potted plants. 



Three steel houses, Moninger style, 

 50,000 feet of glass, have been added 

 to the range of the Miller Floral Co., 

 at Farmington. Robert Miller, mana- 

 ger of the company, reports that they 

 are the finest houses constructed in the 

 country, barring none. In two of the 

 houses he has added 14,000 rose plants 

 to his stock of 36,000 — mostly Shawyer, 

 Ophelia and Hoosier Beauty. In the 

 third house l6,060 carnation plants have 

 been added to the stock of 30,000. The 

 supply of potted plants will be double 

 that of last year and Mr. Miller saya 

 that everything looks better than it 

 ever did before. 



The Keith O'Brien Co. is handling its 

 own flower department this season. 



George "Wray is placing some fine, 

 large asters in the market. Some of 

 them have 2-foot stems and are unusu- 

 ally large of bloom. 



Bert Gray, of the B. C. Morris Floral 

 Co., has been confined to his bed for 

 some time with typhoid fever, but he is 

 getting along nicely now. 



The Huddart Floral Co. reports busi- 

 ness as being brisk. 



Charles Soter has returned home from 

 a wild chicken hunt in the Uinta basin. 



Ogden florists report a season of good 

 business. The annual fashion show, 

 held September 7 to 9, made business 

 more lively there. Store window deco- 

 rations and auto trimmings were many 

 for the occasion. O. Farr. 



NEWARK, N. J. 



The Market. 



Flowers continue scarce and high- 

 priced. There are some good asters in 

 the market, but most of those coming 

 in are second-grade, and even these 

 are not plentiful. There is a fair 

 supply of gladioli, these flowers be- 

 ing more plentiful than any others 

 at the present time. Small supplies of 

 cosmos and dahlias are coming in, but 

 hardly in quantities sufficient to give 

 variety to the market. Florists still 

 have to resort largely to potted ferns 

 for their window displays, with a few 

 asters or gladioli to furnish a little 

 color. Dry weather is retarding the 

 growth of outdoor crops of all kinds in 



this section. There are occasional rains, 

 but they are only heavy enough to 

 moisten the surface of the soil, which 

 has been dried to some depth. Grow- 

 ers report that the chrysanthemums are 

 coming along well and that they expect 

 a good season. With the advent of the 

 first chrysanthemums in the local mar- 

 ket the fall business will open up in 

 earnest. Most of the retailers now are 

 putting in their stock goods for the 

 season. Funeral business is feeble at 

 present and there are only occasional 

 orders for weddings. The counter trade 

 is small. 



Various Notes, 



The S. A. Rogers Nursery Co. reports 

 that the cut flower business now is 

 quiet, but that there are many orders 

 for plants. 



Chris Penek reports flowers scarce 

 and high and business slow. 



Rogers & Pierson, of South Orange, 

 say that business is fair for this time 

 of the year. 



The Essex County Florists' Club soon 

 will resume its fall activities and the 

 officers are determined to make the 

 coming year the most successful since 

 the club was organized. R. B. M. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market was rather 

 quiet last week; in fact, the week was 

 about the slowest of the summer, and 

 the wholesale houses were ' too well 

 stocked. Gladioli, which had not been 

 plentiful, are coming from all direc- 

 tions. Asters also are more abundant. 

 Roses constitute a glut and the shorts 

 are more than a glut, many of them 

 going to the dump. Beauties are still 

 short of the demand and lilies cling 

 to the short side of the market. There 

 are plenty of greens of all kinds. 



The retail stores were complaining 

 last week — funeral work diminished 

 and the counter trade did not amount 

 to much. The weddings were small 

 affairs and did not require many 

 flowers. 



Various Notes. 



The Ludwig Floral Co. has a good 

 exhibit and is operating a flower stand 

 at the exposition. This is the first 

 flower stand that has been seen at the 

 exposition for several years. 



T. P. Langhans has returned from 

 his fishing trip and had such good luck 

 that he left with his family for Atlan- 

 tic City to try to hook a shark. 



Clarke. 



