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The Florists^ Review 



19 



EVANSVXLLE, IND. 



The Market. 



Business continues heavy. The last 

 week was at least as good as the 

 week preceding. The mercury regis- 

 tered 30 degrees November 2, the cold 

 weather making an end of outdoor 

 stoci. Business for All Souls' day was 

 good, but it would have been better 

 had the day been celebrated as usual. 

 There was no observance of the day, 

 owing to the ban on public meetings. 



Boses and carnations are in fair sup 

 ply and their quality is good. Mums 

 are plentiful and of fine quality. 



Various Notes. 



The Evansville Nurseries report that 

 they are getting many orders for plant- 

 ing shrubbery throughout the city. 

 They have a fine stock of the new pink 

 salvia and are getting good orders 

 through advertising in The Review. 



Karl Zeidler is cutting fine mums, 

 roses and carnations. 



C. L. Niednagel is cutting roses, prin- 

 cipally Ward, Ophelia, Bussell and Co- 

 lumbia. The last-named is doing so 

 well that he expects to propagate as 

 many as possible of it, as he intends 

 to plant heavily of it next season. He 

 is beginning to cut sweet peas. 



Niednagel & Sons have cut down con- 

 siderably on production and will run 

 only four houses this winter, owing to 

 war conditions. 



Theodore Kuebler had many bunches 

 of mums for All Souls' day, which sold 

 readily for $1 per bunch. 



The Blackman Floral Co. is cutting 

 fine mums, roses and carnations. 



Royston & Fenton have a fine stock 

 of coleus, Easter Greeting and ferns. 



Mrs. J. C. Elspermann is tired out 

 after the rush. E. L. F. 



LOUISVILLE, KY. 



The Market. 



Chrysanthemums are now in the mar- 

 ket in great quantities and of excellent 

 quality. Dahlias have disappeared, due 

 to heavy frosts last week. Roses have 

 been fairly good, with Columbias 

 leading other roses in quality. Fine 

 American Beauties are to be had. 

 Pompon chrysanthemums are of un- 

 usually good quality. A number of 

 potted plants, begonias, chrysanthe- 

 mums and primroses are now in the 

 market. Orchids are in wonderful con- 

 dition. Although stock is coming in 

 great quantities, florists are compelled 

 to call on out-of-town markets to sup- 

 ply the demand. 



Various Notes. 



A number of florists were extremely 

 busy due to the celebration of All 

 isaints day. A pretty display of potted 

 mums and other potted plants, as well 

 as cut flowers, was pleasing to all who 

 entered the greenhouses of Adam Heitz, 

 Jacob Schulz, J. V. Bohrman and a 

 number of other florists. 



C. B. Thompson has been extremely 

 pusy with local orders and never before 

 in the history of his business has he 

 lad so many telegraphic orders, incom- 

 ing as well as outgoing. 



Mrs. M D. Reimers finds funeral work 

 keeping her busy. 



Narcissus bulbs have made their ap- 

 pearance on the market, to the satisfac- 

 tion of all florists, as well as their cus- 

 tomers. T ^ 



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SAVANNAH, QA. 



Up to the last of October we had fine, 

 mild weather, but November brought 

 cold days. The temperature fell to 40 

 degrees and we had a light frost. Oc- 

 tober was a dry month, which was good 

 for outdoor flowers. We grow two acres 

 of Coehets in the field and they have 

 been good all summer, and especially 

 so this fall. Our dahlias were good and 

 plentiful. We are still cutting them 

 every day. Cosmos also was good, but 

 it is gone. Now we have some field- 

 grown mums that we are cutting from 

 and they are useful right now, as stock 

 is and has been so scarce. Owing to the 

 "flu," we had many orders for flowers 

 for the sick as well as for funerals. 

 The funeral orders have been so numer- 

 ous that we had to work at times twen- 

 ty-four hours at a stretch to get orders 

 out on time, and this condition contin- 

 ued for at least four weeks. We have 

 filled as many as 200 orders in a day. 

 We have a good territory around Savan- 

 nah, and the flowers were wanted in 

 every direction. Our indoor mums, 

 such as Chieftain, Mrs. Robinson and 

 Charles Rager, we had to cut half open. 

 We grow many mums indoors and I 

 do not think that we ever had a better 

 market for them at better prices than 

 now. We grow seven houses of them in 

 all, 30,000 single-stem and 5,000 with 

 several on a stem, including pompons. 



We grow 20,000 roses indoors, such 

 as Mrs. Russell, Ophelia, Radiance, K. 

 A.- Victoria, White Killarney, Aaron 

 Ward, Hadley, Hoosier Beauty and 

 some Sweetheart. Mrs. Russell is the 

 best paying crop; next comes Ophelia, 

 and then Radiance. 



We grow 10,000 carnations, such as 

 Mrs. Ward, White Enchantress, Beacon, 

 Victory, Rose-pink Enchantress, Enchan- 

 tress and White Perfection. They all 

 look well this year and we are cutting a 

 good many. They bring 5 cents at 

 wholesale, and retail at $1.50 per dozen. 



Had it not been for the sick and for 

 funeral orders, I think we would have 

 experienced a dull season. So far as 

 social functions are concerned, there is 

 nothing doing. We have had a number 

 of weddings, but they were "Hoover- 

 ized." The people are not buying flow- 

 ers unless it is necessary. Still we look 

 for a fair season. We are not making 

 money and have not made any since the 

 war, but on the other hand had to bor- 

 row till we could adjust ourselves to 

 conditions. But for the last eighteen 

 months matters have been mending, and 

 we do not think we shall have to go 

 out of the florists' business, which we 

 would not like to do, after being in it 

 for twenty-four years. I hope we shall 

 not experience anything like these war- 

 time troubles again as long as I am in 

 the business or after. 



The help proposition was another 

 thing, but I have been fortunate. I 

 managed to keep half of my old help. 

 There were twelve of them, and I raised 

 their wages to double what they had 

 had and my pay roll now is double what 

 it used to be. 



The other ^orists have been in the 

 same straits. Three of them gave up 



the struggle, so there are only four of 

 us left in the business — A. C. Oelschig 

 & Sons, A. W. Richardson, J. M. Breck- 

 enridge and myself. 



I must mention that the express serv- 

 ice is the worst that I have ever known. 

 It is impossible to get things on time. 



John Wolf. 



ENOXVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



Stock of all kinds is improving, both 

 in quality and quantity. Business for 

 the last week has been about normal, 

 but the month of October was the larg- 

 est in the history of the Knoxville 

 florists. Chrysanthemums continue to 

 be the leaders, both in supply and de- 

 mand, but we have not seen a single 

 matured bloom this season. Roses are 

 off crop, but carnations are more plen- 

 tiful and the quality is much better. 

 Outdoor pompon chrysanthemums are 

 gone, as we have had several heavy 

 frosts with some ice. The cooler 

 weather is welcome, as we have had 

 some sultry, rainy weather, which has 

 a depressing effect on everyone. 



Various Notes. 



The first immortelles arrived in 

 Knoxville some ten days ago and most 

 of the stores are stemming and making 

 up Christmas wreaths, urging sales now 

 for this kind of stock in order to cut 

 Christmas work down to some extent. 



The first shipment of bulbs arrived 

 last week and they are selling readily. 



There is a great increase in the sales 

 of baskets for funeral work, on account 

 of the scarcity of wire designs. 



A. N. Dailey had an attractive Hal- 

 loween window. 



A. J. McNutt continues to do a rush- 

 ing business. 



C. S. Custer, the Gratz street florist, 

 has been doing a nice business and 

 cleaning up each day. 



Mrs. Rosa Hall Ryno continues 

 busy and was compelled to turn busi- 

 ness down during the last ten days. 



D, R. Mayo received a shipment of 

 bulbs last week and reported heavy 

 sales. 



Baum's Home of Flowers reports the 

 largest month's business in its history. 



K. P. B. 



Leesburg, Fla. — J. Anderson, Jr., 

 deals in florists' supplies. His specialty 

 is magnolia leaves. 



Oklahoma City, Okla.— C. Curlee has 

 been ill with pneumonia since Septem- 

 ber, but is recovering. 



Durham, N. C— R. Hibbard has been 

 in the florists' business in this city 

 for thirty years. He is still connected 

 with the Hibbard Floral Co., of which 

 his son, Christy N. Hibbard, is in active 

 management. 



Auburn, Ala.— W. C. Cook has severed 

 his connection with the Rosemont Gar- 

 dens, at Montgomery, Ala., and taken 

 the management of the greenhouses of 

 the Auburn College, where a commercial 

 department is maintained along with 

 experimental work. 



