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The Florists^ Review 



October 2, 1919. 



DULUTH, MINN. 



The Market. 



Since last report the country districts 

 have had a slight frost, which has ended 

 the sweet peas. Asters and gladioli are 

 plentiful, but all other garden flowers 

 are about past. Carnations are im- 

 proving, although the stems are still 

 short. Eoses are in better shape and 

 some fine Bussells and Beauties are seen. 

 A steady increase in counter trade was 

 noticed last week and funeral work has 

 been quite brisk. A few chrysanthe- 

 mums are seen, mostly Golden Glow. 

 They are good stock, but have a slow 

 market. The fall opening of the dry 

 goods stores last week caused a revival 

 in the cut flower trade. 



Various Notes. 



Benjamin Decker, who has been in the 

 growing business in Duluth for many 

 years, has sold his place to Doneghy & 

 Nelson and is to vacate sometime in 

 November. Mr. Decker had two large 

 greenhouses and ten acres of land and 

 has supplied the Duluth market with 

 primulas and fuchsias until this year. 

 Having been burned out last fall by the 

 big forest fire, he had to turn to vege- 

 table growing this summer and has had 

 some splendid crops, which he says have 

 paid well, but, as he is getting on in 

 years, the work of truck gardening is 

 too hard. His successors are planning 

 to grow vegetables on a large scale. Mr. 

 Decker will stay in Duluth this winter; 

 then he will go to the coast. He has a 

 daughter at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. 



The proprietors of the Quality Flower 

 Store report that they are doing a good 

 business for the short time they have 

 been in Duluth, having come from Min- 

 neapolis somewhere about Memorial day. 

 The store is small but neat and has a 

 ,fine display window for flowers and 

 showcases filled with attractive boxes 

 of candy. 



I Visitors to Duluth last week were A. 

 • F. Longren, of the Burlington Willow 

 Ware Shops, Burlington, la., and P. 

 rWeil, of the C. C. Pollworth Co., Mil- 

 iwaukee, Wis., who reports splendid busi- 

 'nes in Duluth and on the range. 

 ; Edward Kreimer, Jr., who has been 

 ^bookkeeper for the Duluth Floral Co. for 

 the last eighteen months, has entered 

 "Notre Dame University. J. E. S. 



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