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flowers before the people in the small 

 town papers; it will help the little fel- 

 lows and the whole trade as well. The 

 big fellows are doing their part, and 

 more, in the large city papers. I run 

 some advertisement like the above every 

 week. The local newspaper has a circu- 

 lation of 3,000 in three counties. 



HAVE YOU SENT IN YOURS? 



At times I see our slogan used in the 



pjipers like this: 



There Is even the possibility war may reach a 

 BtaBe where you can say It with flowers. — New 

 Yorl£ Globe. 



And it has made me feel good to think 

 that we get good advertising for noth- 

 ing. Certainly, it should bring in a few 

 new pledges for our national publicity 

 campaign. A. H. Evans. 



MITTING IS STILL WANTED. 



Your letter dated November 22 and 

 also pages of The Eeview telling of the 

 arrest of E. D. Eoo Mitting are at hand 

 and I wish to thank you warmly for the 

 services given and the successful result 

 you have obtained in locating this man. 



I have also received a letter from the 

 Nelson Nursery Co., with copies of tele- 

 grams to them from the sheriff at Fort 

 Morgan, Colo., according to which Mit- 

 ting admitted having obtained $450 from 

 a "Honolulu party." 



Through your letter I understand that 

 the Nelson Nursery Co. did not respond 

 quickly to the telegrams from the sheriff 

 and that Mr. Mitting has been released 

 on account of the delay in answering, 

 which necessitated the holding of the 

 criminal. If this is the case, I am sorry 

 that Charles Nelson did not answer right 

 away. Had he only answered immedi- 

 ately, perhaps through wireless, as re- 

 quested by the sheriff, I might have been 

 able to get hold of Mitting there in jail. 

 But I have turned this matter over to 

 my attorney and, as you requested in 

 your letter, he is writing to the Post- 

 office department in Washington, D. C, 

 alleging that Mitting defrauded me 

 through mails. 



And at the same time I shall be even 

 more obliged'if you can help me by pub- 

 lishing again this matter in The Eeview, 

 asking readers and police authorities for 

 the arrest of Mitting and to hold this 

 defrauder until they get in touch with 

 me here in Honolulu for further informa- 

 tion about my transaction. 



I am also writing a letter to the 

 sheriff at Fort Morgan, Colo., requesting 

 him to write ypu in case he should lo- 

 cate Mitting. Any service in this mat- 

 ter will be deeply appreciated. 



James H. Tomita. 



OMAHA, NEB. 



The Market. 



Prices, in some casea; wete a little 

 better this week than they were last 

 week. The mums are gone and the 

 growers are thankful, for with the warm, 

 bright days, the rose crop has been 

 plentiful and now stoCk is bcgii^ning to 

 show signs of a chance for if market 

 The carnation crop is late, in nearly 

 every case, and few growers will cut for 

 Christmas, but with such a crop of roses 

 in sight, few retailers are worrying or 

 are anxious to handle carnations when 

 they can get roses for the same price. 

 The average wholesaler is charging $8 

 per hundred this week and after Tues- 

 day they will be charging $12 to $15 per 



WHO'S WHO '^K^l AND WHY 



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p. A. MANSON. 



COSMOPOLITAN in his floricultural education, P. A. Manson was born in 

 Invernesshire, Scotland. As a youth he went with his parents to England. 

 There his father, Andrew Manson, engaged in the florists' business and later 

 became head gardener on one of the large estates. While he was in business his 

 son was with him, having completed school. P. A. Manson believed that a wider 

 field offered itself in America and came here in 1911. After traveling for six 

 months he became assistant superintendent of parks at Cedar Rapids, la. Later he 

 worked for several large wholesale firms. In tlie summer of 1916 he entered the 

 employ of the Pinehurst 'Floral Co., Pleasant Hill, Mo., serving five years as 

 general manager. Now he ha.s charge of the supplies and i>lant department of the 

 Kansas City Wholesale Cut Flower Co. He will spend a great deal of his time 

 on the road and the friends tliat he has in all parts of his territory will always be 

 glad to see him. 



hundred. Roses are varying, and in 

 many cases go bogging ;it .$4 to $5 per 

 hundred for shorts and from $12 to .$18 

 per hundred for medium-sized, with 

 some fancies at $2.'j to $30 per hundred. 

 Columbia and Premier are by far the 

 heaviest croppers, with Ophelia third. 

 There will 1)0 some mighty nice Cru- 

 sader, and Milady on tlio Christmas 

 market. Stevia is plentiful, but weak 

 at $3. Narcissi are bringing $6 per 

 hundred, while yellow narcissi are 

 bringing $10 and $12 per hundred. 

 Valley varies from 8 to 12 cents. 



Various Notes. 



The five S. A. F. signboards allowed 

 Omaha have been placed in the most 

 conspicuous places on the main highways 

 leading into Omaha. The publicity com- 

 mittee is now working on a new elec- 

 trical signboard in the heart of Omaha, 



to be rented at the rate of $100 per 

 month. 



J. J. Hess is finishing up his national 

 publicity camjiaign this week and is 

 well pleased with the support given him 

 by the Omaha florists. 



Tlie Omaha and Council Bluffs 

 Florists' Club is making all arrange- 

 ments to go in with the Iowa Horti- 

 cultural Society at its show next No- 

 vember. There -will be $16,000 in prize 

 money donated by the state of Iowa 

 alone. 



Poinsettias will be plentiful at from 

 $1.50 to $4 per dozen. Several varieties 

 of begonias are being shipped in this 

 week, mainly Cincinnati, Melior and 

 Lorraine, together with some cyclamens. 



William Smith, foreman of the Hess 

 & Swoboda greenhouses, will cut one of 

 the biggest and best crops of carnations 

 iu this section this week. T. E. K 



