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The Florists^ Review 



NoysMBBR 26, 1014, 



FOET WAYNE, IND. 



The Market. 



The wintry weather which .set in 

 after the rainy Sunday, November 15, 

 produced a brisk atmosphere in the 

 market. After the moderate Indian 

 summer weather, the temperature 

 dropped to 24 degrees above zero. Then 

 a snow storm and blizzard, November 

 19, brought the mercury down to 10 

 degrees above zero. Chrysanthemums 

 and other flowers, which were arriving 

 in such quantity as to flood the mar- 

 ket, have been shortened up and the 

 sales have increased, so that a fair 

 proportion now exists between supply 

 and demand. Although the chrysan- 

 themums are past their flood tide, some 

 good ones are arriving daily. The de- 

 mand for these was increased substan- 

 tially by the Purdue-Indiana football 

 game at La Fayette, as great quantities 

 of yellow mums were shipped to Lu 

 Fayette for the Purdue rooters. Pom- 

 pons are in shorter supply, but in good 

 demand. 



Roses are not nearly so plentiful, but 

 are improving in quality, owing mainly 

 to the cooler weather. Beauties are of 

 good quality. Carnations are plentiful 

 and have attained a good size, with 

 long, stiff stems. Narcissi are in, as 

 well as sweet peas and stevias. Snap- 

 dragons are larger and finer. Violets 

 are scarce. The outlook for Thanks- 

 giving is bright, on account of the 

 prolonged cold spell and the abundance 

 of stock in most lines. Had the cold 

 spell delayed much longer, practically 

 all the chrysanthemiims would have 

 been gone before the holiday. As it is, 

 there are some fine varieties, such as 

 Ghadwick, Golden Wedding, Eaton and 

 Bonnaffon, which will be on hand for 

 the Thanksgiving business. Southern 

 smilax is selling well, and orders are 

 coming in for statice, ruscus and box- 

 wood. Some fine potted single chrys- 

 anthemums were noted last week, as 

 well as narcissus and cyclamen plants. 



Various Notes. 



The Flick Floral Co. furnished quan- 

 tities of yellow chrysanthemums for 

 the Purdue Alumni Association. The 

 flowers were used for the decoration of 

 the Purdue rooters at the football 

 game. 



Geo. \V. Doswell & Son are featuring 

 baskets of ruscus and boxwood in their 

 show windows. 



Some attractive pansj- baskets and 

 French baskets were noted in the Brad- 

 ley Flower Shop last week. 



B. Eschner, representing the M. Rice 

 Co., Philadelphia, was a visitor here 

 last week. R. F. 



EOCHESTER, N. Y. 



The Market. 



Business conditions are steadily im- 

 proving. Fine chrysanthemum blooms 

 are arriving. There are many good va- 

 rieties on the market, but the favorites 

 are Bonnaflfon, Patty, Eaton and Yel- 

 low Eaton, Chadwick and the Ivories. 

 There is a good supply of orchids. 

 American Beauties are fairly good, but 

 do not arrive so heavily. Carnations 

 at the time of writing are a little scarce 

 in all colors. All kinds of roses are in 

 good supply and are of fine quality. 



There is plenty of valley on the 

 market and it is fine. Violets are plen- 

 tiful, but there does not appear to be 



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CHRISTMAS NUMBER 



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 DECEMBER 10 



iug the last week with wedding and 

 funeral work. H. J. H. 



ifASHVILLE, TENN. 



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any great demand for them. Sweet 

 peas are coming in gradually. Paper 

 Whites are not arriving fast. Pompons 

 continue to arrive in good supply and 

 are used extensively for decorations. 

 Smilax, leucothoe leaves, ferns and ga 

 lax are all quite plentiful. Boxwood 

 has arrived. A large supply of good 

 flowering plants is now on hand. 



Various Notes. 



Visitors last week were AV. A. Stearns, 

 of the Sefton Mfg. Co., Chicago, and 

 a representative of the Climax Mfg. 

 Co., Castorland, N. Y. 



The chrysanthemum show at Conven- 

 tion hall November 20 and 21 was a 

 great success. The entire show was 

 loaned by Mrs. Wm. Kimball, who per- 

 haps has the choicest collection for 

 many miles around. Colin B. Ogston. 

 head gardener, ia to be highly congratu- 

 lated on so excellent a display. 



A pink window display was shown 

 last week by the Rochester Floral Co. 

 It comprised vases of pink mums and 

 baskets of pink artemisias and roses, 

 arranged artistically on the same shade 

 of mats. Long streamers of ribbons 

 were caught together at one point and 

 added greatly to the eflFect. 



.John Dunbar received a carload of 

 rare Chinese shrubs and plants, seeds 

 of various kinds and plants of species 

 of American hawthorn from Dr. Chas. 

 Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, Bos- 

 ton, last week, and work has already 

 commenced to get these planted in the 

 various parks of the city. 



F. Mossgraber recently finished build- 

 ing another greenhouse. Business has 

 been far beyond his expectations. With 

 the new house he hopes to come nearer 

 meeting the demand for cut stock, hav- 

 ing recently been obliged to purchase 

 a good share of his stock elsewhere. 



Paul Campus is doing a fairly brisk 

 business with the aid of his brother 

 James. 



J. B. Keller Sons have been busy dur- 



The Market. 



Last week seemed like old times, 

 being in many ways the most normal 

 week that we have had in a long time. 

 The weather has been colder than nor- 

 mal; in fact, it broke all records for 

 cold so early in November. However, 

 there has been little damage from the 

 frost. There was an abundance of 

 social functions last week and the de- 

 mand for flowers was the best for some 

 time. There was also a heavy run in 

 funeral work. This week brings the 

 greatest flower-consuming function of 

 the fall, the annual football game be- 

 tween Vanderbilt and Swanee Univer- 

 sities. During the last two or three 

 seasons the florists have managed to 

 sell the crowds mums in the college 

 colors instead of the usual banners 

 that we see at such games, and they 

 are expecting to be able to clean up 

 most of the stock they have on hand 

 this season. 



There has been a surplus of mums 

 of all kinds here this fall, and other 

 stock has suflFered in sympathy. It is 

 to be hoped there will be a cutting 

 down in the quantity next year, as less 

 stock well handled will bring more 

 money. Violets and peas are still 

 scarce, only one firm having any of 

 either as yet. They are selling well 

 and some of the mum space might have 

 been more profitably used in this way. 



Various Notes. 



At Mclntyre's place last week the 

 writer saw the best lot of Richmond 

 roses that have been seen here in a 

 long time. They were not only large 

 and perfect in color and form, but 

 many of them were on 4-foot stems. 

 The show room is kept full of pot 

 mums at present. 



Hillcrest School Farm has been put- 

 ting wood ashes about all the trees in 

 the orchard, using about a gallon right 

 around the trunk. They say that the 

 ashes are not only an excellent fer- 

 tilizer for the trees, but that if un- 

 leached when put on, they will prevent 

 borers in the trees. They also claim 

 that ashes induce early fruiting in 

 young orchards. 



The Joy Floral Co. reports the best 

 week of the season. They have an 

 abundant cut of everything and are 

 cleaning up pretty well. They are 

 making better use of their windows 

 this season than ever before. The win- 

 dow displays are worth walking a block 

 to see any day and the crowd seems to 

 be aware of this. 



Geny Bros, have a house of extra' 

 good mums that they have been run- 

 ning cold during the last two weeks, 

 so as to hold them back for Thanks- 

 giving. They say that everything indi- 

 cates as good business this Thanks- 

 giving as there was last year. 



Frank Cornell was busy last week 

 getting a lot of pans of plants made 

 up for his street wagons. He is using 

 poinsettias for the center and aspara- 

 gus around them. He says that they 

 make excellent sellers for the holidays. 



Haury & Sons have had their wagon 

 on the street every day till it became 

 too cold to sell from a wagon. They 

 continue to have an excellent display 

 in the store. F. B. 



