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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



September 29, 1904. 



FANCY) 



CHRYSANTHEMIMS! 



Yellow and White, strictly large and fancy, $4.00 per doz., 

 October 3, and plenty thereafter. Also other smaller grades. 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



WHOLESALE ELORISTS 



19 Randolph St., ^^CHICAGO, ILL. 



Mention The RptIpw whop yoo writ.. 



dNONNATL 



The Market. 



The condition of trade is only me- 

 dium. Good long-stemmed roses are 

 still hard to find, though there are 

 plenty of shorts. Beauties are not so 

 plentiful and the price is a trifle higher. 

 Some very nice Perles are to be had 

 and sell well. Many growers have more 

 or less mildew on their stock and this 

 does not tend to increase the value of 

 their product, though some of them do 

 not seem to recognize this fact. 



The supply of carnations is still 

 small and the quality nothing to speak 

 of. It is to be hoped that the fine 

 weather that we are having at present 

 will bring in a larger cut, as it is hard 

 to get along without them now that 

 asters and gladioli arc fast playing out. 

 The demand for them continues good. 

 Long, nice dahlias sell well. Lily of 

 the valley is scarce, also longiflorum 

 lilies, and the demand for them is very 

 fair. 



The first chrysanthemums of the sea- 

 son were seen September 23, and their 

 quality was good, all things considered. 

 The variety was Willowbrook. The first 

 violets also made their appearance last 

 week. The variety was Lady Camp- 

 bell and the quality was very fair. They 

 are grown in the mountains of Virginia. 

 Long, good cosmos is in and is being 

 used for window decorations, where it 

 is especially attractive. Jiilius Baer has 

 his window decorated with it. and the 

 efTect is very pretty. 



Various Notes. 



H. M. Altick, of Dayton, was a visi- 

 tor last week. He was here in the in- 

 terest of the McKinley Memorial Fund, 

 and was quite successful in obtainioj; 

 subscriptions from the florists of this 

 city. He is an earnest and untiring 

 worker and greatly deserves the sup- 

 port of all the florists of the United 

 States. 



The falling of the floor of an out- 

 building at the Pleasant Ridge school, 

 thereby precipitating twenty-five little 

 girls into the pit beneath, was one of 

 the most terrible accidents that have 

 occurred in this vicinitv in years. Of 



the nine children who perished, two, 

 aged seven and eleven, were the daugh- 

 ters of Wm. Card, employed with T. 

 M. McCullough Sons' Co. The heart- 

 felt sympathy of all is extended to Mr. 

 Card and his family. 



B. P. Critchell has just returned from 

 a fishing trip to St. Mary's reservoir. 



Wm. Speck has just finished planting 

 his carnations. During the smnmer he 

 tore down seven old houses and replaced 

 them with five modern ones, which puts 

 his plant in fine shape. 



Philip Popp has completed one new 

 house, 20x60, and remodeled his whole 

 plant. He grows .some of the best pot 

 plants seen in the flower market. 



Jim O'Malley, the heavy-weight of the 

 florists in this city, is passing out 10- 

 cent cigars. The cause is the arrival of 

 a twelve-pound boy at his home. Three 

 babies in two weeks is the record of the 

 florists of this city. T>et us hope that 

 the end is not yet! 



The next regular meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Society will be held Saturday even- 

 ing. October 8. Let all attend, as busi- 

 ness of importance will come before the 

 meeting. C. J. Ohmer. 



DES MOINES, lA. 



Iowa State Fair Notes. 



Not to mention amateur displays of 

 beheaded asters, coxcombs, zinnias, pan- 

 sies. dahlias, etc.. without foliage, in 

 sand flats, seen too often before to men- 

 tal and diffestive distress, the profes- 

 sional exhibit as a who'p was scarcely 

 commendable. In the amateur class fine 

 material was wasted by the hundred- 

 weight: in fact, the qualitv here was 

 much better than the professional stock 

 uged. Doubtless in other states as well 

 as in Iowa, here is a field for educa- 

 tional work on the part of the state 

 florists' association's. Last year the 

 Society of Iowa Florists prevailed on 

 the State Board of Agriculture to raise 

 the value of the first premium for the 

 best floral design from $20 to .$3,'). sec- 

 ond. $25. third. $1.5. This year it would 

 seem advisable to make arrangement 

 score forty points in amateur as well 

 as in professional classes. Oi'«intity 

 scores thirty-five points and quality the 



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COVSZOITMEVTS SOI.ICITED. 



remaining twenty-five points in judging 

 floral exhibits. Displays of gladioli were 

 good, asters fine quality, but poorly 

 shown, general collections good as to 

 variety, but lame as to arrangement. 



A special feature which promised well 

 to cut flower displays was the fine new 

 Horticultural building with closed re- 

 frigerator cases. But instead of being 

 placed in the center of the room with a 

 view exposure from all directions, the 

 cases were set on side walls and poorly 

 lighted. 



First premium was awarded to a 

 memorial arch and pillow in white 

 asters, carnations, Perle roses and 

 adiantums; second premium to a mass- 

 ive cross of solid white aster back- 

 giound with garland of Chatenay roses, 

 and a broad base, filled with Boston fern 

 plants embedded in sphagnum. The lat- 

 ter was much the better piece, but the 

 former was given the first place on ac- 

 count of the judge's preference for white 

 flowers in funeral work. It is a ques- 

 tion scarcely debatable why such ex- 

 hibitors so often choose funeral designs 

 rather than special exhibition pieces, 

 but we were treated to the other ex- 

 treme in the presentation of an aster 

 cow. and an aster pig With its snout 

 in an aster trough, the vertebrae of all 

 three pieces of ,furniture being out- 

 lined with adiantums! and this from a 

 professional in the year of enlighten- 

 ment, 1904! We need not sigh for com- 

 mon sense in amateur exhibits until we 

 elevate the professionals a peg or two. 



G. B. 



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