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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



NOTBMBEB 24, 1904. 



dNONNATL 



The Market 



Trade is medium. There is a fairly 

 active demand but nothing startling. 

 There have been but few weddings or re- 

 ceptions this fall and many of our best 

 florists report that their business in this 

 respect has fallen way behind last year. 

 General trade averages fairly well but 

 stock does not bring as good an average 

 price as last year. This is especially true 

 of mums, which will undoubtedly aver- 

 age considerably behind last year. The 

 large exhibition varieties suflfer the most. 

 The small-sized ones that sell at from 

 $3 to $8 per hundred have the best call 

 at all times and it is seldom that there 

 is enough of this grade of stock to satis- 

 fy the demand. There was a pretty good 

 lot of advance orders for Thanksgiving 

 and that tended to keep the prices up. 



Roses are arriving in fairly large 

 quantities and of very good quality. 

 They are eelling better, also. The quoted 

 price is being held stiffer. Red roses are 

 about the only kind that are scarce. 

 Meteor and Liberty are not equal to the 

 demand and Beauties are far below it, 

 there being but few coming in at pres- 

 ent. 



Carnations are not very plentiful and 

 they sell fairly well at times, but once 

 in a while it is hard to move them at 

 any price. Many of them show veiy 

 poor keeping qualities, for which it is 

 hard to assign a reason except that they 

 appear to be grown too warm, the blooms 

 being very soft. 



Violets are still in good demand and 

 the price has advanced to $1 and $1 50 

 per hundred. Valley, Romans and nar- 

 assi are to be had and the demand for 

 them is good. Smilax is plentiful and 

 has been moving slowly, while asparagus 

 18 going first rate. Fancy eastern ferns 

 have advanced to $1.75 per thousand. 



Varkxti Notei. 



Max Rudolph is cutting some fine 

 mums, roses and carnations. He reports 

 business scarcely up to last year but still 

 very satisfactory and that his best stock 

 is bringing very good prices. 



Frank Deller, formerly with R. Wit- 

 terstaetter, haa, with his wife, just re- 

 turned from a visit at Yorkville, Ind. 

 He will start in with Wm. Murphy the 

 first of the week. 



J. T. (longer spent a few days at 

 Springfield, O. 



J. A. Peterson is on a business trip 

 through the east. C. J. Ohmeb. 



WASHINGTON. 



A. Gude & Bro. had their opening No- 

 vember 8 and a chrysanthemum show for 

 the entire week. Some fine specimens of 

 W. B. Church, Mrs. Chamberlain, Col. 

 Appleton, Timothy Eaton, Blackhawk, 

 Maj. Bonnaffon, Mrs. Proctor, Ghadwick, 

 Mrs. Perrin and that grand variety Gold- 

 en Wedding, were as fine as I ever saw. 

 There were thirty-seven varieties on exhi- 

 bition. At times the large store was 

 thronged with spectators. The store is 

 one of the largest in the country. Be- 

 sides the large store and large workroom 

 are two fine commodious windows. A 

 fine fireproof conservatory is being built 

 in the rear. The ice box is a dream, 

 large and roomy, tiled and finished with 

 mirrors inside. 



Rooted Carnation Cutting 



..NOW READY.. 



These low prices good only up to December 25. 



WHITS: Per 100 PerlOOO 



Queen Louise 11.00 $10.00 



Flora HiU 1.00 10.00 



Alba 1.40 12.60 



Gov. Wolcott 1.00 10.00 



Norway 1.00 10.00 



LilUanPond 1.40 12.60 



Chicot 1.20 10.00 



Mrs. Thoa. Lawson 1.40 12.60 



Enchantress 4.00 85.00 



Mrs. Joost 1.00 10.00 



Succeas 1.00 10.00 



Mermaid 1.00 10.00 



Creaabrook LOO 10.00 



Prea. McKinley 1.40 12.60 



Mrs. Theo. Roosevelt 1.40 12JS0 



80ABUIT: 



G.H. Crane 11.00 910.00 



America 1.00 10.00 



■OABKBT: Per 100 PerlOOO 



P. Palmer »100 $1000 



Katelle 1.40 12.80 



J. H. Manley 1.60 16.00 



ApoUo .'. 1.60 1600 



OBxmovi 



Harlowarden 1.40 12.60 



OoT. Roosevelt 1.20 10.00 



TBUiOW: 



Golden Beauty 1.40 12.60 



Eldorado 1.00 10.00 



TABXBOATSD: 



Prosperity 1.40 12.50 



Marshall Field 1.40 12.50 



SteUa . 1.40 12.60 



Armazindy 1.00 10.00 



ViolaAllen 1.20 11.00 



Gaiety 1.20 11.00 



Special pricea on larxe lota. Unrooted pips at half price of above. 26 at 100 rate. 260 at 

 1000 rate. Ezpreas prepaid at above pricea. Casta or C. 0. D. with privilege of ezamininK. 



Loomis Floral Compaoy, 



LOOMIS, 

 CAL. 



Mention The Hevl«w when yog write. 



Mrs. Eoosevelt has named a new chrys- 

 anthemum Lou Dillon. 



Paul Berkowitz was a recent vistor. 



Gude's had part of the decoration at 

 the unveiling of the Frederick the Great 

 statue last Saturday. Six large green 

 galax wreaths, crescent shaped, with 

 clusters of leucothce, were made and one 

 wreath seven feet in diameter. White 

 oilcloth covered the center, lettered. The 

 large one had the first verse of America. 

 One of the smaller ones had the second 

 verse and one the German national an- 

 them, etc. 



Blackistone reports a fine business. 

 He has a new palm van. 



Shaffer has his window filled with 

 Beauties and chrysanthemums. 



J. H. Small & Son had a fine chrysan- 

 themum show during the week of No- 

 vember 7, also a show of orchids. 



The Florists' Club recently had the 

 first special meeting for convention work. 

 They voted to make this a record 

 breaker. Nothing will be left undone to 

 make the coming meeting of the S. A. F. 

 the best yet. President Gude said, 

 "Boys, we have our coats off now and 

 they stay off until the S. A. F. is called 

 to order next August." Vice-president 

 Freeman was not able to be present. He 

 was laid up with a bad cold, but sent a 

 note, "I am with you boys, go ahead." 



BAI£BI£B. 



Mabshali., ^Io. — D. H. Heskett & 

 Soi'S s:iy trade is exceptionally good for 

 the time of year on account of tho nu- 

 merous wedcUngs and funerals. They 

 have been catting some especially fine 

 mumd and carnations, f)r which they 

 have found ready sale. 



Davenport, Ia. — The Tri-City Flor- 

 ists' Club met at Central park Nov. 10 

 to see the chrysanthemums. Supt. Adolph 

 Aip and Emil Boehn, the grower, talked 

 on varieties and culture. The next meet- 

 ing will be in Davenport Dec. 8, when 

 Henry Gaethje, of Rock Island, will read 

 a paper. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



GLADIOLI. 



DmLng the past week I have finished 

 cutting the last of my crop of gladiolus 

 flowers and from a patch of bulbs plant- 

 ed on a piece of ground 20x75 feet I 

 cut about 4,000 spikes of bloom. I re- 

 ceived an average of $1.50 per hundred 

 or about $60 for the entire lot. I pur- 

 chased 500 bulbs two years ago and 

 planted them in rows two ' feet apart, 

 keeping the colors separated. I dug out 

 after the first fiowering about 100 bulbs 

 that did not produce good selling colors 

 and left those that were distinct shades 

 of pink, red, cerise or cream. I found 

 that there was a good demand for all the 

 bright shades, especially those that bord- 

 ered on scarlet or deep pink, and con- 

 sidering that there was hardly any labor 

 attached to the growing of these 

 fiowcrs and there was no difliculty in 

 disposing of them, I consider them to 

 be among my best paying crops. 



Although I have cultivated gladioli for 

 many years I have always looked on them 

 as a garden flower hardly worth cultivat- 

 ing for market and as a consequence have 

 given them little attention but when I 

 imported these newer hybrids I very 

 soon discovered that there was no trouble 

 to create an inmiediate demand for them 

 and I expect to cut twice as many this 

 coming season. In this locality they 

 commence to flower in June and last weljl 

 into November. 



I find that they like an abundance of 

 water during the flowering season and if 

 the ground in which they are planted has 

 not ample drainage they had better be 

 taken up in the fall and replanted early 

 in the spring. If there is no danger of 

 a superabundance of moisture, however, 

 the bulbs can be left in the ground with- 

 out any damage to them. Although the 

 gladioli will grow in almost any garden 



