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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Sbptbubeb 21, 1905. 



SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, 



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 REVIEW and in this week's Exchange. 



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NEW ORLEANS. 



A Bit of Trade History. 



The people of New Orleans are great 

 buyers of flowers. The climate being 

 mild, plants may easily be kept in 

 pots or outside in the open ground, and 

 saved over the winter with very little 

 protection. 



Fifteen years ago plants were sold 

 only at the French market on Sunday 

 morning. Half a dozen florists had 

 stands on the levee, in front of the 

 Mississippi river, and opposite the flsh 

 market. The plants in pots were ranged 

 on the pavement, in the open air, with- 

 out any kind of covering, each florist 

 paying every time a small fee to the 

 collector. The season started with the 

 end of January and lasted until the end 

 of June, no florist showing himself in 

 the summer months or during the fall 

 and part of the winter months. 



Now, and since the last few years, 

 plants are brought to at least twenty 

 different markets and almost all the 

 year around without interruption. 

 There are now about twenty-five flo- 

 rists who follow the market business 

 more or less regularly. They bring a 

 wagon-load at a time, a great variety 

 of plants, according to the time of the 

 year. Good plants find a ready sale. 

 Our people are good judges, and what is 

 said for flowers can be also applied to 

 plants, nothing is too good for New 

 Orleans. 



Prices were higher some years ago, 

 but the quantity of plants disposed of 

 was less and the time of selling shorter. 

 We can say that the business is now 

 on a large increase. Loose flowers and 

 made-up bouquets of home-grown flow- 

 ers are also to be found almost every 

 day of the j^ear at these markets. 



Several attempts have been made to 

 open a wholesale market for field-grown 

 roses and flowers to supply the trade, 

 and greenhouses have been built to 

 meet the great demand for roses and 

 carnations during the winter months, 

 and no doubt with better understand- 

 ing of our climate and mode of culture 

 we will be able, in the near future, to 

 supply ourselves with these products. 



"While there are a few peddlers of- 

 fering plants on the streets during the 

 spring season, the fakir business of 



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CHRISTMAS TREES, Baled Spruce for Cemetery Use 



iBOUQUST OBBBV. SPKAaHITM MOBS, BTO. 

 ■ L^ . BRAGIE, 



3?'H:%v Hinsdale, Mass. 



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selling flowers around town has not 

 been a factor, only a few loose carna- 

 tions and bouttonieres being offered 

 on Canal street during the carnival 

 season. 



It is also to be noted that New Or- 

 leans has comparatively few flowear 

 stores. Some of our up-to-date flo- 

 rists have selling rooms attached to their 

 greenhouses, but the number of our 

 regular retail flower stores is no more 

 than four or five, all being located in 

 the same neighborhood, almost touch- 

 ing each other. It seems that New Or- 

 leans, with a population of 300,000 

 people, should have room for more. 



Variotit Notes. 



Geo. Thomas, for many years gar- 

 dener to Mrs. Chas. Whitney, on St. 

 Charles avenue, has established him- 

 self at the corner of Calhoun and Clai- 

 borne streets. 



E. Valdejo has been busy all the sum- 

 mer building houses, not greenhouses, but 

 gray-painted, two-story residences. He 

 believes in taking a little rest after 

 twenty years of hard work, having been 

 established since 1885. He thinks, and 

 we all agree with him, that the collect- 

 ing of rent is not quite so hard as the 

 making and marketing of plants. He 

 will stand as one more proof of what at- 

 tention and fair dealing bring in the 

 fiorist business. Fine plants have al- 

 ways been his specialty and he has 

 still a fine lot of them. He makes 

 hanging baskets by the hundreds and 

 says that the Anna Foster fern makes 



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the best basket of all. His Latania 

 Borbonica are extra good. He has just 

 had an offer of $50 for a pair of them 

 coming back from the St. Louis fair, 

 where thev received a prize. 



M. M. L. 



Albion, Mich. — Arthur Dew made a 

 very attractive exhibit at the county 

 fair. 



EusHViLLE, Ind. — George F. Moore is 

 building dwellings for rental as an in- 

 vestment for the profits from his green- 

 house. 



OwENSBOEO, Ky. — Miss Katherino 

 Nanz is executrix of the estate of the 

 late C. G. Nanz and will continue the 

 business until further arrangements can 

 be made. 



