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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



January 25, 1906. 



VICTORY 



Requires only ordinary culture, is a fancy in the fullest sense of tiie word. Wholesaled for $25.00 per 100 at Christmas. 



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QUEEN BEATRICE 



r. H. KRAMXR 



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WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Wo have been using the 



rilVfllGATING KIND TOBACCO POWDER 



for years and must say it is the best product we have ever used. 

 B. & B. FLORAL CO., Richmond, Ind. 



The H. A. Stoothoff Co., 116 West St., New York City 



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TWIN arms. 



The Market 



Trade, the past week, has kept up 

 fairly well with all the dealers. Eoses 

 of all varieties are scarce and, were it 

 not for the fact that the small towns 

 adjacent to the Twin Cities contribute 

 greatly to our supply, the shortage 

 would be felt very hard by some of tne 

 dealers. Prices are maintained nicely. 

 Good Brides, Maids, Gates, Chatenay and 

 Bichmond are wholesaling for $8 per 

 hundred, which makes it necessary for 

 the retailer to sell them at $2 per dozen, 

 and by carefully grading them, the best 

 can be sold for $2.50 and $3 per dozen. 

 American Beauties are not grown very 

 extensively. In consequence a great 

 many of them are shipped in, the whole- 

 sale price being $4 and $5 per dozen 

 and the retail $8 and $10 per dozen. 

 Carnations keep up well in price. Some 

 very nice ones are being supplied at $3 

 per 100, which can be sold readily at 75 

 cents a dozen over the counter. Fancy 

 varieties are retailing for $1.50 and $2 

 per dozen. Miscellaneous stock is in 

 abundance. Violets are holding their 

 own; one grower has been able to dis- 

 pose of all of his at $1 per 100 to the 

 retailers. This grower is the only one 

 in at least a dozen who has been suc- 

 cessful in growing violets this season to 

 a profit and while the others are some- 

 what discouraged they have not as yet 

 reached that point where they will dis- 

 card them. 



Minneapolis. 



The Rosary reports good business, and 

 while some difficulty has been experienced 

 in getting exactly what is called for they 

 have still been able to fill all orders. 



Patthey & Thompson report fair busi- 

 ness, but they, the same as all others, 

 could do more. 



The Whitted Floral Co. has a steady 

 trade and is well satisfied. 



Ealph Latham is carrying a good gen- 

 eral stock and is handling some fine sin- 



gle violets, which are shipped in by a 

 nearby grower. 



The Powers Mercantile Co., also Don- 

 aldson & Co., department stores, are han- 

 dling considerable stock and are prepar- 

 ing for their seed trade, which is quite 

 heavy in packet seeds, lawn grass and 

 bulbs. 



St. Paul 



E. F. Lemke has been busy the past 

 week with funeral work, being favored 

 with a large number of designs; and, 

 like all the rest, has experienced some 

 difficulty in being able to fill some orders 

 for different varieties of roses. 



C. F. Vogt reports good business, but 

 finds it hard to get good stock, especially 

 in roses. He received a shipment of 

 Perles, which was a pleasure to see, as 

 yellow roses have almost been a thing 

 of the past in this market. 



L. L. May & Co. 's greenhouses look 

 good under the care of Ludwig Ander- 

 son. He has some nice Harrisii lilies 

 twelve or fifteen inches high, good stocky 

 plants, and which bear every indication 

 of good crop. He is cutting some fine 

 Richraonds, which sell fine at a good 

 figure. 



The cold wave has just reached us 

 and will no doubt cut a big figure in the 

 coal bills. 



Visitors the past week: C. W. Scott, 

 Chicago; W. McKenzie. representing 

 Stecher Litho. Co. ; A. Rolker, New York. 



Felix. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Salem, Ore. — C. F. Ruef, of the Salem 

 Carnation Gardens, will build two houses 

 20x100 next summer. 



Santa Cruz, Cal. — Walter Gilbert 

 Grant Olive is the newly arrived grand- 

 son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Grant. 



Los Angeles, Cal.— Public school 

 grounds here are to be beautified with 



gardens. The work is in charge of a 

 garden committee who plan to have the 

 gardens both educational and orna- 

 mental. 



DimCULTIES OF IMPORTING. 



Much more flowering stock would be 

 imported by the California nurserymen 

 from European nurseries than there is at 

 present if there was any possible way of 

 getting such articles as azaleas and 

 rhododendrons packed so that they would 

 be of some value when opened. 



I had the opportunity of seeing a ship- 

 ment from France unpacked during the 

 past week. One case contained 100 aza- 

 leas, all of them entirely worthless for 

 this season's sale, owing to the fact that 

 they were packed too dry and the leaves 

 entirely gone from the plants. Two 

 other cases, each containing rhododen- 

 drons, were just the reverse. The plants 

 were packed too closely together and 

 the heavy foliage, owing to the absence 

 of sufficient air around it, had almost 

 entirely dropped, and the flower buds 

 molded off for the same reason. The 

 balls of earth, however, strange to re- 

 late, were sufficiently moist and did not 

 appear to be damagea in any way, but 

 the entire shipment, which cost the 

 dealer over $200, he offered to sell for 

 $25 on the spot. 



I have on various occasions had the 

 same experience, and I think the ship- 

 ments arriving in good order will not 

 average more than one in three. It 

 seems to be impossible to get the Euro- 

 pean growers to realize that the Pacific 

 coast is from four to six weeks distant 

 for freight, and that much cold weather 

 is encountered enroute before the stock 

 finally lands in California. We had the 

 same trouble years ago with our east- 

 ern nurserymen in our efforts to get 

 them to line the insides of their crates 

 with heavy paper, but there is now little 

 trouble in this regard. 



Owing to our peculiar climate it must 

 be borne in mind that it is necessary for 

 us to have most of our stock in the 



