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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



November 19, 1908. 



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flowers they consumed did not make' much 

 impression on the general state of af- 

 fairs. Bright, warm weather prevails, 

 bringing on good crops and first-class 

 stock, and it seems a shame that the 

 market should bo so poor, and that such 

 good stock has to go at a mere sacrifice. 



Carnations are plentiful and stock 

 could not be better. Roses, in size, color 

 and foliage, ari^fine. Beauties are first- 

 class, and there seems to be a better de- 

 mand for them than would naturally be 

 expected, with trade, in general, so dull. 



White chrysanthemums are scarce, also 

 the pink, but yellow are plentiful and 

 they certainly are great. Callas and 

 longiflorums are holding their place fair- 

 ly well. Valley, one of the latest ad- 

 ditions to the Dayton market, moves 

 slowly, but better than was expected, 

 while the call for violets is somewhat 

 spasmodic. There is an abundance of 

 smilax, but cut Sprengeri and plumosus 

 are a little scarce. 



Various Notes. 



The city of Dayton saw its first snow 

 storm of the season November 13. The 

 storm, however, did not amount to much. 



All of our florists who attended the 

 flower show in Chicago have returned, 

 and each expresses, the same opinion, that 

 the show was a grand success. None 

 regret the time and money spent in see- 

 ing it. They also speak highly of the 

 banquet and praise the various commit- 

 tees and their chairmen for the success- 

 ful manner in which everything was eon- 

 ductsd. 



Taking a peep into the greenhouses of 

 the Miami Floral Co., one sees a fine 

 crop of longiflorums coming on, while 

 there are others to follow as soon as 

 the present crop is used. They are also 

 cutting some fine valley and callas, for 

 which, considering the present condition 

 of trade, they find a fairly good mar- 

 ket. 



Warren G. ^Matthews, upon his return, 

 brought back from tlie Chicago show a 

 handsome specimen, of chrysantheinuin, 

 containing 360 blossoms. 



The Dayton Floral Co. had a large 

 decoration last week at the Dayton Club, 

 where 200 fancy chrysanthemums were 

 used in decorating, besides palms, etc. 

 The event was a banquet tendered to the 

 traveling salesmen of the Lowe Bros, 

 paint store, by their employers. 



H. H. Bitter, who had anticipated at- 

 tending the national flower show, was 

 detained from going on account of three 

 large decorating orders, which came in 

 just in time to keep him at home. One 

 of these decorations was for a large 

 Masonic banquet, held in the Dayton 

 Masonic Temple, where 800 Masons par- 

 took of the feast. Another was the deco- 

 ration of the new caf6 at the Algonquin 

 hotel, which was artistically arranged 

 with palms and cut flowers. The third 

 was for a banquet at the Beckel House. 



M. Anderson reports that since en- 

 larging and improving his store, busi- 

 ness has ,iH*reased considerably. 



Mrs. George Bartholomew spent a few 

 days in Sycamore, III., last week, where 

 she had a pleasant visit with relatives. 



Mrs. Herbert Githens, daughter of 

 Warren G. Matthews, accompanied her 

 father to the Chicago flower show. 



John Boehner says that business over 

 in his section of town has been almost 

 dead for the past two weeks, but he is 

 in hopes the spell will soon break. 



Mr. and Mrs. John F. Young celebra- 

 ted their fortieth wedding anniversary 

 November 12. Upon their return from 



their store in the evening, they found 

 their honie beautifully decorated and ta- 

 bles spread with the markets' best pro- 

 ductions, while their home was filled with 

 welcoming friends and relatives. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Young were the recipients of many 

 beautiful gifts. 



The Goetz Pottery Co. reports the pot 

 business good at present. 



George Bird, of Sidney, O., visited 

 some of our local florists last week, 



R. A. B. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



The Englishman's description of our 

 climate, "One minute you are roasted 

 and toasted, the next you are up to your 

 blooming knees in snow, ' ' is not so much 

 out of place, since only two weeks ago 

 geraniums, salvia and alyssum were nicely 

 in bloom in our garden and today the 

 ground is covered by four inches of snow. 

 Everyone, however, seems satisfied, for 

 while they may not have wanted a change 

 in politics, a change in the weather was 

 looked for to improve business. 



Business, however, started a few days 

 ahead, and while it is scarcely enough to 

 brag about, the commission houses all 

 seemed to be better cleaned up than they 

 have been for some weeks. Even chrys- 

 anthemums, which were a glut all the 

 week, cleaned up at some price, and car- 

 nations showed a slight advance. There 

 was, however, no scarcity of anything. 



The retail shops are all" making the 

 most of the cheap flowers by keeping up 

 a grand display and doing everything 

 possible to entice people into their 

 places, if only to look. Most of them, 

 liowever, would purchase something, the 

 low prices catching them. 



Various Notes. 



The Zieger Co. celebrated its first an 

 niversary Saturday. The store room was 

 beaiilifully decoratod; and us business 

 was good. Mr. Zieger Avas at his best. 

 While last year was not a ])articularly 

 good year for business, this firm has got- 

 ten a fair share of what has been going 

 and now is satisfied that it is thoroughly 

 established and ready for the better 

 things which all believe are coming. 



A. W. Smith, who has been advertising 

 in the street cars for several years, has 

 a novel card in at present, which reads 

 as follows: "We get the highest price 

 in the city for our violets and still we 

 sell more than any other florist." This 

 they backed up by a window display of 

 violets and their own special violet boxes 

 and ribbons, which was attractive enough 

 to hold the people notwithstanding the 

 snow and rain. Directly in the rear of 

 the window, but in view of the street, 

 was a dining table, set completely, with 

 floral decorations, china, silverware and 

 candies, which was the special attraction 

 of the women, but the men did not pass 

 it by. 



Mrs. E. A. Williams, the only woman 

 in the business in this city, is the only 

 retailer who has not complained of bad 

 business during the present depression. 

 Since her vacation last summer, her trade 

 has been such as to keep her better than 

 busy. 



W. C. Drewes, the Braddock florist, re- 

 ports two new firms about to open in his 

 town. They are all men without experi- 

 ence, but they see the money there is 

 in it. 



The Pittsburg delegation to the na- 

 tional flower show reports a splendid 

 show and a good time. The Pittsburg 



Rose & Carnation Co. won two prizes on 

 carnations, but was unfortunate in not 

 getting its chrysanthemums from the ex- 

 press company in time to stage for 

 judging. 



The Pittsburg Florist Exchange has 

 been having fine Beauties. 



J. B. Murdoch & Co. are still the val- 

 ley people. 



The McCallum Co. is showing white 

 violets. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. has been 

 pushing chrysanthemums and carnations. 



Frank Myers, of Chestnut Hill, Phila- 

 delphia, and W. R. Pierson, of Cromwell, 

 Conn., stopped in the city on their way 

 east. 



B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., was 

 looking up the trade here last week. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



OBITUARY. 



George M. Kellogg. 



George M. Kellogg, Pleasant Hill, Mo., 

 who has been in feeble health for many 

 months, died at midnight, November 15, 

 of acute nephritis. The funeral was held 

 November 17 from his late residence and 

 was attended by many in the trade in 

 his section. 



George M. Kellogg was born in West- 

 field, Mass.. April 16, 1838. He had 

 been located at Pleasant Hill, Mo., for 

 many years, where he originally was en- 

 gaged in the dairying business, but early 

 perceiving the development which was to 

 come in the greenhouse industry, he 

 started in a small way, conducting his 

 greenhouses in connection with his other 

 business enterprises. For many years 

 everything that he undertook turned out 

 to be exceptionally successful, and this 

 applied to the greenhouse end of his busi- 

 ness as well as to other branches. Rapid 

 additions to the glass were the rule and 

 now nearly 400,000 square feet are cov- 

 ered, there being in all some seventy 

 greenhouses. A little over a year ago 

 the establishment came into the public 

 eye through the wrecking of one of the' 

 ranges by the most terrific boiler explo- 

 sion which ever occurred in a greenhouse 

 establishment. As an instance of Mr. 

 Kellogg 's great energy it may be stated 

 that on the same morning that the acci- 

 dent occurred he bought boilers by tele- 

 graph, two carloads of glass, and made 

 other arrangements for rebuilding. The 

 plant was restored in record time. 



Mr. Kejlogg grew a full line of cut 

 flowers and plants and did a large ship- 

 ping business with the trade in the 

 southwest, both from his greenhouses at 

 Pleasant Hill and from his wholesale and 

 retail store at 906 Grand avenue, Kansas 

 City. ,The business will be carried on as 

 the George M. Kellogg Flower & Plant 

 Co. 



Mr. Kellogg was taken ill in March 

 with an attack of pneumonia, from which 

 he never rallied. July 1 he went to a 

 sanitarium at Battle Creek, where for ten 

 days he appeared to gain rapidly, but it 

 was found that his heart and lungs both 

 were affected. He returned home and 

 passed through a period of weeks of al- 

 ternate rallies and sinking spells. .It was 

 his earnest determination to regain his 

 health and resume business activities. 

 He took great interest in all the affairs 

 of the trade. He was a regular at- 

 tendant at the S. A. F. conventions and 

 at the big flower shows. He had some 

 fifty-five men on the place and their 

 welfare always was his interest. It was 

 his practice to treat them to a quar- 



