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The Florists' Review 



29 



THE KELLOGG STOBE. *.•; 



/ The accompanying illustration shows 

 il- the remodeled store of the Geo. M. 

 ';* Kellogg Flower & Plant Co., 1122 

 ' -Grand avenue, Kansas City. Extensive 

 .alterations were made during the last 

 summer, and an auto truck was pur- 

 chased for delivery. The greenhoiwes 

 are located at Pleasant Hill, where the 

 company has some 400,000 square fe6t 

 of glass. The business is both whole- 

 sale and retail. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



Thanksgiving pleased all. There w&i 

 a good demand for chrysanthemums for 

 the football rooters, the downtowH 

 stores having all the customers they 

 could wait on all the tprenoon. The 

 sales had been good for several days, 

 before and pretty nearly everything 

 that was good was cleaned up. There 

 were more roses left in the evening than 

 any other flower. 



Carnations continue to arrive in ever 

 increasing numbers, but so far have all 

 been cleaned up at good prices. Koses 

 are about as they were a week ago. 

 Plenty of sunshine is bringing them in 

 rather too freely, but the quality help,s 

 to sell them. Sweet peas are more plen- 

 tiful and are of better quality. They 

 are moving readily. The quantity of 

 good single and anemone-flowered chrys- 

 anthemums that continue to appear on 

 the market leads one to wonder where 

 they come from and who buys them. 

 They are, if anything, a better lot than 

 we had earlier in the season. The 

 anemone-flowered varieties seem to be 

 the most popular. 



Various Notes. 



A visit to Lischey's Gardens found 

 everything pretty well cleaned up by 

 the Thanksgiving trade. The propri- 

 etor, Joe Brown, says that they grow 

 pot plants mostly, but that they ai'e 

 enjoying a good cut flower trade. They 

 have their houses well filled either with 

 stock plants or young stock. They have 

 done a heavy fall's business this year in 

 shrubbery and bulbs. 



A visit to the Joy greenhouses after 

 Thanksgiving showed that where every- 

 thing was full to overflowing a week 

 ago, house after house is empty. The 

 chrysanthemums were all sokf but a 

 few that had been reserved for a spe- 

 cial occasion. Everyone was busy re- 

 planting. Several of the houses are 

 already planted to sweet peas, others 

 to violets. For the peas the soil in the 

 mum benches is simply spaded and well 

 mixed with manure, a little bone meal 

 added and the seed planted. 



I called on Geny Bros, about eleven 

 o'clock Thanksgiving morning, and the 

 store was thronged. By one o'clock 

 about everything was sold that was fit 

 to sell and the store closed for the day. 

 I spent a part of a day looking over 

 a few of the Geny growing houses this 

 week. Everything was in the pink of 

 condition. I was especially impressed 

 with the Asparagus plumosus nanus. 

 They do not allow it to run more than 

 three or four feet at the most, giving 

 as a reason that by keeping the leads 

 pinched back they get more green, of a 

 better color and quality. 



The Stief Jewelry store opening was 

 almost a flower show. The most elabo- 

 rate design was one made by Joy, in 

 the shape of an old Gothic triple crown, 



Retail Store of Geo. M. Kellogg; Flow^er & Plant Co., Kansas City. 



l)laceil above the elevator door. The 

 lower band of the crown was six and 

 one-half feet in diameter and three and 

 one-half feet deep. From the. base to 

 the apex the crown was eight and one- 

 half feet tall. 



The Mclntyre store is about com- 

 pleted and it presented a pretty appear- 

 ance Thanksgiving morning. They kept 

 open and did a big business all day 

 long. 



Haury Bros, say the^' did the biggest 

 Thanksgiving business ever. Every one 

 is pleased with the day 's business and 

 all are getting ready to do it over again 

 Xmas. F. B. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Thanksgiving trade broke all records. 

 The chrysanthemum business was away 

 beyond expectations and the general 

 report is that everything cleaned iip. • 

 The business for this day usually de- 

 velops late, and this year was no ex- 

 ception; at the last minute it was a 

 hustle to get just the grade of stock 

 with which to fill orders. Yellow and 

 pink mums had the call and the fancy 

 stock came in for a heavy demand. 

 There was no oversupply at any time 

 and a shortage developed at the last 

 minute. Medium grade mums sold well, 

 as they always do, and cleaned up about 

 as fast as they were unpacked. Pom- 

 pon mums had a great call, with the 

 heaviest demand running to yellow and 

 bronze. Helen Newberry, our favorite 

 white pompon, ran a close second. 

 Roses were also in good demand and 

 all stock in this line was cleaned up 

 on sight. Beauties were also sold in 

 large lots. Carnations were short and 

 orders had to be cut to give everybody 

 a part of what he needed. Violets were 

 not called for so heavily as expected 

 and this can be accounted for by the 

 heavy run on the pompons. Valley was 

 in strong demand and the wholesalers 

 had a busy time filling their local and 

 out-of-town orders. Sweet peas were 

 in and enjoyed a steady demand. Stevia 

 was to be had and moved right sdong 

 with the other stock. Paper Whites 



made their appearance, as did Romans, 

 and all had their supporters. Greens 

 of all kinds sold well, with the heavy 

 call running to fancy adiantu^, of 

 which there was a good supply. 



The holiday, all in all, was the best 

 Detroit has ever enjoyed, st this season 

 of the year and we are all looking 

 forward now to a record-breaking 

 Christmas busii^ess. 



Various Notes. 



Geo. Bayer, of Toledo, consigned 

 heavily to this market for Thanksgiv- 

 ing. His BonnaflFon mums were choice 

 and the fine pompons will be remem- 

 bered. 



Thos. F. Browne hit the market right 

 with his big mums and kept them com* 

 ing right along, two and three loads 

 daily. 



Albert Stahelin cleaned up his Bon- 

 naflfons and made a record-breaking fin- 

 ish, with 2,000 blooms on the morning 

 of November 27. 



Michael Bloy has no complaints to 

 make on the business this year and 

 sold his large lot of mums to good ad- 

 vantage. 



Fred Breitmeyer wound up his mum 

 season with Thanksgiving and is well 

 pleased with the business. 



Robert Klagge has a nice cut of me- 

 dium sized mums and also was heavy 

 on good roses and valley. 



E. A. Fetters was a heavy buyer of 

 pompons last week and reports a satis- 

 factory business. 



Albert Pochelon worked nearly all 

 night Thanksgiving eve and is taking 

 things easy this week. 



Walter Taepke, in addition to the big 

 rush, had a large funeral Thanksgiving 

 day. 



Philip Breitmeyer was hard at work 

 all last week and is still a busy man, 

 with several large decorations. 



Schroeter reports a fine Thanksgiving 

 trade and has an artistically arranged 

 window this week. 



Louis Charvat reports heavy wedding 

 business for Thatiksgiving and also a 

 good general demand. 



Norman Sullivan, in his new store, 

 has some fine window displays and is 

 building up a nice business. H. S. .. 



