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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw24amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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tgo2. The american Florist. 815 Freesia is simply a weed, but all of the yellow variety. Acacia is a stand-by crop and is sold by tons. We have aca- cias fifteen to fifty feet high, in many species, such as semperfiorens, dealbata, cultritormis, microphTlla, floribunda and six or eight others. Violets are abundant and much cheaper than in America. Chrysanthemums are grown by every- body but lew grow them well. Last October at the Geneva exhibition many very large and beautiful blooms were shown, but only by four or five growers out of the many hundreds who grow flowers at Geneva. I have planted 3,000 chrysanthemums and have more to plant yet and my brother will plant about as many. Of these 750 are Modesto, 550 Hill, our best early pink; 550 Robinson, 550 Soliel d' Octobre, 200 Carnot, 200 Warren, 150 Niveus, and about fifteen other varieties. We are short on late and middle season pink. "I have tried three years to sell sweet peas. Tbe people here say peas are only for eating! They grow and bloom splen- didly but cannot be sold. A lot of annu- als are grown here, such as candytuft, gypsophila, mignonette, mysotis and so forth, also cyclamens, ericas, gardenias and epacris, all outside. A geranium when planted in the garden is there for all time and a heliotrope will last for fifty rears. One of my brothers has planted 15,000 Clivia miniata of the finest strain; he sends the blooms to Berlin. We are very anxious now about the new tarifi that Kaiser William wants to put on flowers and mad with our rotten railroad." Chicago. MABKET BIBB OF EOSES.— SUPPLIES SHORTBN BBMiBKABLY. — BIG MONEY FOR POOR STOCK.—CARNATIONS ALSO UNDER THB DEMAND—MANY SHIPPING ORDERS GO UNI^ILLED.-BUYERS DISAP- POINTED.—P.EONIA SEASON IS OVER.— FLOWBSS FILL IN NICELY AND AVERAGE GOOD RETURNS — ARRANGEMENTS FOR ASHEVILLE TRIP.—VARIOUS NOTES. It is remarkable the way the rose cuts shortened up at the beginning of this week. Where a few days before found almost unwieldy quantities in market, Monday saw the wholesalers unable to fill orders with shipahle material and local buyers paying $2 and $3 per hun- dred for trash which the cheapest Greek would not have looked at before the hot weather came. The sadden diminution of receipts was probably due principally to the throwing out of stock prepara- tory to replanting and to the dark, cool weather which prevailed for a few days. Carnations, too, are ofl grade, getting small, soft and bedraggled. The receipts are still fairly large, out they will not last long. Trade has been active this week and local buyers have had to skir- mish for suoplies, while out of town peo- ple have experienced considerable diffi- culty in getting orders filled for either roses or carnations, which has resulted in some complaint, for those not in touch with the market could not understand the radical change in the situation. The paeonia has been a saving clause under the circumstances. So far as reported no one has been obliged to refuse an order for this item, although it is expected the stipplies will be pretty well at an end by to night. The pseonia has done well in this market this season. It has found a ready sale and, taking the receipts as a whole, the returns have been above the ordinary. Now that they are gone, there may be more of a market for the 3 m 3 m 31 (0 •n in z o CO H X m > 2 Z C > r o o z 3 m o > CO H 3) > O m > CD a> O o > H O z z z m > TJ O lb
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