. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. EASTER PLANTS AT DONALDSON GREENHOUSES, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Spirgeas and Various Bulb Stock. For more elaborate wreaths, much boxwood is used, decorated with winter berries and ribbon. In one retail store we have seen dried sumach berries being used on boxwood wreaths and they lent variety, being a much larker shade than the winter berries. We have noted this season more than usual activity in Japanese dwarfed plants. There are now in this city sev- eral stores conducted by Japanese, devoted exclusively to the maki
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. EASTER PLANTS AT DONALDSON GREENHOUSES, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Spirgeas and Various Bulb Stock. For more elaborate wreaths, much boxwood is used, decorated with winter berries and ribbon. In one retail store we have seen dried sumach berries being used on boxwood wreaths and they lent variety, being a much larker shade than the winter berries. We have noted this season more than usual activity in Japanese dwarfed plants. There are now in this city sev- eral stores conducted by Japanese, devoted exclusively to the making up and sale of combinations of these unique plants. It cannot be said that the dealers in florists' supplies have brought out any- thing very original or striking for Christmas. Some of the retailers themselves put finishing touches on plant baskets and tubs that greatly improved their appearance. At least one retail store has a genius who decorates tubs and hampers with birds, bunches of grapes, etc., of his own manufacture. For the ribbon men it must be said that they keep well up in providing shades of ribbon to match the various flowers. Kithcr the supply of armadillos is falling off or the taste for that kind of baskets is waning as few of them arc now seen. There are on the market small baskets made entirely of brass but it is doubtful if they will ever become very popular; they remind one of the old-fashioned candlesticks. We pre- sume that when there is a call for more novelties the supply men will soon produce them. This season t\v tendency seems to be toward sim- plicity of arrangement. sands of dollars to the retailers and would have rendered the delivery of goods on time a physical impossibility. The demand for flowering plants seems to be increasing every year. Poinsettias, azaleas, cyclamens and Lorraine begonias seem to be the favorites this year and large sales are reported by all the stores. The cut- flower trade is falling off noticeably and is, no doubt, d
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