. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 580 The American Florist. Nov. 14, John B. Amphlett, with the Ionia Pot- tecy Company, and Miss A. G. Strick- land were married October 20, and will be at home after December 10 at 6302 Jackson Park avenue. Visitors: Prof. A. C. Beal and Ralph B. Howe, of Urbana, 111. roses, the beautiful and fragrant Breit- meyer variety for which a sufticiently worthy name has not yet been secured, and J. N. May's General McArthur. a crimson gem of the first grade which promises to become widely popular as soon as disseminated.
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 580 The American Florist. Nov. 14, John B. Amphlett, with the Ionia Pot- tecy Company, and Miss A. G. Strick- land were married October 20, and will be at home after December 10 at 6302 Jackson Park avenue. Visitors: Prof. A. C. Beal and Ralph B. Howe, of Urbana, 111. roses, the beautiful and fragrant Breit- meyer variety for which a sufticiently worthy name has not yet been secured, and J. N. May's General McArthur. a crimson gem of the first grade which promises to become widely popular as soon as disseminated. John Scott showed i^p^.^3P^^^^B^t8^B 1 ^ W^"'^^ ni X ? t m g BELT OF EVERGREENS AT GEORGIAN COURT. New York. BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL.—STOCK IN PLENTY BUT NO DEMAND.—PRICES ON ROSES AND VIOLETS ESPECIALLY LOW. —ENTHUSIASTIC FLORISTS' CLUIi MEET- ING.—NOTES OF LOCAL INTEREST. Business is at a standstill with plenty of all kinds of flowers on hand. Whole- salers, retailers and growers are all com- plaining of dullness, and don't seem to know what the trouble is. The fine weather we are experiencing no doubt has hurried the flowers along much ahead of their time, especially chrysanthemums, and the daily receipts being far greater than the outlet trouble lollows naturally. The collapse came about the middle of last week, since which there have been practically no quotable values on any- thing. But roses and violets took the greatest tumble, the highest price obtain- able for the best type of American Beauty rose being but $10 a hundred, and many that had accumulated going at half that price. The decline in violet values was unexpected by theoperators, being some- thing unheard of at this date, and all the more surprising because the growers are picking thus far only about half a crop owing to the warm weather. Some wholesalers were caught with embarras- ing obligations as to price on their hands. Wintry weather and the finishing off of the chrysanthemum crop are necess
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