. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. /po^. The American Florist. 941 titles of lilies in evidence but they went off well at prices ranging to $20 per hun- dred. Lily of the valley sold well, as it usually does at this season, prices being governed by the quality of the stock, which was in the main tip top. Garde- nias were short in supply, and good blooms brought as high as $1 each. Violets moved lively on Saturday night. high. Rustic wells, bird's nests fashioned from pussy willows, tripods, hampers, market baskets, fancy baskets, Dutch sleds, and p
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. /po^. The American Florist. 941 titles of lilies in evidence but they went off well at prices ranging to $20 per hun- dred. Lily of the valley sold well, as it usually does at this season, prices being governed by the quality of the stock, which was in the main tip top. Garde- nias were short in supply, and good blooms brought as high as $1 each. Violets moved lively on Saturday night. high. Rustic wells, bird's nests fashioned from pussy willows, tripods, hampers, market baskets, fancy baskets, Dutch sleds, and plant holders in almost every conceivable form filled with an intermin- able variety of combinations of plants, all found customers. Of the plants to be seen in these combinations the favorites seemed to be ericas, oranges, ERICA MELANTHERA AS GROWN FOR CHRISTMAS BY LOUIS DUPUY, WHITESTONE, N. Y.—See page 944. $2 per hundred being about the top price. Quite a few late chrysanthemums were to be seen, but they did not catch the popular fancy and their movement was slow. Smilax and asparagus were in plenty but were not good sellers, and a good deal was left over. Retailers report an enormous business in plants and made up baskets. What were considered a sample stocks melted away as if by magic. Azaleas of course formed the bulk of the stocks, and sold as well as ever. Ardisias appeared to excite considerable interest and good specimens of ordinary size brought as high as $8 each. In fancy lines the variety offered seemed to be without end, and the assortment ran from Begonia Gloire de Lorraine in vrooden sabots to a basket of kentias and oranges seven feet primulas, ardisias, poinsettias, drac£Enas, araucarias, Lorraine and other begonias, longiflorum and rubrum lilies, azaleas, cyclamens, ivies, holly and mistletoe. Scottiiand Bostonferns were alsolargely in use. Many very fine arrangements of orchids were to be seen, Cattleya Perci- valiana most prominent. The green
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