1.   For decorations, we had small pumpkins and orange candles, along with a few dry reeds and milkweed pods we had gathered.

2.   Most flower stores in Paris now have pumpkins on display, and Hallmark has started to sell Halloween cards in France for the first time.

3.   Some had pumpkin.

4.   Retailers expect to have pumpkins for sale by the last week of the month.