JANUAKV 24, 1901. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



277 



COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



Clnisliiias tratle was far better than 

 ever bel'ori'. Cut (lowers sold at a very 

 hifjU price. 



Jlr. S. F. Stephens cut some fine roses 

 and 'iiiuiiis for Xmas. He has completed 

 a new house, which he expects to use 



for 



itioi 



)n Seed Co. had the best deco- 

 rated stiire in the city. 



Now Year's was a very busy day for 

 E. L. (-'luules with funeral work. 



Jlr. Underwood has several unnamed 

 seedling carnations of which he is very 

 proud. 



Mr. E. Metzmair has had the natural 

 gas, which did not prove satisfactory, 

 taken out of his boiler and has gone back 

 to coal and slack. 



Mr. J. lirust has his coil boiler just 

 about completed. 



Mr. Coursy, of the state hospital, had 

 some fine pot callas for Xmas, which 

 came in very handy for his decorations. 



Mr. F. K. Luke, of the O. S. U., has 

 the plants beautifully arranged and 

 labeled, which makes it very interesting 

 for visitors. 



;Miss X. Anna Long was married on 

 Dec. 2.")th to Mr. J. Acton, of Potomac, 

 111. Miss Long was an amateur florist, 

 having made a large display at the state 

 fair last year, and is well known to 

 many florists. G. E. A. 



THE GLASS TRUST. 



Notification of an advance of i!0 per 

 cent in the price of window glass was re- 

 ceived last night by every jobber in the 

 United States. The notice came from a 

 committee representing practically all of 

 the window glass manufacturers in the 

 country, and means that the war between 

 the American Window Glass Company, 

 commonly known as the window glass 

 trust, and the independent manufacturers 

 has been patched up. 



The war between the two classes of 

 manufacturers prevailed all of last year 

 and during the closing months of 1899. 

 It began with a cut of 30 per cent in 

 prices in a single day in November of the 

 latter year, and at one time during the 

 year just passed prices were nearly 50 

 per cent below the highest prices prevail- 

 ing in 1899. Prices were so low in fact 

 that only the factories most advan- 

 tageously situated could run at a profit. 

 Both sides in the controversy, after 

 over a year of trial, finally decided that 

 the task of acting as philanthropists to 

 an unappreciative and unsympathetic 

 public was not conducive to health or 

 longevity. The first steps toward a set- 

 tlement were to form the independent 

 concerns into one organization similar to 

 the original window glass trust and then 

 to get the two into harmonious working 

 relations by the election of an executive 

 committee to act for both. The basis of 

 output for each is fixed at 1,200 pots for 

 the American Window Glass Company, or 

 original trust, and 700 pots for the In- 

 dependent Window Glass Company, rep- 

 resenting the former outsiders. The total 

 of 1,900 pots is a reduction of 300 from 

 the total in operation before the two com- 

 bined. 



It is an open secret in thp trade that 

 the new double-barreled combination has 

 set aside a working fund to be used in 

 a warfare on the Belgian window glass 

 manufacturers, who have always been a 

 thorn in the side of the American manu- 

 facturers particularly along the Atlantic 

 and Pacific coasts, where the elements of 

 freight and breakage and the average 



duty of 100 per cent are not as effective 

 barriers as tlirv :ue iiihuid. 



in 1898. 



Prices of window glass were withdrawn 

 by all manufacturers over a month ago, 

 and none of the big buyers, such as sash 

 and door makers, etc., have been able to 

 cover their season's demands. Stocks in 

 all positions are of ordinary proportions. 

 —Chicayo Tiinvs-Ilcrald, Jan. 18. 



GREENHOUSE BUILDING. 



The glass surface of the country is 

 rapidly" expanding. During the year 

 1900 the John C. Moninger Co., Chicago, 

 alone supplied building material for 

 49.700 lineal feet of greenhouses, which 

 required 1,094,952 square feet of glass 

 lo cover. Of the glass noted, 915,4(54 

 square feet were lapped and 179,488 feet 

 butted. About 05 per cent of it was IG- 

 inch glass. Of the 49,700 lineal feet of 

 greenhouses 37,238 feet had ventilating 

 sash that opened from the ridge, and 

 12,522 feet that opened from the header. 



The John C. Moninger Co. are doing 

 a little remodeling on their own account, 

 making extensive improvements in their 

 factory that will greatly increase their 

 capacity and enable them to get out 

 rush orders in double quick time. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Sohlegel & Fottler, 26 So. Market St., 

 Boston, Mass., wholesale price list of 

 seeds, bulbs, fertilizers and sundries; L. 

 L. May & Co., St. Paul, Minn., May's 

 catalogue of northern grown seeds, plants, 

 bulbs and fruits; M. Crawford Co., Cuy- 

 ahoga Falls, Ohio, catalogue of straw- 

 berry plants and gladiolus bulbs; The 

 Steele, Briggs Seed Co., Toronto, Ont., 

 seed catalogue; Pinehurst Nurseries, 

 Pinehurst, N. C, surplus list of Ameri- 

 can seeds; The McGregor Bros. Co., 

 Springfield, Ohio, 1901 wholesale price 

 list of plants for florists. 



Beixefontaine, Ohio. — Messrs. Poole 

 & Purllant, purchasers of the Hover 

 greenhouses here, have arrived from 

 Middletown, Conn., and are now in pos- 

 session of the plant. Ttey brought their 

 families with them and will make this 

 city their home as well as business head- 

 quarters. They intend to considerably 

 develop and extend the business. 



PiQUA, Ohio. — On January 1st The 

 Piqua Floral Co. opened a cut flower 

 store at 132 No. Main street, and later 

 they intend adding a full line of seeds, 

 bulbs, etc. The proprietors are F. H. 

 Frisch and H. G. Hershey. 



Traverse City, Mich. — Hans Tobler, 

 gardener at the State Insane Asylum, 

 has lately recovered from an attack of 

 appendicitis, and is now apparently in 

 his usual good health again. 



A CLIMBING CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



We have received from 15. M. Wichera 

 & Co., Gretna, La., a photograph of a 

 ihry.-anthemum that shows a climbing 

 habit. The photograph is hardly clear 

 enough to reproduce but the habit of 

 the i>lant is unmistakable. The flowers 

 are single and Messrs. Widicrs & Co. 

 report that the plant is perfectly hardy 

 with them and covered with flowers from 

 October to January or later. It origi- 

 nated with them about four years ago. 



Lake City, Minn. — A local daily 

 prints same interesting information re- 

 U'arding the Jewell Nursery Co., estab- 

 Hshed here in 18C8. Some items taken 

 from their inventory for one year are as 

 follows: 252,000 apple and crab apple 

 trees; 34,000 plum trees; 23,000 cherry, 

 peach, pear and apricot trees; 100,000 

 evergreens; 500,000 strawberry plants; 

 .")5,000 grape vines; 125,000 shade and 

 ornamental trees; 47,000 roses; 80,000 

 currants; 63,000 ornamental shrubs; 

 50,000 gooseberries; 49,000 ornamental 

 climbing vines; 110,000 raspberries, 

 blackberries and dewberries; 95,000 

 hardy herbaceous plants; 2,000,000 

 seedling shade trees for timber claims. 

 The establishment has entirely rebuilt 

 its greenhouses and they now have about 

 six thousand feet of glass devoted to ten- 

 der plants. 



Faulkner, Mass. — J. Francis Har- 

 rington, the florist, has filed a bank- 

 ruptcy petition. He owes about $2,000, 

 with no available assets. 



Lorain, O. — M. A. Wilhelmy will dis- 

 continue the business formerly in charge 

 of his son here, and has closed the store. 



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