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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



DECEMBER 1. 1S9S. 



White Maud Dean, white, pink tinge, 

 incurved Japanese. Scored commercial 

 scale. 85 points. 



BOSTON. Nov. 2G.— Grove P. Raw- 

 son, Elmira. N. Y., exhibited Eclipse 

 '98, light yellow incurved Japanese. 

 Scored both scales. 94 points. 



PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Nov. 26.— 

 Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., 

 exhibited Nagoya. yellow Japanese re- 

 flexed. Scored commercial scale. 87 

 points. Xeno, by same grower, pink 

 Japanese, incurved. Scored commer- 

 cial scale, 89 points. 



CINCINNATI, Nov. 26.— John N. 

 May exhibited Adula. white incurved 

 Japanese. Scored commercial scale, 85 

 points. This is the same variety that 

 was exhibited as No. 12— '95 at Boston. 

 Philadelphia and Chicago Nov. 19th. 

 Nathan Smith & Son. Xeno, pmk 

 Japanese incurved. Scored commercial 

 scale. 85 points. 



CHICAGO, Nov. 26.— Nathan Smith 

 & Son, Xeno, pink Japanese incurved. 

 Scored commercial scale. 89 points. 

 ELMER D. SMITH, Sec'y. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Thanksgiving Week. 



Thanksgiving week has come and 

 gone, leaving somewhat mixed feelings 

 among those Interested in flowers. 

 Business was good generally with 

 prices firm. The snow storm which ar- 

 rived on Thursday proved a serious 

 matter to those who expected to sell 

 lots of roses red and violets blue for 

 good old Penn's last football game. 

 College youths didn't give their best 

 girls their colors to wear in corsage 

 bunches just to have them show the 

 "white feather" before being fairly 

 seated. Then, too, lots of mothers 

 wouldn't let their daughters sit out 

 for nearly three hours in a blinding 

 snow storm. The wholesalers suffered 

 much more. Barring red and blue it 

 was a very good Thanksgiving, indeed, 

 all around. 



Beauties, the cream, went up a dol- 

 lar, touching $5 a dozen. Brides and 

 Maids brought $4 to $6, a few extras 

 $8 and a very few specials $10; Me- 

 teors about same, short Beauties $1 

 to $1.50, sharing business in red with 

 them. W. C. Smith had some Woot- 

 tons that brought $8. 



Carnations sold well. W. J. Baker 

 got $2 for a few Daybreak and Flora 

 Hill; S. S. Pennock $2.50 for Triumph, 

 the same lovely Flora and some choice 

 fancies. The bulk of the stock brought 

 $1 to $1.50. Chrysanthemums sold 

 well, but at moderate prices. Edward 

 Reid had a good many and cleaned up 

 well; $4.25 to $7.50 is about all that 

 good stock brings. Much of it is sold 

 lower. 



A few good Romans are in and bring 

 $4 as also Valley. Paper whites go 

 slow at $3 to $4. C. W. Cox has some 

 nice ones. Dendrobiums bring 35 to 

 40 cents; cypripediums, 15 to 20 cents; 



Asparagus Sprengeri, 5 cents a spray; 

 adiantums. 75 cents to $1. 



Violets were in liberal supply and 

 sold well until Thursday morning, sin- 

 gles, the best, 50 cents a hundred, a 

 few specials. 75 cents; doubles, 75 cents 

 to $1. A good many poor violets ar- 

 rived mixed in with the good flowers. 

 Just remember, growers of violets, that 

 as a rule a bunch is worth what its 

 poorest flowers will bring and no more. 

 It pays to grade slock. Nearly every- 

 thing really good sold, and we ought 

 to be thankful. 



Plants are moving briskly. Chrys- 

 anthemums in pots, like the cut flow- 

 ers, are nearly over. Palms and terns 

 are active; nearly all sorts have sold 

 well; some sizes are scarce. Boston 

 fern is nearly sold out. The people are 

 beginning to find out that it lasts In 

 the house and the retailers that it 

 makes a beautiful finish to a decora- 

 tion, taking away all necessity for any- 

 thing further to hide the pots. 



Bulb Trade. 



Bulbs, the seedsmen say, have sold 

 about as well this season as last for 

 forcing purposes, rather better for out- 

 door planting. The florists ought to be 

 benefited by the new move the im- 

 porters have made in declining to sell 

 bulbs this fall to certain growers who 

 are "under the ban." These growers 

 used to sell bulbous stuff in bloom be- 

 low cost, thus breaking the market and 

 then settle with the importers for some 

 fifty per cent of their bills. 



Boston has a cold storage plant un- 

 der the Hotel Lorraine. Fleischman 

 has one in his New York store. Now. 

 thanks to the pluck and enterprise of 

 Samuel S. Pennock, Philadelphia is the 

 first city to have a wholesale florist's 

 so equipped. Mr. Pennock has fitted 

 up two rooms with a complete cold 

 plant, in which he can manufacture 

 100 pounds of ice daily. They are lit 

 by electricity and are thoroughly mod- 

 ern, with a most ingenious new door. 

 The plant is only just ready for the 

 reception of flowers so that a short 

 time must elapse before it can be 

 proved the success which Mr. Pennock 

 confidently anticipates. Such enter- 

 prise deserves success. 



A Novel Window Decoration. 



The most novel store window dec- 

 oration was arranged by Jos. Kift & 

 Son before the Indian-Pennsylvania 

 football game. Robert Kift bought a 

 bag of peanuts after lunch. Nothing 

 extraordinary but what came of it— a 

 miniature field of green moss, crossed 

 by bars of foil covered wire with goals 

 and posts of the same foil wire and 

 twenty-three little fellows disporting 

 themselves between the goal posts. 

 Eleven had foil-covered wire legs and 

 arms, with faces painted and red 

 sweaters for the Indians. Eleven were 

 constructed in a like manner, only they 

 had red and blue sweaters painted on 

 their brown bodies to represent Penn's 

 sturdy sons. The last peanut was the 



football. A capital hit. With what 

 simple tools genius works. 



In concluding a year's work, the 

 writer of these notes wishes to thank 

 his readers for their kind indulgence. 

 If anything has appeared that may- 

 have given offense it has not been in- 

 tentional. The sole object kept in 

 view has been to give an idea or scrap 

 of information that might prove use- 

 ful or interesting, in not too dry a 

 way. With good will towards all and 

 malice towards none, farewell. 



J. W. Y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Thanksgiving Day trade was gen- 

 erally satisfactory though the results 

 would have been better had all the 

 available stock been placed on the 

 market at the right time. With many 

 the week preceding was even better 

 than Thanksgiving week. But a big 

 lot of stock was marketed both weeks 

 and at very good flgures. All good 

 stock that reached the market Mon- 

 day and Tuesday found ready sale, but 

 on Wednesday the receipts were so 

 heavy that prices weakened some and 

 in the case of violets in particular 

 there was a heavy drop. This was par- 

 ticularly aggravating, as had the sup- 

 ply been marketed more uniformly all 

 could have been sold at top figures, for 

 on Monday and Tuesday the demand 

 was strong. There were a good many 

 chrysanthemums in the market and all 

 good ones that were received by Tues- 

 day morning found ready sale. A con- 

 siderable quantity of poor grade flow- 

 ers and better ones that came late suf- 

 fered. Carnations, that were in such 

 urgent demand Monday and Tuesday, 

 also suffered some on Wednesday. 

 Kennicott Bros. Co. tell of the experi- 

 ence of one of their growers who 

 brought in 800 carnations on Monday 

 and received returns of $19.85 for 

 them, while 600 that he brought in on 

 Wednesday realized only $6.90. 



A feature noted by many dealers 

 was the large proportion of white 

 flowers called for, which was very un- 

 usual for a holiday. One cause for con- 

 gratulation was the absence of pickled 

 stock. 



Every holiday experience fortifies 

 the belief that when a period of great 

 scarcity precedes a holiday it is wise 

 for the grower to get his stock in early 

 and get the benefit of the anticipatory 

 demand, for there is pretty apt to be a 

 slump at the last moment. 



One thing that probably helped the 

 late drop this time was the weather, 

 which was such as to keep the fakir 

 off the street and thus close the out- 

 let for the second and third grade 

 stock. 



Since Thanksgiving prices have 

 been somewhat easier, though on the 

 best grades they have been very well 

 maintained. Business is not remark- 

 ably brisk, but there is enough to take 

 care of the moderate supply of really 



