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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



DECEMBER 21, 1S99. 



ges of flower shows in encouraging 

 new productions -in the way of plants 

 and Dowers. Something new and fash- 

 ionable to strike the public fancy is 

 what all progressive florists should 

 aim at. Strike out for something no- 

 vel and taking, and once obtained 

 push it for all it is worth. Most suc- 

 cessful men find great help from new 

 things. Set your wits to work that 

 you may also for a time enjoy the 

 monopoly of something or other. 



In conclusion, to me a florist who 

 sees nothing helpful in flower shows 

 reminds me of a Niagara Falls story 

 I heard the other day. A Canadian 

 police officer tells it something like 

 this: "A Pennsylvania Dutchman 

 hove in the other day and asked the 

 ofiicials at the Falls if there was any- 

 thing about the place worth seeing. 

 •'You see," he said, " it's shust like 

 dis. My frients and frau told me I 

 should take id in and I vant to take 

 everyting in der iss to zee. Dey say 

 dere vas someding great here und I 

 forgot id alreatty, and haf walked 

 all ofer und zee ncddings." The visi- 

 tor was at once taken to the finest 

 view of the Falls, where he stood a 

 few minutes looking. "Well," said his 

 conductor at last. "Veil," returned 

 the man. "Don't you see the Falls?" 

 "Vat, dot vater falling? Iss dot vat 

 I coom all dis vays to zee — a liddle 

 vater dripping? Jiminy, I go me 

 home." 



Let me suggest we want a higher 

 tone in this florists* business all round 

 this city. We want a reading, think- 

 ing body of men, not mere machines, 

 that are content to plod on in a hum- 

 drum way. Let us have progressive 

 men, and they will patronize our soci- 

 eties and take a deep interest in ev- 

 erything connected with their calling. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The outlook for Christmas supply 

 has improved somewhat since our last 

 report. Several sunny days promise 

 to materially improve the quantity and 

 quality of roses and carnations. Ex- 

 cept as to Beauties, rose orders will 

 probably be fairly well filled. The 

 demand has been strong and a very 

 large number of advance orders have 

 been booked. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. will have a 

 large cut of Klehm's Gontiers and say 

 that customers must not be surprised 

 if these are sent in place of Meteors. 

 They look for a fair supply of every- 

 thing except Beauties. They are re- 

 ceiving some very fine valley from E. 

 G. Asmus. Mr. Pieser reports a sale 

 of 3,000 P. W. narcissus to one party 

 at ?3 a hundred, which was a great 

 help, as this stock has been moving 

 rather slowly. 



Mr. Spencer, of Reinherg Bros., 

 says he anticipates a fair supply of 

 everything except Beauties. 



McKellar & Winterson take a favor- 

 able view of the outlook for Christ- 

 mas supply. Among their Christmas 

 specialties will be a splendid lot of 



poinsettias. They are already selling 

 quite a number, and those already re- 

 ceived are certainly of extra fine qual- 

 ity. And they will have 3,000 of 

 these for Christmas in addition to a 

 large supply of the usual run of flow- 

 ers. This firm has been doing an 

 enormous business in green, holly and 

 other Christmas goods. "They have 

 been handling the "winter berry" in 

 quantity and have sold over 50 cases 

 to one local retailer. 



Bassett & Washburn say they will 

 have a good crop of tea roses and car- 

 nations, but will be short of Beauties. 

 They have booked a very large num- 

 ber of advance orders and say the 

 proportion of highest grade stock 

 called for is notably large. 



E. H. Hunt looks for a fair supply, 

 but large advance orders will take it 

 all. He reports a splendid trade in 

 green and holiday supplies. 



Various Items. 



Mr. E. C. Amling has leased the 

 large basement floor of the Trude 

 Building, 32 to 36 Randolph St., and 

 will remove to this location about 

 January 1. Here he will have a space 

 70x80 feet, with remarkably hand- 

 some finish, including marble wains- 

 coting, mosaic floor, modern plumb- 

 ing, handsomely fitted toilet rooms, 

 etc. The fittings will be entirely new 

 throughout and an ice box 8x14 is now 

 being built. The light is good, ex- 

 tending the full length of the Wabash 

 Ave. side of the building. Mr. Heff- 

 ron has planned the arrangement of 

 the fixtures admirably, and when com- 

 pleted this will certainly be a strik- 

 ingly handsome and convenient whole- 

 sale cut flower establishment, as well 

 as an unusually large one. Mr. Am- 

 ling's business has been growing with 

 great rapidity and a move to larger 

 quarters was imperative. He will 

 now have abundant room for further 

 expansion. 



The firm of Reinberg Bros, has been 

 dissolved by mutual consent, to take 

 effect January 1, and thereafter each 

 of the two brothers will have his own 

 city salesroom. Peter Reinberg will 

 retain the present quarters and George 

 Reinberg will take the place now oc- 

 cupied by E. C. Amling, having pur- 

 chased the latter's lease and fixtures. 

 Thus the brothers will still be on the 

 same floor and as close together as 

 possible. The old quarters had become 

 too small for the two. The partner- 

 ship really extended only to the city 

 salesroom, the greenhouse establish- 

 ments at Summerdale having always 

 been managed as separate concerns. 

 Archie Spencer will continue in charge 

 of the present salesroom for Mr. Peter 

 Reinberg, and Robert Northam. one 

 of Mr. Spencer's present assistants, 

 will manage Mr. George Reinberg's 

 new salesroom. 



Mr. E. F. Winterson moved Into his 

 new house recently and to celebrate 

 the event invited a lot of his friends 

 to a berry party. The berries were in 

 the decorations on the table and 

 around the room and were of the 

 "Winter"-son variety. Thirty-six pick- 

 ers sat down to the table and berried 



within themselves a most enjoyable 

 dinner, including an English plum 

 pudding of aldermanic proportions. 

 The club quartette did its duty royal- 

 ly and there was instrumental music, 

 too. Mr. Winterson never does things 

 by halves and all present enjoyed 

 themselves most heartily. The berry 

 party in December was voted a decid- 

 ed success. 



The bowling team played its flrst 

 league games last Friday evening and. 

 not wishing to hurt the feelings of the 

 members of the opposing team, allowed 

 them to win each of the three games. 



A. C. Kohlbrand has taken a posi- 

 tion with Mosconosotes. 



BUFFALO. 



Outlook for Christmas. 



From present outlook Christmas 

 trade will be good. There is at this 

 writing more inquiry for decorative 

 material than we ever remember. Met- 

 ropolitan florists may disdain to deal 

 in holly, but we have to. The flower 

 growers need not complain that plants 

 have taken the place of their product 

 for they will be sure to sell all they 

 have and at most excellent prices. Still 

 it will be a great plant time and Buf- 

 falo is well supplied with good plants 

 of the leading kinds. 



We are awfully glad to see that the 

 poinsettia will be in good demand, for 

 then we shall be strictly in it. The fan- 

 cy basket filled with plants is very at- 

 tractive, but it is slightly above our 

 rank and not lasting enough. A goo 1 

 palm or dracaena is preferred when 

 money is plentiful. 



Some Decorations. 



There is a decided increase in social 

 events over the past flve or six years. 

 An elaborate and co.stly decoration at 

 the Twentieth Century Club was lately 

 done by W. J. Palmer & Son. An im- 

 mense amount of wild smilax and 

 wreathing was used and one item was 

 100 fine poinsettia plants. The follow- 

 ing day a very swell dance called for 

 some more fine decorations. White 

 azaleas and yellow chrysanthemums 

 were the feature in the reception room 

 and green and scarlet in the ballroom. 

 Laurel, sweet bays, Boston ferns, holly 

 and poinsettias filled the bill. 



A dinner at the Buffalo Club de- 

 serves mention, for although the work 

 of W. S. it was a little out of the com- 

 mon. The round table was 20 feet in 

 diameter, seating thirty men. From 

 the lofty ceiling over the center of the 

 table ran strings of ground pine (100 

 of them), and extending to five feet 

 outside the table, eight feet from the 

 ground, and then dropping four feet, 

 so the table and guests were inside a 

 circus tent of green. In center of table 

 was a mass of poinsettias five feet in 

 diameter and not over fourteen Inches 

 high; this took 100 4-inch plants. Thiej 

 feet from the center bed and at inter- 

 vals of three to four feet were stood 

 10-inch pans of poinsettia, in which 

 were six plants not over twelve inches 

 high. 



All unoccupied space was covered 



