DECEMBER 28, 1899. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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CLASSIFIED ADVS. Continued. 



WIRE WORK. 



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DETROIT. 



Christmas was a hummer and no 

 mistake, with good weather to deliver 

 stofli without wrapping, up to .Sunday 

 evening, wlien it turned cold and con- 

 tinued so up to the time of writing. 

 Everything sold well, but it is appar- 

 ent that as each Christma.'^ comes 

 around the demand tor plants increases 

 and the supply was not equal to the 

 demand. Breitmeyer & Son having the 

 best and also the large.'it quantity. They 

 also init up a great many liaskets, 

 which sold nearly as fast as one man 

 could fill them. Mr. B. goes east for 

 new ideas every holiday season and 

 his efforts seem to be appreciated by 

 the high priced buyers. 



In cut flowers all the retailers re- 

 port a clean up. with carnations and 

 violets in the lead. Uoses were none 

 too plentiful, thus making the price 

 high. In fact, we hear the old refrain 

 that trade was 50 per cent better, so 

 of course the growers feel good, for set- 

 tling day is near at liand and the .'iO 

 per cent more business means prompt 

 payment of bills. 



We are to have another retailer in 

 Woodward avenue. Mr. Chas. Scheible, 

 who has l>een with B. Schroeter for 

 some years, will soon open up above 

 the park. 



At the last meeting of the club Mr. 

 E. A. Scribner read a paper on "Fumi- 

 gation for Green Fly," which was very 

 ably written and contained some new 

 ideas on such an old subject. He 

 claimed death was caused by suffoca- 

 tion and not from the effects of nico- 

 tine in the tobacco, and that he had the 

 best success with old, dried up stems 

 that had been bleached out Ijy rain and 

 sun for a great length of time. A great 

 deal of quizzing was done, but he made 

 his point good. R.AG. 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



To sum the situation up here, "peo- 

 ple were flower crazy." Anything and 

 everything sold, and at top prices. 

 Trade began about Friday, or rather it 

 started the beginning of the past week, 

 and wound up like a whirlwind. 



Slock was somewhat scarce and of 

 fair quality. A few of the older grow- 

 ers resorted to pickling, and in conse- 

 quence did not realize top price for 

 their trash. From all accounts the 

 traile ran about 30 to 40 per cent better 

 than last year. 



Green stuff also had its turn and was 

 done to a finish. Not a scrap of a tree 



could be found Saturday night. Thurs- 

 day and Friday saw more trees, holly, 

 pine, etc., than was ever show.n in 

 Kansas City, and some predicted that 

 there would be low prices on this stuff 

 by Saturday night, but the writer spent 

 something like a dollar in messenger 

 service trying to find a tree Saturday 

 night, and then could not get it. Holly 

 was of fair (|uality and sold up clean. 



In cut tlowers, pink roses and col- 

 ored carnal ions IimI. prices ranging 

 from T- to .$4 for the former and 75 

 cents to $1 for common and $1.50 to ?2 

 for fancy carnations. Beauties sold at 

 from $3 to $18 per dozen; very few of 

 the latter ones were to be had. Me- 

 teors in good demand, with light sup- 

 ply. No violets to speak of. Bulb 

 stock sold better than usual, principal- 

 ly narcissus and Romans. Plants had 

 their inning, also, and sold well, among 

 which were to be seen some fine poin- 

 settias, azaleas, oranges, ericas and 

 Sprengeri. and brought top prices. 



The fact that Christmas fell on Mon- 

 day gave the florists additional work, 

 as nearly half the transient or late 

 comers came in Monday, thereby mak- 

 ing delivery very irregular and prevent- 

 ing early orders from having the care 

 they should have had. Weather was 

 all that could be desired up to Satur- 

 day evening; even then not bad enough 

 to tide the rush. We sure enough feel 

 and welcome the times of prosperity. 



W. 



ASTORIA, L. I. 



A visit to W. H. Siebrecht's exten- 

 sive and well kept place is always a 

 pleasure and of the greatest of inter- 

 est. Mr. Siebrecht is probably the larg- 

 est bulb grower we have around New 

 York. He forces upwards of a million 

 bulbs a year and is considered a great 

 authority on that line of stock. He 

 has been experimenting with home 

 grown lily of the valley with great 

 success; his houses were full of the 

 finest stock for Christmas. 



A house of poinsettias looked grand, 

 and then there were the immense 

 quantities of bulbous stock in pots, 

 pans and boxes, either for cutting or 

 plant trade. He will soon have a fine 

 lot of Acacia pubescens. A bench of 

 Asparagus Sprengeri is in splendid 

 condition, so also is a general collec- 

 tion of foliage plants. Holiday trade 

 has been very good with him. D. 



ART AT FLOWER SHOWS. 



Dear I'Jditor; "The Novice" tells us 

 tliat he can "with wonderful accuracy 

 read between the lines" in what we 

 wrote on the above subject in a recent 

 issue. We are sorry he did not read 

 our lines and not bother looking for 

 what was not between. "The Novice" 

 i.s not the only one who builds in re- 

 hearsal the sugar-loaf group. We as- 

 siirt! him I he fault is general. We can 

 also assure lijui that most of the group 

 classes call for or intend for "effect." 

 What is a group arranged for? Flow- 

 ers and plants, no matter how finely 

 grown, become monotonous when sim- 

 ilarity or formality rules in the ar- 

 ranging. Flower shows are not hebl 

 for the purpose of pleasing judges or 

 growers alone; we depend on the pub- 

 lic to make them pay, we are expected 

 to show the public our very best, and 

 art is the very soul of Flora — it is 

 merely disfigured or destroyed by 

 many interpreters. Do away with the 

 long tables of monotony, do away with 

 formal groups, do away with the idea 

 that art is of less importance than sci- 

 ence at our shows. IVERA. 



MENTOR, 0.— Carl Hagenburger has 

 a fine new pink carnation, a cross bs- 

 tween Scott and McGowan, that he 

 has named Lizzie Hagenburger. 



ST. JOSEPH, MICH.— The green- 

 houses of August Loeffler, one mile 

 south of this city, were destroyed by 

 fire the evening of December 24. Loss 

 $5,000, with no insurance. 



BRADFORD, PA.— Christmas trade 

 nearly double of last year. Plants 

 were the fad. We had a large supply 

 and sold out clean at good prices. Cut 

 flowers were very scarce. W. C. R. 



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