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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



155 



Three Houses of the New Pink Carnation Cressbrook, at the establishment of Mr. C. Watbuiton, Fall River, Mass. 



He ;iccumulated a considerable fortune, 

 but finally reverses came, generally said 

 to lie due to speculation in Wall street, 

 and his business dwindleil away until 

 he finally left Xcw York and after iu- 

 efTeetual attempts to re-establish himself 

 in Newport and other eastern cities he 

 came to Chicago. Here, after being for 

 quite a number of years in the employ- 

 ment of various local florists, he started 

 in business for himself, but did not suc- 

 ceed in getting it satisfactorily estab- 

 lished. 



He evidently became completely dis- 

 couraged and sought refuge from his 

 troubles in death.. It is a sad ending to 

 :\ career that was for years notable in the 

 trade. He was undoubtedly the first to 

 educate American buyers of flowers up to 

 paying an adequate price for art in ar- 

 rangement as well as for high quality. 

 He stimulated the growers for the Xew 

 York market to make effort for ex- 

 tra grade stock, and was always 

 ready to pay a fancy price for anything 

 that was really worth it. 



His was an interesting personality 

 and in his life was well illustrated the 

 ups and downs to which business men 

 are subject. His relations with the Van- 

 derbilts were said to be at one time so 

 close that he was able to borrow from 

 members of the family such suras as $10,- 

 000 on his simple I. O. U. and since then 

 he has worked for Chicago florists at an 

 exceedingly moderate weekly salary. 

 Though he had his faults, as we all have, 

 all who knew him will regret that adver- 

 sity forced him to seek rest from life's 

 troubles and none will fail to feel sym- 

 pathy for the man who struggled so long 

 to regain his former position in the busi- 

 ness world. 



CARNATION CRESSBROOK. 



We present hereuith an engraving 

 from a photograph of three houses of the 

 new pink carnation CresF-brook at the 

 establishment of the originator, !Mr. C. 



\Varburton, Fall Kiver. ilass. The pho- 

 tograph was taken Dec. 7 and the plants 

 in the house at the right have been cut 

 back for propagating purposes. Mr. 

 Warburton has another house planted 

 with Cresfbrodk. It is 20x102 and does 

 not appear in the photograph. 



As will be seen in the picture, the 

 houses are of iron frame construction 

 and thoroughly up-to-date in their ap- 

 pointments. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions for Dec. 16 21. 



Lots of smoke, but not much fire! 

 Preparations for a big battle in rapid 

 progress. Plants and Christmas greens 

 being delivered rapidh', both \vholesale 

 and retail. Cut flowers, perhaps with 

 the exception of stevia and bulb goods, 

 being held up naturally as hard as possi- 

 ble, consequently but few coming in and 

 prices gradually rising. It looks as if 

 fully as good figures will be realized as 

 ever before and perhaps the record will 

 be broken on all kinds of roses and very 

 best grades of carnations. Figures may 

 never lie, but they may fearfully mis- 

 represent sometimes, and I never like to 

 use them in this connection; but handlers 

 of American Beauty roses claim all the 

 way from $1,50 to ,$18,00 per dozen, and 

 up to $0.00 on pink and white among 

 their promises for next week. White 

 pinks have been more scarce lately than 

 colored ones and prices have been some- 

 what spasmodic, five cents being the 

 tallest I have actually been aware of 

 upon recent deliveries. These not being 

 specially good, I presume much better 

 terms have been allowed upon better 

 ones. 



Various Notes. 



The fire at II. X. Eaton's South Sud- 

 bury plant did not prove so utterly dis- 

 astrous as was feared it must be at the 

 time. Tlie large boilerhouse and acces- 



sories were burned away in a particular- 

 ly clean manner, but fortunately tin' 

 boilers were left in working order, so 

 that frost did not get into the houses to 

 any great extent and injured only a few 

 small plants, leaving his huge lily de- 

 livery for Christmas in fine shape. A 

 large pile of coal was added to the loss, 

 so that it footed up .something like $1.- 

 200. half of which sum it is hoped will 

 l;e covered by insurance. This leaves 

 things bad enough, but ilr. Eaton re- 

 joices with the rest of us that it is no 

 worse, instead of repining at its .serious- 

 ness. J. S. !M.\XTER. 



CHRISTMAS TRADE. 



Keaders are requested to mail us a re- 

 port of their Christnuis trade as soon 

 as possible after the receipt of this 

 issue of the Ee\'Ie\v. We wish to print 

 next week a full report of the Christmas 

 trade all over the country and we can 

 make this full and complete onl.v with 

 the assistance of all our readers. Please 

 do not fail to mail a report of the 

 Christmas trade in your city as you 

 found it and much oblige the editor of 

 the EE•^^E^v. 



Christmas is a busy rather than a 

 merry time for florists and they gener- 

 ally have to rest up a bit after the holi- 

 day before they can enjoy the pleasures 

 of the season. Reports already received 

 indicate that the Christmas trade has 

 tills year broken all records and this will 

 be the most satisfactory kind of a Christ- 

 mas present to all. The Review begs to 

 acknowledge the many kind wishes ex- 

 pressed in the letters recently received 

 from subscribers and sincerely hopes that 

 one and all will have a happy and a 

 prosperous Xew Y'ear. 



ilixxEAPOLi.'i, Mixx. — Welch & Cole 

 are building the new greenhouse for the 

 ilinneapolis Floral Co. at Thirty-fifth 

 and Irving avenues S. It will be 30x185 

 and will cost $4,000. 



