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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



159 



A Corner in the Stcre of the Butfe Floral Co., Butte, Mont., During Their Chrysanthemum Show Last Month. 



of this year it would be the Porto Kicaii 

 mats in manj' colors. Tliey are the pret- 

 tiest, neatest and best thing up to date 

 to cover the pot and make the plant at- 

 tractive that lias 3'et appeared. They 

 can't quite be thrown in without charge, 

 as the colored tissue paper can, but you 

 can easily get all they cost and more. 



There has lately been a permanent 

 addition to our Main street stores and 

 this one has started olT in good style. 

 Miss Rachel Eebstock, so many years her 

 brother Joseph's right bower in his store, 

 has opened a good looking shop at 014 

 Main street. The cleverness, all'aliilily 

 and thorough knowledge of the business 

 possessed by Rachel is so well known 

 that it is impossible for anvthing but 

 success to ensile. If a gentleman goes 

 into her emporium with the intention of 

 spending two dollars and gets out with- 

 out leaving .$4 he will be a remarkably 

 cold and stolid man. \V. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Christmas Trade. 



Averaging the reports of the wholesale 

 cut (lower houses we would say the 

 Christmas shipping trade averaged fully 

 20 per cent larger than last year and 

 has therefore broken all records. The 

 supply probably averaged but little 

 larger than last year, but prices on ship- 

 ping grade stock held fully up to quota- 

 tions and sometimes even exceeded them 

 on special selects, especially on carna- 

 tions. 



Quality averaged very good and there 

 ■was evidently less "pickling" than usual, 

 though some aggravating cases were re- 

 ported. On Tuesday we were shown the 

 stems of several hundred long Beauties 

 that must have been fine stock when cut, 

 but had lost their heads while on the 

 way to market. Also carnations that 

 ■were so completely asleep that they were 

 unsalable at any price, thouyli thev 

 would have brought $3.00 a hundred 



quick had they been sent to market a 

 week ago. It is gratifying to note that 

 there was less of this tom foolery this 

 year than heretofore, but why not elim- 

 inate it entirely? It hurts everybody. 

 It hurts the grower most, but it hurts 

 the dealer and the retailer, too. No 

 one gains anything by it. And the man 

 who couldn't ship any carnations on 

 Monday but sent in several thousand on 

 Tuesday was also with us. As a result 

 there was a surplus of white carnations 

 in the market on Tuesday. Had these 

 flowers been sent in when they were ripe 

 and when the market was almost bare 

 the week before Christmas they would 

 have brought the grower twice as much 

 as they did. Remember that while is the 

 color most likely to be in excess of de- 

 mand at Christmas and keep your white 

 worked oft' whatever you do with the 

 other colors. On Tuesday white roses 

 were also rather too much in evidence. 



There seemed to Ix' enough of every- 

 thing to go around except of first-class 

 violets and red roses. Poinsettias were 

 a little slow in moving in some quarters. 

 First-class carnations were in especially 

 strong demand. Kennicott Bros. Co. re- 

 ceived a consignment of Schramm's 

 Cranes, Bradts and Irenes containing 500 

 blooms and sold the lot to one buyer for 

 an even $.50.00. And $4.00 was prac- 

 tically the bottom price on any decent 

 sort of carnation. The carnation is de- 

 cidedly in it. 



But in spite of the ilrnwliacks men- 

 tioned the shipping trade averaged away 

 ahead of any previous Cliristmas. A 

 very fortunate thing was that before the 

 time for the main shipping the weather 

 moderated wonderfully and with the 

 thermometer above the freezing point 

 there were none of the losses that would 

 have been sure to be made had the bitter 

 cold weather of last week continued. 



The trade in holly, green, etc,, was 

 enormous. Whi'e there was none too 

 much holly at the last orders were very 

 well filled on the whole, while of gi-een 



the supplies were ample, though no real 

 surplus. It was very satisfactory all 

 around. 



Seen at the Retailers. 



At the Anderson Floral Co.'s: A large 

 wreath of lycopodium overlaid with short 

 leucothoe sprays, from among which 

 sprigs of winter berry stood out, the 

 wreath tied with ribbon to match the 

 berries. 



At Schubert's: Wreaths of bronze 

 galax leaves with cluster of leucothoe 

 foliage interspersed with winter berry 

 twigs. Lorraine begonias in camp ket- 

 tles, the wire tripods decorated with 

 asparagus. 



At Friedman's: Pots of ardisia with 

 covers of crepe paper. Small holly trees 

 in pots. 



At Hauswirth's: A whole window full 

 of poin.settias. He nnde a special push 

 on these and .sold large numbers in addi- 

 tion to other cut flowers. 



At Fleischman's: Azaleas, the pots, 

 and sometimes most of the plant, covered 

 witli plain and figured crepe paper. 

 Rather a disappointment to one looking 

 for novelties. 



At Mangel's: JIany Lorraine begonias 

 in ,ill sizes and a fine display of 

 orchids and other flowers. 



Pictures of some of the Christmas 

 specialties at Wienhoeber's and Samuel- 

 son's will appear next week. 



■Various Items. 



Tlie retail establislniicnt being erected 

 by ;\Ir. E. Buettner at the corner of Ken- 

 more and Evanston avenues, is being 

 rapidly constructed and it is expected 

 will be completed by Feb. 1. The store 

 will have a frontage of 75 feet on Ken- 

 more avenue and 52 feet on Evanston 

 avenue. One greenhouse will be 22x175 

 and the other 22x100. All the buildings 

 will have the latest modern improve- 

 ments and the fittings will .be strictly 

 first class. The entire establishment 

 was designed by and is being erected 



