Janlaht 2. 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



193 



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BALTIMORE. 



Report of Christinas Trade. 



The Christinas trade was fully up to 

 the average in volume and complaints 

 are few. The day before Christmas 

 ■was inspiring, clear, bright and tonic 

 weather, giving animation and zest to 

 shoppers. The market men did well and 

 the stores were all up to and above the 

 normal mark. The trade in plants was 

 better probably than last year^ but the 

 ■disposition is" less towards palms and 

 more now to (lowering kinds. Of course 

 there were exceptions. 



Some injury was done by the state- 

 ments of the daily papers as to the 

 probable high prices flowers would com- 

 mand. Many people were frightened off 

 from purchasing, and some dealers were 

 afraid to lay in stock. At some stores 

 it was said that prices, in fact, were 

 too high for the' great class of people 

 of moderate means, who make up the 

 bulk of buyers. 



The supply of roses, carnations and 

 violets was ample for all requirements. 

 Of inferior violets there were more than 

 the market would absorb. Some fault 

 was found with the scarcity of carna- 

 tions on Saturday and Monday and the 

 great flood of them on Tuesday morning. 



The Florists' Exchange, which finds 

 its new quarters far more convenient 

 for transacting business than the old, 

 reports fair business, carnations selling 

 at from 3 to 6 cents; tea roses 8 to 12 

 cents, and violets $1.50 per 100. More 

 Beauties could have been placed to ad- 

 vantage. 



Late Christmas eve telephone offers of 

 stock were received from Washington 

 and Philadelphia by some of the stores. 



Some of the trade summarized the 

 business done as follows: 



William J. Halliday — "About equal to 

 most years; good stuff in demand." John 

 Cook — "Beat the record; never had so 

 large and satisfactory a Christmas; 

 plants and flowers abundant." James 

 Pentland — "About the average." Hal- 

 liday Bros. — "Largest business ever done 

 at the season, taxing all energies of the 

 whole staff to dispatch it. Stuff ample 

 in supply and of fine quality." Isaac 

 H. Moss — "Did very satisfactory trade. 

 Gut flowers could scarcely have come in 

 better, and plants were in active de- 

 mand. Begonia Lorraine was made a spe- 

 cialty this year and was very accepta- 



ble." E. A. Seidewitz — "Trade very satis- 

 factory, plants, baskets and cut flowers 

 all being briskly sought for. No complaint 

 to find cither "as to demand or the ma- 

 terials to meet it." Jlrs. Patterson- 

 Johnson — "Fine trade, all the resources 

 of the establishment being required to 

 get the numerous orders filled in time 

 and to the satisfaction of buyers. Flow- 

 ers were sufficient for calls, except, per- 

 haps, Beauties." 



Samuel Feast & Sons — "Business quite 

 up to the average, except in plants, 

 which did not go as heretofore. Ample 

 supply for every order." This firm be- 

 lieves, however, that holidaj' prices have 

 gotten too high. A number of their 

 regular customers suggested that it 

 "was hardly worth while to ask tlie 

 price of roses." John Berl found sales 

 below the average, both in plants and 

 flowers. Figures above ordinary prices 

 scare customers away. 



J. H. Siddons found trade moderate — 

 not up to last year in any direction, 

 plants, flowers or evergreens. He han- 

 dled the latter class of goods very large- 

 ly and felt the loss resulting from rae 

 disuse of decorations by storekeepers. 

 Many of the department and other large 

 stores which have been in the habit of 

 festooning their interiors with wreath- 

 ing, etc., stopped the custom this Christ- 

 mas on account of its inhibition by the 

 insurance companies, who regard the 

 risk of their use as hazardous. R. 



PITTSBURG. 



Presentation to John W. Jones, 



FOREMAN at THE PHIPPS CONSERVA- 

 TORIES. — In the afternoon of the day be- 

 fore Christmas the gardeners, florists 

 and other workmen in and about the 

 conservatories presented Mr. Jones with 

 a very handsome timepiece and um- 

 brella as a mark of their esteem for him- 

 self as a man and his uprightness and 

 vigor as a foreman. Mr. Jones came to 

 Schenley Park from the World's Fair, 

 Chicago, in 1893, as an assistant fore- 

 man, and soon after Superintendent Fal- 

 coner came here, he advanced Mr. Jones 

 to the head foremanship. Mr. Falconer's 

 opinion of Mr. Jones is this: "John is 

 a good man, his soul is in his work and 

 he is forever at work, and he does good 

 work, and everybody under him has to 

 work, and he is absolutely trustworthy, 

 and true and straight as an arrow to 

 those under him and over him, and he 



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Presentation to William Falconeb, 

 Superintendent of Parks. — On Christ- 

 mas eve a committee consisting of the 

 head foremen (outdoor, conservatories 

 and mechanics) and sergeant of police, 

 and representing their associate work- 

 men in Schenley Park, waited upon Supt. 

 Falconer at his residence and presented 

 him with a magnificent mahogany arm 

 chair and a gold fountain pen as a token 

 of their respect for himself personally 

 and his square dealing with every one 

 connected with the parks. 



Creston, Ia, — E. A. Stahl has sold a 

 half interest in his cut flower store to 

 McGregor Bros, and the firm name will 

 be McGregor Bros. & Stahl. He reports 

 a good trade for both Christmas and 

 New Year's and fine weather. 



We ha\'E received from the Lord & 

 Burnham Co., Irvington-on-Hudson, N. 

 Y., one of their handsome calendars for 

 1902. It is in several colors and the 

 central feature is one of the Burnham 

 boilers that took the highest award at 

 the Buffalo convention of the S. A. F. 



