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NOVE-MBER 20, 190S. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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to learn that the principal demand comes 

 the second day before the holiday. Tlie 

 ivholesalers sum up tho situation by esti- 

 mating the trade as at least 2.5 per cent 

 less tlian a year ago. but the market was 

 fairly Nvell cleaned out at the end on all 

 salable material. A noteworthy feature 

 •vvas that the buyers were reluctant to 

 place advance orders, not seeming to 

 know what their requirements were like- 

 ly to be. 



Various Notes. 



John P. Eiscli reports all preparations 

 complete for the Florists' Club's third 

 annual ball at the Masonic Temple next 

 Wednesday evening. Tickets have been 

 widely distributed and are reported sell- 

 ing well. A complete success seems as- 

 sured for the evening's entertainment. 



E. C. Amling reports that cattleyas 

 have been very scarce and of indifferent 

 <]uality. but he is now getting some very 

 good stock from one of the large eastern 

 growers. 



N. .J. Wietor reports sales of Kn- 

 chantress carnations at .8 cents this week. 

 Unfortunately, the supply of this grade 

 of stock was not great. 



Geo. Reinberg had a heavy cut for 

 Thanksgiving, with many Beauties. He 

 now has carnation cuttings rooted ready 

 to ship. 



Sinntr Bros, are handling Eeed & 

 Keller's Christmas bells and report a 

 good demand. 



It is reported that a horse and wagon 

 belonging to the Chicago Carnation Co. 

 was stolen from the street at Joliet last 

 Saturday night. The wagon contained 

 all the provisions for the comiiany's em- 

 ployes for the week. 



John Zeck, at J. A. Budloug's, says 

 this has lieen the biggest Thanksgiving 

 in their history, but they had plenty of 

 stock to fill orders. 



Eecent reports from the green district 

 in Wisconsin indicate that picking has 

 ceased in many localities because of snow 

 and cold weather. One well known 

 handler of green reports that he has 

 never known, in more than twenty years' 

 experience, the time when any considera- 

 ble quantity was picked after as lurrd a 

 freeze as that of last week. Very little 

 green has as yet reached this market, 

 and none whatever outside of legitimate 

 channels. There is record of sales of 

 $6 and $7 per 100 pounds. 



Bassett & Washburn are cutting some 

 very well grown ilrs. Jerome Jones. 



jj. Coatsworth is at Xew Castle for a 

 few days' outing. 



Kennicott Bros, have had some very 

 choice Chadwick munrs this week, but 

 E. E. Pieser says it was a tough proposi- 

 tion to get an extra 50 cents 'a dozen 

 out of them on account of the unusual 

 •quality. The sorts that were wanted 

 were the kind that wholesale at from 

 §5 to .$8 per hundred. 



A. I-ange says his mail order business 

 is growing steadily and serves to keep 

 him going when local trade is light. 



There were some flue floral pieces at 

 the opening of the new Iroquois theater 

 Monday night. 



A. i.. Randall is incorporating to 

 facilitate giving his associates an inter- 

 est in the business. 



Albert Oelsehig, son of A. C. Oelsehig, 

 of Savannah. GaT. who has been for some 

 months past with the Geo. Wittbold Co.. 

 has gone to Cleveland, to gain additional 

 expei-ience with the J. M. Gasser Com- 

 pany. 



Amouflf the week's visitors were B. 



Eschner. of M. Rice & Co.. Philadelphia : 

 Carl Hirseh, Hillsdale. Mich.: M. F. 

 Kyle, Kalamazoo, Mich.: A. Siegel, St. 

 Louis, ilo. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



A complete change came over the cut 

 flower market at the close of last week 

 and by Saturday night there was really 

 no presentable stull' to be had in town, 

 a most extraordinary thing after the long 

 period of over-production. This welcome 

 change was due partly to the rapidity 

 with which ici(des followed Indian summer, 

 and partly to the rapidity with which 

 the social "wheel is revolving, though not 

 as yet startling. The rose growers, being 

 closer to the city, were much quicker to 

 grasp the situation than their more dis- 

 tant brethren, who grow carnations. Ine 

 latter flower Viecame extremely scarce 

 and from present appearances will con- 

 tinue so until after Thanksgiving. 

 Chrysanthenuims are very plentiful. 

 There seems no probability that this week 

 Avill anywhere near finish them. Prices 

 have advanced on nearly all choice stock, 

 with likelihood of their going higher in 

 the next few days. They are, however, 

 lower in many cases than at this time 

 last year. Easter lilies are now offered 

 in quantities, the Larchmont Nurseries 

 shipping them regularly to S. S. Pen- 

 nock. Paper Whites have also made 

 their appearamc, but Romans are over- 

 due. 



The Business Outlook. 

 Considerable apprehension has been 

 felt that the season now commencing 

 would prove a poor one. The depression 

 in securities and real estate will, it is 

 argued, have a very serious effect on our 

 business. As evidence of tliis it is 

 pointed out that the month of November 

 is far behind the same month last year. 

 While all this is true, there seems good 

 reason to believe that we are about to 

 experience a very fair season. General 

 business, outside" of stocks and real es- 

 tate, is excellent and the wealth and 

 population of this city and those adja- 

 cent to it are so rapidly increasing that 

 active demand seems assured. The wil- 

 liugness shown by the department stores 

 to spend money on flowers and plants 

 and the speed with which quantities of 

 stock have lately been marketed bear out 

 this belief. 



Decorative Plants. 

 The shipjiing season for foliage plants 

 is about over. December usually brings 

 considerable local demand and a few 

 orders from out of town points. The 

 quantities of palms sold have been larger 

 tlian ever before and while there arc 

 probably also more left than in the past, 

 few of" them are large plants. The 

 features of the season have been the de- 

 cided preference shown for kcutias over 

 arecas, more marked even than in the 

 past. The distribution of the golden 

 pandanus, now scattered pretty thorough- 

 ly over the (Mitire country, the advent of 

 the Piorson fern, warmly welcomed in 

 this city, and the great auction sale, the 

 first of the its kind ever held in this city, 

 were notable. There are other points 

 of special interest: The making up in 

 in-inch pots of Draca?ana terminalis, so 

 cleverly executed by Lemuel Ball; the 

 reawakening of general interest in Pan- 

 danus Veitchii, deserviug of more favor 

 as a house plant when grown cool and 

 kejit drv; the appearance of the new 



Ficus pandurata at Robert Craig & 

 Son's,'-, and the immense sale of small 

 ferns in flats. 



Notes. 



J. J. Habermehl 's Sons had some very 

 large orders a few days ago. They used 

 a great many cattleyas and lilies of the 

 vailev, iiOO Cypripedium iusigne and a 

 thousand bunches of single violets. 



Wm. A. "Walton, of Oxford, Pa., has 

 lately purchased an automobile, an en- 

 couraging sign for the flower market 

 sujqiorters. 



Edward Reid has had some good ship- 

 ping orders lately. He stated tliat one 

 box^ went all the wav to Valley City. 

 N. D. 



Pennock Brothers have been taking 

 most of the fancy heliotrope that Dunn 

 & Co. are handling. This is a really 

 wonderful thing, large fragrant clusters 

 of flowers borne on s'tems fully three feet 

 long. It reflects great credit on the 

 grower, Arthur Mallon, Jr. 



Now that Pandanus Sanderi is liecom- 

 ing less plentiful at Riverton, James T. 

 Clark has redoubled his vigilance; not 

 even the vestige of a cutting escapes his 

 watchful eye. 



Leo A'iesseu is receiving some splendid 

 Liberties from A. Farenwald; his stock 

 promises to be very fine througliout De- 

 cendier. Phil. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



During thepastweekthemarkct remained 

 much the same as previously reported, 

 though funeral work was more plentiful. 

 A sliglit improvement is noticed todav 

 (Monday) owing to the approach of 

 Thanksgiving and we are hopeful that 

 the business will continue good from 

 now on. The supx'>ly is still large and 

 plenty of good stock is obtainable at all 

 the wholesale houses. Prices are up a 

 few notches this week on all grades of 

 stock. American Beauties have already 

 reaehfd $-1 to $6 per dozen for special 

 selection, but $.3 is the average price for 

 the good grades. Brides and ilaids are in 

 good supph" and fancy stock figures from 

 $.5 to $8 per 100, wliile $3 and $4 buvs 

 fair stock. Carnot, Meteor, Golden Gate 

 and Ivory are selling well this week and 

 fancy stock is up to $10 per 100 on 

 these. Perlo and Sunset are $4 and $5 

 jier 100. 



Carnations are cleaning up pretty well 

 this week and some very fine stock is in 

 the market of Joost. Flora Hill, Crocker. 

 Estelle, Lawson and Prosperity; .$3 and 

 $4: is asked for the fancy and down as 

 low as $1 for short stock. Prices on 

 these may be a little higher by Wednes- 

 day. The supply of chrysanthemums is 

 still large, though not as many of the 

 fancv sorts. The best of them run from 

 $2 to $3 per dozen. Eaton. Appleton, 

 Bonnatfon and Jones are the leadincr 

 varieties that have the call. Small Ivory 

 are in demand for funeral work. These 

 sell at $3 per 100 and not enough are in 

 for tho demand. 



Violets are moving lively and are 

 cleaned np every day. Prices this week 

 are T.'S cents to'$l ner lOn for the best 

 and lots more could be used than come 

 in. Romans are in this week, also Paner 

 White narcissi, but in small quantities 

 as yet, and are selling from $2 to *3 rier 

 100. Stevia in bunches of twenty-five 

 go at 3.'5 cents tier bunch. A little bou- 

 vardia is in but not enough to quote 



