Dkckmbee 31, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



287 



RETAIL FLORISTS. 



tCONTINUED.) 



WM. scon, 



Main and Balcom Sts. 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



LI liirrr Plorist, sis ethSt. 

 • I* IlLl I , PITTSBURG, PA. 



Peraonal attention given to out-of-town 

 orders for delivery in Pittsburg and vicinity 



S. B. Stewart, 



■«o. 16tb street, OMAHA, NEB. 



J. J. Beneke, 



aUTeSbreet, ST* LOUIS, MOa 



Mrs. Chas. Eickholt, 



4vIkce m. Galveston, Tex. 



U. J. VIRGIN, 



Canal^S^reet, NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



FOLEY'S FLORAL FOTOGRAPHS 



Send for my Floral Album, size 

 12x 1 1 , containing 24 different funer- 

 al designs Sent to any part of the 

 country by express, $7.00 c. o. d. 



226-226'/^ Bowery, NEW YORK. 



The Anna Foster Fern 



VERY LOW PRICES. LARGE STOCK. 



Cut from bench for 6-in., $35.C0 per 100. Beauti- 

 ful plants in pots. 5-in. «.00, 6-in. S9.00. 7-in. 

 $15.C0, 8-in. $24.00, 9-in. $36.00 perdoz.; 10-in. $4.00. 

 12in. $5.00 each. 



BOSTON FERNS. 

 Very full, large plants, cut from bench. $50.00 per 

 100. Also in any quantity at $25.00 per 100. 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus. 

 3-in., $8.00 per 100. SPIlElIGEBI-3-in. $5.00 

 per 100. Just right for pans. 

 Kentia Falms. Ficns. 



L. H. FOSTER. 



45 King Street. DORCHESTER, MASS. 



Mention the Review when yoa write. 



INTERESTING IF TRUE. 



The St. Louis Post-Dispatch of Decem- 

 ber 24 prints the follcwing: 



Back of the technical charge of petit lar- 

 ceny acainst Thomas Little, based on alleg;a- 

 tlons o^f the theft of a pickax and shovel 

 valued at $1.50 from Dr. O. F. Barnes, of 

 1431 North N'ewstead avenue, lies the more im- 

 posing charge of substituting poison ivy for 

 smilas and miserable little tea roses for Amer- 

 ican Beauties in laying out front -yard flowers 

 gardens. 



Little is a floriculturist and landscape gar- 

 dener. Dr. Barnes charges that he gave Little 

 a commission to arrange his flower garden and 

 ornament it with beautiful vines and fragrant 

 flowers, but that Little instead of planting 

 smilax and American Beauties, planted poison 

 ivy and tea roses. Then, he says. Little went 

 away with the pickax and shovel. 



It is charged that Little represented him- 

 self as the agent of a florist at Union and 

 Spalding avenues. He is under arrest on a 

 warrant charging hira with petit larceny. 



EVERY BINCH 



of roses or flowers 



that goes out of 



your shop tied with 



the RIGHT RIBBONS is an advertisement of quality. 



Your roses and flowers will look better, therefore their 



value is enchanced. 



Better value means better prices to you. This however 

 at a less cost, for the RIGHT RIBBONS are betUr quality 

 than the usual sort — dyed better, woven better, and cost 

 more to make. 



But — when you buy direct from a mill "you save all be- 

 tween profits." 



®J}0 fixxt Q^vtt Mk MxUb (Eomyang 



These noted qualities are used by Florists: 



MONARCH— Satin Taffeta— ClilMAX. 

 CONQUEROR— Metallique Taffeta— CYCLONE. 



OFFICE AND SALESROOMS: 



806-808-810 ARCH STREET. 



M<>ntlon the Review when yoa write. 



PITTSBURG. 



Christmas Trade. 



Christmas trade Tras active and sales 

 equal to, and with quite a few in ex- 

 cess of, last year. Transient trade was 

 very light and consequently cash sales 

 were not as good as last Christmas. The 

 demand was for the better quality of 

 flowers and plants; prices seemed to be 

 no object if the quality was there. Very 

 unfavorable weather conditions Decem- 

 ber 24 cheeked business to some extent 

 with all. The Pittsburg and Allegheny 

 market florists, who have their shops out 

 in the open suffered considerably. The 

 warm, balmy days of December 23, 24 

 and the morning of the 25th permitted 

 the florists to make their deliveries with- 

 out extra packing; the blizzard held off 

 until Christmas night. 



Stock was plentiful enough for Christ- 

 mas; in fact roses were in big supply 

 and quantities of the poorer qualities and 

 unhealthy stock remained unsold on the 

 hands of the wholesalers. Receipts on 

 roses on Monday and Tuesday were larger 

 than expected and again on Wednesday 

 and Thursday they arrived in large quan- 

 tities. Carnations and Beauties were in 

 large supply and the demand was brisk. 



Paper White narcissi and Eoman hya- 

 cinths and red tulips sold slowly. The 

 demand for violets and valley was heavy. 

 Mignonette, sweet peas and white lilac 

 sold only fairly well. Prices were lower 

 than last year "on tea roses and Beauties, 

 while carnations sold at a better figure. 

 The quality of much of the shipped stock 

 was soft and salting was again notice- 

 able on roses. Few of our local growers 

 practice the hoarding up of stock until 

 it is unfit for sale. 



There was little business on Christmas 

 morning and the Saturday following, the 

 advent of a heavy snowstorm and cold 

 wave which struck us Christmas night 

 cheeking the demand for stock. 



Various Notes. 



The call for decorative greens was very 

 good and everyone sold out fairly well. 

 Holly of fine quality was plentiful and 



cheap. In large lots one could buy it 

 at $2.50 per case. 



A. M. Murdoch had an elaborate deco- 

 ration at the Pittsburg Club on Christmas 

 eve. 



John Bader reports business very good 

 and the demand for pot plants for Christ- 

 mas is on the increase every year. 



P. Maier brougbt in a fine lot of Pros- 

 erpine tulips for Christmas. 



Fred Burki 's place, The Pittsburg Eose 

 and Carnation Co., was in full crop and 

 their cut of Maids, Brides and carnations 

 was immense. Undoubtedly the finest 

 Maids and Brides in the market came 

 from this place, 



Lloyd Swarthout, of Washington, Pa., 

 had a house of elegant poinsettias which 

 came in just right for Christmas. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. received 

 some fine Enchantress carnations from 

 B. L. Elliott's Cheswick greenhouses. 



Wm. Kroeck, our old friend BOly, re- 

 ports good Christmas business. 



Sidney Gibbs is shipping some very 

 fine stevia to the Cut Flower Co. 



Do not forget the next meeting of 

 the Florists' Club Tuesday evening, 

 January 5. It will be "rose night." 



G. A. MeWilliams, of Natrona, left 

 last Monday on a pleasure trip. Florida 

 is his destination. 



This year closed with better prospects 

 than expected, and the trade outlook for 

 the New Year is cheerful. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



DAYTON, O. 



The trade in Dayton was all that 

 could be asked or expected. All the 

 florists had a fair supply of flowers. 

 One florist handled seventy-five cases of 

 hollv in a retail way and made and sold 

 over 4,000 wreaths. The Jliami Floral 

 Co. had a fine cut of roses and carna- 

 tions of a good quality, they having 

 the only wholesale place in the city, and 

 the Dayton florists were very glad to be 

 able to obtain such good stock delivered 

 promptly, therefore not much shipped 

 stock in our city this season. M. 



