December 18, IOCS. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



151 



New Pink Carnation Miss Louise Faber. 



der early 

 supplied. 



will stand a chance of being 



Various Items. 



The residence of Fritz Bahr, of High- 

 land Park, was entirely destroyed by 

 fire last Monday morning, the fire start- 

 ing at tj o'clock. It spread so 

 rapidly that Mr. Bahr was obliged to 

 drop his children one by one from a sec- 

 ond story window into the arms of neigh- 

 bors, and then to lower his wife and 

 jump himself. The fire destroyed the 

 house in less than half an hour. The 

 greenhouses were not injured. Mr. Bahr 

 carried insurance of $2,000 on the house 

 and contents, but this will fall far short 

 of covering the loss. There was an open 

 grate fire in one of the rooms, and it 

 is thought that the fire may have start- 

 ed from sparks from this, as when dis- 

 covered the floor was all ablaze. Mr. 

 Bahr's many friends will deeply sym- 

 pathize with hinii in his misfortune. 



McKellar & Winterson have received 

 a very large supply of the popular red 

 winter berry of very fine quality. Sprays 

 of these make a fine addition to arrange- 

 ments of plants and flowers, as well as 



associated with the usual Christmas 

 greens. 



Wietor Bros, are cutting some belated 

 chyrsanthemuras of very good quality. 

 Tiieir cut, of Norway carnations is large 

 and they consider it the best white car- 

 nation to date. 



Kate Bassett Washburn, wife of C. L. 

 Washburn and daughter of O. P. Bas- 

 sett, died at Alma, Mich., last Friday, 

 and was laid at rest in Hinsdale, 111., 

 on Sunday. Mr. Washburn and Mr. 

 Bassett have the sincere sympathy of all 

 in their bereavement. 



Tlie heater in the delivery wagon ot 

 Wra. Kalous set fire to the wagon last 

 week and some little damage was done 

 before the fire could be extinguished. 

 The stove became overheated and set 

 fire to the paper wrappings of some 

 plants. 



Fire did serious damage to the green- 

 houses and residence of Wm. Beaudry 

 Dec. 8. The loss is estimated at $4,500 

 and is fully covered by insurance. 



It is reported in the daily press that 

 the park employes are organizing a 

 labor union of florists and gardeners. 



The expi-ess companies have issued a 

 circular to shippers announcing that 

 the new rate of one and one-half mer- 

 cliandise rates on cut flowers went into 

 eflect Dec. 10. It is understood that 

 the increase is due to the number of 

 claims for damage on account of freez- 

 ing and miscarriage, and that shippers 

 who will waive right to claim damages 

 may still secure the single merchandise 

 rate. The minimum charge for single 

 packages has also been raised and the 

 shipper of small packages will be at a 

 disadvantage. 



Julius Schnapp has gone to Joliet to 

 take charge of the cut flower department 

 of Wilcox & Co. 



Mr. E. J. Fancourt, representing 

 Samuel S. Pennock, Philadelphia, was 

 a visitor last week. He reports an ex- 

 cellent business in ribbons, of which this 

 house makes a specialty. 



On Wednesday we were favored with 

 some sunshine and the weather was 

 clear and cold. Should this weather 

 continue stock may be stiffened up a 

 little and the general average of quality 

 be raised. 



Edgar Sanders continues to improve 

 and is now able to walk around his 

 room a little each day, with the aid of 

 a cane. 



J. W. Hulsizer, of the Hulsizer Co., 

 Des Moines, la., was a recent visitor. 



Christmas Greens. 



An unusually brisk demand for holly, 

 wreathing and Xmas trees is shown in 

 the numerous telegraphic and long dis- 

 tance phone orders from nearly every 

 leading eastern and western city. 



Pepper boughs from Southern Califor- 

 nia find read.y sale at 50 cents per pound. 



Tlie Chicago daily press is paying par- 

 ticular attention this season to the 

 Xmas decoration business, the Chicago 

 Tribune having descriptive articles in its 

 last two Sunday issues. 



The increased demand for Christmas 

 decorative matertal of all kinds is well 

 demonstrated by the fact that one Chi- 

 cago house (W. W. Barnard & Co.) paid 

 nearly $5,000.00 for freight alone on 

 holly, green, etc. 



As predicted in a former issue, there 

 will be an immense lot of bouquet green 

 that is still held in the Wisconsin woods 

 on speculation, absolutely go to waste, 

 as time will not allow shipping it to the 

 market. At a conservative estimate 

 there are over 60,000 pounds in the 

 hands of Wisconsin packers. This cer- 

 tainly is a wholesome lesson to them 

 for another season. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



The sharp cold snap that was with 

 us last week had a tendency to make 

 stock scarce. Especially was this true 

 of carnations, which were way short. 

 Eeds were most in demand and many 

 orders had to be turned down. Whites 

 were about equal to the demand, but 

 there were hardly enough pink. There 

 was scarcely any .real fancy stock. Sat- 

 urday saw everything in the way of 

 carnations well cleared out, with the 

 average price about one cent higher than 

 the previous week. 



Roses have been doing very nicely. 

 There was a goodly supply of Al stock, 

 which sold on sight and brought top 

 market prices. The seconds and thirds 



